presents

“THE NEXT GENERATION”

Young Performers in Recital

KRISTIN FIGARD, viola
TRACY FIGARD, piano

Auditorium, APS Conference Center, Argonne National Laboratory

Sunday, May 5, 2002 at 3:00 p.m.

Kristin Figard

Program
Rebecca Clarke Sonata for Viola and Piano
Ernest Bloch Suite 1919 for Viola and Piano

The concert is open to the public. Please call 630-292-3751 during regular working hours to arrange site access. A photo ID is required to enter the laboratory site.

This program is partially supported by the University of Chicago and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

More on the artists, post-concert ice-cream social, location, and ordering tickets below.

  • The Artists

    • KRISTIN FIGARD, violist, has studied both violin and viola with Almita and Roland Vamos and piano with Denis Moffat. She has won First Prize in many competitions, most recently in the 2001 Holland-America Music Society Viola Competition. She has performed with ArsViva!, the Evanston Symphony, and the Skokie Valley Symphony, and on the Dame Myra Hess Series and “Live from Studio One,” both aired live on WFMT. Kirstin has expanded her repertoire as an orchestral violist in the Lake Forest and ArsViva! Symphony Orchestras and as principal violist for the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. She will be the soloist in the J.C. Bach and Carl Stamitz Concertos with the Highland Park Strings on May 15th.

    TRACY FIGARD, pianist, has studied violin and viola with Almita and Roland Vamos and piano with Emilio del Rosario. She has performed Mozart’s Symphonia Concertante with the North Suburban Symphony and has appeared as soloist with the Lincoln Park Symphonietta and the Lake Forest and Waukegan Symphony Orchestras. Tracy won first prize in chamber music in the Skowronski Competition and won the Nancy Fuqua Memorial Young Artist Competition and the James Glacking Young Artists Competition. Most recently, she was the soloist in the Beethoven violin concerto with the North Suburban Symphony.

  • Ice Cream Social

    • The audience is invited to join the artist at an ice cream social following the performance.

  • Location

    • The recital will be presented in the Auditorium of the APS Conference Center (Bldg. 402) at Argonne.

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  • Tickets

    • Admission is free for subscribers to the Arts at Argonne Chamber Music Series. Single admissions to the recital are $10 (adult), $5 (student). A special family ticket ($25) will admit two adults and two students; each additional family member $5. Call 630-252-3751 to order your tickets now, VISA and MasterCard accepted; or use the ticket request form to order your tickets by mail.

    Remaining tickets will be sold in the lobby of the Argonne Cafeteria (Bldg. 213) during the week of April 29 between noon and 1:00 p.m. The Auditorium Box Office will be open on the day of the performance at 2:30 p.m.

  • About “The Next Generation”

    • With its program “The Next Generation” - Young Performers in Recital, Arts at Argonne recognizes its obligation to the younger generation. The program offers young musicians an opportunity to perform in public under the auspices of a recognized arts presenting organization. Performers are selected on the basis of their artistic qualifications by the committee for Arts at Argonne. The age limit is currently set at 22 years.

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