NOVA is grateful to Madeline Adkins, Music Director for our 41st season.
In 2018/19, NOVA Chamber Music's eight concerts included works by ten women from six countries, a special focus on music by British composers, and pieces composed in response to armed conflict.
We experienced the artistic mastery of dozens of superb Utah musicians, including internationally renowned violinist William Hagen, Utah Symphony Music Director Thierry Fischer, the Fry Street Quartet, and prominent members of the Utah Symphony.
Madeline Adkins
2018-19 Music Director, NOVA Chamber Music Series
2018/19 Concerts
Libby Gardner Series
NOVA's Libby Gardner Series consisted of six concerts performed in the Libby Gardner Concert Hall at the University of Utah.
The heart and mind meet in music by J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn, Unsuk Chin, and György Ligeti. Utah Symphony Music Director Thierry Fischer conducts!
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Guest pianist Luis Magalhães joins us as we explore the intersection of jazz and classical music with pieces by Prokofiev, Copland, Nikolai Kapustin, and William Grant Still.
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Grawemeyer Award-winning composer Andrew Norman presents three works depicting glass and mirrors, followed by Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano and Dvořák’s String Quintet.
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Connect with nature through music by Beethoven and Elgar, Joan Tower's Night Fields, and a choreographed performance of Iranian-American composer Gity Razaz's Chance Has Spoken.
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The theatrical charm of English music is on full display in music by Purcell, Britten, Adès, Imogen Holst, and Walton.
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Experience the romance of Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night and discover the music that led to this love letter, including works by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, and Zemlinsky.
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Gallery Series
The Gallery Series featured two additional concerts performed in Salt Lake City’s 15th Street Gallery and one at the IJ & Jeanné Wagner Jewish Community Center.
Join us as the Fremont Street Quartet performs Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 2. We then conclude with Steve Reich’s Different Trains— a piece that asks a simple yet provocative question: If you weren’t born where you were, where would your journey have led?
Join us on four journeys— from love through the pain of loss… from a single note to a florid melody… from the music of our age back in time to the music of Bach.
We conclude with a piece that asks a simple yet provocative question: if you weren’t born where you were, where would your journey have led?
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1,000 years of musical mavericks, including medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen, Beethoven, Debussy, Philip Glass, and Florence Price, the first African-American woman to have her music performed by a major symphony orchestra.
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