I Solisti d’Assisi, featuring local musicians, presents an evening of chamber music on Thursday, June 29 at 7:30 p.m. at Corthell Concert Hall, home of the Osher School of Music, University of Southern Maine, 13 University Way in Gorham. Admission is $20 for adults and $10 for students by cash/check at the door.
Performers include Judy Diez d’Aux, flutist of Les flûtistes de Montréal; Catherine Hudgins, principal clarinetist of the Plymouth Philharmonic; Osher School of Music artist faculty member Wren Saunders of Gorham, principal bassoonist of the Plymouth Philharmonic and Bangor Symphony; violinist Robert Lehmann, professor of music and director of strings and orchestral activities at USM; violist Kimberly Lehmann, of the Portland Symphony and of the Lehmann Duo; and cellist Volkhard Lindner of the Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra.
Photo credit: Courtesy of Assisi Performing ArtsAssisi in Italy, is the birthplace of St. Francis. This ancient town is know for fostering an atmosphere for learning, renewal, and contemplation, and thus an ideal place for a music festival.
The ensemble will perform Flegier’s “Concert Suite,” Crusell’s “Clarinet Quartet in Eb,” Reger’s “Serenade in G,” Mozart’s “Flute Quartet in A,” and Simpson’s “Sextet in A minor.”
The performance is for the benefit of the Assisi Performing Arts Scholarship Fund. Several young Maine musicians, both high school age and collegiate, have expressed an interest in attending the Assisi Festival in Italy.
This concert is one of several being used “to raise scholarship funds for next summer so that we may assist students who need a bit of extra financial assistance to go,” according to Robert Lehmann. He added, “It could be that they need some for tuition, or to purchase that extra seat on the airplane for safe transportation of their cello, or in another case, help renting a decent double bass in Italy, since it is virtually impossible to take a double bass anywhere without a sarcophagus-type travel case that only the top professional orchestras use.” Lehmann also said that all the musicians on these concerts are donating their services.
Assisi Performing Arts is registered with the IRS as a 501(c)3 educational organization. Since 2001 the organization has created learning opportunities for musicians and singers at all steps of their career. For more information: rlehmann@maine.edu.