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Connect your kids to classical music. Order tickets at www.curtis.edu or call 215-893-7902.

2008-09 SEASON

An Introduction to the Voice
Sunday, November 9 at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Field Concert Hall
Seating is general admission.

Join Curtis students Allison Sanders, Sarah Shafer, Joshua Stewart, and Thomas Shivone, accompanied by pianist Don St. Pierre, as they present an hour-long, all-American program with excerpts of art song, opera, spiritual, jazz, and Broadway, interspersed with everything you ever needed to know about singing.

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An Introduction to the Keyboard Family
Sunday, April 26 at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Field Concert Hall
Seating is general admission.

This hour-long concert will be presented by Curtis students Nathan Laube (organ and harpsichord), Andrew Hsu (piano and celesta), and Madeline G. Blood (harp). They will perform excepts from pieces by Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, Rossini, and Tchaikovsky, among others, and ask and answer questions of the audience. Children will have an opportunity to play the featured instruments after the concert and get autographs.

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ABOUT THE PECO FAMILY CONCERT SERIES
Through performance and audience interaction, Curtis students illustrate the basic elements of music and share their experiences as musicians. Best enjoyed by children 5 to 12 and their families.

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Curtis Musicians Perform at the Mann Center

Curtis students and recent graduates make their Philadelphia Orchestra debuts at the Mann Center June 29, June 30, and July 1 under the direction of Rossen Milanov, artistic director of the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Mann Center and a 1994 graduate of Curtis.

On Monday, June 29 at 8 p.m., works by Beethoven are featured. Benjamin Beilman performs Romance No. 2 for violin and orchestra, and 2009 graduate Kyu Yeon Kim performs Piano Concerto No. 4.

Twins Christina and Michelle Naughton, second-year Curtis students, perform on Tuesday, June 30 at 8 p.m. The concert includes an appearance by Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter, narrating Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals.

On Wednesday, July 1 at 8 p.m., fourteen-year-old Curtis violinist Yu-Chien Tseng performs Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with conductor and harpsichordist Lio Kuokman, a 2009 graduate. Lio also leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in a performance of Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro.

For more information, visit www.manncenter.org
© 2008 The Curtis Institute of Music