There’s a BSO musician appearing in a synagogue, church or concert hall near you. Check these listings of concerts around town where you can hear your favorite BSO musicians in a more intimate setting.

Other Area Performing Groups that feature members of the BSO:

Chamber Music by Candlelight at the Second Presbyterian Church.

Sundays at Three Chamber Music Series in Columbia.

Baltimore's Premier Early Music Ensemble, Pro Musica Rara at the Towson University Center for the Arts.

The Baltimore Chamber Orchestra

The Baltimore Choral Arts Society

Small Ensembles Featuring BSO Players:

Monument Piano Trio (Igor Yuzefovich and Dariusz Skoraczewski)

Spiorad (Phil Munds)

Trio La Milpa (Katherine Needleman and Michael Liscky)

Atlantic String Quartet (Rebecca Nichols, Greg Mulligan, Christian Colberg, Bo Li)

Past Performances:

2007

2007-2008 Season of Chamber Music by Candlelight at the Second Presbyterian Church.

2007-2008 Season of Chamber Music UB: The BSO Musicians Series at the University of Baltimore.

On Sunday September 16th, 2007, BSO Concertmaster Jonathan Carney will present all three of the magnificent violin sonatas of Johannes Brahms. Accompanied by pianist Lura Johnson, this performace will take place at the Towson Unitarian Universalist Church in Towson, as part of the Music In the Great Hall concert series.

2006-2007 Season of Chamber Music by Candlelight at the Second Presbyterian Church.

2006-2007 Season of Chamber Music UB: The BSO Musicians Series at the University of Baltimore.

2006

BSO Principal Oboist Katherine Needleman appeared with the Peabody Concert Orchestra and Hajime Teri Murai on February 10 in Bohuslav Martinu's Oboe Concerto, as well as David Ludwig's Radiance for oboe and string orchestra, written for her.

Katherine is a founding member of Astral Winds, a woodwind quintet. Their last concert at An Die Musik was sold out. They appear there again on April 14 and 8PM. For more information, click here.

BSO's Assistant Concertmaster Igor Yuzefovich performed with the Lancaster Symphony January 13th and 14th. LSO's concertmaster, Mr. Yuzefovich was a soloist for 4 performances of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.

2005

The Monument Piano Trio are An die Musik's Artists-in-Residence. Igor Yuzefovich (violin) and Dariusz Skoraczewski (cello) are BSO musicians. Rounding out the group is Michael Sheppard on piano. The trio performed works by Beethoven and Shostakovich at An Die Musik Live on Friday, December 23 at 7:30 pm. www.andiemusiklive.com

Baltimore native and world-renowned violinist Hilary Hahn performed in a special chamber music concert to benefit the Zion Lutheran Church on Thursday December 22nd. This concert also featured soprano Janice Chandler-Eteme, BSO Principal Bassoonist Phillip Kolker, BSO Principal Second Violinist Qing Li, and other members of the BSO. Hilary made her debut with the BSO at the age of 12, and has frequently performed and recorded with the BSO.

Double Bassist David Sheets performed a recital with pianist Amy Klosterman at An Die Musik Live in Baltimore on Sunday December 18th featuring music of Persichetti, Hindemith and Grieg. For information on future performances, visit: www.andiemusiklive.com

BSO Assistant Concertmaster Igor Yuzefovich performed with the Peabody Preparatory Sinfonietta to perform the Beethoven Violin Concerto. This was a reunion/homecoming concert of sorts for Igor, as he spent 3 years studying in the Prep with his teacher, a member of the BSO violin section - Leri Slutsky.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Concert Lab (BSO Concert Lab) and students at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) teamed up for an experimental performance entitled "Themes and Variations" on Monday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m. The concert took place in Brown Center's Falvey Hall located at 1301 West Mount Royal Avenue. Variations and visual responses created by MICA students,were shown throughout the performance and form an integral part of the concert. The students had been attending BSO rehearsals and meeting with musicians throughout the fall semester as part of two illustration courses, Drawing I and Drawing as Illustration, taught by MICA faculty member Warren Linn. BSO musicians Andrew Balio, principal trumpet, Chris Dudley, principal trombone, Brian Prechtl, percussion, Igor Yuzefovich, assistant concertmaster and Dariusz Skoraczewski, assistant principal cello, performed live and spoke along with the visual artists as part of a discussion forum following the program. The program included the world premiere of "Trail of Memories" (2005) for trumpet and percussion by Dafnis Prieto, and the Baltimore premiere of "Tromba Solo" (1972) by the Norwegian composer Ketil Hvoslef for solo trumpet. Also included were "At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners" (2000) written by BSO percussionist Brian Prechtl, and based on one of the Holy Sonnets by the poet, John Donne, and Zoltan Kodaly's 1914 Duo for Violin and Violoncello. Concert Lab, founded in 2003 by BSO violinist Ellen Orner, is an experimental environment created to explore the very newest in classical chamber music together with emerging visual artists at MICA. For more information about the performances, visit www.mica.edu or call 410-225-2300.

For more information about BSO Concert Lab, contact Ellen Orner at eor12@comcast.net

Violist Karin Brown played a recital as part of the "Sundays at Three" series on Sunday, December 4th featuring music by Hindemith, Rebecca Clarke, and Piazzolla.

Associate Concertmaster Madeline Adkins played a recital with pianist Daniel Schlosberg at the Romanian Embassy in Washington, DC on Tuesday November 8th.

For information on future performances, visit: www.embassyseries.com

Principal oboist Katherine Needleman and Pianist Amy Klosterman performed a recital at Music in the Great Hall featuring the world premiere of David Ludwig's Pleiades: Seven Microludes for Oboe and Piano, as well as works by Händel, Dutilleux, Bartok, Nielsen, and Lalliet on November 11 and 13. Visit http://www.migh.org.