Conroy Festival Returns

USCB Chamber Music

A New Season of Polished Performances

By Michael Johns

USCB Chamber Music returns for its

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Pianist and Artistic Director Andrew Armstrong Violinist Arnaud Sussman

On Sunday, November 6, 5:00pm, the season begins. Featured works by American composers Julia Perry (Prelude for Piano) and Florence Price (Elfentanz for Viola and Piano), Ludwig van Beethoven (Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Opus 11), Maurice Ravel (Habanera and Rigaudon, from Le Tombeau de Couperin, arranged for French horn and Piano), Johan Halvorsen (Sarabande con variazione for Violin and Viola) will lead up to the dazzling concluding work, the hyper-romantic Sextet for Violin, Viola, Cello, Horn, Clarinet and Piano, Op. 37 by Ernst von Dohnányi.

Performing this varied array will be a stellar group of superb artists joining Mr. Armstrong: the legendary Philip Meyers, principal horn of the New York Philharmonic from 1980-2017 who soloed with the orchestra every year of his tenure; Dominic Desautels, principal clarinetist at the Canadian Opera Company and adjunct assistant professor of clarinet at the University of Toronto; violist Beth Guterman Chu, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra principal viola since 2013 and a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; violinist Arnaud Sussmann, winner of a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2006, and worldwide soloist, recording artist and chamber musician; and cellist Alice Yoo, Co-founder and Co-Artistic director of the Denver Chamber Music Festival, faculty member at Colorado State University as well as the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music and a regular performer in numerous chamber music festivals.

The December 11 concert rings in the holidays with trios for flute, cello and piano by Louise Farrenc and Claude Debussy, Prokofiev's Cello Sonata, Op 119 and Arron Copland's Duo for Flute and Piano. Flutist Tara Helen O'Connor was a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and is now a Season Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Former USCB Chamber Music Artistic Director, cellist Edward Arron, makes a welcome return with his warm humanity, insightful musicianship, and impeccable technique. Violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti

On January 22, the Ehnes-Armstrong Duo will collaborate on the Franck Violin Sonata and arrangements of two stunningly beautiful arias by Eric Korngold from his 1920 opera Die tote Stadt. Violinist James Ehnes is an artist in the middle of a major international per forming career, and we are indeed fortunate that he has made Beaufort a stop on his itinerary during each (continued on page 8)