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Season’s second Master Players Chamber Series concert set Dec. 1
3:22 p.m., Nov. 16, 2006--“An Encounter with Brahms,” the second Master Players Chamber Series concert this season, presented by UD's Department of Music, will take place at 8 p.m., Friday, Dec. 1, in Mitchell Hall. The concert will feature Brahms' Quartet for Piano and Strings in G Minor, Opus 25, and Brahms' Trio for Horn, Piano and Violin in E Flat Major, Opus 40. The highly acclaimed Masters Players Chamber Series, now in its third season under the artistic direction of Xiang Gao, internationally renowned UD faculty violinist, has brought some of the world's best classical musicians to campus. Joining Gao will be concert pianist Orli Shaham, Peter Wiley, cellist with the Guarneri String Quartet, violist Victoria Chiang and UD's new faculty hornist John David Smith. The event is hosted by Brian Stone, UD Orchestra conductor.One of today's most gifted pianists, Shaham has played with the Cleveland, Philadelphia, St. Louis and San Francisco symphony orchestras and has received the prestigious Gilmore Young Artist Award and Avery Fisher Career Grant. Wiley attended the Curtis Institute of Music when he was 13 and now serves on its faculty. He became principal cellist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra when he was 20, after one year with the Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra. He is a member of the Beaux Arts Trio, which has given more than a thousand concerts, as well as the Guarneri String Quartet. He was the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Concert violist Chiang has performed in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan, including solo performances with the Romanian State Philharmonics of Constantsa and Tirgu Muresh, the Duluth Superior Orchestra, the Acadiana Symphony in Louisiana and in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall and at the 25th International Viola Congress.An active performer in the New York area, hornist John David Smith has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, New Jersey Symphony, New York City Opera, the American Symphony Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra on its tours in Europe and the United States. He also has toured Southeast Asia with the New York Symphonic Ensemble and has appeared as a soloist at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. Active in both symphonic and operatic fields, Stone formerly was coach, conductor and host of the John Hopkins University chamber series, and has served as conductor for several operas in Baltimore. He also is a noted speaker for the Baltimore Symphony and other musical venues. Born in the People's Republic of China, Gao has just completed two weeklong concert tours with world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma as part of Ma's Silk Road Project. Gao was recently honored by being selected for the loan of a Stradivarius violin by the Stradivari Society in Chicago. He also plays the UD-owned Ceruti violin, which he prefers for many musical pieces.Concert admission is $17 for the general public; $12 for senior citizens, UD faculty, staff and alumni; and $5 for students with ID and children. Tickets may be available at the door, but many concerts have been sold out and purchasing tickets in advance is strong recommended. Tickets are available at the Trabant University Center and Bob Carpenter Center box offices. Call (302) 831-4012 for box office locations and hours. In addition, free and open to the public, guest master classes will be held from 1:25-2:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 1, in the Gore Recital Hall of the Center for the Arts and in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. For more information about the 2006-07 Master Players Chamber Series, visit[www.music.udel.edu/public/masterplayers/MPCS_bro_2006v3.pdf] for a brochure about the concerts. |
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