The 2012 New Millennium Series opens on Monday, February 13 with a performance by the Los Angeles Piano Quartet at 7:30pm. The 34-year career of the L.A. Piano Quartet is filled with awards, critical acclaim by the public and press from New York to San Francisco, and sold-out houses across three continents.The ensemble consists of Yehonatan Berick on violin, Katherine Murdock on viola, cellist Steven Doane and pianist Xak Bjerken. The group made its debut at The Music Center in Los Angeles in 1977, and soon earned recognition as America's premier piano quartet. The vibrant ensemble has been repeatedly re-engaged by major chamber music presenters, and hailed by the public and press in New York, Washington, Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, Dallas, St. Paul, Phoenix, Houston, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The Quartet has been a popular guest on Minnesota Public Radio's "St. Paul Sunday" and New York's "Live from WNCN," and has been featured at the Bermuda and Tucson Festivals and the Eugene and Carmel Bach Festivals. Their program will feature works by Mozart, Steven Stucky, and Gabriel Fauré. Admission is $25 general, $20 senior, and $5 for students.

The Series continues with the Faculty and Friends Gala on Tuesday, March 27 at 7:30pm. Featured on the program will be Sacramento State’s faculty string quartet, the Sun Quartet, performing music by Shoastakovich. The Gala will also feature performances by faculty saxophonist Keith Bohm, clarinetist Deborah Pittman, hornist Pete Nowlen, and pianists Eric Zivian and John Cozza. New this year will be the addition of a performance by the winner of the A.J. and Susana Watson Studetn Chamber Music Competition. Admission is $15 general, $10 senior, and $5 for students.

On Wednesday, April 18, the Hot Club of San Francisco will be performing at 7:30pm. The ensemble celebrates the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, breathing new life into the art of gypsy jazz with innovative arrangements of classic tunes and their own orginal compositions. The Hot Club features guitarist and leader Paul Mehling (dubbed the godfather of American gypsy jazz); bassist Clint Baker, who has been featured at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and the Monterey Jazz Festival; violinist Evan Price, whose work with the Turtle Island Quartet earned two Grammy Awards; French guitarist Isabelle Fontaine and San Francisco native guitarist Jeff Magidson. In 2000, The Hot Club of San Francisco was the first American band invited to play the Festival de Jazz Django Reinhardt in Samois-Sur-Seine, ground zero for the current Django revival.Admission is $25 general, $20 senior, and $5 for students.

Two time Grammy Award winning clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and guitarist Eliot Fisk will round out the Series on Friday, April 27 at 7:30pm. These two virtuosic performers capture the flavors and folk melodies of Europe and America, with works ranging from Bach and Bartok to Steve Reich and Robert Beaser. Stoltzman gave the first clarinet recitals in the histories of both the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall, and, in 1986, became the first wind player to be awarded the Avery Fisher Prize. As one of today’s most sought-after artists, Stoltzman has been a soloist with more than a hundred orchestras as well as a recitalist and chamber music performer, innovative jazz artist, and prolific recording artist. Eliot Fisk has performed to dazzling critical and public acclaim in recital, as soloist with major orchestras and in a wide variety of chamber music combinations in most of the great concert halls of the world and in 1996 in a command performance in the Palacio de los Cordova in Granada, Spain, for then U.S. President Bill Clinton and King Juan Carlos of Spain and their families. He was the last direct pupil of the late great Andrés Segovia. Admission is $25 general, $20 senior, and $5 for students.