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MARKET SQUARE CONCERTS ANNOUNCES 2007-2008 SEASON
SPONSORED BY CAPITAL BLUECROSS
 Fine Arts Quartet |
 Bard Festival Quartet |
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 Lark Chamber Ensemble |
 Emerson Quartet |
Market Square Concerts’ 2007-2008 season opens on Saturday, October 6 at 8 PM in Market Square Church with the Fine Arts Quartet. Founded in Chicago in 1946, the Fine Arts Quartet is one of the most distinguished ensembles in chamber music today, with an illustrious history of performing success and an extensive recording legacy.
The season continues on Saturday, November 3 at 8 PM in Market Square Church with a concert “From the Bard Festival.” The Bard Festival Quartet will perform the Elgar String Quartet in E Minor and Dvořák Op. 51 String Quartet and will join forces with Metropolitan Opera baritone Zheng Zhou for a performance of Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach. Cellist of the Quartet, Robert Martin, will perform the Prelude from Bach’s Suite No. 2 for Solo Cello in memory of Pieter C. Kooistra.
Pianist Tanya Bannister will take the stage of the Whitaker Center’s Sunoco Theatre on Sunday, January 20 at 4 PM with a rich program of works from three centuries. Lauded by The Washington Post for playing “…with intelligence, poetry and proportion,” pianist Ms. Bannister’s recent victories at the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and the New Orleans International Piano Competition confirm her status among the leading pianists of her generation.
The Jupiter String Quartet performs on Sunday, February 24 at 4 PM in Market Square Church. In addition to winning the distinguished Cleveland Quartet Award, the Jupiter Quartet has also been selected to join Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two for a three-year residency beginning in 2007. The Quartet has also captured the Netherlands America Prize, the Grand Prize in the Fishoff National Chamber Music Competition, and First Prize in the 8th Banff International String Quartet Competition.
Saturday, March 15 at 8 PM brings the Lark Chamber Artists to Whitaker Center’s Sunoco Theatre in a program that includes the stunning homage to Rosa Parks by Daniel Bernard Roumain, the widely publicized Haitian American composer known in the rock world as DBR. Tim Page of The Washington Post has called the LCA a “polished and warmly communicative ensemble” that delivers “a performance of grace, proportion, and burnished brilliance.”
Market Square Concerts concludes its 2007-2008 season with the Emerson String Quartet, the recipient of eight Grammy Awards (two for "Best Classical Album") and three Gramophone Magazine Awards. The Emerson has performed the complete cycles of Beethoven, Bartók and Shostakovich quartets in major concert halls throughout the world.
Tickets are available at THE BOX at 214-2787 or online at www.whitakercenter.org. Remaining tickets will be available at the door before all concerts.
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