VERO BEACH — The Vero Beach Museum of Art and the Atlantic Classical Orchestra’s partnership enters its fourth season in 2012. Internationally acclaimed Grammy Award nominee and ACO music director Stewart Robertson hosts this superlative chamber music series on the stage in the Museum’s intimate and acoustically superb 240-seat Leonhardt Auditorium.
Don’t miss this popular and dynamic Chamber Music Series of three concerts. See, and hear your favorite ACO musicians as you never have before – as part of small ensembles, performing some of the greatest music ever written.
Series tickets are $100 for the general public and $75 for Museum members for all three Chamber Concerts. Individual tickets are $40 for the general public and $30 for Museum Members.
Reserve your place and purchase your tickets today by calling the Museum at (772) 231-0707, ext.136; visiting the Museum at 3001 Riverside Park Drive, Vero Beach or by visiting the Museum’s website at www.verobeachmuseum.org.
Chamber Concert I: Sunday, Jan. 29 at 4 p.m.
This program features one of Mendelssohn’s most beloved and revered chamber pieces. Full of expressiveness, Mendelssohn’s piano trio is as memorable as it is substantive. Composed in memory of a fallen friend, Shostakovich’s powerful and reflective Piano Trio no .2 is a masterful display of the composer’s singularity and genius as a great 20th century composer.
Felix Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor
Chamber Concert II: Sunday, Feb. 19 at 4 p.m.
Based on Alfred Lord Tennyson’s 1864 epic poem, Enoch Arden, this narrator/piano duet follows the life of a man who returns home from a long voyage to find out that life has moved on without him. Peter Pertis, internationally-renowned pianist, performs the dramatic piece with narrator, John Felix.
Richard Strauss Enoch Arden (A Melodrama)
Chamber Concert III: March 25 at 4 p.m.
ACO Chamber musicians perform Amy Beach’s stormy and emotional Piano Quintet on Sunday, March 25. The Chamber concert series culminates with one of the most adored of all chamber pieces, Schumann’s Piano Quintet. This cherished piece is made up of lyrical themes, march-like passages, and brilliant melodies.
Amy Beach Piano Quintet
Robert Schumann Piano Quintet