Sunday’s season-opening concert of the NOVA Chamber Music Series features two threads that will run through the season: father-son composers and chamber concertos.
“Black Wind,” a new brass quintet by Nicolas Chuaqui, and “Interim Directions,” a piece for piano and flute by Miguel Chuaqui, will open the concert. Miguel Chuaqui is director of the University of Utah School of Music; Nicolas Chuaqui, his son, studies composition at the Eastman School of Music. The program also spotlights Utah Symphony concertmaster Madeline Adkins in Ernest Chausson’s Concerto for Violin, String Quartet and Piano. Series artistic director Jason Hardink and his wife, Kimi Kawashima, will perform the four-hands piano version of Maurice Ravel’s “La Valse.