BRATTLEBORO — The Musicians From Marlboro touring program, created as an extension of Vermont's Marlboro Music Festival and currently celebrating its 48th season, will perform in the Brattleboro Music Center's first concert of its 2012-13 Chamber Music Series.
Musicians From Marlboro tours - featuring programs of unusual as well as beloved chamber repertoire - offer not only concerts but also valuable touring experience to artists at the beginning of their careers.
The concert, on Saturday, Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m., features Soovin Kim, violin; Itmar Zorman, violin; Lily Francis, violin/viola; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Paul Wiancko, cello; Benjamin Jaber, horn; and Matan Porat, piano.
Musicians From Marlboro programs are generally built around a work performed in a recent summer in Vermont that so impressed Artistic Directors Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida that they felt it should be shared with others on tour.
The Ligeti Horn Trio was such a piece, one that the artists had explored for 10½ weeks over two summers before giving a performance that had everyone cheering.
The piece will be featured with a Haydn Quartet and the Mendelssohn String Quintet in A Major.
Violinist Soovin Kim has received some of the most prestigious honors in the world, including the Henryk Szeryng Career Award, the Avery Fisher Career Grant, and first prize in the Paganini International Violin Competition.
Kim enjoys a broad musical career, regularly performing repertoire such as Bach sonatas and Paganini caprices for solo violin, and Mozart and Vivaldi concertos without conductor.
He also performs big Romantic concertos, sonatas for violin, and piano works that range from Beethoven to Ives. He offers new world-premiere works almost every season.
Kim, the founder and artistic director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, also immerses himself in the string quartet literature for two months each year as 1st violinist of the Johannes Quartet. He is a violin professor at both Stony Brook University and the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
Following the Musicians From Marlboro concert, the Brattleboro Music Center's Chamber Music Series continues:
• Dec. 9: Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Steven Tenenborm, and Benjamin Hochman.
• Jan. 18: The Rubens Quartet, with Dimitri Murrath and Judith Serkin.
• Feb. 10: Arnold Steinhardt, Pamela Frank, John Dalley, Michael Tree and Peter Wiley.
• April 19: The Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein Trio.
All concerts take place at Centre Congregational Church at 193 Main St.
Five-concert season subscriptions ($120, $80, $40) and individual concert tickets ($30, $20, $10) are available.
To purchase tickets, call the Brattleboro Music Center at 802-257-4523, or visit www.bmcvt.org.