Date/Time
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
Location
Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music & via Livestream
445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building
Program
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Cello Sonata in D Minor, op. 40
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, op. 87, B. 162
The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival 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 free of charge, and no reservations are required. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Lot 2 is the closest campus parking lot; visit here for full details on UCLA visitor parking, including campus parking maps and rates.
This 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 subscribe to our channel to be notified when the concerts go live.
Shostakovich & Dvořák
Ambroise Aubrun, violin
Ariana Solotoff, viola
Bryant Gozali, cello
Zachary Deak, piano
Ambroise Aubrun
Hailed as a “marvelous violinist” (France Musique) with “sensitive tone” (Pizzicato Magazine) and “tremendous ease, suppleness, and beauty of sound” (Nice-Matin), violinist Ambroise Aubrun enjoys a career as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. He has performed extensively on three continents and has conducted master classes in North America (Québec, California, Oregon, New York, Wisconsin, Nevada, Utah, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico), France, Italy, Australia, and New Zealand.
His albums for Editions Hortus and Navona Records have embraced a wide range of repertoire from J.S. Bach to Eric Tanguy (b. 1968), and received praise of the highest caliber (five stars in Pizzicato Magazine, “coup de coeur” by France Musique, and a nomination for the 2021 International Classical Music Awards). His performances and 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.
He has served as guest concertmaster of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, and the International Chamber Orchestra of Puerto Rico, and is a regular guest of the Los Angeles Philharmonic violin sections.
Aubrun graduated at age nineteen from the Paris National Superior Conservatory, 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 achievement in Creative Activities and a CSUN Faculty Achievement Award. Currently 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 Summer Chamber Music Festival at UCLA. Dr. Aubrun plays a Matteo Goffriller violin, on generous loan from the Langart Foundation. More information at www.ambroiseaubrun.com.
Ariana Solotoff
Ariana Solotoff, originally from New York, lives and works in Los Angeles as a performer and teacher of violin and viola.
Ms. 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 prestigious Hans Wilsdorf Foundation Award.
Ariana has performed with many chamber and symphonic orchestras across the US and Europe, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Venia, Hulencourt Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Regală, and Orchestra Națională Radio România. She has appeared on the Grammy Awards, the Video Game Music Awards, and Disney Channel, and has recorded for film soundtracks and albums by artists such as Beyoncé.
As an educator, Ariana teaches privately violin, viola, and piano and is on faculty at Junior Chamber Music. She has previously served on faculty at the Montecito International 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 making classical music accessible and inspiring for children and families.
Bryant Gozali
Bryant Gozali is an Indonesian cellist based in Jakarta, serving as Principal Cellist of the Jakarta Simfonia Orchestra and as a founding member of the Jakarta Trio. Recognized for his refined sound, disciplined artistry, and versatility, he maintains an active career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral performer, and educator.
Bryant began studying cello at age nine under Professor Su Li at Xiamen University. His early achievements included awards at the Ai Qin Bei National Cello Competition and orchestral leadership roles in Singapore under the mentorship of Hermina Ilano and Chan Tze Law. In 2010, he continued his studies in the United States with Yao Zhao of the San Diego Symphony, later winning the concerto competition at the Great Wall International Music Academy.
He earned his Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music under Stephen Geber and his Master of Music from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music with Antonio Lysy. Bryant also studied with distinguished pedagogues including Hans Jørgen Jensen, Paul Katz, and Philippe Muller. Alongside performing, he teaches at Universitas Pelita Harapan and founded Little Mendelssohn and Mendelssohn Academy to support cello education in Indonesia.
Zachary Deak
Pianist Zachary Deak has appeared in recital as a soloist and chamber musician in the United States, France, Morocco, Portugal, Moldova, and the United Kingdom. He has performed at venues including the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, the Cité de la Musique and Salle Cortot in Paris, the Casa da Música in Porto, and the Institut Français in Agadir, Morocco.
Recent highlights include a performance of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Old Dominion University Symphony Orchestra; a performance at the Jimmy Carter Forum on US–China Relations at the Carter Center in Atlanta; a lecture-recital on American pedagogical piano music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna; a performance of Peace for clarinet and piano by Jessie Montgomery at the Virginia Arts Festival; and chamber music appearances in the Masters in the Chapel concert series in Venice, CA, and the Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival at UCLA.
Deak’s work as a performer is closely connected to his research on piano pedagogy, interpretation, and cultural memory. His article “Pianistic Memorization as Cultural Memory: Insights from Religious and Devotional Traditions” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Piano Research, and his essay “The Seventh Book: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Piano Study” appeared in the EPTA Piano Journal. In 2026, he will undertake a Crédit Agricole d’Île-de-France Research Fellowship at the Bibliothèque musicale La Grange-Fleuret in Paris for his project “Revivre le cours: Alfred Cortot, archives pédagogiques et transmission interprétative sur le Steinway 1907.”
Deak received the Hopkinson Silver Medal at the Chappell Medal Piano Competition in London and worked intensively with Maria João Pires in Paris and Brussels. A graduate of the École Normale de Musique de Paris and the Royal College of Music in London, he received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance from the University of Southern California.
He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Piano and Musicology and Director of Keyboard Studies at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
About The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival
Ambroise Aubrun, D.M.A., Artistic Director
The festival was founded in 1988 by Professor 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 with the support of the UCLA Center for 17th-& 18th-Century Studies.
Photo courtesy of the artists.