All performances are free and open to the public.
The season will open Friday, May 31 with marimbist Makoto Nakura, winner of the 1994 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Nakura, who made his New York City concerto debut with the New York Chamber Symphony in March, is a visiting consultant for percussion studies and frequent recitalist at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts. He has also presented many recitals and master classes at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he has performed as a soloist with the Academy's Percussion Ensemble. Since 1992, he has been the youngest member of Percussion Group '72, Japan's most prestigious percussion ensemble. Nakura is a graduate of the Musashino College of Music in Tokyo, and has done intensive study in orchestral percussion at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he earned an artist certificate with distinction.