All are welcome!

The Marymount Institute for Faith, Culture, and the Arts, in collaboration with The LMU Department of Music, will offer its free Music at Marymount series, with LMU's own Ken Aiso* on violin and Valeria Morgovskaya* on piano. The 4th and last concert for the semester will include Johannes Brahms Sonata #3 op.108, first movement-Allegro, J.S.Bach Concerto in d-minor for two violins and orchestra, second movement (Largo ma non tanto) with special guest Megan Chen** on violin, Karen Tanaka Hendry's Beach-Sunset, Vassiliy Barvinsky Humoresque, and Vazha Azarashvili Memory.

Each concert in the series is in the beautiful Marymount Institute lounge, followed by a light reception.

* Ken Aiso and Valeria Morgovskaya will also be instructing/playing at the Montecito International Music Festival this summer, and encourage young artists to apply for the Young Artist Festival (scholarships available).

** A student of Ken's, Megan Chen is an LMU senior, with a double major in music and psychology, and has been playing the violin since age 6.

Past concerts in this series:

The 3rd concert for the semester on 3/13/2025 included special guest Jerome Kessler** on cello, and the first movement of Anton Rubinstein's piano Trio #3, three short pieces by Reingold Glière for violin and cello and three short pieces for piano trio by Vaja Azarashvili.

**Jerome Kessler was a founding member of the Beverly Hills Trio and the Los Angeles Cello Quartet. Since 1981 he has served as Music Director/Conductor of the Topanga Symphony. An original member of Stokowski’s  American Symphony Orchestra, he was former Principal Cellist of the Pasadena Symphony.

The 2nd concert on 2/13/2025 included works by William Grant Still in honor of Black History Month, the 2nd and 3rd movements of the Brahms 2nd sonata, and two Republic of Georgia composers, Meri Davitashvili Poema and Vazha Azarashvili Nocturne (one female and one male composure, respectively).

The inaugural concert for the 2025 spring semester on 1/23/2025 included works by Brahms, K. Tanaka (female composer), Skorik (Ukrainian composer), Mozart, and Kreisler.