Upcoming Performances:
Double Half-Concerts at St. Anne's Church, Church Circle, Annapolis MD
Thursday, 07 April 2016 at 6:15pm
An hour of music total featuring horn and piano duo on the first half, and cello and piano duo on the second half! Guest artist and cellist, Lauren Latessa, will be joining us for some Romantic fare on this evening's program. Brad and Ning will be Mozart's first Horn Concerto, Gallay, and Chabrier. Lauren and Ning will be playing Fauré's Elegie, and Schumann's Funf Stücke im Volkston (5 Pieces in Folkstyle). Hope to see you there!
Opus 40 Ensemble Spring Concert at the Old Parish House, College Park MD
Sunday, 17 April 2016 at 5:00pm
Just the thing to herald the Spring! We'll be playing Telemann, Mozart, Duvernoy, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky. Special highlights of this performance will include the Mozart Horn Quintet arranged for Trio and the first movement of the Brahms Trio, Op. 40. We hope you can come to hear this wonderful night of music. Brad will be playing three different horns on this program!
Double Half-Concerts at St. Anne's Church, Church Circle, Annapolis MD
Thursday, 07 April 2016 at 6:15pm
An hour of music total featuring horn and piano duo on the first half, and cello and piano duo on the second half! Guest artist and cellist, Lauren Latessa, will be joining us for some Romantic fare on this evening's program. Brad and Ning will be Mozart's first Horn Concerto, Gallay, and Chabrier. Lauren and Ning will be playing Fauré's Elegie, and Schumann's Funf Stücke im Volkston (5 Pieces in Folkstyle). Hope to see you there!
Opus 40 Ensemble Spring Concert at the Old Parish House, College Park MD
Sunday, 17 April 2016 at 5:00pm
Just the thing to herald the Spring! We'll be playing Telemann, Mozart, Duvernoy, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky. Special highlights of this performance will include the Mozart Horn Quintet arranged for Trio and the first movement of the Brahms Trio, Op. 40. We hope you can come to hear this wonderful night of music. Brad will be playing three different horns on this program!
Past Performances:
Double Half-Concerts at the Old Parish House, College Park MD
Saturday, 14 November 2015 at 5:00pm
An hour of music total featuring horn and piano duo on the first half, and cello and piano duo on the second half! Guest artist and cellist, Lauren Latessa, will be joining us for some Romantic fare on this evening's program. Brad and Ning will be playing works by Dauprat, Chabrier, and Gallay. Lauren and Ning will be playing Debussy's Sonata for Cello and Piano, and Schumann's Funf Stücke im Volkston (5 Pieces in Folkstyle).
Musical Time-Travelling at the Old Parish House, College Park MD
Sunday, 25 October 2015 at 5:30pm
We'll travel through the different eras as a Trio in the course of one night! First stop is Baroque era with Graun, then some light-hearted Classical fare with Duvernoy's Trio No.3, then a stop with a movement of our namesake, the Opus 40, with Brahms, and ending with current composer Trygve Madsen.
Sunday Concert at the Old Parish House, College Park MD
Sunday, 19 April 2015 at 5:00pm
European works for horn and piano duo. Music ranging from early classical to modern! Composers featured include Dauprat, Mozart, Saint-Saens, Vinter, and others!
Evening Concert at St. Anne's Parish, Annapolis MD
Thursday, 12 February 2015 at 6:15pm
Ning and Brad perform a smorgasbord of pieces for piano and horn duo.
Thanksgiving Concert for Sunrise at Fox Hill Retirement Community, Bethesda MD
Thursday, 27 November 2015 at 1:00pm
Ning and Brad perform a smorgasbord of pieces for piano and horn duo by Saint-Saens, Mozart, Strauss, and others.
Music at the Old Parish House, College Park MD
Saturday, 13 September 2014 at 7:30pm
We will be playing music by Ewazen, Rheinberger, and Neuling at the College Park Arts Exchange! The centerpiece of the program will be Eric Ewazen's beautiful Trio for violin, horn, and piano. Our guest violinist will be Patricia Wnek. Hope to see you there!
Children's Concert at the Old Parish House, College Park MD
Sunday, 13 April 2014 at 3:00pm
We'll be engaging the kids with dance, storytelling, and some basic music education lessons in top of the music we'll be playing; it's the first time Opus 40 Ensemble will be trying out the program. We are also excited to be collaborating for the first time with danseuse and narrator, Aubry Myers!
Romantic Pieces for Horn, Piano, and Soprano at Silver Spring United Methodist Church, Silver Spring MD
Saturday, 15 February 2014 at 3:00pm
Along with guest soprano, Natalie Barrens-Rogers, we will be performing the music of Schubert, Donizetti, Strauss, Lachner, and Berlioz!
Evening Concert at St. Anne's Parish, Annapolis MD
Thursday, 10 October 2013 at 6:00pm
Ning and Brad perform Eric Ewazen's Sonata for Horn & Piano and other programmatic pieces.
Music for a Shining Summer Night
Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 7:30pm
Brad and Yee-Ning perform a teaser (mvmt. 1 only) of Eric Ewazen's Sonata for Horn & Piano. Brad plays Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade and Wohin with director of the Southwest Chamber Players, David Ehrlich. Yee-Ning also plays Faure's Dolly Suite with Mr. Ehrlich. Ning's Severn River Piano Trio performs Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No.1.
Music for a May Night
Friday, 24 May 2013 at 7:30pm
Yee-Ning and Brad perform both Romances by Saint-Saens (natural horn) and Franz Strauss' Nocturno (valve horn). Yee-Ning also plays Mahler's Ruckert Lieder with lovely mezzo-sopranist Allison Hughes.
Baroque to Modern Horn Trios
Sunday, 18 March 2012 at 3pm
Sample the evolution of horn trios from baroque to modern eras of music with Telemann's Concerto a Tre, all three of Duvernoy's Horn Trios, and Kerry Turner's Quarter-After-Four.
Opus 40 Trio at Sunrise FoxHill Community
Sunday, 22 January 2012 at 3pm
Opus 40 is back at FoxHill to perform Brahms' Horn Trio, and pieces by Duvernoy.
Opus 40 Trio at Sunrise FoxHill Community
Monday, 19 December 2011 at 6pm
Opus 40 will play a baroque concert featuring pieces by Telemann and violin/piano duets by Kreisler.
Love and Loss in the Romantic Era
Tuesday, 25 October 2011 at 7:30pm
The Opus 40 Trio will debut their namesake--Brahms' Horn Trio--along with Donizetti's Mirti Addio, and Duvernoy's Trio No.1, as part of the Young Artists Series at Montgomery College, Rockville Campus. Free to all.
Double Half-Concerts at the Old Parish House, College Park MD
Saturday, 14 November 2015 at 5:00pm
An hour of music total featuring horn and piano duo on the first half, and cello and piano duo on the second half! Guest artist and cellist, Lauren Latessa, will be joining us for some Romantic fare on this evening's program. Brad and Ning will be playing works by Dauprat, Chabrier, and Gallay. Lauren and Ning will be playing Debussy's Sonata for Cello and Piano, and Schumann's Funf Stücke im Volkston (5 Pieces in Folkstyle).
Musical Time-Travelling at the Old Parish House, College Park MD
Sunday, 25 October 2015 at 5:30pm
We'll travel through the different eras as a Trio in the course of one night! First stop is Baroque era with Graun, then some light-hearted Classical fare with Duvernoy's Trio No.3, then a stop with a movement of our namesake, the Opus 40, with Brahms, and ending with current composer Trygve Madsen.
Sunday Concert at the Old Parish House, College Park MD
Sunday, 19 April 2015 at 5:00pm
European works for horn and piano duo. Music ranging from early classical to modern! Composers featured include Dauprat, Mozart, Saint-Saens, Vinter, and others!
Evening Concert at St. Anne's Parish, Annapolis MD
Thursday, 12 February 2015 at 6:15pm
Ning and Brad perform a smorgasbord of pieces for piano and horn duo.
Thanksgiving Concert for Sunrise at Fox Hill Retirement Community, Bethesda MD
Thursday, 27 November 2015 at 1:00pm
Ning and Brad perform a smorgasbord of pieces for piano and horn duo by Saint-Saens, Mozart, Strauss, and others.
Music at the Old Parish House, College Park MD
Saturday, 13 September 2014 at 7:30pm
We will be playing music by Ewazen, Rheinberger, and Neuling at the College Park Arts Exchange! The centerpiece of the program will be Eric Ewazen's beautiful Trio for violin, horn, and piano. Our guest violinist will be Patricia Wnek. Hope to see you there!
Children's Concert at the Old Parish House, College Park MD
Sunday, 13 April 2014 at 3:00pm
We'll be engaging the kids with dance, storytelling, and some basic music education lessons in top of the music we'll be playing; it's the first time Opus 40 Ensemble will be trying out the program. We are also excited to be collaborating for the first time with danseuse and narrator, Aubry Myers!
Romantic Pieces for Horn, Piano, and Soprano at Silver Spring United Methodist Church, Silver Spring MD
Saturday, 15 February 2014 at 3:00pm
Along with guest soprano, Natalie Barrens-Rogers, we will be performing the music of Schubert, Donizetti, Strauss, Lachner, and Berlioz!
Evening Concert at St. Anne's Parish, Annapolis MD
Thursday, 10 October 2013 at 6:00pm
Ning and Brad perform Eric Ewazen's Sonata for Horn & Piano and other programmatic pieces.
Music for a Shining Summer Night
Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 7:30pm
Brad and Yee-Ning perform a teaser (mvmt. 1 only) of Eric Ewazen's Sonata for Horn & Piano. Brad plays Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade and Wohin with director of the Southwest Chamber Players, David Ehrlich. Yee-Ning also plays Faure's Dolly Suite with Mr. Ehrlich. Ning's Severn River Piano Trio performs Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No.1.
Music for a May Night
Friday, 24 May 2013 at 7:30pm
Yee-Ning and Brad perform both Romances by Saint-Saens (natural horn) and Franz Strauss' Nocturno (valve horn). Yee-Ning also plays Mahler's Ruckert Lieder with lovely mezzo-sopranist Allison Hughes.
Baroque to Modern Horn Trios
Sunday, 18 March 2012 at 3pm
Sample the evolution of horn trios from baroque to modern eras of music with Telemann's Concerto a Tre, all three of Duvernoy's Horn Trios, and Kerry Turner's Quarter-After-Four.
Opus 40 Trio at Sunrise FoxHill Community
Sunday, 22 January 2012 at 3pm
Opus 40 is back at FoxHill to perform Brahms' Horn Trio, and pieces by Duvernoy.
Opus 40 Trio at Sunrise FoxHill Community
Monday, 19 December 2011 at 6pm
Opus 40 will play a baroque concert featuring pieces by Telemann and violin/piano duets by Kreisler.
Love and Loss in the Romantic Era
Tuesday, 25 October 2011 at 7:30pm
The Opus 40 Trio will debut their namesake--Brahms' Horn Trio--along with Donizetti's Mirti Addio, and Duvernoy's Trio No.1, as part of the Young Artists Series at Montgomery College, Rockville Campus. Free to all.