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Announcing Live at the Museum and Hill House Chamber Players

By Schubert Club

Live at the Museum 2016-2017

On four evenings this season, favorite local artists bring live classical music—and more— to the galleries of the Schubert Club Museum in historic Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul. Complimentary wine, sparkling water, and treats will be served with each event, and the Museum will be open for concert-goers to explore beginning at 6:30pm the evening of each concert.

Tickets for all Live at the Museum events are just $12 if purchased in advance, or $16 at the door. These concerts often sell out. 

Live at the Museum 2016-2017 Season

The Fortepiano and the First Romantics with Michael Tsalka
Tuesday, September 27, 2016, 7:30pm
Works by Ferdinand Ries, Ludwig van Beethoven, W.A. Mozart and Luigi Cherubini
Enjoy works by these celebrated composers performed by Michael Tsalka on fortepiano in celebration of his recent recording on instruments from the Schubert Club collection. These Viennese keyboards, highly praised and respected by Beethoven and other great musicians from the times, were known for their clarity of tone and fast, responsive action and damping. Michael Tsalka demonstrates a masterly control of dynamics, and is moreover thoroughly attentive to phrasing and tempi in a way that totally explains the music of these great masters.


Ole Bull and the Hardanger Fiddle with Peter Sheppard Skaerved
Thursday, November 17, 2016, 7:30pm
Peter Sheppard Skaerved is one of very few violinists to have performed and recorded on the violins of Paganini, Viotti, Joachim, Kreisler, and Ole Bull. One of the gems from Schubert Club’s historical instrument collection includes an exquisite 19th century Norwegian Hardanger fiddle believed to once be the property of Ole Bull around 1860. Spend the evening with Peter as he shares interesting stories of Bull and this amazing instrument along with performing music of Ole Bull and others on this historical instrument.


Music and Tales From the Schubert Club Manuscripts
Thursday, February 23, 2017, 7:30pm
Featuring: Vern Sutton, tenor and narrator; Maria Jette, soprano; Michael Sutton, violin; and Donald Livingston, keyboard
Enjoy another season to read between the lines of an all new set of letters from the Schubert Club’s famous Gilman Ordway Manuscript collection. Vern Sutton will explore the details surrounding the music and personalities of Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, Brahms, Elgar, and Bloch. Then hear live performances of these composer’s works with historically enlightened ears.


Sing, Poet! American Songs of Celius Dougherty
Thursday, April 6, 2017, 7:30pm
Featuring: Mark Bilyeu, piano; Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano; and other Source Song Festival Musicians
Join the Artistic Directors of the Source Song Festival, Mark Bilyeu and Clara Osowski as they offer the second of three evenings dedicated to the music of locally born and internationally recognized Celius Dougherty. The evening will be rich with multi-media interviews, recordings, manuscripts, and letters from both the University of Minnesota and the Schubert Club collections.

Hill House Chamber Players 2016-2017

The Hill House Chamber Players are Julie Ayer, violin; Catherine Schubilske, violin; Thomas Turner, viola; Tanya Remenikova, cello; and Mary Jo Gothmann, piano. The Players perform at the historic James J. Hill House on Summit Ave in St. Paul, Minnesota. The series is cosponsored by The Schubert Club and the Minnesota Historical Society.

The Hill House Chamber Players will present “Women of Note,” in three sets of concerts during the 2016-2017 season. They will explore rarely heard gems by women composers, as well as favorite works for piano and strings by Schumann, Mozart, and Faure.

New this season! Come early for a conversation with Emily Hogstad from 6:45-7:15pm

Single and season tickets can be purchased by calling 651.296.5662

Hill House Chamber Players 2016-2017 Season

October 10 & 17, 2016, 7:30pm
Amy Beach: Quintet for Piano and Strings in F-sharp minor, Op 67

Judith Lang Zaimont: Calendar Collection for Solo Piano (excerpts)

Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Opus 44 

March 6 & 13, 2017, 7:30pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, K.493

Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata

Clara Wieck Schumann: Piano Trio in G minor, Op 17 

May 1 & 8, 2017, 7:30pm
Lili Boulanger: Two Morceaux: Nocturne and Cortege
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Piano Trio in D minor, Op 11
Gabriel Faure: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op 15 
Programs subject to change 

Join the Hill House Chamber Players at the Saint Paul Classical Music Crawl! 
Saturday, October 15, 2016, 2-4pm
The Baroque Room, 275 E 4th St, #280, Saint Paul