The Violin Shoppe Concerts, etc.

Upcoming Concerts

The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra

Kathy Mattea

Albert-George Schram, conducting

Fri Feb 5

Ovens Auditorium

Seamlessly blending country, gospel, bluegrass and pop into her own unique sound, Kathy Mattea has sold over seven million records and charted 20 Top Ten singles, including “18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses,” “Where Have You Been?,” and “Burnin’ Old Memories.” Mattea’s silky voice has earned her two Grammys and numerousCountry Music Association awards.

Don't miss "Musically Speaking," the Symphony's informative and engaging pre-concert events at 7 p.m. each concert evening.

Ticket Office - 704.972.2000

Christopher Warren Green Conducts Rachmaninoff

Fri Feb 12 | Sat Feb 13, 2010

Christopher Warren-Green, conducting

Oratorio Singers of Charlotte

Verdi Overture to La forza del destino

Borodin Polovtsian Dances

Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2

Music Director Designate Christopher Warren-Green comes to town a few months early to lead the orchestra and Oratorio Singers in a sneak preview of the Symphony’s future. A former violinist, Warren-Green is Music Director of the London Chamber Orchestra. He has recorded extensively for BMG, Philips, Virgin, Chandos, EMI, and Deutsche Grammophon and frequently conducts at BuckinghamPalace. Warren-Green becomes Music Director of the CSO in September 2010. In this program, his third appearance with the Symphony, operatic grandeur is followed by Rachmaninoff’s sweeping Second Symphony, a work of great lyrical beauty.

Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestras

February 24, 2010

Charlotte Symphony Youth and Junior Youth Orchestras Youth Festival Concert

Sponsored by the Symphony Guild of Charlotte

Ovens Auditorium - Charlotte

7:30pm

Tickets may be purchased through the Symphony Guild of Charlotte 704-525-0522 or the Charlotte Symphony box office 704-972-2000.

Greenville Symphony Orchestra

An American Story

Saturday, February 6

10:30 a.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Centre Stage

Presented by Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.

Tickets: $15 Call the Centre Stage Box Office at (864) 233-6733

William Grant Still: Miniatures for wind quintet

Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Quintet for guitar and strings

From American folk tales to American films, this music is forever linked to the American story. Guest guitarist Amy Brucksch joins the GSO musicians for Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's uplifting Quintet for guitar and strings.

UPCOMING LOLLIPOPS & TIMBRE TALES PERFORMANCES:

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Timbre Tales: "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs"

featuring the GSO String Quintet

4:30 p.m. at the South Carolina Children's Theatre headquarters(

153 Augusta Street

)

Love Story from Abroad

Saturday, February 27 at 8:00 p.m.

Sunday, February 28 at 3:00 p.m.

The Peace Center Concert Hall

Francesco La Vecchia, conductor

Tickets: $15 - $45

Guest Conductor Francesco La Vecchia, Music Director of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma (Rome Symphony Orchestra) and described as "the soul of the Orchestra," travels from Italy to Greenville to present the romantically inspired works of these two German masters in a tribute to the international language of music.

Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, E-flat major "Romantic"

Greensboro Symphony

Broadway Magic

Friday, February 12th - 8:00pm

WestoverChurch

Bob Moody, conductor

Jenn Raithel-Newman and Joe Cassidy, vocals

The Winston Salem and Greensboro Symphonies join forces with Jenn Raithel-Newman and Joe Cassidy to perform some of the greatest and most memorable love duets of all time.

Rice Toyota Sitkovetsky & Friends Chamber Series

(All Seats): $25 per person per concert

February 19, 2010

Chamber Orchestra

Dana Auditorium - 8 p.m.

Bella Davidovich, piano

Dmitry Sitkovetsky, conductor

Wagner Siegfried Idyll

Mozart Piano Concerto K. 488

Haydn Symphony No. 45 "Farewell"

Friends of Music at Queens

'Changes of Note': Free concert on Feb. 6

Saturday, February 6, 2010; 8:00pm

Changes of Note - Chamber works by local composers, honors Trio from UNCC, and the Queens Chamber Singers

Dana Auditorium, E.H. Little FineArtsCenter, Queens

Free Concert; no reservations required. For more information, call the Friends of Music at 704 337-2213, or email at fom@queens.edu

The Charlotte Symphony and the Friends of Music at Queens present Changes of Note, an entertaining evening of diverse music-making. As the culminating event of the Symphony’s Orchestra on Campus: Changing Places, Changing Tunes project, this multi-faceted concert brings together an array of performers to explore themes of cultural identity and change, inspired by the current exhibit at Levine Museum of the New South, “Changing Places: From Black and White to Technicolor.”

Featuring music from across continents and centuries, the concert includes short chamber pieces composed by faculty from area schools: Craig Bove of CentralPiedmontCommunity College, John Allemeier of UNC Charlotte, and Ron Parks of Winthrop University. Performed by combined ensembles of Charlotte Symphony musicians and faculty from local music departments, these pieces were composed in response to the Levine exhibit and reflect upon concepts of migration, adaptation, and communication.

Changes of Note also features French composer Jacques Ibert’s “Deux Interludes,” performed by an honors trio of music students from UNC Charlotte. The Queens Chamber Singers will sing music inspired by the life and work of African-American artist Lo¿s Mailou Jones, whose work can be seen currently at The Mint Museum in Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color.

The South Carolina Philharmonic

From Russia, with Love

February 13, 2010

Masterworks 5

7:30 p.m. – KogerCenter for the Arts

Morihiko Nakahara, Music Director/Conductor

Sean Yeh, Piano

First Prize winner from the 2009 Arthur Fraser International Concerto Competition

Repertoire:

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy

Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major – Sean Yeh, Piano

First Prize, 2009 Arthur Fraser International Concerto Competition

Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, op. 44

“From Russia, with Love” stirs your Valentine’s passions and emotions with the music of Russia and France..

Music Director Morihiko Nakahara presents much-loved music from 2009 Arthur Fraser International Concerto Competition winner Sean Yeh, performing Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. The piece exhibits Ravel’s characteristic French elegance and exploits the full range of the piano.

Book-ending Yeh are some of Russia’s finest: the Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture by Tchaikovsky and the Rachmaninoff Third Symphony.