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Upcoming Performances:

 

January 31, 2009
"Gypsy Soul", with the Camellia Symphony
8:00 pm, Memorial Auditorium, Downtown Sacramento

Music of Brahms, Sarasate, Enescu and Ravel, featuring Nicole Makram, violin solo.
Brahms: Symphony 3
Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen (violin solo)
Ravel: Tzigane (violin solo)
Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody

 
January 28, 2009
Music at Noon
Westminster Presbyterian Church
13th and N Streets
Downtown Sacramento

Curvd Aire returns to Westminster Presbyterian Church for its free Music at Noon concert series, this year appearing as a brass sextet and septet with friends George Preston and Liz Barton, and again featuring Brad Slocum, Westminster organist.

Music by Ewald, Gigout, Malcom Arnold, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Gershwin, Dave Brubeck and even the hilarity of PDQ Bach will be featured in this concert of "something completely different".

 

November 8, 2008
ItaliaFest
with the Camellia
Symphony Orchestra
8:00 PM, Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento

 
Lifting the Veil

"Lifting the Veil" is an annual concert of music by women, presented by Curvd Aire in partnership with California State University and many area musicians.

For more information, click above or on the Logo (left)



Recent and Past Performances:

2008

May 17, 2008 - Wine and Song, at the Olde Sugarmill, Clarksburg, CA

April 12, 2008 - If Music Be the Soul Of Love, with the Camellia Symphony Orchestra

2007

December 9, 2007 - Holiday Twilight Concert with Camerata California

November 10, 2007 - Russian Soul!

September 9, 2007 - American Heroes and Superheroes

April 14, 2007 - Opera, Opera, Opera! with the Camellia Symphony Orchestra

April 4 - Music at Noon at Westminster Presbyterian Church, featuring Soprano Ava DeLara

January 27, 2007 - Urban Landscapes, with the Camellia Symphony

2006

December 17, 2006 - Chamber Music at the Crocker Art Museum featuring Soprano Ava DeLara

November 17th, 2006 - Davis Unitarian Church,27074 Patwin Road, Davis, California 95616

September 28, 2006 - Art Dedication Ceremony - Florin Road Station - 4:00 pm

April 8th, 2006 - Memorial Auditorium - Camellia Symphony: "BRAHMS!"
A full evenings of masterworks by Johannes Brahms, the most beloved composer of the symphonic world. Featured aare the DOuble Concerto for Violin and Cello and the great German Requiem!

February 4th, 2006 - Memorial Auditorium - Camellia Symphony: Classical Meets Jazz
Slaughter on 5th Avenue, by Richard Rodgers, Albion Song, composed and performed by Maestro Allan Pollack, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, by Leonard Bernstein

2005

November 6th, 2005, 4:00 pm - Roseville Presbyterian Church
A concert of French Music,
Featuring the Fair Oaks Woodwind Quintet. Selections including Bozza: Suite Française, Faure: Pavane, Ibert: Trois Pieces Breve, Offenbach: Can-Can, and Arrieu: Quintet in C; Dixtour

November 5, 2005 - Camellia Symphony: Galleria!
The Camellia Symphony begins its 43rd season with selections relating to the vital and vibrant arts scene in Sacramento. Local galleries will display their works at the concert, as part of the "Second Saturday" events. Selections included: Pictures at an Exhibition, by Modest Mussorgsky, The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), by Felix Mendelssohn, Trittico Boticelliano, by Ottorino Respighi,and Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, by Jacques Ibert, featuring flutist Alice Lenaghan, with a prestigious artist drawing his impressions of the piece.

September 30 and October 2 - "Strike Up the Band", with the Capitol Chamber Players
The Curvd Aire Brass Quintet with the Capital Chamber Players, and saxophone soloist Keith Bohm, professor at CSU Sacramento, in a concert of widely varied music: * Five Miniatures for Ten Winds - William McCauley; Concerto da Camera for Alto Sax and Brass Quintet - Fisher Tull; Selections from Peer Gynt Suites - Edward Grieg; Suite Francaise for Brass Quintet - Eugene Bozza ; Kleine Kammermusik, by Paul Hindemith

September 2, 2005 - Camellia Symphony at the State Fair
"Tales and Festivities" - Paul Simmons, Guest Conductor
Fanfare for the Common Man, Fanfare from La Peri, Peer Gynt Suite, Music from Carmen and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Faure's Fantasie, Hoedown, America the Beautiful

July 20, 2005 - Fairytale Town, Sacramento Zoo
Fairytales and other Stories: Camellia Symphony at the Zoo

June 5, 2005 - Special Concert: Sacramento Japanese United Mothodist Church, Franklin Boulevard
Featuring Violinist Xiao Yu

May 6, 2005 - Lifting the Veil IV
A concert to benefit WEAVE (Women Escaping a Violent Environment)
With the Fair Oaks Woodwind Quintet, the Millington Strings, the Liberace Woodwind Quintet, flutist Alice Lenaghan, a trumpet septet, and other great area musicians. This year's Concert will feature the works of Lynn Job, Adrienne Albert, Victoria Jordanova, Claude Arrieu (pen name for Anne Marie Simon), and others. Program

April 23 - Camellia Symphony Orchestra Concert - "Music America "
Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine | Copland - Billy the Kid | O'Connor - Strings and Threads
Gershwin - Porgy and Bess (with opera singers)

February 23, 2005 - Westminster Presbyterian Church, 13th and N - Music at Noon
Music by Gwyneth Walker , Dizzy Gillespie, George Gershwin, Modest Mussorgsky, and others

February 19, 2005 - Camellia Symphony Orchestra Concert - "Spain!"
Chabrier - Espana | Debussy - Iberia | Bizet - Carmen Suite #1 | de Falla - The Three-Cornered Hat

February 4, 2005 - Natomas Charter School for the Arts -

2004

December 7, 2004, 7:00 PM - Special Library Event -Martin Luther King, Jr Library Sacramento California - patriotic and secular Christmas music and some of its favorite classical and modern tours de force.
November 11, 2004 CSU Sacramento Recital Hall Festival of New American Music - Music of Martin O'Leary and Emma Lou Diemer
June 16, 2004 - Westminster Presbyterian Church - Music at Noon Series, featuring music by Gwyneth Walker, Lynn Job, William Mathias Mary Lou Newmark, Jacques Offenbach, and John Williams
May 15, 2004 -Members of Curvd Aire play with the Camellia Symphony Orchestra - Westminster Presbyterian Church - Prokofiev and Mendelssohn
April 22, 2004 - Lifting the Veil III - Works of Women Composers, and featuring composer Gwyneth Walker and the works of Mary Lou Newmark, Victoria Jordanova, Lynn Job, and Pamela Marshall
February 7, 2004 - Members of Curvd Aire play with the Camellia Symphony Orchestra - Memorial Auditorium - Corigliano & Saint Saens
January 18, 2004 - CSU Sacramento - Premiere of new works by Marion O'Leary

2003

November 24, 2003 - Freeborn Hall, UC Davis Campus - Guest Artists with the UC Davis Wind Ensemble
May 17th - CSUS French Horn Seminars - Master Class on organizing, rehearsing, and maintaining a chamber group.
April 13, 1:00 pm - Sacramento Japanese United Methodist Church, 6929 Franklin Blvd. (916) 421-1017
April 11th, 7:30 pm - Lifting the Veil II: California State University, Sacramento, 6001 J Street, Sacramento, CA
March 30, 3:00 pm - Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street, Sacramento, CA

2002

May 11th, 2002- "Lifting the Veil" - BENEFIT CONCERT for education programs for women in Afghanistan
Click here for information about some of the women who contributed their music and efforts to the festival

2001

December 7th, 2001- Holiday Festival with the Fair Oaks Woodwind Quintet and the CSUS Horn Ensemble
February 17, 2001- Valentine's Concert - With the Millington Strings, Shell Xiao You, and Tatiana Scott
April 21, 2001- Spring Concert - Children's music and more - Program - with Claudia Kitka, Soprano, and the Horizon Woodwind Quintet


Other Performances of Note:
Old First Concerts