Classical performances in and around Richmond, with selected events elsewhere in Virginia and the Washington area. Program information, provided by presenters, is updated as details become available. Adult single-ticket prices are listed; senior, student/youth, group and other discounts may be offered.
SCOUTING REPORT
* In and around Richmond: Pianist Richard Becker plays Schumann, Chopin and Liszt in his annual Super Bowl Sunday concert, Feb. 3 at the University of Richmond’s Modlin Arts Center. . . . Pianist Charles Staples and friends perform on Feb. 4 at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Singleton Arts Center. . . . Baritone James Weaver and pianist Joanne Kong perform Schubert’s song cycle “Die Winterreise” (“Winter Journey”), Feb. 4 at UR’s Modlin Center. . . . Baritone Matthew Worth, a UR alumnus, returns to his alma mater for a program of American art-song, Feb. 11 at the Modlin Center. . . . Erin R. Freeman conducts the Richmond Symphony, Symphony Chorus and soloists in Mozart’s Requiem,
on a program with John B. Hedges’ “Prayers of Wind and Rain,” featuring double-bassist Joseph Conyers, Feb. 16-17 at Richmond CenterStage. . . . Cellist James Wilson, the Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia’s artistic director, gives a free lecture-recital on Feb. 21 at the Richmond Public Library and music on modern and baroque cellos with harpsichordist-pianist Carsten Schmidt, Feb. 22 at First Unitarian Universalist Church. . . . The male vocal quartet New York Polyphony performs music from the medieval to the modern, Feb. 23 at VCU. . . . Steven Smith conducts the Richmond Symphony, with violin soloist Ellen Cockerham, in a program taking off from Bach’s “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 1, Feb. 24 at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland. (A one-hour condensation of the program, part of the Symphony Rush-Hour Concerts series, will be staged on Feb. 21 at Richmond CenterStage.) . . . The Shanghai Quartet is joined by violist Paul Neubauer in a Feb. 24 program at UR’s Modlin Center. (Not quite a conflict there: The symphony performs at 3 p.m., the Shanghai at 7:30 p.m.) . . . The Oberon Quartet introduces the winning work in its Composer Composition Competition in a Feb. 26 recital at St. Catherine’s School. * Noteworthy elsewhere: University of Virginia ensembles perform in the UVa Chamber Music Festival, Feb. 1-10 in Old Cabell Hall on the Charlottesville campus. . . . Pianist Stephen Hough joins the Baltimore
Symphony in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Feb. 7 at Strathmore in the Maryland suburbs of DC. . . . Pianist Angela Hewitt plays Bach, Debussy and Ravel, Feb. 8 at the Kennedy Center in Washington. . . . The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam visits the Kennedy Center on Feb. 12 with a program of Bartók and Mahler. . . . Virginia Opera launches its production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” André Previn’s opera based on Tennessee Williams’ play, Feb. 16-24 at the Harrison Opera House in Norfolk. . . . Violinist Hilary Hahn plays Bach, Fauré, Corelli and selections from her “Hilary Hahn Encores Project,” Feb. 16 at the Kennedy Center. . . . The Kennedy Center’s Nordic Cool 2013 Festival opens on Feb. 19 with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic playing, among other music, Sibelius’ “Finlandia” and Nielsen’s “Inextinguishable” Symphony (No. 4). . . . The Tokyo String Quartet plays Beethoven, Webern and Schubert, Feb. 20 at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville. . . . Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra are joined by vocalist Ann Hampton Calloway in “The Streisand Songbook,” Feb. 24 at the Ferguson Arts Center of Christopher Newport University in Newport News. . . . Pianist Simone Dinnerstein plays Bach’s “Goldberg Variations,” Feb. 24 at Strathmore. . . . Violinist Jennifer Koh plays part 2 of her “Bach and Beyond” venture, Feb. 28 at Strathmore.Feb. 1 (8 p.m.)
Williamsburg Presbyterian Church, 215 Richmond Road
Feb. 2 (8 p.m.)
First Presbyterian Church, 300 36th St., Virginia Beach
Feb. 3 (3 p.m.)
Christ & St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 560 W. Olney Road, Norfolk
Virginia Chorale
Charles Woodward directing
“Let My People Go!” Black History Month program
spirituals and songs arranged by Moses Hogan, Hall Johnson, Michael Tippett, Tarik O’Regan, Stephen Coxe
$25
(757) 627-8375
www.vachorale.org
Feb. 1 (8 p.m.)
American Theatre, 125 E. Mellen St., Hampton
Miles Hoffman, viola
Reiko Uchida, piano
works by Bach, Brahms, Bloch
$25-$30
(757) 722-2787
www.hamptonarts.net
Feb. 1 (8 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
UVa Chamber Music Festival:
Rivanna String Quartet
Mimi Tung, piano
Mozart: Quartet in D minor, K. 421
John Adams: “Book of Alleged Dances” (excerpts)
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet
$20
(434) 924-3376
http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/concertsevents/index.html
Feb. 1 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
China National Symphony Orchestra
Li Xincao conducting
Xia Guan: “Earth Requiem” (first movement)
Chengzong Yin-Zhuang Liu: “Yellow River” Piano Concerto
Peng-Peng Gong, piano
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
$25-$65
(301) 581-5100
www.strathmore.org
Feb. 2 (11 a.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Feb. 2 (6 p.m.)
Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville
Richmond Symphony LolliPops
Erin R. Freeman conducting
Charlotte Blake Alston, storyteller
“Scheherazade”
pre-concert family activities at 10 a.m.
$12-$17 (Richmond), $10.50-$15.50 (Charlottesville)
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX) (Richmond)
(434) 979-1333 (Charlottesville)
www.richmondsymphony.com
Feb. 2 (8 p.m.)
Regent University Theater, Virginia Beach
Virginia Symphony
George Hanson conducting
Ravel: “Le Tombeau de Couperin”
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
David Vonderheide, trumpet
Christopher Theofandis: “Muse”
Haydn: Symphony No. 104 (“London”)
$20-$60
(757) 892-6366
www.virginiasymphony.org
Feb. 2 (8 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
China National Symphony Orchestra
Li Xincao conducting
Guan Xia: “Earth Requiem” (first movement)
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Yang Xu, violin
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2
$30-$60
(888) 945-2468 (Tickets.com)
www.cfa.gmu.edu
Feb. 2 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier conducting
Hindemith: “Concert Music” for strings and brass
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K. 595
Orion Weiss, piano
Mussorgsky-Ravel: “Pictures at an Exhibition”
$30-$90
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org
Feb. 3 (3 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Richard Becker, piano
works by Schumann, Chopin, Liszt
free
(804) 289-8980
www.modlin.richmond.edu
Feb. 3 (1:30 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
UVa Chamber Music Festival:
Rob Patterson, clarinet
Elizabeth Roberts, bassoon
John Mayhood, piano
Mendelssohn: Konzertstück No. 1, Op. 113
Allard: “Variations on a Theme of Paganini” for solo bassoon
Francaix: “Tema con Variazioni” for clarinet and piano
Glinka: “Trio Pathetique” for clarinet bassoon and piano
Poulenc: Sonata for clarinet and bassoon
Davidovsky: “Synchronisms” No. 12 for clarinet and electronics
Villa-Lobos: “Ciranda das Sete Notas” for bassoon and piano
Mendelssohn: Konzertstück No. 2, Op. 114
$20
(434) 924-3376
http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/concertsevents/index.html
Feb. 4 (7 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
Charles Staples, piano
other artists TBA
program TBA
$7 in advance, $10 day of event
(803) 828-6776
www.vcumusic.org
Feb. 4 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
James Weaver, baritone
Joanne Kong, piano
Schubert: “Die Winterreise”
free
(804) 289-8980
www.modlin.richmond.edu
Feb. 4 (7 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Patricia Racette, soprano
Master class
$12
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Feb. 5 (5:30 p.m.)
Ginter Park Presbyterian Church, Seminary and Walton avenues, Richmond
City Singers Children’s Choirs
Leslie Dripps directing
“Wintertide Concert”
program TBA
(rescheduled from Jan. 26)
donation requested
(804) 359-5049
www.citysingerschoir.org
Feb. 5 (8 p.m.)
Williamsburg Library Theater, 515 Scotland St.
Chamber Music Society of Williamsburg:
Daedalus String Quartet
Haydn: Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33, No. 2 (“Joke”)
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E flat major, Op. 12
Beethoven: Quartet in E flat major, Op. 127
$15 (waiting list)
(757) 258-4814
www.chambermusicwilliamsburg.org
Feb. 5 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Young Concert Artists:
Veit Hertenstein, viola
Pei-Yao Wang, piano
Schumann: Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105
Prokofiev-Borislovsky: “Selections from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ ”
Rota: Intermezzo
Shostoakovich-Hertenstein: Preludes, Op. 34, Nos. 10, 15, 16, 24
Piazzolla: “Le Grand Tango”
$35
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Feb. 6 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Fortas Chamber Music Concerts:
Misha Dichter, piano
Harlem String Quartet
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet
Chick Corea: “Adventures of Hippocrates”
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44
$45
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Feb. 7 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu conducting
Tchaikovsky: “Francesca da Rimini”
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2
Stephen Hough, piano
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
$30-$90
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org
Feb. 8 (8 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
China National Symphony Orchestra
Li Xincao conducting
Xia Guan: “Earth Requiem” (first movement)
Zhanhao He-Gang Chen: “Butterfly Lovers” Violin Concerto
Yang Xu, violin
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2
$37-$67
(757) 594-8752
www.fergusoncenter.cnu.edu
Feb. 8 (8 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
UVa Chamber Music Festival:
Albemarle Ensemble
Frederic Duvernoy: Trio No. 1 for flute, horn, and piano
Auric: Trio for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon
Mozart: Quintet in E flat major, K. 452, for piano and winds
Ginastera: Duo for flute and oboe, Op. 13
Nielsen: Wind Quintet
$20
(434) 924-3376
http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/concertsevents/index.html
Feb. 8 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Angela Hewitt, piano
Bach: “French” suites Nos. 5-6
Bach: Toccata in D major, BWV 912
Debussy: “Pour le Piano” Suite
Ravel: “Le Tombeau de Couperin”
$55 (waiting list)
(202) 785-9727 (Washington Performing Arts Society)
www.wpas.org
Feb. 9 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
Belle Isle Strings
works by Mozart, Shostakovich, others
free
(804) 646-7223
www.richmondpubliclibrary.org
Feb. 9 (3 p.m.)
Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, First Street at Independence Avenue S.E., Washington
U.S. Marine Band (“The President’s Own”)
Col. Michael J. Coburn directing
“Music in the Lincoln White House”
works by Francis Maria Scala
book-signing and panel discussion at 1 p.m.
Free; tickets required
(703) 573-7328 (Ticketmaster)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/concert/1213-schedule.html
Feb. 9 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
National Philharmonic
Piotr Gajewski conducting
Ravel: “Bolero”
Poulenc: Gloria
Danielle Talamantes, soprano
National Philharmonic Chorale
Rimsky-Korsakov: “Scheherazade”
$37-$84
(301) 581-5100
www.strathmore.org
Feb. 10 (4 p.m.)
Bon Air Presbyterian Church, 9201 W. Huguenot Road, Richmond
Second Sunday South of the James:
vocalists and instrumentalists TBA
program TBA
donation requested
(804) 272-7514
Feb. 10 (2 p.m.)
American Theatre, 125 E. Mellen St., Hampton
USAF Langley Winds
Black History Month chamber-music program TBA
free
(757) 722-2787
www.hamptonarts.net
Feb. 10 (1:30 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
UVa Chamber Music Festival:
Paul Neebe, trumpet
Daniel Sender, violin
Tracy Cowden & Shelby Sender, piano
Jason Crafton, trumpet
Kenneth Slowik, harpsichord
Joseph Turrin: Arabesque
Carl Roskott: Concerto for two trumpets
David Macbride: “Echo Canon”
Kent Holliday: “Double Entendre”
Delibes: Duet from “Lakme”
Herbert L. Clarke: “Side Partners”
Jean-Marie Leclair: Sonata in D Major, Op. 9, No. 3, for violin and continuo
Bach: Sonata No.1 in B minor, BWV 1014, for violin and harpsichord
Elgar: Violin Sonata in E minor
$20
(434) 924-3376
http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/concertsevents/index.html
Feb. 10 (3 p.m.)
Feb. 11 (8 p.m.)
Jefferson Center, 541 Luck Ave., Roanoke
Roanoke Symphony
David Stewart Wiley conducting
Pachelbel: Canon
Biber: “Battaglia”
Beethoven: Romance No. 1 for violin and orchestra
Akemi Takayama, violin
Mozart: Symphony No. 1
Vivaldi: “The Four Seasons”
Akemi Takayama, violin
$22-$52
(540) 343-9127
www.rso.com
Feb. 11 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Matthew Worth, baritone
pianist TBA
works by Barber, Blitzstein, Bernstein, others
$34
(804) 289-8980
www.modlin.richmond.edu
Feb. 12 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
Mariss Jansons conducting
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
$45-$115
(202) 785-9727 (Washington Performing Arts Society)
www.wpas.org
Feb. 15 (8 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Feb. 17 (2:30 p.m.)
Sandler Arts Center, 201 S. Market St., Virginia Beach
Feb. 23 (8 p.m.)
Chrysler Hall, 201 Brambleton Ave., Norfolk
Virginia Symphony
JoAnn Falleta conducting (Feb. 15, 17)
Benjamin Rous conducting (Feb. 23)
Shostakovich: “The Gadfly” Suite
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2
Terrence Wilson, piano
Kodály: “Peacock Variations”
Brahms: Hungarian dances Nos. 1, 4, 5
$20-$70
(757) 892-6366
www.virginiasymphony.org
Feb. 16 (8 p.m.)
Feb. 17 (3 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Richmond Symphony
Erin R. Freeman conducting
Mozart: “The Magic Flute” Overture
John B. Hedges: “Prayers of Wind and Rain”
Joseph Conyers, double-bass
Mozart: Requiem
Melissa Wimbish, soprano
Janna Elesia Critz, mezzo-soprano
Peter Scott Drackley, tenor
Jeffrey Gates, baritone
Richmond Symphony Chorus
$10-$73
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
www.richmondsymphony.com
Feb. 16 (8 p.m.)
Feb. 20 (7:30 p.m.)
Feb. 22 (8 p.m.)
Feb. 24 (2:30 p.m.)
Harrison Opera House, 160 E. Virginia Beach Boulevard, Norfolk
Virginia Opera
Ari Pelto conducting
André Previn: “A Streetcar Named Desire”
Kelly Cae Hogan (Blanche DuBois)
David Adam Moore (Stanley Kowalski)
Julia Ebner (Stella Kowalski)
Scott Ramsay (Harold Mitchell)
Margaret Gawrysiak (Eunice Hubbell)
Matthew DiBattista (Steve Hubbell)
Sam Helfrich, stage director
in English, English captions
$32-$114
(866) 673-7282
www.vaopera.org
Feb. 16 (8 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Feb. 17 (3 p.m.)
Monticello High School, 1400 Independence Way, Charlottesville
Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra
Kate Tamarkin conducting
Borodin: “Polovtsian Dances”
UVa University Singers
Oratorio Society of Virginia members
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor
Kelly Sulick, flute
Prokofiev: “Alexander Nevsky”
UVa University Singers
Oratorio Society of Virginia members
$10-$38
(434) 924-3376
http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/concertsevents/index.html
Feb. 16 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
Hilary Hahn, volin
Valentina Lisitsa, piano
Fauré: Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13
Corelli: Sonata in F major, Op. 5, No. 4
Bach: Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004, for solo violin
selections from “In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores Project”
$35-$95
(202) 785-9727 (Washington Performing Arts Society)
www.wpas.org
Feb. 16 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conducting
Wagner: “Die Meistersinger” Act 1 Prelude
Wagner: Prelude and “Liebestod” from “Tristan und Isolde”
Wagner: “Die Walküre” (Act 1)
Heidi Melton, soprano (Sieglinde)
Brandon Jovanovich, tenor (Siegmund)
Eric Owens, bass-baritone (Hunding)
$30-$90
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org
Feb. 17 (7:30 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
VCU Faculty Wind Quintet
program TBA
$7 in advance, $10 day of event
(803) 828-6776
www.vcumusic.org
Feb. 18 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Neumann Lecture on Music:
Craig Wright
“Music and the Brain”
free
(804) 289-8980
www.modlin.richmond.edu
Feb. 19 (7:30 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
Nordic Cool 2013 Festival:
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
Sakari Oramo conducting
Sibelius: “Finlandia”
Grieg: “Solveig’s Song” from “Peer Gynt” incidental music
Alfven: “Så tag mit hjerte”
Inger Dam-Jensen, soprano
Leifs: “Njáls saga” (scherzo from Symphony No. 1, Op. 26)
Nielsen: Symphony No. 4 (“Inextinguishable”)
$10-$64
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Feb. 20 (7 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
VCU Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Terry Austin directing
program TBA
$7 in advance, $10 day of event
(803) 828-6776
www.vcumusic.org
Feb. 20 (8 p.m.)
Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville
Tokyo String Quartet
Beethoven: Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 (“Quartteto Serioso”)
Webern: String Quartet
Schubert: Quartet in G major, D. 887
$24.50-$39.50
(434) 979-1333
www.theparamount.net
Feb. 21 (5:30 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia:
James Wilson, cello
Talk and performance of Bach’s Suite in G major, performed on period and modern cellos
free
(804) 519-2098
www.cmscva.org
Feb. 21 (6:30 p.m.)
Gottwald Playhouse, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Richmond Symphony
Steven Smith conducting
Ellen Cockerham, violin
“A Brandenburg Afternoon”
works by Bach, Hartke, others
$20
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
www.richmondsymphony.com
Feb. 21 (7 p.m.)
Feb. 22 (8 p.m.)
Feb. 23 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach conducting
Hans Werner Henze: Adagio, Fugue and “Maenads’ Dance” from “The Bassards”
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
Renaud Capuçon, violin
Brahms: Symphony No. 4
$10-$85
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Feb. 22 (7:30 p.m.)
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Ninth and Grace streets, Richmond
American Guild of Organists Repertoire Recital Series:
Stefan Engels, organ
program TBA
donation requested
(804) 643-3589
www.richmondago.org
Feb. 22 (7:30 p.m.)
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1000 Blanton Ave. at the Carillon, Richmond
Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia:
James Wilson, baroque & modern cellos
Carsten Schmidt, piano & harpsichord
Britten: Chaconne
works by Marais, Couperin, Pachelbel
$25
(804) 519-2098
www.cmscva.org
Feb. 23 (8 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
Rennolds Chamber Concerts:
New York Polyphony
program TBA
$34
(803) 828-6776
www.vcumusic.org
Feb. 23 (8 p.m.)
Christ Episcopal Church, 120 W. High St., Charlottesville
Staunton Music Festival:
Carsten Schmidt, harpsichord
“Just Before Bach,” works by Buxtehude, Froberger, Pachelbel, others
$20
(540) 569-0267
www.stauntonmusicfestival.com
Feb. 24 (3 p.m.)
Blackwell Auditorium, Randolph-Macon College, 201 Henry St., Ashland
Richmond Symphony
Steven Smith conducting
Bach: “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 1
Stephen Hartke: “A Brandenburg Autumn”
Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No. 5
Ellen Cockerham, violin
Respighi: “Ancient Airs and Dances” Suite No. 1
$20
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
www.richmondsymphony.com
Feb. 24 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Shanghai Quartet
Paul Neubauer, viola
Brahms: Viola Quintet G major, Op. 111
other works TBA
$34
(804) 289-8980
www.modlin.richmond.edu
Feb. 24 (7 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra
Keith Lockhart conducting
Ann Hampton Calloway, vocalist
“The Streisand Songbook”
$71-$131
(757) 594-8752
www.fergusoncenter.cnu.edu
Feb. 24 (7 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Jeffrey Siegel, piano
“Keyboard Conversations: Schubert in the Age of the Sound-Byte”
$19-$38
(888) 945-2468 (Tickets.com)
www.cfa.gmu.edu
Feb. 24 (5 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
The Washington Chorus & orchestra
Julian Wachner conducting
Mendelssohn: “Elijah”
Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano
Laura Vlasak Nolen, mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Butterfield, tenor
Stephen Salters, baritone
Children’s Chorus of Washington
$15-$65
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Feb. 24 (7 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Bach: “Goldberg Variations”
$28-$85
(202) 785-9727 (Washington Performing Arts Society)
www.wpas.org
Feb. 25 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Nordic Cool 2013 Festival:
Vikingur Ólafsson, piano
works by Brahms, Sibelius, Wagner, Debussy, Grieg, Tómasson, Ísólfsson, Kaldalóns, Snorri Sigfús Birgisson
$29
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Feb. 26 (7:30 p.m.)
Bannard Chapel, St. Catherine’s School, 6001 Grove Ave., Richmond
Oberon Quartet
winning work in Composer Composition Competition
other works TBA
free
(804) 288-2804
www.stcatherines.org
Feb. 26 (8 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Tuesday Evening Concert Series:
Amit Peled, cello
Noreen Polera, piano
Beethoven: “ ‘Magic Flute’ Variations”
Brahms: Sonata in F minor, Op. 99
Popper: Tarantella
Glazunov: “Chant du Menestrel”
Davidoff: “At the Fountain”
Bloch: “Jewish Prayer”
works by Mendelssohn, Schubert, Haydn, Eccles, Granados, John Williams
(434) 924-3376
www.tecs.org
Feb. 28 (7 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach conducting
Sibelius: “Night-Ride and Sunrise”
Lindberg: Violin Concerto
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Saariaho: “Orion”
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
$10-$85
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Feb. 28 (7:30 p.m.)
Mansion at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Jennifer Koh, violin
“Bach and Beyond,” Part 2
Bach: Partita No. 1 in B minor
Phil Kline: Partita for solo violin
Bach: Sonata No. 1 in G minor
Bartok: Sonata for solo violin
$30
(301) 581-5100
www.strathmore.org
Feb. 28 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Ignat Solzhenitsyn conducting
Arvo Pärt: “Tabula Rasa”
Mozart: Requiem
Susanna Philips, soprano
Marietta Simpson, mezzo-soprano
Norman Reinhardt, tenor
Robert Gleadow, bass-baritone
Baltimore Choral Arts Society
$30-$90
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org