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Fairmont Chamber Music Society, Inc. Season 23Presents the finest classical chamber music featuring regional, national and international artistsOur Last Season
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Subscription Form for the 2005-2006 SEASON (4 concerts!) $30, $18 for Seniors and Students
Individual concert tickets are $10.00, $6.00 Seniors and Students. Contact John Ashton.
Individual tickets are available for all of our concerts but our subscription rate provides great savings as well as helping to assure the ongoing financial stability of our society. All concerts are held at St. Peter the Fisherman Church, Jackson Street in downtown Fairmont,WV at 7:30 PM on Sunday evenings.
Contact John Ashton for advance tickets. Tickets are available at the door. St. Peters is a large church with beautiful acoustics. We'll see you there.
These programs are presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Our 2004-2005 Season past events
October 10, 2004
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Our twenty-third season opens with one of America's foremost chamber ensembles, the
Kandinsky Trio
. They are one of only six piano trios ever to win the prestigious Chamber Music America Residency Award. They have received awards from the Theodore Presser and Carpenter Foundations, and in 2002 they were in residence at the European/American Masterclasses at the Hindemith Center in Blonay, Switzerland. They continue yearly residency at the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach, FL as well as holding the on going residency at historic Roanoke College in Virginia. The Trio's performances have been heard on the MacNeil Lehrer News Hour, NPR's Performance Today, WNYC's Around New York and over the Minnesota Public Radio Network.
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November 14, 2004
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The Kobayashi/Gray
violin and piano duo have been enthusiastically praised for their blending of brilliant technique, beautifully expressive musicianship, impeccable ensemble and stimulating programming. As winners of the USIA Artistic Ambassador auditions they toured South America and the West Indies and they frequently tour throughout the United States. Their debut compact disk recording Boldly Expressive is on the Albany Records label. Violinist Laura Kobayashi and pianist Susan Keith Gray are enthusiastically praised for their blending of brilliant technique, beautifully expressive musicianship, impeccable ensemble and stimulating programming. In 1993, the Duo toured South America and the West Indies as winners of the USIA Artistic Ambassador auditions and in 1995 received second prize in the Contemporary Record Society's National Competition for Performing Artists. They frequently tour throughout the United States performing standard works as well as compositions by women composers. Their recording, Boldly Expressive! Music by Women, is on the Albany Records label. It includes the premiere recording of Grande Sonate, Op.8 by nineteenth century French composer Marie Grandval, a work the Duo edited for publication by Hildegard Publishing Company. Laura Kobayashi performs extensively as a soloist and chamber musician and has participated in numerous music festivals throughout the United States. A former member of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, she has taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the University of Georgia, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and the Brevard Music Center. Currently she is serving on the faculty at West Virginia University and performs with the West Virginia Piano Quartet. A native of Seattle, Washington, she has studied violin with Dorothy DeLay, Andrew Jennings, Paul Kantor and Denes Zsigmondy and has performed in the masterclasses of Nathan Milstein, Ruggiero Ricci, Arthur Grumiaux, and Gyorgy Pauk. Chamber music studies have been with members of the Juilliard, Tokyo and American String Quartets as well as with pianists, Robert McDonald and Samuel Sanders. Kobayashi earned degrees from The Juilliard School and Yale University and the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan. Susan Keith Gray is frequently heard as a collaborative pianist. Artists with whom she has performed include cellists Wendy Warner and Anthony Elliott, flutists Leone Buyse and Torkil Bye, clarinetists Richard Hawkins and Theodore Oien, and singers Bruce Rameker, Earl Coleman, Patricia Prunty and Nicole Philibosian. Three times she has served on the instrumental accompanying faculty of the Music Academy of the West and has accompanied for numerous national competitions. As a member of the University of South Dakota Rawlins Piano Trio, Gray has recorded American piano trios, also on Albany Records, and has twice performed the complete cycle of Beethoven piano trios. Other recordings include The Unknown Flower: Song Cycles by American Women Composers with soprano Charsie Randolph Sawyer, and song cycles of African-American composers for public radio and compact disc. Gray holds degrees from Converse College and the University of Illinois, and the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan. She has studied piano with George Lucktenberg, Ian Hobson, Theodore Lettvin, and Louis Nagel and collaborative piano with Martin Katz and Eckart Sellheim. |
February 6, 2005
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The classical guitar and soprano duo Amelia's Lyre recently appeared as featured artists at the Greenbriar Hotel. Soprano Angela Presutti has appeared as soloist with the Chicago Symphony and has performed "Bachianas No. 5" with the cellists of the Chicago Orchestra, "Moses and Aron" with Pierre Boulez, Carmina Burana with Vance George, and she has recorded "Les Miserables" and "The Phantom of the Opera" for Lakeshore Records. She stars on "Selections from Cats" played by the Chicago Musical Revue! Angela Presutti-Korbitz; Adjunct Assistant Professor at VanderCook College of Music, B.M., Voice Performance, University of Illinois; M.M., Voice Performance and Pedagogy, Roosevelt University. She has also studied at the International School of Vocal Arts and The Britten-Pears School. Ms. Presutti has appeared as a soloist with many orchestras and choruses including Bel Canto, Grant Park, The DuPage Symphony, Naples Philharmonic and The Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Along with her solo engagements, Angela is a member of The Chicago Symphony Chorus and the newly formed Chicago Symphony Singers. Her work with guitarist and husband Ron Korbitz has been featured on many of the area's most prestigious performing arts series and several broadcasts on WFMT Radio. Guitarist Ron Korbitz not only performs as a solo artist but has also has worked in the popular music world with groups like The Sound Connection. The duo's performance at Chicago's Symphony Center was hailed as "absolutely exquisite" by Chicago Symphony Orchestra president emeritus Henry Fogel. |
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The final program of our 23rd season will feature the return of the Montclaire String Quartet. The Quartet is celebrating its 13th season in residence with the
West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and each of its members serves as principal in the Symphony's string section. Highlights of their last ten seasons include a performance at Washington's Kennedy Center and a special one hour TV broadcast from the WV Governor's Mansion. In 1995 the Quartet was a prize winner at the Banff International String Quartet Competition in Alberta, Canada. In addition to their concert series in Charleston they play forty to sixty school programs each year.
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Contact:
John Ashton
Phone (304) 291-8277
St. Peter the Fisherman Church
407 Jackson Street
Fairmont, WV 26554-2941
in downtown Fairmont, West Virginia.
5267 Arbogast Lane
Morgantown, WV 26505-9339
All performances are held at
Fairmont Chamber Music Society, Inc. is recognized as a publicly supported organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code. As such, donors who contribute to the Foundation may deduct their contributions as provided in Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Service Code. Bequests, legacies, devises, transfers or gifts to the FCMS Inc. or for its use are deductible for Federal estate and gift tax purposes if they meet the applicable provisions of sections 2055, 2106 and 2522 of the Code. In "English", this means that a donor may contribute to the FCMS, Inc. and take a tax deduction for that donation on their Federal Income Tax return.
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