Excellence in Action

Faculty Series

2009
Centennial Celebration
Faculty Concert Series

Mendelssohn Mania! – 200th Birthday Celebration


Happy birthday, to the “second most famous” child musical prodigy Felix Mendelssohn!

Join us for a musical celebration recognizing Felix’s 200th birthday. You will see his most famous chamber works mixed throughout the Faculty and Chamber Players’ Series. The climax will be a rousing performance of his chamber music masterpiece, his Octet for Strings, written when he was only sixteen.

There will be lots of “Mendelssohn” fun scheduled over the festival. A proper birthday party always has a birthday cake, door prizes, a Mendelssohn trivia contest, and a few surprises will enliven specially denoted Mendelssohn concerts.

Join us for a great time!

FREE! Open rehearsals/masterclasses
All concerts are FREE unless otherwise noted.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 at 7:30 pm
Miami String Quartet
with
Spencer Myer, piano

The Miami Quartet shares the stage with pianist Spencer Myer. An Ohio native, Spencer is the New Orleans Piano Competition 2008 First Prize winner.

They usher in the series in salute to Felix Mendelssohn with his sparkling Piano Trio in C minor, No. 2, Op. 66 and round out the evening with the dynamic Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 by Anton Dvorak.



Ludwig Recital Hall

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5 at 7:30 pm
The Cleveland Orchestra Piano Trio
and
Soovin Kim, violin

Donna Lee, piano

Jerry Wong, piano

Share an intimate evening with Ohio's very own Cleveland Orchestra
Piano Trio for an emotional rendering of Maurice Ravel's Piano Trio in A minor.

This intimate evening also includes internationally renowned violinist Soovin Kim, First Prize winner at the 1996 Paganini International Violin Competition, joined by pianist Jerry Wong in Gabriel Faure's lovely
Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13.

Ludwig Recital Hall

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8 at 7:30 pm
Miami String Quartet


The Miami Quartet returns for their final concert of the summer with bassist Scott Haigh to premiere Robert Carl's Quintet for String Quartet and Bass. Patrons will also experience the drama of two masterpieces  -- Haydn's String Quartet in C Major, Op. 73, No. 6, "Emperor," and Dvorak's enormously popular String Quartet  in F Major, Op. 96, "American."

Ludwig Recital Hall

 

MONDAY, JULY 13 at 7:30 pm
Emerson String Quartet **

The world-renowned Emerson String Quartet visits Blossom as part of the Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series in special recognition of Kent State University's Centennial Celebration.


Winners of 8 Grammy awards, the Emerson treats us to brilliant interpretations of quartets by Franz Joseph Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn.

Ludwig Rectial Hall

** limited seating, limit 4 per reservation. Call to reserve your seats 330-672-2899  DonorRelations@kent.edu.

## Programs and Artists are subject to change.