Touring initiative of the Curtis Institute to perform at American Music Festival
- cynthiameyer6
- Feb 24
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Updated: 3 days ago
TODD WETHERINGTON NEWS TIMES. Feb 24, 2025
MOREHEAD CITY — The American Music Festival (AMF) series in Morehead will continue next month with a performance by Curtis on Tour, the Nina von Maltzahn global touring initiative of the Curtis Institute of Music. The concert will occur on March 8 at 7 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, 1604 Arendell Street.
The performance will feature Grammy Award-winning guitarist and Curtis Institute of Music faculty Jason Vieaux, renowned violist and Curtis President Roberto Diaz and emerging artists from Curtis performing a program for guitar and strings.
Adult general admission tickets for individual concerts are $35 each. Tickets may be purchased online through Eventbrite at: amf-curtis.eventbrite.com and will be available at the door on the evening of the concert (using cash, check, or credit card.)
Tickets for students and active-duty military are free and are available at the door. Students 18 and under and one adult chaperone may reserve free tickets online.
Vieauz is “among the elite of today’s classical guitarists,” according to Gramophone magazine, and is described by NPR as “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation.” He has performed at venues ranging from New York’s Lincoln Center to Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the Seoul Arts Center.
Diaz is a violist of international reputation as well as a teacher of viola at Curtis and former principal viola of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2018 for his record of Jennifer Higdon’s Viola Concerto.
The March 8 concert will feature a vibrant collision of global sounds, cultures, and sonic textures. The program will begin with Spanish composer and pianist Manuel de Falla’s "Suite Populaire Espagnole," followed by a fiery selection by Argentinian legend Ástor Piazzolla, "Oblivion." The concert will continue with a piece inspired by classical Chinese landscape paintings, "Red Trees, Wrinkled Cliffs," and close with Niccolò Paganini’s masterful "Guitar Quartet in A minor, No. 15, M.S. 42."
A local not-for-profit organization, the AMF has provided great music to Carteret County and Eastern North Carolina for the last 35 years. A portion of the ticket proceeds and donations to AMF go to provide music outreach programs for county school children. The AMF is supported by the Arts Council of Carteret County, the NC Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Classical Voice of North Carolina.
For more information: visit www.americanmusicfestival.org.
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