​Perfect Harmony

Casual Concert: February 4th, 2024 @ 7 PM
3rd Street Market, Fort Worth

Salon Concert: February 5th, 2024 @ 7:30 PM
Private Home, Fort Worth
Address will be sent to you upon reservation.

​Featuring one of the top guitarists of our generation - Jordan Dodson, this vibrant program highlights the unusual combination of clarinet, guitar, and cello, a hidden gem of the chamber music world. With tangos and songs by Astor Piazzolla and Sergio Assad, an evocative, folk-inspired work by Juilliard’s David Ludwig and more, this program will melt your heart from the first note. 

​The Casual Concert on February 4th and 7 PM will be held at 3rd Street Market  (downtown Fort Worth). Doors open at 6:30 PM, food and drinks are available for purchase. Come and enjoy high-level classical music in a laid-back environment! Tickets are $25 for adults and $5 for students. 

Our Salon Concert on February 5th at 7:30 PM will be presented at the beautiful private home in Fort Worth. The concert includes a complimentary pre-concert reception with refreshments and hors d’oeuvres and free valet parking. Enjoy this wonderful chamber music concert played by outstanding artists in a private atmosphere. Share the moment with fellow music lovers and artists. Tickets are $65 per person.

Program

Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango for clarinet and guitar  
David Ludwig: Kantigas for clarinet, guitar, and cello 
 Sergio Assad: Angela for clarinet, guitar, cello

 Musicians

Performance Today describes classical guitarist Jordan Dodson as “one of the top young guitarists of his generation.” A winner of Astral’s 2013 National Auditions, he is an active soloist and chamber musician based in New York and Philadelphia. He has received awards from the 2011 Lillian Fuchs Chamber Music Competition, the 2010 Indiana International Guitar Competition, and the 2008 American String Teachers Association Competition. In 2013, he was a Young Artist in Residence on American Public Media’s Performance Today.
An advocate of contemporary music, Mr. Dodson has commissioned and premiered dozens of pieces internationally, including works by Lewis Nielson, Elliot Cole, Robert Sirota, Stephen Goss, and Gabriella Smith. He performs in several New York City chamber ensembles including Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and Contemporaneous and recently collaborated with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), NOW Ensemble, New Vintage Baroque, Anne-Marie McDermott, and Ransom Wilson. He can be heard on the album Subject on Tzadik Records. 
Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Jordan Dodson holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He plays a Gary Lee guitar.

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Stas Chernyshev, a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, is recently appointed principal clarinetist of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. He is the founder and artistic director of Fort Worth Performances for Autism, and a co-director of Opus Nova Chamber Music Series. Mr. Chernyshev is a prize winner of many international competitions, and has appeared at Carnegie Hall in New York, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as well as in Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Russia, South Korea, Japan. A devoted chamber musician, Mr. Chernyshev has collaborated with Grammy-winning ensembles Eighth Blackbird and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, commissioned new works for his instrument. He has been featured on WQXR -New York’s classical music station and WHYY’s television program - On Stage at Curtis. Mr. Chernyshev holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, and a Master’s degree from St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia. He is an alumnus of Ensemble Connect (formerly Ensemble ACJW), a program of Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute, and ArtistYear, a program of the Curtis Institute of Music.

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Ann Hung, born in Taipei, Taiwan, began her musical studies at a young age, starting with piano at age five and clarinet at age nine. Dr. Hung is an active performer in the Dallas and Fort Worth area who regularly performs in the realms of both the orchestral and chamber music. She has shared the stage with the Fort Worth Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the members of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the faculty of the Juilliard School. Dr. Hung is always pushing the boundaries of her repertoire and skills, such as collaborating with jazz musicians and commissioning new composers. As a proponent of new music, she has avidly commissioned new works including a wind quintet with her quintet Opus Now premiering in Symphony Space in NYC. One of the new works that Dr. Hung commissioned is included in a recently released album “Stained Glass Story” by Eldad Tarmu. Dr. Hung is currently teaching in Lewisville ISD, Burleson ISD as private lesson instructor and often plays with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. She is the associate director of the Fort Worth Performances for Autism and co-founder of Opus Nova Chamber Music Series.

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