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2013 BASICALLY BEETHOVEN IS MOVING!
After 32 years in Fair Park, the Basically Beethoven Festival is moving
to the Dallas City Performance Hall in July.
FREE Concerts Every Sunday in July
Rising Star Recital @ 2:30 pm
Feature Performance @ 3:00 pm
No tickets or reservations required
Dallas City Performance Hall in the Dallas Arts District
2520 Flora Street
Dallas, TX 75201
July 7
Rising Star Recital
Nicholas Garza, tenor
Feature Performance
Imperial Brass
July 14
Rising Star Recital
Eleanor Dunbar, violinist
Feature Performance
Violinist Jing Wang and Friends
July 21
Rising Star Recital
Aaron Kurz, pianist
Feature Performance
Cellist Yuri Anshelevich with pianist Steven Harlos
July 28
Rising Star Recital
Franklin Jia, clarinetist
Feature Performance
Hall Ensemble
Since 1981, Fine Arts Chamber Players (FACP) has presented the Basically Beethoven Festival, a series of FREE recitals and classical chamber music concerts every Sunday afternoon in July. The concerts annually feature outstanding musicians drawn from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, The Dallas Opera Orchestra and area university faculties, playing to full-capacity audiences. The Rising Star Youth Recitals precede the feature performances and showcase young talented musicians.
2012 Basically Beethoven Festival Concerts
July 1st
Rising Star Recital: Baritone Blas Canedo, chosen in 2011 for the prestigious Opera Singer Initiative in New
York City, sings music of Ravel and de Falla with pianist Mark Metcalf.
Feature Performance: Imperial Brass celebrates the American spirit with a medley of classical and patriotic
music plus taste of jazz.
July 8th
Rising Star Recital: Adam Phan, 1st Place Winner in the Dallas Harp Society Scholarship Competition,
performs music of Grandjany, Pierne and Debussy.
Feature Performance: Jing Wang, Concertmaster of the Dallas Opera Orchestra, and friends from the Dallas
and Fort Worth Symphonies with pianist Jonathan Tsay, play Dvorak's Quintet No. 2
for Strings and Piano.
July 15th
Rising Star Recital: Martin Godoy, Finalist in the National Flute Association's 2012 Young Artist Competition
performs a preview of his competition repertoire with Gabriel Sanchez, piano.
Feature Performance: Yuri Anshelevich, Associate Principal Cellist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and
pianist Gabriel Sanchez perform music of Beethoven, Boccherini & Mendelssohn.
July 22nd
Rising Star Recital: Claire Luan Wells, 11 year-old Grand Prize Winner of the Collin County Concerto
Competition, with pianist Christina Kim, perform Barber's Concerto for Violin.
Feature Performance: Gary Levinson, Senior Principal Associate Concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony, and
friends present Beethoven's Septet, Op. 20 for winds and strings. Pianist Baya
Kakouberi will perform selected works of Beethoven.
July 29th
Rising Star Recital: Clarinetist Steven Tsai, an award winner in the Juanita Miller Concerto Competition and
the Dallas Symphonic Festival, performs music of Mozart and von Weber with pianist
Julie Chung.
Feature Performance: Baritone David Grogan, Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Texas at
Arlington, presents Beethoven's song cycle An die ferne Geliebte with pianist Mark
Metcalf. Beethoven folksongs for voice, piano, violin and cello and a string trio will
complete the All-Beethoven program.
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