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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
"distinguished performers in a splendid setting"
"ncsa ensembles and class recitals"
All graduate students and college seniors are required to give recitals in order to qualify for a degree. Spread throughout the year, these recitals are an opportunity for students to prove themselves as accomplished soloists. A schedule of student recitals may be found HERE.
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SEPTEMBER
music@watson:
(Sat) Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
To start the season, School of Music faculty will perform music in honor of the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn’s birth. In addition to the Sextet for Piano and Strings, the Piano Trio in D Minor and several songs, the concert will feature the rarely heard The Evening Bell for harp and piano. Performers will include Jacquelyn Bartlett, harp; Sheila Browne, viola; Allison Gagnon, piano; Joseph Genualdi, violin; Eric Larsen, piano; Kevin Lawrence, violin; Laura Manko, viola; Paul Sharpe, bass; Marilyn Taylor, soprano and Brooks Whitehouse, cello. Admission charged.
music@watson: Jazz Quartet
(Tue) Sept. 30, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Saxophonist Ron Rudkin headlines a jazz program featuring Steve Haines on bass, Rick Dior on drums and alumnus Jonathan Lefcoski on piano. Admission charged.
OCTOBER
music@watson:
(Sat) Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
A program featuring new music that combines live performers and technology. Guest pianist Aleck Karis will premiere a piece by Edward Jacobs commissioned by the School of Music for this occasion; he will also perform Mario Davidovsky’s Pulitzer Prize winning Synchronisms No. 6. Also, music by Interim Dean Michael Rothkopf, as well as performances by faculty artists. Admission charged.
music@watson:
(Sun) Oct. 19, 2:00 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
On August 21st, 2007, former NCSA voice teacher and Metropolitan Opera star Rose Bampton passed away. She was 102 years old. Eleven NCSA alumni will return to the campus from around the country to celebrate her legacy in a matinee recital of songs, arias, duets and trios. Performers include Georgyn Geetlein, Marylin Ball Brown, Steven Chandler, John Williams, Barbara Efland Delon, Sandie Plexico Salvaggio-Walker, Bruce Moss, Patricia McCaffrey, Joyce Reehling, Mercedes Alicea, and faculty member Robert Rocco. FREE.
music@watson:
(Tue) Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Faculty artist Taimur Sullivan, a member of the Prism Saxophone Quartet, performs Billie for alto saxophone and boom box, and Epitaphe de Jean Harlow, with flute and piano. Featuring pianist Allison Gagnon and flutist Tadeu Coelho. Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Sat) Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m., Stevens Center
The NCSA Symphony Orchestra celebrates four special birthdays. American composer Elliott Carter turns 100 in December, and to honor the occasion Maestro Ransom Wilson will conduct Carter’s Holiday Overture. Also, October 25th is Georges Bizet’s 170th birthday, so the orchestra will join forces with the Schools of Drama and Design and Production in Gerald Freedman’s English adaptation of Alphonse Daudet’s L’Arlésienne, with incidental music by Bizet. Another October 25 birthday belongs to Johann Strauss, Jr., for whom the orchestra will perform a festive selection of waltzes and polkas. Last, but not least, October 25th is our very own Maestro Wilson’s birthday. Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Tue) Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Music for flute, with pianist Robert Rocco. FREE.
Fletcher Opera Institute:
(Fri) Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m., DeMille Theater
Fletcher Opera fellows perform scenes from the repertoire. James Allbritten, music director; Angela Ward, vocal preparation and pianist; Steven LaCosse, stage director. FREE.
NOVEMBER
emerging artists concert:
(Sat) Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m., Crawford Hall
Maestro Ransom Wilson conducts the popular Dance of the Hours by Amilcare Ponchielli, as well as Michael Torke’s Ash and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1. Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Fri) Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m., Stevens Center
Mark Norman conducts music by John Adams, Brian Balmages, Leonard Bernstein and the North Carolina premiere of John Mackey’s Concerto for Saxophone. Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Tue) Nov. 11, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Students of James Miller perform music by Thomas Beversdorf, J. S. Bach, Slide Hampton and James Miller. FREE.
music@watson:
(Sat) Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
In the feature concert concluding a day of free Brass Symposium events, trumpeters Judith Saxton and Kenneth Wilmot, hornist David Jolley, trombonist James Miller and tubist Matt Ransom IV perform works by Witold Lutoslawski, J. S. Bach, Karel Husa, Charles Ives, Claude Debussy, Louis Gottschalk, Lennon/McCartney and Michael Giacchino. Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Tue) Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m., Thrust Theater
Jazz led by Ron Rudkin, with guest trombonist Ray Anderson. Named five straight years as best trombonist in the Down Beat Critics Poll and declared “the most exciting slide brass player of his generation” by the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, Anderson is the Director of Jazz Studies at SUNY Stony Brook. He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Oberon Foundation and Chamber Music America. In 2001, he became a John S. Guggenheim Fellow. Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Sat) Nov. 22, 7:30 p.m., Stevens Center
Chancellor John Mauceri conducts Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. Also, Concerto Competition winners Corey Dundee and Kristen Vanderschaaf perform Russell Peck’s The Upward Stream for saxophone and orchestra and Frank Martin’s Ballade for flute and orchestra. The program will open with Johannes Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture. Student conductors Andrew McAfee, Valentino Piran and Konstantin Dobroykov take turns on the podium. Admission charged.
DECEMBER
music@watson:
(Tue) Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Music for horn and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, Olivier Messiaen, Rheinhold Gliére, Alexander Scriabin, Alexander Glazounov and Margaret Brouwer. Admission charged.
music@watson:
(Sat) Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Flutist Tadeu Coelho, oboist John Ellis, clarinetist Igor Begelman, bassoonist Saxton Rose, saxophonist Taimur Sullivan and hornist David Jolley perform. Admission charged.
music@watson:
(Sun) Dec. 7, 8:00 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performs an all-Baroque program for the holiday season. Works include Handel’s B-flat Major Harpsichord Concerto, Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, Vivaldi’s Goldfinch Concerto and J. S. Bach’s Fourth and Fifth Brandenburg Concertos. Performers include harpsichordist John Gibbons, violinists Lily Francis, Ida Kavafian, Cho-Liang Lin and Arnaud Sussmann, violists Beth Guterman and Paul Neubauer, cellists Priscilla Lee and Fred Sherry, bassist Kurt Muroki and flutists Tara Helen O’Connor and Carol Wincenc. Made possible through the generous support of the Anne Cannon Forsyth Visiting Artist Endowment and Bill and Judy Watson. Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Tue) Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m., Watson Hall
Students of Gerald Klickstein and Joseph Pecoraro perform. FREE.
JANUARY
music@watson:
(Tue) Jan. 6, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
The Philidor Percussion Group, comprised of faculty artist John R. Beck, Rob Falvo, Wiley A. Sykes, III, and Peter Zlotnick, performs historic and recently composed music for percussion, including the premiere of works by NCSA and UNCG student composers. Admission charged.
music@watson:
(Sat) Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Tenor Glenn Siebert, mezzo Janine Hawley and pianist Allison Gagnon perform music celebrating the seasons by Hector Berlioz, Benjamin Britten, and the premiere of a new work by a student composer. Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Tue) Jan. 13, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Ransom Wilson conducts the contemporary ensemble in Steve Reich’s Eight Lines, John Orfe’s Oyster and John Adams’s Gnarly Buttons. Admission charged.
music@watson:
(Sat) Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Award-winning Prism Saxophone Quartet performs music by Salvatore Sciarrino, Martin Bresnick, William Albright and the premiere of a new work by Mark Engebretson, featuring flutist Tadeu Coelho. With Matthew Levy, Timothy McAllister, Zach Shemon and NCSA faculty artist Taimur Sullivan. Admission charged.
music@watson:
(Sat) Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Jon Nakamatsu performs music by Josef Haydn, Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann, including the complete Papillons and Carnaval. Made possible through the generous support of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Admission charged.
music@watson:
(Tue) Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Faculty artists celebrate the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Admission charged.
Fletcher Opera Institute:
(Wed) Jan. 28, 8:00 p.m., Stevens Center
(Fri) Jan. 30, 8:00 p.m., Stevens Center
(Sun) Feb. 1, 2:00 p.m., Stevens Center
One of the most frequently performed of all of Donizetti’s operas, L’elisir d’amore is a melodramma giocoso in two acts, containing the popular aria Una furtiva lagrima, one of the most famous and often-excerpted arias in all of the operatic repertoire. James Allbritten, music director; Angela Ward, vocal preparation; Steven LaCosse, stage director. Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Sat) Jan. 31, 7:30 p.m., Crawford Hall
Conducting students Andrew McAfee, Valentino Piran, Konstantin Dobroykov, Mikael Darmanie and Joseph Edwards take the podium leading the orchestra in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Overture to Die Zauberflöte, Jennifer Higdon’s Light, Antonin Dvorak’s Serenade for Strings and Josef Haydn’s Symphony No. 104. Admission charged.
FEBRUARY
music@watson:
(Tue) Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Watson Hall recital debut by faculty artist Paul Sharpe, featuring the premiere of a new sonata by Peter Fischer. Also, violist Sheila Browne will join Sharpe in John Tartaglia’s Fantasia. With pianist Allison Gagnon. Admission charged.
music@watson:
(Sat) Feb. 14, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Faculty artists perform a Valentine’s Day concert featuring unusual combinations of three instruments. Karen Beres, Sheila Browne, Allison Gagnon, Joseph Genualdi, Janine Hawley, David Jolley, Eric Larsen, Kevin Lawrence, Robert Rocco, Saxton Rose, Judith Saxton, Taimur Sullivan and Brooks Whitehouse perform music by Leonard Bernstein, Joaquín Nin, Sofia Gubaidulina, Joaquín Turina, Paul Hindemith and John Harbison. Admission charged.
music@watson:
(Tue) Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Faculty artists Brooks Whitehouse, Kevin Lawrence and Sheila Brown perform an innovative evening of chamber music with guest violinist Janet Orenstein and composer/pianist Edmund Bullock. The program includes works of Tcherepnin and Dohnanyi, and features Bullock's Piano Quintet. The ensemble also joins forces with the Greensboro Youth Chorus, which will premiere a work by an NCSA student composer, and perform Bullock's chamber arrangement of the "Ode to Joy." Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Sat) Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
(Tue) Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Student chamber ensembles perform. Admission charged.
music@watson:
(Sat) Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
The Bad Boys of Bass, a double bass quartet comprised of David Murray, Volkan Orhon, NCSA Faculty artist Paul Sharpe and Anthony Stoops, performs a program including the premiere of a new work by a NCSA student composer. Admission charged.
MARCH
emerging artists concert:
(Tue) Mar. 3, 7:30 p.m., Thrust Theater
Ron Rudkin leads the student ensemble. Admission charged.
music@watson:
(Thu) Mar. 5, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Guitarist from the Netherlands performs music by Napoleon Coste, J. S. Bach and Johann Kaspar Mertz. Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Sat) Mar. 7, 7:30 p.m., Stevens Center
Mark Norman leads the student ensemble in Scott Lindroth’s Spin Cycle and H. Owen Reed’s La Fiesta Mexicana. The concert will also feature the renowned United States Marine Band Tuba/Euphonium Quartet. Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Sun) Mar. 8, 3:00 p.m., Thrust Theater
Scenes from the operatic repertoire. Steven LaCosse, stage director; Mary Ann Bills, music director and pianist. FREE.
music@watson:
(Sat) Mar. 28, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Music by Kenneth Frazelle performed by Allison Gagnon, Joseph Genualdi, Marilyn Taylor, Brooks Whitehouse and the composer, featuring the premiere of Appalachian Songbook II and a new piano trio commissioned by Music@Menlo. Admission charged.
music@watson:
(Tue) Mar. 31, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Music featuring viola and harp by Arnold Bax, Benjamin Britten and Sergei Prokofiev, performed by Jacquelyn Bartlett and Sheila Browne. Admission charged.
APRIL
music@watson:
(Sat) Apr. 4, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Flutist Tadeu Coelho performs with pianist Eric Larsen. Admission charged.
music@watson:
(Tue) Apr. 14, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Music featuring the flute, with Tadeu Coelho, with harpsichordist Eric Larsen, oboist John Ellis and bassoonist Saxton Rose. Admission charged.
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emerging artists concert:
(Sat) Apr. 18, 7:30 p.m., Stevens Center
Maestro Ransom Wilson conducts Ludwig van Beethoven’s Overture to Fidelio and Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1. Also, guest soloist Timothy Fain performs Richard Danielpour’s Violin Concerto. Recently featured as Richard Gere’s violinist in The Bee Season, Fain was featured as one of Symphony magazine’s “Up-and-Coming Young Musicians of 2006,” and a Strad Magazine 2007 “Pick of Up and Coming Musicians,” Fain has recently captured the Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Young Concert Artists International Award. Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Sat) Apr. 25, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Piano students of Clifton Matthews. FREE.
emerging artists concert:
(Tue) Apr. 28, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
John R. Beck leads the student ensemble. FREE.
MAY
emerging artists concert:
(Sat) May 2, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
nu, UNCSA’s new music ensemble, performs works by NCSA composition students. FREE.
emerging artists concert:
(Tue) May 5, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Students of Tadeu Coelho. FREE.
Fletcher Opera Institute:
(Wed) May 6, 8:00 p.m., DeMille Theater
(Fri) May 8, 8:00 p.m., DeMille Theater
(Sun) May 10, 3:00 p.m., DeMille Theater
Haydn’s infectious opera buffa has an astrologer, young lovers and the Emperor of the Moon. James Allbritten, music director; Angela Ward, music preparation; Steven LaCosse, stage director. Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Tue) May 12, 7:30 p.m., Thrust Theater
Ron Rudkin leads the student ensemble. Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Sat) May 16, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Students of Gerald Klickstein perform. FREE.
emerging artists concert:
(Sun) May 17, 7:30 p.m., Stevens Center
Mark Norman leads the student ensemble in music by Karel Husa, Leonard Bernstein, James Syler, Dan Welcher, and Michael Daugherty’s tribute to Georgia O’Keefe, Ladder to the Moon, featuring faculty artist Kevin Lawrence. Admission charged.
emerging artists concert:
(Tue) May 19, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Students of Joseph Pecoraro perform. FREE.
emerging artists concert:
(Fri) May 22, 7:30 p.m., Stevens Center
Maestro Ransom Wilson conducts the combined forces of the NCSA Symphony and the NCSA Philharmonia in Yefgeniy Sharlat’s Nocturne for violin and orchestra and Sergei Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2. Also, concerto competition winner Hsin-I Huang is the piano soloist for Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Admission charged.
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