April 26: Chamber Music at the Gallery features the Atlantean Trio

The concluding concert of the Chamber Music at the Art Trail Gallery 2014-15 season will present the Atlantean Trio. The concert will be held on Sunday April 26 at 5pm in the gallery at the corner of Irby and W Evans St. The program will include the Beethoven Piano Trio in G Major and the Smetana Piano Trio in G minor. A meet the artist reception will follow the program. Tickets are $10 available at the gallery or at the door.

The talented musicians in the trio are ABIGAIL VAN STEENHUYSE, originally from Annapolis, Maryland, received degrees in violin performance from East Carolina University and University of Michigan.  She is the winner of the Mary Ruth Hardy Violin Scholarship and the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, Dr. Richard Thomas is Associate Professor of Music and director of the Chamber Orchestra at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina and Adjunct Instructor of Cello at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina and BARRY DAVID SALWEN is an international concert pianist, giving performances and master classes in the US, Europe, Israel, and Asia.  He gave two weeks of master classes at the Shanghai Conservatory in China, among many other places.

This concert is made possible through funding from the Florence Regional Arts Alliance's Quarterly Grants Program, which is funded in part by a generous award from Honda of South Carolina, the South Carolina Arts Commission and the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund of the Coastal Community Foundation of SC.

November 23: International Award winning Baritone Sings at Art Trail Gallery

On Sunday November 23 the Chamber Music at the Gallery series will present Baritone  Mischa Bouvier in concert with Yegor Shevtsov, accompianist. The one hour performance starts at 5 PM with a meet the artist reception to follow. Tickets are $10 available at the Gallery or at the door on the 23^rd.

The program includes; Blue Mountain Ballads by Paul Bowles, Schubert songs, Histoires Naturellesby Ravel, and Cabaret Songs by William Bolcom.

Praised by The New York Times for his “rich timbre” and “fine sense of line,” Mischa Bouvier is a winner of the 2010 CAG Victor Elmaleh Competition.  “Mischa Bouvier’s rich baritone voice…and his refined artistry” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), make an immediate impact combined with his keen musicality and remarkable communicative powers.

Orchestral highlights in 2013-14 include: Mischa’s Alice Tully Hall debut with Musica Sacra singing the New York premiere of Jocelyn Hagan’s amass;  Handel’s Messiah in a return engagement with the American Bach Soloists and also for his debut with his hometown orchestra, the Alabama Symphony; and Brahms Requiem with the Columbus Symphony (GA) and the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas.  He was featured with Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Musica Sacra at Carnegie Hall in March 2013 in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and he joined the Colorado Symphony in December 2012 for Handel’s Messiah.  Other recent highlights are Bach’s St. John Passion (bass soloist and Pilate) at New York’s St. Thomas Church; Princeton Glee Club (Fauré’s Requiem and Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical Songs); and Bach Collegium San Diego (Mozart’s Requiem and St. John Passion).

Recent recitals with pianist Yegor Shevtsov include a southern tour with performances on the Macon Concert Series and Clemson University’s Utsey Chamber Music Series at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, as well as the Baldwin-Wallace Art Song Festival, Trinity Church’s “Concerts at One,” and the Music Room at the Lindberg Farm.  His debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall featured new works by four emerging composers, including world premieres by Bryan Page and Yotam Haber, and songs by Ted Hearne and Gabriel Kahane

Special Thanks to the Sponsors for this concert: Julia Krebs & Roger Hux and Mardi North

This project is made possible through funding from the Florence Regional Arts Alliance's Quarterly Grants Program, which is funded in part by a generous award from Honda of South Carolina, the South Carolina Arts Commission and the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund of the Coastal Community Foundation of SC.

October 26: Chamber Music at the Art Trail Gallery Present Beatles, Bach and Beer

Sunday, October 26 @ 5 PM

Chamber Music at the Art Trail Gallery Proudly Presents

 UNED!TED: Beatles, Bach, and Beer

British Rock meets German Baroque

as Charleston’s favorite Bach-Stars take Chamber Music at the Art Trail Gallery by storm

Sunday, October 26 @ 5 pm.

Native son Jonathan Kammer, John Holenko, Hazel Ketchum, Johnny Gray and Laura Ball 

rock the one-hour performance of Classical Faves and Classic Beatles.

Blazing pianos, banjos, saxophones, and mandolins ignite

the Music of the Masters with Iconic Rock ‘n’ Roll.

Tickets $10— Available at the Door

Includes Post-Concert “Meet the Artists” Reception

Special Thanks to our Presenting Sponsors Judy & Ken Kammer and Debi & Panos Kalaritis

Five Grants Awarded and a New Arts Grants Opportunity

The Florence Regional Arts Alliance (FRAA) announces five grant recipients in the third

quarter of its grants program. The program is designed to support a wide variety of quality arts projects, professional development opportunities for artists and arts administrators. Recipients of grants awarded this quarter are the Florence Symphony Orchestra for its Spring Concert with the Masterworks Choir, The McLeod Health Foundation for its Artful Expressions Project, Florence Downtown Development Corporation’s Chamber Music Series at the Gallery, Ms. Dolores Johnson of Williams Middle School’s Phat Pheet and the Lake City Community Theatre’s upcoming production of Curtains.

Partnering with the South Carolina Arts Commission, the Florence Regional Arts Alliance has four annual quarterly grant deadlines. The next application deadline for this year’s grant cycle is November 15th for projects taking place in April, May or June. To be considered, organizations must be based in Florence County with a Florence County mailing address and be registered charitable organizations with federal non-profit status. Individual artists must be practicing artists and have a Florence County mailing address. 

The program is funded in part by a generous award from the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts

Fund of the Coastal Community Foundation of SC, the South Carolina Arts Commission, The National Endowment for the Arts, Honda and local individual support to the Florence Regional Arts Alliance.

For more information about FRAA’s Quarterly Grants Program visit www.florenceartsalliance.org or contact Mrs. Uschi Jeffcoat at director@florenceartsalliance.org or 843.407-3092.