Augusta Symphony Celebrates the New Year
Presenting the KEOWEE CHAMBER PLAYERS
On Saturday, January 10, the Augusta Symphony Columbia County Music Series presents the Keowee Chamber Players. Founded by Kate Steinbeck and based in Asheville, North Carolina, this quartet enlivens communities with inclusive chamber music offerings in historic and unusual settings and is devoted to creating high-quality musical experiences that are unique, educational and relevant to all audiences. The evening’s concert features flute, violin, cello and viola in a program of Reger’s Serenade, Dohnanyi’s Serenade, Debussy’s Six Epigraphes Antiques (1914), and Mozart’s Quartet in D Major. The 7:30 p.m. concert is at the Jabez S. Hardin Performing Arts Center in Evans.
As part of a holiday ticket special, tickets are $20.09 through Wednesday, December 24. After December 24, the regular ticket price of $30 per person goes into effect. Tickets may be purchased by calling 706.826.4705 or online at www.augustasymphony.org. Full-time students and military personnel with valid I.D. may purchase $7 tickets on concert night only starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Jabez S. Hardin Performing Arts Center, subject to availability.
For interview requests, contact Kate Steinbeck at 828.254.7123 or email kate@keoweechambermusic.org. Visit www.keoweechambermusic.org for more information about the Keowee Chamber Players.
Kate Steinbeck
Prior to moving to Asheville in 1997, Ms. Steinbeck, a flutist, spent a decade free-lancing in San Francisco and was featured on many of the Bay Area’s most prestigious concert series. More recently she has been presented in performance at MUSICORA in the Louvre (Paris), with the Mallarmé Chamber Players (Durham, NC), Festival of the German Flute Society, (Berlin), on Sights and Sounds (Raleigh Chamber Music Guild), and at the US Embassy in Brussels, Belgium. Ms. Steinbeck earned a Bachelor of Music from Baldwin-Wallace College studying with William Hebert (Cleveland Orchestra) and a Master’s Degree at the San Francisco Conservatory as a student of Tim Day (San Francisco Symphony). A former Fulbright scholar to Belgium, she won a First Prize in chamber music from the Belgian Royal Conservatory in Liège and thereafter spent several years performing and teaching in Germany.
Daniel Skidmore
A native of West Virginia, Daniel Skidmore is a member of the orchestras in Salisbury, Winston-Salem, and Greensboro, North Carolina. In 2006 he completed a doctorate in violin performance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He teaches violin and viola at Catawba College and has held positions at Appalachian State University and Frostburg State University. He has performed concertos with the Salisbury Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony in Raleigh, and the Fibonacci Chamber Orchestra. Each summer he is a violin faculty member at the Eastern Music Festival.
Simon Értz
Violist Simon Értz grew up in the north west of Scotland and moved to Manchester to study at Chethams and have regular lessons at the age of seventeen. While in Manchester, Simon was awarded the Thomas Barret memorial prize for viola. By the time Simon graduated from the RNCM he was working with orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic, Northern Chamber, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. After two years working in the UK, Simon moved to Michigan to continue his education. While completing his Master's degree at Michigan State University, he served as assistant principal viola of the Greater Lansing Symphony and played in the orchestra's string quartet. As a member of the Degas Quartet, Simon has played in venues across the country including the Library of Congress on their Stradivarius, and at the Aspen Music Festival.
Philip von Maltzahn
Philip von Maltzahn recently completed his Masters of Music in 2002 at the Eastman School of Music, under the tutelage of Steven Doane. He began to play the cello at age nine in Arlington, Texas, and after studies with cellist Elizabeth Morrow he was awarded a full scholarship to study at Indiana University under Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Janos Starker. Concert highlights include a concert with the Eastman Chamber Music Society at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, a 2001 appearance at the Spoleto USA Chamber Music Series in Charleston, SC, and chamber performances at the Aspen Music Festival.
THE COLUMBIA COUNTY MUSIC SERIES SPONSOR IS DOCTORS HOSPITAL. Concert Sponsors are Columbia County Community & Leisure Services, Georgia Power, The Dana Foundation, Dr. J. Rogers Byrd, Mr. and Mrs. Horst Michael, and Dr. Larry Millen. Media sponsors for this concert are Beasley Broadcast Group and Columbia County Magazine.
For more information about the Augusta Symphony call 706.826.4705, visit www.augustasymphony.org, fax 706.826.4735 or email marketing@augustasymphony.org. Located on the second floor of the Sacred Heart Cultural Center, the Symphony office is open Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
