THE HUTCHINS CONSORT 2009/2010 SEASON
10th Anniversary Season

Banning Museum Concert

Thursday, August 20, 6:00 pm, Banning Museum, Los Angeles

Minding the Arts

Benefit for the Performing Arts Program at The Neurosciences Institute

Sunday, August 30, 6:00 pm, Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla [map] [tickets]

Western Arts Alliance Annual Conference Showcase

Wednesday & Thursday, September 2 & 3, Western Arts Alliance, Phoenix, Arizona

Free Family Concert

Thursday, September 17, 6:00 pm, Quail Botanical Gardens, Encinitas [map]

Free Family Concert

Thursday, September 24, 6:00 pm, Quail Botanical Gardens, Encinitas [map]

Into the Heart of East & West: Concerto for Sitar and Chamber Orchestra

Featuring: Kartik Seshadri, sitar

Saturday, October 3, 7:30 pm, Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla [map] [tickets]

Sunday, October 4, 3:00 pm, St. Mark Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach [map] [tickets]

• With internationally renown sitar virtuoso, Kartik Seshadri, this program features Concerto No.1 for Sitar and Chamber Orchestra, composed by Kartik Seshadri. Utilizing both Eastern and Western musical form, this program illuminates areas of cultural synergy which have been lost in these past two centuries. The program also features Dvorak Serenade for Strings and Barber Adagio for Strings.

Free Family Concert

Saturday, October 10, 10:00 am, Encinitas Public Library, [map]

Sax & Violins

Famed saxophonist, John Gross, in an evening exploring multifonics with strings & sax

Saturday, November 14, 7:30 pm, Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla [map] [tickets]

Sunday, November 15, 3:00 pm, St. Mark Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach [map] [tickets]

• Also on this program:
• Lawrence Groupe: Luminescence
• Sweelinck: Hodie Christus Natus est
• Grieg: Holberg Suite.
• Bottesini concerto: "Passione Amorosa" for two double basses with Andres Martin and Joe McNalley, soloists
• This program also features the amazing percussion work of Billy Mintz.

Free Family Concert

Saturday, December 12, 10:00 am, Encinitas Public Library, [map]

Free Family Concert

Saturday, January 9, 10:00 am, Encinitas Public Library, [map]

A Night in Vienna

Featuring Camila Arnold, soprano

Saturday, January 16, 7:30 pm, Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla [map] [tickets]

Sunday, January 17, 3:00 pm, St. Mark Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach [map] [tickets]

• With guest soprano, Camila Arnold and our host for the evening, renown Austrian composer, conductor and music scholar, Gerhard Track, the Hutchins Consort presents an authentic Viennese celebration which includes the music of Mozart, Liszt, Haydn, Lehar and Salieri. This concert will feature Fritz Kreisler's popular Divine Love's Sorrow, which was the inspiration for Swami Yogananda's powerful poem of the same name. Also hear three arias by the mystical composer Werner Eugen Lardy, from his 'Der Friedensfuerst' And hear the romantic fervor of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.3, and a new arrangement of a work by the notorious rival of Mozart, Antonio Salieri, This program features a U.S. Premiere: A rare chamber work by Josef Haydn, 'Neuberg Trio' was partially lost, and then reconstructed in the 1970's and re-introduced to the world. From Mozart's Vesperae Solenne, the exquisite aria, Laudate Dominum as well as Haydn's Aria from Maria Zeller Messe will also be featured on this program, along with an aria from Lehar's 'Frederike'. World renown composer, conductor & noted Austrian music scholar, Gerhard Track will guide us through a fascinating historical tour of the Viennese culture drawn from three centuries of tradition. This program will also feature an aria from Track's own opera, Minnequa, which was first premiered at the bi-centennial celebration in Colorado.

Ortiz Festival

Wednesday, January 27, Los Alamos, Sonora, Mexico

Thursday, January 28, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico

• We will post more details as they become available.
• Festival Ortiz Tirado

Free Family Concert

Saturday, February 13, 10:00 am, Encinitas Public Library, [map]

An Evening Musicale with the Hutchins Consort

Tuesday, February 16, 7:00 pm, Grace Episcopal Church, St. Helena, CA [map] [tickets]

• On this program:
• Mozart: Allegro Maestoso
• Bach: Prelude and Fugue in D
• Charlton: Fandango after Soler
• Walcyzk: Octet Comparsas
• Gershwin: Summertime

Sacramento Community Concert

Thursday, February 18, 8:00 pm, Sacramento Community Concerts Association, [map] [tickets]

Celebration of American Strings

Featuring: John Schneiderman, guitar, lute, and banjo

Saturday, February 20, 7:30 pm, Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla [map] [tickets]

Sunday, February 21, 3:00 pm, St. Mark Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach [map] [tickets]

• John Schneiderman, master of the guitar, lute, and banjo joins the octet for an eclectic evening of original arrangements for banjo, lute & strings.
• On this program:
• Appalachian Suite for Banjo and Octet (arr. McNalley)
• Walczyk: Octet Comparsas
• Concerto for Lute and Octet