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NOVA Chamber Music Series

expanding utah’s musical horizons since 1977

Fry Street Quartet, music directors

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Zalkind & Elizalde: Romantic Music for Cello
May 19
Zalkind & Elizalde: Romantic Music for Cello

Matthew Zalkind and Julio Elizalde present Romantic music for cello and piano..

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The Full Season

Includes tickets to all concerts in NOVA’s 2024/25 Season
(5 Libby Gardner concerts & 2 Gallery concerts)

All ages: $175 (a $205 value)

Libby Gardner Series

Includes tickets to all five of NOVA’s 2024/25 Libby Gardner Series concerts

Adult: $115 (a $135 value)
Child under 18: $25

The Libby Gardner Series

includes five performances in Libby Gardner Concert Hall at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

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From Warsaw With Love
Oct 13
From Warsaw With Love

music by Bacewicz, Ptaszyńska, Chopin

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Musical Marriages
Nov 10
Musical Marriages

music by Clara & Robert Schumann and Wang Lu & Anthony Cheung

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Stops & Starts: Bach Cantatas & Organ Works
Jan 12
Stops & Starts: Bach Cantatas & Organ Works

including the Wedding Cantata, Ich habe genug, and music by Viet Cuong and Haruhito Miyagi.

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Jessie Montgomery Plays Jessie Montgomery
Mar 9
Jessie Montgomery Plays Jessie Montgomery

The Grammy-winning composer and violinist joins NOVA artists to perform her own music, as well as works by Bartók, Okpebholo, and Bansal.

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American Gamelan
May 4
American Gamelan

Madeline Adkins plays Lou Harrison’s Violin Concerto. Kimi Kawashima performs Christopher Cerrone’s Don’t Look Down for prepared piano.

Also featuring music by Fauré and Debussy.

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The Gallery Series

features two additional concerts at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City. Tickets are very limited due to the intimate setting.

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Alex & Aubrey Woods Play Baroque
Sep 15
Alex & Aubrey Woods Play Baroque

music by J.S. Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Stravinsky, Kenji Bunch

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Fry Street Plays The Great Fugue
Feb 23
Fry Street Plays The Great Fugue

music by Haydn, Beethoven, Hitomi Oba

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season 23/24 featured artists
Aubrey Adams-McMillan
Aubrey Adams-McMillan

mezzo-soprano

Madeline Adkins
Madeline Adkins

violin, 2018/19 music director

Anne Francis Bayless
Anne Francis Bayless

cello

Brant Bayless
Brant Bayless

viola

Kathryn Eberle
Kathryn Eberle

violin

Fremont String Quartet
Fremont String Quartet

string quartet

Fry Street Quartet
Fry Street Quartet

string quartet, music directors

Thomas Glenn
Thomas Glenn

tenor

Laura Ha
Laura Ha

violin

William Hagen
William Hagen

violin

Claude Halter
Claude Halter

violin

Zachary Hammond
Zachary Hammond

oboe

Jason Hardink
Jason Hardink

piano, artistic director emeritus

Matthew Johnson
Matthew Johnson

cello

Sasha Kasman Laude
Sasha Kasman Laude

piano

Kimi Kawashima
Kimi Kawashima

piano

Rebecca McFaul
Rebecca McFaul

violin

Caitlin Valovick Moore
Caitlin Valovick Moore

flute

Bradley Ottesen
Bradley Ottesen

viola

John T Posadas
John T Posadas

viola

Cahill Smith
Cahill Smith

piano

Lissa Stolz
Lissa Stolz

oboe, English horn

Erin Svoboda-Scott
Erin Svoboda-Scott

clarinet

Viktor Valkov
Viktor Valkov

piano

Robert Waters
Robert Waters

violin

Frank Weinstock
Frank Weinstock

piano

Evgenia Zharzhavskaya
Evgenia Zharzhavskaya

violin

To celebrate 45 years bringing great chamber music to Utah, our former music directors tell NOVA’s story in their own words.

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NOVA Chamber Music Series’ 2023-24 season will be personality-driven thrill ride with lots of surprising twists and turns

A prime reason why the NOVA Chamber Music Series consistently excels in its unique programming brand is demonstrating how the deep bench of world-class musical talent in Salt Lake City and throughout Utah can tackle just about any curveball a composer could conceive of throwing their way.

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Moments to shine: NOVA Chamber Music Series closes 45th season with spectacular Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde

Thierry Fischer returned to NOVA Chamber Music Series to conduct a spectacular performance of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.

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Printed programs are great, but they have limited space. This often means we have to shorten the program notes or don’t have room for artist bios. Don’t worry — you’ll still receive a program at each concert. But this year, w
NOVA’s 45th Anniversary Season starts in just one month! Do you have your tickets yet?
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Join us this Sunday for our Songs of the Americas concert at 3 pm at Libby Gardner Hall for the second concert in our spring series. A highlight of the concert will be Clarice Assad's six-movement Cancoes da America, which was commissioned and will
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