2024-2025 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 2024-2025 season and receive 20% off your total purchase!
Complimentary wine reception with the artists following the performance.

Classical Guitar Duo

Sunday, October 13, 2024

Australian brothers currently at Juilliard in the classical guitar studio who have earned over 50 awards.

Ziggy and Miles Johnston

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Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy – arr. Ziggy and Miles

Program

Songs from the Forest

Nigel Westlake

Suite bergamasque

Claude Debussy

V. Prélude
VI. Menuet
VII. Clair de Lune
VIII. Passepied

arr. Ziggy & Miles

Trin Warren Tam-boore

Ken Murray

commissioned by Ziggy & Miles

Jongo

Paulo Bellinati

Intermission

Valses Poeticos

Enrique Granados

arr. Gruber/Maklar

Sidekick

Katie Jenkins

commissioned by Ziggy & Miles

Suite Retratos

Radamés Gnattali

V. Pixinguinha (Choro)
VI. Ernesto Nazareth (Valse)
VII. Anaclet de Medeiros (Schottisch)
VIII. Chiquinha Gonzaga (Choro)

Soprano and Bass Baritone

Sunday, December 15, 2024

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Chelsea Guo & Joseph Parrish are both winners of the 2022 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions.

Chelsea Guo, soprano and piano
Joseph Parrish, bass baritone

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Chelsea Guo, soprano | Franz Lehár: “Vilja Song” from The Merry Widow

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Joseph Parrish, bass-baritone | Rachmaninoff: Love’s Flame

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)

Harp and Violin

Sunday, February 23, 2025

Sivan Magen, harpist with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and violinist Itamar Zorman, top prize winner in the Tchaikovsky Competition.

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Sivan Magen plays Poème by Paul Ben-Haim

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Itamar Zorman / Daniel Oren / Israel Symphony Rishon Lezion play Beethoven Violin Concerto op.61

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

Piano Trio

Sunday, March 16, 2025

Oliver Neubauer, Benett Tsai and Zhu Wang are all YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions winners and will play solos and a piano trio.

Oliver Neubauer, violin
Benett Tsai, cello
Zhu Wang, piano

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Oliver Neubauer – Grieg Violin Sonata no. 3

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Beethoven: 7 Variations on Mozart’s ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ | Benett Tsai

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YCA Finals 2020 – Zhu Wang, Mozart Sonata in B-flat Major

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

Martin James Bartlett, piano

Sunday, April 13, 2025

British pianist Martin James Bartlett, winner of the Virtu(al)oso Global Piano Competition by Piano Cleveland, Prix Serdang and others.

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Martin James Bartlett – Wild: 7 Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin No. 4 – Concertgebouw Sessions

Program

Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70

Robert Schumann

(Jonathan Swensen, cello, Albert Cano Smit, piano)

Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 18

Richard Strauss

I. Allegro, ma non troppo
II. Improvisation: Andante cantabile
III. Finale: Andante – Allegro

(Lun Li, violin, Albert Cano Smit, piano)

Intermission

“Los Requiebros” from Goyescas

Enrique Granados

Selection from The Art of The Fugue

J.S. Bach

(Albert Cano Smit, piano)

Trio no. 1 in D-minor, Op. 63

Robert Schumann

I. Mit Energie und Leidenschaft
II. Lebhaft, doch nicht zu rasch
III. Langsam, mit inniger Empfindung
IV. Mit Feuer

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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