Pro Arte Quartet, Juilliard String Quartet, Geringas Baryton Trio, Malcolm Bilson and Joseph Kalichstein are among stellar artists in CMC’s expanded 2008-09 season

Chamber Music Cincinnati's 79th season opens October 7, 2008 with a performance by the dynamic young Daedalus Quartet. This award-winning ensemble will be joined by special guest pianist Awadagin Pratt. CMC’s expanded 2008-09 series totals seven concerts and includes the return of the Juilliard and Pro Arte String Quartets. The series also features a recital by Joseph Kalichstein, the distinguished pianist of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, as well as the keyboard artistry of Malcom Bilson, one of today’s most recognized performers on the fortepiano. Season highlights also include a duo recital by Yehonatan Berick, violin, and Anton Nel, piano, and a performance by the Geringas Baryton Trio featuring David Geringas playing the baryton, a unique bowed stringed instrument from the 18^th century.

 

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Local Ties

A number of the guest artists appearing on CMC’s 2008-09 season have strong local ties. Awadagin Pratt is Associate Professor of Piano and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and a frequent soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The pianist Anton Nel pursued his Masters and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at CCM. The violinist Yehonatan Berick also studied at CCM where his teachers included Dorothy DeLay and Henry Meyer. 

Program Highlights

Repertoire for CMC’s 2008-09 season ranges from the Baroque to the present day. Program highlights include the Brahms Quintet for Piano and Strings, an all-Beethoven program of sonatas for violin and piano, string quartets by Bartók, Beethoven, Dutilleux, Haydn, Mozart and Schubert, and a contemporary work by Scottish composer David Horne. Some of the best-known gems for solo piano to be heard include music by Chopin, Schumann and Mendelssohn. Period instruments take the spotlight with trio music for baryton, viola and violoncello, and a fortepiano recital by Malcolm Bilson.