6th Season of the Richard P. Garmany Chamber Music Series Announced

The Hartt School is proud to announce that its popular and widely hailed Richard P. Garmany Chamber Music Series is returning for a sixth season.

The four-concert series, which has been bringing to campus many of the most admired and innovative musical artists and ensembles in the world, is supported by the Richard P. Garmany Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. For the upcoming 2014–15 season, the fund has provided a grant of $55,000, the largest since the series began in 2008.

The artist roster for the 2014–15 season includes:
– Oct. 16, 2014: JACK Quartet — One of the most dynamic and trailblazing string quartets of our time, this youthful New York-based foursome has been called “mind-blowing” and “electrifying” by the New York Times.
– Nov. 20, 2014: Calder Quartet, the widely honored, globe-circling L.A.-based ensemble that just weeks ago won the Avery Fisher Career Grant, one of the highest honors in the classical music world.
– Feb. 5, 2015: Roomful of Teeth, the dazzling nine-person mixed vocal ensemble that caused a sensation earlier this year by winning the Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance.
– April 23, 2015: International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), the groundbreaking artist-directed modular collective of young musicians devoted to performing the music of all periods, with an emphasis on works by living composers.

Thomas Schuttenhelm Selected to Perform at International Guitar Research Centre Symposium

On March 29th 2014, Thomas Schuttenhelm (DMA '01) and soprano Sarah Hersh-Armstrong will perform a recital of American Art Song and Song Cycles (for voice and guitar) at the inaugural symposium of the International Guitar Research Centre in Surrey [just outside of London proper] (UK).

The recital will feature all Hartt composers.  The program includes An Infant Crying by Larry Alan Smith (Hartt faculty), Time in Eternity by Tony Solitro (Hartt alumnus), When I Shut My Eyes by Ken Steen (Hartt faculty), and two of Schuttenhelm's song cycles: One Look Too Close and Tres Canciónes Españolas (text by Cuban-American poet and artist Rafael Oses, a Hartford Art School alumnus).

Jaime Laredo, violin, and Joseph Kalichstein, piano, perform at Hartt as part of the Richard P. Garmany Chamber Music Series

 Location: Alfred C. Fuller Music Center F Millard Auditorium

Admission:  $35 adults; $30 for seniors/educators/UofH alumni; $25 for students and groups 10+

Two of the pre-eminent musical artists of our time, Laredo and Kalichstein have performed, both as soloists and chamber artists, in the leading music venues of the world. They frequently are joined by internationally-acclaimed cellist Sharon Robinson as the Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio. In addition to his instrumental career, Jaime Laredo is a sought-after conductor, currently in his 13th year as music director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. For their Garmany Series appearance, Laredo and Kalichstein will perform as a duo on the first half of the evening; they will be joined after intermission by the Hartt String Quartet for a performance of the monumental sextet of Chausson.

This series is made possible in part by the Richard P. Garmany Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

For additional information and to purchase Series subscriptions and pre-concert dinner subscriptions, call the University Box Office at 860-768-4228 or click
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2013-2014 Garmany Chamber Music Series

A message from Steve Metcalf (B. Mus.'69), curator of the Garmany Chamber Music Series

The Richard P. Garmany Chamber Music Series (named for a local businessman and philanthropist whose estate has provided for a number of worthy cultural initiatives) has just concluded its fourth season at The Hartt School. This series was inaugurated after the Miami String Quartet concluded its residency at the school in 2009. The series, which has made a point of engaging a wide range of artists -- many of them known for pushing the boundaries of small ensemble music-making -- has been a great success. Most of the concerts have been sold out the past several seasons, and we expect that trend to continue next season.

It would be great to see more alumni at these concerts. 

For more information, or to learn how to buy tickets or subscriptions, please visit the Hartt website:

      

http://harttweb.hartford.edu/

Or simply call the UH box office at 860-768-4228.

All of next year's concerts will be given in Millard Auditorium

Here is the roster of artists for the upcoming 2013-'14 season:

OCT. 3

Jaime Laredo, violin, and Joseph Kalichstein, piano.

         Two of the pre-eminent chamber music artists of our time, Laredo and Kalichstein have performed -- both as soloists and chamber artists -- in the leading music venues of the world. They frequently are joined by internationally acclaimed cellist Sharon Robinson as the Kalichstein Laredo Robinson Trio In addition to his instrumental career, Jaime Laredo is a sought-after conductor, currently in his 13th year as music director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. 

        As a bonus, the finale of this concert will be the monumental sextet of Chausson, which will feature the newly-formed Hartt String Quartet.

NOV. 21

Andy Narell and his ensemble

         The Paris-based Narell is acknowledged as the world's leading exponent of the steel drum, or "pans." His extraordinary career has been celebrated in numerous NPR appearances and in several film documentaries. In addition, several of his best-selling recordings of jazz-inflected Caribbean music have earned Grammy nominations. For this rare East Coast appearance, Andy Narell will be joined by an all-star ensemble of sidemen all of whom who are distinguished artists in their own right.

FEB. 6

Sybarite5 

Possibly the fastest-rising chamber music ensemble in the United States, the string quintet Sybarite 5 has been earning rave reviews and cheering audiences from coast to coast. Since winning the prestigious Concert Artists Guild Competition last year (the same competition previously won by Imani Winds, eighthblackbird and many other now-famous artists) the group has gone from one triumphant appearance to the next, including a raucous, sold-out debut performance at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Auditorium last fall. Its latest album is a collection of Radiohead songs arranged expressly for them.  

[Full disclosure: the cellist for this group is a proud alumna of the Hartt Community Division, one Laura Metcalf. Laura will be donating her fee for this concert to the Community Division Fund for Access, which provides scholarships for city kids.]

MARCH 27

Cantus

         Known to music lovers throughout the United States from its appearances on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion," Cantus is a 9-member male vocal ensemble of astonishing range and versatility. Both in its recordings (more than a dozen and counting) and in its concert appearances, Cantus performs everything from Renaissance music to post-bop jazz arrangements. One its members, Paul Rudoi, is a recent alumnus of Hartt.