February 28-March 1st, 2026 : Sonata Series – Oboe & Piano
Rong-Huey Liu, oboe and Vivian Liu, piano
Clara Schumann – 3 Romances Op. 22
Hamilton Harty – Three Miniatures
Gustav Schreck – Sonate for Oboe and Piano
Miguel del Aguila – Summer Song
Saturday February 28th, 2:00PM – St. Thomas of Canterbury Episcopal Church, 5306 E Arbor Rd # B, Long Beach, CA 90808 ******* NEW VENUE !! *******
Sunday March 1st, 2:00PM – Danish Lutheran Church and Cultural Center 16881 Bastanchury Road, Yorba Linda, CA 92886 ******* NEW VENUE !! *******
Musicians’ bios (click on a picture):
See below excerpts of Rong-Huey playing the 2nd movement of Mozart’s oboe quartet at UP CLOSE AND CLASSICAL’s February 1st, 2026 concert in Long Beach (with Limor Toren, Nicholaus Yee and Alicja Blanquart):
UP CLOSE AND CLASSICAL is a Long Beach, CA based fiscally-sponsored affiliate of InterMusic SF, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to small-ensemble music. (EIN 94-3298643)
Videos of the pieces on the program (different performers):
March 28-29-30, April 3 2026 : Haydn’s “Seven Last words of Christ on the cross” – String quartet.
Saturday, March 28th – 2:00PM – Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church – 877 W 7th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731 (plenty of parking!)
Sunday, March 29th – 4:00PM – Covenant Presbyterian Church – 607 East 3rd Street Long Beach, CA 90802 ******* NEW VENUE !! ******* (You can park in the church’s parking lot, located off of Atlantic between 3rd and 4th St. It is located just north of the church sanctuary building.)
Monday, March 30th – 6:30PM – St Cornelius Catholic Church 5500 E Wardlow Rd, Long Beach, CA 90808 (plenty of parking!)
Friday, April 3rd – 7:00PM – Danish Lutheran Church and Cultural Center 16881 Bastanchury Road, Yorba Linda, CA 92886 (plenty of parking!)
Musicians’ bios (click on a name below the picture):
(Videos below are with different musicians)
April 25-26th : Sonata Series – Violin & Piano
Limor Toren, violin and Alicja Blanquart, cello
Program: Maurice Ravel – Sonata for violin and cello, Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia, Lera Auerbach Three dances in the old style , JS Bach’s 2-part inventions.
Saturday, April 25th time 4:00PM – St Peter’s Episcopal Church, 1648 W 9th St, San Pedro, CA 90732 ******* NEW VENUE !! *******
Sunday April 26th time 4:00PM, St. Thomas of Canterbury Episcopal Church, 5306 E Arbor Rd # B, Long Beach, CA 90808
May 30-31st, June 7th 2026 : String Quartet.
Program: Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz‘s Variations for quartet, North America PREMIERE ; Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 7 in F major, Op. 59, Razumovsky, No. 1
Saturday, May 30th – 2:00PM – Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church – 877 W 7th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
Sunday, May 31st – 2:00PM – Danish Lutheran Church and Cultural Center 16881 Bastanchury Road, Yorba Linda, CA 92886
Sunday, June 7th – 4:00PM – St Cornelius Catholic Church (TBC) 5500 E Wardlow Rd, Long Beach, CA 90808
June 13-14th : Sonata Series – Classical guitar & cello
Paula Fehrenbach, cello and Brian Head, guitar
PROGRAM: Antonio Vivaldi – Sonata III RV 43; Manuel de Falla – Suite Populaire Espagnole; Heitor Villa-Lobos – Aria from Bachanias Brasilieiras No.5 (Arr. Brian Head); Dušan Bogdanović – Quatre pièces intimes
Saturday, June 13th – 4:00PM, St. Thomas of Canterbury Episcopal Church, 5306 E Arbor Rd # B, Long Beach, CA 90808
Sunday, June 14th – 2:00PM – Danish Lutheran Church and Cultural Center 16881 Bastanchury Road, Yorba Linda, CA 92886
Saturday, June 20th – 2:00PM – Southeast branch of Torrance Public Library 23115 Arlington Ave. Torrance, CA 90501
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