CONCERT SCHEDULE

The 2008 Innsbrook Institute Music Festival’s eighth season is sure to be a magical week with a host of inspiring guests, wonderful concerts and surprises.

This year we welcome cellist Julie Albers and violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, both of whom enjoy national and international fame as wonderfully entertaining performers. Pianists Wendy Chen and Peter Henderson, the Biava Quartet, cellist Jacob Braun, and clarinetist Scott Andrews will also return to Innsbrook by popular demand.

We will also be joined by flutist Mark Sparks. And we will see many of our old friends again, including Seth and Maryse Carlin, Isabel Trautwein, Atar Arad and a host of others.

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Schedule of Concerts 2008

An Innsbrook Jazzical
Saturday, May 17, 8 p.m.
Webster University CMS Auditorium 535 Garden Ave., St. Louis
Tickets: $30 - Students: $15 - Patrons: $100
Join Erin Bode, David Halen and friends as they present a wonderful evening of classical and jazz featuring the music of Irvin Berlin, George Gershwin, Hoagy Carmichael and new arrangements with Erin with strings! Patrons’ tickets get preferred seating and a wonderful dinner with wine before the concert.

Tango to Jazz
Friday, June 6, 8 p.m.
Lake Aspen Stage, Innsbrook
General admission tickets: $20 - Reserved seats $25
This classical and jazz-inspired concert features Erin Bode, Andres Diaz, Wendy Chen, David Halen, Anne Akiko Meyers in Schoenfeld’s Café Music, and full string orchestra performed under the stars.

Serenades to Songs
Saturday, June 7, 9 a.m.
Home of Jim and Helga Douglass
Tickets: $75
Enjoy a light breakfast as you are serenaded by Anne Akiko Meyers, Sara Sitzer, and Erin Bode and her trio.

Whistling to Lullabies Family Concert
Saturday, June 7, 4 p.m.
Aspen Hall, Innsbrook
General admission tickets: $16 - Reserved seats $21
David Halen, Erin Bode, Anne Akiko Meyers, Mark Sparks, Scott Andrews and the Institute Young Artists will present a tour of classical music specially tailored for young ears but wonderfully entertaining for all ages.

Waltzes to Polkas: Full Orchestra Concert
Saturday, June 7, 7 p.m.
Lake Aspen Stage, Innsbrook
General admission tickets: $10
The full Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra will present a wonderful concert on the edge of Lake Aspen. A tribute to the Viennese New Year’s concert played in Vienna every year on New Year’s Day since 1939, our concert will include the music of the Strauss family and their contemporaries. This is a perfect concert for the whole family.

Alpine Musicale: Fantassie to France
Sunday, June 8, 1 p.m.
Alpine Lake
Tickets: $150 per person
This annual event will feature Mark Sparks, Anne Akiko Meyers, and more! This is a musical progressive party with stops at three beautiful homes on Lake Alpine, Innsbrook’s largest lake. Light hors d’oeuvres provided.

Romance to Art
Sunday, June 8, 8 p.m.
Aspen Hall, Innsbrook
General admission tickets: $16 - Reserved seats $21
Anne Akiko Meyers, Andres Diaz and Wendy Chen will be featured in a performance of the Tchaikovsky Trio, which is known for its breathtaking lyricism and the cosmic finality of its final statement. It is also the most difficult piece Tchaikovsky wrote for piano, and perhaps one of the most beautiful!

Images to Power
Monday, June 9, 8 p.m.
Aspen Hall, Innsbrook
General admission tickets: $16 - Reserved seats $21
This concert opens with beautiful images and ends with one of Brahm’s most powerful masterpieces performed by Jonathan Swartz, Andres Diaz, Atar Arad and Wendy Chen.

Powerful to the Sublime
Tuesday, June 10, 8 p.m.
Aspen Hall, Innsbrook
General admission tickets: $16 - Reserved seats $21
This evening of Russian composers features Rachmaninov’s famous Cello Sonata and Shostakovich performed by Andres Diaz, Wendy Chen and the Biava Quartet.

Student Solo Concert
Wednesday, June 11, 4 p.m.
Aspen Hall, Innsbrook
General admission tickets: $16 - Reserved seats $21
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear some of today’s most gifted young musicians perform solo material they are passionate about.

Kaddish to Klezmer
Wednesday, June 11, 8 p.m.
Aspen Hall, Innsbrook
General admission tickets: $16 - Reserved seats $21
Explore the beauty, energy and passion of Hebraic music as special guest Sharon Nathanson, cantor from Temple B’Nai Amoona, David Halen, Atar Arad, Julie Albers, Peter Henderson and Scott Andrews perform a spectrum of music ranging from to Bloch’s Suite Hebraique to Schindler’s List.

Wine to Music: A Tasteful Afternoon
Thursday, June 12, 4 p.m.
The home of Ed and Kirsten Boyce
Tickets: $75
Sample great wines as they are paired with great music. Your musical sommelier will be Institute artistic director David Halen. Tastings will include whites, reds, and music by great impressionists.

Oceans to Flowers
Thursday, June 12, 8 p.m.
Aspen Hall, Innsbrook
General admission tickets: $16 - Reserved seats $21
This beautiful concert will focus on the music of nature with a taste of Asia. David Halen, Isabel Trautwein, Jacob Braun and Yolanda Kondonassis will be featured. A harp and string orchestra will end the evening.

Sonata to Serenade
Friday, June 13, 4 p.m.
Location TBA
Tickets: $75
Julie Albers, Peter Henderson, Jonathan Swarz and Atar Arad are featured in this afternoon of beautiful music including Frederic Chopin.

Superstitions – A Friday the 13th Tribute
Friday June 13, 8 p.m.
Aspen Hall, Innsbrook
General admission tickets: $20 - Reserved seats $25
From Paganini’s famous 24th Caprice to the Round of the Goblins to the Mephisto Waltz, celebrate Friday the 13th with Erin Schreiber, Sean Riley, Seth Carlin and the Biava Quartet.

Student Chamber Concert
Saturday, June 14, 12 noon
Aspen Hall, Innsbrook
General admission tickets: $16 - Reserved seats $21
The Innsbrook Institute students present the music they have been preparing throughout the week.

Silly to Stupendous: The Innsbrook Institute Talent Show
Aspen Hall, Innsbrook
General admission tickets: $16 - Reserved seats $21
This annual show always proves to be a fun time! Whether they do something goofy or incredible, you don’t want to miss out on the talents of our Institute students, teachers and audience.

Magical to Magnificent
Saturday, June 14, 8 p.m.
Aspen Hall, Innsbrook
General admission tickets: $20 - Reserved seats $25
End the season with a bang as a full string orchestra featuring just about everyone performs music of Handel, Mahler and Grieg. Then join the students afterwards for an end-of-season party.

Final Institute Student Performance
Sunday, June 15, 10 a.m.
Aspen Hall, Innsbrook
General admission tickets: $16 - Reserved seats $21
Don’t miss this final recital of the music the students have been working on.

Note: Guests age 17 and under receive free admission to all chamber concerts. Tickets not required.