Celebrity Concert Series Celebrates Fifty Years With The Salzburg Chamber Orchestra

Led by acclaimed violinist Lavard Skou-Larsen, the engaging ensemble of eighteen first-class musicians is dedicated to performing orchestral chamber music with the freedom and virtuosity of soloists.  This world renowned orchestra will be presented at the Cox Performing Arts Center on Friday and Saturday, March 27-28 at 7:30 p.m. and sponsored by the Val A. Browning Family Endowment.
 
Salzburg Chamber is famous in Austria and is critically acclaimed throughout the world.  The soloists toured North America their first year, South America the next, and have since been heard  in most of the world's leading concert halls.  One of their members, Lena Neudauer, won the 2003 International Mozart Violin Competition.
 
The diverse and exciting program for both evenings of the Celebrity Concert Series performance will include: Heitor Villa-Lobos’: Bachiana Brasileira; W.A.Mozart’s: Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola and orchestra in E-flat Major; Astor Piazzolla’s: 5 Tangos;, Joseph Haydn’s audience pleasing Sinfony in f-minor, Nr.: 49 “La Passione.“
 
"The best part of the Salzburg Chamber Soloists performance was this: they played so expertly that when I left, I felt like I had heard what Mozart himself might have heard inside his mind, before he wrote anything down. I appreciate anything in this world that sparks a reflective silence. Their performance connected me to something classy and timeless - even genius - and that is something you do not experience every day."  - The Current -
 
"Bruckner’s Adagio swathed the concert hall in a velvety cloak of sound. Skou-Larsen directed nuances that where played with such import and tenderness that you could feel a drama unfold with each measure."  - Washington Post -
 
"The SALZBURG CHAMBER SOLOISTS performed like one massively poised, technically astonishing and stylish featured guest.  …this is freedom harnessed to an impassioned common purpose. Each phrase had its own emotional register, plucked from the orchestrás seemingly limitless range.
Their lush sound and sensitivity could not have better served Tchaikovsky’s tugging melodies, or integrated better his rhythmic folk dances."  - The News Tribune, Tacoma -
 
Tickets are $20 adults or $12 youth and available at the Dixie State College box office, 435.652.7800.  Visit us on the web at www.dixie.edu/concerts.  For more information contact gbunker@dixie.edu or 435.652.7994.