Miami chamber concert

Hamilton, Ohio –Miami University musicians returned to the Fitton Center October 5 to open their four-performance chamber series in the first-floor Monument Gallery.

The Oxford Wind Quintet opened the performance with the Allegretto From Quintet in G Minor, No. 2, Op. 56 (1821) by Franz Danzi. Violinist Carter Fogg followed with Sonata No. 2 in A Minor by Bach.

Oliver Haifeng Zhao stayed with Bach, performing Menuet I and II from Suite No. 1 in G Major for solo bassoon. Sarah Perry played James Cohn’s 1964 Baroque Suite on oboe and Qi Zhou presented Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 27

Fogg returned to play Caprice No. 13 by Niccolò Paganini, while Professor Aaron Pergram also took a turn, performing the only piece by a living composer - Edward J. Hines’s 1989 work, Yeni Makam.

The concert closed with Six Pieces in Canonic Form by Robert Schumann featuring Benjamin Ng on violin, Zhao on bassoon and Zhou on piano.

Miami musicians have three more chamber performances scheduled for Thursdays the rest of the academic year, playing November 9, March 14 and May 30.

“Every performer starts their performance journey somewhere,” Pergram said prior to the concert. “We’re glad our students have a chance to start theirs at the Fitton Center.”

The Fitton Center for Creative Arts is located at 101 S. Monument Avenue on the Riverfront in downtown Hamilton, Ohio.

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