Guest Artist/Faculty Chamber Concert:  "Chamber Masterpieces"

Thursday, March 28 Georgia College & State University’s chamber music concert at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall will feature Ludwig van Beethoven’s early quartet masterpiece, “Op. 18 No.4,” which pays musical homage to Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet,” as well as a piano quintet by Antonín Dvořák, featuring exotic Czech idioms with its Dumka movement.  Two guest artists—Jennifer Drake, viola, and Ismail Akbar, cello—join faculty members and violinists David H. Johnson and Bryan E. Hall with pianist Lev Ryabinin for “Chamber Masterpieces.” Drake is music director of the Serenata Orchestra and Boise Philharmonic Youth Orchestras in Idaho. Akbar is a soloist and chamber musician, educated at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio and Mercer University. He has performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Augusta and the South Carolina Philharmonic. This concert will also be livestreamed at www.facebook.com/GCMusicDepartment. A $5 donation is encouraged. Online donations can be made at alumni.gcsu.edu/music. All proceeds benefit music scholarships or the GCSU Department of Music through GCSU Foundation, Inc. For more information, please email music@gcsu.edu or call 478-445-8289.