2014-15 SEASON
The new season begins in September at Spivey Hall, on the Clayton State University campus, 2000 Clayton State Blvd, Morrow. For more information about the 2014-15 season, and how to order tickets, call 678-466-4200 or go to www.spiveyhall.org/.
Clayton State University’s Spivey Hall, one of the most acoustically attractive small venues in metro Atlanta, will present a wide range of classical and jazz performances during the 2014-15 season, with the sounds of Spanish guitar, a cappella chorus, chamber orchestra and big-band swing.
The Spivey Hall schedule, announced Monday, will include more than 50 performances from both international and regional musicians and ensembles.
Spivey’s 24th season begins Sept. 28, with a program of Chopin, Scriabin and Prokofiev, performed by Italian pianist Beatrice Rana, winner at age 26 of the 2013 Cliburn Competition Silver Medal and Audience Prize.
Rana is one of six pianists performing as part of the hall’s piano series. It also includes British pianist Stephen Hough, who makes a return performance with works by Debussy and Chopin’s four Ballades.
A highlight of the chamber music planned for the season will be a performance by the Jerusalem Quartet, making its Spivey Hall debut as part of the strings and woodwinds series on Oct. 26. The ensemble will play an early quartet by Beethoven and modern masterworks by Ravel and Bartók.
Expect older sounds from the Rebel Ensemble for Baroque Music. Accompanied by flute and recorder soloist Matthias Maute, the early music pioneers are also making their Spivey Hall debut.
The New Yorker magazine calls the 12-voice a cappella choir Chanticleer the “world’s reigning male chorus.” Listeners can judge for themselves Nov. 2 when the chorus sings Eastern European-influenced music in an evening called “The Gypsy in My Soul.”
Plenty of jazz is planned for the new season as well, including two performances Nov. 22 by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, led by Atlanta-based singer and music director Nick Hilscher.
Pianist Danilo Pérez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade, known as three-quarters of the Wayne Shorter quartet, will perform later in the season.
Among the regional ensembles that will be part of the new season are the Atlanta Chamber Players, the Southern Crescent Chorale, the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and OurSong: The Atlanta Gay and Lesbian Chorus.
Clayton State also will be serving supper during five of the season’s Saturday evenings, for patrons who want to relax on the wooded campus before one of the performances.
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