Wed 12/9-Wed 12/16
Thu 12/10 @ 7:30PM
Oberlin Conservatory of Music has a jam-packed week of online music programs planned. It starts Wednesday December 9 @ 7:30pm with conductor Tiffany Chang leading the musicians of the Arts and Sciences Orchestra and members of Chamber Music 800 in a chamber music program, and wraps up on Wednesday December 16 @ 12:01am with Peter Tákacs and a group of conservatory faculty and alumni presenting a Beethoven Piano Sonata Marathon, of 17 of his piano sonatas, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth.
In between, it’s got a series of orchestra and small ensemble performances and a special treat. On Thursday December 10 @ 7:30pm, its guest on its Stage Left program will be Oberlin alumna Rhiannon Giddens (class of ’00), who went on to acclaim with the Carolina Chocolate Drops and as a solo artist and collaborator (She performed with country artist Eric Church on his terrific single 2015 “Kill a Word”). In addition to studying opera at Oberlin, Giddens is even better known for singing and playing banjo and fiddle in folk/old-time/bluegrass settings.
Currently, she’s working with Italian jazz keyboardist Francesco Turrisi, a collaboration that brings new dimensions to the work of each of them. Giddens will be interviewed by music theory professor Jan Miyake, about her banjo playing and her social activism, and she and Turrisi will also perform a set that incorporates blues, bluegrass, gospel, and traditional Celtic music, among other things
This online programming from Oberlin Conservatory is free.
oberlin.edu/conservatory/stage-left
Oberlin, OH 44074