ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Music at St. Alban’s presents our 2018-19 concert series. Each concert is held at 3:00 p.m., at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Davidson. Arrive early to enjoy the pre-concert young artists performance at 2:30 p.m. Each concert will be followed by a “meet the artist” reception. Tickets are available at the door [$20/general admission; $15/seniors; $10/students; children under 12/free] or at the website.

This year, we are adding a special event, participating in the Arts & Science Council’s first “Culture Bites” on Thursday August 16, 6-8:30 p.m. at the Village Green. The ASC, partnering with the Town of Davidson, is inviting all to gather for an evening of family-friendly food and entertainment of all varieties. Admission and entertainment are free. Local restaurants will feature small bites for purchase. Stop by our Music at St Alban’s table for a chance to win tickets to an upcoming Music at St Alban’s concert.

Music at St Alban’s is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

September 23, 2018

Heartland Baroque with special guest soprano Molly Quinn. Take an imaginative and compelling walking tour of Venice with Mark Twain as our 19th-Century guide, hand-in-hand with the most-revered Venetian composers of the 17th-Century: Claudio Monteverdi, Alessandro Grandi, Dario Castello, and Biagio Marinito .

October 21, 2018

Chamber Music For All, an ensemble comprising principal players from the Charlotte Symphony, explores chamber music for two violins and harp.

November 18, 2018

Washington, D.C.-based ensemble Iris Trio performs piano trios (piano, violin and cello) by Mozart, Ravel and McKee.

January 20, 2019

Renowned choral conductor Dr. Kenney Potter directs the Chamber Singers of the Charlotte Master Chorale in “Of Time and Space”-Contemporary choral works by Kile Smith, Erik Esenvalds, and others.

This program will celebrate our fascination with the exploration of space. The main composition will be Kile Smith’s landmark work, The Consolation of Apollo, a musical setting of the radio transmission from the first manned spaceflight to the moon and back to Earth.

 February 17, 2019

Hank, Pattie & the Current: a fun-filled afternoon of bluegrass and Americana tunes by this Durham-based ensemble.

March 17, 2019

The Baroque Arts Project with internationally acclaimed baroque dancer Paige Whitley-Bauguess in a program of musicians’ period dance, “Characters of the Dance.”

 April 28, 2019

Mannheim Rocket – The Virginia-based classical chamber ensemble will play sextets and octets with strings and classical-period clarinet.

May 19, 2019

The Winston-Salem-based New Century Saxophone Quartet is dedicated to exploring new music for saxophone quartet, as well as playing jazz standards and classical transcriptions.