Pianist Viktor Valkov joins the Apollo Chamber Players for Of Gypsies and Rhapsodies. First prize winner of the Liszt-Garrison International Competition in 2011, Valkov has performed the music of Liszt around the world. Apollo Chamber Players founder and Artistic Director Matthew Detrick tells us Valkov is the perfect collaborator for the group. Not only does he have strong ties to Rice University’s Shepard School of Music as do Detrick and his cohorts, he’s also dedicated to exploring the varying inspirations for composers, the guiding principle of Apollo. The program, which closes out the season for the chamber music quartet, includes Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody Piano Trio, No. 12, Haydn’s Piano Trio No. 39 in G Major and Bartok’s String Quartet No. 2. The Apollo Chamber Players, named a 2014 MasterMind by the Houston Press, includes Detrick and Anabel Ramirez on violin, Matthew Dudzik on cello and Whitney Bullock on viola.
6 p.m. Rice University, 6100 Main. For information, call 832-314-2340 or visit apollochamberplayers.org. $25.
Sun., May 18, 6 p.m., 2014
This article appears in May 15-21, 2014.