MartinChalifourMartin Chalifour began his tenure as Principal Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1995. The recipient of various grants and awards in his native Canada, he graduated with honors from the Montreal Conservatory at the age of 18 and then moved to Philadelphia to pursue studies at the Curtis Institute of Music. In 1986 Martin Chalifour received a Certificate of Honor at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and was a laureate of the Montreal International Competition the following year. Since then he has concertized extensively, playing hundreds of concerto performances from a repertoire of more than 50 works with the world's leading orchestras and conductors. He is also a frequent guest at several summer music festivals, including the Sarasota Festival and the Mainly Mozart Festival. Martin Chalifour is a professor at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music. He records for the Yarlung label; his latest album was released in September 2011, and features solo music composed by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Steven Stucky, as well as Mozart and Lutoslawski concertos with the Los Angeles Philharmonic recorded live at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
TimDurkovic2Los Angeles-based pianist Timothy Durkovic is an active soloist and chamber musician, collaborating regularly with some of world's finest instrumentalists and vocalists including Martin Chalifour, Helen Callus, Movses Pogossian, Timothy Landauer, Richard O'Neil, Jonathan Mack, among others. He is the Grand Prize Winner of the 1996 Los Angeles Liszt Competition as well as a winner of the Beverly Hills Auditions, the Carmel Music Society Competition, the 2001 San Diego Duo Piano Competition and the 2001 IBLA Grand Prize Duo Award (Sicily, Italy) with his duo partner Chie Nagatani, as well as the recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Master's Graduate Award from the USC Thornton School of Music. He has served on the faculties of the Orange County High School of the Arts, University of La Verne, USC Thornton School of Music and is currently the Director of Keyboard Studies at Long Beach City College. His playing has been described as having great "sensitivity to colors" (Salt Lake City Tribune) and "effortless, with the music always in the forefront, and an overall effect…of music making that is too rarely heard." (Frederick Swann). His CD recording "Gargoyles," available on iTunes, received rave reviews as being "an incisive and exciting performance" from Lowell Lieberman, the title track's composer himself. Born and raised in Guatemala, Mr. Durkovic studied at the National Conservatory of Guatemala, the Juilliard School, Salem College, and the USC Thornton School of Music.
The Venue
The acoustics of Rolling Hills United Methodist Church's sanctuary are among the finest in Southern California, and the venue's idyllic sylvan setting next to the South Coast Botanic Garden on the north-east corner of Crenshaw Blvd and Palos Verdes Drive North makes the concert experience especially pleasant.
Rolling Hills United Methodist Church's Second Sundays At Two presents free concerts without intermission, September through June, except December and May. Generous at-the-door contributions (100% are for the artists!) ensures the success of the series.
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