BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:544@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260728T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260728T130000 DTSTAMP:20260611T221159Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/bruman-2026-c1/ SUMMARY:Arcana Nomadica\, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival DESCRIPTION:Program\n\nGeamparale - Traditional Romanian\n\nHungarian Songs - Traditional\, arr. Luanne Homzy\n\nJohannes Brahms (1833-1897)\nHungari an Dance No. 5\, from Hungarian Dances\n\nSergei Orekhov (1935-1998)\nMosk ovskaya Polka\n\nPyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)\nRussian Dance\, from Swan Lake\n\nAntonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)\nWinter\, from The Four Seasons - arr. and transcribed by Nikolai Sivchuk\n\nNiccolò Paganini (1782-1840)\nCapr ice No. 24 With a Swing\, arr. Luanne Homzy\n\nJohannes Brahms (1833-1897) \na la Zingarese\, arr. Luanne Homzy\n\nHajduk - Traditional Polish\n\nPab lo de Sarasate (1844-1908)\nZigeunerweisen\, op. 20\n\nGrigoraș Dinicu (1 889-1949)\nThe Lark\n\n\n\nThe Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festiv al is being held this summer in Lani Hall\, a 133-seat auditorium located in the Schoenberg Music Building on the UCLA campus. All concerts are fre e of charge\, and no reservations are required. Seating is available on a first-come\, first-served basis.\n\nLot 2 is the closest campus parking lo t\; visit here for full details on UCLA visitor parking\, including campu s parking maps and rates.\n\nThis year’s Festival will be livestreamed  on the Center’s YouTube Channel and each concert recording will be available to watch for three weeks following the concert date.  Please su bscribe to our channel to be notified when the concerts go live.\n\n\n\nAr cana Nomadica\nLuanne Homzy\, violin\nNikolay Sivchuk\, accordion\nLuca Pi no\, guitar\nFelix Kochendörfer\, bass\n\nArcana Nomadica is a collective of musicians and artists led by violinist Luanne Homzy\, taking audiences on a journey through time with rich folk and Gypsy-Romani music from Euro pe and the Americas. A performance may travel from a French waltz to a Hun garian csárdás\, a Romanian hora\, a Russian romance and dance\, or an A rgentinian tango—perhaps even a Disney tune in disguise—alongside jazz \, classical\, and beloved songs. The trio’s passion is to weave a commo n thread through these traditions\, evoking the wonder\, soul\, passion\, and beauty of music across cultures.\n\nArcana Nomadica\, “traveling sec ret\,” pays homage to the Romani musicians who journeyed across the glob e after leaving India roughly fifteen hundred years ago. Traditionally nom adic\, they absorbed the music of the lands where they settled\, transform ing it with their own unmistakable voice\, always playing directly from th e heart. Their traditions were passed down through generations\, often ora lly rather than in written form. The musicians of Arcana Nomadica are deep ly honored to have studied with and performed alongside these masters\, an d are devoted to helping keep this extraordinary tradition alive\, and to introduce it to new audiences.\n\nLuanne Homzy\nInternationally acclaimed American/French-Canadian violinist Luanne Homzy is highly sought after for her technical facility\, sensitive musicality\, and expansive versatility . Based in Los Angeles\, she works as a studio musician\, a composer\, and is the leader of Arcana Nomadica and of the California String Quartet (CS Q).\n\nFirst Prize winner of the Hamburg International Chamber Music Compe tition in 2009 (with the Saguaro Piano Trio)\, she has performed concerti with the Montréal and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestras\, and the Colburn C hamber Orchestra. Having served as concertmaster for the Colburn Orchestra \, the Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra\, and the American Youth Orchestra\, she has worked closely with masters such as Sir Neville Mariner\, Gustavo Dudamel\, James Conlon\, David Newman\, and John Williams. Ms. Homzy has collaborated with artists such as Arnold Steinhardt\, Franklin Cohen\, Ani Kavafian\, Paul Coletti\, Ronald Leonard\, Niklas Schmidt\, Paul Neubauer \, the Tokyo String Quartet\, and members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. \n\nIn December 2019\, she was awarded Second Prize at the Roby Lakatos In ternational Violin Improvisational Competition\, and since her introductio n to many of the most highly regarded Hungarian Gypsy musicians\, she beca me a pupil of Miklós Lakatos. During the pandemic\, she recorded a full a lbum of Hungarian Gypsy Music\, remotely from her home studio\, with the M iklós Lakatos Gypsy Orchestra\, who recorded from Budapest. The album is currently available as a digital download on BandCamp at https://luannehom zy.bandcamp.com/album/luanne-homzy-and-the-mikl-s-lakatos-gypsy-orchestra. \n\nEqually at home in many genres\, whether it be classical\, jazz\, rock \, gypsy\, or Eastern European folk music\, Ms. Homzy performs worldwide w ith crossover supergroup Trio Dinicu\, hailed as “dazzling” by the San Francisco Chronicle. She has been featured with artists such as Roby Laka tos\, the John Jorgenson Quintet\, Florin Niculescu\, and Tcha Limberger\, and has performed with Coldplay\, Pink Martini\, Billie Eilish\, Danny El fman\, and Sting\, among others.\n\nIn addition to her performing career\, Ms. Homzy composes and arranges jazz\, popular\, classical\, folk\, and w orld music for diverse performing ensembles. Recent works include her comp osition Un Souvenir d'hiver commissioned by the California String Quartet\ , her string quartet arrangement of "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay\, and her o rchestral arrangement can be heard on Kid Cudi's track "Kitchen."\n\nAs a studio musician\, she can be heard (and occasionally seen) in hundreds of movies and TV shows such as Sinners\, Avatar: Fire and Ash\, Zootopia 2\, Hoppers\, Encanto\, The Mandalorian\, Jungle Cruise\, Jimmy Kimmel Live!\, A Star is Born\, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story\, La La Land\, Glee\, Rent: Live on Fox\, and on albums by Lady Gaga\, Kelly Clarkson\, Leonard Cohen \, and Seal. She’s a recurring performer at the Oscars and the Grammys. She also orchestrated the HBO show Into the Storm and\, along with Project :CSQ\, recorded the whole show remotely during the pandemic.\n\nLuanne Hom zy\, originally from Montréal\, studied with Robert Lipsett and Arnold St einhardt on a full scholarship at the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles\ , and later obtained her Master’s from the Hochschule für Musik und The ater Hamburg in Germany.\n\nNikolay Sivchuk \nNikolay Sivchuk\, the brilli ant bayan (button accordion) player from Russia\, is a talented teacher\, arranger\, and composer who continues the best traditions of the Russian b ayan school of performers. He was born in 1981 in Surgut (Russia)\, where he started his musical education. In his childhood Nikolay\, a very talent ed and virtuoso player\, was already a winner of several competitions of i nternational caliber. In 1996\, he was awarded a scholarship and became a member of the international program New Names\, the charitable foundation which helps the most gifted young musicians of Russia. Through the New Nam es program\, Nikolay met the legendary Russian Professor Viacheslav Semion ov\, and some years later continued his education as a student in Semionov ’s class at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow. During his s tudies\, Nikolay Sivchuk became a laureate of the most prestigious all-Rus sian and international competitions:\n\n1998 – "Baltica Harmonica" Inter national Competition and Festival\, Saint Petersburg – First Prize (solo )\n1999 – First All-Russian Youth Delphic Games\, city of Saratov – Go ld Medal (solo)\n2000 – International Competition named after V. V. Andr eyev\, Saint Petersburg – Second Prize (solo)\n2001 – First All-Russia n Open Competition of bayanists and accordionists “Yugoria”\, city of Surgut – First Prize (as a part of “Yugoria” Duo)\, Second Prize (so lo)\n2002 – XXXIX Internationaler Akkordeonwetttbewerb Klingental Compet ition\, Germany – First Prize (as a part of “Yugoria” Duo)\n2003 – Coupe Mondiale International Accordionists Competition\, Slovak-Hungary – First Prize (solo)\n2005 – XLII Internationaler Akkordeonwetttbewerb Klingental Competition\, Germany – Third Prize (solo)\n2006 – Shangha i Spring International Competition\, China – Grand Prix (as a part of “Yugoria” Duo)\n\nToday\, besides his solo recitals\, Nikolay collabor ates with many recognized and famous performers\, such as cellist Boris An drianov\, guitarist Yamandu Costa\, guitarist Dimitri Illarionov\, violini st Elena Revich\, pianists Vadym Kholodenko\, Andrey Gugnin\, and others\, constantly increasing the geographic spread of his concerts.\n\nThrough i ntensely colorful and bright performances\, Nikolay Sivchuk always shows t he amazing capacities of the bayan. Audiences enjoy Nikolay’s versatile and profound musicality and his courageous and brave interpretations of mo dern and classical pieces\, thereby discovering the place of this relative ly young instrument in the history of classical/art music.\n\nLuca Pino \n Luca Pino is a Los Angeles-based guitarist whose hot jazz stylings are cut from the cloth of Django Reinhardt\, Oscar Aleman\, and Freddie Green. He leads his own quartet\, Pino Noir\, in which he reimagines the 1930s Pari s swing sound with exciting arrangements\, electric fashion sense\, and or iginal compositions. He has headlined various gypsy jazz festivals\, such as Djangofest Northwest in Seattle and Djangojazz Festival in Mexico\, not to mention a teaching stint at Django In June in Massachusetts. His pench ant for early twentieth-century swing guitar has also led him to world tou rs with Postmodern Jukebox\, as well as performing with local acts such as Lizzy &\; The Triggermen and Jonathan Stout's Boulevardiers.\n\nFelix Kochendörfer \nFelix Kochendörfer was born in Weimar\, Germany\, into a musical family and started playing violin in primary school. In his early teenage years he picked up the trombone\, which got him into jazz\, and he started to learn upright bass at the age of seventeen. Soon after\, he jo ined a group of young musicians dedicated to the music of Django Reinhardt \, with whom he toured through Germany and Italy.\n\nFelix has lived in Ge rmany\, Denmark\, and Austria before moving to the United States\, where h e continues to be an established bass player in the Los Angeles gypsy jazz scene. He has appeared with artists such as Yorgui Loeffler\, Christiaan van Hemert\, Trio Dinicu\, Jimmy Grant\, Brad Brose\, and the New Orleans Swinging Gypsies.\n\nHe studied Acoustics Engineering at Dresden Universit y of Technology and Aalborg University\, Denmark and now works primarily a s an audio engineer in Los Angeles\, following his passion to develop high -quality loudspeakers and audio systems.\n\n\n\nAbout The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival\n\nAmbroise Aubrun\, D.M.A.\, Artistic Dir ector\n\nThe festival was founded in 1988 by Professor Henry J. Bruman (19 13–2005)\, who sought to introduce new audiences to chamber music at inf ormal concerts on the UCLA campus. The festival is made possible by the He nry J. Bruman Trust\, Professors Wendell E. Jeffrey and Bernice M. Wenzel\ , by a gift in memory of Raymond E. Johnson\, and with the support of the UCLA Center for 17th-&\; 18th-Century Studies.\n\n\n\nPhoto courtesy of the artists. 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