Today’s Intermezzo Chamber Music Series concert features the double bass in two of the three works on the program.

Giovanni Bottesini, who lived from 1821-1889, was his generation’s greatest bass player as well as a conductor and also a prolific composer. Many of his works focus on the double bass, and Intermezzo will present one of them today, the Grand Duo Concertante for Violin and Double Bass.

Playing the work will be bassist Jens TenBroek, one of the Utah Symphony’s new members, and violinist and Intermezzo president David Porter.

David Yavornitzky

David Yavornitzky, the symphony’s principal bass, will play the other work, Antonin Dvorák’s String Quintet No. 2 in G major, op. 77. This work is one of few quintets scored for string quartet and bass.

Joining Yavornitzky will be symphony colleagues Porter; violinist Claude Halter; violist Robert Zalkind (stepping in to replace Leslie Richards who was originally scheduled to play); and cellist Anne Lee.

Rounding out the program is John Corigliano’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, from 1963. The work won the chamber music competition at the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in Italy the following year and helped launch the young composer’s career. Playing it will be Porter and Utah Symphony keyboardist Jason Hardink.

The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. and takes place in Vieve Gore Concert Hall on the Westminster College campus. Tickets are $18 for general admission and $15 for seniors and are available at the door. Students and youth are admitted free to all Intermezzo concerts.

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