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The Sacramento Saturday Club holds monthly concerts during the season (September – May). These concerts feature our performing members and guests, and are typically held at The Music Exchange on Howe (map). All concerts begin at 7pm.
Please join us on April 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM at The Music Exchange
1537 Howe Ave., Sacramento, 95825 for the following concert featuring local composer and Cellist Masatoshi Mitsumoto
Program
Suite Semplice No. 1 for Cello solo (2019) Masatoshi Mitsumoto (b. 1937)
i. Entrada
ii. Menuetto
iii. Waltz
iv. Tarantella
v. Lullaby
vi. Toccata
Jia-mo Chen, cello
Two Préludes for piano Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Op. 23/v in g minor
Op. 23/4 in D
Aida Elkhanzade, piano
Pierre et Luce for cello and piano (2015)
(after Romain Rolland’s novel)
i. Prologue
ii. Dans le Métro
iii. Jeunes Amoureux
iv. Tête-à-tête
v. Pause
vi. Epilogue: la Place Saint-Gervais
Jia-mo Chen, cello
Aida Elkhanzade, piano
Songs of Innocence for soprano and piano (2001) Masatoshi Mitsumoto (Text: William Blake)
i. Infant Joy
ii. The School Boy
iii. Laughing Song
iv. The Little Boy Lost
v. The Little Boy Found
vi. Spring
vii. The Lamb
Robin Fisher, soprano
John Cozza, piano
About the Composer
A resident 3f Sacramento since 2018, the Japanese born Masatoshi Mitsumoto (b. 1937) came to the States in 1966 to study with Gregor Piatigorsky at USC. Since then, America has been his home and for over three decades he worked as a freelance cellist in Los Angeles-Hollywood and Las Vegas as well as teaching at Cal State Univ., Los Angeles, Whittier College and University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Mitsumoto is a graduate of the Tokyo University of Arts. He also studied at the Paris Conservatory with Paul Tortelier on a French Government Scholarship before coming to the States. His composition teachers were Leo Arnaud and Lukas Foss with whom he worked privately.
Mitsumoto served as the music director and conductor of the Laguna Beach Summer Music Festival, the Hakone Summer Music Festival in Japan, Concordia Orchestra Los Angeles, and the International Chamber Orchestra of Washington. He has made several CDs as a conductor for the Cambria, MMM, and Hollywood Symphony labels.
In addition to tonight’s program, his compositions include 2 cello concertos, a violin concertino, a harp concerto, a violin sonatina, clarinet sonatina, Divertimento for flute, viola and piano, Elegy for clarinet and piano, Songs of Experience for soprano and piano, Reverie for harp and Fantasy on Leo Arnaud’s Olympic Fanfare among others.
Our 2024 to 2025 Schedule:
- September 21st – Oktoberfest Party 5:00 PM at the home of Home of Muffy and Terry Francke 2218 Homewood Way Carmichael, CA 95608
- October 12th Concert – Past Scholaship Winners’ Concert
- November 16th Concert – Dramatic Soprano Rena Harms
- December 6th – Our annual Christmas Party
- January 11th – Piano Trios with Michael Selby Piano, Jia Mo Chen Cello, and Anita Felix Violin
- February 15th – Saturday Club Scholarship Winners perform
- March 8th – The Amici String Trio with George Weis Cello, Rhennie Boyle Viola, and Nicole Makram Violin
- April 12th – An original Composition, ‘Pierre et Luce’, by Masatoshi Mitsumoto
- May 10th – Guitar Masterpieces with Johnnie Basch
Our annual Scholarship concert is held at Sacramento State in February and features the current year’s outstanding young scholarship recipients.
Public Concerts
Members of The Sacramento Saturday Club perform concerts in the Sacramento area at the the Crocker Museum, Sacramento State School of Music, Music at Noon series, and other venues throughout the year.
Membership
Fostering music, supporting the education of young musicians, meeting with friends… listening to and/or performing fine music. Membership is richly rewarding!