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Stephen Prutsman

Alisa Weilerstein

Hartsville, SC - The Coker College Performing Arts Series presents an evening of outstanding chamber music with Charles Wadsworth and Friends on Wednesday, March 23 at 8 p.m. in the Watson Theater of the Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Performing Arts Center.

Admission is $15 for adults, $7 for students and children under 18, and free with Coker College ID. Tickets are available at Burry Bookstore in Hartsville, the Coker College Bookstore or at the door.

The concert, laced with Wadsworth’s trademark audience rapport and informative commentary, will feature Frederic Chopin’s “Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 65,” Camille Saint-Saëns’s “The Swan for Cello and Piano,” Alberto Ginastera’s “Pampeana, No. 2 for Cello and Piano,” and Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Sonata for Cello and Piano in A major, Op. 69.”

Wadsworth is the artistic director for chamber music for the Spoleto USA Festival in Charleston and the founder of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, which he led for 20 seasons. He has received numerous honors and awards, including an Emmy for a 1986 broadcast of “Live from Lincoln Center,” the Handel Medallion, New York City’s highest cultural honor, and the Chamber Music America Award for significant contributions in the development of chamber music in the United States.

France has named Wadsworth a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters, and Italy awarded him the Cavaliere Ufficale of the Order of Merit. Wadsworth’s legendary career of countless worldwide performances includes concerts at the White House for every president from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan.

Accompanying Wadsworth will be cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Stephen Prutsman, both internationally acclaimed, award-wining musicians. Weilerstein has performed with symphonies throughout the world, including the New York Philharmonic and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. A 2004 Columbia University graduate, she was selected for the European Concert Hall Organization’s “Rising Stars” recital series and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two.

One of the most brilliant and versatile pianists of his generation, Prutsman has also performed extensively at home and abroad with, among others, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. He appears frequently at Spoleto USA and he is the founder of the El Paso Chamber Music Festival.

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March 9 , 2005