ChamberFest: Comfort Reeds

Piano and Winds

​​​​​A gorgeous program featuring the otherworldly sonatas of Saint-Saëns, composed in the last year of his long life. Balancing off the program will be Poulenc’s Trio- one of his finest achievements- as well as Mozart’s Piano Quintet- a work that Mozart himself considered “the best thing I have written in my life.”

​Saint-Saëns: Oboe Sonata op. 166​

Saint-Saëns: Clarinet Sonata op. 167
Saint-Saëns: Bassoon Sonata op. 168

Poulenc: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano
Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds K. 452​​​​​​

Gianfranco Bortolato, oboe
James Campbell, clarinet
Jim Smelser, horn
George Sakakeeny, bassoon
Andreas Ioannides, piano
Futaba Niekawa, piano

This concert is sponsored by the Eads family in memory of Ralph S. (Tony) Eads.

Presented with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago