Camerata Pacifica, the international chamber music collective renowned for its musical versatility and bold programming, continues it season with five wide-ranging and deeply creative works highlighting the oboe and viola, including three for solo instrument, November 10-15, 2024, at four Southern California venues.

The performances are Sunday, November 10, 3:00 pm, at Thousand Oaks’ Janet and Ray Scherr Forum; Tuesday, November 12, 7:30 pm, The Huntington in San Marino; Thursday, November 14, 8:00 pm, Zipper Hall in Downtown Los Angeles; and Friday, November 15, 2024, 7:00 pm, at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West.

The program opens with Camille Saint-Saëns’ Sonata for Oboe and Piano in D Major, Op. 166, a brilliant three-movement piece performed by Principal Oboe Nicholas Daniel, whose playing “bursts with exuberant charisma and optimistic allure” (MusicalCriticism.com), and Principal Piano Irina Zahharenkova, heralded for her “impressive…musical colour” (Bachtrack), in her second appearance of the season.

Daniel also reprises Helen Grime’s rhapsodic Two Birthday Fragments, which she composed for him in celebration of his 60th birthday, and was premiered by him at London’s Wigmore Hall in 2022.

For tickets ($75 at The Huntington, Music Academy of the West, and Zipper Hall; $91 at Janet and Ray Scherr Forum) and information, visit www.cameratapacifica.org.