LAAC Coffee Concerts: 4 concerts featuring top Twin Cities Artists. Audrey Johnson Companies, sponsor Mar. 9, 2025 - Isles Ensemble "Aspects of Nature" concert.
Welcome to Chamber Music Lakeville's 2025 17th Season of Coffee Concerts Sponsored by Audrey Johnson Companies at the Lakeville Area Arts Center (LAAC)! Thanks to all the people who have supported the series from the beginning into this 17th season with their attendance, word-of-mouth advertising, and financial support. We're so happy to return to the LAAC with this exciting season of concerts in
2025! All programs start at 2:00 PM on Sunday afternoons, about once a month, between January and May. Here's the 2025 Lineup:
Sun., Jan. 5, 2025 - Catherine & Clara Schubilske, violin; Mary Jo Gothmann, piano
"The Mysterious Muse Jelly D'Aranyi'
The Mother/daughter team of Catherine and Clara Schubilske illuminates the story of influential early 20th Century violinist Jelly\ D'Aranyi with music of Brahms, Ravel, Bartok, Schumann, Holst, Elgar, and more. Sun., Feb. 2, 2025 - Adam Sadberry, Flute
Concert Artist Guild Award winner “Intertwining his virtuosic practice with a deeply personal history.”
Sun. The Isles Ensemble, hailed as “Cream of the Twin Cities classical musicians,” expresses the beauty of the natural world in varied instrumental combinations. May 18, 2025 - Collaboration of Early Music Minnesota, Soprano Linh Kauffman, and OboeBass! Baroque Arias and Instrumentals. Masterworks of the Baroque
Audrey Johnson Companies are celebrating their 59th anniversary in residential and commercial real estate in Lakeville. In honor of this occasion, they are a Season Sponsor for this 17th season of the Coffee Concerts at the Lakeville Area Arts Center. Sunday Coffee Concerts LLC is a fiscally sponsored project of Springboard for the Arts. Contributions on behalf of Sunday Coffee Concerts may be made payable to Springboard for the Arts and are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. To give to Springboard: https://givemn.org/organization/Springboard-For-The-Arts
06/19/2025
Congrats to Jeremiah Sanders for his Competition win!
The hall may still be reverberating from his 1/14/24 recital with pianist Erica Guo at the LAAC!
Congratulations to “vocally powerful” (KDHX) baritone Jeremiah Sanders for winning the Baritone Prize in the 2025 George Shirley Vocal Competition!
We’re terribly saddened to share this news. Arek and his wife Claudia performed on this series in several very memorable performances, including during our first season of married couples “Making Beautiful Music Together,” with violinist Peter McGuire as the Ouchard Trio, and with Sahar Hasan in the Ladyslipper Ensemble. Series founder Rolf Erdahl has known Arek and Claudia since student days at the Peabody Conservatory, work as Principals in the Winnipeg Symphony, and during Arek’s illustrious Minnesota Orchestra career. We mourn his passing and are grateful our lives have been illumined by his brilliance. Rest in peace, dear friend.
This week's performances are dedicated to our wonderful colleague, Arek Tesarczyk. Arek passed away last month after a long illness he faced with great dignity. Originally from Poland, Arek spent 11 years as Principal Cello of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra before joining us in 2004. He was humble, kind, "devastatingly funny," (according to Principal Cello Tony Ross) and was a rock in our cello section.
Our thoughts and condolences go to Arek's wife Claudia Chen and his children Viktor and Katia.
05/18/2025
Warmed up and ready to go for Baroque! See you at the LAAC today at 2:00!
05/17/2025
Spoiler alert! Our finale tomorrow is Bach's "Ich esse mit Freuden," from Cantata BWV 84. Voice, oboe, strings, and harpsichord combine to let you know that simple pleasures are the best.
The text is a perfect recipe for contentment and an antidote to the stresses our times:
"I eat my little bit of bread with joy
and heartily leave to my neighbor his own.
A peaceful conscience, a happy spirit,
a thankful heart, that gives praise and thanks,
increases its blessing, sweetens its need."
Come share some coffee, treats, music, and fellowship with us this Sunday at 2:00 at the LAAC!
05/16/2025
Here's the Sun Thisweek article about this weekend's concert with Early Music Minnesota, soprano Linh Kauffman, and OboeBass!
Sun., May 18, 2:00 pm at the LAAC
The final performance of the Lakeville Area Arts Center Coffee Concerts series on May 18 will feature soprano Linh Kauffman in collaboration with Early Music Minnesota and duo OboeBass!
05/13/2025
This weekend’s Coffee Concert is up in lights!
Enjoy a smorgasbord of Baroque treats with Early Music Minnesota, soprano Linh Kauffman, and OboeBass!
Sunday, May 18, 2:00 pm at the LAAC.
05/13/2025
Great rehearsal today for this Sunday’s
Coffee Concert with Early Music Minnesota, soprano Linh Kauffman, and OboeBass!
See you at the LAAC Sun., May 18 at 2:00!
03/06/2025
Here's the Sun Thisweek article about this weekend's Coffee Concert with the The Isles Ensemble performing "Exploring Passion - The Fire Within Us."
We hope to see you at the LAAC Sunday, March 9 at 2:00 to experience this great program and wonderful musicians!
The Isles Ensemble, hailed by the Star Tribune as “The Cream of Twin Cities classical musicians,” presents Exploring Passion: The Fire Within Us at 2 p.m. March 9 as part
02/26/2025
Flutist Composer Julie Johnson has appeared a couple times on this series, with her group “The No-Accounts” and collaborating with OboeBass! and Jaqueline Ultam. For the next couple weeks she has major roles as composer and improvising performer in this interesting production. Check it out!
Joy Dolo, Maggie Chestovich, and Katie Bradley Photo by Tom Wallace “… and tell a world’s worth of stories”This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing by Fineg…
02/23/2025
Explore "Passion, the Fire Within Us" with the The Isles Ensemble, "Cream of Twin Cities Classical Musicians," at our next Coffee Concert, Sun. March 9, 2:00 pm at the LAAC.
Join violinists Stephanie Arado, Leslie Shank, and Emily Switzer, violins; violists Kenneth Freed and Sarah Switzer; cellist Laura Sewell; and Ora Itkin, piano, in music of Shostakovich, Biber, Schnittke, Pärt, and Brahms.
Music and musicians make a difference. Lots of time that work is done behind the scenes and without fanfare. Meet Ken Freed who will perform with the Isles Ensemble at the next LAAC Coffee Concert, March 9. Fun to see this shoutout about his work from ICSOM.
Anyone who is a professional musician most likely remembers and recognizes how much early music education impacts one's journey in this career path. Minnesota Orchestra Violist Kenneth Freed has not lost sight of that, and in fact, does everything in his power to improve learning outcomes for all Minnesota children.
With music being nationally targeted for budget cuts, Kenneth continues his longtime partnership with the Center for Musical Literacy in Education led by Dr. Larry Scripp, professor emeritus of the New England Conservatory. He has also started lobbying and crafting a bill for music literacy standards in Minnesota, and is looking for a pilot school to try this program.
Maestro Freed also works with the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain at the University of Minnesota, using EEGs and MRIs to capture young children's brain activity and growth while reading music, the same parts of the brain that light up when doing math and reading words.
It is because of dedicated people like him that we are able to advance our understanding of how the human brain develops, and why music is so vital to that development. Congratulations to Ken and all the work he does for his community - bravo!
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Welcome to Chamber Music Lakeville's 13th Season of Coffee Concerts Sponsored by Audrey Johnson Companies at the Lakeville Area Arts Center (LAAC)!
We're proud to present another varied season in 2020, with these four concerts featuring some of the top musical talent in the Twin Cities area:
Jan. 12 - Quince vocal quartet
Angelic and energetic, comforting and inciting,
Virtuosically disciplined, and noisy!
March 1 - OboeBass! American Vein
Delightful, award-winning Duo
Carrie Vecchione, oboe, Rolf Erdahl, bass
April 5 - Maithree -The Music of Friendship
Pat O'Keefe, clarinet and Nirmala Rajasekar, veena
Fusing worlds of musical wonder and virtuosity
June 7 - Chamber Music Society of Minnesota
"A jewel in the state's cultural crown."
Dvorak and Mozart Quintets
All concerts take place 2:00 pm Sunday afternoons at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville, MN. Ticket prices are $18 general admission, $15 for students and seniors. Concerts last approximately 90 minutes with intermission and reception. Like us and follow us on this page to keep updated. https://www.facebook.com/coffeeconcerts
We are Twin Cities performers who love to share our love for performing our intimate groups and music with our audiences. Our mission is to bring top area performers together to present a wide variety of types of ensembles and repertoire to the people served by the Lakeville Area Arts Center. Come join us in our very varied Coffee Concert series in the casual, conversational, cabaret concerts at the Lakeville Area Arts Center. All recitals are inviting, informal concerts with cabaret seating and complimentary Caribou Coffee and other refreshments. Articulate performers tell the stories of their music and ensembles from the stage, and meet and mingle with the audience.
As in past seasons, what really makes the music happen is the attendance, enthusiastic word-of-mouth, and financial and in-kind contributions from area businesses, our audience, and the LAAC's incredible staff support and facilities.
Come join the fun through your support and attendance! Share links to our events and invite your friends to come. Please consider what tax-deductible amount you can contribute so this series can continue as one of the gems in Lakeville’s cultural life. Visit this link for various donor levels: http://www.lakevilleartscenterfriends.org/donate/
The Friends of the Lakeville Area Arts Center is the 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization that serves as fiscal agent for Chamber Music Lakeville's Coffee Concerts at the LAAC. Thanks for any support you can provide! All levels of contribution are welcome, and acknowledged in our recital programs.
Thanks to Caribou Coffee on Cedar and Dodd for providing our coffee, and to Cornerstone Copy of Lakeville for printing our posters and programs.
Audrey Johnson Companies is celebrating its 54th anniversary in residential and commercial real estate in Lakeville. In honor of this occasion, they are a Season Sponsor for this 13th season of the Coffee Concerts at the Lakeville Area Arts Center.
