Saturday, April 21, 3pm
Recital for Naylor Scholarship Students
Scholarship recipients will be featured in an awards recital. They will also perform in the Piano Auditions and Honors Recitals at Frostburg State University on April 14 and 15.
Sponsored by The Naylor Foundation
Saturday, May 26, 7:30pm
American String Quartet Students
Peter Winograd, violin
Laurie Carney, violin
Daniel Avshalomov, viola
Wolfram Koessel, cello
Internationally recognized as one of the world’s foremost quartets, the American String Quartet celebrates its 36th season in 2011–2012. Critics and colleagues hold the Quartet in high esteem and many of today’s leading artists and composers seek out the Quartet for collaborations.
Saturday, June 9, 7:30pm
Amonia Celeste
The ensemble Armonia Celeste (Italian for “heavenly harmony”) brings the music of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque eras vividly to life for audiences across America. With three distinct and beautiful female voices singing in close harmony accompanied by plucked-string period instruments, the musicians of Armonia Celeste infuse their historically informed performances with unforgettable passion and joy.
Saturday, June 23, 7:30pm
Terra Voce
Terra Voce is a ground-breaking flute and cello duo known for lively and creative programs combining the diverse and the unexpected. Cellist Andrew Gabbert and flutist Elizabeth Brightbill thrill audiences with their virtuosity, engaging, conversational style of presentation, and their genre-expanding programs that explore a wide range of musical styles, traditions, and cross-cultural influence.
Saturday, June 30, 7:30pm
D’Amore Trio
Founded in 1991 to investigate the little known wealth of chamber music for oboe and guitar, the D’Amore Duo has toured internationally and domestically to enthusiastic reviews.
Saturday, July 7, 7:30pm
Madeline Adkins
Madeline Adkins was appointed to the position of Associate Concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra by Maestro Yuri Temirkanov in 2005. She joined the orchestra in 2000 as Assistant Concertmaster. She has appeared frequently as soloist with the BSO, performing works by Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, Bach, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Prokofiev. Most recently she was featured as the soloist and leader for a conductor-less program of Vivaldi, Handel, Bach and Carlo Farina. Ms. Adkins also performs as Concertmaster of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra.
Saturday, July 21, 7:30pm
Fred Sturm
Sturm received a master of music degree in piano performance from UNM in 1979. He is active as a performing pianist, and specializes in the solo piano repertoire of Latin America, with a particular emphasis on the music of Villa-Lobos. He has recorded five CD’s of solo piano music, including Brazilian Soul (music of Villa-Lobos); American Rags, Brazilian Tangos, and Afrocuban Dances (music of Joplin, Scott, Lamb, Nazareth and Lecuona); Piano Music of Ginastera and Villa-Lobos; Spanish Dances (piano music of Mompou, Turina and Granados); and Sonidos de Nueva España (piano music by Mexican composers).
Saturday, July 28, 7:30pm
The Georgetown Quintet
TGQ dares to go where other quintets never go. This group commissions new works and plays them alongside classic works before varied audiences — including some that have never experienced live chamber music.
Nominated for a Washington Area Music Award as Best Chamber Ensemble of 2009, TGQ has entertained audiences at Strathmore Mansion, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts, the Benning Neighborhood Library in Washington, DC and Black Rock Center in Germantown, MD.
Saturday, August 4, 7:30pm
The Brass Roots Trio
Now in its 9th season of concerts, BRASS ROOTS TRIO has performed in every corner of the US and UK. In 2009 the trio was honored to perform at the White House.
Exhilarating performances and imaginative programming have established
Brass Roots Trio as one of the most compelling ensembles of the 21st century.
Saturday, August 18, 7:30pm
Runaway String Band
String band music has long been a staple of the American musical scene. Early groups like Charlie Poole and His North Carolina Ramblers and Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers blended together old tunes and songs with contemporary pieces into a unique an wonderful sound that delighted the ears of the listeners.
In this tradition, The Runaway String Band brings together four long-time Williamsburg-area musicians whose mix of traditional and contemporary bluegrass, old time, and swing music builds on the spirit of the old time sting bands. With lush vocal harmonies and hot instrumentals, the band provides audiences with a taste of traditional and popular American music with a New Acoustic feel.
Saturday, August 25, 7:30pm
Dixon/Federova
Joan DeVee Dixon made her professional debut with the Minnesota Orchestra at the invitation of Sir Neville Marriner. Since that time, she has conducted extensive concert tours of the USA, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Israel, Palestine, Japan and the Czech Republic. She now performs for music festivals, schools, and churches all over the world and her recordings are frequently heard on broadcasts such as Pipedreams.
Alicia Fedorova will join Joan in a concert of music for four hands.
