The Silk Road redux | Concert 3 - Where Strangers Meet

Doors open 6pm, performance begins 6:30pm

2022 Chamber Music Series | The Silk Road Redux

Travel across cultures, along the Silk Road from East to West with the musicians of the Orange Regional Conservatorium as your guide. Over the span of four concerts, listeners will be taken on a musical journey along the path of the Silk Road. Beginning in the Far East with music from Japan and China, through Russia and the Steppes, onto the Middle East before reaching our destination in Europe.

Music from or inspired by each region will feature across the series, classics will be heard alongside folk melodies in diverse and inspiring programs, drawing together the Conservatorium’s wealth of experienced musicians, themselves from a diversity of cultures.

Concert 3 | Where Strangers Meet

For our final Silk Road concert, a collection of music that spans the length of the Silk Road. The concert will feature a wide range of composers from all along the Silk Road, including Reza Vali (Persia), Mezut Ozgen (Turkey), Joe Hisaishi (Japan), and a few European composers who were highly inspired by the Silk Road, including French composer Laurent Boutros and German Heinrich Molbe.