For more than 50 years, the Crocker has proudly presented its Classical Concert Series, a monthly concert featuring the finest musicians and singers from around the region and across the world. Performances are 60 minute concerts with no intermission and draw a connection to the art on view at the Museum and offer audiences a chance to hear a variety of classical music, from Baroque to contemporary. Performers are selected by the Crocker’s Classical Concert Music Board based on experience, quality of proposed program, and, most importantly, talent and musicianship. Space is limited and advance registration is recommended.
Thanks to our sponsor Capital Public Radio.
$10 Members (per concert)
$18 Students/Youth/Capital Public Radio Members/Camellia Symphony Orchestra Subscribers (per concert)
$20 Nonmembers (per concert)
Jason Sia
Sunday, April 14
3 PM
Sacramento native Jason Sia returns to the Crocker for a dazzling performance to honor the exhibition The Roaming Eye: International Street Photography from the Ramer Collection. Sia’s masterful musicianship will bring musical stories to life, including solo masterworks like Hoedown from Aaron Copland’s Rodeo and selections from George Gershwin’s well-loved American Songbook, plus favorite works by Chopin, Ravel, Schubert, Liszt, and Debussy.
In advance of the Classical Concert, enjoy a docent-led tour of select works from the exhibition The Roaming Eye: International Street Photography from the Ramer Collection, to help put the music in context with the art. Prelude Tours are open to all visitors.
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Andrei Baumann
Sunday, May 12
3 PM
Award-winning pianist Andrei Baumann makes his triumphant return to the Crocker to perform two beloved works of 19th-century European classical music: Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101; and Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 3. Works of enormous technical challenge and emotive beauty, both offer a stunning musical counterpart to the Crocker’s collection of 19th-century European painting. Baumann has been part of Carnegie Hall’s Distinctive Debut Series and has toured throughout the world.
Before the performance, at 1 and 2 PM, enjoy an in-depth, docent-led tour of select works from the Crocker’s permanent collection of 19th-century European painting, to help put the music in context with the art.
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Young-Ah Tak
Sunday, June 9
3 PM
With her “thrilling blend of fury and finesse” (San Antonio Express-News), Steinway artist Young-Ah Tak takes inspiration from the Crocker’s world-renown collection of German painting to present a concert of German composers that includes Ludwig van Beethoven’s fiery masterpiece Appasionata. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Tak has performed across the globe and is a professor of piano at the State University of New York at Potsdam and an artist-in-residence at Southeastern University in Florida.
Before the performance, at 1 and 2 PM, enjoy a docent-led tour of the Crocker’s permanent collection of 19th-century German painting, to help put the music in context with the art.
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