Chamber Music Festival of the Black Hills
2019 Classical Concert Series
​12th Anniversary Season

​Tickets now available: (605) 394-1786
Performing Arts Center of Rapid City: 601 Columbus St., Rapid City, SD

July 12, 7 PM: "The Pipes, the Pipes are Calling..."  
String Quartet #1, "From My Life" (1st movement)                                Bedrich Smetana
Irish Songs:                                                                                            Ludwig van Beethoven
            Return to Ulster
            Pulse of an Irishman
            Once more I Hail Thee
            The Massacre of Glencoe
            Piano Trio
Hard Times Come Again No More                                                         Stephen Foster
Slumber, My Darling                                                                              Stephen Foster
Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)                                                                 Folk song

Intermission

Per Questa Bella Mano                                                                         W. A. Mozart
String Quartet #2, Nocturne                                                                 Alexander Borodin
Piano String Quintet #2 A Minor, 1st movement                                  Antonin Dvorak
Irish Blessing                                                                                        Traditional

July 19, 7 PM: "Magica y Misteriosa"
Piano Trio in A minor, 1st movement                                                    Piotr Tchaikovsky
Magic and Misterious Harp Quintet                                                      Claudia Montero
            Harp and Strings 

Intermission

Death and the Maiden                                                                          Franz Schubert
            String Quartet

July 26, 7 PM: "Ugh..., Because I Said So!"
Visions and Miracles                                                                            Christopher Theofanidis
Andante e Cantabile                                                                            Piotr Tchaikovsky
Rondo a la Turk                                                                                    Dave Brubeck

Intermission

Bells of St. Genevieve                                                                           Marin Marais
Aubade String Trio                                                                                George Enescu 
Piano Quintet in G minor                                                                      Enrique Granados

Don't miss the "Booze and Schmooze" Reception following the concert.  
Recipients of the 
NEA Arts Works Grant
2018
NEA Challenge America Grant 
​2015

South Dakota Community Foundation 2015, 2016, 2017

South Dakota Community Foundation Bush Innovation Grant
2017, 2019

United Arts of Central Florida
Professional Development Grant 2011

 Chamber Music America
National Residency Award 2011
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​"We Are One-Mitakuye Oyasin" Virtual Choir has won 2nd place at the Indianer Inuit film festival in Germany!  The festival is the largest in Europe and is supported by American Indian Film Institute & Festival San Francisco (AIFI/AIFF), Dreamspeakers International Indigenous Film Festival Edmonton, Canada, UNICEF Stuttgart.  The film was chosen by popular vote in the music video category.