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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center concert to feature music of Brahms, Dvorak

Members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, including pianist Michael Brown, will perform music by Brahms and Dvorak during a Jan. 25 concert.

The UGA Performing Arts Center will present the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Jan. 25 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. The concert will celebrate the musical and personal friendship between Johannes Brahms and Antonin Dvorak.

The program will include Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances for Piano, Four Hands and his Quintet in A Major for Piano, Two Violins and Cello. The concert will also feature the Trio in C Minor for Piano, Violin and Cello and Selected Hungarian Dances for Piano, Four Hands by Brahms.

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is the nation’s premier repertory company for chamber music with a rotating roster of award-winning instrumentalists. The musicians performing on the Jan. 25 program will be pianists Michael Brown and Wu Han, violinists Chad Hoopes and Paul Huang, violist Matthew Lipman and cellist Dmitri Atapine.

Tickets for the concert are $42 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. UGA students can purchase tickets for $6 with a valid UGA ID, limit one ticket per student.

The concert will be recorded for broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today, the most popular classical music program in the country.

A pre-concert lecture will be given by Patrick Castillo from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The lecture begins at 7:15 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall in the Performing Arts Center, which is located at 230 River Road.