What: Caspian Music - Chamber Concerts @ HCA
When: Sundays, August 4th, 11th, and 18th @ 7:30pm (optional buffet dinners at 5:30pm)
Where: Highland Center for the Arts - Main Stage - 2875 Hardwick Street, Greensboro
Description: Caspian Music, now in its 15th year, returns for the first three Sundays in August to the main stage of the Highland Center for the Arts. Igor Leschishin as music director and Solomiya Ivakhiv as artistic director continue the work that Thomas Zajkowski started 42 years ago.
The HCA will be offering a themed buffet dinner before each concert from 5:30pm. Concerts begin at 7:30pm in the air-conditioned main stage theater.
Tickets can be purchased at http://www.highlandartsvt.org or by calling during HCA box office hours at 802-533-2000.
August 4th: "Charming Pieces" Chamber strings with guitar and piano. Fan-favorite Igor Leschishin returns on oboe to perform a piano duet with Jeewon Park. Classical guitarist Rupert Boyd and cellist Laura Metcalf perform a series of duets both classical and arranged from the Beatles to Bach before the piano quartet completes the evening with Robert Schumann's piano quartet.
August 11th: "Trio, Quartet & Quintet" Performances will bridge the classical and romantic eras as the string trio performs the music of Austrian composer Franz Schubert, the quartet for oboe, violin, viola and cello performs music by Czech composer Jiri Družecký and the string quintet performs music composed by the virtuoso pianist, Johannes Brahms.
August 18: "Caspian Orchestra" Conductor Toshiyuki Shimada joins Caspian Music for the first time to conduct violin soloist Solomiya Ivakhiv, oboe soloist Igor Leschishin and the Caspian Orchestra to perform Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto for Oboe and Strings in A minor, Felix Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor, and the majestic Symphony No.2 in D Major by Ludwig Van Beethoven.