Lynn University's Conservatory of Music Hosts 17 Events in December and January Including Gingerbread Holiday Concert, New Music Festival, and More!

Jon Robertson, dean of Lynn University's Conservatory of Music and Philharmonia guest conductor, today invited the public to attend 17 musical performances this December and January, including the 16th annual Gingerbread Holiday Concert and 13th annual New Music Festival.

Conservatory of Music concerts run through May in the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center, the Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall or the Snyder Sanctuary, all located on Lynn's Boca Raton campus.

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December

Dec. 1

Guest Pianist: Alessandro Deljavan

Superstar pianist Alessandro Deljavan has been astonishing audiences for more than two decades. Acknowledgements began at the age of nine when he won the prestigious Concours Musical de France. A prolific recording artist, Alessandro Deljavan has more than 40 albums from the solo and chamber music repertoire. Of his recent recording of the Chopin complete Études Pizzicato.lu writes, "Technically brilliant and with an exceptional imagination, Alessandro Deljavan brings finesse and spontaneity to Chopin's Études."

Saturday: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Count and Countess de Hoernle International Center / Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall

Tickets: $20

Dec. 6

Phoenix Bassoon Quartet

Since its inception as an academic project in the School of Music of the Universidad de Costa Rica in 1993, the Phoenix Bassoon Quartet has become one of Costa Rica's most notable chamber music groups. This ensemble has highlighted unknown repertoire, particularly Costa Rican and Latin American works, ranging from baroque (colonial) to classical and traditional music.

Thursday: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Count and Countess de Hoernle International Center / Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall

Tickets: $20

Dec. 8

Preparatory School of Music Fall Recital

Students of all ages and levels from Lynn's preparatory program share their accomplishments in voice, piano and a variety of other instruments.

Saturday: 10 a.m.

Location: Count and Countess de Hoernle International Center / Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall

Tickets: FREE

Dec. 8

5th annual Lynn Chamber Music Competition Final Round

Lynn's chamber music program has gained national recognition through its partnership with the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, which presents the winning group of our annual Chamber Music Competition in a New York debut recital at the Kosciuszko Foundation.

Saturday: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Count and Countess de Hoernle International Center / Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall

Tickets: FREE

Dec. 9

16th annual Gingerbread Holiday Concert

This concert attracts parents, grandparents and kids of all ages to enjoy holiday classics performed by the Lynn Philharmonia. The annual event raises scholarship funds for the conservatory's deserving and talented student musicians from all over the world.

Sunday: 3 p.m.

Presented by the Friends of the Conservatory of Music

Location: Boca Raton Resort and Club (501 E. Camino Real)

Tickets: $35, general admission

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January

Jan. 11-12

Master Classes with members of the Emerson String Quartet

The quartet-in-residence at Stony Brook University, the Emerson String Quartet features full-time Stony Brook faculty members Philip Setzer and Lawrence Dutton and part-time faculty members Eugene Drucker and Paul Watkins. In 2015, the quartet received the Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award, Chamber Music America's highest honor, in recognition of its significant contribution to the chamber music field.

Friday: 1 and 4 p.m.

Saturday: 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Location: Count and Countess de Hoernle International Center / Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall

Tickets: FREE

Jan. 12

Emerson String Quartet

The quartet-in-residence at Stony Brook University, the Emerson String Quartet features full-time Stony Brook faculty members Philip Setzer and Lawrence Dutton and part-time faculty members Eugene Drucker and Paul Watkins. In 2015, the quartet received the Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award, Chamber Music America's highest honor, in recognition of its significant contribution to the chamber music field. The Emerson String Quartet will be joined by Lynn violin Professor Guillermo Figueroa.

Saturday: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center

Tickets: $35

Jan. 18

13th annual New Music Festival

Spotlight No. 1: Young Composers

A platform for world premieres! Witness the birth of music as it is first performed. This concert features the works of Lynn's sensational composition majors, with music performed by the composers and their peers.

Friday: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Count and Countess de Hoernle International Center / Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall

Tickets: FREE

Jan. 19

13th annual New Music Festival

Master Class and Interview with Yevgeniy Sharlat

Get to know the man behind the music. Lisa Leonard Will interview Dr. Sharlat as he conducts a master class of his own music performed by select conservatory students. Dr. Sharlat holds degrees from the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute and Yale University and serves on the composition faculty of the University of Texas at Austin. He has been commissioned by groups including Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, the Caramoor and Gilmore Festivals and the Seattle Chamber Players. He is the recipient of the 2006 Charles Ives Fellowship from American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Fromm Music Foundation Commission in addition to fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo and ASCAP's Morton Gould, Boosey & Hawkes and Leiber & Stoller awards.

Saturday: 1 p.m.

Location: Count and Countess de Hoernle International Center / Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall

Tickets: FREE

Jan. 20

13th annual New Music Festival

Spotlight No. 2: Music of Yevgeniy Sharlat

"That's often the definition of greatness in music-when something as abstract as pure tone starts to tap you on the shoulder with a message to look outside of music, and this [Sharlat's Piano Quartet] does that emphatically... it might be one of the most compelling works to enter the chamber music literature in some time," stated the Philadelphia Inquirer. This rich program of works for duo piano, string quartet, woodwind quintet and more by award-winning composer Yevgeniy Sharlat will include the world premiere of the 2019 Lynn Conservatory of Music commissioned work for piano trio.

Sunday: 4 p.m.

Location: Count and Countess de Hoernle International Center / Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall

Tickets: FREE

Jan. 24

Evening of Chamber Music & Poems

The Conservatory of Music and the Eugene M. and Christine E. Lynn College of Communication and Design collaborate on a series of musical performances and dramatic poetry readings by Lynn's young artists.

Thursday: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Snyder Sanctuary

Tickets: $10

Jan. 26-27

Lynn Philharmonia No. 4

· Saturday: 7:30 p.m.

· Sunday: 4 p.m.

Conductor: Jon Robertson

Brahms: Academic Overture

Barber: Adagio for Strings

DiLorenzo: Phoenix Horn Concerto

Featuring Gregory Miller, horn

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Location: Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center

Tickets: $50 for box, $40 for orchestra, $35 for mezzanine

Jan. 31

Mostly Music Series-Tchaikovsky and Friends

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. During his creative years, however, he was often in conflict with Russian colleague composers including Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Mussorgsky who had more nationalistic aesthetic goals.

Thursday: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Count and Countess de Hoernle International Center / Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall

Tickets: $20

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Tickets may be purchased in person at the Lynn box office, located in the Wold at 3601 N. Military Trail, online at events.lynn.edu or by phone at +1 561-237-9000.

Lynn University is an independent college based in Boca Raton, Florida, with approximately 3,000 students from nearly 100 countries. U.S. News & World Report named it No. 1 in the region for most international students. Lynn's NCAA Division II Fighting Knights have won 24 national titles, its Conservatory of Music features a world-renowned faculty of performers and its nationally recognized Institute for Achievement and Learning empowers students with learning differences. The school's Dialogues curriculum and award-winning iPad program help Lynn graduates gain the intellectual flexibility and global experience to fulfill their potential in an ever-changing world. For more information, visitlynn.edu.

The 750-seat Wold Performing Arts Center, located on Lynn's campus in the heart of Boca Raton, is easily accessible by both I-95 and the Florida Turnpike. Recently ranked by Best Value Schools, an online publication, as one of the "25 Most Amazing University Performing Arts Centers," the Wold features superb acoustics, a modern lighting system, a large, light-filled lobby and flexible space well-suited for dramatic productions, concerts and other cultural events. With an elegant salon, outdoor sunset terrace and intimate black-box studio, this new center is home to numerous concerts and events, including professional theatrical performances by the theater arts program's Libby Dodson's Live at Lynn Theatre Series, the Live at Lynn American Songbook Series and Jan McArt's New Play Reading Series, as well as performances from the Lynn University Conservatory of Music and the Drama Department in the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, visitlynn.edu/events.