A French Celebration!

GAMAC will present Joie de Vivre- A French Celebration on Friday, January 27, 2012 at 7:30pm in the Rainey Fine Arts Center at Anderson University. Featuring the GAMAC Chamber Orchestra with internationally acclaimed pianists Marina Lomazov and Joseph Rackers, the performance will be the headline concert of the 2012 Anderson International Festival’s celebration of French culture.

The GAMAC Chamber Orchestra will begin the evening with Claude Debussy’s well-known prelude to Afternoon of a Faun along with works by Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Faure and Jacques Ibert followed by George Bizet’s Jeux d’Enfants featuring two pianos with Marina Lomazov and Joseph Rackers. The evening will culminate in a beautiful and entertaining performance of Camille Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals featuring Lomazov and Rackers along with guest narrator, Paul Hyde.

As a solo pianist, Marina Lomazov has performed throughout the United States as well as Europe, South America and the Far East. She has won prizes in the Bachauer, Cleveland, Hilton Head, Kapell and National Federation solo piano competitions and was the first pianist to be awarded the Artist Diploma at the Eastman School of Music in nearly two decades. Joseph Rackers has performed throughout the United States, Bulgaria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Spain and Ukraine at venues including the Shanghai and Sichuan Conservatories of Music (China), Dame Myra Hess Concert Series (Chicago), Sulzbach-Rosenberg International Music Festival (Germany) Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), Yantai International Music Festival (China) and throughout the United States. He is the recipient of the prestigious Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Ms. Lomazov and Mr. Rackers each hold the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance from the Eastman School of Music and both serve on the piano faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Music.

Tickets to Joie de Vivre- A French Celebration are priced at $25 for adults and $12 for students. To purchase tickets, please call the GAMAC office at (864) 231-6147.
A special “cupcake battle” reception titled “Let Them Eat Cake!” will immediately follow the performance. An additional charge of $10 per person applies for this event. This event is made possible with generous support from Mr. & Mrs. Harold Gilbert and The Bleckley Inn. GAMAC is funded in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission which receives funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

For information about other Anderson International Festival events, please visit www.aifpassport.com