Porter Center Welcomes Award-winning Violinist Jessica Lee: Feb. 12
Violinist Jessica Lee, winner of first prize at the esteemed Concert Artists Guild International Competition in 2005, will perform at Brevard College's Porter Center for Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 12.
The concert program will feature works by J.S. Bach, Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven, Niccoló Paganini and Camille Saint-Saëns.
Lee first captured national attention with a feature article in LIFE magazine at the age of 3. Since then, the Korean-American artist has been heard on four continents, including such venues as Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall.
A native of Virginia, Lee began playing the violin at age three and later studied with Weigang Li of the Shanghai Quartet. At age 14, she was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia under the tutelage of Robert Mann and Ida Kavafian and graduated with a bachelor's degree four years later. In 2003, she completed her studies with Robert Mann for a master's degree in music at the Juilliard School, and currently resides in New York.
An active chamber musician, Jessica Lee became a member of the Johannes String Quartet in 2006, which is currently touring with the Guarneri String Quartet. This season, she joined the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s CMS 2 program. She has toured frequently with ‘Musicians from Marlboro,’ including appearances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Boston’s Gardner Museum, and is a member of the conductor-less string ensemble East Coast Chamber Orchestra, with which she has performed at Town Hall and the Kennedy Center. Summer festival appearances include the Bravo! Vail Valley Festival, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival and Santa Fe Music Festival. Among her special projects are a number of featured performances with dance companies, including Lar Lubovitch, Mikhail Baryshnikov and the Richmond Ballet.
Tickets to the performance are $25 for adults and $10 for students. They may be purchased from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Porter Center Box Office. The Box Office will be open one hour before the performance. For more information on tickets, please contact the Porter Center Box Office at 828.884.8330. Additional information is available online at www.theportercenter.org.
Posted 01/29/10
Brevard College Presents Eurydice: A Refreshing New Perspective On A Studied Classic
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Caitlyn Kennedy will play Eurydice when Brevard College’s Department of Theatre Studies presents a refreshing new perspective on the studied classic Feb. 25-27.
Photo Credit: Marc Newton
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The Department of Theatre Studies at Brevard College will produce celebrated contemporary playwright Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, a play exploring love and loss in ways both bizarre and refreshing.
In Eurydice, Ruhl, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005 and a recent winner of the MacArthur "genius" grant, tells the classic Orpheus myth from Eurydice’s point of view. The play follows the young lovers (played by Caitlyn Kennedy and Adrian Wagner) through the dreamy circumstances of their wedding into a surreal and quirky Underworld, where Eurydice reconnects with her dead father and Orpheus heroically strives to bring her home.
The production, which will run February 25-27, will be directed by Kelly Carolyn Gordon, Brevard College’s Coordinator of Theatre Studies. The design team includes Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies, Kasendra Bell (set), Guest Artist Katie Fuller (costumes and makeup), and students Ryan Riordan (lights) and Craig Brinker (sound). Water effects will be designed by Frank Fisher of Stone Crazy Garden Company.
Expect unusual visual treats stemming from a postmodern set design, and haunting performances that will leave one pondering the meanings of love and death. Purchase tickets early for the play that The New Yorker calls, "lush and limpid as a dream where both author and audience swim in the magical, sometimes menacing, and always thrilling flow of the unconscious."
Eurydice will be presented at the Morrison Playhouse in the Porter Center for Performing Arts on the Brevard College campus. Single play tickets are $10 for adults and $2 for students (with a student ID). Tickets can be purchased at the Box Office, open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., or over the phone (with a credit card). The Box Office phone number is 828-884-8330. Curtain time for all performances is at 8 p.m.
Posted 01/25/10