Davidson College Concert Series Presented by 89.9 WDAV 2018 – 2019 Performances

For tickets, please contact the Union Box Office at 704-894-2135. Free for Davidson students, but tickets are required.

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Music Featuring the Contrabass

Sunday, September 30, 2018
3:00 p.m., Tyler-Tallman Hall, Sloan Music Center

Experience the unique character of the contrabass as performed by Kurt Riecken along with other members of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra including Sam Sparrow on clarinet, Andrew Fierova on horn, Joshua Hood on bassoon, Ben Geller on viola, Joseph Meyer on violin, and Alan Black on cello. Pieces on the program include Dvořák’s String Quintet No. 2, Rossini’s Duo for Cello and Bass, and a fascinating chamber version of Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks.

After the concert, there will be a reception in room 200 sponsored by Ruth and Richard Ault.

 

Flute4 Quartet

Sunday, October 28, 2018
3:00 p.m., Tyler-Tallman Hall, Sloan Music Center
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Flute4 is a quartet of hard-working Carolina flutists brought together by friendship, a common enthusiasm for the flute, and a desire to explore and commission flute repertoire with a professional group enabled by a team approach. Discovering this repertoire with friends, new and old, is full of personal rewards, but also contributes to the work within their teaching studios and renewed excitement for chamber works for flutes. Though their relationships span decades, Flute4 was formed in 2017.

DavidsonLearns is proudly sponsoring a pre-concert reception and a lecture by the performers at 1:30 p.m. in room 200 next to Tyler-Tallman Hall. To attend and for more details, please contact Amy Diamond at amysdiamond@gmail.com.

 

AYA Trio

Sunday, January 20, 2019
3:00 p.m., Tyler-Tallman Hall, Sloan Music Center
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Join us in welcoming back the AYA Trio to Davidson College! Winners of the 2018 WDAV Young Chamber Musicians Competition, Angela Chan on violin, Andres Sanches on cello, and Ying Li on the piano formed the group in fall of 2013. They have studied with world renowned artists including cellist Peter Wiley, and pianists Jonathan Biss and Meng-Chieh Liu. Last summer, the trio was chosen as one of the fellow chamber music groups for the Great Lakes chamber music festival and the Norfolk chamber music festival.

 

 

Music Under the Influence of Computers

Sunday, February 10, 2019
3:00 p.m., Tyler-Tallman Hall, Sloan Music Center
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Percussionist, composer, and media artist Scott Deal is joined by Davidson College Artist Associate in Piano William Fried for a program of music for piano, percussion, and electronics that include both fixed and interactive media.

 

Piano Quartets Featuring Phillip Bush

Sunday, March 10, 2019
3:00 p.m., Tyler-Tallman Hall, Sloan Music Center
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Davidson College welcomes back pianist Phillip Bush as he performs Bridge’s Phantasy Quartet, Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G Minor, and Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G Minor. A musician of uncommon versatility, Bush was the keyboardist for the Phillip Glass Ensemble and Steve Reich and Musicians and is now a Research Associate Professor of Piano and Chamber Music at the University of South Carolina School of Music.

 

WDAV’s Young Chamber Musicians Competition

Sunday, April 14, 2019
3:00 p.m., Duke Family Performance Hall, Knobloch Campus Center
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89.9 WDAV Classical Public Radio brings in four of the nation’s most talented young chamber ensembles for its sixth annual WDAV’s Young Chamber Musicians Competition, powered by OrthoCarolina. Ensembles will compete for a chance to win their share of a cash prize, scholarships to the Brevard Music Institute, a studio recording session, and a paid performance during the 2019-20 Davidson College Concert Series.

 

Ari Hest

Saturday, May 4, 2019
7:30 p.m., Tyler-Tallman Hall, Sloan Music Center
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Grammy nominated singer-songwriter and self-taught guitarist Ari Hest will be electrifying the audience in Tyler-Tallman Hall with globally inspired music and lyrics. Many of Hest’s songs have appeared on TV and film such as The Path, The Lincoln Lawyer, Private Practice, Army Wives, and One Tree Hill to name a few, so don’t miss your chance to hear this icon in modern pop music!