Department of Music

Inclement Weather Notice for the Chamber Orchestra of Charlottesville on 1/30/10
Due to the unfavorable weather forecast, we have canceled the Chamber Orchestra of Charlottesville concert for Saturday, Jan 30th in Old Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia. Details will be posted on our website at: www.virginia.edu/music Patrons who have purchased tickets can contact the Symphony Office at 434.924.3139.

The Charlottesville Symphony Society presents a concert by the Chamber Orchestra of Charlottesville on Saturday, January 30, at 8:00 p.m., at Old Cabell Hall on the UVA Grounds.

Entitled “Serenade Someone” and conducted by Music Director Kate Tamarkin, the program includes Edward Elgar’s Serenade for Strings, Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings and Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 104 known as the “London” symphony.

The concert is sponsored by Sage Physics & Engineering.

Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Strings and Horn is set to nocturnal texts by six British poets, and features tenor Joseph Gaines and French horn player Ian Zook. Joseph Gaines is a highly versatile and increasingly sought-after operatic and concert artist. His stage experience includes roles from Madama Butterfly, The Magic Flute, Falstaff, L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Orpheus in the Underworld, I Pagliacci, Abduction from the Seraglio, The Ballad of Baby Doe, and Eugene Onegin among others.

A favorite of critics and audiences on the concert stage, he has been a featured soloist with some of the finest American orchestras including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, as well as a number of chamber and baroque ensembles in the United States and abroad.

Praised for his beautifully-sung and well-acted interpretations of character roles, Gaines has been described as “such an exuberant performer you couldn’t help but smile” (The Minneapolis Star-Tribune). His 2008 return to Glimmerglass Opera in Wagner’s Das Liebesverbot, was characterized as “impressive” (The New York Times), “entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) and “blessedly cliché-free” (Opera Today).

Ian Zook is an active orchestral and solo performer and has appeared in concert throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. In addition to his faculty position at the University of Virginia and performance as the principal horn of the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra, he also plays with the Princeton and Haddonfield Symphony Orchestras in New Jersey, and as a substitute musician for the Vermont Symphony and The Philadelphia Orchestra.

In 2006, he performed as principal horn of the Pacific Music Festival under the baton of Valery Gergiev with concerts in Sapporo, Nagoya, Osaka and Tokyo for collective audiences nearing 50,000 in number. He has also performed alongside principals of the Vienna Philharmonic in both orchestra and chamber music, and also worked with principal musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic.

A proponent of period-instrument performance, Zook has played natural horn with the New York Collegium and the Washington Bach Consort. He also performed on Naxos' Grammy Award-winning recording of William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience under Leonard Slatkin.

Mr. Zook occupies the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra’s Johanna & Derwood Chase and Chase Investment Counsel Corp. Chair.

Free parking is available in the UVA Central Grounds Parking Garage, located on Emmet Street.

Tickets are $35, $30, $25 and $20 for adults and $10 for students. UVA students may request one complimentary ticket in advance.

Prior to the opening of UVa’s spring semester on Wednesday, January 20, tickets may be ordered through the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra office at
(434) 924-3139 or on-line at www.artsboxoffice.virginia.edu. After January 20, they are available through the University of Virginia Arts Box Office, (434) 924-3376, 12:00-5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday in the lobby of the Drama Building at 109 Culbreth Road.

The concert will be repeated at 7:30 pm on Sunday, January 31, at Robert E. Lee High School in Staunton as part of the Valley Symphonic Concert Series.