TSM presents Improbable Places

Bryan Lee, violin
Hao Zhou, violin
William Fedkenheuer, violin
Aiden Kane, viola
Camden Shaw, cello
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
 
Clara Schumann: Three Romances for Violin and Piano, op. 22
Kevin Lau: String Quartet No. 5, “The Train to Improbable Places” 
Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, op. 44, no. 1
Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, op. 81, B. 155
 
Music has always carried us somewhere — across landscapes, through memory, into the heart. Clara Schumann’s Three Romances open the evening with intimacy and poetic warmth. Kevin Lau’s String Quartet No. 5, “The Train to Improbable Places,” invites us on a vivid contemporary journey fueled by imagination. Mendelssohn’s radiant op. 44 Quartet sings with lyrical brilliance, and Dvořák’s beloved Piano Quintet brings the evening home with folk-inspired vitality and sweeping Romantic joy. An evening of movement, storytelling, and music that transports.