Manhattan Chamber Players, Chamber Music at the Clark

All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person. 

Ticket prices: General $60; Senior (age 55+) $50; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable.

Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, November 17, 2026 at 12:00 noon.

Seating at the Clark Library is limited, and tickets are likely to sell out within a few minutes.

Online: https://ucla.evenue.net/events/CTO
Telephone: (310) 825-2101
In person: Central Ticket Office windows located on the UCLA campus at 325 Westwood Plaza (ground level, across from Pauley Pavilion).

If any tickets for this concert remain unsold, they will be available for purchase at the Clark Library on the day of the event. Any available day-of tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis by a Central Ticket Office representative beginning at 1:00 p.m. Payment will be accepted via credit card only. For inquiries, please call or email the Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101 or cto@tickets.ucla.edu, Monday–Friday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Program

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
String Sextet No. 2, op. 36

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Verkläerte Nacht, op. 4

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Souvenir de Florence, op. 70

Artists

Robin Scott, violin
Brendan Speltz, violin
Luke Fleming, viola
Pierre Lapointe, viola
Andrew Janss, cello
Brook Speltz, cello

Manhattan Chamber Players are a chamber music collective of New York-based musicians who share the common aim of performing the greatest works in the chamber repertoire at the highest level. Formed in 2015 by Artistic Director and violist Luke Fleming, MCP is comprised of an impressive roster of musicians who all come from the tradition of great music-making at the Marlboro Music Festival, Steans Institute at Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival, and Perlman Music Program, and are former students of the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School, Colburn School, and New England Conservatory.

MCP has been praised in Strings Magazine for “A fascinating program concept. . . . It felt refreshingly like an auditory version of a vertical wine tasting.”  The article went on to applaud MCP for “an intensely wrought and burnished performance. Overall, I wished I could put them on repeat.”  At the core of MCP’s inspiration is its members’ joy in playing this richly varied repertoire with longtime friends and colleagues, with whom they have been performing since they were students. As stated by The Boston Music Intelligencer: “This ensemble’s nature and practices constitute proof against complacency and stagnation. They achieved as precise ensemble as you’d ever want to hear.”

Its roster allows for the programming of the entire core string, wind, and piano chamber music repertoire from piano duos to clarinet quintets to string octets. While all its members have independent careers as soloists and chamber musicians, they strive for every opportunity to come together and again share in this special collaboration, creating “a mellifluous blend of vigorous intensity and dramatic import, performed with enthusiasm, technical facility and impressive balance, relishing distinctions … a winning performance.” (Classical Source)

Members of MCP are current and former members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Ensemble Connect, and the Aizuri, Attacca, Dover, Escher, Vega, and Ying Quartets, the Aletheia, Appassionata, and Lysander Piano Trios, and Imani Winds. They are top prizewinners in the Banff, Concert Artists Guild, Fischoff, Melbourne, Naumburg, Osaka, Primrose, Queen Elisabeth, Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky, Tertis, and Young Concert Artists Competitions, and are some of the most sought-after solo and chamber performers of their generation. Manhattan Chamber Players have been featured multiple times on NPR’s Performance Today, and is the Ensemble-in-Residence at both the Festival de Febrero in Mexico and the Crescent City Chamber Music Festival in New Orleans. In addition to its numerous concerts across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, MCP regularly tours in Asia and the Middle East, and has led chamber music residency programs at institutions throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Manhattan Chamber Players is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

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Chamber Music at the Clark is made possible by The Ahmanson Foundation, under the auspices of Lee Walcott; Henry J. Bruman Endowment for Chamber Music; The Colburn Foundation; Ms. Brenda F. Anderson; Martha Bardach/Bardach Robson Family Charitable Foundation; Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Ph.D. and Ms. Barbara Timmer; Rogers Brubaker, Ph.D; Johanna R. Drucker, Ph.D.; The Mari and Ed Edelman Charitable Fund for Music and Public Service; Dr. Daniel J. Fink and Dr. Ruth F. Cousineau; Susan S. Harris, Ph.D. and Mr. Mark J. Harris; Judith L. Hellinger; Dr. David E. Lopez; Dr. Martin H. Mach and Dr. Susan P. Mach; Mr. Bernie Mendes and Ms. Elaine Mendes; Mrs. Janet K. Minami; Mr. Jeffrey L. Nagin and Mrs. Bette I. Nagin; Jeanne Robson, Ph.D. ; Dr. Thomas Rosenthal and Ms. Susan M. Rosenthal; Dr. Patricia Bates Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund; Professor Bronwen Wilson; and Mr. Robert A. Young and Mrs. Roberta J. Husted Young.

Please see here for more information about our chamber music programs.

Photo credit: Courtesy of Arts Management Group.