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Chamber Soloists Offer Final Season Concert

Updated: Thursday, March 8 2012, 01:13 AM CST
By Rob Faubion, Austin On Stage - www.austinonstage.com

The free, intimate orchestra concert at the First Presbyterian Church - featuring violinist Stephen Redfield - celebrates 25 seasons of performing music for Austin audiences.

The Chamber Soloists of Austin conclude their 2011/12 Season with a free concert celebrating the organization's 25 seasons of performing music for Austin audiences.  The intimate orchestra concert will be held on Friday, March 16, at 8 .pm. at the First Presbyterian Church located at 8001 Mesa Drive.
    
The chamber orchestra will be led by violinist Stephen Redfield, a long-time member of the group.  Redfield will travel from Santa Fe, where he is concertmaster of the Santa Fe Pro Musica, for the concert event.
    
The program - billed as "a delicious sandwich with 18th century bread of Mozart and Haydn, and 20th century filling" - includes Mozart’s "Flute and Harp Concerto" with soloists Karl Kraber on flute and Elaine Barber on harp.  Works by well-known 20th Century composers will feature founding member and virtuoso pianist Gregory Allen performing "Sextet for piano and woodwind quintet" by Francis Poulenc and the “Agathon" movement of Leonard Bernstein’s "Serenade for violin, strings and harp," featuring conductor Redfield in a violin solo.
     
The program concludes with Haydn’s “Farewell Symphony.”  Haydn arranged the last movement so that the musicians exit one-by-one, until only two violinists remain on stage.
    
Following the concert, the audience will be invited to celebrate with the musicians during a post-concert dessert party.  The evening is free, open to the public with general seating and no tickets will be necessary.
    
The First Presbyterian Church located at 8001 Mesa Drive.  For more information, call (512) 380-0065 or visit www.ChamberSoloists.com.

(Photo Credit Chamber Soloists of Austin)Chamber Soloists Offer Final Season Concert