Concert Archive:

Sunday, October 14, 2012
3:00 pm

Walter Hill Auditorium
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta
www.high.org

Advance tickets: www.atlantachamberplayers.tix.com
$20 Adults, $15 Seniors, $10 Students

For parking information, visit: www.woodruffcenter.org/parking.aspx

"RAPIDO! SALUTE TO DANCE"

• Gabriel FAURE—Piano Quartet in C Minor, Opus 15
  
• RAPIDO! TAKE THREE!! 14 Day Composition Contest
  Southeast Semi-Finals Competition (oboe, violin, cello, piano)
  

Kevin BEAVERS                   Death Dances     **

Piotr SZEWCZYK                 Twisted Dances  **

Roger ZARE                         Irlandzki Polonez  **

                                                                  ** world premiere      
 
Elizabeth Tiscione, oboe • Elena Cholakova, piano • Tim Whitehead, guest piano
Helen Hwaya Kim, violin • Catherine Lynn, viola • Brad Ritchie, cello        

We open our 37th Season with the exciting Semi-Finals competition of our Rapido! Take Three!! Composition Contest. We'll present three SE Semi-finalist works chosen from among almost 50 regional entries, all composed quickly this past June in a 14 day period, written for the unusual quartet of oboe, violin, cello and piano and featuring the required element of dance. The three world premieres will be performed and judged and the SE region's one Finalist work chosen at the concert. Finalists from Rapido concerts in Boston, Chicago, Dallas and San Francisco will be selected this fall, and all five Finalists will compete in January 2013 for the one National First Prize Commission. We open this concert with Frenchman Gabriel Faure’s beloved romantic C minor Quartet for Piano and Strings, which the group last performed this past August at the San Miguel International Chamber Music Festival in central Mexico. Acclaimed Atlanta violinist Helen Hwaya Kim will be making her ACP debut in this concert.

Sunday, November 11, 2012
3:00 pm

Ahavath Achim Synagogue
600 Peachtree Battle Avenue, Atlanta
www.aasynagogue.org

Advance tickets: www.atlantachamberplayers.tix.com
$20 Adults, $15 Seniors, $10 Students

Convenient, free public parking

"FAVORITES"

• Antonin DVORAK— piano Trio in E Minor, Opus 90, "Dumky"
  
• Franz SCHUBERT— Quintet for Piano & Strings in A Major, Opus 114, D. 667, "Trout"
  

Helen Hwaya Kim, violin • John Meisner, violin • Catherine Lynn, viola • Brad Ritchie, cello
Douglas Sommer, bass • Paula Peace, piano • Alex Wasserman, guest piano

For our annual program at the lovely Ahavath Achim Synagogue, we are proud to present two of chamber music’s most beloved works. Romanticist Antonin Dvorak’s famous “Dumky” piano trio features alternating elegiac and jubilant emotions in this powerful work infused with stylized Eastern European melodies and dance rhythms typical of the composer’s native Bohemia. Viennese composer Franz Schubert turned to his own song “Die Forelle” for the famous melody featured in the quintet’s Theme and Variations movement. The unusual instrumentation of piano and double bass plus violin, viola and cello was the special request of amateur string player and avid fisherman Sylvester Paumgartner, who commissioned the work from young Schubert. The “Trout” Quintet was only published after Schubert died in 1828 but has gone on to be one of the most popular works in all of chamber music. Pianist Alex Wasserman will be making his ACP debut in this performance of the “Trout.”

Sunday, January 20, 2013
3:00 pm

Walter Hill Auditorium
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta
www.high.org

Advance tickets: www.atlantachamberplayers.tix.com
$20 Adults, $15 Seniors, $10 Students

For parking information, visit: www.woodruffcenter.org/parking.aspx

“RAPIDO: NATIONAL BEST!”

• David Schiff — Class of 1915 * (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano)

• RAPIDO! Take Three!! National Finals Competition (oboe, violin, cello, piano)

  Featuring the winning Finalist work TBA from each of the five regions:

  Southeast        (Atlanta Chamber Players)

  Northeast        (Boston Musica Viva)  *

  Midwest          (Chicago’s Fifth House Ensemble)  *

  Southwest       (Dallas’s Voices of Change)  *

  West Coast      (San Francisco’s Left Coast Chamber Ensemble)  *

                                                  * Southeastern premiere

Elizabeth Tiscione, oboe • Christina Smith, flute • Alcides Rodriguez, clarinet • Tim Whitehead, guest piano
Paula Peace, piano • Helen Hwaya Kim, violin • Catherine Lynn, viola • Brad Ritchie, cello

The regional premiere of a 2012 work by American David Schiff opens this program. “Class of 1915” is an appealing quintet for flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello and piano in the setting of Americana jazz, rags and blues. The National Finals competition of the 2012-2013 Rapido! Take Three!! 14 Day Composition Contest caps the concert. Five Finalist works previously chosen in fall 2012 concerts in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco and Atlanta will compete for the National First Prize Commission to expand the short winning work, leading to premieres the next season by chamber ensembles in all five U.S. cities – as well as a commission and premiere by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The exciting competition concert will feature all five Finalist composers in attendance, plus the distinguished judging team of ASO Music Director Robert Spano and Atlanta School of Composers Michael Gandolfi and Jennifer Higdon.

Sunday, March 17, 2013
3:00 pm

Spivey Hall
Clayton State University, Morrow

Box Office: www.spiveyhall.org and 678-466-4200
$30 Adults, $15 Students

Convenient, free public parking

“GHOSTS & FILMS”

Ann-Marie McPhail, soprano • Laura Ardan, clarinet • Alcides Rodriguez, clarinet
Paula Peace, piano • Elena Cholakova, guest piano • John Meisner, violin • Brad Ritchie, cello

For our annual concert at the renowned Spivey Hall, we will spotlight trios by German composers Ludwig Beethoven and Louis Spohr and one by Italian composer Nino Rota. Spohr’s Opus 103 songs date from 1837 and combine gorgeous and virtuosic writing for soprano and piano plus the clarinet, often considered the most voice-like of instruments. We'll present our favorites from the set of six romantic songs, which are too infrequently performed. Violinist and composer Louis Spohr actually rehearsed the famous “Ghost” piano trio with his friend Beethoven at the piano in 1808, the year of the work’s composition. The eerie tremolando piano effect in the slow movement was the inspiration for the trio’s nickname. Twentieth century Italian Nino Rota is best known as the film score composer for most of Federico Fellini’s films, but this lyrical neo-Romantic work, alternatively operatic and circus-like, displays his fine classical skills. Atlanta Symphony clarinetists Laura Ardan and Alcides Rodriguez will be featured in the works by Spohr and Rota and soprano Ann-Marie McPhail, making her ACP concert debut, will be featured in Louis Spohr’s German Songs.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Tavern opens for British Pub menu at 6:15 pm
Concert at 7:30 pm

New American Shakespeare Tavern
499 Peachtree Street, Atlanta

Box Office: www.shakespearetavern.com and 404-874-5299
Tickets $24-$15

Convenient paid parking located across the street at Crawford Long Hospital

“ADVENTUROUS & NOBLE”

• Bohaslav MARTINU — String Trio no. 2
  
• Michael KURTH — World Premiere ACP Commission 2013
  (oboe/English horn, clarinet/bass clarinet, viola, cello)
  
• Johannes BRAHMS — Piano Trio in C Major, Opus 87

Paula Peace, piano • Elizabeth Tiscione, oboe • Alcides Rodriguez, clarinet/bass clarinet
Helen Hwaya Kim, violin • John Meisner, violin • Catherine Lynn, viola • Brad Ritchie, cello

We conclude our season at the popular setting of the New American Shakespeare Tavern with works of nobility and virtuosity...plus the exciting adventure of a world premiere. The latest ACP commission will spotlight the talents of Michael Kurth, familiar to Atlanta audiences by his 2011 and April 2013 commissions for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. This ACP world premiere will give Kurth an opportunity to showcase the unusual quartet of oboe/English horn, clarinet/bass clarinet, viola and cello. The program opens with Bohemian Bohuslav Martinu’s second work for string trio, a jaunty and cheerful piece full of fiery virtuosity. Concluding this concert and our 37th season will be one of the greatest piano trios by one of the most beloved composers for piano and strings – Johannes Brahms. Composed when he was a mature composer of 49, this C Major trio is a romantic masterpiece of nobility and grandeur and an ACP musician favorite.

Our audience is invited to enjoy – beginning at 6:15 pm - the British pub menu and libation at the Shakespeare Tavern. Or just come for the 7:30 pm concert downbeat.

(Dinner and drinks are not included in the concert ticket price.)

The Atlanta Chamber Players perform six subscription soirée concerts per year in homes and intimate settings in the Atlanta metro area. This informal series complements the group’s formal public artistic concerts. The soirées are fully subscribed with a waiting list and are limited to approximately 70 attendees at each, depending on the size and available performance space of the home.

A growing list of loyal and passionate supporters eagerly await the chance to hear beautiful music performed expertly by leading musicians of the Atlanta Symphony, see incredible local homes, learn about chamber music, instruments, and composers and meet other chamber music enthusiasts. Our soirée audience and ACP musicians alike count these experiences among their favorite musical outlets.