The UGA Performing Arts Center will present the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in the second annual Arch Chamber Music Festival April 13 at 8 p.m. and April 14 at 3 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. The Chamber Music Society will offer two different programs, performing music by Beethoven, Dvorák and Weber April 13 and works by Beethoven, Kodály and Dvorák April 14.
Tickets for each concert are $39 with discounts for UGA students. They can be purchased at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400.
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is America’s premier repertory company for chamber music, with a roster of the world’s leading instrumentalists. Seven of Lincoln Center’s artists will perform in Hodgson Hall for the weekend festival: pianist Wu Han; violinists Kristin Lee and Sean Lee; violist Paul Neubauer; cellists Nicholas Canellakis and David Finckel; and clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester.
Finckel and Han serve as co-artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and rank among the most esteemed and influential classical musicians in the world today. The husband-and-wife duo launched ArtistLed, classical music’s first musician-directed and Internet-based recording company, whose catalogue of 13 albums has won widespread critical acclaim, including BBC Music Magazine‘s Editor’s Choice Award. They also are the founding artistic directors of Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in Silicon Valley, and were named the 2012 musicians of the year by Musical America.
The Chamber Music Society is one of 11 constituents of New York City’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the largest performing arts complex in the world. The Chamber Music Society presents chamber music of every instrumentation, style and historical period in its extensive concert season in New York, its national tours, its many recordings and radio broadcasts and its comprehensive educational programs.
While in Athens, members of the Chamber Music Society will offer master classes for Hodgson School of Music students.
