Georgian Chamber Players: Mozart, Grieg, & a World Premiere
$20
- David Coucheron, violin
- Jessica Shuang Wu, violin
- Zhenwei Shi, viola
- Khari Joyner, cello
- Julie Coucheron, piano
- Elizabeth Pridgen, piano
- Laura Ardan, clarinet
Edvard Grieg — Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45
Edvard Grieg — Norwegian Dances, Op. 35 (for piano, four hands)
Mark Gresham — Quintet for Clarinet & Strings (world premiere)
Join the Georgian Chamber Players for their season finale concert, featuring guest artist Laura Ardan, ASO Principal Clarinet. They will perform classic works by Mozart and Grieg, as well as a world premiere of Mark Gresham’s Quintet for Clarinet & Strings!
About Georgian Chamber Players
The Georgian Chamber Players include David Coucheron, Julianne Lee, Reid Harris, Zhenwei Shi, Rainer Eudeikis, Elizabeth Pridgen, and Julie Coucheron. The group was formed by principal players of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 1984 in order to perform masterpieces of the chamber repertoire with their Atlanta Symphony Orchestra colleagues and world-renowned guest instrumentalists.
http://georgianchamberplayers.org/About David Coucheron, violin
About Zhenwei Shi, viola
Zhenwei Shi has performed as a solo violist and chamber musician at prestigious venues such as Buckingham Palace, Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Shanghai Concert Hall. Since 2018, he has frequently played with the San Francisco Symphony and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Zhenwei Shi was appointed by maestro Robert Spano as Principal Viola of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 2018.
https://www.aso.org/artists/detail/zhenwei-shiAbout Khari Joyner, cello
About Julie Coucheron, piano
About Laura Ardan, clarinet
Principal Clarinet Laura Ardan has been with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) since 1982 and holds the endowed Robert Shaw Chair.
She has been a featured soloist with the Orchestra in works by Mozart, Weber, Debussy, Copland, Bernstein, Finzi, Rossini, Shaw, and Michael Gandolfi, and has also performed with the Cleveland Quartet.
Ardan has performed in the Tanglewood, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, and Bellingham Music Festivals, and as a guest artist in "Emanuel Ax Invites..." on the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center. A frequent guest of the Atlanta Chamber Players, Georgian Chamber Players, and Emory Chamber Music Society, she plays regularly at the Highlands Chamber Music Festival in North Carolina and the Grand Teton Chamber Music Festival in Wyoming.
A student of Roger Hiller and Stanley Drucker, Ardan attended The Juilliard School of Music on scholarships from both Juilliard and the Naumburg Foundation. Before joining the ASO, she was a resident clarinetist and teaching artist at the Lincoln Center Institute for four years. She also played in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for two seasons.
https://www.aso.org/artists/detail/laura-ardan