{1.}
Saturday, January 16, 2010, 8 pm
Lobero Theatre, 33 E Canon Perdido St
GARRICK OHLSSON
Piano     In Recital

Frédéric Chopin:
Nocturnes Op. 9, Nos. 1-3
Polonaises Op. 40, Nos. 1-2
Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35
Variations in B-flat Major, Op. 12
Mazurkas Op. 7, Nos. 1-3
Mazurka Op. 30, No. 4
Grande valse in A-flat Major, Op. 42
Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31

The year 2010 marks both the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth and the 40th anniversary of Garrick Ohlsson becoming the first American to win the Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw. In celebration, Ohlsson will perform an all-Chopin recital featuring the composer’s Piano Sonata No. 2, plus a selection of Nocturnes, Polonaises, Mazurkas and more.

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Sponsor: Ruth McEwen

{2.}
Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 8 pm
Lobero Theatre, 33 E Canon Perdido St
THE GALILEO PROJECT:
Music of the Spheres

featuring
TAFELMUSIK BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
JEANNE LAMON
Music Director
ALISON MACKAY
Concept & Musical Program
SHAUN SMYTH  Narrator

In this special multimedia musical presentation, Tafelmusik commemorates the four-hundredth anniversary of Galileo’s first public demonstration of the telescope and the publication of Monteverdi’s opera L’Orfeo, both in 1609. The Galileo Project explores the fusion of arts, science and culture in the 17th and 18th centuries with poetic narration, high-definition astronomical images, and music by Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Purcell, Bach, Handel and more.

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Principal Sponsor: Dolores M. Hsu

Co-Sponsor: Virginia Castagnola-Hunter

Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Domenico Robusti painted c. 1605-07. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.

CARTER BREY

CHRISTOPHER O'RILEY

{3.}
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 8 pm
Lobero Theatre, 33 E Canon Perdido St
CARTER BREY  Cello
CHRISTOPHER
O'RILEY  Piano

Richard Strauss: Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 6, TrV 115

Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Cello and Piano, FP 143

Frédéric Chopin: Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 65, CT. 204

Carter Brey, Principal Cellist of the New York Philharmonic since 1996 and a winner of the Piatigorsky Prize, teams with pianist Christopher O’Riley, host of NPR’s From the Top and a past finalist at the Van Cliburn Competition. Brey and O’Riley, both recipients of Avery Fisher Career Grants, have collaborated in recordings and duo recitals for more than a decade.

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Sponsor: Jeanne Thayer

Co-Sponsor:
Bitsy Becton Bacon/Becton Family Foundation
Co-Sponsor: Arthur R. Gaudi

{4.}
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 8 pm
Lobero Theatre, 33 E Canon Perdido St
HESPÈRION XXI
JORDI SAVALL  Director
MONTSERRAT FIGUERAS
Soprano

Lux Feminae (900-1600):
An invocation of femininity
with 7 Portraits of woman in ancient Hesperia

Program of medieval- and renaissance-era songs and instrumentals: from anonymous Andalusian, Sephardic and Christian traditions; from the Codex de la Huelgas and Llibre Vermell de Montserrat; and by composers Beatriz de Dia, Martin Codax and Bartomeu Càrceres.

Lux Feminae is an homage to the light of Woman, exploring seven aspects of woman from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance: mysticism, sensuality, motherhood, love, lament, rejoicing and wisdom.

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Sponsor: The CAMA Women's Board

MONTSERRAT FIGUERAS
D. Ignaszewski photo