Chamber Music Corvallis
Celebrating 49 years of bringing only the finest chamber music to Oregon

The 49th Season: 2007-2008
All performances begin at 7:30 pm in the LaSells Stewart Center on the Oregon State University campus. Click on each group's name or image below for more information. Your browser must allow popup windows.

  • Quartetto Gelato   Tuesday, October 9, 2007

    Latin America Hot and Cool!
    Ginastera, Piazolla, Villa-Lobos and more

    If there were ever a group of musicians that could make anyone feel at home with classical music, Quartetto Gelato is it.   -Newsday, NYC
  • Shanghai Quartet   Wednesday, November 14, 2007

    Beethoven String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 74 ("Harp")
    Yi-Weng Jiang Selections from Chinasong
    Grieg String Quartet in G-minor, Op. 27

    a focused, polished sound and a graceful interpretive style   -The New York Times
    What is most striking . . . is not the way it whizzes through virtuosic passages without a hair out of place but how it runs a fine-tooth comb through minuscule details in each work it plays.   -The Washington Post
  • Schubert Ensemble of London   Wednesday, January 30, 2008

    R.V. Williams Piano Quintet in C minor (1903)
    D. Knotts Piano Quintet On such a night as this is! (2007)
    Schumann Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47

    At the end where the music rises to an orchestral exuberance, the performers swept us along irresistibly with that same combination of reckless abandon and perfect control.   -The Telegraph of London
  • Mandelring Quartet with Robert Plane   Wednesday, February 27, 2008

    Shostakovich String Quartet in F sharp minor, Op. 108
    Beethoven String Quartet in C major, Op. 59, No. 3
    Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

    Their performances are exemplary: technically perfect, wonderful in sound, secure in understanding of style and idiom and responsive to every nurance of color, mood and expressions   -Strings
  • Trio con Brio   Wednesday, April 16, 2008

    Beethoven Piano Trio in D Major Op. 70, No.1 "Ghost" (change-click for info)
    Ravel Piano Trio in A major
    Brahms Piano Trio in C major, Op. 87

    The Trio Con Brio Copenhagen played so that one almost forgot to breathe...   -Adresseavisen, Trondheim, Norway
  • Euclid Quartet   Tuesday, May 6, 3008

    Haydn String Quartet in C major, Op. 20, No. 2
    Ravel String Quartet in F major
    Beethoven String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 127

    The emotional and timbral richness the young musicians brought to Beethoven's Op. 18 No.3 brought to mind the old-world approach of the Guarneri Quartet.   -Pittsburgh Tribune