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FREE Concerts Sunday’s in July
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2012 Dates
July 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd & 30th
Since 1981, Fine Arts Chamber Players (FACP) has presented the Basically Beethoven Festival, a series of FREE recitals and classical chamber music concerts that take place every Sunday afternoon at a local Dallas Cultural Center.
The concerts annually feature over fifty 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. FACP provides a venue for these gifted young artists as they pursue careers in music to perform before a wider audience.
Basically Beethoven Festival Concert Schedule
Doors open @ 2:00pm
Rising Star Recital @ 2:30pm
Feature Concert @ 3pm
FREE admission, no reservations or tickets required
Previous Basically Beethoven Festival Concerts
July 3, 2011 - A Time Traveler's Concert
2:30 Rising Star Recital
Allison Whitfield, oboist, is a winner in the 2011 Mid-Texas Symphony Young Artist Concerto Competition. She will present the music of Mozart and Saint Saens.
3:00 Feature Performance
Imperial Brass, a ten member Dallas-based professional ensemble, will present a rousing concert of brass selections themed "A Time Travelers Concert" featuring music from the Renaissance to the 20th century. The program includes music by Gabrieli, Beethoven, Strauss and Grainger.
July 10, 2011 - Beethoven Basics
2:30 Rising Star Recital
Sam Hong, piano. In May of 2011 at the age of 16, Mr. Hong graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from TCU.
3:00 Feature Performance
Gary Levinson, Senior Associate Concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and pianist Daredjan Baya Kakouberi perform an all-Beethoven program featuring sonatas from Levinson/Kakouberi's soon-to-be-released CD of the complete Sonatas for Piano and Violin by Beethoven.
July 17, 2011 - Cello Classics
2:30 Rising Star Recital
Terri Sanchez, a Prize Winner of the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition and 1st Prize Winner of the NFA Orchestral Audition Competition, will perform music by Piston, Bach and Robert Dick. She will be joined by her husband, pianist Gabriel Sanchez.
3:00 Feature Performance
Yuri Anshelevich, Associate Principal Cellist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and pianist Gabriel Sanchez perform the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann.
July 24, 2011 - Summer Winds
2:30 Rising Star Recital
Pianist Katelan Tran Terrell, winner of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s 2011 Young Artist Competition
3:00 Feature Performance
Woodwind musicians from The Dallas Opera Orchestra perform chamber music by Verdi, Janáek, and Wagner
July 31, 2011 - String Extravaganza
2:30 Rising Star Recital
Suzuki Institute of Dallas youth musicians will perform.
3:00 Feature Performance
Aeolus Quartet, Silver Prize Winner of the 2011 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Members are; Nicholas Tavani (violin), Rachel Shapiro (violin), Gregory Luce (viola) and Alan Richardson (cello). The Aeolus Quartet will perform Beethoven's masterpiece, String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Opus 132.
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