Chamber Music | Guitar
Steve Thachuk, Director
The CSUN Guitar Quartet is an ongoing musical experience for the guitar major within the Music Department for more than 28 years. Many guitar majors have held this position during their studies and have benefitted from various musical performances both on and off campus. They have appeared in films, video productions, performed at other universities, entered international competitions and entertained at music festivals.
This group was recently hired to perform the guitar quartet music of Laurindo Almeida for a video documentary on the life of this composer/performer sponsored by the Brazilian Government.
Chamber Music | Piano
The Chamber Music class provides an opportunity for piano majors to learn, rehearse and perform the literature written for piano and strings, such as sonatas, trios, and quartets, as well as for pianos and winds or mixed groups. The class meets two hours per week, is open to all piano majors, and fulfills an ensemble requirement.
Chamber Music | Strings
The Chamber Music class provides an opportunity for string majors to learn, rehearse and perform the literature written for piano and strings, such as sonatas, trios, and quartets, as well as for pianos, strings, winds or mixed groups. The class meets two hours per week, is open to all string majors, and fulfills an ensemble requirement.
Chamber Music | Winds
The Winds Chamber Music course is offered each semester and consists of various small wind groups forming, rehearsing literature and performing in a concert at the end of the semester. Brass quintets, woodwind quintets, flute duets, flute-clarinet duets, oboe duets, flute-marimba duets, trumpet trios, flute choir, clarinet trios, flute trios, saxophone duets, tuba quartets, flute-oboe-piano trios and French horn-flute duets are examples of the great variety of participating groups.