Friends of Music's 26th Season -- 2012 Concert Schedule Announced

Robin Ward, saxophone and Dan Chien, piano play to a

packed house before the City of the Hills Chorus performed
at the Holiday Concert on Dec. 4.

What a tumultuous year it has been--internationally, nationally and locally--from political and economic upheaval to incredible natural disasters around the globe. In our area many folks suffered terrible losses from the flooding at the end of August. Sometimes it seemed our little concert series was the island of calm in our stormy sea and we were fortunate to hear some truly amazing performances.

We have more glorious music in store for the coming year, and we hope you will join with us once again to enjoy the performances and the company of your friends, neighbors and visitors. As usual the concerts are on Sundays at 3PM at the Frank W Cyr Center in Stamford, NY. From April through November these dates are the third Sunday of the month while the Holiday concert in December is on the first Sunday.

There may be changes to the following schedule in the event of illness or other disaster (let's hope we are spared in 2012!) so please check here or on our Web site at friendsmusic.org for possible updates. We wish you and all your loved ones a wonderful New Year's celebration and we'll see you in April!

Friends of Music 26^th Season – 2012 Concert Schedule*

April 15             Select Artists from the Metropolitan Opera’s

                           Lindemann Young Artist Development Program

May 20              The Allant Trio

                           Graduate Students from the Juilliard School:

                           Alina Lim, cello; Beth Hyo Kyoung Nam, piano and

                           Anna Jihyun Park, violin

June 17              Piano Trio with Clovis Nicolas, bass

                           Around the World with Jazz Standards

July 15               Duo Prism

                           Rieko Aizawa, piano and Jesse Mills, violin

August 19          Serio Divertimenti (Serious Fun)

                           Lisa Arkis, flute; Monte Morgenstern, clarinet;

                           Peter Prosser, cello and Susan Sobolewski, piano

September 16   Yoni Levyatov, piano and Katie Thomas, violin

October 21        Bryant Park Quartet

                           Anna Elashvili and Ben Russell, violin;

                           Adam Meyer, viola and Tomoko Fujita, cello      

November 18    Justin Kolb, piano

                           Liszt and the Barefoot Carmelite

December 2       Holiday Concert

* Subject to change; please check friendsmusic.org

   or FoMStamford.blogspot.com for updates.

Happy New Year!