Siam Society will present two evening concerts featuring a duo and a quintet on Saturday at 7.30pm and next Wednesday at 7pm, respectively.
The first show, "Somewhere Over The Rainbow", features mezzo Hélène Cajka McClellan and Jamorn Supapol on piano, who will take the audience on a musical journey to "discover new horizons" -- a central theme in the romantic period.
The programme will start with Romantic music and Goethe's famous poem Kennst Du Das Land? (Do You Know The Country?) that inspired many composers. Also featured will be Gabriel Fauré's melodies and their impressionist picture of the sea, as well as Duparc's famous Invitation Au Voyage.
Finally, Vaughan Williams' Songs Of Travel will lead the audience to the world of musical theatre with a cycle of nine famous songs that explore the everlasting feeling of longing for new lands, new horizons, new feelings.
The next performance on the last evening of the month will be dedicated to the String Quintet In C Major, Schubert's last completed work widely believed to be among the greatest chamber works ever composed.
The piece will be rendered by five internationally renowned string players -- Rhys Watkins (violin), Omiros Yavroumis (violin), Aibek Ashirmatov (viola), Noa Lev Chorin (cello) and Rowena Calvert (cello).
Somewhere over the Rainbow concert. (Photo courtesy of siam society)
Watkins has performed as a soloist, recitalist and orchestral leader throughout Europe, America and Asia; Yavroumis is the concertmaster of Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra; and Ashirmatov has been playing mainly in Kazakhstan, Usbekistan and Germany.
Currently based in Thailand, Chorin is a guest lecturer at the Princess Galyani Institute of Music while Calvert is the head of strings at local Shrewsbury International School.
Tickets to each show cost 600 baht (500 baht for members and 200 baht for students). Email chuleeporn@thesiamsociety.org or call 02-661-6470--3 ext 201.
