Friday, June 14, 2024 @ 8 PM - West LA
Edye Second Space at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center (map)

Saturday, June 15, 2024 @ 8 PM - Pasadena
Barrett Hall at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music (map)
+ Livestream

Sunday, June 16, 2024 @ 3 PM - Lake Forest, CA
Weinstein Performance Space at Chamber Music | OC

If you love dead, white, male German composers as much as we do – and are not (yet!) familiar with the greatness of Johann Nepomuk Hummel – this concert exploring the arbitrariness of fame is for you.

In 1819, Hummel organized a concert to celebrate the world premiere performance of one of his works; for the occasion, Schubert wrote the Trout Quintet for the same combination of instruments. Guess which piece is all anyone remembers?

Salastina recreates this concert so that you can judge whether or not posterity was fair in jettisoning a composer with a name as awesome as “Nepomuk.”

Wine and sachertorte reception to follow.

Program:
Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Piano Quintet Op. 87
Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet D 667 “The Trout”
And more…

Artists:
Kevin Kumar and Maia Jasper White, Co-Artistic Directors and Violinists
Meredith Crawford, Resident Violist
Yoshika Masuda, Resident Cellist
Ted Botsford, Guest Bassist
HyeJin Kim, Resident Pianist
Benjamin Smolen, Resident Flutist
Brian Lauritzen, Resident Host

Salastina Members may watch the livestream for free in our Members-Only Lounge.