Carter Brey and Christopher O’Riley Play the Hartt School, 4/19

The Hartt School today announced that it will to present the Carter Brey, cello, and Christopher O'Riley, piano, on Thursday evening, April 19, 2012, at 7:30 PM, in Millard Auditorium at the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford.

A special pre-concert dinner precedes the performance and begins at 6:00 PM in the University's 1877 Club. Concert tickets are $35, with discounts for students, seniors, University of Hartford alumni, educators, and groups. Dinner tickets are $35 each. For tickets or additional information, please call the University of Hartford Box Office at 860.768.4228 or 800.274.8587, or visit www.hartford.edu/hartt.

Brey and O'Riley are two of the music world's most visible and admired performers. As principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic and as an active soloist and chamber player, Brey is known to audiences around the world. Host of Public Radio's long-running program "From the Top," and acclaimed for his groundbreaking transcriptions of the songs of Radiohead and other rock artists, O'Riley is recognized as one of classical music's visionary performers and thinkers.

The Garmany Series, which quickly has established itself as the region's premier showcase for visiting chamber music artists, is made possible in part by a grant from the Richard P. Garmany Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, which has renewed its support for the Series through 2014.