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Principal bassoon of the National Arts Centre Orchestra since 2004, Christopher Millard also played with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Radio Orchestra for 29 years. He has appeared at festivals throughout Canada as well as with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Marlboro Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, and World Orchestra for Peace. His numerous recordings on the Summit and CBC labels include a 2004 Juno Award winner featuring the Hetu Bassoon Concerto. Millard’s program features sonatas by William Hurlstone, and Lubos Sluka and music by Villa-Lobos, Mozart, Miroshnikov, and Doppler.

Tickets are $9 general admission, $7 for seniors and Northwestern University faculty and staff, and $5 for students. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7:30pm - 9:30pm

Sylvia Wang has performed as a solo and collaborative artist throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Far East. Her recordings include Debussy on Cadenza Classics, chamber music on Newport Classics and Boston Records, and contemporary American music on North-eastern and CRI. Anhonorary associate at London’s Royal Academy of Music, Wang made her London Purcell Room debut as an Avanti Award winner and was a winner or finalist in such competitions as London’s Royal Overseas League Festival, the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition, and the J. S. Bach International Piano Competition. In a program with the theme “Variations on Variations,” Wang will perform works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Yehudi Wyner, Franz Schubert, and Robert Schumann.

Tickets are $9 general admission, $7 for seniors and Northwestern University faculty and staff, and $5 for students. 

7:30pm - 9:30pm

Joinedby fellow School of Music faculty member Alan Chow and guest artist Daniel Perantoni, professor of tuba at Indiana University, Williams will perform works for horn, tuba, and piano by Wilder, Stevens, and Plog.

Tickets are $9 general admission, $7 for seniors and Northwestern University faculty and staff, and $5 for students. 

7:30pm - 9:30pm

This concert will feature Brandenburg Concert No. 4 in G, BWV 1049 with Anita Rieder and Alyce Johnson, flutes and Mathias Tacke, violin; Cantata: Ich habe genung, BWV 82 with Douglas Anderson, bass and Judith Kulb, oboe; Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543 with Richard Webster, organ; and Suite No. 4 in D for Orchestra, BWV 1069 with the Bach Week Festival Orchestra, conducted by Richard Webster.

Tickets to this and all Bach Week Festival performances are available at www.bachweek.org or at 800-595-4849.

The performance will be held at Nichols Hall of the Music Institute of Chicago, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston.