Concert Season
May 17, 2026
MARIN MUSIC CHEST YOUNG ARTISTS’ CONCERT
Subscribers receive a free ticket to the Young Artists’ Concert of the Marin Music Chest with their subscription.
Chamber Music Marin supports the goals of the Marin Music Chest and hopes that subscribers will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to hear talented young musicians. Each year the quality of the winners is very impressive making this concert an inspiring event for all who attend. We encourage you to bring your friends and family, the concert is free to all comers.
Oct 11, 2026
DAEDALUS QUARTET
“Praised by The New Yorker as “a fresh and vital young participant in what is a golden age of American string quartets,” the Daedalus Quartet has established itself as a leader among the new generation of string ensembles. Since winning the top prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2001, the Daedalus Quartet has impressed critics and listeners alike with the security, technical finish, interpretive unity, and sheer gusto of its performances. The New York Times has praised the Daedalus Quartet’s “insightful and vibrant” Haydn, the “impressive intensity” of their Beethoven, their “luminous” Berg, and the “riveting focus” of their Dutilleux. The Washington Post in turn has acclaimed their performance of Mendelssohn for its “rockets of blistering virtuosity,” while the Houston Chronicle has described the “silvery beauty” of their Schubert and the “magic that hushed the audience” when they played Ravel, the Boston Globe the “finesse and fury” of their Shostakovich, the Toronto Globe and Mail the “thrilling revelation” of their Hindemith, and the Cincinnati Enquirer the “tremendous emotional power” of their Brahms.
Since its founding the Daedalus Quartet has performed in many of the world’s leading musical venues; in the United States and Canada these include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center (Great Performers series), the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., and Boston’s Gardner Museum, as well as on major series in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Winnipeg, and Vancouver.
Abroad the ensemble has been heard in such famed locations as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and in leading venues in Japan.
Program:
Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981): String Quartet, Op.11
Amy Beach (1867 - 1944): String Quartet Op. 89
Antonin Dvořák (1841 - 1904): Quartet in F major, Op. 96, “American”
Nov 15, 2026
RACHEL BARTON PINE (violin) with MATHEW HAGLE (piano)
“Pine displays a power and confidence that puts her in the top echelon.”– The Washington Post
“Pine and her very able piano partner Matthew Hagle treat us to a true celebration of the violin in its several guises.” classicstoday.com
The acclaimed American concert violinist Rachel Barton Pine thrills international audiences with her dazzling technique and lustrous tone. With an infectious joy in music-making and a passion for connecting historical research to performance, Pine transforms audiences’ experiences of classical music. She is a leading interpreter of the great classical masterworks and of important contemporary music.
Pianist Matthew Hagle is a musician of great versatility and depth, whose performances are a rare mixture of musical understanding, imaginative programming, pianistic command and beauty of sound. In solo performance he often tries to shed new light on the piano repertoire, using thoughtful programming and committed performance to present lesser-known works and to illuminate the traditional canon. In a more conventional vein, he has also performed all of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas and the complete later piano music of Brahms in a series of live radio recitals. Mr. Hagle is also highly valued as a collaborator by many other artists. With violinist Rachel Barton Pine, he has released three acclaimed CDs on the Cedille label, and performed many recitals in North and South America.
Program:
Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Violin Sonata No. 1, in G major, Op. 78
Amanda Maier (1853 - 1894): Violin Sonata in B minor
Clara Schumann (1819 - 1894): Three Romances
Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Sonata No. 3, in D minor, Op. 108
Dec 6, 2026
MIRO STRING QUARTET
The Miró Quartet is one of America’s most celebrated string quartets, praised as "furiously committed" by The New Yorker and recognized for its "exceptional tonal focus and interpretive intensity" by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Marking its 30th anniversary in 2025, the GRAMMY®-nominated quartet has performed on the world’s most prestigious concert stages, earning accolades from critics and audiences alike. Based in Austin, TX, and thriving on the area’s storied music scene, the quartet takes pride in finding new ways to communicate with audiences of all backgrounds while cultivating the longstanding tradition of chamber music. Since 2003, Miró has served as the quartet-in-residence at the University of Texas at Austin Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music.
Miró Quartet’s current and recent projects include a touring and recording project with pianist Lara Downes titled Here on Earth, featuring musical depictions of our planet, its evolution, and the lives of its inhabitants; the premiere of a new version of Kevin Puts’ Credo with the Naples Philharmonic; and collaborations with composers Steven Banks, Tamar-Kali, and Gabriel Kahane; as well as soprano Karen Slack and the Isadore Quartet. During the 2025-2026 season, the quartet’s engagements include a 30th anniversary appearance at Oberlin College, where the group was formed, as well as performances at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, Austin Chamber Music Festival, and more.
The Miró Quartet’s newest album, a recording of Ginastera’s complete String Quartets released on PENTATONE in July
2025, was lauded by Gramophone as “the most technically polished accounts yet of these extraordinary works … a stunning achievement.” Among its many previous recordings for a variety of global labels, the quartet was nominated for a 2025 GRAMMY® Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for its album Home (PENTATONE, 2024), featuring two new commissions by Kevin Puts and Caroline Shaw, as well as works by George Walker and Samuel Barber. The group was nominated for a 2024 GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral Performance for House of Belonging, created in collaboration with Austin-based choral group Conspirare. They recently produced an Emmy Award–winning audiovisual multimedia project titled Transcendence, a documentary centered around a performance of Franz Schubert’s Quartet in G Major on rare Stradivarius instruments, available on livestream, CD, and Blu-ray.
Formed in 1995, the Miró Quartet has been awarded first prize at several national and international competitions including the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition. Deeply committed to music education, members of the quartet have given masterclasses at universities and conservatories throughout the world. In 2005, the quartet became the first ensemble ever to be awarded the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant.
The Miró Quartet took its name and inspiration from the Spanish artist Joan Miró, whose Surrealist works – with subject matter drawn from the realm of memory, dreams, and imaginative fantasy – are some of the most groundbreaking, influential, and admired of the 20th century. Visit miroquartet.com for more information.“Pine displays a power and confidence that puts her in the top echelon.”– The Washington Post
“Pine and her very able piano partner Matthew Hagle treat us to a true celebration of the violin in its several guises.”classicstoday.com
The acclaimed American concert violinist Rachel Barton Pine thrills international audiences with her dazzling technique and lustrous tone. With an infectious joy in music-making and a passion for connecting historical research to performance, Pine transforms audiences’ experiences of classical music. She is a leading interpreter of the great classical masterworks and of important contemporary music.
Pianist Matthew Hagle is a musician of great versatility and depth, whose performances are a rare mixture of musical understanding, imaginative programming, pianistic command and beauty of sound. In solo performance he often tries to shed new light on the piano repertoire, using thoughtful programming and committed performance to present lesser-known works and to illuminate the traditional canon. In a more conventional vein, he has also performed all of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas and the complete later piano music of Brahms in a series of live radio recitals. Mr. Hagle is also highly valued as a collaborator by many other artists. With violinist Rachel Barton Pine, he has released three acclaimed CDs on the Cedille label, and performed many recitals in North and South America.
Program:
Anton Webern (1883 - 1945): Langsamer Satz
Kevin Puts (b. 1972): Home
Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): String Quartet No. 15 in G major, Op. 161, D. 887
Jan 31, 2027
QUATUOR DIOTIMA
Quatuor Diotima, one of the most sought after string quartets of today, was formed under the impulse of four graduates from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in 1996. Its name bears a double reference: Diotima as the allegory of German Romanticism – Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion thus baptizes his muse and lifelong love – and as firebrand of the music of today, with Luigi Nono’s Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima.
Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): String Quartet No. 1, in F major, Op. 18
György Ligeti (1923 - 2006): String Quartet No. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): String Quartet No. 13, in Bb major, Op. 130
Feb 28, 2027
SITKOVETSKY TRIO
The Sitkovetsky Trio has established itself as an outstanding piano trio. With its thoughtful and committed approach, the ensemble is critically acclaimed and has been invited to perform in the most prestigious concert halls worldwide - including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Auditori in Barcelona, Wigmore Hall in London and the Lincoln Center in New York. The ensemble has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes, such as the BBC Music Magazine Chamber Music Award, the NORDMETALL Chamber Music Prize of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival, the first prize of the Commerzbank International Chamber Music Competition and the Philharmonia-Martin Chamber Music Award. It has also received support from well-known institutions such as the Hattori Foundation, the Musician’s Benevolent Fund, the Fidelio Trust and the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation. The trio was also supported by the Music Initiative as part of the German Neustart Kultur funding program.
Program:
Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): Piano Trio No. 36 in E-flat major, Op. 71 No. 2, Hob. XV:22
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 110
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97 “Archduke”
Apr 4, 2027
JON NAKAMATSU, piano
Now in his third decade of touring worldwide, American pianist Jon Nakamatsu continues to draw critical and public acclaim for his intensity, elegance and electrifying solo, concerto and chamber music performances. Catapulted to international attention in 1997 as the Gold Medalist of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition—the only American to achieve this distinction since 1981—Mr. Nakamatsu subsequently developed a multi-faceted career that encompasses recording, education, arts administration and public speaking in addition to his vast concert schedule.
Program:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) / Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1924): Two Chorale Preludes
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Op. 27 “Quasi una Fantasia”
Elena Ruehr (b. 1963): The Gork
Vivian Fung (b. 1975): A Little Down-and-Dirty
Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849): Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61
Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849): Fantaisie, Op. 49
Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849): Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante, Op. 2
May 16, 2027
MARIN MUSIC CHESTYOUNG ARTISTS’ CONCERT
Subscribers receive a free ticket to the Young Artists’ Concert of the Marin Music Chest with their subscription.
Chamber Music Marin supports the goals of the Marin Music Chest and hopes that subscribers will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to hear talented young musicians. Each year the quality of the winners is very impressive making this concert an inspiring event for all who attend. We encourage you to bring your friends and family, the concert is free to all comers.