Chamber Music Recital Series to showcase world-class musicians

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Five acclaimed string musicians will share the stage this weekend as part of La Sierra University’s Chamber Music Recital Series.

Grace Park, violin, has been a featured soloist at renowned venues around the world and will play with La Sierra University’s Chamber Music Recital Series this Sunday. (Photo: courtesy of Grace Park)
Grace Park, violin, has been a featured soloist at renowned venues around the world and will play with La Sierra University’s Chamber Music Recital Series this Sunday. (Photo: courtesy of Grace Park)
Violinist Jason Uyeyama is La Sierra University’s director of string studies and founder of the Chamber Music Recital Series. His is a regular performer with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. (Photo: Natan Vigna)
Violinist Jason Uyeyama is La Sierra University’s director of string studies and founder of the Chamber Music Recital Series. His is a regular performer with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. (Photo: Natan Vigna)
Cellist Eric Byers, who will perform in La Sierra’s Chamber Music Recital Series quintet, has played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and performed in venues such as New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Sydney Opera House in Australia. (Photo: courtesy of Eric Byers)
Cellist Eric Byers, who will perform in La Sierra’s Chamber Music Recital Series quintet, has played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and performed in venues such as New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Sydney Opera House in Australia. (Photo: courtesy of Eric Byers)
Erik Arvinder, violist, arranger and orchestrator divides his time between his native Stockholm, Sweden, and Los Angeles. He will perform in a quintet for La Sierra’s Chamber Music Recital Series.
Erik Arvinder, violist, arranger and orchestrator divides his time between his native Stockholm, Sweden, and Los Angeles. He will perform in a quintet for La Sierra’s Chamber Music Recital Series.
Violist Ben Ullery is assistant principal violist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and will perform in La Sierra’s Chamber Music Recital Series. (Photo: Courtesy of the Los Angeles Philharmonic)
Violist Ben Ullery is assistant principal violist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and will perform in La Sierra’s Chamber Music Recital Series. (Photo: Courtesy of the Los Angeles Philharmonic)

On Sunday, April 8 at 8 p.m., Grace Park, violin, Jason Uyeyama, violin, Ben Ullery, viola, Erik Arvinder, viola, and Eric Byers, cello, will perform “C Quintet Op. 29” by Ludwig van Beethoven and “F Quintet Op. 88” by Johannes Brahms at La Sierra University’s Hole Memorial Auditorium.

The musicians have played around the world in well-known venues, and with distinguished groups such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, and many more.

Park has been a featured soloist at the Library of Congress, The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Rudolfinum in Prague, and Glinka Hall in St. Petersburg, playing with orchestras such as the North Czech Philharmonia, the Russian Chamber Philharmonic, and the Napoli Chamber Orchestra. She has led chamber orchestras as a principal chair, worked with renowned composers, and has taught and coached ensembles at Washington and Lee University, North Dakota State University, Skidmore College, and the Innsbrook Institute. She is currently a guest faculty member at the Mannes Preparatory Division of the Mannes School of Music in New York City’s The New School.

Uyeyama is currently an associate professor of music and the director of string studies at La Sierra University where he teaches violin and chamber music. He has performed with the Pacific Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Since 2005, he has performed regularly with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Uyeyama also serves as the director of Community Kids Connection in San Bernardino, as well as the Orange County String Studio that he founded in Irvine. Uyeyama received his master’s degree from The Juilliard School in New York City.

Ullery has been the assistant principal viola of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2012. Before moving to Los Angeles, he spent three seasons as a member of the Minnesota Orchestra. His recent performances as a guest principal viola were with the Detroit Symphony, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and the Aspen Chamber Symphony. After graduating with numerous honors from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, he went on to attend the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Ullery is a faculty member at the Colburn School in Los Angeles where he teaches orchestral repertoire and coaches the Colburn Orchestra’s viola section.

Arvinder divides his time between his native Stockholm, Sweden, and Los Angeles as a chamber and orchestral violinist. After completing his undergraduate and graduate studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, he went on to become the youngest permanent member of the first violin section in the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Other accomplishments include serving as the concertmaster in the Wermland Opera Orchestra in Sweden and being a founding member of the Vamlingbo String Quartet. Arvinder is also known for his arrangements and orchestrations which have been performed and recorded by ensembles around the world, led by celebrated conductors, including Gustavo Dudamel.

A soloist, chamber musician and composer, Byers made his solo debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at age 18. Earlier this year, he served as a last-minute substitution performing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. As a founding member of the Calder Quartet, Byers has performed in venues such as New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Sydney Opera House in Australia. In addition to performing, he is a self-taught composer whose work has been performed at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., the Hear Now Festival in Kansas City, Mo., and Central Park SummerStage in New York City. He has taught and coached chamber music at the Colburn School and the Oberlin College Conservatory. Byers received his Bachelor of Music from the University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music.

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