Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival hosts Marsalis, Fleming

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Wynton Marsalis, Renée Fleming and Pinchas Zukerman are all heading to northeast Florida for the 21st season of the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, which was announced on Wednesday.
Tickets are already on sale for the December 3 appearance of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Marsalis and singer Ashley Pezzotti. Tickets for the remainder of the lineup will go on sale October 25 on the festival’s website at ameliachambermusic.org. Festival contributors will have access to tickets from October 11.
The season opens with a holiday performance by trumpeter Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on December 3 at the First Baptist Church in Fernandina Beach. Tickets are $ 80 to $ 120.
Fleming, one of the industry’s best-known sopranos, is scheduled to appear Jan. 14 at First Baptist Church in Fernandina Beach. She will also appear on January 13 at “Music & the Mind,” a panel discussion on the intersection of music, health and neuroscience, in the courtyard of the Springhill Suites by Marriott in Fernandina Beach.
The Polish Wieniawski Philharmonic Orchestra, formed during World War II, is scheduled to perform at the First Baptist Church in Fernandina Beach on January 22. Violinist Sara Dragan and pianist Tomasz Ritter will be part of the group.
An event called “Beer & G-Strings: Musical Fireworks” is scheduled for January 30 at Sadler Ranch in Fernandina Beach. It includes members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Georgian Chamber Players, Atlanta Chamber Players, Emory School of Music, Vega String Quartet and Christiania Trio.
On February 5th, the festival will present “The Legend of Peer Gynt”, a concert aimed at all ages. A trio will perform the music of Edvard Grieg while dancers from Amelia Island Dance Festival by Susan Dodge and artists from Amelia Art Studio by Lauren Templeton and students from Amelia Art Studio perform the music. The event will take place at the Peck Center in Fernandina Beach.
The festival’s quartet in residence, the Dover Quartet, is scheduled to perform on February 13 at the Amelia Plantation Chapel in Fernandina Beach.
On March 8, Tango Argentina will perform at the Ritz Carlton Amelia Island. The group is made up of ten musicians and dancers, and the Amelia Island stage will be part of its first American tour.
The Danish String Quartet is scheduled for March 31st at the Amelia Island Chapel. The core of the group has been playing together since they were children.
The University of North Florida’s Big Band Ensemble I is scheduled to perform on April 2 at Amelia Park in Fernandina Beach.
The Dover Quartet returns to the Amelia Plantation Chapel for a performance on April 10, joined by violist Roberto Diaz, violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen and cellist Christopher Rex, founder of the festival.
Bluegrass act that the Gibson Brothers are scheduled to perform on April 16 at the Peck Center. They were named Artist of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association in 2012 and 2013.
The festival is scheduled to end on April 22 with a performance of the Zukerman Trio at the Ritz-Carlton. Zukerman is well known to the public in Northeast Florida; he performed at the Times-Union’s Center first show in 1997.
To find out how to become a festival contributor, visit aicmf.org or call (904) 261-1779
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