Ron & Maureen Ashley Oasis Chamber Music Series: Harp and Friends

Led by harpist Emmanuel Ceysson, this program highlights the harp’s remarkable range and color in intimate and luminous chamber selections. From the refined elegance of French Baroque gems by Couperin and Rameau, heard here on solo harp, the concert unfolds through Jean Cras’s richly textured Quintet and Cynthia Lee Wong’s evocative Shoreline, culminating in Ravel’s shimmering Introduction & Allegro, a masterpiece of a “mini harp concerto” that places the harp at the center of a kaleidoscope of sound.

Artists

Emmanuel Ceysson, solo harp
Érik Gratton, flute
Nathan Hughes, oboe
Daniel Gilbert, clarinet
Laura Hamilton, violin
Laura Lutzke, violin
Katie Kadarauch, viola
Zoë Martin-Doike, viola
Anne Richardson, cello

Program

François Couperin: Les Barricades mystérieuses (1717)
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Menuet from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin (c. 1726-1728)
Jean Cras: Quintet for flute, violin, viola, cello, and harp (1928)
Cynthia Lee Wong: Shoreline for oboe, viola, and harp (2018)
Maurice Ravel: Introduction et Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet, and string quartet (1905)