Information: (631) 632-7330
tickets: (631) 632-ARTS
web: stonybrook.edu/music

RH = Staller Center Recital Hall
MS = Staller Center Main Stage

Friday, April 3

5:00 PM Craig Buying, clarinet, RH
8:00 PM Soomin Lee, violin, RH

Saturday, April 4
Community Music Programs meet as scheduled

3:00 PM - Not Just for Kids - David Benoit - "Peanuts", RH, $
Kids will love hearing David Benoit play piano and talk about the themes they’ve come to know from Charles Schulz’s “Charlie Brown” television specials. His involvement as a guest educator with the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation has taken him to classrooms throughout the country; in 2001, he won the Foundation’s “Excellence in Music Education” award. Mr. Benoit has performed The Peanuts Piano Concerto with several orchestras as part of his tribute to Charles Schulz and the music of Vince Guaraldi. In Staller Center’s “Not Just for Kids” show, families can enjoy an hour-long program exploring how songs become characters. Tickets $12

8:00 PM - David Benoit trio, RH. $
Composer and pianist David Benoit, a five-time Grammy nominee for his extraordinary and seminal contributions to contemporary jazz, will entertain with a varied program of jazz treats. Benoit is a passionate musical innovator and has been a guest pianist and conductor with top symphonies. He has played at Carnegie Hall with Maestro Leonard Bernstein, performed on the steps of the Capitol Building with the National Symphony for the annual PBS July 4th event, and created Kobe, a symphonic tone poem about a little girl growing up in postwar Japan. Sit back and enjoy the David Benoit experience! Tickets $34

Sunday, April 5
5:00 PM - New York City Electronic Music Festival, RH
Composers, performers, and media artists from around the globe come together for three days of experimental sound art and multimedia at the first New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. Stony Brook University is pleased to have a concert featuring composers from the festival including Nick Collins, David Durant, Mara Helmuth, and Konstantinos Karathanasis. The concert also features the multi-dimensional ensemble Tabor and Vox Novus director Robert Voisey. Free admission.

7:00 PM - Opera a la Carte - The Mikado, MS, $
The comic operetta “The Mikado” reflected an 1880s craze for all things Japanese. The plot centers on what happens when a fictional Emperor of Japan decrees that flirting is punishable by death. Directed by renowned British Gilbert and Sullivan specialist Richard Sheldon, this production will include a full chorus and orchestra. Sheldon also heads the cast as the Mikado, for which he has been described as “unusually terrifying but quite hilarious.” Tickets $38

SPRING BREAK APRIL 6-12
No events scheduled

Monday, April 13
6:00 PM - Chamber Masterclass, RH

Thursday, April 16
8:00 PM - Music on a Spring Night, RH, $
A breathtaking array of chamber music masterpieces, old and new, will be performed by the distinguished, award-winning artists, many of whom are “in residence” at Stony Brook. These sought-after performers have hundreds of recordings among them, encompassing the most famous classical repertory, 20th century masterworks and new compositions. With Soovin Kim, violin; Clara Lyon, violin; Katherine Murdock, viola; Colin Carr, cello; Kurt Muroki, bass; William Purvis, horn; and Gilbert Kalish, piano.  PROGRAM:  Daniel Weymouth - For Hands; Gyorgy Ligeti - Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano, Hommage à Brahms (1982); Schubert - Octet in F major D803.
Tickets $34, call 632-ARTS or visit www.stallercenter.com

Friday, April 17
8:00 PM - Stony Brook Opera presents Mozart’s Così fan tutte, MS, $
Così fan tutte (1790) was Mozart’s third and final collaboration with the celebrated Italian librettist Lorenzo da Ponte (the other two were Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni), and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed operas in the standard repertory. A full production, with sets, costumes and theatrical lighting, and the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra in the pit.  Conducted by Timothy Long.  Free pre-concert talk at 7:00pm.  Tickets $24/$12.

Saturday, April 18
Community Music Programs meet as scheduled

Sunday, April 19
2:00 PM - Stony Brook Opera presents Mozart’s Così fan tutte, MS, $
Così fan tutte (1790) was Mozart’s third and final collaboration with the celebrated Italian librettist Lorenzo da Ponte (the other two were Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni), and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed operas in the standard repertory. A full production, with sets, costumes and theatrical lighting, and the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra in the pit.  Conducted by Timothy Long.  Free pre-concert talk at 1:00pm.  Tickets $24/$12.