Welcome to the Music Branch

The Ojai Art Center Music Branch offers a series of chamber music concerts held on selected Sunday afternoons in the main gallery of the Ojai Center for the Arts at 113 S. Montgomery Street.We also play host to selected special events like the one below. Please join us.

Upcoming Chamber Music Concerts:


Above: Miriam Arichea and Virginia Kron

We are ready to kick off the first of our four chamber music concerts on Sunday, February 21 at 2 p.m., Virginia Kron, cellist, and Miriam Arichea, pianist will delight us with their program, entitled: “American as Apple Pie.” With the exception of one piece by Bach (a segue from the October 2009 performance of the Goldberg Variations) this American pie is filled with works by Foss, Stevens, Muczynski, Rouse, Kernis, Hogan (teaches at UCSB), and concludes with Gershwin’s “Summertime,” arranged especially for Kron by Ojai’s own Jim Calire.

Tickets only at the door. General admission $10 A/C members $8 students. For more info call 640-8327.

Mark Your Calendars for other 2010 Events :

On Sunday March 21 at 2:00 PM, the Chamber Music Series continues with, "String Quartet Classics," performed by the Channel Islands String Quartet. Quartet members include: Irving Weinstein, Violin, Ted Lucas, Second Violin, Diana Ray-Goodman, Viola, and Ervin Klinkon, Cello. The program consists of works by Mozart (No. 17, The Hunt), Schubert (No. 10), and Shostakovich (No. 1).

- October 17, the Ventura Piano Quintet

- November 14, Yue Deng, violinist and Friends.

 

And An Enduring Thank you :
An October 21rst concert marked the debut of the Art Center's new acquisition--a Steinway Grand Player Piano donated by the Loebl family in memory of James D. Loebl ( 1927-2003 ). The piano was purchased by Loebl's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Weil in 1924 for their Chicago home. It was passed down to Mr. Almer Weil of Beverly Hills, his uncle, then on to Loebl himself in 1970 when it was brought to his Ojai home. The piano's gift also included a large collection of player rolls, some recorded by the original musicians.It is a great honor that the Art Center was afforded this generous gift of music.

Call for more information (805) 646-0117 or contact jvander@sbcglobal.net