The first FREE Coffee Concert of the 2012-13 season will be held on Sunday, March 3, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church of Oak Ridge, 1051 Oak Ridge Turnpike (at Lafayette Drive).
The ORCMA concert features violin, piano, and voice.The performers are violinist John Michael Fox, tenor singer George Deaton, and pianist Pam Robertson.
Fox will play two pieces for unaccompanied violin -- J. S. Bach’s Sonata No. 3 in C Major and a Jacob Dont fantasia. He and Robertson will perform Wieniawski’s Scherzo-Tarantella Op. 16 for violin and piano.
The three performers will present groups of French and Italian songs, among them Marcel Tournier’s La Lettre du Jardinier, Paolo Tosti’s L’ultima canzone, and Eduardo di Capua’s O sole mio.
Deaton (Raleigh, N.C.) and Fox (Knoxville) have collaborated for the last several years at the Assisi Music Festival in Italy. Fox is a violin teacher and performer. Robertson (Powell) is a piano teacher, accompanist, and composer.