Newswise — What: Camerata Benefit Concert For Musicians in the Arizona Cancer Center Series
When: Monday, Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Crowder Hall in the Music Building at the University of Arizona Fine Arts Complex on the southeast corner of Park Avenue and Speedway Boulevard.
Cost: Reserved seat tickets, $22; UA employees and senior citizens 55 and over, $18; students, $10. Tickets may be purchased through the UA Fine Arts Box Office, 621-1162. Seating is limited. Those attending will have an opportunity to meet the artists at a reception immediately following. Parking is available in the Park Avenue Garage located at the northeast corner of Park Avenue and Speedway Boulevard.
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This concert, with guests artists, cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, is titled "Music is a Healing Art." Musical selections include the world premiere of guitarist and composer Brad Richter's "Fragments Transcending," written for cello and guitar. Richter is a guest lecturer at the University of Arizona in the Camerata program.
Proceeds from the concert will help fund the UA's School of Music Camerata performances in the "Music at the Cancer Center Series" as well as the Camerata endowment. Camerata is a career development program which offers student musicians the full performance experience.
Inaugurated in 2001, Camerata's Cancer Center Series is the only musical series of its kind in the United States. The Series presents short concerts for patients and their accompanying care-givers at the Arizona Cancer Center to provide both entertainment and stimulation. Live, high-quality music at times is "just what the doctor ordered" for those waiting in the clinic. Volunteer musicians from the Tucson community oftentimes perform with members of Camerata.
The composition to be premiered on Oct. 6 resulted from a chance meeting between the composer and the musicians. In the fall of 2002 Finckel attended a concert presented by faculty and students at the School of Music and Dance. Impressed by the performance, Finckel sought more information about the musicians and subsequently met Richter.
During the same concert, Finckel met UA doctoral candidate in flute performance and Camerata member, Katherine Kitzman. The concert had been organized to benefit Kitzman because on the day that she and another member of Camerata had performed at the Arizona Cancer Center, Kitzman learned of her diagnosis of breast cancer.
In the year since Richter and Finckel met, their creative collaboration resulted not only in the world premier of Richter's work but also in the upcoming benefit concert. Presently, the Arizona Cancer Center Series has been funded by the UA's College of Fine Arts and by a matching personal donation from Daniel Von Hoff, director of the Arizona Cancer Center, and his wife, Ann.
Finckel, cellist in the Emerson Quartet, is known for his elegance and passion as a soloist. Wu Han, a pianist from Taiwan, has earned a reputation for her refreshing clarity and imagination at the keyboard. Together, they make up a husband/wife performing team whose concerts are hailed for musical merits, unity and affection for the music they perform.
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