Great Composers Festival "Chamber Music Extravaganza" on July 6 features participants and faculty of the NAC Young Artists Programme
June 26, 2002 -
Ottawa, Canada -- On Saturday, July 6 at 19:30, the National Arts
Centre's Great Composers Festival continues with a "Chamber
Music Extravaganza" in Southam Hall featuring NAC Orchestra
musicians, faculty and participants in the NAC Young Artists
Programme in works by Dvorák, Arensky and Brahms.
The concert ticket includes a pre-concert chamber music recital
beginning at 18:15 in Southam Hall. This concert spotlights
additional participants in the NAC Young Artists Programme.
The 19:30 concert opens with Dvorák's Terzetto
written for the rare combination of two violins and a viola.
Arensky's Quartet No. 2 for violin, viola and two
celli will be played by German violinist Viviane Hagner, a veteran of
the NAC Young Artists Programme who returns again as mentor this
summer having also performed as soloist with the NAC Orchestra
earlier this season; Pinchas Zukerman - Music Director of the
National Arts Centre Orchestra - on viola; Gary Hoffman,
winner of the Rostropovich International Cello Competition and a
faculty member of the Young Artists Programme on cello, and NACO
principal cellist Amanda Forsyth, also a faculty member.
Brahms's Sextet No. 1 is a work of sunny disposition,
rich sonorities and melodic charm, but rarely performed because of
its unusual combination of pairs of violins, violas and cellos. It
will be performed by violinist Jessica Linnebach, a graduate of the
Young Artists Programme who joined the NAC Orchestra on its Middle
East/European Tour in 2000 at the age of 17; NACO principal second
violin Donnie Deacon; Pinchas Zukerman on viola; British violist
Helena Baillie in her first year of the Young Artists Programme at
age 23; and cellists Gary Hoffman and Amanda Forsyth.
The Great Composers Festival is presented by the Casino du
Lac-Leamy in association with the Ottawa Citizen.
Tickets for the "Chamber Music Extravaganza" on Saturday, July 6
are only $15.00 (GST and Facility Fee included) and are on sale now
at the NAC Box Office (Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 21:00), and
through Ticketmaster
(with surcharges) at 613-755-1111. Ticketmaster may also be accessed
through the NAC's web-site at www.nac-cna.ca.
This concert may also be added to any other Great Composer's
Festival concert for only $5.00.
