The Deer Valley International Chamber Music Festival winds up its 1991 season with a concert at 8 this evening in the Silver Lake Lodge.
Performing will be flutist Martha Aarons, currently with the Cleveland Orchestra; violinist Charles Castleman, professor of violin at the Eastman School of Music; violist Leslie Blackburn-Harlow; cellist Gayle Smith; and 1982 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition winner Michael Gurt.They will be heard, in various combinations, in Reger's Op. 141a Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola, the Martinu Piano Quartet and Brahms' Piano Trio in C major, Op. 87.
Admission is $10 ($6 students and senior citizens), available at the door; for information call 649-5309. Festival dinners will also be served at the Goldener Hirsch Restaurant, adjacent to the Silver Lake Lodge, beginning at 6 p.m.; for reservations call 649-0010.
- "THREE OPERATIC SITCOMS," a repeat of a popular summer presentation, will be offered by the Brigham Young University opera program Wednesday through Saturday, Sept. 4-7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall of BYU's Harris Fine Arts Center. Tickets are $5 ($4 senior citizens and the BYU community) at the music ticket office, 378-7444.
The one-act works scheduled, all on lighthearted, contemporary themes, include "Captain Lovelace" by John Duke, "A Game of Chance" by Seymour Barab and "An Incomplete Education" by Emmanuel Chabrier. Most roles will be double cast, with piano accompaniment.
"The operas are musically very easy to listen to, the stories are cute, and it's an ideal experience for families," said director Arden Hopkin. Technical direction is by Michael Handley.
- PIANIST MARCANTONIO BARONE will launch this month's Temple Square concerts with a solo recital Thursday, Sept. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Assembly Hall.
A prize-winner at both the 1985 Busoni and 1987 Leeds International Piano Competitions, Barone studied with Eleanor Sokoloff, Leonard Shure and Leon Fleisher, among others. In 1986 he was selected as a Affiliate Artists Xerox Pianist and currently heads the piano department at the Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music, where he has taught since 1980.
Thursday he will perform two works, Bach's French Suite No. 5 and Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition."
He will be followed on Friday, Sept. 6, also at 7:30 p.m. in the Assembly Hall, by Canadian pianist Arthur Rowe, who will perform the four Schubert Op. 90 Impromptus and Chopin's Sonata in B minor.
A native of Alberta, Rowe studied at Indiana University with Gyorgy Sebok and in Toronto with Greta Kraus. In 1982 he was named the first recipient of Canada's $15,000 St. Lawrence Award in Music and is currently assistant professor of music at the University of Iowa.
Admission to each is free but limited to those 8 and older.
- VIOLIST KEVIN CALL and pianist Brent Jones will perform Saturday, Sept. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall. They will be heard in Marais' Five Old French Dances, the Theme and Variations of Alan Shulman and Bloch's Suite for Viola and Piano. Admission is free.
Director of orchestras at Ricks College since 1984, Call holds a doctorate in viola from the University of Michigan. His teachers include David Dalton, William Primrose and Donald McInnis, and in 1978 he soloed with the Utah Symphony on its annual "Salute to Youth" concert.
Jones is also a member of the Ricks College music faculty. He has degrees from Brigham Young University and the University of Northern Colorado.