Classical Music 2011-2012 Season
Southwest Florida Symphony
Featuring the String Section:
Schubert, Nagle, Turina & Dvorák
Wednesday, February 22, 8 PM
Under the direction of renowned conductor Michael Hall, the Southwest Florida Symphony is recognized as one of the finest ensembles in the region. The orchestra attracts the best musicians from across the country and continues to achieve new heights of expressiveness and virtuosity. Program to include Schubert's Overture in C minor, Nagel's "As You Like It (Rosalind's Theme)," Turina's "La Oracion del Torero" and Dvorák's "Serenade."
General: $36, Student/Child: $5
Southwest Florida Symphony
Debussy, Gounod & Brahms
Wednesday, March 14, 8 PM
Under the direction of renowned conductor Michael Hall, the Southwest Florida Symphony is recognized as one of the finest ensembles in the region. Debussy's "Afternoon of a Fawn" (Schoenberg arrangement), Gounod's "Petite Symphony" and Brahms' Serenade No. 2.
General: $36, Student/Child: $5
Sanibel Series of three: $90
(1/11/12, 2/22/12, 3/14/12)
Past Performances:
Classical Afternoon Series:
Alexander Schimpf
Winner of the 2011
Cleveland International Piano Competition
Sunday, December 11, 3:30 PM
Alexander Schimpf triumphed over finalists from around the world, when he won the 2011 Cleveland International Piano Competition with his performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 alongside the Cleveland Orchestra. Schimpf will have performed at New York City's Carnegie Hall just one week before landing on Sanibel for this performance. Ever since winning First Prize at the 2008 German Music Competition in the solo piano category and the 2009 Beethoven Competition in Vienna, Schimpf has made a particular name for himself as a promising young talent in concert appearances, which include performances in Europe and South America. Program to include: Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin, Schubert's Sonata No. 21 in B-flat major, D. 960, and a new composition by Adrian Sieber titled Fantaise II.
General: $32, Child: free with paying adult.
To reserve child ticket please call BIG ARTS Marks Box Office at (239) 395-0900.
Classical Afternoon series of three: $82
(12/11/11, 1/15/12, 1/29/12)
Southwest Florida Symphony
Beethoven, Mozart & Wagner
Wednesday, January 11, 8 PM
Program to include Beethoven's "Creatures of Prometheus," Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll" and Mozart Piano Concerto No. 17, K. 453, with Hyojin Ahn, soloist. Symphony appearances at BIG ARTS are known for their innovative programming, exciting performances and intimate setting. Audience members especially enjoy post-concert Q & A sessions with the maestro and select members of the symphony.
General: $36, Student/Child: $5
Sanibel Series of three: $90
(1/11/12, 2/22/12, 3/14/12)
Classical Afternoon Series:
Moeller Duo
Guitar and Cello
Sunday, January 15, 3:30 PM
Kerena and Paul Moeller are the married musicians comprising this guitar and cello duo, which has twice won the Baltimore Chamber Musical Awards Competition and has been honored as guest artist and judge at the International Guitar Competition in Lagonegro, Italy. The pair's release, Around the World and Bach, enjoyed excellent reviews, with one French Guitar Magazine reviewer exclaiming, "You cannot be but exhilarated."
Program to include: Cavatina from The Deer Hunter, D. Scarlatti's Sonata in E major, K. 380 (L. 23), Falla's Canciones Populares Españolas, Granados Spanish Dance No. 5, "Andaluza," Villa-Lobos' Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, Piazzolla's Spring from The Four Seasons for Solo Guitar, Saint-Saëns' The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals, Ellington's It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing.
General: $32, Child: free with paying adult.
To reserve child ticket please call BIG ARTS Marks Box Office at (239) 395-0900.
Classical Afternoon series of three: $82
(12/11/11, 1/15/12, 1/29/12)
Joyce Yang
Thursday, January 26, 8 PM
Joyce Yang is an accomplished pianist and recipient of the The Avery Fisher Career Grant, one of the most prestigious prizes in classical music. The Washington Post declares, "Yang's skill at melding her keyboard tone with the strings suggests musical maturity well beyond her age." Yang has performed with the Chicago Symphony, National Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Brazil, Estonian Symphony Orchestra, and Hong Kong Philharmonic. Her professional career took off in 2005, when Yang became the Silver Medalist of the 12th Van Cliburn International Competition. As the youngest contestant, she swept two additional awards as an all-around winner, receiving the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for Best Performance of Chamber Music with the Takács Quartet, and the Beverley Taylor Smith Award for Best Performance of a New Work.
Program to include: Lieberman Gargoyles, Op. 29, Debussy's Estampes, Bartók's Out of Doors (Five Piano Pieces), Schubert's Impromptu in G-flat major, Op. 90, No. 3, Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Op. 12.
General seating: $42, Loge: $47, Child: free with paying adult.
To reserve child ticket please call BIG ARTS Marks Box Office at (239) 395-0900.
Sponsor
Helen Demetrios & Michael Stadther
Jim & Roz Marks
Classical Afternoon Series:
Adaskin String Trio
Sunday, January 29, 3:30 PM
Violinist Emlyn Ngai, violist Steve Larson, and cellist Mark Fraser perform extensively throughout the U.S. and Canada as the Adaskin String Trio. They have appeared at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and are regularly broadcast by NPR, CBC Radio and Radio-Canada. A Gramophone critic called one of their recordings, "Superb playing ... a flexible command of flow and phrase with instrumental power and eloquence and a nutty tonal richness."
Program to include: Beethoven Trio in C minor, Op. 9, No. 3, Martinu Trio No. 2, H. 238, Haydn Trio in G major, H. XI:65 (Baryton Trio No. 65), and Rózsa Trio (Serenade), Op. 1.
General: $32, Child: free with paying adult.
To reserve child ticket please call BIG ARTS Marks Box Office at (239) 395-0900.
Classical Afternoon series of three: $82
(12/11/11, 1/15/12, 1/29/12)
Linden String Quartet
Thursday, February 16, 8 PM
As the Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music, the Linden String Quartet is the grand prize winner of both the 2009 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the 2010 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition. Other awards include first prize at the 6th annual Hugo Kauder International Competition and the Coleman-Barstow prize at the 2009 Coleman National Chamber Ensemble Competition. Sarah McElravy (violin), Catherine Cosbey (violin), Eric Wong (viola), and Felix Umansky (cello) as a quartet previously served as apprentice to the Cavani String Quartet at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Described as "truly riveting" by MusicWeb International, Linden gives every indication that it is taking its place as one of the world's leading string quartets.
Program to include Schubert's String Quartet No. 12, D. 703 in C minor "Quartettsatz," Ravel's String Quartet in F Major,
K.M. Murphy's Dark Energy and Beethoven's String Quartet, Op. 18 No. 4 in C minor..
General seating: $42, Loge: $47, Child: free with paying adult.
To reserve child ticket please call BIG ARTS Marks Box Office at (239) 395-0900.
Supporter
Family of Joe Boscov
