Join us this fall as the CCM Orchestral Program celebrates the works of Beethoven!

Beethoven Festival Schedule

8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14
Philharmonia Orchestra
Mark Gibson, music director and conductor
“Beethoven Festival Opening Concert”

• Overture to Fidelio, Op. 72b
• Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 (Emperor)
• Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92

Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general admission, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE. This concert can be included in a flex ticket package.

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4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16
Mark Gibson, piano
Joseph Bucci, oboe
Adam Butalewicz, clarinet
Randy Denler, bassoon
Corey Tarbell, horn
Yabing Tan, violin
Nathaniel Chaikin, cello
“Beethoven Festival: Chamber Music of Ludwig van Beethoven”

• Quintet in E-Flat Major for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn and Piano, Op. 16
• Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 (Spring)
• Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69

Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21
Concert Orchestra
Annunziata Tomaro, music director
Mark Gibson, conductor
“Beethoven Festival”

• Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43
• Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 (with the winner of the CCM Violin Concerto Competition)
• Symphony No. 4 in C Major, Op. 21

Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general admission, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE. This concert can be included in a flex ticket package.

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8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5
Philharmonia Orchestra
Mark Gibson, music director and conductor
“Beethoven Festival”

• Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36
• Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67

Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general admission, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE. This concert can be included in a flex ticket package.

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8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12
Concert Orchestra
Annunziata Tomaro, music director
Mark Gibson, conductor
“Beethoven Festival Finale”

Maestro Gibson is joined by student conductors for this festival-ending performance!

• Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
  
• Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C Major, Op. 21
  
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 (Pastoral)

Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general admission, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE. This concert can be included in a flex ticket package.

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Atrium Concerts

CCM's Beethoven Festival presents a series of free lunchtime concerts featuring chamber and solo music of Beethoven. All concerts begin at 12:20 p.m. in the atrium of the Corbett Center for the Performing Arts in CCM Village.

• Tuesday, Sept. 18
• Tuesday, Sept. 25
• Tuesday, Oct. 2
• Tuesday, Oct. 9

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Conducting Beethoven: Symphony, Overture, Concerto

October 5 - 7, 2012
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Master teachers:            

• Mark Gibson, director of Orchestral Studies, CCM
• Gustav Meier, director of Graduate Conducting, The Peabody Institute of Music; Johns Hopkins University
• Neil Varon, professor of Conducting and Ensembles, Eastman School of Music
  

Special Guest Faculty:

• Leon Fleisher, internationally renowned conductor and Andrew Mellon Foundation Chair of Piano; The Peabody Institute of Music; Johns Hopkins University