Presented at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, Intimate Classics offers an intimate and personal concert hall experience. The 2025–2026 season features world-class artists and unforgettable programs, ranging from Mozart to Mendelssohn, jazz fusion to Brahms.
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Sunday, October 5, 2025 • 3:00 PM
New Hollywood String Quartet
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Praised for their refined, committed, and technically polished approach by the San Francisco Classical Voice, the New Hollywood String Quartet carries forward the spirit of the famed Hollywood String Quartet of the 1940s and ’50s. In this program, Mozart’s elegance, Wolf’s charm, Turina’s Spanish color, and Ravel’s shimmering sonorities come alive with their distinctive artistry.
Mozart – String Quartet No.21 in D major, K.575
Hugo Wolf – Italian Serenade (1887)
Turina – La oración del torero, Op.34
Ravel – Quartet in F major
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Sunday, November 2, 2025 • 3:00PM
284 Strings
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With 284 strings between their instruments, Paul, Vanessa and Ching-Ming offer a rare alchemy of sound in an inspired program of duets highlighting two luminous partnerships: cello with piano, and cello with harp. From Bach to Mendelssohn, the music moves between warmth and radiance, offering a rich palette of colors and moods.
Paul Tseng, cello
Ching-Ming Cheng, piano
Vaness Fountain, harp
“[Paul Tseng]…poignant and moving… brilliantly executed.”
— Spirit of Jefferson Advocate
“[Ching-Ming Cheng] has wowed audiences from Taipei to Texas…”
— CSUSM News
“[Vanessa Fountain] dazzled the audience completely.”
— Mariko Hiller, Odeon Chamber Music Series
Cello and Harp
Adagio Bach/Marcello
Romanze J. Strauss
Sonata in C Boccherini
The Swan Saint-Saens
Meditation from Thais Massenet
Cello Solo
Hong Yan (Chinese Traditional)
Cello and Piano
Fantasiestücke R. Schumann
Sonata in D F. Mendelssohn
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Sunday, January 18, 2026 • 3:00PM
Matt Herskowitz
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Classical/Jazz fusion master pianist Matt Herskowitz returns for another thrilling experience!
Matt Herskowitz—the pianist with one hand in classical tradition and the other in jazz’s open skies—returns for an evening where structure meets soul in spontaneous conversation.
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Sunday, March 8th, 2026 • 3:00PM
Lincoln Trio
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“Sensational virtuosity… vivid colours… dramatic expressivity.”
— The WholeNote
The twice-GRAMMY-nominated, Billboard-charting Lincoln Trio brings its acclaimed artistry to Intimate Classics in a program featuring music by Beethoven and Schoenfield.
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Sunday, April 26, 2026 • 3:00PM
Amit Peled, cello Daniel del Pino, Piano
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‘REFLECTIONS”
Internationally acclaimed cellist Amit Peled brings his charismatic artistry to Intimate Classics.
Beethoven – Variations in E- flat major WoO 46 “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen” from Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte.
Weinberg – Sonata no. 2
Kopytmann – Kaddish
Chopin – Sonata for cello and piano
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Sunday, May 31, 2026 • 3:00PM
Grand Finale: Eugene Drucker and Friends
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“With musicians like this, there must be some hope for humanity.” — The Times (London)
Eugene Drucker—a founding member of the legendary Emerson String Quartet—returns with a chamber constellation of old friends and San Diego favorites for radiant program culminating in Brahms’ beloved Sextet in B♭.
With Roberta Cooper and Paul Tseng, cellos, Julie Park, violin, Rebecca Matayoshi and Gregory Perrin, violas, and Ching-Ming Cheng, piano
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