Saturday December 14: Takoma Park House Concert, Carl Banner, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven - Variations, Op. 26
Viktor Ullmann - Allegro, from Sonata No. 7 (1944)
Manuel de Falla - Nocturno
Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in G
Franz Schubert - Impromptu in Gb
[Intermission]
Bela Bartok - Sonatina
Six Short Pieces: Petr Eben - Allegretto semplice; Bela Bartok - Shepherd’s Flute; Bohuslav Martinu - Chanson (from Film en Miniature); Bela Bartok - Stars, Stars, Brightly Shine; George Walker - Theme (from Sonata #1); Bohuslav Martinu - Berceuse (from Film en Miniature)
Frédéric Chopin - Etude #3
Ludwig van Beethoven - Rondo, Op. 90
William Bolcom - Graceful Ghost Rag
Saturday October 26, 2024 at Church of the Ascension
633 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring MD
Piano Quartets of Johannes Brahms & Reynaldo Hahn
Piano Quartet #1 in G minor, Op. 25 by Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet #3 in G by Reynaldo Hahn
Hoorig Poochikian, violin, Johnathan Spence, viola, Steven Chen, cello, Carl Banner, piano
Saturday September 7, 2024 at 7:30 pm at Church of the Ascension, 633 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring MD.
“The Jamie Raskin Oratorio”
Photo by Kelley Bishop
Poetry by Anne Becker, adapted from Jamie Raskin’s memoir, “Unthinkable”, with original music by Noam Faingold. Performed by Anne Becker, Chris Royal, trumpet, and Carl Banner, piano. A Washington Musica Viva Commission! Plus, “Dichterliebe” by Robert Schumann, performed by Rhonda Buckley-Bishop, soprano saxophone, and Carl Banner, piano.
Review in Scene4
Raskin Oratorio: Video Link
Schumann Dichterliebe: Video Link
Saturday August 24 at 7:30 pm
BannerArts, 7502 Flower Ave, Takoma Park MD 20912
“The Sleeping Beauty Sonata in C minor“ by Anne Becker
Beethoven - Sonata in A, Op. 47 (“The Kreutzer”) - Hoorig Poochikian, violin, and Carl Banner, piano
"In language sensuous and earthy, in "The Sleeping Beauty Sonata in C minor," Anne Becker constructs a woman's hero journey, conflating the stories of Sleeping Beauty and Persephone. As Grace Paley says, 'she tells the story of the stories,' which is, of course, poetry."
View on YouTube: Beethoven - Sonata in A, Op. 47
“The Sleeping Beauty Sonata in C minor“
Livestreamed (free): direct link https://youtube.com/live/st2krH-wbms?feature=share
Saturday July 13 at 7:30 pm
BannerArts, 7502 Flower Ave, Takoma Park MD 20912
Hoorig Poochikian, violin
Carl Banner, piano
Beethoven - Sonata in A, Op. 47 (“The Kreutzer”)
Dvorak - Sonatina in G, Op. 100
Sunday May 12, 2024 at 3:00 pm
Church of the Ascension, 633 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring MD 20910
Eric Pritchard, violin, and Carl Banner, piano
Bach - Sonata in E, BWV 1016
Beethoven - Sonata #8 in G, Op. 30 #3
Brahms - Sonata #3 in D minor, Op. 108
Eric Pritchard has served as First Violinist of the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University since 1995.
Watch on YouTube.
Saturday April 6, 2024, BannerArts, 7502 Flower Ave, Takoma Park MD
Piano Music of Schumann, Chopin & Brahms
Carl Banner, piano
Robert Schumann — Waldszenen ("Forest Scenes"), Op. 82
Robert Schumann — Des Abends, op. 12 No. 1
Robert Schumann — Aufschwung, Op. 12 No. 2
Robert Schumann — Warum, Op. 12 No. 3
Robert Schumann — Romanze, Op. 28 No. 2
Frédéric Chopin — Mazurka #25 in B minor, Op. 33 No. 4
Frédéric Chopin — Mazurka #15 in C, Op. 24 No. 2
Frédéric Chopin — Mazurka #31 in Ab, Op. 50 No. 2
Frédéric Chopin — Mazurka #8 in Ab, Op. 7 no. 4
Frédéric Chopin — Mazurka #9 in C, Op. 7 no. 5,
Frédéric Chopin — Mazurka #16 in Ab, Op. 24 No. 3
Frédéric Chopin — Mazurka #18 in C minor, Op. 30, No. 1
Frédéric Chopin — Mazurka #19 in B minor, Op. 30 no. 2
Johannes Brahms — Capriccio in C, Op. 76 No. 8
Johannes Brahms — Intermezzo in A, Op. 118 No. 2
Johannes Brahms — Intermezzo in E, Op. 116 No. 6
Johannes Brahms — Intermezzo in Bb minor, Op. 117 No. 2
Valentine’s Weekend House Concert
Sunday February 11, 2024 at 3:00 pm
BannerArts, 7502 Flower Ave, Takoma Park MD
Romantic Music for Saxophone and Trio
Robert Schumann - Dichterliebe, Op. 48, for saxophone and piano
Johannes Brahms - Trio #1 in B, Op. 8
Rhonda Buckley-Bishop, soprano saxophone, Hoorig Poochikian, violin,
Emma Hays Johnson, cello, Carl Banner, piano
Saturday January 27, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Church of the Ascension, 633 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring MD 20910 (Bailey Joy Myers, music director)
Winds & Strings
Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata for French horn and piano in C, Op. 17
Ludwig van Beethoven - An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98 (saxophone & piano)
Franz Schubert - Introduction and Variations for flute and piano, Op. 160
Franz Schubert - Auf dem Strom, for soprano saxophone, French horn, and piano
Gabriel Fauré - Piano Trio, Op. 120
Teri Manolio, flute, Kevin Grasel, horn, Rhonda Buckley-Bishop, soprano saxophone, Hoorig Poochikian, violin, Emma Hays Johnson, cello, Carl Banner, piano
YouTube video from livestream
RETROSPECTIVE: PART 2
Saturday December 30, 2023 at 3:00 pm at BannerArts, 7502 Flower Ave, Takoma Park MD
Brahms - Allegro maestoso & Andante espressivo from Sonata #3 in Fm, Op. 5
Stravinsky - Sonata in C (1924)
Brahms - Ballade #4, Op. 10 (“Edward”)
Noam Faingold - Prelude: ‘The One for Whom the Song Dreams’
Chopin - Nocturne in Em, Op.72#1; Nocturne in Cm, Op. 48
John W. Work III - Scuppernong Suite
Scott Joplin - Solace
Carl Banner, piano
RETROSPECTIVE: PART 1
Saturday December 9 at 7:30 pm at BannerArts, 7502 Flower Ave, Takoma Park MD
Program:
Bach Partita #3 in A minor
Mozart Sonata in Bb, K. 333
Chopin Ballades Nos. 2 & 3
Schumann Papillons Op. 2
Carl Banner, piano.
Saturday November 25, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Church of the Ascension, 633 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring MD 20910 (Bailey Joy Myers, music director)
Beethoven & Schubert
Beethoven - Sonata no. 1 in F for cello and piano, Op. 5 No. 1
Schubert - 7 Lieder for alto saxophone and piano
Beethoven - Trio in Bb for soprano saxophone, cello, & piano, Op. 11
Rhonda Buckley-Bishop, saxophones, Emma Hays Johnson, cello, and Carl Banner, piano
Saturday September 23, 2023
All-Brahms program at Episcopal Church of the Ascension
Sonata in G for violin and piano, Op. 78
Five Songs for saxophone and piano
Trio for violin, horn, & piano, Op. 40
Kevin Grasel, French horn, Samuel Zhu, violin, Rhonda Buckley-Bishop, alto saxophone, and Carl Banner, piano
View on Youtube: https://youtu.be/rgAUrX322cc
Sunday August 6, 2023 at BannerArts: All-Beethoven program
Samuel Zhu, violin, Emma Hays Johnson, cello, Carl Banner, piano.
Sonata for piano in Cm, Op. 13
Sonata in F for violin and piano, Op. 24
Sonata in Gm, for cello and piano, Op. 5#2
Sunday July 23, 2023 at BannerArts: Carl Banner, piano, and Maritza Rivera, poet
Program:
Schumann - Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15
Brahms - Variations on an Original Theme in D, Op. 21 No. 1
Chopin - Nine Mazurkas
Bolcom - Graceful Ghost Rag
With poet Maritza Rivera. (Livestreamed on YouTube)
June 17 - 28, 2023: Background music at Off Main Gallery, Wellfleet MA
From June 8 to June 28, Marilyn Banner exhibited her encaustic paintings at Off Main Gallery , 75 Commercial Street in Wellfleet MA.
In conjunction with the show, pianist Carl Banner performed in the gallery:
Saturday June 17 at 5 pm (prior to the opening reception)
Sunday June 18 at 3 - 4:30 pm
Wednesday June 21 at 3 - 4:30 pm
Sunday June 25 at 3 - 4:30 pm
Wednesday June 28 at 3 - 4:30 pm
Monday June 12, 2023 at the Wellfleet Public Library:
Chamber Music for Piano Solo, Carl Banner, piano
Robert Schumann - Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15
Johannes Brahms - Variations on an Original Theme in D, Op. 21, No. 1
William Bolcom - Graceful Ghost Rag
Darius Milhaud - The Household Muse
Friday May 26, 2023 at the Wellfleet Public Library: An Evening of Music and Poetry
Two Romantic Violin Sonatas: Claire Thaler, violin, and Carl Banner, piano, perform Sonata no. 2 in A, Op. 100 by Johannes Brahms, and Duo Op. 162 by Franz Schubert.
Poet Anne Dykers performs her recent work, “Book 1 of the Amazing Blurry Dream Place”, with music of Byrd, Bach, Janacek, Bartok, and Milhaud performed by Carl Banner.
Saturday May 20, 2023 at the Wellfleet Public Library:
Piano Quartets of Brahms (#3) and Schumann Op. 47. Heather Goodchild Wade, violin, Santiago Vazquez-Loredo, viola, Bo Ericsson, cello, Carl Banner, piano.
Friday May 12, 2023 at the Wellfleet Public Library:
Chamber Music for Alto Saxophone and Piano
Rhonda Buckley-Bishop, saxophone, Carl Banner, piano.
Program: Oliver Nelson - Sonata for alto saxophone and piano; Alec Wilder - Sonata for alto saxophone and piano; four lieder by Johannes Brahms.
Saturday May 6, 2023 at the Wellfleet Public Library: Three Cello Sonatas
Emma Hays Johnson, cello, Carl Banner, piano.
Program: Sonata for Cello and Piano (1919) by Henriette Bosmans; Sonata No. 2 in F, Op. 99 by Johannes Brahms; Cello Sonata (2023) by Natasha Senanayake.
Saturday April 22 and Sunday April 23, at 3:00 pm, BannerArts
Poets Bernardine (Dine) Watson and Anne Becker
7502 Flower Ave, Takoma Park MD
The Lieder Project, Part 1: German Art Song re-imagined as chamber music with saxophone, interacting with contemporary poetry in German and English.
Rhonda Buckley-Bishop, alto saxophone, Akiki Wong, violin, Carl Banner, piano. Margrit Wong, actor/linguist, performing poetry in German. Poets Anne Becker, Bernardine (Dine) Watson, Karren Alenier, Laura Costas, and Craig Flaherty, performing new poems created in response to the original German lyrics.
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Program (pdf)
Program notes (pdf)
Saturday April 8, 2023
BannerArts, Takoma Park MD
Noam Faingold, Bonnie Thron, Fred Jacobowitz
World premiere of Noam Faingold’s Trio, “Frontline”, for clarinet, cello, and piano. (2022).“Dedicated to frontline workers during the pandemic, especially teachers, and healthcare and store workers.” (Commissioned by Washington Musica Viva).
Plus the Clarinet Sonata by Camille Saint-Saens; and Robert Kahn’s Trio in G minor, Op. 45.
Fred Jacobowitz, clarinet, Bonnie Thron, cello, Carl Banner, piano.
With Poet Anne Becker, former poet laureate of Takoma Park, and Indran Amirthanayagam,
Sri Lankan-American poet.
Saturday March 18, 2023
World Premiere: Sri Lankan composer Natasha Senanayake’s Cello Sonata #1
Composer Natasha Senanayake
Natasha Senanayake was present for the world premiere of her Sonata for Cello and Piano (“21.04.2019, we will never forget”), commissioned by WMV for cellist Emma Hays Johnson and pianist Carl Banner.
Johannes Brahms — Cello Sonata No. 2 in F, Op. 99
Natasha Senanayake — Cello Sonata (2023)
Poet Anne Becker
Henriëtte Bosmans — Cello Sonata (1919
Emma Hays Johnson, cello, and Carl Banner, piano.
With Poet Anne Becker, former poet laureate of Takoma Park. Anne read from her recent work, and two poems by Indran Amirthanayagam, Sri Lankan-American poet.
Eric Pritchard, violin, and Bill Robinson, composer
Saturday March 4, 2023
Eric Pritchard, violin, Carl Banner, piano
BannerArts
Eric Pritchard, first violinist of the Ciompi String Quartet, and Carl Banner, piano, will perform Bill Robinson’s Violin Concerto #2 (in advance of the March 2023 premiere with the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra), plus Leoš Janáček — Violin Sonata (1914), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Violin Sonata in A major, K. 526.
Livestreamed at www.youtube.com/washingtonmusicaviva
Sunday January 22, 2023
Poet Anne Dykers performs her recent work, “Book 1 of the Amazing Blurry Dream Place”, with interactive piano accompaniment by Carl Banner. (Music of Byrd, Bach, Janacek, Bartok, and Milhaud).
Violinist Samuel Zhu and pianist Carl Banner perform Brahms Sonata #2 in A, Op. 100.
Wednesday December 7, 2022
BannerArts, Takoma Park. Pei Lu, cello, Rhonda Buckley-Bishop, saxophone, Samuel Zhu, violin, Carl Banner, piano. Bach Sonata in Eb BWV 1031, Mozart Sonata in F, K. 377; Schubert “Arpeggione” Sonata; Brahms: 4 Songs; and Noam Faingold “Breaking the Surface”.
Saturday November 5, 2022
The Mozart Project, Part 2:
Sonatas for Violin and Piano
Samuel Zhu, violin, and Carl Banner, piano
With Anne Becker, poet
Mozart Sonatas:
C major, K. 296
E minor, K. 304
G major, K.301
A major, K. 305
With poet Anne Becker, former Poet Laureate of Takoma Park, MD, accompanied by selections from Schubert's Bb Sonata, D. 960, Carl Banner, piano. {View on YouTube: Mozart Sonatas; Anne Becker]
Sunday October 16, 2022
7502 Flower Ave, Takoma Park MD
PROGRAM: [Livestreamed on YouTube]
Bob Dylan - "Dear Landlord"
J. S. Bach - Prelude & Fugue in Eb, WTC II
Darius Milhaud - The Household Muse (La Muse Ménagère)
Bob Dylan - "Shootin' Star"
Intermission
Maritza Rivera, poet
Three Short Contemporary Works:
Viktor Kalabis - Adagio
Ulf Grahn - Question 2
Noam Faingold - Prelude
Bob Dylan - "Father of Night"
Carl Banner, piano and vocals
Maritza Rivera, poet
October 11, 2022
Richard White’s SOLOX Arts Salon, Bethesda MD. Teri Manolio, flute, Rhonda Buckley-Bishop, soprano saxophone, Emma Hays Johnson, cello, Carl Banner, piano. Bach Bm Sonata for flute and piano, Mozart Sonata in C, K. 14, for flute and piano, Bloch “From Jewish Life”, Stutschewsky “Kol Nidre”, Noam Faingold “Breaking the Surface” for soprano saxophone and piano, Allegro maestoso from Henriette Bosmans Cello Sonata.
September 7, 2022
Carol Woods Retirement Community, Chapel Hill NC. Bonnie Thron, cello, Yewon Ahn, cello, Fred Jacobowitz, clarinet, Carl Banner, piano. Program: Trio for clarinet, cello and piano by Robert Kahn, Grand Serenade for clarinet, cello, and piano by Bill Robinson, and Suite for two cellos and piano by Gian Carlo Menotti.
September 6, 2022
Croasdaille Retirement Community, Durham NC. Bonnie Thron, cello, Yewon Ahn, cello, Fred Jacobowitz, clarinet, Carl Banner, piano. Program: Trio for clarinet, cello and piano by Robert Kahn, Grand Serenade for clarinet, cello, and piano by Bill Robinson, and Suite for two cellos and piano by Gian Carlo Menotti.
July 30, 2022
Cellist Katie Tertell, founder and artistic director of the Appalachian Chamber Music Festival, with Carl Banner, piano.
Program: J. S. Bach - Sonata No. 2 in D for Viola da Gamba; Beethoven - Sonata #3 in A, Op. 69; Brahms - Sonata #1 in Em, Op. 38.
June 18, 2022
Solo piano music of Mozart; Carl Banner, piano
Sonata in F, K. 332
Fantasie in D minor, K. 397
Rondo in F, K. 494
Rondo in D, K. 485
Adagio in B minor, K. 540
June 5, 2022
Domenic Salerni, violinist with Attacca Quartet and guest composer, with Emma Hays Johnson, cello, and Carl Banner, piano.
Domenic Salerni: Piano Trio #Noam Faingold: “Waiting for Proof: Toxicity Study and Remix” for solo violin (world premiere); Franz Schubert: Piano Trio #1 in Bb, Op. 99
May 27, 2022
World premiere of the Cello Sonata by Sri Lankan composer Natasha Senanayake, commissioned by WMV for her friend Emma Hays Johnson. Plus the Rachmaninoff Sonata Op. 19; and Sonata (1919) by Rebecca Clarke. Performers: Emma Hays Johnson, cello, and Carl Banner, piano.
April 14, 2022
Bonnie Thron, cello, and Carl Banner, piano. Cello Sonata #1 in F, Op. 5 No. 1 by Ludwig van Beethoven; Cello Sonata by Henriëtte Bosmans; Cello Sonata #1 by Bohuslav Martinu; "Between Words" for solo cello by WMV composer-in-residence Noam Faingold.
February 17, 18, & 19, 2022
Three Russian Cello Sonatas:
Emma Hays Johnson, cello, Carl Banner, piano.
Thursday February 17: Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19
Friday February 18: Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 119
Saturday February 19: Shostakovich Cello Sonata, Op. 40