Friday, Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m.LEE JORDAN-ANDERSWorks by Mozart, Ravel, Schumann, and Gershwin arepaired with depictions of women from the collection of the Chrysler Museum of Art. Jordan-Anders is Professor of Music and Artist-in-Residence at Virginia WesleyanCollege. $10; $5 (Sponsored by the Dougherty VisitingArtist Fund)

Monday, Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m.THE WREN ENSEMBLEPerforming on period instruments, College ofWilliam and Mary faculty members Susan Via,baroque violin, Sarah Glosson, cello and viola dagamba, Ruth van Baak Griffioen, recorder, andTom Marshall, harpsichord, present music of the16th and 17th centuries in Birth of the Baroque.$10; $5

Friday, Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.TOWN MOUNTAINAn adrenaline-filled blend of aggressive blue-grass and traditional country is a standardevening with Asheville-based TownMountain, winner of Colorado’s prestigiousRockygrass Band Competition as well as ashowcase spot at the International BluegrassMusic Awards (Nashville). In between, twolyrically rich albums, non-stop cross-countrytouring, and finally, a return visit to VWC.$10; $5

Friday, Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m.MANHATTAN PIANO TRIOThe Trio’s sound is a life-changing experience.(Chicago Sun-Times) A grand departure from the usual.(News Herald) MPT has been welcomed by enthusiasticaudiences in over 30 states and across threecontinents, and this year the trio releases itsthird album on the Marquis Classics label,a disc of Schumann and Chopin trios incelebration of the composers’ bicentennials.$10; $5

Friday, Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m.TIDEWATER GUITAR ORCHESTRATheir bright sound was perfect and the precision with which they played was impressive. . . a celebration;like a party after an evening of hard, but rewarding work. (The Virginian-Pilot)Sam Dorsey leads the TGO in a grand mix of folk music from Central and South America, classic works by Bach, Telemann, Bartók, and Copland, plus modern commissioned pieces created for this talented dozen performing on traditional classical guitars, bajas, and requintos. $10; $5

Friday, Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4, 4 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.Sunday, Dec. 5, 3 p.m.A WESLEYAN CHRISTMASHoliday classics, old and new, are part of this campus tradition with the Virginia WesleyanCollege Choir and the Wesleyan Singersunder the direction of David Clayton, theVirginia Handbell Consort under the direction of Alan Reese, plus faculty and student soloists. (Co-sponsored by the VWCCenter for Sacred Music. All seats $5; early reservations recommended)

Monday, Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m.PAVEL ILYASHOVA breathtaking display of virtuosity and rhapsodicexpression. (Miami Herald) … A virtuoso from head to toe. (St. Louis Post Dispatch)Enthusiastically applauded throughout Europe,Asia, and the Americas, Ilyashov has performed chamber music with Yo Yo Ma, Jaime Laredo, andmembers of the Guarneri, Orion and EmersonString Quartets, and now performs with theVirginia Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded onthe Naxos and Albany labels, and his performanceshave been broadcast on CBS, ABC, PBS, andNPR’s Performance Today. Ilyashov is joined bypianist Lee Jordan-Anders. $10; $5

Monday, Feb. 14, 7:30 p.m.BILLYE BROWN YOUMANSHampton Road’s favorite performers, the acclaimed soprano Billye BrownYoumans and pianist Charles Woodward, present Tell Me the Truth About Lovein a Valentine performance including Benjamin Britten’s Cabaret Songs and theSchumann song cycle, Frauenliebe und leben (A Women’s Love and Life). $10; $5

Monday, Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m.RED PRIEST

Enormously entertaining fun dished up by people who knowhow this music works, and whose affection for the

subject of their witty and anarchic fooling is neverin doubt. (Gramophone)

If the Rolling Stones played recorder, violin,cello and harpsichord, they would be a bandcalled Red Priest. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)Like plunging an adrenaline-filled syringe into the heart. (Washington Post)A high-energy baroque hoe-down . . . deliciously twisted, vividly interpreted.

(Los Angeles Times)Need we say more? Piers Adams and

company return for a grand foray through the works of Vivaldi and friends. $15; $8

(Sponsored by the Dougherty Visiting Artist Fund.)

Wednesday, April 6, 7:30 p.m.EUGENIA ZUKERMANHer musicianship is consummate, her taste immaculate, and her stage presence a sheer pleasure. (The New York Times)Zukerman’s magic flute is graceful and eloquent; an absolute marvel of sensitivity. (The Washington Post)An extraordinarily gifted artist, Zukerman has been praised for her lyrical phrasing, agility and compelling stage presence, and has recorded on the Delos, CBS Masterworks, Pro Arte, Vox Cum Laude, and Newport Classics labels. The multi-faced artist also enjoys successful careers as an author and televisioncommentator and has served as arts correspondent for CBS SUNDAY MORNING since 1981. $15; $8(Zukerman will offer a free lecture on her work as journalist at 11 a.m., Thursday, April 7, Hofheimer Theater.)

Lee Jordan-Anders

SOUND & SYMBOLTheology and the ArtsThe Center’s 2010-11 lecture series exploresmusic and ritual from the world’s great reli-gious traditions. All take place in Fine Arts 9,are free, and open to the public.

Tuesday, Oct. 19, 11 a.m.PADMARANI RASIAH CANTU A versatile dancer and accomplished choreographer with an international reputation and coordinator of summerdance at Yogaville, Cantu explores the ritual dance of the Hindu religion in Bharatha Natyam, one of the world’s oldest art forms.

Tuesday, Nov. 9, 11 a.m.CANTOR WALLYSCHACHET-BRISKINA member of the clergy team at OhefSholom Temple, Schachet-Briskinexplores the Sacred Music of the Jews. A recording artist with three cds of original Jewish compositions, he is a graduate of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion,School of Sacred Music.

Tuesday, Feb. 22, 11 a.m.DR. STEVEN EMMANUELSounds of Silence, an examination of meditation in Eastern and Western religious practices, is presented byEmmanuel, Professor of Philosophy atVWC and a teaching affiliate in ThePluralism Project at Harvard University.

Tuesday, April 5, 11 a.m.BILLYE BROWNYOUMANS Acclaimed soprano and member of the VWC Performing Artist Faculty,Youmans performs sample works from the gamut of Christian musicbeginning with medieval chant andcontinuing through contemporary classics.

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Sunday, Oct. 24, 4 p.m.FOLLOW METhe Center’s annual fall hymn festivalexplores this simple invitation that changedthe world. Dr. Craig Wansink, AssociateDean of the College and Professor ofReligious Studies is guest preacher. Choirmembers from all churches are invited to sing in the festival choir and rehearse prior to the hymn festival at 2:30pm at the church.To join the choir, call 757.455.3376 or emailsbilly@vwc.edu. All music is provided.(Donations accepted) Great Bridge PresbyterianChurch, 333 Cedar Road, Chesapeake

July 25-30, 2011SACRED MUSICSUMMER CONFERENCEA non-denominational showcase of instructionin sacred music steeped in the Wesley traditionof training minds and warming hearts. Morethan 45 workshop sessions led by 16 guest clinicians highlight the week. John Bell leads

the conference’smid-weekhymn festival,and MackWilberg con-ducts Finale, a concert ofsacred classics.

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Tuesday, Sept. 14, 11 a.m.IMAGES OF WOMEN IN MUSIC AND ARTArtist-in-Residence and Professor of Music Lee Jordan-Anders presents excerpts from her September 10 concert(see details in the VWC Concert Series listing). HofheimerTheater. Free and open to the public.

Friday, Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m.Saturday, Dec. 4,

4 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.Sunday, Dec. 5, 3 p.m.A WESLEYANCHRISTMAS(Se e details in the VWC Concert Series listing)

Friday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.SPRING CONCERTThe Virginia Wesleyan College Choir and the Wesleyan Singers under the direction of Dr. DavidClayton with George Stone, accompanist. HofheimerTheater. Free and open to the public.

MONUMENTAL MOMENTSI should like to see all the arts, especially music, used in the service of the One who gave and made them.

Martin Luther, 1524

Tuesday, Dec. 7, 11 a.m.“A SERVICE OF LESSONS AND CAROLS”

Thursday, March 31, 11 a.m.“ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL”

Monumental Chapel on the VWC campus

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Images of Womenin Music and Art

Virginia Handbell Consort

Billye Brown Youmans

Dr. Steven Emmanuel

Cantor Wally

PadmaraniRasiah Cantu

Town Mountain

Conductor of the Virginia SymphonyOrchestra and classical guitarist,

JoAnn Falletta is joined by DebraWendells Cross, flute, Beverly KaneBaker, viola, Michael Daniels, cello,

and Robert Alemany, clarinet, in a performance of works by

Schubert and Paganini. $15; $8

Monday, Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m.JOANN FALLETTA

& FRIENDS

All performances take place in Hofheimer Theater and are free to the VWC community; for others, tickets are $10-adults and $5-seniors/military/students unless otherwise noted. The Series is grateful for the support of the Virginia Cultural Foundation and the Doughterty Visiting Artist Fund.

John Bell Mack Wilberg

Eugenia Zukerman

Pavel Ilyashov

Red Priest

Tidewater Guitar Orchestra

Manhattan Piano Trio

Monday, April 11, 7:30 p.m.AMBROSIA STRING

QUARTETSince 2002, Ambrosia has enlivened

chamber music with sparkling passion. All are members of the

Virginia Symphony Orchestra andit’s no surprise that out of an

excellent orchestra comes such avibrant string quartet. Simon

Lapointe and Mayu Cipriano, violin, Beverly Kane Baker, viola,

and Rebecca Gilmore, cello, perform string quartets byMendelssohn and Dvorák.

$10; $5Ambrosia String Quartet

Manhattan Piano Trio

Billye Brown Youmans

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