NEPACMS opens their 2023-2024 concert season with a program weaving soulful and haunting melodies with boisterous and joyful exuberance. Highly regarded by contemporaries such as Robert Schumann, Kalliwoda was a violinist and prolific composer with great skill in blending symphonic structure with Czech flair. Followed by the unforgettably beautiful Trio élégiaque in G minor by Rachmaninoff, the program ends with the incomparable second piano quintet by Dvořák.

PROGRAM
Johann Kalliwoda: Duet for violin and viola, No. 1, Op. 208
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor
Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major Op. 81

ARTISTS
John Vaida, violin
Arthur Moeller, violin
Amy Iwazumi, viola
Lisa Caravan, cello
Brian Farrell, piano