CHAPEL HILL, NC — Posted Nov. 21, 2009
On Sunday, December 13, 2009, the Chapel Hill Philharmonia will feature Elizabeth Tomlin, piano soloist , at its “Music for Dreaming” concert. Ms. Tomlin is on the Duke University Music Faculty and is a well-known collaborative pianist throughout the Southeast. In 2010 she will be teaching and performing at Indiana University’s International Chopin/Schumann Bicentennial Festival as well as playing solos with orchestras in Illinois, Indiana, and North Carolina. Ms. Tomlin has a music doctorate from Indiana University, a master’s from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor’s from UNC-CH. Her principal teachers include Edward Auer, Louis Nagel and Duke Miles, as well as master classes with Murray Perahia, Michael TilsonThomas,, Robert Levin and John Perry.
Ms. Tomlin will be performing Schumann’s Piano Concerto, a lyrically beautiful work once described as “music that tastes like chocolate”. The program includes Mozart’s Symphony #25 (featured in the movie “Amadeus”) and Borodin’s rousing Polovetsian Dances, familiar from the musical “Kismet”.
The Chapel Hill Philharmonia is a community orchestra of serious amateur musicians who play for the love of classical music. Conductor is Don Oehler.
Concert is at 7:30 pm in newly remodeled Hill Hall auditorium on the UNC-CH campus. Admission is free.