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Performing Arts Series Society (PASS) Preview Party

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Performing Arts Series
PASS members are invited to an audiovisual preview of the 2017-2018 season, followed by a seasonal reception.

The Performing Arts Series Society (PASS) supports the presentation of a diverse spectrum of performances and residencies by highly acclaimed artists and the brightest emerging and alumni artists in music, dance, and theatre. Member benefits include priority ticket processing, merchandise discounts, receptions, and invitations to special events with our artists. Information at 802-443-PASS (7277) or go.middlebury.edu/pass.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Membership information: 802-443-PASS (7277) or go.middlebury.edu/pass

Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits

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Performing Arts Series
Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista has performed on five Grammy-winning albums and toured with the likes of Yo-Yo Ma, Trey Anastasio, Herbie Hancock, Sting, and Paul Simon. In Middlebury, he leads his winsome quartet—Banquet of the Spirits—on a virtuosic trek through Afro-Brazilian beats with improvised jazz, akin to a carnivalesque stew of joy and irreverence. Tickets: $22/16/6

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

$22/16/6
Open to the Public

Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project

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Performing Arts Series
The transnational performance group Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project (BTDP), based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Philadelphia, draws from Africanist and postmodernist aesthetics. BTDP presents Declassified Memory Fragment, a dance theatre work with live music, inspired by memory, history, and images of the political and cultural realities currently affecting the continent of Africa. Tickets: $22/16/6 (See related event September 26.)

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

$22/16/6
Open to the Public

Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project

Sponsored by:
Performing Arts Series
The transnational performance group Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project (BTDP), based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Philadelphia, draws from Africanist and postmodernist aesthetics. BTDP presents Declassified Memory Fragment, a dance theatre work with live music, inspired by memory, history, and images of the political and cultural realities currently affecting the continent of Africa. Tickets: $22/16/6 (See related event September 26.)

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

$22/16/6
Open to the Public

Soovin Kim, Violin

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Performing Arts Series
This internationally renowned violinist has won the Paganini Competition, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. Most of us in Vermont, however, know him as the youngest-ever musician to join the VYO (at age 10), and today as coartistic director of the acclaimed Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival. Kim celebrates the release of his new solo Bach CD by performing selections from Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin. A Nelson Series event. Reserved seating. Tickets: $28/22/6

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

$28/22/6

Shai Wosner, Piano

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Performing Arts Series
Pianist Shai Wosner has attracted international recognition for his exceptional artistry, musical integrity, and creative insight. Described as a “Schubertian of unfaltering authority and character” by Gramophone, Wosner returns to Middlebury with a program of late Schubert sonatas, including opuses 42, 51, and 78, the “Fantasie.” A Nelson Series event. Reserved seating. Tickets: $28/22/6

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

$28/22/6

Sophie Shao and Friends

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Performing Arts Series
Praised by World News for her “sensitive, stylistic playing, with great finesse, emotion, and gorgeous tone,” cellist Sophie Shao—a perennial Middlebury favorite— has surrounded herself with some of the most talented artists in music. She returns for her 10th consecutive season with an exciting new ensemble of friends to performworks by Haydn, Bridge, and Dvorák. A Nelson Series event, made possible with support from PASS members Rob and Marny Lichtenstein. Reserved seating. Tickets: $30/25/6

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

$30/25/10/6

Moody Amiri

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Performing Arts Series
There are no borders between East and West in the eclectic music of Moody Amiri—a groundbreaking, international duo comprised of Iranian santur player Amir Amiri and Canadian violist Richard Moody. They make their Middlebury debut with a program of engaging and distinctive sounds fusing elements of traditional Persian music with jazz, classical, Indian, and modern spiritual styles. Tickets: $22/16/6
$22/16/6

Modigliani String Quartet

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Performing Arts Series
Formed by four close friends in 2003, this ensemble was named for the famous painter because “Modigliani was something really special … an artist who had his own style and stayed true to it.” Aspiring to stay true to their own voices, the quartet plays works by Mozart and Debussy, plus Dvorák’s “American” quartet. Made possible with generous support from the Sunderman Family Concert Endowment Fund, in memory of Dr. F. William Sunderman Jr. and Dr. Carolyn Reynolds Sunderman. A Nelson Series event. Free; no tickets required.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Free
Open to the Public

Josh Pinkham Trio

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Performing Arts Series
Mandolinist Josh Pinkham has been named “the future of the mandolin” by Mandolin Magazine, and dubbed “one of the most important young improvisers on the acoustic scene today” by mandolin legend David Grisman. Known for pushing the mandolin into new and old territory—excelling in Bluegrass, Newgrass, Jazz, and Classical music—Pinkham’s trio  will be rounded out by acclaimed, in-demand, ensemble players bassist Ethan Jodziewicz and guitarist Jason Borisoff.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

$22/16/6
Open to the Public