Bonneville Chamber Music Festival @ WSU (Ogden: March 21 - 30)

Bonneville Chamber Music Festival Returns

Who: Weber State University Department of Performing Arts

What: Bonneville Chamber Music Festival

When: 21-30 March 2012 • concerts: 21, 23, 24, 26, 30 • 7:30 pm

Where: Mar 21, Austad Auditorium, Va. A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts

Mar 23, 24, 26: Allred Theater, Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts

Mar 30: Holy Family Catholic Church, 1100 East 5550 South, Ogden

Cost: $12/adults; $9/students* and seniors; 

purchase 2 or more tickets and receive a 25% discount

*free for WSU students with Wildcard (required)

The Weber State University Department of Performing Arts presents the sixth annual Bonneville Chamber Music Festival presenting international, national and local musicians in three concerts and two master classes. Concerts are scheduled March 21 at 7:30 in the Austad Auditorium, Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts; March 23, 24 and 26  at  7:30 pm in the Allred Theater, Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts. The final concert will be March 30 at 7:30 at the Holy Family Catholic Church, 1100 East 5550 South in Ogden. The concert on Monday, March 26 is free, sponsored by Weber County RAMP. Tickets for all other concerts are $12/$9 and may be purchased from the Dee Events Center Ticket Office, 1-800-WSU-TIKS. All concerts are free for WSU students with a current Wildcard (student I.D.). Children 8 years and older are welcome. 

Festival guest artists include:  

Bojan Martinovic, piano, Montenegro (professor, Montenegro Academy of Music)

Brad Richter, guitar, USA (guitarist, composer, residency artist)

Brett Patterson, organist, USA (music director, Holy Family Church, Ogden)

Carmelo de Los Santos, violin, Brazil (professor, University of New Mexico)

Guigla Katsarava, piano, France (professor, Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris)

Manfredo Schmeidt, conductor, Brazil, (Orchestra Symphonica de Porto Alegre)

Miran Begic, violin, Montenegro  (dean/professor, Montenegro Academy of Music)

Monte Belknap, violin, USA (professor, Brigham Young University)

Spencer Martin, viola, USA (professor, Luther College)

Weber State University faculty and students: artists

Mark Henderson, director, WSU Chamber Choir

Michael Palumbo, director, WSU Symphony Orchestra

Moriah Wilhelm, violin

Viktor Uzur, cello

WSU Chamber Orchestra

WSU Chamber Choir

Artistic Director, Viktor Uzur, WSU, music faculty and cello instructor, is continuing a tradition he began in 2007. The festival is designed to encourage appreciation of chamber music by bringing together musicians from around the world to perform and offer master classes to our campus and northern Utah community. 

The Bonneville Chamber Music Festival is made possible through the generous support of:

Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation

RAMP

Harris Family Foundation

Mel and Sandy Sowerby

Details of each concert follow in separate releases.

Festival website: weber.edu/bcmf