Capital City Concerts opens its 2018-2019 season on Saturday, September 15

Capital City Concerts opens its 2018-2019 season on Saturday, September 15 at 7:30PM at the Barre Opera House in a home-coming performance by pianist Michael Arnowitt.

Pianist and composer Michael Arnowitt is one of Vermont's most beloved musicians. His imaginative musical landscapes and extraordinary sense of touch at the piano have delighted audiences in concert halls around the world, from his home base in Vermont and Toronto, to Korea, Russia, and many countries all over Europe.

Arnowitt will perform a program of musical story-telling, entitled "Fantastic Voyage" which includes Schumann's Op.

12 Fantasy Pieces, a landmark work of early Romanticism, Prokofiev's dazzling Piano No. 7 Sonata, one of the most exciting pieces of piano music ever written, as well as Chopin's Ballade in F minor the last and greatest of his four. He will also perform his own solo piano arrangement of the poetic "Cavatina" movement of Beethoven's String

Quartet in B-flat major. (A recording of this piece is the final selection on the "Golden Record" placed on the Voyager spacecraft sent into outer space in 1977.) The concert will conclude with Lowell Liebermann's 1989

Gargoyles, one of the most talked about piano compositions in recent decades. After the concert, a festive reception will take place in honor of the performer.

Louis Moyse, the late legendary flutist, pianist, composer, and Marlboro Music School co-founder said this about Michael Arnowitt, “Michael combines all the necessary qualifications and qualities to express his art on the highest level. I have great respect for his technical skill, his interpretation and his way to communicate to any audience his feelings through his love for music.”

This concert is sponsored in part by Bill Herbst, Registered Representative with Equity Services, Inc. in Montpelier, Coldwell Banker Classic Properties, and Grenier Engineering, PC, with media sponsorship from Vermont Public Radio. This concert is part of Vermont Arts Council's "Vermont Arts 2018."  For more information and to charge tickets ($15-$25 each or subscription tickets - 4 concerts for $85) go to www.capitalcityconcerts.org. Tickets may also be purchased (cash or check only) in person at Bear Pond Books, Montpelier.