Tickets are now on sale for the 2017-18 season of the University of Richmond’s Modlin Arts Center.
Highlights of the classical concert season include performances by violinist Gil Shaham, pianist Richard
Goode, the China National Orchestra with conductor-composer Tan Dun, and the Shanghai, Jerusalem and Escher quartets, the latterwith guitarist Jason Vieaux.
eighth blackbird, the new-music sextet in residence at UR, will be joined by composer and fiddler Dan Trueman and vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird in “Olagón,” a new adaptation of the Irish folk tale “Táin Bó Cúalinge” by the poet Paul Muldoon.
Heading the bill of the jazz season are Eddie Palmieri and his Latin Jazz Orchestra, Oct. 21 in the center’s Jepson Theatre; New Orleans rhythm and blues singer Irma Thomas, the Blind Boys of Alabama gospel
quintet and Preservation Hall Legacy Quintet, Nov. 11 at the center’s Camp Concert Hall; the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, Nov. 30 at the Altria Theater; and the Maria Schneider Orchestra, April 5 at Camp Concert Hall.Pop and folk attractions include Rhiannon Giddens, founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, in “Freedom Highway Tour,” Oct. 4 in the Jepson Theatre; the bluegrass revival group Jerry Douglas and the Earls of Leicester, Nov. 17 in Camp Concert Hall; Barenaked Ladies founder Steven Page and the Art of Time
Ensemble, Feb. 7in Camp Concert Hall; and the Irish band Danú in a St. Patrick’s Day celebration, March 3 in Camp Concert Hall.
Dance and theater attractions include the Festival of South African Dance, Oct. 5 at the Carpenter Theatre of Dominion Arts Center; Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra in ”The Outer Space,” Dec. 1-2 in the Jepson Theatre; “Feathers of Fire: a Persian Epic,” Jan. 26-27 in the Jepson Theatre; Michelle Dorrance’s troupe Dorrance Dance, Feb. 2 in the Jepson Theatre; L.A. Dance Project, March 7 in the Jepson Theatre; and the acrobatic ensemble S, March 17 in the Jepson Theatre.
The Modlin Center also will present family and school series and broadcasts from NT Live (Britain’s National Theatre) and the Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow.
Subscriptions of four or more events are available, with prices 20 percent lower than those of single tickets. July 12 is the deadline for renewals with priority seating.
To obtain a season brochure or more information, call the Modlin Center box office at (804) 289-8980 or visit http://modlin.richmond.edu
The center’s coming season of ticketed classical concerts:
Sept. 10 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Escher Quartet
Jason Vieaux, guitar
Mozart: Quartet in B flat major, K. 458 (“Hunt”)
Thomas Adès: “Arcadiana”
J.S. Bach: Lute Suite No. 1 in E minor, BWV 996 (excerpts)
Boccherini: Quintet in D major, G 448 (“Fandango”)
$36
Oct. 20 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Richard Goode, piano
William Byrd: “My Ladye Nevells Booke of Virginal Music” (excerpts)
J.S. Bach: “English Suite” No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811
Beethoven: Sonata in A major, Op. 101
Debussy: Preludes, book 2
$40
Oct. 30 (7:30 p.m.)
Perkinson Recital Hall
Thomas Meglioranza, baritone
Reiko Uchida, piano
Beethoven: Scottish and Irish folk song arrangements
Wolf: “Mörike” Lieder
Fauré: songs TBA
Ives: songs TBA
American popular songs TBA
free; tickets required
Nov. 9 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Shanghai Quartet
Shmuel Ashkenasi, violin
Peter Wiley, cello
Brahms: Sextet in B flat major, Op. 18
Brahms: Sextet in G major, Op. 36
$36
Feb. 14 (7:30 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Arts Center
China National Symphony Orchestra
Tan Dun conducting
Sandy Cameron, violin
Liu Wenwen, suona
Stravinsky: “Fireworks”
Dun: “The Martial Arts Trilogy”
Dun: “Passacaglia: Secret of the Wind and Birds”
Guan Xia: work TBA
Stravinsky: “The Firebird”
$44-$52
Feb. 18 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Gil Shaham, violin
Akira Eguchi, piano
Fritz Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro
Prokofiev: “Five Melodies”
Franck: Sonata in A major
J.S. Bach: Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006
Saint-Saëns: “Introduction and Rondo capriccioso”
Avner Dorman: “Nigunim”
$40
March 21 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Jerusalem Quartet
Mozart: Quartet in B flat major, K. 458 (“Hunt”)
Janáček: Quartet No. 1 (“Kreutzer Sonata”)
Beethoven: Quartet in F major, Op. 135
$36
March 23 (7:30 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
eighth blackbird
Dan Trueman, composer-fiddler
Iarla Ó Lionáird, vocalist
Paul Muldoon, poet
“Olagón”
$28
April 7 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
So Percussion
Gilbert Kalish, piano
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Caroline Shaw: new work TBA
George Crumb: “Winds of Destiny”
other works TBA
$36
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In addition, the UR Music Department will present 20 free classical events, including premieres of works by Robert Morris and the Latvian composer Eriks Ešenvaids, a centenary retrospective on the piano music of the Korean composer Isang Yun, two piano master classes, and the annual Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival, the Christmas-season Festival of Lessons and Carols and the Neumann Lecture on Music.
The schedule of free classical programs at UR:
Sept. 15 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Schola Cantorum & Women’s Chorale
Jeffrey Riehl & David Pedersen directing
UR Jazz Ensemble
Mike Davison directing
UR Wind Ensemble
David Niethamer directing
UR Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Kordzaia conducting
“Family Weekend Concert”
program TBA
Sept. 18 (7:30 p.m.)
Perkinson Recital Hall
Anna Nizhegorodtseva, piano
Beethoven: Sonata in E flat major, Op. 7
Brahms: 6 intermezzos, Op. 118
Ernesto Lecuona: “Suite Anadalucia”
(master class at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 19, Camp Concert Hall)
Oct. 10 (7:30 p.m.)
Perkinson Recital Hall
Eunmi Ko, piano
“Tributes to Isang Yun”
(master class at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 10, Camp Concert Hall)
Oct. 29 (3 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Schola Cantorum & Women’s Chorale
Jeffrey Riehl & David Pedersen directing
program TBA
Nov. 3-4 (various times)
Camp Concert Hall
Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival:
eighth blackbird
other artists TBA
programs TBA
Nov. 19 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Wind Ensemble
David Niethamer directing
Vaughan Williams: “English Folk Song Suite”
Ives: “Country Band March”
Daniel Bukvich: “Jack Teagarden Enters Heaven”
Ben Anderson, trombone
Nov. 29 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Kordzaia conducting
Mozart: “Don Giovanni” Overture
Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor – first movement
Catherine Edwards, cello
Ravel: “Don Quichotte à Dulcinée”
Duncan Trawick, baritone
Grieg: “Peer Gynt” Suite No. 1
Dec. 4 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Chamber Ensembles
program TBA
Dec. 10 (5 and 8 p.m.)
Cannon Memorial Chapel
UR Schola Cantorum & Women’s Chorale
Jeffrey Riehl & David Pedersen directing
44th annual Festival of Lessons and Carols
Jan. 31 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Richard Becker, piano
Robert Morris: “Inner Voices” (premiere)
works TBA by Ravel, Beethoven
Feb. 26 (7:30 p.m.)
Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall
Neumann Lecture on Music:
George Lipsitz
“Music as Preparation for Life: Practice, Accompaniment, Improvisation”
March 7 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Ensemble Arte:
Emily Riggs, soprano
David Ballena, piano
Mariene Ballena, cello
works TBA by Franck, Schubert, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Massenet, Bernstein
March 25 (3 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Richard Becker & Doris Wylee-Becker, piano duo
Becker: two-piano works TBA
two-piano arrangements of symphonic works TBA
March 26 (7:30 p.m.)
Cannon Memorial Chapel
Bruce Stevens, organ
“The Organ Legacy of Leipzig”
works TBA by J.S. Bach, Telemann, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Reger
April 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Wind Ensemble
David Niethamer directing
program TBA
April 4 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Kordzaia conducting
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major (“Egyptian”)
Joanne Kong, piano
Bizet: “Carmen” Suite No. 1
April 15 (3 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Schola Cantorum & Women’s Chorale
Jeffrey Riehl & David Pedersen directing
Washington & Lee University Choir
singers from Richmond area high schools
eighth blackbird
Eriks Ešenvaids: work TBA (premiere)
April 18 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Chamber Ensembles
program TBA