Monday, December 21, 2009

Brian Reagin Returns to Open Friends of Page-Walker Winter Concert Series

The Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel is admiring to advertise that Brian Reagin, acclaimed violinist and Concertmaster of the North Carolina Symphony, will acknowledgment to bang off its Winter Concert Series on Sunday, October 19. Reagin, who captivated the admirers with his arresting concert during the 2007 Winter Concert Series, will accomplish a classical repertoire on his Lorenzo and Tomasso Carcassi violin fabricated in Florence, Italy in 1763.

Concertmaster of the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra back 1988, Reagin was for eight years Assistant Concertmaster with the Pittsburgh Symphony beneath André Previn and Lorin Maazel. With the Pittsburgh Symphony he toured Japan, China, Hong Kong, Europe, Canada and Puerto Rico and performed abundant account and alcove works in Europe, Africa and the West Indies. Prior to abutting the Pittsburgh Symphony, he served as Concertmaster of the Cleveland Institute of Music Symphony Orchestra and accomplished in Carnegie Mellon University. Named Concertmaster of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in 1996 at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, he became alone the fourth Concertmaster in the history of that summer orchestra back its birth in 1929, abutting a acclaimed account of agreeable leadership.

Reagin has been a almsman of abundant prizes, including First Prize in the Ohio Music Teachers Association Collegiate Artist Competition, First Prize in the Cleveland Institute Concerto Competition, the Society of American Musicians Talman Award in Chicago, and the Jerome Gross Memorial Prize at the Cleveland Institute.

“We are captivated to accept such a accomplished and acclaimed artist as Brian Reagin to barrage this year’s Winter Concert Series,” said Hal Bowman, Chair of the Friends’ Performing Arts Committee. “The Main Gallery of the Page-Walker Arts & History Center is the absolute affectionate ambience to advertise all of the assorted artists who will be assuming this year. This admirable alternation is, by far, the best ball amount in Cary.”

The Reagin concert will be the additional anniversary Carole J. Wright Memorial Concert, called for adept adherent of the concert alternation and benefactor to The Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel. Other performances will feature: The Cashore Marionettes, accolade acceptable puppetry set to classical music on November 9; David Burgess, internationally acclaimed classical guitarist on December 7; A Robert Burns Celebration, poetry, song and prose—250 years of Burns on January 11; and Love Bits & Bites, an aboriginal affected acquaintance on February 15. All performances will be captivated on Sunday afternoons at 4 p.m. at The Page-Walker Arts & History Center, 119 Ambassador Loop—in the Heart of Cary.

Advanced division tickets may be purchased for $75* at http://www.friendsofpagewalker.org by registering to appear the Winter Concert Series - SEASON TICKET event. (*A division admission acquirement includes one added chargeless admission to any performance.) Tickets for all performances may be purchased at the aperture for $15, accountable to availability.

About the Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel: The mission of the Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel is to adorn the association by confined as guardian for the Page-Walker Arts & History Center, by advocating canning of Cary celebrated sites, by archiving history and facilitating history education, and by announcement the cultural arts. For added information, appointment http://www.friendsofpagewalker.org.

MEDIA CONTACT: Hal Bowman at (919) 469-8219 or hkbowman@bellsouth.net.

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