Their recital will feature:

This recital takes place in Performance Hall 32 in the Alumni Memorial Building at 8 pm. (Tip: enter the building on the bottom level nearest the football stadium)

The KSO musicians comprising the various ensembles and soloists are Gordon Tsai, violin; Sean Claire, violin; Edward Pulgar, violin; Ilia Steinschneider, violin; Kathryn Gawne, viola, Eunsoon Lee-Corliss, viola; Andy Bryenton, cello; Ebonee Thomas, flute; Steve Benne, double bass continuo; and Carol Zinavage, harpsichord continuo. James Fellenbaum conducts.

Works on the program are:

•  Handel:  Concerto Grosso in B-flat Major, Op.6, No. 7

•  Bach:   Brandenberg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major, BWV 1051

•  Purcell:  Chacony in G Minor for Strings, Z. 790

•  Vivaldi: Concerto in B Minor for Four Violins, Cello, Strings, and Continuo Op. 3 No. 10

•  Bach:  Suite No. 2 in B Minor for Flute, Strings, and Continuo, BWV 1067

The KSO Chamber Classics Series concerts are in the Bijou Theatre at 2:30 p.m.

For program or ticket information: http://www.knoxvillesymphony.com

Zuber received a Bachelor of Music degree and Artist Diploma from Peabody Conservatory of Music, a Diploma from Curtis Institute of Music, and a Master of Music degree from The Julliard School.  He won Fourth Prize at the 2009 AXA Dublin Competition; Fourth Prize at the 2008 Seoul Competition; and First Prize at the 2007 Hilton Head Competition.

The recital is at 2:30 p.m. in the Lambert Recital Hall at the Clayton Center for the Arts on the Maryville College campus. Individual tickets (available at the door) are $15/$5 students. There is also a 3 recital series discount available. 

On the concert:

Sonate for flute, viola and harp--Claude Debussy

Shelley Binder, flute 

Hillary Herndon, viola 

Cindy Hicks, harp

Pastorale for flute, horn, and piano--Eric Ewazen

Shelley Binder, flute 

Karl Kramer, horn 

Fay Adams, piano

Shaker Tunes for Brass Quintet--Gwyneth Walker

Sarah Chumney Fellenbaum and Emily Whildin, trumpets

Karl Kramer, horn 

Daniel Cloutier, trombone 

Sande MacMorran, tuba

The conductor for the concert will be James Fellenbaum, KSO resident conductor.

Knoxville Opera is presenting performances of Romeo & Juliette in 13 Knox County public middle schools between January 10 and 19. It is estimated that during this period 12,500 students will attend the performances. This is an abbreviated version in English of Gounod's 

popular opera featuring tenor Stefan Barner and 

soprano Anna Eschbach, recent graduates of the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre program. Brian Salesky, Knoxville Opera Executive Director and Conductor, will be narrating and directing all performances. The staged presentation, in costumes, is designed to fit into both school auditoriums and gymnasiums.

 

These performances are made possible at no cost to Knox County Schools, parents and students thanks to the generosity of the Tennessee Arts Commission, Knox County, City of Knoxville, Arts & Heritage Fund, Pilot Flying J, Regal Entertainment Group, Comcast, Robert H. & Monica M. Cole Foundation, First Tennessee Foundation, Swann Endowment Fund, Rotary Club of Knoxville, and National Endowment for the Arts. 

Gounod's Romeo & Juliette is the February offering of Knoxville Opera (Feb. 10 and 12) at the Tennessee Theatre featuring Noah Stewart and Zulimar López-Hernández as the ill-fated lovers.

Lauren K. Frey, soprano, age 24

Linda C. Brimer, soprano, age 26, from Knoxville

These three will compete in the Mid-South Regional Finals, Saturday, February 11, in the Germantown Performing Arts Centre.  

Johnathan Riesen, tenor, age 21.  

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The Oak Ridge Civic Ballet Association teams up with the UT Chamber Orchestra for a production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. The artistic director is Molly Koon Quist with UT's James Fellenbaum as music director/conductor. Performances are Saturday evening, November 19th at 7:00 p.m., and Sunday afternoon, November 20th at 2:30 p.m. at the Oak Ridge High School Performing Arts Center. See their website for ticket information.

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The Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra offers a concert at the Grove Performing Arts Theater (123 Randolph Rd in Oak Ridge) at 8 p.m. featuring--

This concert will feature performances from all five orchestras in the Association: the Preludium, led by Erin Archer, the Philharmonia, led by Katie Hutchinson, Sinfonia, led by Association General Manager Kathy Hart-Reilly, Youth Chamber Orchestra, led by Wesley Baldwin and the Youth Orchestra, led by Music Director James Fellenbaum.

String Chamber Music offered by a number of ensembles in the UT School of Music

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Concert featuring the Dvorak Cello Concerto (Zuill Bailey, cello); Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra; and Enesco's Romanian Rhapsody Op. 11 No. 1

Lucas Richman conducts.

•  Metropolitan Opera, Live in HD, Philip Glass' Satyagraha

•  Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker presented by University of Tennessee Chamber Orchestra and Oak Ridge Civic Ballet Association. Visit www.orcba.org for ticket info.

•  Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra

Ludwig van Beethoven: Coriolan Overture

Frederick Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and Summer Night on the River

Dan Forrest: In Paradisum for Choir and Orchestra

Behzad Ranjbaran: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

Complete information is available in this week's Metro Pulse calendar.

Along with patriotic favorites like "Stars and Stripes Forever," "Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Salute To The Armed Forces," "Yankee Doodle," and "God Bless the USA" is a performance of Song of Democracy by Howard Hanson.

The Choral Society shares the stage with the East Tennessee Concert Band and the Knoxville Chamber Chorale.

Mozart was in Prague to gain the commission for what would become Don Giovanni. To keep his appeal alive, he wrote his Symphony No. 38 in D Major for a performance there that January.

The Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra begins its chamber season this Sunday with the Prague Symphony along with Mozart's Overture to Cosi Fan Tutte. Also on the bill are two works by Haydn, most notably the Concerto in D Major for Cello and Orchestra, HOB. VIIB:2 featuring KSO cellist Ildar Khuziakhmetov. Lucas Richman conducts.

Clearly, Knoxville's music scene is one of its greatest current assets and generally anything that bridges segments of that scene, without being tasteless crossover, is a good thing. That's why we were very interested to hear about Opera Consort's production of an original work by Trey Daugherty (Opera Consort founder), Diary of a Madman based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol.

As Daugherty describes it, the work is a vocal monologue with piano, the duo being Trey and his brother Justin Daugherty. Without any other knowledge of the work, its probably best to follow their own description.

PLACE: The Birdhouse/Fourth and Gill Neighborhood Center

WHEN:  Friday evening, November 4 at 7:30 p.m.

HOW MUCH: FREE (Donations cheerfully appreciated)