The award winning Gold Coast Chamber Players bring the finest in chamber music to Lafayette and now to the city of Piedmont. Founded in 1987, GCCP distinguishes itself by its eclectic programming and by providing community access to leading musicians from throughout the world. The fifth and final of this season’s concerts, titled Telegraph, will be performed twice, first at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, 2019 at the Lafayette Library Community Hall, 3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd. in Lafayette, and then at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 19, 2019 at the Piedmont Center for the Arts, 801 Magnolia Ave. in Piedmont. Musicologist Kai Christiansen, provides a pre-concert talk 30 minutes prior to each performance.
For their season finale, the Gold Coast Chamber Players present the San Francisco based Telegraph Quartet joined by Pamela Freund-Striplen on viola for an elegant and “full-blooded” program of chamber music masterworks. Antonín Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 51, B. 92, “Slavonic” is followed by the exuberant String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 44, No. 1 by Felix Mendelssohn. Mozart’s 5th String Quintet, K. 593 is the perfect way to end GCCP’s 19th season. Next year’s 20th Anniversary Season will be announced at this performance.
This Season, GCCP has featured the three leading string quartets based in the Bay Area, the St. Lawrence, Alexander, and now the Telegraph. The youngest of the three, the Telegraph, is taking the chamber music scene by storm, winning both the prestigious Naumburg and Fischoff competitions, this super-star string quartet is praised as “powerfully adept…with a combination of brilliance and subtlety”. The Telegraph has performed in concert halls across the United States and abroad, including Carnegie Hall in New York and Herbst Theater in San Francisco. Currently the quartet is on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music at their Quartet-in-Residence.
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Tickets include a pre-concert talk and champagne reception and are $45/ $40 senior (65+)/ $15 students. Purchase online at www.gcplayers.org or by calling (925) 283-3728. Concerts sell out quickly. Reserve today. ####