SEPTEMBER 2026 – 3 concerts
String Quartet
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847 ) String Quartet No 2 in a minor op 13
Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937) – String Quartet in F Major
Friday, September 18th – 7:00PM – Danish Lutheran Church and Cultural Center 16881 Bastanchury Road, Yorba Linda, CA 92886
Saturday, September 19th – 2:00PM – Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church – 877 W 7th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
Sunday, September 20th – 4:00PM – St Cornelius Catholic Church 5500 E Wardlow Rd, Long Beach, CA 90808
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OCTOBER 2026 – 3 concerts
Sonata Series – Nicholaus Yee, viola, Junko Nojima, harpsichord/piano
JS Bach gamba Sonata TBD; Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881) Viola Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 36
Saturday, October 17th – 4:00PM – St Peter’s Episcopal Church 1648 W 9th St, San Pedro, CA 90732
Sunday, October 18th – 3:00PM – Holy Innocents Parish Hall, 425 E 20th St, Long Beach, CA 90806
Sunday, October 25th – 2:00PM – Danish Lutheran Church and Cultural Center 16881 Bastanchury Road, Yorba Linda, CA 92886
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NOVEMBER 2026 – 3 concerts:
String Quintet
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) String Quintet in A major, Op. 13, No. 5, G.281
Franz Schubert String Quintet in C Major, D. 956
Friday, November 27th – 7:30PM – St Cornelius Catholic Church 5500 E Wardlow Rd, Long Beach, CA 90808
Saturday, November 28th – 6:30PM – Holy Trinity Catholic Church 1292 W Santa Cruz St, San Pedro, CA 90732
Sunday, November 29th – 2:00PM – Danish Lutheran Church and Cultural Center 16881 Bastanchury Road, Yorba Linda, CA 92886
Musicians’ bios (click on a name below the picture):
Quintet TBD
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January 2027 – 2 concerts
SONATA SERIES – Cecilia Tsan, cello, Tim Durkovic, piano
Fauré Elégie, Brahms E minor and Debussy Sonatas and some pieces by John Williams
Saturday, January 30rd – St Gregory Episcopal Church 6201 E Willow St, Long Beach, CA 90815
Sunday, January 31st – 4:00PM – The Grand Annex, San Pedro, CA
NOTE: Aligning our co-presenter The Grand Annex’s long-standing and successful practices, we will align our suggestion of a donation, for the Saturday concert, with the Grand Annex Sunday ticket prices. Tickets will go on sale soon at the Grand Annex’ box office very soon! The other concerts of UP CLOSE AND CLASSICAL this season will remain with our usual suggestion that attendees donate $20.
March 2027 – 12 concerts in Los Angeles and Orange Counties
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2027 7:00PM – St Matthew Catholic Church 672 Temple Ave, Long Beach, CA 90814
Friday March 12th or 19th (TBC) – American Martyrs Catholic Church – 1431 Deegan Pl., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Saturday, March 13th, 2027 12:00PM – Edendale Branch Library 2011 W. Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90026 (a co-presentation with EDENDALE LIBRARY UP CLOSE CONCERTS).
Saturday, March 13th, 2027 7:00PM – St Pius V Catholic Church 7691 Orangethorpe Ave, Buena Park, CA 90621
Sunday, March 14th, 2027 4:00PM (TBC) – Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church – 877 W 7th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
Sunday, March 21st, 2027 5:00PM – Gloria Dei Lutheran Church – 33501 Stonehill Dr, Dana Point, CA 92629
Monday March 22, 6:30PM – St Cornelius Catholic Church 5500 E Wardlow Rd, Long Beach, CA 90808
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2027 (TBC) – 7:00PM – Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 7082 Crescent Ave, Buena Park, CA 90620
Friday March 26th, 2027 – 3:00PM St Michael and all Angels Episcopal Church 3233 Pacific View Dr, Corona del Mar, CA 92625
Friday, March 26th, 2027 – 7:00PM – Danish Lutheran Church and Cultural Center 16881 Bastanchury Road, Yorba Linda, CA 92886
Friday, March 26th, 2027 – 7:00PM – St Michael’s Abbey , 27977 Silverado Canyon Road Silverado, CA 92676
Saturday, March 27th, 2027 – 2:00PM – Southeast branch of the Torrance Public Library, 23115 S. Arlington Ave., Torrance, CA 90501
String Quartet
Joseph Haydn’s “Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross”
(below, last year’s performance at the Danish Church in Yorba Linda)
April 2027 – 3 concerts: Long Beach, SOUTH BAY, Yorba Linda
April 16, 17 and/or 18, venues TBC
SONATA Series – Sakura Tsai, violin, and TBD, piano
Program to include Amy Beach’s passionate Sonata in A minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 34
MAY 2027 – 3 concerts: Long Beach, SOUTH BAY, Yorba Linda
Venues and exact dates TBC
String Quartet
Schubert – String Quartet No 14 in D minor “ Death and the Maiden”
Mozart – String quartet K421 in D minor
JUNE 2027 – 3 concerts: Long Beach, SOUTH BAY, Yorba Linda
Venues and exact dates TBC
String Sextet
Brahms ( 1833-1897) – String Sextet no 2 in G Major
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893 )String Sextet in D minor “Souvenir the Florence” op 70