Bach, Ravel, & Franck

Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, a veteran of Spoleto summers past, returns to Charleston to pay homage to Artistic Director Charles Wadsworth at a special gala 80th Birthday Concert for Spoleto’s venerable “Chamber Music Man.” Thibaudet joins the St. Lawrence String Quartet in a performance of the concert centerpiece: The Quintet for Piano and Strings by César Franck. The gala concert also features a performance of Bach's Double Violin Concerto (in D minor), performed by incoming Chamber Music Series Director Geoff Nuttall and his wife, violinist Livia Sohn, and a host of Spoleto Chamber musicians; Ravel's Pavane performed by rising star Hsin-Yun Huang (viola), with Charles Wadsworth himself at the piano.