As the weather begins to turn colder, Ronen invites you to imagine yourself in balmier days… Australian composer Ben Hoadley‘s Porch Music, written for Ronen and featuring the ensemble’s four music directors, shares the first half of the program with Beethoven’s first string quartet, a seminal work in the same key as his Pastoral Symphony. Felix Mendelssohn’s masterful first piano trio balances the program in the rarely heard version for flute, cello, and piano, an arrangement sanctioned by the composer for his adoring British public.

As the weather begins to turn colder, Ronen invites you to imagine yourself in balmier days… Australian composer Ben Hoadley‘s Porch Music, written for Ronen and featuring the ensemble’s four music directors, shares the first half of the program with Beethoven’s first string quartet, a seminal work in the same key as his Pastoral Symphony. Felix Mendelssohn’s masterful first piano trio balances the program in the rarely heard version for flute, cello, and piano, an arrangement sanctioned by the composer for his adoring British public.

The artistic and cultural connection between France and Russia is explored in Ronen’s third program of the season. Jayna Park is soloist in Sergei Prokofiev’s funereal first violin sonata, composed under the specter of World War II. Similar shadows of war and mortality haunt the second half of the concert, two sonatas written by the cancer stricken Debussy in the years of the First World War, the sonata for flute, viola, and harp, and a realization of his unfinished essay for oboe, horn, and harpsichord,

The artistic and cultural connection between France and Russia is explored in Ronen’s third program of the season. Jayna Park is soloist in Sergei Prokofiev’s funereal first violin sonata, composed under the specter of World War II. Similar shadows of war and mortality haunt the second half of the concert, two sonatas written by the cancer stricken Debussy in the years of the First World War, the sonata for flute, viola, and harp, and a realization of his unfinished essay for oboe, horn, and harpsichord.

The season wraps up with some Ronen firsts and a piece by an old friend. Kurashikku by Michael Schelle, for flute/bass flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, and piano opens the program, after which are featured two rarely heard works by English composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Suite de Ballet for flute and piano and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s unusually scored Nonet.

The season wraps up with some Ronen firsts and a piece by an old friend. Kurashikku by Michael Schelle, for flute/bass flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, and piano opens the program, after which are featured two rarely heard works by English composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Suite de Ballet for flute and piano and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s unusually scored Nonet.