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Sammons Center for the Arts
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Bancroft Family Concerts

Thank You Patrons, Audience and Musicians

for a spectacular 2012 - 2013 season of

the Bancroft Family Concerts!

Mark you calendar now for the

2013 - 2014 Bancroft Family Concerts

OCTOBER 26

NOVEMBER 23

JANUARY 11

FEBRUARY 22

MARCH 22

APRIL 26

MAY 10

No Admission Charge
All Concerts begin at 3:00pm
(doors open at 2:30pm)
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Dallas Museum of Art

Horchow Auditorium

1717 N. Harwood

Dallas TX 75201

Past Performances 2012-13 Season

May 11, 2013 7th Annual Charles Barr Memorial Concert

The seventh annual Charles Barr Memorial Concert featured young violin virtuoso Christine Wu with pianist Deborah Austin presenting the music of Brahms, Schumann, Ysaÿe and Waxman.

April 27, 2013 Janácek Mladi for Winds Sextet

Written when Czech composer Leoš Janácek was seventy years old, Mladi (Youth) Suite for Winds is a tribute to the composer’s music-inspired youth reflecting on Janácek’s life as a schoolboy at the Brno monastery where he had received both his musical and academic education. Mladi was performed by Dallas Symphony Orchestra members: oboist Willa Henigman, clarinetist Paul Garner, flutist Debbie Baron, horn player David Heyde, bassoonist Scott Walzel and bass clarinetist Chris Runk. Ridge Garner, clarinetist, was also featured.

March 23, 2013 Logan Walters Duo
Harpists Laura Logan and Jeff Walters performed an exciting selection of original arrangements and transcriptions for two harps by Haydn, Brahms and Mendelssohn plus the fiery music of De Falla. As an added bonus, the harpists also performed the jazz-influenced music of Duke Ellington and Scott Joplin. Mr. Walters is the recipient of the first-place Grand Prize in the Lyon & Healy International Jazz Harp Competition. Ms. Logan is a highly regarded free-lance harpist in the Dallas area who is on the faculty of Texas Christian University and serves as the founder and director of the popular “HarpFire” summer camp.

February 23, 2013 Perfect Harmony

Experience the extraordinary talents of Dallas Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Alexander Kerr and pianist Anton Nel as they perform the music of Debussy, Franck and more. Regarded by the press as a masterful virtuoso with an elegant, old-world sound, Mr. Kerr performs with an expressive and charismatic style that has made him one of today’s most accomplished violinists. Prize winning pianist Anton Nel tours extensively as a recitalist, concert soloist and chamber musician in addition to teaching at the University of Texas at Austin. Nel and Kerr often tour as concert partners and perform together at the Aspen Music Festival in the summer. They will perform Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, Franck’s Sonata for Violin and Piano and Heifetz’s rousing suite of tunes from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. A drawing will be held at the Bancroft concert for a free pair of tickets to the February 24dDallas Symphony Sunday matinee featuring these two artists. For artist bios/pictures, please visit: http://alexkerrviolin.com and http://www.antonnel.com. Kerr and Anton closed the concert with an encore of Meditation from the opera Thais, for the SRO audience.

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January 26, 2013 Iridium Brass
Iridium Brass Quintet is an outstanding group of local professional musicians. Featuring four members of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the quintet consists of principal horn Mark Houghton, principal tuba Edward Jones, assistant principal trombone Michael Hayes, and trumpeter Oscar Garcia-Montoya. Local freelance musician Jeremy Garnett performs as second trumpet in the quintet. Iridium Brass will usher in the New Year with an exciting program of brassy and bold quintet favorites from Gottschalk, Horowitz, Crespo and more.

November 17, 2012 Vivez Joyeux: A Celebration of French Music
In collaboration with the Dallas Museum of Art's "Posters of Paris" exhibit, musicians from the Fort Worth Symphony and the Dallas Opera Orchestra will present a program of enticing French music by Claude Bolling and Lili Boulanger. In addition, Bohuslav Martinu's "La Revue de Cuisine" (Kitchen Revue), a jazz suite for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, violin, cello and piano will be performed.

October 20, 2012 Chamber Music Gemstone
Emerald Trio is an international violin, cello and piano trio from Russia, Lithuania and Québec, featuring Dallas Symphony Orchestra violinist Aleksandr Snytkin, cellist Marie-Thaïs Levesque Oliver and pianist Anastasia Markin. Emerald Trio will present Trio No. 3 for in f minor, Op. 65 by Dvorák and Trio No. 1 in c minor, Op. 8 by Shostakovich, in addition to an encore of Astor Piazzolla's Spring from "Four Seasons".

Basically Beethoven Festival

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.

Rising Star Recitals

The Rising Star Recitals are performed during the Basically Beethoven Festival, every Sunday in July, and begin at 2:30 pm, just prior to the main concerts at 3:00 pm.

These recitals showcase young talented musicians, giving them an opportunity to perform before a wider audience. Fine Arts Chamber Players provides a venue for these gifted young artists as they pursue careers in music.

Concert Parking

BASICALLY BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL ENTRANCE AND PARKING INFORMATION
The Basically Beethoven Festival (BBF) and the pre-concert Rising Star Recital, are both held in the beautiful air-conditioned Grand Hall in Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park at 3601 Martin Luther King Jr., Blvd., Dallas Texas 75210 at the Gate 6 entrance to fair grounds.

ENTRANCE TO FESTIVAL -No need to drive around the venue and park in back! Patrons please enter at the main front entrance of TDG, located directly off Martin Luther King Jr., Blvd. The main TDG entrance will be visable from Gate 6 and will be marked with a BBF entrance sign.
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The TDG parking lots are located directly to the right and left of Gate 6 and parking is FREE. If asked to pay for parking, please let Fair Park Gate attendants know you are visiting Texas Discovery Gardens, as parking is FREE to patrons visiting TDG.

For more information about Texas Discovery Gardens, please visit:
http://texasdiscoverygardens.org

BANCROFT FAMILY CONCERTS PARKING INFORMATION
All Bancroft Family Concerts are held in Horchow Auditorium in the Dallas Museum of Art in the Downtown Arts District at 1717 N. Harwood Street, Dallas Texas. Metered parking is available on nearby streets and in area parking lots. The Dallas Museum of Art’s underground parking garage is $10.

For more detailed parking information, please visit:
http://dallasmuseumofart.org/Visit/PlanYourVisit/index.htm
DART buses, rail service and the FREE McKinney Avenue (M-Line) Trolley all stop in the Downtown Arts District, please visit http://www.dart.org for additional information.

INFORMATION ON WOODALL RODGERS CONSTRUCTION AND ACCESS TO ARTS DISTRICT
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has begun construction on the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park due for completion in 2012. The Harwood Street Bridge has been permanently removed to make room for a new 5.2 acre park spanning across Woodall Rodgers. The St. Paul ramp is scheduled to be rebuilt and opened to motorists in six months.

For more information please visit:
http://www.theparkdallas.org/

Special and Requested Concerts

Request a Concert

Fine Arts Chamber Players can coordinate local professional artists, from soloist to full

orchestral ensembles and multi-day presentations, for private and corporate events.

Please contact FACP for more information.

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