The Galliard String Quartet opens the Chamber Music Hawai'i 2009 season with a concert at 4 p.m. Jan. 18 at Paliku Theatre on the campus of Windward Community College.

Pianist Thomas Yee will be featured in the Dvorak Piano Quintet in A Major. Yee is a member of the University of Hawai'i faculty.

Performances at Paliku include intermission refreshments and talk-story time with the musicians following the concert.

The January program is sponsored by Mozart House of Honolulu.