ARCO Chamber Orchestra concert features concertos and world-premieres

The ARCO Chamber Orchestra presents an extraordinary performance featuring two Hugh Hodgson faculty members, Levon Ambartsumian and Evgeny Rivkin, performing concertos. The concert will take place in the Hodgson Concert Hall on Tuesday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. and will highlight works by Mozart, Schubert, and Glinka. 

The first part of concert will feature “Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Known for its brilliant character and natural and pleasing melodies, the concerto was written in 1782 for home performances, and was therefore orchestrated for small chamber orchestras. Professor of piano Evgeny Rivkin will perform as a soloist in this piece.

The second part of the concert will open with one of Schubert’s best-known chamber works, “Fantasia in F minor.” This composition, originally written for piano four-hands where two players perform on one piano, was orchestrated for solo violin and string chamber orchestra by the world-renown composer Efrem Podgaits. The North American premiere of this arrangement will be performed by the Franklin Professor of Violin Levon Ambartsumian. Ambartsumian also performed the world premiere in Moscow in March 2019 and will perform the South American premiere this summer in Santiago, Chile. 

For the finale, under the baton of Levon Ambartsumian, the artistic director of ARCO, the ensemble will perform “Valse-Fantasie” by Mikhail Glinka. Also known as Melancholy Waltz because of its minor key, this piece was initially a work for piano. The award-winning Russian composer, Igor Kholopov, arranged it for a small chamber orchestra with four woodwinds and strings. 

Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for children and UGA students and can be purchased online at pac.uga.edu, by calling 706-542-4400, or in person at the PAC box office located at 230 River Road in Athens.

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Press Release: Yeasol Kang <yeasol89@uga.edu>

Contact: Levon Ambartsumian <levonamb@uga.edu>