BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:545@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260730T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260730T130000 DTSTAMP:20260611T221224Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/bruman-2026-c2/ SUMMARY:2x3: From Duo to Sextet \, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Fes tival DESCRIPTION:Program\n\nJean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)\nSonata in G Minor\, op. 12\, no. 5 (for two violins)\n\n Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948)\nDu o in G Minor\, op. 35\, Introduzione e Balletto (for violin and cello)\n\n Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)\nString Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major\, op. 18\ n\n\n\nThe Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival is being held thi s summer in Lani Hall\, a 133-seat auditorium located in the Schoenberg Mu sic Building on the UCLA campus. All concerts are free of charge\, and no reservations are required. Seating is available on a first-come\, first-se rved basis. \n\nLot 2 is the closest campus parking lot\; visit here for f ull details on UCLA visitor parking\, including campus parking maps and ra tes.\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 we eks following the concert date.  Please subscribe to our channel to be no tified when the concerts go live.\n\n\n\n2x3: From Duo to Sextet \nAmbrois e Aubrun\, violin\nRebecca Hang\, violin\nAriana Solotoff\, viola\nKevin H su\, viola\nBrent Samuel\, cello\nBrian Schuldt\, cello\n\nAmbroise Aubrun \nHailed as a “marvelous violinist” (France Musique) with “sensitive tone” (Pizzicato Magazine) and “tremendous ease\, suppleness\, and be auty of sound” (Nice-Matin)\, violinist Ambroise Aubrun enjoys a career as a soloist\, chamber\, and orchestral musician. He has performed extensi vely on three continents and has conducted master classes in North America (Québec\, California\, Oregon\, New York\, Wisconsin\, Nevada\, Utah\, S outh Dakota\, Oklahoma\, Pennsylvania\, Puerto Rico)\, France\, Italy\, Au stralia\, and New Zealand.\n\nHis albums for Editions Hortus and Navona Re cords have embraced a wide range of repertoire from J.S. Bach to Eric Tang uy (b. 1968)\, and received praise of the highest caliber (five stars in  Pizzicato Magazine\, “coup de coeur” by France Musique\, and a nominat ion for the 2021 International Classical Music Awards). His performances a nd albums have been broadcast on CBS\, ABC\, WFMT Chicago\, France Musique \, 3MBS Melbourne (Australia)\, Klara Radio (Belgium)\, KPFK Los Angeles\, KNCJ Nevada\, WTUL New-Orleans\, and KUSC Los Angeles.\n\nHe has served a s guest concertmaster of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra\, the Las Vega s Philharmonic\, and the International Chamber Orchestra of Puerto Rico\, and is a regular guest of the Los Angeles Philharmonic violin sections.\n\ nAubrun graduated at age nineteen from the Paris National Superior Conserv atory\, and then studied at UCLA (DMA) and at the Colburn Conservatory of Music (Artist Diploma). He is a winner of the Charles Oulmont Prize of the Fondation de France\, a laureate of the Langart Foundation in Switzerland \, and a recipient of the UNLV Barrick Scholar Award for outstanding achie vement in Creative Activities and a CSUN Faculty Achievement Award. Curren tly Associate Professor of Violin at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\ , Dr. Aubrun previously taught at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and UC Santa Barbara. He is the artistic director of the Henry J. Bruman Summ er Chamber Music Festival at UCLA. Dr. Aubrun plays a Matteo Goffriller vi olin\, on generous loan from the Langart Foundation. More information at  www.ambroiseaubrun.com.\n\nRebecca Hang\nRebecca Hang was born in Germany and began her violin studies at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz with Helga Wähdel. From 1987 until 1990 she lived in Israel where she stu died with the concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra\, Chaim T aub.\n\nRebecca continued her musical education with Atar Arad and Paul Bi ss at Indiana University\, Bloomington\, where she received her Bachelor o f Music “with high distinction” and a Master of Music in violin perfor mance. As a member of the internationally renowned Felici String Quartet\, she won first prize in the 1992 Michael Kuttner Competition at IU\, the M TNA Competition in Indianapolis\, the Russell Award of the 1993 Coleman Co mpetition\, and was a prize winner of the International String Quartet Com petition in Osaka\, Japan\, in the same year. In June of 1993 Rebecca gave her New York solo debut in Lincoln Center’s Juilliard Theater performin g Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. As a member of the first violin section of the International “Guido Cantelli” Chamber Orchestra in Milan\, It aly\, she toured throughout Europe and the US before accepting the NEA Rur al Residency Grant with the Felici Piano Trio in Mammoth Lakes\, CA\, in 1 998.\n\nRebecca dedicates much of her time to Chamber Music Unbound (CMU) ’s Community Music School. Through her pedagogical work she hopes to nur ture children’s innate musicality and lay the foundations for a lasting love of great music.\n\nAriana Solotoff \nAriana Solotoff\, originally fro m New York\, lives and works in Los Angeles as a performer and teacher of violin and viola.\n\nMs. Solotoff earned her bachelor’s degree from The Juilliard School under the mentorship of Michael Tree and Masao Kawasaki\, and her master’s degree from the Haute École de Musique de Genève in Switzerland\, under Miguel Da Silva\, where she was a recipient of the pre stigious Hans Wilsdorf Foundation Award.\n\nAriana has performed with many chamber and symphonic orchestras across the US and Europe\, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic\, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra\, Camerata Veni a\, Hulencourt Symphony Orchestra\, Camerata Regală\, and Orchestra Nați onală Radio România. She has appeared on the Grammy Awards\, the Video G ame Music Awards\, and Disney Channel\, and has recorded for film soundtra cks and albums by artists such as Beyoncé.\n\nAs an educator\, Ariana tea ches privately violin\, viola\, and piano\, and is on faculty at Junior Ch amber Music. She has previously served on faculty at the Montecito Interna tional Music Festival\, the Idyllwild Arts Academy Intensive Summer Music Program\, and Cremona International Music Academy in Italy. Ariana is also the creator and director of Popsical Music\, an initiative dedicated to m aking classical music accessible and inspiring for children and families.\ n\nKevin Hsu\nKevin Hsu is a violist hailing from Saratoga\, California. M r. Hsu has performed throughout the continents with orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic\, the San Diego Symphony\, and The Orchestra San Antonio. He has also performed and collaborated with musicians such as Mi dori Goto\, Alfred Brendel\, Augustin Dumay\, members of the Artemis Quart et\, Glenn Dicterow\, Donald Weilerstein\, and many more. Mr. Hsu regularl y gives concerts throughout the United States in cities such as Los Angele s\, San Francisco\, New York City\, and San Antonio. His primary teachers include Martha Katz\, Michael Tree\, and Brian Chen. Mr. Hsu is also an ad vocate for new music and has recorded and performed many works for viola a nd chamber ensembles. In addition to his viola performances and activities \, Mr. Hsu is also a professional photographer and videographer.\n\nBrent Samuel\nCellist Brent Samuel joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1999 a nd frequently performs with the orchestra’s Chamber Music Society and in its Green Umbrella contemporary music series.\n\nA second-generation nati ve of Los Angeles\, Samuel earned his Bachelor of Music at the University of Southern California and completed his Master of Music degree at the Jui lliard School with Joel Krosnick of the Juilliard String Quartet. He made his New York debut performing Hindemith’s 1940 Cello Concerto with the J uilliard Orchestra. While in New York he performed with the Orpheus Chambe r Orchestra\, the Group for Contemporary Music\, and the International Sej ong Soloists. He has collaborated on stage with such artists as Midori\, E manuel Ax\, Gil Shaham\, Christopher Parkening\, and members of the Guarne ri and Juilliard String Quartets.\n\nSamuel has participated in the Aspen\ , La Jolla\, Marlboro\, Santa Fe\, and Tanglewood Music Festivals. He has been on the faculty of Pepperdine University and the American Festival for the Arts in Houston\, Texas.\n\nBrian Schuldt\nAs a founding member of th e Felici Piano Trio\, Brian Schuldt has performed hundreds of critically a cclaimed concerts in the U.S.\, Europe\, and South America. His chamber mu sic collaborations include renowned artists such as Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi\, Ed ward Auer\, Atar Arad\, Corey Cerovsek\, Hagai Shaham\, and Eli Eban.\n\nB rian was the cellist of the Arcadia String Quartet\, which won the grand p rize of the 1995 Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition and the Indiana University Kuttner Quartet Scholarship. He has appeared as soloist with th e Oak Ridge Symphony\, Auburn Symphony\, Owensboro Symphony\, Eastern Sier ra Symphony\, and the Chamber Orchestra "Cantelli" of Milan\, Italy. He ha s served as guest principal cellist for the Fresno Philharmonic\, Reno Cha mber Orchestra\, and Owensboro Symphony and has been a guest performer/ins tructor at Indiana University\, UNLV\, Cal State Fresno\, University of Te nnessee\, and Tennessee Tech.\n\nBrian studied with Toby Saks at the Unive rsity of Washington and continued under Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Janos Starke r at Indiana University\, where he earned his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees. From 1994 to 1996\, he held the appointment of Assistan t Instructor of Cello at Indiana University.\n\nHe is currently Executive Director of Chamber Music Unbound and conductor of the Eastern Sierra Cham ber Orchestra. Brian plays a cello by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.\n\n\n\nAbou t The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival\n\nAmbroise Aubrun\,  D.M.A.\, Artistic Director\n\nThe festival was founded in 1988 by Profes sor Henry J. Bruman (1913–2005)\, who sought to introduce new audiences to chamber music at informal concerts on the UCLA campus. The festival is made possible by the Henry J. Bruman Trust\, Professors Wendell E. Jeffrey and Bernice M. Wenzel\, by a gift in memory of Raymond E. Johnson\, and w ith the support of the UCLA Center for 17th-&\; 18th-Century Studies.\n \n\n\nPhotos courtesy of the artists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06 /2x3-Bruman_C2.jpg CATEGORIES:Bruman Summer Concerts,Music LOCATION:Lani Hall\, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music & via Livestream\, 44 5 Charles E. Young Dr East\, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building\, Los Angeles\ , California\, 90095\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=445 Charles E. 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