Performance Listing (October 2012)

Music Majors perform during a weekly afternoon recital.  These recitals are free and open to the public.

An annual favorite for the whole family, the seventh annual Band-A-Rama Benefit Spectacular features the Virginia Tech Jazz Ensemble, Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and Marching Virginians in a musical extravaganza. Tickets are $10 general, $5 senior, and $5 student. Tickets are at the venue door, one hour prior to the performance.

The United States Air Force Heritage of America Band, the Langley Winds, performs an afternoon recital for the music students in the Department of Music at Virginia Tech.  This concert is free and open to the public. 

Join Virginia Tech's small jazz ensembles, under the direction of new Virginia Tech Faculty Paul Langosch, as they perform a concert of modern and classic jazz at The Cellar (www.the-cellar.com). No cover.

The University Choirs perform an evening concert under the direction of Dwight Bigler and Scott Williamson.  Chamber Singers, Tech Men, and Women’s Chorus join for an evening of choral music, featuring Renaissance masterworks, contemporary French chanson, Eastern European folk music, spirituals, and newly composed works.  Student Ensemble Concerts are $5 general, $3 senior, and $3 student. Tickets will be available at http://www.studentcenters.vt.edu/tickets/events.php as well as at the door.

Flutists Jessica Bateman and Sara Gholam perform an alumni recital assisted by Andy Miller on piano and Matthew Jennings on percussion.  The program will feature works by Abigaña, Muczynski, Copland, Jolivet, Colquhoun and more.  Jessica Bateman graduated from Virginia Tech in 2006 and Sara Gholam in 2007.  They currently reside in northern Virginia and play together in the Carillon Flute Duo, a group that performs a variety of music for weddings and other events.  They are looking forward to performing at their alma mater.  This concert is free and open to the public.

University Chamber Music III features the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, co-presented with the Center For the Arts at Virginia Tech. The eight musician chamber ensemble will perform Brahms’ Sextet in G-Major, Op 36; Shostakovich’s Prelude and Scherzo for String Octet, Op. 11; and Mendelssohn’s Octet for strings in Eb-Major, Op. 20. Tickets are $40 General Public, $32 Faculty/Staff/Seniors, and $10 students and youth under 18 years old.  Tickets for the concert at the Lyric Theatre may be purchased at the Lyric Theatre online or by stopping by Monday through Friday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., or by calling 540.951.4771. 

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble was created in 1967 to perform the larger chamber works—from quintets to octets—with players who customarily work together, instead of the usual string quartet with additional guests. Drawn from the principal players of the orchestra, the Chamber Ensemble tours as a string octet, string sextet, and in other configurations including winds. Its touring commitments are extensive, with annual visits to France, Germany, and Spain, and frequent tours to North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan.

In 2011, two critically acclaimed tours saw the Ensemble perform in cities across the USA and Canada. They also visited venues throughout the UK with a program featuring two of the most important works written for octet. In 2012 the Ensemble will perform in London at Kings Place and St Martin-in-the-Fields, with a US tour scheduled for the Autumn.

Contracts with Philips Classics, Hyperion, and Chandos have led to the release of over thirty CDs by the Chamber Ensemble.

“The performance was also exemplary chamber playing…acutely responsive and rich in nuanced details. While they often offered big, thick sound and expressive intensity…they were also capable of fleet delicacy and quiet lyricism”

Feb 2011, The Oregonian

Music Majors perform during a weekly afternoon recital.  These recitals are free and open to the public.