Greenwich Chamber Players Concerts This Weekend

The Chamber Players of the Greenwich Symphony will play “ More Treasures Familiar and Unknown” at their concerts scheduled for April 12 and 13.

The program will include works by Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, and Dubois.

The first concert will be at 4 p.m. Sunday at Round Hill Community Church, 395 Round Hill Rd., with the second scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Dr. Audiences are invited to join the musicians for wine and cheese after the concerts.

Playing two of the programmed works, Diane Lesser, Chamber Players oboist and Greenwich Symphony principal, will make her only appearance of this season with the group. She and Andrew Gordon, principal keyboardist of the symphony will play the Sonata in D major for Oboe and Piano, Op. 166 by Camille Saint-Saëns, a work he composed in the year of his death in 1921. Later in the program Lesser will be joined by string players David Creswell, Krystof Witek and Daniel Miller, as well as Gordon, in a performance of an “unknown treasure” - the Quintet for Oboe, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano, composed by Théodore Dubois in 1921.

The concert also will include Beethoven’s String Trio in G major, Opus 9, No. 1, a work written during the composer’s early period, published in Vienna in 1799.

Tickets are $30 for adults; $5 for students. For information, call 203-637-4725 or visit www.greenwichsym.org/chamberplayers.

Contributed photos: The Chamber Players; oboist Diane Lesser.

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