Chamber Music Palisades

            


Virtuoso Violinist Ida Levin to Headline         


Chamber Music Palisades Concert            

The highly acclaimed Westside chamber
music series, Chamber Music Palisades, will continue its 2013-2014 season on Tuesday, March 18,

with a program featuring Santa Monica’s celebrated violinist Ida Levin performing Beethoven’s famous
“Kreutzer” Sonata with the Palisades-own pianist Delores Stevens.  While
both artists are based locally, both have established national and
international reputations.  The concert will begin at 8 pm in the stunning, Charles Moore-designed, sanctuary
at St. Matthew’s Parish located at 1031 Bienveneda in Pacific Palisades.       

Also on the program will be the “Histoire du Tango” by Astor Piazzolla, which

will present the extraordinary flute artistry of CMP Co-Artistic Director,

Susan Greenberg.  Prize-winning cellist, Sarah Rommel, will join Greenberg

and Stevens to perform a “Trio” by 20th Century English composer

William Alwyn. 

        

Early in her career, Ida Levin was invited by Rudolph Serkin to perform a joint
recital in the Reagan White House.  She has since performed with

orchestras of Toulouse, Berlin, Prague, Edinburgh and many in the U.S.  Ida is a member of the Boston Chamber Music
Society, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Players, is a frequent guest
artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and is a Senior Artist
at the Marlboro Festival.  She has given master classes worldwide and has
served on the faculties of Harvard University, the European Mozart Academy and the Sandor Vegh Academy in Prague.          

Cellist Sarah Rommel, a prizewinner in the Eastern Connecticut Symphony

Compeition and the recipient of several grants and awards, received the Jack
Kent Cooke Young Artists Award which led to an appearance on NPR’s “From the
Top”.  She won the silver medal in the 2007 Fischoff National Chamber
Music Competition as a member of the Newman Quartet and has been invited to the
Fountainebleau School of Music in France.  Last summer, she joined the Antipodes
String Trio for a concert tour of New Zealand.        

Chamber Music Palisades, described as a unique and extraordinary chamber

series, was founded in 1997 by two professional musicians, flutist Susan

Greenberg and pianist Delores Stevens, both longtime residents of Pacific

Palisades.  In addition to presenting the long-established and beloved

chamber works, CMP has commissioned nearly 20 compositions over the years.