Music Middays is a program of Music Mondays, featuring emerging musicians performing one-hour programs at noon on select Tuesdays. Admission is FREE.

Presented by Serena Canin

October 21, 2025
Frankie Carr, cello
Chelsea Wang, piano

English-American cellist Frankie Carr and “excellent young pianist” (New York Times) Chelsea Wang have performed at festivals across Europe, Asia and North America.  Having recently completed fellowships in New York City with Ensemble Connect, a highly selective program co-sponsored by Carnegie Hall, they will share poetic and probing works by Schumann and Beethoven, as well as the emotionally powerful First Suite for Cello by Benjamin Britten.

PROGRAM
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, op. 73
Britten: Cello Suite No. 1, op. 72
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in C Major, op. 102, no. 1

December 16, 2025
Wynona Wang, piano

Chinese pianist Wynona Wang has captured the attention of audiences around the world.  Praised for her “concentrated intensity…commanding sweep, power, and cohesion” (International Piano) she will perform Schubert’s fiendishly virtuosic “Wanderer” Fantasy alongside soul-searching works of Scriabin and Rachmaninoff.

PROGRAM
Scriabin: Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp Minor, op. 23
Rachmaninoff: Romance, op. 21, no. 5  (“Lilacs”)
Rachmaninoff: Romance, op. 38, no. 3  (“Daisies”)
Schubert/Liszt: Auf dem Wasser zu Singen
Schubert/Liszt: Gretchen am Spinnrade
Schubert: Fantasy in C Major, D.760 (“Wanderer”)

March 3, 2026
The Katarina String Quartet

Jeanel Liang, violin
Jérôme Chiasson, violin
Celia Morin, viola
Maya Enstad, cello

Grand Prize winner of the 2025 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the Katarina Quartet has quickly distinguished itself as one of North America’s compelling young ensembles.  Their program in the key of C showcases two masterworks:  one of the delightful “Prussian” Quartets by Haydn, and Benjamin Britten’s formidable Second Quartet, his homage to the great English composer Henry Purcell.

PROGRAM
Haydn: Quartet in C Major, op. 50, no. 2
Britten: Quartet No. 2 in C Major, op. 36

April 21, 2026
Anoush Pogossian, clarinet
Lucas Amory, piano

Clarinetist Anoush Pogossian aims to facilitate meaningful explorations of music and its potential, pushing and interrogating its limits. Together with prize-winning pianist Lucas Amory, the duo will perform rich Romantic works of Schubert and Brahms, and will reach beyond with pieces by Alexander Zemlinsky and the stunning contemporary Japanese composer Takashi Yoshimatsu.

PROGRAM
Schubert: Sonatina in D major, D. 384
Zemlinsky: Selections from Fantasien auf Gedichte von Richard Dehmel, op. 9
Yoshimatsu: 4 Pieces in Bird Shape
Brahms: Sonata in E-flat Major, op. 120, no. 2