Due to the intimate nature of this performance, seating will be on stage with the performers at the Klein Music Tent. With this seating arrangement, the event will be general admission. Seating will be first-come, first-served, and the doors will open 30 minutes prior to the performance.

Hear top young AMFS wind artists joined by violinist Adele Anthony and conducted by longtime AMFS artist faculty member Joaquín Valdepeñas.

In his early 20s, Beethoven wrote a number of works for his boss, the Elector of Cologne, including the mellow and unpretentious wind octet which opens this program.

The Czech composer Franz Krommer lived in Vienna for most of his career, writing no less than 13 octet-partitas for wind ensemble to fulfill the appetite of minor noblemen who couldn’t afford to keep a full orchestra on hand.

In Weill’s 1924 Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, you’ll hear traces of Stravinsky and Mahler, Weill’s teacher Busoni, and the cabaret music of Weimar Germany.

BEETHOVEN: Rondino for Wind Octet in E-flat major, WoO 25
KROMMER: Octet-Partita in F major, op. 57
WEILL: Violin Concerto, op. 12