Department of Music

• Saturday, April 30, 2011
• Old Cabell Hall
• 8:00 p.m.
• $20-35 Adults / $10 Students / Free for UVa students (if reserved in advance)

Conducted by Music Director Kate Tamarkin, the concert includes Mozart’s Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 and the world premiere performance of Richard Cioffari’s Concerto Iberico for Trumpet and Orchestra.

Featured as the guest artist in the trumpet concerto is CUSO Principal Trumpet Paul Neebe, who commissioned the work from Mr. Cioffari. Neebe is a member of the University of Virginia music faculty, and also plays principal trumpet with the Roanoke Symphony and the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra. He has soloed with the Roanoke and Durham (North Carolina) Symphonies, and, in 1995, was a semi-finalist at the First International Trumpet Festival Competition in Moscow.

Richard Cioffari is a composer, pianist, conductor and Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University where he taught for 30 years. His works have been commissioned nationally and internationally, and have been presented at conferences of the International Double Reed Society, the International Horn Society, the International Trumpet Guild and the National Flute Association, and on NPR’s From the Top. He currently holds the Reinberger Foundation Chair as keyboardist with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra.

For those who want to “know the score before they go,” pre-concert lectures will be presented 45 minutes prior to each concert. Free of charge, these informative and entertaining lectures by U.Va McIntire Department of Music Chairman and Associate Professor of Music Richard Will offer both novice and experienced patrons a deeper appreciation of the performances. Saturday’s lecture will take place in Minor Hall; Sunday’s lecture will be held in the Forum at Monticello High School.

Free parking is available in the U.Va Central Grounds Parking Garage, located on Emmet Street, on Saturday night and at the high school on Sunday afternoons. Both venues are wheelchair accessible.

Concert tickets are priced at $35, $30, $25 and $20 for adults, and $10 for students. U.Va 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.

Tantalizing images of food from sustainable farms across Central Virginia complement the orchestra’s final Feast of Sound season concert in an exhibit titled The Cook’s Eye by local photographer James Barrett.  Barrett’s work will be on display in the lobby of Monticello High School on May 1.