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Great Artist Gala

Don’t miss our next Great Artist Gala, November 1, 2012. Stay tuned for the exciting details. Sponsorships are now available. Contact development director Ricki L. Levine at 616.459.2224 ( ext 205) or ricki@scmc-online.org.

• Location: St. Cecilia Music Center
• Price Range: $75 / Corporate Sponsorship tickets $1,000 to $10,000 / Individual Sponsors $250

Dates & Times

• 8:00pm - Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 Buy Tickets

Terryberry Gallery at SCMC

Visit Terryberry Gallery weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 616. 459.2224 for evening and weekend hours. Artworks are available for purchase and a portion of the sale price helps support St. Cecilia Music Center.

To preview the upcoming exhibit schedule, click (HERE)

• Location: 24 Ransom NE, Downtown Grand Rapids
• Price Range: Admission to Terryberry Gallery is FREE

Dates & Times

• Call 616.459.2224

Got Culture GR

Receive exclusive offers and discounts to more than 20 arts & cultural organizations! Culture Pass GR is a partnership that gives St. Cecilia Music Center patrons and guests exclusive discounts at over 20 venues. Offers and discounts can be found at www.culturepassgr.com or on the Culture Grand Rapids Facebook page. This benefit card is an expression of our appreciation for your support.

A version of the Culture Pass for tourists has also been created, for more information please contact www.experiencegr.com

SPECIAL OFFER!!

• Location: St. Cecilia Music Center
• Type: Jazz and Classical

Dates & Times

• Got Culture Call 616.459.2224

Concert Orchestra and Concert Band concert

PROGRAM – TBA

• Location: Royce Auditorium - St. Cecilia Music Center
• Price Range: $10 / children 10 and under admitted free

Dates & Times

• Concert Orchestra and Concert Band5:00pm - Saturday, May 12, 2012 Buy Tickets

Sinfonia and Philharmonic concert

PROGRAM – TBA

• Location: Royce Auditorium - St. Cecilia Music Center
• Price Range: $10 / children 10 and under admitted free

Dates & Times

• Spring Sinfonia and Philharmonic8:00pm - Saturday, May 12, 2012 Buy Tickets

Grand Band and Adult String Orchestra concert

Enjoy a free concert performed by dedicated adults from all walks of life who love music.

• Location: Royce Auditorium - St. Cecilia Music Center
• Price Range: FREE
• Type: Big Band, Broadway, Traditional, Classical

Dates & Times

• Spring St. Cecilia Grand Band and St.…3:00pm - Sunday, May 06, 2012 Call 616.459.2224

Jeffrey Kahane and Lincoln Center Winds

MAY 3, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
TICKETS: $35 / $30 / $10 student / subscriptions available

Jeffrey Kahane, piano
Peter Kolkay, bassoon
William Purvis, horn
David Shifrin, clarinet
Stephen Taylor, oboe

Jeffrey Kahane and CMSLC Winds Program:

Poulenc……………………………Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano
Gabriel Kahane………………..Django (Tiny Variations on a Big Dog)
Chopin……………………………..Three Mazurkas; Barcarolle; Polonaise-Fantasy
Bernhard Henrik Crusell….Concert Trio for Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn
Mozart …………………………….Quintet for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn, K. 452

Internationally acclaimed American pianist and conductor, Jeffrey Kahane is recognized by audiences around the world for his mastery of diverse repertoire from Bach to Gershwin. He has established a reputation as a truly versatile artist equally sought after as soloist, conductor, and chamber musician. Joining Mr. Kahane will be members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the nation’s premier repertory company for chamber music.

Kahane will treat audiences to a new work by the young, innovative, barrier-busting composer Gabriel Kahane along with several of Chopin’s best-known piano works and two brilliant and witty works for piano and winds. The performance will be punctuated by Mozart’s Quintet in E flat Major for Piano and Winds, which Mozart himself considered the best thing he had ever written.

PRE-CONCERT WINE AND HORS D’OEUVRES RECEPTION – TICKETS $15 – CALL 616.459.2224

• Location: St. Cecilia Music Center
• Price Range: $35 / $30 / $10 student / Chamber Music Subscription $90 / $75 / Chamber Music and Jazz Subscription $170 / $155
• Type: Chamber Music

Jeffrey Kahane

Dates & Times

• Jeffrey Kahane7:30pm - Thursday, May 03, 2012 Buy Tickets

Jupiter String Quartet

APRIL 12, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
TICKETS: $35 / $30 / $10 student / subscriptions available
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Jupiter String Quartet Program:

Haydn………..Quartet in F Major, Op. 77, No. 2
Ravel…………Quartet in F Major
Schubert……Quartet in G Major, D. 887

The JUPITER STRING QUARTET formed in 2001 and consists of violinists Nelson Lee and Megan Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel (older sister of Meg), and cellist Daniel McDonough (husband of Meg, brother-in-law of Liz).

The quartet spent many of their formative years under the instruction of the eminent Cleveland Quartet and Takacs Quartet, and continue to adhere to many of their central principles today. While enjoying the opportunity to work with living composers, they still feel a strong and fundamental connection to the core string quartet literature, particularly Beethoven and Bartok.

The Jupiters have receive several recent chamber music honors, including first prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition, grand prize in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competion, membership in Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two, and Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award. The quartet also won the 2005 Young Concert Artists International auditions and now holds YCA’s Helen F. Whitaker Chamber Music Chair. Most recently, they were honored to receive an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

The quartet performs across the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, and South America. They have also been enthusiastically received at several major music festivals and have been the quartet-in-residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2008.

PRE-CONCERT WINE AND HORS D’OEUVRES RECEPTION – TICKETS $15 – CALL 616.459.2224

• Location: St. Cecilia Music Center
• Price Range: $35 / $30 / $10 student / Chamber Music Subscription $90 / $75 / Chamber Music and Jazz Subscription $170 / $155
• Type: Chamber Music

Ju;iter String Quartet

Dates & Times

• Jupiter String Quartet7:29pm - Thursday, Apr 12, 2012 Buy Tickets

Apollo’s Fire

MARCH 8, 2012, at 7:30 p.m.
TICKETS: $35 / $30 / $10 student / subscriptions available
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Apollo’s Fire program:

Mediterranean Nights: Sultry Songs and Passionate Dances from Italy and Spain featuring Nell Snaidas, soprano and Steve Player, dancer and guitarist.
Mediterranean Nights Captivating Spanish and Italian love songs with castanets and driving foot percussion, Nell Snaidas, soprano and Spanish dancer Steve Player.
Passionate sonatas by Merula, Uccellini and Castello
Boccherini’s Fandango Quintet

Named for the classical god of music and the sun, Apollo’s Fire was founded in 1992 by the award-winning young harpsichordist and conductor Jeannette Sorrell. Apollo’s Fire is a collection of creative artists who share Sorrell’s passion for drama and rhetoric.

The ensemble has toured throughout North America and made its European debut tour in November 2010, to standing ovations in Spain and the Netherlands, and a sold-out crowd at London’s Wigmore Hall.

Apollo’s Fire has released 17 commercial CD’s, and currently records for the British label AVIE. The recordings have won rave reviews in the London press: “a swaggering version, brilliantly played” (THE TIMES). The fall 2010 release of the Monteverdi Vespers made the Top 10 on the classical Billboard chart. Apollo’s Fire is broadcast frequently on National Public Radio, Canada’s CBC, Britain’s BBC, and the European Broadcasting Union. The ensemble’s television special “Discovering Vivaldi,” produced by Cleveland’s PBS television station, will begin national syndication on PBS stations in 2011.

PRE-CONCERT WINE AND HORS D’OEUVRES RECEPTION – TICKETS $15 – CALL 616.459.2224

• Location: St. Cecilia Music Center
• Price Range: $35 / $30 / $10 student / Chamber Music Subscription $90 / $75 / Chamber Music and Jazz Subscription $170 / $155
• Type: Chamber Music

Apollo's Fire

Dates & Times

• Apollo's Fire7:29pm - Thursday, Mar 08, 2012 Buy Tickets

Eat Drink Be Merry

Enjoy the elegant atmosphere of St. Cecilia Music Center and the luxurious tastes of Martha’s Vineyard’s best while bidding on special experiences and items. Tastes include high-end wine selection and hearty hors d’oeuvres from Catering by Martha’s and Nantucket Baking Company.

Wineries to be showcased:
 
Conn Valley Vineyards  Rubicon Cask
Ferrari Carano
Neil Ellis, Stag’s Leap Cellars Forman
E. Guigal Chalone
Ferrari Carano
Shafer
D’ Arenberg,
Honig
Sebastiani
Castello D’ Monastero
Pio Cesare
Nicolas Catena
Fisher
Girard
Frank Family
Regusci and many more…..

Bid on scores of exciting auction items featuring dining, entertainment, vacation packages and lots more.

• Location: 24 Ransom NE, Downtown Grand Rapids
• Price Range: $35

Dates & Times

• Eat - Drink - Be Merry6:00pm - Friday, Mar 02, 2012 Buy Tickets

Sneak Peek

presents:

Insider information on the acclaimed artists coming soon to Royce Auditorium + Complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres + Chamber Music Series ticket deals and subscriptions available that night.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 5:30 p.m.

RSVP to tonya@scmc-online.org or 616.459.2224 by February 13.

• Location: 24 Ransom NE, Downtown Grand Rapids
• Price Range: FREE

Dates & Times

• 5:30pm - Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 Call 616.459.2224

Nicholas Payton

FEBRUARY 9, 2012, at 7:30 p.m.
TICKETS: $35 / $30 / $10 student / subscriptions available
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Nicholas Payton is the embodiment of every trumpet player who came before him, and he leads the way for all who follow. Hailed as a virtuoso before he was even out of high school, his maturation as a prodigious talent has earned him praise as one of the most important artists of our time.

Nicholas Payton was born in1973 in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a musical family. Encouraged by his mother, a pianist and vocalist, and his father the legendary bassist, composer and educator Walter Payton, Nicholas showed talent for music at a very early age. He received his first trumpet at age four and by age nine was sitting-in with local bands including the Young Tuxedo Brass Band. By the age of 12 he was a member of the All Star Brass Band that performed and toured extensively.

Nicholas has toured with scores of musicians including Clark Terry, Marcus Roberts, Ray Brown, Elvin Jones, and Roy Haynes and many more. He has also performed and recorded with many musicians representing a multitude of musical genres from jazz, R&B, and hip-hop and is credited on well over 120 recordings as a composer, arranger, special guest or sideman.

As a leader, Nicholas has recorded 8 albums under his own name including Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton—a 1997 GRAMMY® award-winning collaboration with the legendary trumpeter.

Nicholas has recently completed his 9th recording as a leader—a bold autobiographical solo masterwork— a love story that musically chronicles the joys and heartbreak of relationship. A provocative and breakthrough recording on many levels, Nicholas played every instrument, composed all the songs, wrote all the lyrics, produced each track, and sings and plays trumpet throughout. He is accompanied by special guest vocalists Cassandra Wilson, Esperanza Spalding, N’Dambi, Chinah Blac, and Saunders Sermons.

Nicholas Payton is a genius musician, a gifted composer and producer and a skilled astute writer. His craft and artistry defy all restrictions leaving little that he cannot do.

PRE-CONCERT WINE AND HORS D’OEUVRES RECEPTION – TICKETS $15 – CALL 616.459.2224

• Location: St. Cecilia Music Center
• Price Range: $35 / $30 / $10 student / Jazz Subscription $90 / $75 / Jazz and Chamber Music Subscription $170 / $155
• Type: Jazz

Nicholas Payton

Dates & Times

• Nicholas Payton7:29pm - Thursday, Feb 09, 2012 Buy Tickets

Flex Passes

St. Cecilia offers great opportunities to hear world-class musicians throughout our entire season. We recognize that not every date works for everyone, however, with the Flex Pass you choose the dates that work. Or give St. Cecilia Flex Passes as special gifts throughout the year so you don’t have to wonder about schedule conflicts.

St. Cecilia Flex Passes are a great way to support SCMC and makes shopping for a classic gift easy.

• Location: St. Cecilia Music Center, Royce Auditorium
• Price Range: $35 / $30
• Type: Jazz and Chamber Music

Dates & Times

• Call 616.459.2224

Winter Philharmonic

Dance of the Tumblers………………………………..Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
 
Night on the Bare Mountain…………………………………Modest Mussorgsky
 
An American Rhapsody……………………………………………….Richard Meyer
 
Intermission
 
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major…………..Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I.  Allegro Rachel Epperly, piano
 
Amazing Grace……………………………………………………….arr. William Ryder
 
Overture to Semiramide…………………………………………………………..Rossini
 

• Location: Royce Auditorium - St. Cecilia Music Center
• Price Range: $10 / children 10 and under admitted free

Dates & Times

• Winter Philharmonic8:00pm - Saturday, Jan 14, 2012 Buy Tickets

Winter Sinfonia and Concert Orchestra

PROGRAM

Sinfonia
TBD

Concert Orchestra

Finale from “Sonatina, Opus 100”……Antonin Dvorak, arr. Art Sheinberg

Celebration for a New Day………………………………………………….Bob Phillips

Shepherd’s Hey………………………………….Percy Grainger, arr. Harry Alshin

Farandole…………………………………………………………Bizet, arr. Merle J. Isaac

Concert and Sinfonia Finale

Donegal Fiddles …………………………………….Traditional, arr. Tim McCarrick

• Location: Royce Auditorium - St. Cecilia Music Center
• Price Range: $10 / children 10 and under admitted free

Dates & Times

• Winter Sinfonia and Concert Orchestra5:00pm - Saturday, Jan 14, 2012 Buy Tickets

Winter Concert Band

PROGRAM

Rampage!…………………………………………..Todd Stalter
Country Wildflowers…………………….Larry Daehn
Snapshots……………………………..James Curnow I. Forging a New Frontier II. Beach Music III. The Tall Ships

Annabel Lee…………………………Douglas Wagner

Prairie Songs……………………………Pierre LaPlante

Lassus Trombone……………………….Henry Fillmore

• Location: Royce Auditorium - St. Cecilia Music Center
• Price Range: $10 / children 10 and under admitted free

Dates & Times

• Winter Concert Band7:00pm - Friday, Jan 13, 2012 Buy Tickets

St. Cecilia adult Grand Band and String Orchestra Winter Concert

St. Cecilia Music Center adult Grand Band and String Orchestra present a free concert of holiday and classical favorites for the entire family.

• Location: Royce Auditorium - St. Cecilia Music Center
• Price Range: FREE

Dates & Times

• Winter St. Cecilia Grand Band and St.…3:00pm - Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 Buy Tickets

Season Subscriptions

Save on a six-concert combination of St. Cecilia Jazz and St. Cecilia Chamber Music subscription!

ST. CECILIA JAZZ CONCERT SERIES

*JOE LOVANO US FIVE
Thursday, 7:30 p.m., October 27, 2011*
Joe Lovano, saxophone
James Weidman, piano
Francisco Mela, drums
Esperanza Spalding, bass
Otis Brown III, drums

New takes on what defines the jazz idiom, with Esperanza Spalding,
recent Grammy-winner for year’s best new artist

*JANE MONHEIT, vocals
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., November 30, 2011*

Passionate and fearlessly honest interpretations of great songs

*NICHOLAS PAYTON, trumpet
Thursday, 7:30 p.m., February 9, 2012*

_A ferociously gifted trumpeter _ – The New York Times

ST. CECILIA CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT SERIES

*APOLLO’S FIRE, Cleveland Baroque
performing Mediterranean Nights – sultry songs of Spain and Italy*
Thursday, 7:30 p.m., March 8, 2012

A front-runner among America’s finest baroque orchestras – The Independent, London

*JUPITER STRING QUARTET
performing Haydn, Ravel and Schubert
Thursday, 7:30 p.m., April 12, 2012*

_They played as if they were on fire, with passion and energy galore _– Kansas City Star

JEFFREY KAHANE, piano, with members of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Winds
In collaboration with the Gilmore Keyboard Festival *performing Poulenc, Chopin and Mozart
Thursday, 7:30 p.m., May 3, 2012*

Peter Kolkay, bassoon David Shifrin, clarinet
William Purvis, horn Stephen Taylor, oboe

A truly versatile pianist, with an unparalleled roster of chamber performers

• Location: St. Cecilia Music Center
• Price Range: $170 A section / $140 B section
• Type: Jazz/Chamber Music

Dates & Times

• Jazz & Chamber Music subscription7:30pm - Thursday, Oct 27, 2011 Buy Tickets

David Finckel and Wu Han

PRE-CONCERT WINE AND HORS D’OEUVRES RECEPTION – TICKETS $15 – CALL 616.459.2224

APRIL 14, 2011, 7:30 P.M.

Cellist David Finckel of the Emerson String Quartet and pianist Wu Han, artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, rank among the most esteemed and influential classical musicians in the world today. They bring talent, energy, imagination, and dedication to their celebrated duo performances.

Click here for the David Finckle and Wu Han program

SPECIAL OFFER April 1-8, 2011

• Location: Royce Auditorium - St. Cecilia Music Center
• Price Range: $35 / $30 / $10 student
• Type: Classical

David Finckel and Wu Han

Dates & Times

• David Finckel and Wu Hna7:30pm - Thursday, Apr 14, 2011 Buy Tickets

SCMC Rock Camp Finale

The Outer Vibe and 6 SCMC Rock Camp Bands Showcase

Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: Intersection Lounge
133 Grandville Ave SW, Grand Rapids
All ages are welcome

Tickets $5 in advance are now available at Intersection Lounge or from any of the performing bands (Rock Camp students will receive tickets on the first day of camp to sell).

Other bands playing – Full Throttle, GO! and Tribune.

For a free ticket, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and we’ll give you the details, or contact us on Facebook.

See you at the show!

• Location: Intersection Lounge
• Price Range: $5 in advance
• Type: Rock

Dates & Times

• SCMC Rock Band Finale6:29pm - Saturday, Jul 24, 2010 Buy Tickets

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