The South Bay Chamber Music Society begins...

The South Bay Chamber Music Society begins its 1993-94 season Sunday with a free concert featuring the Weiss Duo, a husband-and-wife duo who will perform violin and piano sonatas by Leclair, Mozart, Debussy and Grieg.

The concert, at Harbor College in Wilmington, is the first of 10 scheduled for the society’s 1993-94 year. Erwin Fishman, president of the society’s board, said the chamber music group tries to offer “very special artists” to launch each season. In the Weiss Duo, he said, concert-goers will be treated to “world-class artists.”

Sidney Weiss, principal concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and pianist Jeanne Weiss have performed as a duo since the late ‘60s, in Europe and the United States.

Sunday’s performance will be in the recital hall of Harbor College, located at 1111 Figueroa Place in Wilmington, adjacent to the Anaheim exit of the Harbor Freeway. Information: (310) 372-4222.

Following are the other concerts on the South Bay Chamber Music Society’s 1993-94 schedule:

* Oct. 8: Westwood Quintet--Peter Christ, oboe; John Barcellona, flute; David Atkins, clarinet; David Muller, bassoon; Joseph Meyer, horn. (Ibert, Danzi, George Andrews, George Rochberg, Gunther Schuller and Louis Moyse)

* Nov. 5: Roger Wilkie, violin; David Speltz, cello; Joanne Pearce-Martin, piano. (Shostakovich, Brahms)

* Dec. 10: Mark Kashper and Friends--Mark Kashper and Suli Xue, violins; Meredith Snow, viola; Gianna Abondolo, cello. (Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven)

* Jan. 14: Daisietta Kim, soprano; Vicki Ray, piano. (Britten, Crockett, Faure, Guridi, Purcell, Schubert)

* Feb. 25: Pacific Trio--Endre Balogh, violin; John Walz, cello; Edith Orloff, piano. (Haydn, Benjamin Lees, Schubert)

* March 18: Music From Mt. Washington--Margaret Batjer, Connie Kupka, violins; Brian Dembow, Michael Nowak, violas; David Speltz, Paula Hochhalter, celli. (Mozart, Brahms)

* April 15: Xtet--David Ocker, clarinet; Elizabeth Baker, Jennifer Woodward, violins; Kazi Pitelka, viola; Roger Lebow, cello; Vicki Ray, piano. (Prokofiev, Berg, Stephen Hartke, Copland)

* May 20: Susan Greenberg, flute; Jacqueline Brand, violin; Margaret Morres, cello; Patricia Mabee, harpsichord. (Telemann, C.P.E. Bach, J.S. Bach, Handel, Vivaldi)

* June 3: Roger Wilkie, violin; Jack Sanders, guitar. (Original and transcribed music for violin and guitar)