With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, many may be looking for a unique gift to give that special someone. Enter Salem Chamber Orchestra with some very unique opportunities. Starting on Thursday, February 11, with a recital and ending on Valentine’s Day with a matinee concert Salem Chamber Orchestra offers three opportunities to celebrate with your valentine.
Thursday, February 11 at 7:30 in Hudson Hall, on the campus of Willamette University, Alessandro Traverna winner of the 2009 Piano E*Competition will perform a recital. In its fourth year, the E*Competition offers musicians from around the world to compete against each other performing on a Disklavier. The Piano-e-Competition, sponsored by Yamaha, started in 2002 and begins with invitation-only screened auditions held in Beijing, Paris, Los Angeles, Moscow and New York City. 2009’s competition included 71 young pianists – chosen from an unprecedented number of applicants from around the world – who had entered their digitally videotaped and recorded MIDI performances on Yamaha Disklavier Pro concert pianos.
On Saturday, February 13 at 7:30pm, Traverna will join the Salem Chamber Orchestra in concert at Hudson Hall as they present their third masterworks concert of the season. The concert will feature Traverna’s performance of Poulenc’s Aubade, concerto choregraphique . The orchestra will also perform Wagner’s Siegfried Idyl and Dvorak’s Serenade in D Minor op. 44. This concert will be repeated on Sunday, February 14 at 3pm also in Hudson Hall. For more information about this concert or the Salem Chamber Orchestra visit www.salemchamberorchestra.org. Tickets for these events are available at Absolutely Tix through Travel Salem at www.travelsalem.com/absolutelytix. Visit www.artsmartsalem.org for a listing of events for the current month and remember, “There’s Something to do in Salem”.
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