Spoleto Chamber Music Series 2010

It's a milestone season for one of the longest-running chamber-music series on public radio: Chamber Music from the Spoleto Festival USA returns with new host Lisa Simeone in a series of 13 one-hour concerts that mark the final season of Spoleto's venerable and one-of-a-kind Chamber Music Artistic Director Charles Wadsworth.

The series features great guest artists, including violinist Chee-Yun, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joining such Spoleto mainstays as the St. Lawrence String Quartet, flutist Tara Helen O'Connor and clarinetist Todd Palmer in a season of concerts that is a true collection of "greatest hits" of Charles Wadsworth's Spoleto years. Wadsworth and his successor, St. Lawrence first violinist Geoff Nuttall, introduce each work with their typically humorous, engaging, and unique stage commentary.

The series features the world's most accomplished artists performing in the newly-renovated Memminger Auditorium in Charleston, SC. It blends splendid acoustics with the warm and uniquely congenial ambiance that is the hallmark of Spoleto Festival USA's Charleston setting. The Toronto Star describes Spoleto Festival USA as "Some of the finest young musicians on the continent in some of the freshest-sounding music-making to be heard anywhere."

Hallmarks of the new joint productions include:

> Select stand-alone "modules" of performances for broadcast in different dayparts
> On-demand audio and podcasts of material from each concert
> Expanded broadcast-rights window
> Detailed background notes on the music on the series, as well as profiles, pictures, and performer bios, via a new website exclusively dedicated to the radio series: www. spoletochambermusic.org.

Executive Producers for the new Spoleto series are two of public radio's most experienced cultural producers: Shari Hutchinson, the Peabody and CPB-Award winning producer of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, and Benjamin K. Roe, the Peabody-, Grammy- and ASCAP-Deems Taylor-award-winning former Director of Music for NPR.
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It's a milestone season for one of the longest-running chamber-music series on public radio: Chamber Music from the Spoleto Festival USA returns with new host Lisa Simeone in a series of 13 one-hour concerts that mark the final season of Spoleto's venerable and one-of-a-kind Chamber Music Artistic Director Charles Wadsworth. The series features great guest artists, including violinist Chee-Yun, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joining such Spoleto mainstays as the St. Lawrence String Quartet, flutist Tara Helen O'Connor and clarinetist Todd Palmer in a season of concerts that is a true collection of "greatest hits" of Charles Wadsworth's Spoleto years. Wadsworth and his successor, St. Lawrence first violinist Geoff Nuttall, introduce each work with their... Show full description