Baylor Camerata Presents Its Debut Concert

Baylor Camerata, a newly formed group of faculty and student musicians, will make its public debut on Wednesday, February 16, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall, located within the Glennis McCrary Music Building. Various configurations of chamber groups will perform music by Piazzolla, Arrieu, and Mozart.
Their program will open with a suite of three excerpts from Argentinian composer Ástor Piazzolla’s tango opera from 1968, María de Buenos Aires. Steven Verhelst’s arrangement of these pieces is scored for two trumpets, two trombones, two horns, tuba, and percussion. Along with five talented students, the faculty performers will be trumpeters Wiff Rudd and Mark Schubert, trombonist Brent Phillips, and tubist Kent Eshelman.
Next, Baylor Camerata will play the Dixtuor pour Instruments à vent (“Decet for Wind Instruments”) by Louis-Marie Simon, a prolific French composer who went by the pen name of Claude Arrieu. Written in 1967, this five-movement work will be played by six students and these four faculty artists: clarinetist Ran Kampel, bassoonist Ann Shoemaker, trumpeter Wiff Rudd, and trombonist Brent Phillips.
Closing the program will be Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Serenade No. 12 in C minor, K. 388, a four-movement work dating from the year 1783. Four students will perform, along with these four faculty: oboist Euridice Álvarez, clarinetist Ran Kampel, bassoonist Ann Shoemaker, and hornist Kristy Morrell.
This concert by Baylor Camerata is free of charge and open to the public. It is also available for livestreaming at baylor.edu/music/live.