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Past Concerts:
​2005

Con Gioia's performances in 2005.

Artistic Director Preethi de Silva invited to perform at two events in Germany:

September 25, 2005 
Palace of Oranienburg 
Festival der Künste

A collaborative performance with Friedrich Wilhelm Prince of Prussia and actor Max Volkert Martens, including readings of correspondence between the prince’s ancestors—the two composer-performers, King Frederic the Great of Prussia and his beloved sister Margravine Wilhelmine of Bayreuth. The event was held at the Orangerie of the Palace of Oranienburg.

October 16, 2005  8:00 p.m.
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg 
Claviermusik der Empfindsamkeit
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Preethi de Silva performed works by C. P. E. Bach, J. G. Eckard, J. G. Müthel und W. A. Mozart on two original eighteenth-century fortepianos from the museum's famous collection of noteworthy European instruments.

Haydn and the Eternal Feminine

Saturday, April 2, 7:30 p.m.
Balch Auditorium, Scripps College, Claremont,

and
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Sunday, April 3, 4 p.m. 
Cathedral Center of St. Paul at 840 Echo Park Avenue, Los Angeles

Artists

MaryBeth Haag, soprano
Preethi de Silva, fortepiano
Janet Worsely Strauss, violin 
Benjamin Wyatt, ‘cello

Solo and chamber music Joseph Haydn composed for women performers, as well as a rarely performed work by his contemporary, Marianna Auenbrugger.

Haydn: 
Cantata for Soprano and Fortepiano: Lines on the Battle of the Nile Variations in F minor for Fortepiano, Hob. XVII:6; 
Fortepiano Trios in E-Major and B-flat Major, Hob. XV:20 and 29
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Marianna Auenbrugger:
Sonata for Fortepiano in E-Flat Major—a work by Haydn’s contemporary, who was a dedicatee of several of his piano sonatas.
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