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by Chris Barton
704-687-0152
chris.barton@uncc.edu
CHARLOTTE – The Department of Music of the UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture will present the inaugural UNC Charlotte Chamber Music Festival in January 2011.Concerts will be presented on January 21, 23, 25, and 27 in the Anne R. Belk Theater of Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts on the campus of UNC Charlotte.
Under the artistic direction of David Russell, the Anne R. Belk Distinguished Professor of Violin, the UNC Charlotte Chamber Music Festival will present four concerts of chamber music for strings, voice, and piano performed by UNC Charlotte faculty and invited guests. Performing faculty members from universities across the U.S. and musicians from the Charlotte Symphony will join Department of Music faculty members David Russell (violin), Mira Frisch (cello), Dylan Savage (piano), and Brian Arreola (tenor) in performances of music by Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Fauré, Georges Bizet, and Franz Schubert. The centerpiece of the festival will be a concert by guest artists The Harlem Quartet, including works by Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev as well as contemporary jazz composers Chick Corea and Wynton Marsalis.
The Harlem Quartet, praised for its “panache” by The New York Times, is currently the resident ensemble in the New England Conservatory of Music’s Professional String Quartet Program. Its mission is to advance diversity in classical music while engaging young and new audiences through the discovery and presentation of varied repertoire, highlighting works by minority composers. The Harlem Quartet made its acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut in the fall of 2006 and have returned to Carnegie on numerous occasions. In December 2009 the quartet played to performances at the White House for guests of President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and made an appearance on Christmas morning on NBC’s Today Show. The UNC Charlotte performance by The Harlem Quartet is made possible by a Chancellor’s Diversity Challenge Fund Grant from the UNC Charlotte Council on University Community.
Single tickets for general admission seating are $9 for general public, $7 for senior citizens and UNC Charlotte faculty and staff, and $6 for all students. A subscriber discount of 25% off is available for patrons purchasing tickets to all four concerts. Tickets are available through the Box Office at Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts on the UNC Charlotte campus at 9201 University City Boulevard. The Box Office is open Monday through Friday from 11:00am to 3:00pm and one hour prior to performances.
For tickets and additional event and venue information, visit www.performances.uncc.edu or call the Box Office at 704-687-1TIX (1849). Ticket revenues for all UNC Charlotte Department of Music programs support student scholarships and educational program activities.
Friday, January 21 at 8:00 p.m.
BRAHMS String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major
David Russell, violin
Janet Sung, violin
David Rose, viola
Maggie Snyder, viola
Natasha Farny, cello
Mira Frisch, cello
BRAHMS String Sextet No. 2 in G-Major
Janet Sung, violin
David Russell, violin
Maggie Snyder, viola
David Rose, viola
Mira Frisch, cello
Natasha Farny, cello
Sunday, January 23 at 2:00 p.m.
BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major
Janet Sung, violin
Mihai Tetel, cello
Dmitri Shteinberg, piano
FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor
David Russell, violin
Maggie Snyder, viola
Mira Frisch, cello
Paul Nitsch, piano
Tuesday, January 25 at 8:00 p.m.
The Harlem Quartet
TURINA La Oracion del Torero (The Bullfigher’s Prayer)
PROKOFIEV String Quartet No. 1 in B minor
Chick COREA Adventures of Hippocrates
Guido GAVILÁN Mi Menor Conga
SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No.7 in F-sharp minor
Wynton MARSALIS String Quartet No.1 “At the Octoroon Balls”
Ilmar Gavilán, violin
Melissa White, violin
Juan-Miguel Hernandez, viola
Paul Wiancko, cello
Thursday, January 27 at 8:00 p.m.
BARBER Dover Beach
Alissa Dieter, Mezzo-Soprano
David Russell, violin
Kari Giles, violin
Ellen Ferdon, viola
Janis Nilsen, ‘cello
SCHUBERT Die Forelle, op. 32
BRAHMS Sommerabend, op. 85, no. 1
STRAUSS Das Bachlein, op. 88, no. 1
Brian Arreola, tenor
Dylan Savage, piano
SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A Major, “The Trout”
Kari Giles, violin
Ellen Ferdon, viola
Janis Nilsen, cello
Jeff Ferdon, bass
Dylan Savage, piano
All programs are subject to change.
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