WINONA, Minn. – The Manhattan Chamber Players of New York, whose roster is broad enough for the entire core string, wind and piano repertoire, from piano duos to clarinet quintets to string octets, will perform Friday in the Beethoven Festival at Saint Mary’s University. The performance is at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $25. The program:
> Halvorsen: Passacaglia for violin and viola.
> Beethoven: Piano Trio, Op. 97.
> Schubert: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956.
The orchestra was formed in 2015 by artistic director and violist Luke Fleming. Members are from 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.
Manhattan Chamber Players. A critic at Strings magazine: “Like an auditory version of a vertical wine tasting.”