Virtuoso pianist Gloria Chien to open Clarksville Community Concert Association’s 2012-13 season on September 21st

Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville Community Concert Association will kick off its 2012-13 season at 7:30pm on September 21st with a performance by piano virtuoso Gloria Chien.

Richard Dyer of the Boston Glove praised Chien for “a wondrously rich palette of colors, which she mixes everything with dashing bravado and with an uncanny precision of calibration.”

Chien will perform Bach-Busoni, Brahms, Scriabin and Chopin in the first half of the program. The Brahms clarinet trio will be featured after intermission, with APSU assistant professor of music Dr. Mingzhe Wang assisting on clarinet and Dr. Eli Lara, APSU assistant professor of music, on cello.

The concert will be held in the Concert Hall in the Music/Mass Communication Building at Austin Peay State University.

Upcoming CCCA performances include Brentano Quartet on October 19th, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and Nashville Symphony Chorus on November 11th, Curtis Rayam, tenor, Donnie Ray Albert, baritone with Roland Carter at the piano on March 1st and jazz trumpeter Dominick Farinacci headlining the Mid-South Jazz Festival on April 6th.

For tickets, go to www.clarksvillemusic.org or call 931.553.6053 or 1.877.811.0200.

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