Summer Music Festival Presents Haydn and Beethoven

Summer Music Festival Presents Haydn and Beethoven
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The fourth annual KUAF/Fulbright Summer Chamber Music Festival continues its season on Thursday, June 7, with the third of six programs. Program III features works by Haydn and Beethoven. The free concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Building at the University of Arkansas. A reception will follow.

The Chamber Music Festival will feature guest artists as well as faculty from the University of Arkansas department of music in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. Performances will include a variety of chamber music using diverse instrumental groups from many musical eras.

Program III will feature guest artists Paulo Eskitch on viola and John Atteberry on bassoon and will include String Quartet, “Sunrise” by F. J. Haydn (1732-1809) and “Septet in E-flat, Op. 20” by Ludwig van Beethoven (1779-1827).

Eskitch divides his time between an extensive teaching and performing schedule. He is an adjunct instructor of violin, viola, and chamber music at Tulsa Community College and adjunct instructor of viola at the University of Tulsa. Atteberry is the principal bassoonist for the Springfield Symphony Orchestra.

The Summer Chamber Music Festival concerts are held at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday evenings through June 28. The concerts are all free and open to the public and each will be followed by a reception.

Free parking is available in the Stadium Drive Parking Facility, where parking is free after 5 p.m. Entrance to the parking facility is on Stadium Drive, and the facility’s elevator will take patrons to street level directly across from the Fine Arts Center. Music previews of all six programs may be found at http://www.fulbrightsummermusic.uark.edu/index.php.

Er-Gene Kahng, violinist and professor of music in Fulbright College, will discuss the works of Haydn and Beethoven on the June 4 edition of  “Ozarks at Large” at noon and 7 p.m. on KUAF 91.3 FM. Listen for additional interviews with Music Festival artists on “Of Note with Katy Henriksen” weekdays at 11 a.m., also on KUAF. 

Contacts

Darinda Sharp, director of communications
J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
479-575-4393, dsharp@uark.edu

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