The Hoch Chamber Music Series "A Night in Italy"

Concordia
Conservatory of Music & Art will present its opening concert of 12th
season of the Hoch Chamber Music Series with “A Night in Italy” on November 2
at 7pm.The concert will feature Artistic Director of the Hoch Series, Grammy
Award-Winning violist Lawrence Dutton of the Emerson String Quartet at the
Sommer Center for Worship and the Performing Arts at Concordia College.  He will be joined by violinists Elizabeth
Lim-Dutton, Jee Sun Lee, Emily Kalish and Nurit Patch, cellist Lindy Clarke and
Evelyn Farny, violist Arnaud Ghillebaert and Edwin Kaplan and pianist Marija
Ilic and soprano Sheri Hammerstrom.

Lawrence
Dutton has served as the Artistic Director of the Hoch Chamber Music Series for
12 years transforming the series into a world-class chamber music series with
an eclectic mix of repertoire and artists. Hailed as a “poet violist” (The New Yorker) and as the violist of
the Emerson String Quartet for over three decades,  he has earned distinction performing more than
100 concerts each season throughout the United States and abroad. Dutton’s
unparalleled list of achievements with the Quartet includes over 30 acclaimed
recordings since 1987, nine Grammy Awards and collaborations with some of the
greatest artists of our time. Dutton is a Professor of viola and Chamber Music
at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the Manhattan School of
Music.

Tickets
for the concert are $30 adult and $15 senior/child.  For information, call the Conservatory office
at

914-395-4507
or order tickets online at www.concordiaconservatory.org.