MENDOCINO, Calif. – The Fort Bragg Center for the Arts will present an unusual opportunity to hear the gorgeous Elgar Piano Quintet performed by the Yokayo Chamber Players on Sunday, Oct. 21.

The concert, presented by Fort Bragg Center for the Arts Music Series, will be held in Preston Hall, Mendocino, beginning at 3 p.m.

The Yokayo Chamber Players, a group of five top musicians – all of whom are soloists in their own right – have banded together to present this seldom performed quintet.

Audiences are familiar with Elgar’s “Enigma Variations,” the violin and cello concertos, and they may have marched to “Pomp and Circumstances.” But the quintet isn’t often heard because it is so difficult to get five fine players to steal time from their other professional commitments for rehearsal.

The concert will feature the performance of Roy Malan, concertmaster of the San Francisco Ballet, and known locally as the concertmaster of the Mendocino Music Festival, along with Claudia Bloom, principal second violin of Opera San Jose; Elizabeth Prior, principal violist for the Santa Rosa Symphony, and Ukiah favorites cellist Joel Cohen and pianist Elena Casanova.

Besides the Elgar Quintet, the group will perform Dohnnyi’s “Serenade For Strings” trio and the Vieuxtemps “Sonata for Viola and Piano.”

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door and are available at Fiddles and Cameras and Harvest Market and in Mendocino at Moore’s Main Street Books.

For more information visit www.fbcamusicseries.com or call 707-937-1018.