Friends of Music Concerts

The Friends of Music brings top-notch talent from around the world to the Frank Arts Center theater. Below, we are proud to present our 2012-13 season. After browsing the events below, you can purchase tickets online to any of these events or sponsor a concert. If you become a FOM member, guest passes to the concert series^* are included in many of the levels of membership.

*Tickets to The 5 Browns are not included and must be purchased separately.

Take Note is new program offered by the Friends of Music to encourage the young audience to experience more live classical music. Concertgoers aged 15-35 may attend selected Friends of Music concerts for FREE! Please call the Friends of Music office for program exclusions and reservation information.

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	More Info Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra • September 15, 2012, 8:00 p.m. Now in its sixth season, the Eastern Panhandle’s very own professional chamber orchestra has received wide critical acclaim and performs staples of the classical chamber orchestra repertoire as well as new, beautiful and unusual works. 2RCO, guest conducted by Jed Gaylin, presents Fugue and Far Between, featuring Henry Cowell – Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10 for Oboe and Strings; Bach/Webern – Ricercare from A Musical Offering; Milhaud – La Creation du Monde; and Mozart – Symphony No. 41, K. 551 in C Major, “Jupiter”. (Purchase Tickets)	Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra September 15, 2012, 8:00 p.m. Purchase Tickets	Caroline Hong October 12, 2012, 8:00 p.m. Purchase Tickets	More Info Caroline Hong • October 12, 2012, 8:00 p.m. As the winner of the Chicago Civic Orchestra Soloist Competition, Caroline Hong made her debut in Orchestra Hall in a performance of Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto. She made her debut at Carnegie Hall as a winner of the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition. Before the age of three, Caroline Hong began the study of piano with her mother. Among her most influential teachers are Sergei Babayan, Jerome Lowenthal, and Dmitrii Paperno. Currently, Dr. Hong is an Associate Professor of Piano at The Ohio State University. (Purchase Tickets)
	More Info Georgia Guitar Quartet • November 6, 2012, 8:00 p.m. These four young men from the American South deliver a high-energy blend of breathtaking virtuosity and imaginative programming in their adventurous approach to classical music. Borrowing from both the past and present, the GGQ draws inspiration from classical masters such as Bach and Brahms, experimentalists in the vein of Cage, Bartók, and Stockhausen, and rock icons like Radiohead and Led Zeppelin. The Quartet has recently launched a Classical and Commercial Guitar Camp every summer in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina. (Purchase Tickets)	Georgia Guitar Quartet November 6, 2012, 8:00 p.m. Purchase Tickets	Masterworks Chorale November 10, 2012, 8:00 p.m. or November 11, 2012, 7:00 p.m. Purchase Tickets	More Info Masterworks Chorale November 10, 2012, 8:00 p.m. (St. James Catholic Church, Charles Town) or November 11, 2012, 7:30 p.m. (Frank Center) Gabriel Faure, Requiem, Franz Schubert, Mass in G Major, Stephen Czarkowski, Guest Conductor Great composers and great music are inspired by the subject of death, but Faure’s Requiem of 1893 is unique. Faure concentrates on the true meaning of the word “Requiem”, or “rest”. His Requiem is about peaceful acceptance and release, and the music is serene, elevating, comforting. Schubert wrote the popular G Major Mass in 1815, probably to be performed at his family’s church in Lichtenthal. The six sung portions of the Mass Ordinary—Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei—are all present; each is set with great brevity, but without hastiness. – Classical Archives (Purchase Tickets)
	More Info Holiday Gala Concert • December 1, 2012, 7:30 p.m. or December 2, 2012, 3:00 p.m. Enjoy classic sounds of the season featuring the Shepherd University Wind Symphony, Chamber Singers, Camerata Singers, Masterworks Chorale and others. Followed by a reception at the Cress Creek Country Club on Saturday. (Purchase Tickets)	Holiday Gala Concert December 1, 2012, 7:30 p.m. or December 2, 2012, 3:00 p.m. Purchase Tickets	The Merling Trio February 23, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Purchase Tickets	More Info The Merling Trio • February 23, 2013 This truly international trio brings together musicians from Polish, Japanese, and Dutch backgrounds. They have been hailed as a group endowed with remarkable gifts of communication, magnificent precision, and an impeccable blend of sound. The trio made its New York debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 1993. In residence at the School of Music at Western Michigan University, members of the trio have also been on the faculty of the Schlern International Music Festival and the ENCORE School for Strings. The Merling Trio takes its name from the Danish violin maker, Paul Merling. (Purchase Tickets)
	More Info Anat Cohen • March 2, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen has won hearts and minds the world over with her expressive virtuosity and delightful stage presence. Anat has been voted Clarinetist of the Year six years in a row by the Jazz Journalists Association, as well as 2012’s Multi-Reeds Player of the Year. That’s not to mention her topping of critics and readers polls in DownBeat magazine several years running. (Purchase Tickets)	Jazz Festival Concert with Anat Cohen March 2, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Purchase Tickets	Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra March 9, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Purchase Tickets	More Info Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra • March 9, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Join 2RCO for An Italian Adventure with guest conductor, Simeone Tartaglione! We bring Sicily, Naples, and Rome straight to the Frank Center with Mendelssohn's radiant and dashing Italian Symphony. Hop across the Mediterranean for Rossini's light-hearted Overture to L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers). Contemporary works of great beauty and charm by Teresa Procaccini and Italian American John Corigliano round out this program filled with warmth. (Purchase Tickets)
	More Info Lee Konitz New Quartet • March 28, 2013, 8:00 p.m. From Lee’s own MySpace page: “4 nights at the Village Vanguard with an amazing audience made a great record. Thank you New York! 2 SOLD OUT shows and standing ovations at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Thank you Washington! This four-voice group playing together and being interested in each other on a personal and musical level is what having a band means to me.” (Purchase Tickets)	Lee Konitz New Quartet March 28, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Purchase Tickets	The 5 Browns April 10, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Purchase Tickets	More Info The Five Browns • April 10, 2013, 8:00 p.m. The 5 Brown siblings—Ryan, Melody, Gregory, Deondra, and Desirae—were all accepted simultaneously at New York’s Juilliard School of Music. In February 2002, People magazine dubbed them the “Fab Five” and they were featured on Oprah and 60 Minutes. They have released 3 CDs that went to #1 on Billboard Magazine’s Classical Album Chart. The 5 Browns are delivering on their dream to wake up classical music by introducing it to the widest, largest, and most excited audience they can find. (Purchase Tickets)
	More Info Masterworks Chorale April 14, 2013, 7:00 p.m. (Frank Center) W.A. Mozart, Mass in C Minor This “pure and purely Mozart” work was composed during 1782-83, inspired by a vow Mozart made “in the depth of his heart” to write a work of thanksgiving for his wife Constanze. Listen closely for parts in Kyrie that were used in the 1984 film Amadeus. (Purchase Tickets)	Masterworks Chorale April 14, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Frank Center Purchase Tickets (April 13 performance at St. James has been cancelled)	Tuxedo Junction "The Big Easy" Friday, May 17, 2013 Bavarian Inn Purchase Tickets	More Info Tuxedo Junction "The Big Easy" Friday, May 17, 2013 Bavarian Inn Join the Friends of Music as we transport you to "The Big Easy" for a night filled with music inspired by the eclectic style of New Orleans - the home of Louis Armstrong, birthplace of jazz and a virtual melting pot of song and sound! Be prepared to dance the night away at the always elegant Bavarian Inn to the sounds of the internationally famous Shepherd Hot Ten under the direction of Dr. Kurtis Adams. Dine at culinary stations featuring Louisiana delights such as Jambalaya and Seafood Gumbo, while enjoying a chance to win a fabulous getaway or any number of wonderful offerings in our Tuxedo Junction silent auction. * Champagne and Specialty Cocktails at 6:30 * Silent Auction at 6:30 * Culinary Stations at 7:00 * Dancing at 8:00