Announcement

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FOR RELEASE ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
TICKETS AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 1

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CONSTELLA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND FINE ARTS
ANNOUNCES 2011 INAUGURAL FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Highlights of Constella’s first season include:

Season opening concert by Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn

Season closer by “classical music superstar” violinist Joshua Bell

Hahn and Bell Constella concerts launch their recital tours

Performance by Alexander Toradze and Cincinnati’s
World Piano Competition winner

Two world premiere performances and a special commission by jazz saxophonist and composer Ted Nash for jazz and strings double quartets

Participation by eight Cincinnati vocal and instrumental
chamber music ensembles and series

Partnerships with local visual artists and galleries including

Fifth Street Gallery, Sandra Gross with Brazee Street Studios, Lisa Merida-Paytes and Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery

Performances in five unique venues: Memorial Hall, Fifth Third Bank Theater at The Aronoff Center for the Arts, The Blue Wisp Jazz Club, Cincinnati Ballet Center and Erich Kunzel Center for Arts and Education home of the
School for the Creative and Performing Arts

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Cincinnati, Ohio, USA – The Constella Festival of Music and Fine Arts announces an incredible lineup for the Festival’s inaugural season. Distinguished by the number of internationally-renowned visual and performing artists and organizations, Constella’s ambitious schedule includes 13 events that encompass traditional chamber music, choral and vocal performances, world premieres of commissioned classical music, jazz and dance performances, as well as visual art exhibitions. Festival events will take place at several Cincinnati venues, both unique and traditional, including Memorial Hall, the Erich Kunzel Center for Arts and Education home of the Cincinnati School for Creative and Performing Arts and the Cincinnati Ballet. The name “Constella” is derived from the idea of a collection of individual points of view, genres and influences that come together to create a complete artistic constellation.

Constella Festival was founded by Artistic Director Tatiana Berman. “Constella Festival will help bring international cultural visibility to the vibrant musical and visual arts scene in the Cincinnati region,” says Berman. “In the presentation of chamber music, the musicians perform relying on one another to shape the emotional context of the work. The Constella Festival is based on the spirit of collaboration, an extension of the intimacy and communication between performing artists on stage.”

Cincinnati Partners

In the Festival’s first year, Constella is excited to be collaborating with several Cincinnati artists and organizations. Eight of the most prominent chamber music organizations in Cincinnati will be featured as part of the Festival lineup. These include Catacoustic Consort with Michael Maniaci, Chamber Music Cincinnati with St. Lawrence String Quartet, concert:nova, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra with Philippe Quint, Linton Chamber Music Series, VAE – Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble and Classical Revolution. For the visual component of the Festival, Constella is proud to be partnering with some of the finest visual artists in the Queen City, including the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Gallery and artists from 5^th Street Gallery and Brazee Street Studios.

Renowned Performing Artists

Constella Festival’s first season includes performances by some of today’s brightest musical stars. The opening weekend features four of the six programs presented by the Constella Festival. Opening Night, Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn and pianist Valentina Lisitsa perform several world premiere works written especially for Hilary. New York Philharmonic principal oboist Liang Wang performs alongside Cincinnati’s finest musicians for a candlelit night of chamber music. Constella Festival presents Cincinnati Ballet performers in collaboration with concert:nova for a unique event that will include two world premiere choreographed works in a multi-sensory artistic performance. Rounding out the Festival’s opening weekend, Alexander Toradze performs alongside several students from his outstanding piano studio, including the winner of the recent World Piano Competition. On October 29, Constella Festival presents Grammy-nominated jazz musician and composer Ted Nash and his new composition for a jazz and string double quartet that has been commissioned to celebrate the inaugural year of the Festival. In a special appearance on November 8, “classical music superstar” and Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell performs in a Closing Night recital with pianist Sam Haywood.

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Festival Schedule

Constella presents:
Classic Gems and Contemporary Miniatures
featuring Hilary Hahn, violin, and Valentina Lisitsa, piano
Thursday, October 13, 2011 – 7:30pm
Memorial Hall

Classic Gems and Contemporary Miniatures will be an exciting Constella Festival Opening Night special event featuring two-time Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn and pianist Valentina Lisitsa. 31-year-old Hahn is celebrated for her probing interpretations, technical brilliance, and spellbinding stage presence. For the Constella Festival concert, Hahn’s first stop on her recital tour, she will perform sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven along with a premiere of several new works written especially for Hahn for her project “In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores.” For this project, Hahn is commissioning 27 composers to write short-form pieces for acoustic violin and piano that she will use as encores at her performances over the next two years. Hahn will be accompanied by Valentina Lisitsa, a pianist whose multi-faceted playing is described as “dazzling.” For more information about Hahn and Lisitsa, please visit www.hilaryhahn.com and www.valentinalisitsa.com.

A post-concert reception with the artists will immediately follow the performance at Memorial Hall. Prominent Cincinnati artists including Sandra Gross from Brazee Street Studios and Lisa Merida-Paytes will be showcasing their latest work and work of other Cincinnati artists in a fine arts show. Entitled “ENCORE,” the show will be themed around the concert concept of contemporary miniatures. Complimentary refreshments and desserts will be available.

For more information about the visual artists, please visit http://www.sandragross.net/ and http://www.lisameridapaytes.com/, http://www.brazeestreetstudios.com/.

Tickets for this concert will be sold exclusively through the Constella Festival. For more information please visit www.constellafestival.org.

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Constella presents:
Queen City Connections
featuring Liang Wang, oboe
Friday, October 14, 2011 – 6:30pm
Fifth Third Bank Theater @ The Aronoff Center for the Arts

Taking place at the intimate black box Fifth Third Bank Theater at the Aronoff Center for the Arts, Queen City Connections will feature a candlelit chamber music performance by New York Philharmonic principal oboist Liang Wang and several of Cincinnati’s finest musicians. Wang may be familiar to local audiences as he was previously principal oboist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 2005-2006. Additional performers include Tatiana Berman, Jasmine Choi, Yael Senamaud-Cohen and Dwight Parry. The program will include selections from Albinoni, Beach, Mozart and Arnold. Additional information about Liang Wang can be found at www.liangoboe.com.

A post-concert reception will be held immediately following the show at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery. Three shows will be on exhibition for guests to enjoy: “Limits and Boundaries” by Jarrett Hawkins, “Ascending Horizons” by Cedric Michael Cox and “Binding Connections” by Roy Johnston. For more information on the Weston Art Gallery, please visit http://westonartgallery.com/.

Tickets for this concert will be sold exclusively through the Constella Festival. For more information please visit www.constellafestival.org.

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Constella presents:
Piazzolla, Prokofiev and Pointe Shoes
Featuring musicians from concert:nova and dancers from the Cincinnati Ballet
Saturday, October 15, 2011 -6:00pm
Mickey Jarson Kaplan Performance Studio @ Cincinnati Ballet Center

Chamber music meets the ballet pointe shoe for Piazzolla, Prokofiev and Pointe Shoes. In this program Constella Festival presents two new world premiere works by a creative team of choreographers: Heather Britt, James Cunningham, Andrew Hubbard, Stephen Jacobsen and Missy Lay Zimmer. Featuring dancers from the Cincinnati Ballet and concert:nova musicians together on stage, the program will include a new choreography set to the music of Sergei Prokofiev’s Quintet, Op.39. A beautiful duet of dancers will perform to Richard Rodgers’ and Lorenz Hart’s “My Funny Valentine.” The program will conclude with another new choreography set to the music of “Histoire du Tango” by Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla, which outlines the history of tango in four musical movements from different time periods.

concert:nova is an exploratory chamber ensemble that performs traditional and contemporary classical music, presenting world class chamber music in diverse and unusual venues using interdisciplinary collaboration to illuminate the music. Partnerships with dancers, actors and visual artists bring a unique dimension to performances, illustrating each musical work in a modern and powerful way.

For more information about concert:nova, please visit http://concertnova.com.

For more information about the Cincinnati Ballet, please visit http://www.cballet.org/.

Tickets for this concert will be sold exclusively through the Constella Festival. For more information, please visit www.constellafestival.org.

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Russian Romantic Piano
featuring Alexander Toradze and Friends, piano
Sunday, October 16, 2011 – 7:30pm
Erich Kunzel Center for Arts and Education home of the Cincinnati School for Creative and Performing Arts

World-renowned pianist Alexander Toradze, universally recognized as a masterful virtuoso in the grand Romantic tradition, will perform repertoire by Sergei Rachmaninov and Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky alongside selected up-and-coming musicians from his outstanding piano studio,  including the recent winner of Cincinnati’s World Piano Competition (http://www.cincinnatiwpc.org). Toradze has enriched the Great Russian pianistic heritage with his own unorthodox interpretive conceptions, deeply poetic lyricism, and intensely emotional excitement. For more information on Toradze, please visit www.toradzepianostudio.org.

A post-concert reception with the artists will be held immediately following the performance for all ticket holders. Prominent Cincinnati artists from 5^th Street Gallery will be showcasing their latest work in a fine arts show that will transform the “Urban Curve” lobby into an art gallery.

For more information about the visual artists, please visit http://www.5thstreetgallery.com/.

Tickets for this concert will be sold exclusively through the Constella Festival. For more information please visit www.constellafestival.org.

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Chamber Music Cincinnati presents:
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 – 8pm
Robert J. Werner Recital Hall @ University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Founded in 1989, the St. Lawrence String Quartet is one of the most highly-regarded string quartets. It has been ensemble-in-residence at Stanford since 1998, plays more than 120 concerts annually and, among other honors, has two Grammy nominations to its credit. John Adams wrote his second String Quartet (2008) after hearing the St. Lawrence perform his first, written for the Kronos. The St. Lawrence released the world premiere recording on May 31. The program for this performance will include Mozart’s String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421, Eric Korngold String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 34, and John Adams, String Quartet (2008).

Chamber Music Cincinnati is the only local organization to present national and international, award-winning chamber ensembles. Now in its 83rd year, its sole criteria are the performers’ musicianship and their quality and variety of repertoire. Ensembles previously presented include the Emerson, Guarneri and Juilliard string quartets, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.

Tickets for this concert will be sold as part of Constella Pass and through Chamber Music Cincinnati

For more information please visit www.constellafestival.org. For more information on this performance, please visit http://cincychamber.org/concerts/st-lawrence-string-quartet.

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CSO Chamber Players presents:
Russian Rhapsody
Friday, October 21, 2011 – 7:30pm
Mayerson Theater @ School for Creative & Performing Arts

Get up close and musical with the CSO Chamber Players, the highest caliber musicians from the acclaimed Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Explore three intensely lyrical masterworks from the Russian chamber music repertoire, starring musicians from your world-class Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. All CSO Chamber Players concerts are performed in the comfortable and intimate Mayerson Theater at the Erich Kunzel Center for Arts and Education, just 2 blocks south of Music Hall. Pure music in an intimate setting, performed the way the composers intended.

Tickets for this concert will be sold exclusively through Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. For more information on CSO Chamber Players, please visit http://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/content.php?id=87.

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VAE Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble presents:
American Icons at 100
Saturday, October 22, 2011 – 5pm
Memorial Hall

VAE: Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble, a chamber choir of 24 professional singers, was founded in 1979 and enters its 32^nd season in 2011-12. Recently dubbed “Cincinnati’s premiere chorus” (Music in Cincinnati, April 2011), VAE offers an annual subscription series of distinguished choral programs in notable architectural and acoustic venues throughout Greater Cincinnati. In addition, VAE produces outreach programs for children, youth and seniors, as well as recordings for local and national broadcasts. VAE is led by Music Director Donald Nally, an internationally renowned choral conductor who has held led the choruses of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Welsh National Opera, and Spoleto Festival in Italy. He is also the founder and director of The Crossing, a Philadelphia-based chamber choir specializing in modern choral music.

This concert features compositions by two American legends, Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti. Twentieth-century American music was largely was dominated by these two masters who were steeped in Romantic traditions yet thoroughly individual and contemporary. Between them they owned four Pulitzer Prizes, wrote dozens of operas, and enjoyed international fame that was new to American composers. The older of the two, Samuel Barber, wrote the famed Adagio for Strings, a work recognized around the world as one of the great American contributions to the Western Canon. The younger, Gian Carlo Menotti, established an international festival in Italy and lived to see its forty-ninth anniversary at the age of 95. VAE will celebrate the centenaries of their birth with their stunning and virtuosic choral writing – beautiful, intimate, and always moving.

Tickets for this concert will be sold exclusively through the Vocal Arts Ensemble. For more information on this performance, please visit http://www.vaecinci.org/concerts.html.

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Linton Music presents:
Linton Chamber Music Series
Sunday, October 23, 2011 – 4pm
First Unitarian Church

Opening Linton’s season on Oct. 23, legendary pianist Menahem Pressler will be joined by violinist Alexander Kerr, former concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, violist Paul Neubauer, Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and former CSO principal cellist Eric Kim in best-loved piano quartets by Mozart, Turina and Dvorak. Pressler, founding member and pianist of the former Beaux Arts Trio, is among the world’s most distinguished musicians, with a career that spans more than six decades. The program will include selections by Mozart, Turina and Dvořák.

The Linton Chamber Music Series (Linton Music) began in 1978 as a “thank you” concert for members of the First Unitarian Church on Linton Street in Avondale. After 32 years, the series has evolved into an internationally acclaimed chamber music series, attracting world-class musicians to share their love of music in a wonderful intimate setting. Today, under Artistic Directors, Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson, Linton continues its tradition of presenting chamber music concerts with the approach of bringing together individual artists from across the country and region to create ensembles. Linton Music offers a Music Making Among Friends atmosphere that truly allows audiences to experience the energy of great chamber music in a unique, up-close and personal way.

Tickets for this concert will be sold exclusively through Linton Chamber Music Series. For more information on this performance, please visit http://lintonmusic.org/season-announcement.

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Classical Revolution presents:
Classical Revolution
Sunday, October 23, 2011 – 8pm
Northside Tavern

Classical Revolution is an international movement dedicated to bringing classical music to the people.  Professional musicians and conservatory students perform contemporary and classic works in bars and cafes, breaking the mold of concert-going traditions and creating a casual atmosphere where musicians and audience intermingle. Performances are generally free, with donations suggested. Classical Revolution Cincinnati holds a regular monthly event every second Sunday of the month at the Northside Tavern in addition to special events.

For more information about Classical Revolution Cincinnati and this performance, please visit http://www.facebook.com/groups/96468908247/.

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Catacoustic Consort presents:
Catacoustic Presents: Michael Maniaci
featuring Michael Maniaci, countertenor
Friday, October 28, 2011 – 7:30pm
Church of the Advent

Join the Catacoustic Consort with opera superstar Michael Maniaci as he sings Baroque arias of love and passion from Handel, Purcell and Bach.  This artist is being presented through a collaboration with the Constella Festival.

The Catacoustic Consort presents a variety of vocal and instrumental music from Renaissance chamber music to Baroque opera, with the intent of recreating the sound of the music when it was originally performed. The music is performed on period instruments such as the viola da gamba, theorbo, organ, harpsichord, Baroque guitar, and lute. In addition to a historically informed approach to performing music, Catacoustic is dedicated to approaching music with an understanding of the life and times of when it was originally played, including an informed humanities presentation to accompany its programs. Some of the composers of early music include J.S. Bach, William Byrd, Giulio Caccini, and Boismortier.

Grand Prize Winner of the Early Music America Live Recording competition in 2003, Catacoustic released a CD on the Naxos label of their award winning Italian Dramatic Laments program internationally in January 2006. A result of winning this national competition, artistic director Annalisa Pappano was also featured on the cover of Early Music America magazine.

Artistic director Annalisa Pappano is a highly-sought-after performer of the lirone, pardessus, and viola da gamba. She has performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Pappano has been recognized for bringing together the best talent to present groundbreaking programs and landmark performances.

Based in historic Clifton (Cincinnati), Ohio, the Catacoustic Consort serves the tri-state area. The Catacoustic Consort is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Tickets for this concert will be sold exclusively through Catacoustic Consort. For more information on this performance, please visit http://www.catacoustic.com/season.html.

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Constella presents:
Double Deal: String + Jazz Quartets
featuring Ted Nash, saxophone
Saturday, October 29, 2011 – 8pm and 10pm
The Blue Wisp Jazz Club

This world premiere event at Cincinnati’s renowned Blue Wisp Jazz Club features Grammy-nominated jazz composer and arranger Ted Nash in collaboration with Cincinnati jazz and classical musicians. A world premiere composition for string quartet and jazz quartet will be performed, commissioned to commemorate Constella’s inaugural season. In order to best accommodate our patrons, there will be two seatings – 8pm and 10pm.

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Ted Nash has an important association with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. A recent commission by the JLCO, “Portrait in Seven Shades,” was recorded by the Orchestra and released in February 2010. This recording marks the first-ever JLCO release devoted to original music by a band member other than Wynton Marsalis, and has been credited by Ted Panken in Downbeat Magazine as marking a new direction for the Orchestra. Nash has been cited as “rising star” on saxophone for several years in the Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll and his CDs have often appeared in top ten CD lists by New York Times, Village Voice, Boston Globe, The New Yorker and Jazz Times Magazine. For more information about Nash, please visit http://www.tednash.com/.

Tickets for the two seatings of this concert will be sold exclusively through the Constella Festival. For more information please visit www.constellafestival.org.

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Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra presents:
Jefferson in Paris
featuring Philippe Quint, violin
Sunday, October 30, 2011 – 2pm
Mayerson Theater @ School for Creative & Performing Arts

The Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) season begins in October, when the program will focus on works from the period of history when Thomas Jefferson visited Paris. Jefferson was an accomplished violinist and you will hear music that inspired him, including some pieces that he himself played at his home at Monticello. The CCO is thrilled to welcome superstar violinist and two time Grammy award nominee Philippe Quint to open the season. He will perform Mozart’s brilliant Violin Concerto No. 5. Another favorite piece on this program will be Three Places in New England by Charles Ives; his most popular multi-movement work and a piece that is quintessential Ives. Quint is being presented through a collaboration with the Constella Festival.

Recipient of the prestigious 2009 Scripps-Corbett Award, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra has grown in size and scope to become one of the cultural cornerstones of the Greater Cincinnati area over the past 36 years.

Founded as a volunteer organization in 1974 by Paul Nadler, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra today has a core membership of 32 paid union musicians. The artistic goal of the Chamber Orchestra is to perform music that is not generally heard when attending concerts presented by a large symphony orchestra, and thereby offer a unique musical experience to the listener. The orchestra’s size allows for flexibility and creativity in programming and represents the ideal size group for orchestral works from the Baroque and Classical eras as well as commissioned works by contemporary composers.

Tickets for this concert will be sold as part of the Constella Pass as well as through Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. For more information about the Constella Pass, please visit www.constellafestival.org. For more information on this performance, please visit http://www.ccocincinnati.org/CCOSeasonss.aspx.

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Constella presents:
An Evening with Joshua
featuring Joshua Bell, violin and Sam Haywood, piano
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 – 7:30pm
Memorial Hall

Our inaugural season closes with a performance by “classical music superstar” violinist Joshua Bell accompanied by pianist Sam Haywood. Bell  has enchanted audiences worldwide with his breathtaking virtuosity and tone of rare beauty. Since his first LP recording at age 18, Bell has recorded more than 36 CDs garnering Mercury, Grammy, Gramophone and Echo Klassik Awards. Bell is also the solo performer on John Corigliano’s Oscar-winning soundtrack for the film The Red Violin. Bell performs on the 1713 Gibson ex Huberman Stradivarius. His Constella performance marks the first stop on his recital tour and will include pieces by Franz Schubert, Sergei Prokofiev and César Franck. For additional information, please visit www.joshuabell.com

Sam Haywood has performed to critical acclaim all over the world as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He regularly performs with both Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis and recently recorded the first ever recording on Chopin’s own Pleyel piano of 1846. For more information about Haywood, visit www.samhaywood.com

A post-concert reception with the artists will be held immediately following the performance at Memorial Hall with complimentary refreshments and desserts available. Several prominent Cincinnati artists will be showcasing their latest work in a fine arts show to take place at Memorial Hall after the performance.

Tickets for this concert will be sold exclusively through the Constella Festival. For more information please visit www.constellafestival.org.

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Ticketing: Constella Passes Go On Sale September 1, 2011

Constella Festival of Music and Fine Arts will be putting the audience in control, offering a Constella Pass to be available for reservation starting September 1, 2011. This Pass, which offers a 10% discount off of single ticket prices, will allow audience members to select the shows they wish to see, making their own flexible Festival subscriptions. Constella is excited to be offering two Cincinnati chamber group tickets in the Constella Pass: Chamber Music Cincinnati and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra.

The Pass includes the following options for patrons:

• Selection of one (1) of the following concerts at any desired seat level (balcony to box seats):
  • Classic Gems and Contemporary Miniatures, featuring Hilary Hahn and Valentina Lisitsa
  • An Evening with Joshua, featuring Joshua Bell and Sam Haywood
• Selection of two (2) additional concert programs from the following list:
  • Queen City Connections, featuring Liang Wang
  • Piazzolla, Prokofiev and Pointe Shoes, featuring concert:nova and Cincinnati Ballet dancers
  • Russian Romantic Piano, featuring Alexander Toradze
  • Chamber Music Cincinnati, featuring St. Lawrence String Quartet
  • Double Deal: String + Jazz Quartets, featuring Ted Nash
  • Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, featuring Philippe Quint

Single ticket sales and student rush tickets are not guaranteed at this time and will be released at a later date to be determined.

Cincinnati Arts Association

Constella is partnering with the Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) for Festival ticketing. This gives patrons several options for how to reserve tickets for the Festival.

Website: For tickets and additional concert information, please visit www.constellafestival.org and click on “Buy Tickets.”

Phone: The CAA box office can be reached for phone orders at 513.621-ARTS [2787].

About the Constella Festival of Music and Fine Arts
Constella Festival of Music and Fine Arts was created to showcase and celebrate the depth and breadth of musical and artistic life in Cincinnati. Constella presents unique collaborations between international artists of the highest caliber, in partnership with many of Cincinnati’s finest performing arts organizations, to spotlight the rich and vibrant musical fabric of Cincinnati. As well as traditional chamber music, Constella Cincinnati brings to audiences world premieres of several ground-breaking works, interweaving music, visual art and dance into multi-sensory artistic performances, presented in both conventional as well as unusual venues and surroundings.

The inaugural Constella Festival is comprised of a series of multi-dimensional performances and art installations that take place in Cincinnati from October 13 to November 8, 2011. Featured guest artists include violinists Hilary Hahn and Joshua Bell, pianist Alexander Toradze, jazz performer/composer Ted Nash, New York Philharmonic Principal oboist Liang Wang. The festival features Cincinnati musicians performing alongside the international guests and groups such as the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Linton Music Series, Chamber Music Cincinnati, CSO Chamber Players, concert:nova, Catacoustic Consort, Vocal Arts Ensemble and Classical Revolution.

The name “Constella” is derived from the idea of a collection of individual points of view, genres and influences that come together to create a complete constellation. The Festival is developed and organized by Tatiana Berman, an accomplished and award-winning violinist and Cincinnati resident. Ms. Berman is also a founding member of the concert:nova ensemble, best known for presenting innovative classical music programs in conjunction with various and unique art forms and the Constella String Trio.

For more information about Constella Festival, visit www.constellafestival.org

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