Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Performs in Clemson

Published: October 1, 2012

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CLEMSON — The nation's premier repertory company for chamber music, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, will perform at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8, at Clemson University's Brooks Center for the Performing Arts.

As one of 11 constituents of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the largest performing arts complex in the world, the Chamber Music Society brings together some of the best in the chamber music to perform, educate and expand the chamber music footprint. Six musicians will perform pieces from Bruch, Brahms and Dohnányi.

American pianist Jeremy Denk has appeared in several national and international festivals and premieres and performed with Joshua Bell at the Spoleto Festival, which sparked a recital tour and musical partnership that continues today.

Clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester won the 2004 Young Concert Artist International Auditions and received the Claire Tow Prize and the Alexander Kasza-Kasser Prize, which sponsored debuts in New York and the Kennedy Center, respectively.

As principal horn of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal since 1979, John Zirbel comes to the stage with years of experience both nationally and internationally. He also teaches young horn players at the Aspen Music Festival and McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, where he is an associate professor.

Recently named concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra, American violinist Erin Keefe won a 2006 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2009 Pro Musicis International Award. She has a master’s degree from The Juilliard School and a bachelor’s degree from The Curtis Institute of Music.

Appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic at age 21, Paul Neubauer is the chamber music director of the OK Mozart Festival in Oklahoma and artist director of the “Chamber Music Extravaganza" in Curaçao. He has appeared with more than 100 orchestras and is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Mannes College.

Cellist Nicholas Canellakis is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music and the New England Conservatory and was a founding member of the Vertigo String Quartet, which received First Prize in the Musicatri International Competition in Italy in 2006.

As part of the Lillian and Robert Utsey Chamber Music Series, the performance of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is free of charge and no ticket is required for entrance. For more information, visit www.clemson.edu/Brooks or call the box office at 864-656-7787 from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

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The Lillian and Robert Utsey Chamber Music Series
For the past 26 years, Clemson University’s award-winning Utsey Chamber Music Series has presented 119 free chamber music concerts and continues with seven more concerts in its 27^th year. Recognized for outstanding programming and community service, the series has earned national accolades for showcasing the best soloists and ensembles in the genre. This season, nine broadcasts of selections from concerts have been heard on Performance Today, reaching an estimated 2,250,000 listeners. In 2007, the university received an Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Award for the Arts, South Carolina’s highest arts award, for outstanding contributions made by the Utsey Chamber Music Series to the arts in the Palmetto State.