Free concert features pieces by Beethoven, Porter, and Arensky

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Monday, August 13, 2012
Written by: Winston Barclay

Tony and Friends VI, a free concert featuring University of Iowa faculty cellist Anthony Arnone and seven other musicians, will open the 2012-13 performance season of the UI School of Music with a free concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

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Anthony Arnone

The program—one in a series of annual, season-opening "Tony and Friends" chamber-music events—will be Beethoven's Piano Trio Op. 1, #2 in G major; Quincy Porter's String Quartet #3; and Arensky's Quartet (for violin, viola, and two cellos) in A minor, Op. 35.

Arnone will be joined by Suzanne Beia (violin, Pro Arte Quartet), Rebecca McFaul (violin, Fry Street Quartet), Katie Wolfe (UI faculty violinist), Kate Hamilton (viola), Beth Oakes (UI faculty violist), Michael Center (cello), and Christine Dore (piano).

Biographies of faculty members Arnone, Wolfe, and Oakes are available at the School of Music website.

The School of Music is a unit of the Division of Performing Arts in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.