Northwestern chamber ensembles to present concert

Northwestern College chamber ensembles will present a concert Friday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m. in Christ Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

The concert will include performances by the brass quintet and a number of string and flute ensembles. The event will feature a wide variety of music.

Under the instruction of Dr. Tim McGarvey, professor of music, the brass quintet will perform “Kyrie” by W.A. Mozart, Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer,” and “Going Home” by Antonin Dvorak. The ensemble will also perform Duke Ellington’s “In a Sentimental Mood,” Rusty Dedrick’s “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” and Victor Ewald’s “Quintet No. 2.”

Dr. Juyeon Kang, professor of music, will instruct a string group and a flutist who will perform in a variety of combinations. A string quintet will perform three movements from Francesco Zannetti’s “String Quintet No. 4 in C Major.” A cellist, violinist, flutist and viola player will perform two movements from Mozart’s “Flute Quartet in D Major, KV 285.” A flute quintet, made up of a flutist, two violinists, a cellist and a viola player, will perform two movements from “Impressiones de la Puna” by Albert Ginaster. Lastly, four violinists, two cellists and two viola players will perform the first movement from Felix Mendelssohn’s “String Octet in E flat Major, Op. 20.”