String Theory wraps up ninth season

String Theory, in partnership with Lee University and Hunter Museum of American Art, will conclude its ninth season on Tuesday, May 1, with a concert at the museum, 10 Bluff View, at 6:30 p.m.

Guest artists Itamar Zorman and Bella Hristova, violin; Richard O’Neill and Yura Lee, viola; Dmitri Atapine and Mihai Marica, cello, will play Glazunov’s String Quintet, Op. 39, and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70.

String Theory was founded by Gloria Chien in 2009 to expose new audiences to chamber music.

Zorman is a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. He has appeared with the American Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, the Tokyo Symphony, the Jerusalem Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Haifa Symphony, and St. Petersburg Philharmonic.

Hristova frequently performs with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Westchester Philharmonic, and the Pennsylvania Sinfonia. She has won numerous awards, including a 2013 Avery Fisher Career Grant, first prize in the 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, first in the 2007 Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand.

O’Neill is an Emmy Award winner, two-time Grammy nominee, and an Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient. He has appeared with the London, Los Angeles, Seoul and EuroAsian philharmonics; the BBC, KBS and Korean symphonies; and the Moscow, Vienna and Württemburg chamber orchestras.

Lee, also a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras including the Baltimore Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Tokyo Philharmonic.

Atapine has appeared as a soloist and recitalist at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Chicago Cultural Center, the National Auditorium of Spain and Carnegie Hall.

Marica is first-prize winner of the Dr. Luis Sigall International Competition in Viña del Mar, Chile, and the Irving M. Klein International Competition.

Prior to the concert, “Musical Dialogues” will be held at 6 p.m. from the concert stage. Chien will lead an in-depth conversation with the musicians on their lives, inspirations and the pieces being performed.

Tickets are $35 Hunter members, $45 nonmembers, $10 students with a valid ID, and $25 for groups of 20 or more.

For more information: 423-414-2525.