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Friday, May 18, 2012

2011-12 Season Artists

HARLEM STRING QUARTET

BERLIN PHILARMONIC WIND QUINTET

THE 23rd annual TOWN & GOWN MUSICALE

KIRIL GERSTEIN, solo piano

MUSICIANS FROM MARLBORO

JORGE CABALLERO, solo guitar

WELCOME TO OUR SITE The Ames Town & Gown Chamber Music Association presents five chamber music concerts featuring artists of international renown, as well as its annual Musicale--a gala fundraising event featuring esteemed local musicians. It also brings chamber musicians to the larger community through various outreach events for school children, university students, senior citizens, and many others. Our association is affiliated with Chamber Music America

2011-2012 SEASON Saturday evening, May 12 at 7:30 p.m. Tye Recital Hall, Music Hall, Iowa State University JORGE CABALLERO, solo guitar At age 19, Peruvian native Jorge Caballero was the youngest musician ever to win the prestigious Naumburg International Competition. The next year he was an exciting part of Town & Gown’s 1997-98 season. Since that time, his dazzling virtuosity, intense musicality, and spellbinding performances have amazed audiences, critics, and colleagues alike. Renowned guitarist Eliot Fisk described him as “a great virtuoso of the mind as well as of the fingers . . . [possessing] an extraordinary musical intelligence coupled with deep feeling.” His programs include an enormous range of repertoire, including his own transcriptions of major musical masterpieces. Program: J.S. Bach Sonata BWV 1003, Albeniz Selections from Iberia, Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition MORE . . .