The
American Music Festival
CONCERT
SERIES in BEAUFORT & MOREHEAD CITY,
NC
Twenty-Second
Season: 2011–2012
Program for 2011–2012 Season
| Date | Artists | Venue | Program Highlights |
| Saturday, Oct 8, 2011, 8:00 p.m. |
Voxare String Quartet With English clarinetist Jonathan Holden, and AMF artist in residence, pianist Barbara McKenzie. |
History Place | Bursting on
the scene with riveting energy and emotion, this acclaimed
young Russian-American quartet presents distinctive masterpieces from
their homelands, including Beethoven, Prokofiev, and Harrison. Read the Program Notes for this concert |
| Saturday, Dec 10, 2011, 8:00 p.m. |
Vivaldi Project
& Friends Allison Edberg, violin Stephanie Vial, cello Billy Simms, theorbo and baroque guitar Elaine Funaro, harpsichord |
Carteret County Public Library, Beaufort | Give your
holiday season the perfect “ornamentation!”
Washington, DC's Vivaldi Project brings you Baroque musical gems from
Handel, Pachelbel and Vivaldi, performed on period instruments by
acclaimed baroque performers. In collaboration with the Beaufort Historical Association's Candlelight Tour. |
| Saturday, Jan 14, 2012, 8:00 p.m. |
Carolina
Piano Trio With guest violist Jonathan Bagg |
History Place | Violist
Jonathan Bagg joins the Carolina Piano Trio to offer this musical
“Paprikash” featuring Hungarian folk tunes,
delights and dances from Dohnanyi and Bartok. A dash of Hungarian gypsy
dance music integrated by Brahms into his famous Piano Quartet in G
minor closes the evening with gusto. Also on the program:
Dohnányi's
String Serenade and Folktunes from Bartok. Read the Program Notes for this concert |
| Saturday, Apr 14, 2012, 8:00 p.m. |
Kontras Quartet Dmitri Pogorelov, violin François Henkins, violin Ai Ishida, viola Jean Hatmaker, cello |
History Place | Some of your
very favorite quartets, from Beethoven, Schubert, Ravel, and Piazzolla.
Lauded for
their “great sensitivity and
brilliance,” the Kontras Quartet is rapidly becoming one of
the most vibrant young string quartets on the scene, and is the current
Resident
Quartet with the Western Piedmont Symphony in Hickory. Read the Program Notes for this concert |
| Saturday, May 19, 2012, 8:00 p.m. |
Barbara McKenzie | History Place | Barbara
McKenzie Piano Recital AMF's artist in residence performs some of your favorites from the solo piano repertoire, including: Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel and Mussorgsky. |
All concerts are at 8:00 p.m. See schedule above for dates and locations.
If requested by the artists, program details may change.
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