"Sonorous Colors," in conjunction with "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris:
Masterpieces from the Baltimore Museum of Art."
DATE: November 7 2004, 3 PM
SITE: NC Museum of Art Map
2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh
TICKETS: $10 General Public; $8 NCMA Members & Students.
INFORMATION & TICKET SALES
- NCMA Box Office (919) 715-5923
- Raleigh Chamber Music Guild (919) 821-2030
The NC Museum of Art will offer to Sights & Sounds concert ticket holders a special pre-concert tour of the "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris" exhibition at 2:00pm on Nov. 7. There is no charge for Museum members. Non-members will receive a 50% discount off exhibit admission--a $12 value for $6--for this special tour. Be sure to tell the box office personnel that you have a concert ticket so that you will receive the discount. The box office number is 715-5923.
Space is limited to 20 participants and reservations must be made by Nov. 4 by contacting Gwen Hastings at 839-6262, ext. 2216 or by email at GHastings@NCMAMAIL.DCR.STATE.NC.US.
PROGRAM
RITA HAYES holds BA and MA degrees in flute performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and from Western Carolina University. She is a member of the Asheville Symphony as well as other orchestras in the western Carolinas. She has performed with Ray Charles and Roberta Flack and is a member of Braidstream, an eclectic ensemble that she co-founded in 1985. She has been on the Brevard College music faculty since 1987 and can be heard regularly on local NPR radio stations as host of her popular classical radio program.
DAVID KIRBY holds MM and DMA degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Before joining the faculty at Brevard College in 1993, he was artist-in-residence with the Antares Wind Quintet in Dodge City, Kansas, as part of the National Endowment for the Arts Chamber Music Rural Residency Initiative. Kirby performs with the Western Piedmont Symphony and the Lenoir Saxophone Ensemble.
CAROL LOWE received the BM degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the MM from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she was a member of the Taft Wind Quintet, winner of the 1998 Fischoff Nation- al Chamber Music Competition. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1997 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. She teaches bassoon at the S.C. Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, and at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
KATHERINE MORGAN PALMER, an artist/faculty member at the Brevard Music Center from 1993-2000, holds piano performance degrees piano from the University of Tennessee and from Indiana University, where she was a student of Menahem Pressler. Currently, she is on the music faculty at Brevard College and is on the touring roster of the North Carolina Arts Council as both piano soloist and chamber musician.
Guests:
CARA FISH has served as principal oboist of the Greensboro Symphony for fifteen years. Residing in Winston-Salem, Ms. Fish is also Principal English horn for the Winston-Salem Symphony and an original member of the Carolina Chamber Symphony. As a member of an innovative educatoonal woodwind quintet, cara is featured in the newly released Dan Press book, "The Well-Tempered Mind." She is a graduate of the Juilliard School.
MICHAEL BRUBAKER serves as 2nd horn with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra and is a regular horn player with the Charlotte and Charleston Symphony Orchestras. He is also a former member of the Virginia Symphony and the Savannah Symphony. A graduate of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, Mr. Brubaker studied in London with the international horn soloist Mr. Ifor James of the Phillip Jones Brass Ensemble. He resides in Asheville with his wife and son.
The reception following the concert is sponsored by the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild.
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