Ensemble Schuman at OPAC

A dazzling, colorful trio of soloists, the members of Ensemble Schumann – Thomas Gallant, Oboe, Steve Larson, Viola, and Sally Pinkas, Piano, present works by their name-sake Robert Schumann, as well as by Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Loeffler, Poulenc, Shostakovich, and others. Ensemble Schumann, bring to life an unusual combination of timbres. Gallant, Larson, and Pinkas have each performed at notable venues, including Lincoln Center, the Frick Collection, and Carnegie Hall in New York City. Performing together since 2005, Ensemble Schumann has been featured at the prestigious Da Camera Series in Los Angeles, at the Clark Art Museum in Massachusetts, and on Live From Fraser on WGBH- Radio in Boston. Praised by Gramophone as finding “the work’s charms receive articulate and expressive treatment. Balances between instruments are superbly gauged and the players shape the music’s juxtaposition of tenderness and jubilance with unforced intensity.”