Now in its 31st season, Chamber Music at the Clark continues to delight audiences with first-rate performances hosted in the intimate and acoustically superb Drawing Room at the Clark Library. Expertly curated by Artistic Director Rogers Brubaker, our current season began with a performance by the Aris Quartett, a young German ensemble performing at the Clark for the first time. The audience raved about the exceptional quality of the artists, who worked so well together, and their choice of program, which included Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, and Beethoven.
Two other remarkable concerts followed from the Esmé Quartet, another up-and-coming German ensemble making their debut at the Clark, and the audience favorite Modigliani Quartet, a French string quartet founded in Paris in 2003 by four close friends following their studies at the Conservatoire de Paris. We are currently in arrangements to welcome the Modigliani back to the series during an upcoming season.
2026 begins with a concert on January 11 by another ensemble that is new to Chamber Music at the Clark: the Escher Quartet, performing an all-Bartók program. A former BBC New Generation Artist and recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, the quartet has performed at the BBC Proms at Cadogan Hall and is a regular guest at Wigmore Hall. In its home town of New York, the ensemble serves as season artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Next, we welcome baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James Baillieu to the Clark’s Drawing Room on March 15 for a unique Chamber Music at the Clark experience featuring a performance of Schubert’s Winterreise (Winter Journey), the song cycle that follows a wanderer on a difficult journey across a bleak winter landscape. One week later on March 22, Berlin-based Notos Quartett returns to the Clark for a program featuring Mozart, Brahms, and Sir William Walton. The season concludes on April 26 with yet another ensemble making their debut at the Clark: the ATOS Trio, founded in Berlin in 2003. With distinguished interpretations and unbridled enthusiasm, the trio has established itself as one of the finest piano trios performing before the public today.
For more information about our upcoming concerts, including how to purchase tickets, please visit www.1718.ucla.edu/events/categories/music . We hope to see you soon at the Clark Library for another magical afternoon of chamber music!
-Jeanette LaVere, Manager of Programs & Development