Support Highview Hills Coffee Concerts at the LAAC

Please join us in supporting Chamber Music Coffee Concerts Series at the Lakeville Area Arts Center (LAAC)! Our mission is to bring top area performers together to present a wide variety of types of ensembles and repertoire to the people served by the Lakeville Area Arts Center. All recitals are informal affairs with cabaret seating and complimentary Caribou Coffee and refreshments. Articulate performers tell the stories of their music and ensembles from the stage, and meet and mingle with the audience.

The 2012 season, “A TIME AND PLACE FOR MUSIC,” features these four concerts:

The WolfGang -- Greatest Hits of 1750-1805 -- Vibrations from the not-so-distant past
Sunday, February 19, 2012 – 2 p.m. Paul Jacobson, flute, Stanley King, oboe, Mary Sorlie, violin, Steve Staruch, viola, Laura Handler, cello, Gail Olszewski, piano

Vecchione/Erdahl Duo -- Here and Now – Pioneering, Engaging New oboe/bass duos
Sunday, March 18, 2012 – 2 p.m. Carrie Vecchione, oboe/English horn; Rolf Erdahl, bass

Orkestar Bez Ime -- Rousing Balkan Dance Music!
Sunday, April 29, 2012 – 2 p.m. Winners of the 2011 McKnight Artist Fellowship administered by the MacPhail Center for Music Colleen Bertsch, violin, Scott Keever, guitar, multi-instrumentalist, Dee Langley, accordion, Matt Miller, bass, Katrina Mundinger, clarinet, Natalie Nowytski, vocals, percussion, flutes

Adam Kuenzel, Flute -- Timeless and Universal
Sunday, May 13, 2012 – 2 p.m. Adam Kuenzel, Minnesota Orchestra Principal Flute, collaborating with Judith Gordon, piano

All concerts take place at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, Sunday afternoons at 2:00. Tickets will be sold in advance and at the door, $12 general admission, $10 students and seniors. Season tickets are sold at 25% discount -- $36 general admission, $30 Seniors and students for four concerts. Concerts last approximately 90 minutes with intermission and post concert reception.

Showcasing the rich variety of possibilities of chamber combinations, we've presented 15 concerts over the past four seasons with engaging, unconventional ensemble, made up of top area performers including members of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, McKnight Fellowship winners, and leading area freelancers and teachers. We've been thrilled and gratified by the quality of performers who have partaken in these recitals, the support of the LAAC staff, the intimate, engaging facility itself, and the enthusiastic support of a loyal and growing audience.

Come join the fun through your support and attendance! Please consider what tax-deductible amount you can contribute so this series can continue as one of the gems in Lakeville’s cultural life.

The Friends of the Lakeville Area Arts Center is the 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization that supports the LAAC Chamber Music Coffee Concerts. Thanks for any support you can provide! All levels of contribution are welcome, and acknowledged in our recital programs at the levels under the "raised to date" column to the right.

This activity is funded, in part, by appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State’s general fund, and its arts and cultural heritage fund that was created by a vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.