Daedalus Quartet
September 16, 2007, 2:30p.m.

Just one year after forming, Daedalus Quartet captured the Grand Prize of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Carnegie Hall tapped them to participate in the ECHO (European Concert Hall Organization) Rising Stars program, and the quartet was subsequently appointed by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as the Chamber Music Society Two quartet for the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 seasons. The members of the quartet hold degrees from Juilliard, Curtis, the Cleveland Institute, and Harvard University. They perform an expansive repertoire of classical music.

La Musgaña
October 14, 2007, 2:30p.m.

La Musgaña, a Spanish folk ensemble, reveals a whole range of native, ethnic and contemporary influences from Europe and Africa in their creative, musical exploration of the deep roots of the Castile region. The band performs traditional music from the Iberian peninsula, mostly from the Spanish regions of Castile, Zamora, Leon, Extremadura and La Mancha. Rhythm and style influences including religious offertories, peasant dances, romances, songs of supplication, and carols from both the Mediterranean and Atlantic inform the group’s performances. They use a variety of instruments including dulcimer, fiddle, hurdy gurdy, bagpipes, flutes, guitar and bass. This concert is generously underwritten by United Community Bank.

Wayne Hankin, instrumentalist

and pianist Jacqueline Schwab
November 11, 2007, 2:30p.m.

Wayne Hankin is a leading artist of period woodwind instruments dating before 1750. His instrument repertoire includes flutes, bagpipes, pipe and tabor, recorders, reed-pipes, and musette. A master of medieval renaissance and baroque repertory, he has concertized at many of the major performance centers and festivals in the U.S. and Europe and performed with Cirque du Soleil for nearly five years. Hankin is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and the Hartt College of Music. Jacqueline Schwab is a specialist in folk and classical improvisation best known as the musical signature of a dozen of filmmaker Ken Burns’ documentaries. Schwab received a Bachelor of Music degree with honors from the Third Stream program at New England Conservatory of Music. A tour of Kelischek Workshop for Historical Instruments and a Meet-the-Artists reception will immediately follow the concert.

Moscow Nights & Golden Gates
January 20, 2008, 2:30p.m.

Moscow Nights is a colorful and exciting group of musicians performing authentic traditional instrumental and vocal Russian folk music. Joining them is dance troupe Golden Gates, lauded as one of the most exceptional and traditional representations of the Russian folk culture by children. Moscow Nights and Golden Gates’ repertoire is centered on masterpieces of Russian folklore and represents the diversity of the culture - ranging from gently humorous songs to elaborate lyrical suites to pulsating dance numbers. Performing on accordion, balalaika and contrabass balalaika, this energetic ensemble also incorporates lesser-known folk instruments such as percussion trishotki and birch-bark whistles. This concert is sponsored by Blue Ridge Mountain EMC.*

Anne Oland, pianist
March 23, 2008, 2:30p.m.

This Danish classical pianist, particularly renowned for her recordings of Beethoven’s 32 sonatas, studied at The Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. Beginning her international recital career at Wigmore Hall in London in 1977, she has since performed in Scandinavia, Iceland, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Russia, USA and Japan. She is an associate professor at The Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen and in Aarhus. The Queen of Denmark conferred the order of Dannebrog on Oland in 1998, in recognition of Oland’s contribution to the arts.

The Musica Vera Consort
April 8, 2008, 2:00p.m.

An Early Music ensemble, The Musica Vera Consort performs in Renaissance costume, playing musical instruments of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Their considerable instrument repertoire includes vielles, violas da gamba, psalteries, rebecs, tabor pipes, recorders, crumhorns, shawms, cornamuse, sackbut, gemshorns, racketts and early percussion instruments. The concert will be preceded by a lecture-demonstration regarding early music and period instruments by John S. Kitts-Turner, Professor Emeritus of the School of Music at the University of Florida, and the ensemble’s founder and director. This concert is generously underwritten by Henry Meinecke, M.D., P.A. and sponsored by George Heilner.

Concert Information

New start time this season!  2:30pm

Locations:
Performances will be held in the Keith House of John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC
except
* Moscow Nights & Golden Gates which will perform in the Peacock Playhouse (home of Licklog Players) in Hayesville, NC.

Tickets:
Full Season: All 6 concerts
Adults: $65
Students/Children: $32

Half Season: Any 3 concerts
Adults: $35
Students/Children: $17

Individual Tickets: Sold for general admission at the door
Adults: $14
Students/Children: $7

For more information: 828.389.0033