Department of Music

• Saturday, September 26, 2009
• Old Cabell Hall
• 8:00pm

• Sunday, September 27, 2009
• Monticello High School
• 3:30pm
• 
  $20 -$35 for adults, $10 students.
  UVA students may request one free ticket in advance.
  UVA ARTS BOX OFFICE

The Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra opens its 2009-10 Musical Postcards season with “Ciao Bella” on Saturday, September 26, at 8:00 p.m., at Old Cabell Hall on the UVA Grounds, and Sunday, September 27, at 3:30 p.m. at Monticello High School in Charlottesville.

The first concert of the season, conducted by Music Director Kate Tamarkin, explores the musical landscape of Italy. The program includes Giuseppe Verdi’s Overture to “Nabucco,” Tomaso Albinoni’s Adagio for Strings in g minor, the Bassoon Concerto of Nino Rota and Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, known as the “Italian Symphony.”

Featured as guest artist in Rota’s Bassoon Concerto is Elizabeth Roberts, Principal Bassoonist and Outreach Coordinator of the orchestra and Bassoon Instructor in the University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Music. Ms. Roberts is a frequent performer in the region, serving as bassoonist in the Albemarle Ensemble and Principal Bassoonist with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. She freelances with the National Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Virginia Symphony and the Richmond Symphony. She is an adjunct faculty member at Mary Baldwin College and teaches bassoon and chamber music in the Charlottesville area.

Ms. Roberts has given world premiere performances of works by Arthur Weisberg, Bernard Rands, Gary Schocker and Walter Ross. She also gave the Virginia premiere of the recently discovered concerto for bassoon by Gioacchino Rossini.

Free pre-concert lectures will be held 45 minutes before each concert on both days. Saturday’s lecture will take place in Room 107 at Old Cabell Hall. Sunday’s lecture will be held in the Forum at Monticello High School. Both will be presented by Mcintire Department of Music Associate Professor Richard Will.

“Noon Notes,” a free popular lecture series by Music Director Kate Tamarkin, will continue this season on Friday, September 25, at 12:00 p.m. in the Northside Branch of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library.

Free parking is available in the UVA Central Grounds Parking Garage, located on Emmet Street, on Saturday night and at the high school on Sunday afternoons.

Tickets go on sale September 15 and are priced at $35, $30, $25 and $20 for adults, and $10 for students. UVA students may request one complimentary ticket in advance.

Tickets may be purchased at 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, or on-line at www.artsboxoffice.virginia.edu.