2023-2024 Season

A five concert chamber music series at the Tempe Center for the Arts.
Sunday afternoons at 2:30 pm.
$30 adult, $10 student
Purchase tickets to all shows in the Hayden’s Ferry 2023-2024 season and receive 20% off your total purchase!
Complimentary wine reception with the artists following the performance.

Viano Quartet

Sunday, October 8, 2023

First Prize winners of the 219 Banff International String Quartet competition, the Viano Quartet will join the highly competitive Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The Boston Globe praised them for their “virtuosity, visceral expression and rare unity of intention.”

Lucy Wang and Hao Zhou, violins
Aiden Kane, viola
Tate Zawadiuk, cello

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Viano String Quartet, recorded in Rolston Recital Hall, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, August 2022. 

Program

Cello Sonata

Claude Debussy

Prologue
Sérénade
Finale

3 Pieces for Cello and Piano 

Nadia Boulanger

Moderato
Sas vitesse et l’aise
Vite et nerveusement

Adagio con variazioni

Ottorino Respighi

Intermission

Adagio and Allegro, op. 70

Robert Schumann

Cello Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 58

Felix Mendelssohn

Allegro assai vivace
Allegretto scherzando
Adagio
Molto allegro e vivace

Two violins and piano

Sunday, December 17, 2023

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Former concert master of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Nikki Choi performs with his brother Timothy Choi, Queen Elisabeth Silver Medal winner. They will perform with pianist Clayton Stephenson, finalist at the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Nikki and Timothy Chooi, violins
Clayton Stephenson, piano

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Chooi Brothers – Vivaldi Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor

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Clayton Stephenson plays LISZT Spanish Rhapsody

Program

Suite for Two Violins and Piano in G Minor, Op. 71

Moritz Moszkowski


I. Allegro Energico
II. Allegro Moderato
III. Lento Assai
lV. Molto Vivace

(Nikki Chooi, Timothy Chooi, Clayton Stephenson)

Soulmate

Chan Ka Nin

(Timothy Chooi)

Red Violin Caprices for Solo Violin

John Corigliano

(Timothy Chooi)

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6

Franz Liszt

(Clayton Stephenson)

Intermission

Sonata for Two Violins in C major, Op.56

Sergei Prokofiev


I. Andante Cantabile
II. Allegro
III. Comodo (quasi allegretto)
lV. Allegro con brio

(Nikki Chooi, Timothy Chooi)

Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano (arr. Atovmyan)

Dmitri Shostakovich


I. Prelude
II. Gavotte
III. Elegy
lV. Waltz
V. Polka

(Nikki Chooi, Timothy Chooi, Clayton Stephenson)

“Navarra” for Two Violins and Piano

Pablo de Sarasate



(Nikki Chooi, Timothy Chooi, Clayton Stephenson)

Chaeyoung Park, piano

Sunday, January 21, 2024

Chaeyoung Park won her first international piano competition at age thirteen and played her first concerto at fourteen. She is the 2022 winner of the Young Concert Artist Susan Wadsworth International Auditions. As an undergraduate she won the Gina Bachauer scholarship at Juilliard where is an Artist Diploma candidate.

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Chaeyoung Park plays Stravinsky

Program

Études, Book 1

C. Debussy

I: Pour les cinq doigts
II: Pour les tierces
III: Pour les quartes
IV: Pour les sixtes
V: Pour les octaves
VI: Pour les huit doigt

A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979

G. Crumb

I: The Visitation
II: Berceuse for the Infant Jesu
III: The Shepherd’s Noël
IV: Nativity Dance
V: Canticle of the Holy Night
VI: Carol of the Bells

Intermission

Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 “Hammerklavier”

L. V. Beethoven


I. Allegro
II. Scherzo: Assai vivace
III. Adagio sostenuto
IV. Introduzione: Largo…..Allegro – Fuga: Allegro risoluto

Verona Quartet

Sunday, March 17, 2024

The New York Times calls the Verona Quartet “an outstanding ensemble…cohesive yet full of temperament.” They won the Cleveland Quartet Award and are Oberlin College faculty. Prestigious venues where they have performed include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall and many more.

Jonathan Ong and Dorothy Ro, violins
Abigail Rojansky, viola
Jonathan Dormand, cello

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Verona Quartet – Finale: vivace ma non troppo (String Quartet No.12 in F major ‘American’) – Dvořák

Program

String Quartet in A Minor

Sir William Walton

I: Allegro
II: Presto
III: Lento
IV: Allegro molto

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 56

Karol Szymanowski

I: Moderato, dolce e tranquillo
II: Vivace, scherzando
III: Lento-Moderato

Intermission

String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat Major, Op. 105

Antonin Dvořák

I. Adagio ma non troppo – Allegro appassionato
II. Molto vivace
III. Lento e molto cantabile
IV. Finale: Allegro non tanto

Piano Trio

Sunday, April 14, 2024

Violinist Lun Li, cellist Jonathan Swensen and pianist Albert Cano Smit are all winners of Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions. Mr. Li and Mr. Swensen are also recent additions to the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bowers Program. Mr. Smit won First Prize at the 2017 Walter W. Naumburg Piano Competition.

Lun Li, violin
Jonathan Swensen, cello
Albert Cano Smit, piano

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Lun Li, violinist | Ernst: Grand Caprice on Schubert’s Der Erlkönig, Op.26

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Jonathan Swensen, cello | Kodály: Sonata for Solo Cello: I. Allegro maestoso ma appassionato

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Albert Cano Smit – BACH Toccata in C minor, BWV911

Program

Two Nguni Dances

Bongani Ndonada-Breen

Piano Trio in C major

Gaspar Cassadó

Allegro risoluto – Allegro ma non troppo
Tempo moderato e pesante – Allegro giusto – Tempe
Recitativo. Moderato ed appassionato – Rondo. Allegro vivo

Piano Trio after The Barber of Seville

Rossini/DeVilbac

Intermission

Tango Works for Trio + Bandoneon

Juan Pablo Jofre

Milongon
After the Rain
Tango Movements
Taranguino
Primavera
Manifesto
Universe

About Us

The Hayden’s Ferry Chamber Music Series takes place in the Tempe Center for the Arts, a stone’s throw from the 1875 ferry location near the Hayden Flour Mill. The logo is based on the only existing photo of the ferry and acknowledges the original name of Tempe, Hayden’s Ferry. The Salt River is no longer running and the beautiful TCA is located on Tempe Town Lake.

This Sunday afternoon series takes place mostly in the Lakeside Room. Guest artists come from all over the United States and they are all exceptionally fine musicians. The experience of hearing music in a beautiful glass walled setting is really wonderful and quite rare. Seating is limited to 200 people. After the concerts the audience is invited to meet the musicians at a wine reception, and a glass of wine is included in the adult ticket price. I look forward to seeing you at the concerts.

Catherine Hayden, Producer

This music series depends on the generosity of its supporters. It is a registered 501(c)(3) charity so all contributions are tax-deductible. If you wish to donate online, please click the link below.

If you wish to donate by check, send a check made out to the series to me at: 1517 E Calle de Caballos, Tempe AZ 85284.

Contact Us

Send email to Catherine Hayden:
catherinehayden@haydensferry
chambermusicseries.org

(480) 319-2483
1517 E Calle de Caballos Tempe, AZ 85284

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