Chamber Music Concert Performance

Upon attending the International Chamber Music Festival Concert, a certain ecstatic vibe could be felt as the performers walked on stage with their musical instruments. The virtuoso’s performed in pieces that contained trios, duets, and quintets; showing the concentration they required when listening to each other. When working on Chamber Music, much of the melody jumps around from instrument to instrument, show casing various solos and much of the instruments having to coincide with each other to carefully listen for the melody. The first performance, was from Mosaics, by Eric Ewazen, only introducing the first movement: I. Barcarolle. The performers Dr. Susan Berdahl (flute), Dr. Xiaohu Zhou (bassoon), and Dr. James Moyer (marimba), all played outstandingly and show cased exactly how Chamber Music is meant to be played. Honestly, a wonderful way to open the concert, and if they would have continued to perform the rest of the upcoming movements, it would have been an even greater incredible performance to …show more content…
Beethoven, again only introduced the first movement: I. Allegro Moderato. Dr. Yu-Mei Huang (violin), Brendan Townsend (cello), and Dr. Fritz Gechter (piano), were an all absolutely outstanding trio and show cased a beautiful composition of Chamber Music. As being recognized as a student of Dr. Huang’s, it is a great honor to watch her play, the perfect pitch of the notes she plays are so pleasing to hear and her bow stroke is like watching a napkin tied to a string gracefully flying in the air. Professor Townsend’s ability in playing the cello gives off great satisfaction; the way the cello is able to drag out the duration of a notes’ pitch is so beautiful and comes together with the violin nicely. Dr. Gechter’s verse on piano is played throughout the entire piece, allowing the listener to hear the melody throughout the instruments while they work along sides each other transferring the melody to one