Once again, the ROSS Chamber Music Series will bring together music lovers (both longtime fans and newcomers) in the same place (the Silvio Hall at Espacio Turina) and at the same time (twelve Sunday mornings throughout the season at 12:00 noon) to enjoy works performed by members of the orchestra in varied instrumental combinations, offering a broad panorama of composers from different eras, including contemporary ones.

This season features several standout concerts with a greater number of pieces that add variety (without overlooking some major repertoire works), a notable presence of woodwind instruments (flute, clarinet, oboe) combined with strings, and a prominent role for brass ensembles. These fresh sonorities expand the traditional string-centered concept of chamber music in both instrumentation and repertoire.

The opening concert presents two masterpieces for piano quintet: Schumann’s and Shostakovich’s. The first, extroverted and exuberant in character, remains a central work of German Romanticism; the second, which enjoyed immediate success and received the Stalin Prize, blends the composer’s intensity with echoes of Baroque forms.

Concert 2, for winds and piano, has a distinctly French air, featuring works of elegant lightness (Roussel, D’Indy, Poulenc) and includes a Spanish composer: Tomás Bretón, better known for zarzuela but also a notable symphonic and chamber music composer.

A brass and percussion sextet takes the stage in Concert 3, covering a wide time span—from a Polish song from 1600 to a German dance by Mozart—and mixing sacred solemnity with secular pieces.

Brass instruments also close the year (Concert 4) with a festive Christmas program of around fifteen pieces, from a pavane by Tielman Susato to music from Frozen, along with arrangements of several popular holiday tunes.

The year kicks off with Concert 5, featuring piano quartets, including one of the three written by Beethoven at age 15, one of the two composed by Dvořák, and a 20th-century piece by Frank Bridge, considered one of Britain’s greatest chamber music composers.

Concert 6, in collaboration with Juventudes Musicales, presents a flute and piano duo with a varied repertoire: Widor and Reinecke (spanning the 19th and 20th centuries), Otar Taktakishvili (a composer and former Minister of Culture of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic), and two living composers—the British Ian Clarke (1964) and the American Valerie Coleman (1970).

Concert 7 offers two major late-Romantic works: sextets by Borodin and Brahms. Borodin composed his Mendelssohn-like piece in Germany “to please the Germans.” Brahms revisited the sextet form for the second and final time, replacing the freshness and spontaneity of his first with greater musical density through polyphony and variations.

Concert 8, in March, celebrates International Women's Day with works by two British composers—Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994) with her Oboe and String Quintet, and Grace Williams (1906–1977) with her Sextet for oboe, trumpet, violin, viola, cello and piano—as well as the American composer Gabriella Smith (born 1991) with her string quartet Carrot Revolution.

Concert 9 includes pieces by Beethoven (his Op. 11 Trio, heard in its original clarinet version), Schumann (pieces for cello and piano), and Debussy (a rhapsody composed for the Paris Conservatory’s clarinet exams), alongside American composer Robert Muczynski (1929–2010) with his Fantasy Trio.

Brass and percussion return in Concert 10, with arrangements of famous works by Americans Gershwin and Bernstein, and Europeans Tomasi (French), Verhesit (Belgian trombonist, born in 1981), and Janko Nilovic (born 1941, Turkish-French versatile musician).

The flute takes center stage with strings in Concert 11, featuring works by American Amy Marcy Beach (1867–1944), Russian Alexander Rubtsov (b. 1982), Argentine Alberto Ginastera (1916–1983), and the Impressionists Ravel and Debussy, both known for their attention to instrumental timbral subtlety.

The brass will close the season, with an eclectic program of traditional pieces, a work by Gabrielli, several pieces by Uruguayan Enrique Crespo (1941–2020), Russian Viktor Ewald (1860–1935), and two homages to the city of Seville: Nana de Sevilla by Valencians Leandro and Daniel Perpiñán, and the dazzling Sevilla by Albéniz, which, as in the famous poem by Manuel Machado, puts a final flourish on this twelve-concert cycle.

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES SUBSCRIPTION

EXCLUSIVE 40% discount off the regular price of individual tickets for the Chamber Music Series.
12 concerts from October 2025 to May 2026, all on Sundays at 12 noon.

PURCHASE OF NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS
From September 25 to October 25, 2025, in person at the ICAS box office located at Teatro Lope de Vega.

PAYMENT METHODS
CASH or CREDIT CARD, in a single payment.