A rare opportunity to hear classical masters Haydn and Beethoven performed on original instruments is featured as the opening concert of the Arts at Noon Series. Cleveland Classical Trio kicks off the series on Tuesday, September 12, with fortepianist David Breitman, violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch and cellist Jaap Ter Linden, three of the leading exponents of the performance practice movement in the world today. This series of noon concerts are performed in the Cook-DeWitt Center, on the Allendale Campus.
Also this month, Arts at Noon brings guitarist Ernesto Bitetti on September 28. Presented as part of the university's celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Argentinean native will perform a program of music from the Spanish and Latin American tradition, including works by Villa-lobos, Moreno, Albéniz, Cardoso and Piazzolla. Bitetti will also conduct a master class open to the public from 3-5 p.m. in the Sherman Van Solkema Recital Hall.
The Artist-Faculty Series begins on September 12, with a concert by pianist Aviram Reichert (pictured), bronze medalist winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. His performance will be at 8 p.m. in the Louis Armstrong Theatre at the Performing Arts Center on the Allendale Campus.
Another Artist-Faculty Series concert this month brings together Robert Byrens, viola, with Joan Conway, piano. Byrens, a frequent performer with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, will perform at 8 p.m. on Friday, September 22, in the Sherman Van Solkema Recital Hall in the Performing Arts Center.
For more information call the Department of Music at (616) 331-3484, or visit www.gvsu.edu/music.
