Artist Recital Series
Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 8 p.m.
Jasper String Quartet
“Sonically delightful and expressively compelling...”
Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 8 p.m.
Olivier Latry, organ
“Definitive, informative, persuasive, engaging, intensely musical, flawless...Words simply cannot begin to do justice to M. Latry’s consummate artistry.”
Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 8 p.m.
Pacifica String Quartet
“This was playing of the most sublime kind, utterly absorbing in its subtle expressiveness, polish, and ready communication of stylistic character.”
Friday, February 25, 2011, 8 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Robert Walters, English horn
“No other American orchestra can rival its combination of virtuosic technique, consummate ensemble playing and rich, burnished tone.”
Saturday, March 5, 2011, 8 p.m.
Yefim Bronfman, piano
“There's this boundless technique, of course, and stylistic versatility...but there's also a selflessness in his playing.”
Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 8 p.m.
Esperanza Spalding
“The dialogue between her dark, muscular bass notes and her breezy, bubbly vocals is fascinating in the way the two lines diverge and converge again and again.”
Sunday, March 13, 2011, 4 p.m.
Christine Brewer, soprano
“With a dramatic situation of the grandest scale and the effervescence of Wagner inspiring her vocalism, [Ms. Brewer was] an artist who had arrived at her destiny.”
Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 8 p.m.
James Ehnes, violin
“Mercifully free of affectation or vanity, yet blessed with as stunning a technique and as intriguing a musical personality as any violinist on the circuit.”
Bonuses for Subscribers
Friday, October 1, 2010, 8 p.m. and Sunday, October 3, 2010, 2 p.m.
Master Classes with Marilyn Horne
Location: Finney Chapel (directions)
One of the greatest operatic mezzo-sopranos in history, Marilyn Horne returns to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music this fall for a residency as Distinguished Professor of Voice. These master classes are a unique opportunity for all to listen and learn as a legend works with Oberlin voice majors.
Friends of the ARS
Donors help support the longstanding tradition of musical excellence Oberlin College brings to Northeast Ohio. We encourage you to become a Friend of the Artist Recital Series. Friends of the series reaffirm the value placed on music within our communities and allow Oberlin to sustain the elevated level of programming for which it is known. Donations are tax deductible.
About the ARS
Oberlin College’s esteemed Artist Recital Series is one of the oldest continuing concert series in the United States. Since its inception in 1878, more than 1,000 of the most acclaimed and accomplished musicians, conductors, orchestras, chamber ensembles, and composers have graced the stage of historic Finney Chapel. Stars of such international stature as Dave Brubeck, Alicia de Larrocha, Juan Diego Flórez, Glenn Gould, Denyce Graves, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Yo-Yo Ma, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Isaac Stern, George Szell, and Eugene Ysaÿe, to name but a few, have performed under the auspices of Oberlin’s Artist Recital Series, enriching the College, the town of Oberlin, and northern Ohio. This growing roster is more than an impressive “Who’s Who.” It is an illumination of the finest of serious music, spanning the late 19th century to the present.