The San Diego chamber ensemble Camarada brought a lively, audience friendly chamber concert to the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park Thursday. The ensemble’s program featured two works by visiting guest composer Gilad Cohen, who gave a short talk before the concert and introduced his compositions “Post Winter Solstice” and “Dances of Peril.” Princeton educated Cohen is Associate Professor of Music at New Jersey’s Rampo College.

On Saturday, San Diego’s well-established chamber music collective Camarada performed a concert titled Vivaldi’s Magic to a substantial audience at The Conrad in La Jolla. Half of the concert was devoted to works by Vivaldi, and for those of us for whom a little Vivaldi goes a long way, that was a wise decision.

Saturday at The Conrad, San Diego’s Camarada chamber ensemble presented Tango Buenos Aires, a concert reprising the music Camarada featured on their recent tour of Latin America. A large, enthusiastic audience—The Conrad was sold out—embraced this spirited concert of music and dance.

Camarada, San Diego’s intrepid chamber ensemble, returned to UC San Diego Park & Market Saturday for an engaging concert that included the premiere of their commissioned work from Stefan Cwik, Sunstone—in search of time.

Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio, a visual artist who often works in huge, charcoal murals and installation works, has teamed up with local chamber music group Camarada and composer Stefan Cwik.

Based on the success of last December’s Charlie Brown Jingles and Jazz concert at The Conrad, Camarada Artistic Director Beth Ross Buckley brought this winning, offbeat holiday special back to La Jolla this weekend.

The La Jolla Presbyterian Church Concert Series presented the chamber ensemble Camarada in Música Nueva Sunday as its contribution to the California Festival—A Celebration of New Music. A worthy program of seven recent works, including two Camarada commissioned compositions, charmed the La Jolla audience and aptly celebrated the California Festival’s theme.

The San Diego chamber ensemble Camarada opened its 29th season Thursday evening at the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park. Artistic Director Beth Ross Buckley assembled a program centered around contemporary music, notably the premiere of Andrés Martín’s “Thelma and Dolores.”

A full-time radiologist, a member of Camarada chamber-music ensemble, and a musician in La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, Buckley is preparing for a new season, hoping for a repeat tour of Argentina and tossing out one-liners when things get intense

Camarada Artistic Director Beth Ross Buckley brought her ensemble’s 2022-2023 season to a close Thursday with a rewarding evening of instrumental jazz.

Camarada’s Saturday concert, titled En Fuego, celebrated mariachi music and its influence on the music of this hemisphere.

Camarada will cap off its 2022-23 season with an intercontinental bang, by showcasing female composers, exploring mariachi and danzón music and touring Argentina for two weeks.

Conjuring the atmosphere of Parisian cabaret in Barrio Logan on Saturday, Camarada offered its entertaining program From Paris, with Love.

Among this delectable musical banquet, the most exciting selections included instruments, dancers, and singer together.

Now in its 28th season, Camarada is a San Diego-based chamber music organization that celebrates not just the classics but new music and world music that is played in intimate and, even surprising, places.

San Diego’s already lively classical music scene ought to be even more vibrant in 2023.

Thursday at UC San Diego Park & Market in the East Village, the ensemble Camarada presented a concert titled Frida Dreams, a cabaret confection of Mexican and Latin American music that was popular during Kahlo’s heyday.

Camarada opened its 28th season Thursday at Balboa Park’s Mingei International Museum with an invigorating program of chamber music by lesser-known composers.

Sunday’s concert, titled “Mosaics,” featured a diverse but focused set of chamber music miniatures drawn from the 20th and 21st centuries, including works by composer Stefan Cwik.

Mosaics, Camarada’s chamber concert Sunday at the Mingei Museum, featured both the music and presence of San Francisco-based composer Stefan Cwik.