The Sakura Cello Quintet

Sakura Cello Quintet performed with an electric atmosphere on Friday, April 20th, 2018, 7 pm.

On 6/23/17: SAKURA was  awarded a New Music USA grant to commission  a cello quintet for the 18/19 Season. Called “Brilliant…superb” by Mark Swed of the LA Times.

SAKURA is built on the artistry and virtuosity of its members: Michael Kaufman, Benjamin Lash, Gabriel Martins, Yoshika Masuda, and Peter Myers. From a repertoire that spans eight centuries, programs are constructed with a commitment to opening new vistas of beauty and expression by the scope of five cellos.

There will be an intermission with light refreshments.

Program:
Olivier Messiaen: O Sacrum Convivium

Claude Debussy: 4 Preludes (arr. Peter Myers)
Footsteps in the Snow
Interrupted Serenade
The Girl with Flaxen Hair
Minstrels

Five Renaissance a cappella works
Orlando di Lasso: Matona, mia cara
Orlando Gibbons: The Silver Swan
Adriano Banchieri: Gli cervellini cantano un madrigale
Carlo Gesualdo: Moro, lasso, al mio duolo
Adriano Banchieri: Contraponto bestiale

Chick Corea: Spain (arr. Peter Myers)

Antonin Dvorak: Silent Woods (arr. Michael Kaufman)

Leonard Bernstein: Selections from West Side Story (arr. Simon Parkin)

Sergei Rachmaninov: Vocalise (arr. Peter Myers)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5: I. Allegro con brio (arr. Michael Kaufman)

Anne Wilson: Lament, In Memory of Matthew Shepard

Johannes Brahms: Intermezzo in Eb, op. 117 no. 1 (arr. Peter Myers)