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Ames Town & Gown Chamber Music Association
In Ames, Iowa, the Ames Town & Gown Chamber Music Association presents five chamber music concerts featuring artists of international renown, as well as its annual Musicale--a gala fundraising event featuring esteemed local musicians. It also brings chamber musicians to the larger community through various outreach events for school children, university students, senior citizens, and many others. Our association is affiliated with Chamber Music America
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AMES TOWN AND GOWN PRESENTS ITS
2010-2011 SEASON
THE WALDEN CHAMBER PLAYERS
(flute, harp, and strings)
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Friday October 1, at 7:30 PM
at Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, Music Hall, Iowa State University
Founded in 1997, the Boston-based Walden Chamber Players is a group of dynamic artists with prestigious careers as soloists, teachers, chamber and orchestral musicians. Specializing in works for various combinations of string and wind instruments, their Town & Gown concert will feature a fascinating and eclectic program of works various including flute, harp, violin, viola, and cello.
.jpg) THE BALTIMORE CONSORT (early music ensemble)
Saturday November 13, at 7:30 PM
at City Auditorium
A favorite of our audience, the Baltimore Consort comes to Town & Gown for the third time, once again bringing to our stage their vibrant and virtuosic performances of instrumental and vocal music of the medieval and renaissance periods. Their performances are equally savored by general audiences and scholars of early music, and their CDs have appeared on Billboard’s Top 10 list.
THE 22nd annual TOWN & GOWN MUSICALE
Saturday February 19, at 7:30 PM
at St. John's Episcopal Church
THE AVIV STRING QUARTET 
Saturday March 5, at 7:30 PM
at City Auditorium
Founded in Tel Aviv, the Aviv Quartet has been honored with numerous international awards, including the Grand Prix in Australia’s Melbourne Competition. Their advanced training brought
them to Germany and the Netherlands to study further with internationally renowned quartets.
Their performance tours have taken them throughout the world, including such venues in the
United States as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kenned Center, and the Library of Congress.
 YEOL EUM SON, solo piano
Silver Medal Winner of the 2009 Van Cliburn International Competition.
Saturday April 2, at 7:30 PM
at Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, Music Hall, Iowa State University
At 23 years of age, Yeol Eum Son is already heralded as one ofthe most important musicians
of her generation in her native South Korea. She was a featured soloist with the N.Y. Philharmonic as part of the orchestra's historic visit to Seoul. Included in her prize package from the Cliburn Competition are three years of concert tours in the United States and a recording produced
by harmonia mundi usa.
THE MORGENSTERN PIANO TRIO (violin, cello, piano)
Winners of the 2009 Kalichstein-Laredo Robinson International Trio Award (KLRITA)
Thursday May 19, at 7:30 PM
at Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, Music Hall, Iowa State University
Since joining the KLRITA consortium of 20 chamber music presenters, AmesTown & Gown has hosted the first three winners – all memorable – and we forward to next spring when we will greet
the fourth. Originally formed in 2005 at the Folkswang Academy in Essen, Germany, the young Morgenstern Trio won prizes at international competitions in Europe and Australia before earning the KLR award that will grant them their first North American tours in 2010-2011.
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AMES TOWN & GOWN CELEBRATED 60th SEASON WITH
A SPECIAL GIFT TO CITY
To celebrate our forward-looking spirit, as well as our longevity, Ames Town & Gown has chosen to prese nt a special, permanent gift to citizens of Ames. As the audience enters the lobby of the City Auditorium on October 3, they will be surrounded by a beautiful and colorful art installation by Ames textile artist Priscilla Sage.  Town & Gown commissioned a six-piece hanging work , entitled Con brio (translated “with spirit!”), to enhance the space, and was joined in this project by the Ames Public Art Commission, which has purchased two wall-mounted works by Sage.
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