Fulbright Chamber Music Series Continues With Two Performances
The Fulbright Chamber Music Series continues this week with two performances. Under the direction of Er-Gene Kahng, associate professor of violin, the Fulbright Series has transformed from a summer-only series to a year-long experience.
This week's events feature guest artists Jennifer Lee (violin) and Brian Thacker (double bass) as the Chamber Orchestra performs Edvard Grieg's Holberg Suite, Op. 40 and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48. In addition to this week's guest artists, U of A faculty members Er-Gene Kahng (violin), Josquin Larsen (viola), and Dominic K. Na (cello) will perform with UA music students Sebastian Moorman (violin), Isaac Orvin (violin), Evan Buckner (viola), Matthew Nelson (cello), and Carter Buckner (bass).
The first performance is on Tuesday, Sept. 25, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. The concert hall is on the University of Arkansas campus in the Fine Arts Center on Garland Avenue and patrons are encouraged to park in the Stadium Parking Garage which is across the street.
An encore performance is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 26, at the Guisinger Music House at 7 p.m. Guisinger is on the downtown Fayetteville square at 1 E. Mountain St. Ample community parking is available for this event including the parking garage at the Fayetteville Town Center.
Both events are free and open to the public.
THE GUEST ARTISTS
Jennifer Lee has concertized throughout Germany, Russia, Holland, Switzerland, Lithuania, Slovenia, Armenia, Japan,South Korea, and Mexico under the direction of conductors Christoph von Dohnanyi and Christoph Eschenbach. She has also performed at the Artosphere Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and Pacific Music Festival, collaborating with soloists Frank Peter Zimmerman and Jonathan Biss, among others. In 2010, she completed a 21-city, 23-concert United States and Canada tour with pianist Lang Lang, performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall. From 2011-2016, she held the associate principal second chair for the Fairfax Symphony. She has also recorded for Naxos with the Post Classical Ensemble and Hansler Classic of Germany with Rolf Beck. Jennifer was a teaching artist for the Midori and Friends Foundation in New York City and Brooklyn College's Preparatory Division. In 2011, she was on the violin faculty for Ithaca College's Summer Music Academy. She is currently a violin coach for the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras, plays with the National Philharmonic, and is a substitute violinist for the Annapolis and Baltimore symphonies.
Brian Thacker (Yale '09) has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Scandinavia with the Bergen Philharmonic in Norway, Hawaii Symphony and Sarasota Opera. Guest engagements include performances with the Baltimore Symphony, Washington National Opera and Boston Ballet. He joined the Portland Symphony Orchestra bass section in 2014 and serves as a teaching artist in their Music Explorers program, which embeds musicians within the community using music as an educational device in early childhood development. An avid chamber musician, Thacker has collaborated with members of Ensemble Intercontemporain while in residence at the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland, and with members of the Borromeo & Dover Quartets. As an educator, he has taught applied lessons in the Boston Youth Symphony's Intensive Community Program, at Fitchburg State University, and is currently on faculty at Gordon College and Phillips Exeter Academy.
Contacts
Justin R. Hunter, instructor
Department of Music
479-575-4908,
jrhunte@uark.edu
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