March 15, 2010

Shriver Hall Concert Series announces 2010–2011 season

Shriver Hall Concert Series has announced the lineup for its 45th subscription season, which begins on Oct. 17 with a performance by the Emerson String Quartet, recipient of nine Grammy Awards. The season will include eight Sunday subscription concerts by solo recitalists and chamber ensembles and three free Discovery Series concerts on Saturdays at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Also scheduled for subscription concerts are award-winning cellist Gautier Capuçon and Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero, in their series debut; the Weiss-Kaplan-Newman Trio; pianist Jonathan Biss, in his subscription series recital debut; Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman; piano virtuoso Nelson Freire; violinist Gil Shaham; and the Tokyo String Quartet with legendary pianist Leon Fleisher.

The Saturday concerts will feature the Jupiter and Escher string quartets and clarinetist Gleb Kanasevich, the 2010 winner of the Yale Gordon Concerto Competition at the Peabody Institute.

For more information, or to order tickets, go to www.shriverconcerts.org or call 410-516-7164.