We have just completed our 102^nd season with a concert by one of the top ten classical pianist of our generation, Leif Ove Andsnes, at the Alys Stephens Center Jemison Concert Hall, which garnered a 5 star review. We are in the midst of planning our 2008-2009 season to open in October with the Assad Brothers and Turtle Island String Quartet.  In addition to this great performance, the Assad Brothers will be leading a guitar master class for the leading students in our local universities and the Turtle Island String Quartet will engage over 800 elementary and middle school students in an interactive performance the following day - carrying out one of our primary missions, to educate a new generation about wonderful music to which many of them have never been exposed.   The season continues with the incomparable Marsalis Brasilianos coupled with a master class by jazz and classical legend Branford Marsalis.  In January, we present our local celebrity ophthalmologist and winner of the Van Cliburn Foundation’s International Piano Competition for Amateurs Drew Mays.  We conclude our season with a program designed to engage visual, film and classical audiences as well as families as I Musici de Montreal presents a multimedia extravaganza to “Pictures at an Exhibition.”

Our website will be updated soon with this information.  In the meantime, please visit the Alys Stephens Center website at http://alysstephens.uab.edu/lineup/series08/classicallyinclined/ to get details.