Members of PVCC's talented and versatile music faculty will perform a program of vocal and instrumental music, both old and new. 3 PM at the V. Earl Dickinson Building. Free admission and no ticket required. For more information, call PVCC box office 434-961-5376.
February 22-23, 2015 - An upcoming concert.
Mark your calendars! UVA's McIntire Department of Music is pleased to welcome violist Doris Lederer and cellist Tom Shaw for a masterclass and concert next weekend.
Tom Shaw and Doris Lederer were members of the world-renowned Audubon Quartet for more than thirty years and currently serve on the faculty of Shenandoah Conservatory. They will be leading a free masterclass on Sunday, February 22nd at 8:00 PM in Old Cabell Hall. The masterclass is free and will be for both solo strings and chamber music. Click here for more details.
The following evening, Monday,February 23rd at 8:00 PM, Shaw and Lederer will be joining the Rivanna String Quartet for their concert as part of UVA's Chamber Music Series. The concert will feature Beethoven's Op.74 "The Harp", Kurtag's 12 Microludes and the magnificent Sextet in G Major by Johannes Brahms. For more information and tickets, click here.
January 9-10, 2015 - Alkemie Performance
Alkemie presents:
Love to My Liking: Refrains of Desire in Gothic France
Friday, January 9 at 7:30pm at The Haven (Charlottesville, VA)
Saturday, January 10 at 7:30pm at Temple House of Israel (Staunton, VA)
Tickets: $15 adults / $5 students
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
www.davidryanmccormick.com/alkemie
(703) 587-0483
Newly-formed early music ensemble Alkemie specializes in medieval and renaissance music for voices and instruments. They especially enjoy the porous boundaries between “high” and “low” music of this period – traversed repeatedly by clerics penning bawdy Latin poems in manuscript margins and courtly lovers evoking the sublime.
October 26-27, 2014 Mary Baldwin College Carl Broman Concert
Presentation and Concert with
Pianist Yael Weiss
at Mary Baldwin College
Presentation:
“Interpretive Challenges in Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas”
Sunday, October 26—3:00-5:00 pm—Francis Auditorium*
FREE and open to the public
Concert:(on the Carl Broman Concert Series)
Monday, October 27—8:00 pm—Francis Auditorium*
($25 general public/$20 seniors /$5 non-MBC students)
(Tickets available at the door)
Chopin: Barcarolle, Op. 60
Joel Feigin: Prelude to a Sonata (written for Yael Weiss, 2013)
Beethoven: Sonata in D major, Op. 28, “Pastoral”
Lera Auerbach: Ludwig’s Nightmare (2007)
Beethoven: Sonata in F minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata”
* (Francis Auditorium is in the Pearce Science Center on the Mary Baldwin campus, on the corner of Frederick and Coalter Streets. You may park on Frederick, in the MBC lot accessed from Frederick, or on a side street.)
Questions? Contact Lise Keiter LKEITER@MBC.EDU or call 540-887-7294 (MBC Fine Arts Office); www.mbc.edu/arts/musicatmbc/
A captivating presence on the concert scene, award-winning pianist Yael Weiss has been hailed by many of today's greatest musicians and critics for visionary interpretations of surpassing depth, immediacy and communicative power. Following a recent recital, the Washington Post portrayed her as “a pianist who delves deeply and tellingly into that cloudy area where fantasy morphs into improvisation, inventiveness being common to both.”
Ms. Weiss has performed across the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and South America at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Benaroya Hall, Moscow’s Bolshoi Hall and London’s Wigmore Hall. Her New York recital debut, presented by the Metropolitan Museum, was acclaimed by the New York Times as, "remarkably powerful and intense . . . fine technique and musicianship in the service of an arresting array of music." Ms. Weiss has appeared as soloist with the many international orchestras, including the Prague Chamber Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Brazil National Symphony, and the Seattle Symphony. She is also in demand at international music festivals, such as Marlboro, Ravinia, City of London, Banff, and the Seattle Chamber Music Festival.
Yael Weiss’s discography encompasses piano works by over a dozen composers, and her special projects include performances of the complete cycle of Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas. She is also devoted to chamber music, touring worldwide with violinist Mark Kaplan and cellist Clancy Newman as the Weiss-Kaplan-Newman Trio. She has been honored with distinguished prizes from the Naumburg International Piano Competition and the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition. She has presented master-classes for top institutions worldwide and served on the faculties of Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, UC Santa Barbara and the Heifetz Institute.
October 24, 2014 - Music On Park
October 24, 7:00 p.m. – First Presbyterian Church 500 Park Street
Chamber Music of Brahms, Beethoven, and Fasch.
This concert will feature chamber music with several of their principal musicians from the Charlottesville Symphony. The opening work will be a concerto for trumpet and organ by German composer Johann Fasch featuring the Symphony’s new principal trumpet Christopher Buchanan. The program will also feature the Beethoven Quintet for winds and piano, as well Brahms’ Piano Trio #2 with Dan Sender and Adam Carter.
Musicians:
Chris Buchanan, trumpet
Adam Carter, cello
Aaron Hill, oboe
Rob Patterson, clarinet
Elizabeth Roberts, bassoon
Dan Sender, violin
Maria Serkin, horn
Jeremy Thompson, piano/organ
November 1, 2014 - Fundraising concert
Hospice of the Piedmont is pleased to present its second annual fundraising concert to benefit its “Music by the Bedside” program, which provides personalized, soothing live music tailored to the needs of hospice patients and their caregivers. This year’s fundraising concert will feature nine of the area’s most talented musicians performing selections that range from Bach and Puccini to popular and Celtic favorites. Among the performers are noted soprano Pamela Beasley, flutist Angela Kelly, violinist Daniel Sender, accompanied by his wife Shelby Sender, cellist Adam Carter, and harpists Virginia Schweninger, Quinn Egner, Kris Cushman, and Kate Tamarkin. Highlights of the evening will include Ms. Beasley singing Puccini’s lovely “O mio babbino caro,” harpist Quinn Egner performing Glinka’s evocative “Nocturne in E Flat Major,” violinist Daniel Sender’s virtuosic interpretation of Kreisler’s “Praeludium and Allegro”, and cellist Adam Carter performing Rachmaninoff’s timeless “Vocalise.”
Audience-goers who attended last year’s concert raved about the excellence and musical variety of the program. "The most meaningful aspect of the ‘Music by the Bedside’ concert to us was seeing our own community's gifted musicians giving their time and talent to a most worthy endeavor, Hospice of the Piedmont. The combination of exquisite music and the transcending purpose it serves in bringing comfort and solace is powerful," said audience member Joyce Seibert.
The concert takes place Saturday, November 1, at 7 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church located at 500 Park Street in Charlottesville. Donations are gratefully accepted at the door, $30 suggested donation for adults and $15 for students.