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Summer Concert Series to celebrate 25th anniversary
22-May-09
FREDERICK, Md.--Hood College's Summer Chamber Music Festival will mark its 25th season with five concerts in July.
The concerts will be held each Thursday in July at 8 p.m. in Hodson Auditorium in Rosenstock Hall. There is no charge for the concerts and tickets are not required. Rosenstock Hall is handicapped accessible.
The series will open July 2 with the Appalachian Wind Quintet, joined by Noel Lester, D.M.A., concert pianist and professor of music. The program will include "Sextet" for piano and winds by Gordon Jacob and the "Divertissement" for piano and winds by Albert Roussel.
An all-Brahms program will be featured July 9. Guest artists will include violist Noah Chaves, violinist Jose Cueto and pianist Nancy Roldan.
Three pianists will perform for the annual Sidney Silverman Young Artist concert July 16. Justin Furnia, a rising junior at the College; David Conway, a 2008 alumnus of the College; and Jeremy Rosenberg, a rising senior at Boston Conservatory and former Hood College preparatory music student, will be showcased.
David Hardy, principal cellist of the National Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by Lester, will be the featured artist for the July 23 concert. His program will include works by Brahms and Beethoven.
The annual Baroque concert, under the direction of Wayne Wold, D.M.A., associate professor of music, will be performed July 30. The program will include concertos accompanied by a chamber orchestra.
The concerts were initiated by pianist and artistic director Noel Lester as a way to bring classical music to Frederick in the summers and to showcase Hood's faculty artists. As the popularity of the festival grew, the three-concert series grew to five. To date, nearly 100 concerts have been performed in this series.
For further information, contact Lester at (301) 696-3429.
View the concert poster.