If you go
* What: String Theory chamber music concert * When: 6:30 p.m. today, May 7; Art Connection program starts at 5:30 p.m. * Where: Hunter Museum of American Art, 10 Bluff View * Admission: $25 Hunter members, $35 nonmembers, $25 groups of 20+, $10 students with ID * Phone: 423-267-0968 * Website: www.stringtheorymusic.org
Celebrated concert series String Theory at the Hunter winds up its sixth season tonight, May 7. The program will include Mendelssohn Variations Concertantes for Cello and Piano and Brahms’ Piano Quartet in A Major.
Featured performers are Soovin Kim (violin), Hsin-Yun Huang (viola), Paul Watkins (cello) and Gloria Chien (piano).
This will be the Chattanooga debut for Huang and Watkins. Kim performed in last year’s String Theory finale as part of the Johannes String Quartet. He maintains his position as first violinist for the quartet. He, Huang and Watkins are artistic directors of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, the Sejong International Music Festival and the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival.
Chien is artistic director of String Theory. She founded the series in 2009 as a partnership between Lee University and the Hunter Museum of American Art to bring chamber musicians from around the world to perform in Chattanooga.
Chien also is director of the Chamber Music Institute at Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in the San Francisco Bay area, and has been a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2012.
Early arrivals can take part in Art Connection starting at 5:30 p.m. This walk through the gallery features a discussion of the works in the collection that relate to the music of the evening. It is led by former Hunter chief curator Ellen Simak and Chattanooga Symphony & Opera conductor emeritus Robert Bernhardt.