Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble

Name: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Start: 2025-10-05T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Hodgson Concert Hall at UGA Performing Arts Center

Schedule

Sun, 05 Oct, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Hodgson Concert Hall at UGA Performing Arts Center | Athens, GA

Formed in 1967, the Academy Chamber Ensemble draws its membership from London’s Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the world-renowned chamber orchestra founded in 1958 that is now led by Music Director Joshua Bell. The Chamber Ensemble specializes in the works of the larger-scale chamber music repertoire. For its first visit to Athens since 2012, the ensemble plans a performance featuring French composer Jean Francaix’s frisky yet delicate Octet. The program concludes with Beethoven’s rich and shimmering Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 — an enormously popular piece in the composer’s own lifetime that is still admired as one of the finest septets ever written.