Monday, January 22, 2024
12 PM
Miguel Zazueta, tenor
Batya MacAdam-Somer, violin
Missy Lukin, violin
Annabelle Terbetski, viola
Elizabeth Brown, cello
Leslie Leytham, mezzo soprano
Quartet Nouveau & Chamber Music Institute was formed as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in January 2013 with the mission of making chamber music available to the entire San Diego community. Quartet Nouveau is a string quartet based in San Diego where all four musicians freelance and teach within the community. Known for their fresh approach to classical music, they hope to inspire students to play this very same music one day. The members of Quartet Nouveau all graduated from the nation's top universities with Master’s and Doctoral degrees. These musicians also perform with the San Diego Symphony, The California Chamber Orchestra, The Classics 4 Kids Philharmonic, La Jolla Playhouse, and the Old Globe. Quartet Nouveau has performed in school educational outreach concerts for students from kindergarten to high school throughout southern California. For more information visit quartetnouveau.org.
Miguel Zazueta is an interdisciplinary vocal artist from the Tijuana-San Diego region with a main focus on contemporary music and opera. He has studied and collaborated with artists like Wilfrido Terrazas, Carmina Escobar, Yuval Sharon, Robert Castro, and Meredith Monk, as well as artistic groups like the LA Phil New Music Group, Project Blank, Teatro en el Incendio, Meredith Monk & Ensemble, and the ItaloAmerican Institute of International Cooperation. He obtained his MA in Contemporary Music Performance at UC San Diego, where he is currently pursuing a DMA degree in the same area, under the tutelage of the Soprano Susan Narucki. Hi is the founder and co-director of “Radical Ensemble” which consists of an interdisciplinary vocal ensemble with singers from the Tijuana-San Diego region.
Leslie Ann Leytham is a San Diego-based mezzo-soprano who actively commissions multi-media narrative vocal works, and collaborates with composers not only as a singer and actor but as a director and producer as well. Ms. Leytham has premiered works by and worked closely with numerous living composers, including Laure Hiendl, Gabriela Lena Frank, Nicolas Reveles, Carolyn Chen, Marti Epstein, Andy Vores, Nicholas Deyoe, and countless more. She has performed as a featured artist with San Diego Opera, The Industry Opera Company (Los Angeles), WildUp (L.A.), Noon 2 Midnight concert marathon produced by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Monday Evening Concert Series (L.A.), La Jolla Symphony (San Diego), wasteLAnd concert series (L.A.), Bach Collegium San Diego, City Opera of San Diego, and Guerilla Opera (Boston). Ms. Leytham has also been featured in installation performances at NOWY Teatr (Warsaw), the Mengi (Reykjavik), Space4Art (SD), and Bread and Salt (SD). Leslie is co-founder and Artistic Director of Project [BLANK], an interdisciplinary experimental concert series in San Diego.
Program:
Nico Muhly
STRANGER for tenor and string quartet
I. (attacca)
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III. (attacca)
IV. (attacca)
V. (attacca)
VI. (attacca)
VII.
Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
Il tramonto for mezzo soprano and string quartet
Danish String Quartet
Last Leaf
Shore
Polska from Dorotea
Tjønneblomen The Water Lily
Menuet no. 60
Æ Rømeser
Intermezzo
Shine You No More
Free concerts at noon every Monday from fall through spring . . . no wonder the Mini-Concerts are the longest-running and one of the most popular classical music series at the library! This series was founded by Glenna Hazleton in 1970 at the Athenaeum, and has been going strong ever since. The concerts feature both local and touring musicians, prize-winning students, university music faculty members, local chamber ensembles. . . and the repertoire also includes jazz, folk and world music. There are no reservations, no tickets . . . just line up at the side door of the Athenaeum before noon. (Donations are always welcome!) Mini-Concerts take place every Monday at noon and last about an hour.
The concerts will be in person at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. There are no physical tickets for these events. Doors open at 11:50 a.m. Seating is first-come; first-served. These events will be presented in compliance with State of California and County of San Diego health regulations as applicable at the time of each concert.
Masks optional. If you have a fever, cough, or flu-like symptoms, please stay home.