CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL - SPOTLIGHT ON ITALY
 The Shepherd School of Music is pleased to announce its first chamber music festival - four days of concerts from December 8th-11th. The performers will include an impressive array of groups featuring Shepherd School students from the string, wind, piano and brass departments. Although chamber music has always had a central position in the curriculum at the Shepherd School, it had the exposure to the larger Houston audience that the performances deserve.
The enthusiasm and inspiring level of performance of these students is indeed remarkable, and so the Shepherd School is initiating a semester-ending festival that will bring this change. In four days and ten concerts, the majority of Shepherd School musicians will play music ranging through five centuries. This first festival will feature the music of Italy in its many guises from early Gabrieli to the works of 21st century cellist-composer Giovanni Sollima.
Join us for music and for refreshments between the afternoon concerts as we celebrate the work of these aspiring young artists
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8
Chamber Music Festival Spotlight on Italy - Concert I
Music of Rossini, Schulhoff, and others.
3:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall
Chamber Music Festival - Concert II
Program: Mozart - Sonata for Piano Four-Hands; Debussy - Trio for Flute,
Viola, and Harp; Bartók String Quartet No. 3; and more.
5:30 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall
Chamber Music Festival- Concert III
Program: Sollima - Viaggio in Italia (2000).
Performers include the Enso String Quartet and Norman Fischer, cello.
8:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9
Chamber Music Festival Spotlight on Italy- Concert IV
Program: Donizetti - Sinfonia; Beethoven - Piano Trio, Op. 1 No. 2; and more.
3:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall
Chamber Music Festival- Concert V
Program: Cambini - Quintet No. 3; Berio - Opus Zoo; and Brahms - String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 51 No. 2.
5:30 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10
Chamber Music Festival Spotlight on Italy- Concert VI
Program: Puccini - Chrysanthemums (for string quartet); Schubert - String
Quartet in G Minor, D. 173; Piazzolla - Four for Tango; Berio - Violin Duos; more.
3:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall
Chamber Music Festival- Concert VII
Program: Casella - Serenade; Corelli - Sonata; Haydn "Rider" Quartet and Respighi - Il Tramonto.
5:30 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11
Chamber Music Festival Spotlight on Italy- Concert VIII
Works for antiphonal brass by Giovanni Gabrieli; Italian Serenade of Wolf; and Beethoven - String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135.
3:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall
Chamber Music Festival- Concert IX
Program: Martucci - Piano Trio No. 1 in C Major; and more.
5:30 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall
Chamber Music Festival- Concert X
String quartets by Verdi, Malipiero, and Respighi
8:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall
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