We had our second concert of chamber music this semester, again in our acoustically perfect Kulas Recital Hall. This was a substantial program, featuring six works, most of them multi-movement, and the students played at an extremely high level. The non-guitarists who played donated their time and for their dedication and contribution, we all thank them!! They included two singers, a violinist, a violist, a cellist, two flutists and a pianist. This is a brief recap of the program, with the full program reproduced at the end of the post.

Nik Divall started us off with two gorgeous chamber works of John Dowland:

Nik Divall, guitar, with soprano Emma Murphy, violinist Kate Wyly and cellist Diana Reid.

Rio Manzanares followed, with a Giuliani Sonatina for flute and guitar.

Rio Manzanares at the guitar, with flutist, Jonah Ordower.

Josie Stone closed the first half with two movements from the terrific Sonata for viola and guitar by Rebay:

Josie Stone, guitar, with John Czekanski, viola.

Caeli Massey opened the second half with an effective flute/guitar arrangement of a jazzy piano piece by Margaret Bonds, the arrangement by guitarist Connie Sheu:

Caeli Massey, guitar, with flutist Ben Smith.

Soprano Nisha Caiozzi was accompanied by guitarist Damian Goggans in songs by Rodrigo:

Damian Goggans, guitar, with soprano, Nisha Caiozzi.

The program concluded with movements two and three from Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata. Suvan Agarwal at the guitar and Yuhki Ueda, pianist, presented it; they had played the first movement in our previous Ensemble concert.

Yuhki Ueda, piano, accompanies Suvan Agarwal at the guitar.

After the concert, we enjoyed an end-of-semester celebratory dinner together at Oberlin’s new (terrific) Thai restaurant “Thi Ni Thai.” Caeli, for whom this was her final Oberlin performance before graduating and moving on (to René Izquierdo’s program in Milwaukee), was surprised by her family who joined us all, having just driven up from West Virginia. We will miss her! After eating, we posed for a shot together.