Movses Pogossian plays Mendelssohn
September 26, 2025 @ 8:00 pm
Our 41st season opens with violinist Movses Pogossian, whose playing critic Paul Griffiths describes as “always beautiful across a great range of colors and gestures, and always seeming on the edge of speaking—or beyond.”
The first concert features the music of two of the most beloved composers in the western canon – Felix Mendelssohn and Ludwig van Beethoven. After the joyous Overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” one of our favorite solo artists, celebrated violinist Movses Pogossian, joins the Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s to present Mendelssohn’s lyrical Violin Concerto in E minor. The program closes with Beethoven’s ebullient Symphony No. 2 in D Major.
Pogossian made his American debut performing the Tchaikovsky concerto with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall in 1990, about which Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe wrote: “There is freedom in his playing, but also taste and disipline. It was a fiery, centered, and highly musical performance.”
Underwritten by the St. Matthew’s Music Guild’s Endowment Fund.
- Pre-concert supper on the patio prior to the concert for subscribers at the Silver Patron level and above.
- No “Liner Notes” on September 26. “Liner Notes” resumes November 7.
- We anticipate that all concerts will take place at St. Matthew’s Church in Pacific Palisades. Please check back later for updated information.
- Read our COVID policy.
- Late-comers will be seated at the discretion of the ushers between compositions.
Movses Pogossian
schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/people/movses-pogossian/