Alan R. Kay

The Lenape Chamber Ensemble continues its 50th anniversary season of chamber music concerts on Friday and Sunday, April 4 and 6, in Bucks County, Pa.

The concerts will highlight works by Mozart and Debussy featuring clarinet, and a symphonic quintet by American composer Arthur Foote. Performances are on Friday, April 4 at 8 p.m. in the historic Upper Tinicum Lutheran Church in Upper Black Eddy, and on Sunday, April 6 at 3 p.m. in Delaware Valley University’s Life Sciences Auditorium in Doylestown.

First on the program will be Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings K., with soloist Alan R Kay, who is co-principal clarinetist and former artistic director of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and who also performs with New York’s Riverside Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Kay is joined by violinist Katie Hyun, who founded the Quodlibet Ensemble and has performed as soloist with the Houston Symphony, Columbia Festival Orchestra, and the Incheon Philharmonic Orchestra in South Korea; and violinist Cyrus Beroukhim, concertmaster of the American Symphony Orchestra and associate principal violist of the New York City Ballet Orchestra, and who has performed internationally with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. The quintet is completed by violist Ramón Carrero-Martinez, a member of Ensemble Connect at Carnegie Hall and performer with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the New York City Ballet; and cellist Peter Sanders, a longtime member of the New York City Ballet Orchestra and the Riverside Symphony.

In Debussy’s Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Piano, Kay will be joined by Marcantonio Barone, pianist and Steinway artist, who has performed with major orchestras on four continents and as recitalist in London, St. Petersburg, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. For the finale, Lenape’s string musicians Cyrus Beroukhim, Katie Hyun, Ramón Carrero-Martinez, and Peter Sanders join Barone in Foote’s Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 38. Foote was an American Romantic composer of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Included with the concerts, audience members may enjoy refreshments and meet and chat with the musicians. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors, and $5 for students and children. Visit LenapeChamberEnsemble.org for tickets and directions.