Salon Concert featuring Robert Marcus and Chengcheng Yao

Robert Marcus, clarinet

Chengcheng Yao, piano

Program

Felix Mendelssohn

Five Songs Without Words

Clara Schumann

Three Romances

Johannes Brahms

Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Op 120 #2

Francis Poulenc

Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

Members and Guests

$40 Members

6:30 p.m. - Doors open

7:00 p.m. - Performance followed by reception with the artists 

Clarinetist and Ingleside Resident Robert Marcus has played the clarinet for more than 75 years, having studied in Los Angeles with Mitchell Lurie and at the Music Academy of the West.  He has enjoyed a long history of solo and chamber music performance including appearances with the Nova Vista Symphony, Redwood Symphony, and Los Alamos Symphony in concerti by Mozart, del Aguila, and John Adams, Debussy’s Premiere Rhapsodie, and Luciano Berio;s orchestral transcription of Brahms’ F-minor Clarinet sonata. Over a span of 60 years he has played frequentsolo and chamber music recitals. In addition to playing the standard clarinet repertoire, his chamber music performances include Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat, Milhaud’s Creation du Monde, Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, and Golijov’s Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind. 

Praised by Marin Alsop as an “amazing young pianist,” Chengcheng Yao is an emerging expressive artist whose highlights include Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra under Alsop and the Chautauqua Music School Festival Orchestra under Timothy Muffitt. Yao has performed across North America, Europe, and Asia at venues including Alice Tully Hall, Laeiszhalle, Steinway Hall Hamburg, the Mozarteum, Vienna’s Beethoven Center and University of Music and Performing Arts, Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts and Forbidden City Concert Hall, and the University of Toronto. Winner of Yale’s 2017 Elizabeth Parisot Prize, she has received numerous awards, to include First prize at the 71 st Steinway International Piano Competition. Yao holds a DMA from the Peabody Institute of John Hopkins University.

MEMBER AND GUEST EVENT

The Salon Concert Series is presented by the Classical Music Committee of The Arts Club of Washington, and offers chamber music in an historic atmosphere evocative of the period during which the music was written.