SALON CONCERTS SEASON 36

Listening together

Salon Concerts is pleased to present its 36th season of chamber music, featuring four exceptional concerts in the intimate setting of private homes. We invite you to join us for a spectacular 2025–2026 season of outstanding artists and repertoire, followed by an opportunity to savor delicious food, wine, and conversation with the musicians and your fellow music lovers.

Address and directions to the concerts will be sent separately as we get closer to the event date.

JANUARY CONCERT

Sunday, JANUARY 4, 2026 | 4:30 PM

Monday, JANUARY 5, 2026 | 7:00 pm

David Bernat, Violin; Nina Bernat, Double Bass; Andrew Parker, Oboe; Kristin W. Jensen, Bassoon; Colette Valentine, Piano

Passacaglia arranged for Violin and Double Bass……………….. Handel-Halvorsen

Two-Part Inventions #2, #8, #13 arranged for Violin & Double Bass….….J.S. Bach

Disco Toccata…………………………………………..……Guillaume Connesson

Grand Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano……………….……. Marie De Grandval

Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra, arranged for Piano…. Serge Koussevitzky

Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano………………………….……..Francis Poulenc

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MARCH CONCERT

Sunday, MArch 1, 2026 | 4:30 PM

sunday, MArch 1, 2026 | 7:30 PM

Please Note:
Because several of the musicians in our March concert are principal players in the Austin Symphony Orchestra, which has had to reschedule it’s March concert to an earlier date, we have cancelled the Monday, March 2 performance and moved it to Sunday March 1 at 7:30. Ticket prices have not changed. Tickets are available for either the 4:30 or 7:30 performances.

Patrice Calixte, Violin; Bruce Williams, Viola; Douglas Harvey, Cello; Gonzalo Kochi Kikuchi, Double Bass;
Rachel Woolf, Flute; Stephen Girko, Clarinet; Ian Davidson, Oboe; Kristin W. Jensen, Bassoon; Tom Hale, Horn

Wind Quintet, Op. 79……………………………….……….… August Klughardt

Mouvements Perpétuels, arranged for nonet……………………….Francis Poulenc

Flute Quartet, Op. 5, No. 2 in G Major………….……..….….……. Joseph Haydn

Nonet, Op. 77……………………….……………..…………...…. George Onslow

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APRIL CONCERT

ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY

SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2026 | 4:00 PM

The Miró Quartet

Daniel Ching, violin

William Fedkenheuer, violin

John Largess, viola

Joshua Gindele, cello

String Quartet, Op. 18, No. 6 (IV) ……………………… Ludwig van Beethoven

Blueprint ………………………………………………………… Caroline Shaw

Ainsi la nuit IV, V, VI …………………………………………… Henri Dutilleux

String Quartet, Op. 71, No. 2, II, III ……………………………… Joseph Haydn

String Quartet, Op. 10 ………………………………………… Claude Debussy

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MAY CONCERT

Sunday, MAY 3, 2026 | 4:30 PM

Monday, MAY 4, 2026 | 7:00 PM

Hilá Plitmann, Soprano; Stephen Girko, Clarinet; Kathryn Mishell, Piano

Five Yiddish Songs …………………….……….……..…………… Traditional

Spell of Safekeeping …………………………………………… Kathryn Mishell
Woman to Lover
Spell to Bring Lost Creatures Home

Arabesque—for Clarinet and Piano …………….…….…… Germaine Tailleferre

Selected Songs ……………………….…………… Robert and Clara Schumann

Dialogue……………….……………………………….….……Kathryn Mishell

Elegia Op. 10, III—for Clarinet and Piano …………………… Ferruccio Busoni

I Never Saw Another Butterfly—for Voice and Clarinet….……….…Lori Laitman
ii. Yes, That’s The Way Things Are
iii. Birdsong
iv. The Garden

Austin composers’ songs set:
I Carry Your Heart ……………………………………..……..….Donald Grantham
When God Lets My Body Be…………………………..…..……..……Dan Welcher
Try Me………………,…………………………………………..……Sam Lipman
Vespers…….............…................................………………..............Sophie Mathieu

The Shepherd on the Rock, Op. 129 ……………………………… Franz Schubert

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