William S. Newman Artists Series
Celebrating the alliance of scholarship
and performance that animates the lives of music faculty and students
at Carolina.
Single tickets: $15 general admission; $10 UNC students,
faculty and staff.
Subscription Series Pass: $80 general admission; $50 UNC
faculty, staff and UNC students.
Special Family Subscription: $120 for all family members, all
events.
September Prelude Festival • A three-concert festival that marks the beginning of the chamber music season in the Triangle • Germany's acclaimed ensemble performs the complete Beethoven Trios for violin, cello and piano • Presented jointly by Duke Performances, UNC Department of Music and the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild • Please note WSN subscription only applies to September 7 Prelude event in Memorial Hall.
- September 7 • Abegg Trio • 14 Variations in E fl at, Op.44; Piano Trio in E flat, Op.1, No.1; Piano Trio in E fl at, Op.70, No. 2 • 8 pm, Memorial Hall • information and tickets, 843-3333
- September 8 • Abegg Trio • Beethoven 10 Variations in G major on Wenzel Müllers song “Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu,“ Op.121a; Piano Trio in G major, Op.1, No. 2; Piano Trio in D major, Op.70, No. 1 (“Ghost”) • 8 pm, Reynolds Theatre, Duke University • information and tickets, 684-4444
- September 9 • Abegg Trio • Beethoven Piano Trio in B fl at major,
Op.11
(“Gassenhauertrio”); Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3; Piano Trio in B fl at major, Op. 97 (“Archduke”) • 3 pm, Fletcher Opera Theater, Progress Energy Center, Raleigh • information and tickets, 821-2030
Grieg by Three • October 14, 3 pm, Hill Hall Auditorium • The three violin-piano sonatas by Edvard Grieg in the 100th anniversary year of his death • Isidor Saslav, former concertmaster of the Minnesota and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras, Richard Luby, and Matthew Kiefer (UNC Class of '06) are the violinists; Ann Saslav, Tonu Kalam and Wonmin Kim are the pianists • information and tickets, 962-1039
Music From Our Own! • November 16, 8 pm, Hill Hall Auditorium • UNC faculty composers Allen Anderson and Stephen Anderson, together with UNC-Greensboro faculty composer/performer Mark Engebretson, present a concert of new works • Also featuring vibraphonist Christopher Deane of the University of North Texas • information and tickets, 962-1039
Handel's Acis and Galatea • December 8, 8 pm, Memorial
Hall • Ensemble Courant and guests bring this beloved work to Memorial
Hall • UNC voice faculty members Jeanne Fischer and Valentin Lanzrein
are featured along with tenors Anthony Boutte and Tim Sparks, Baroque
oboist Stephen Hammer, and a period instrument ensemble •
Harpsichordist Jennifer Griesbach will stage and direct • information
and tickets,
843-3333
An Ives Experience • January 18, 8 pm, Memorial Hall • New UNC faculty pianist/ scholar/ composer Stefan Litwin makes his Chapel Hill debut as performer and architect of a comprehensive look at America's great 20th-century innovator/ composer Charles Ives • Terry Rhodes, Richard Luby, Brent Wissick and Mayron Tsong also perform • information and tickets, 843-3333
Ivana Vidovic, piano • March 18, 7:30 pm, Hill Hall Auditorium • Rising international star Croatian pianist Ivana Vidovic comes to us as part of her first North American tour, performing the music of Beethoven, Albeniz, de Falla, Ginastera, Liszt and Dora Pejacevic • information and tickets, 962-1039
La Fontegara • March 28, 8 pm, Hill Hall Auditorium • Mexico's foremost early music ensemble returns to Chapel Hill as part of our Festival on the Hill: Music of Latin America • They will present a program of 17th- and 18th-century Baroque and early Classical music from colonial Mexico, Central America and South America • The group performs on recorder, Baroque flute, guitar, gamba, and harpsichord • information and tickets, 962-1039
Brahms Requiem • April 22, 7:30 pm, Memorial Hall • Susan Klebanow leads the Carolina Choir, UNC Chamber Singers, and Glee Clubs in a performance of a musical landmark • With Tonu Kalam and the UNC Symphony Orchestra • Dedicated to the memory of Professor Emeritus Lara Hoggard, who directed the Carolina Choir from 1965 through 1980 • information and tickets, 843-3333