The Concert Artist Series includes four concerts for the 2007-2008 season
featuring an array of musical guests.

All will be presented at 3 p.m. Sundays in the Donald D. Shook Fine Arts Building.

Tickets: $13 general admission; $8 seniors; $5 with SCC student I.D.

Laclede Quartet

3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16

The Laclede Quartet was founded in 1978 and has performed extensively in the Midwest for the last 29 years. Its members have served as Artists in Residence at the St. Louis History Museum and for St. Charles Community College. The quartet’s four recording projects have been featured on KFUO-FM Classic 99 as well as many other local radio stations. Their performances have also been featured on St. Louis’ PBS Channel 9.

River City Ramblers

3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28, 2006

Relive the golden age of Dixieland music. Feel the heat of the sizzling hot sounds of riverboat jazz. The River City Ramblers boast six of the finest traditional jazz players in the country. Internationally known for their mixture of talent, wit, and entertaining style, these bards delight and dazzle. In recent years, they have enhanced their performances by adding blue-grass fiddle, additional guitars, harmonica, and percussion to present a bright, full folk-country-rock sound.

Corey Christiansen Trio

3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2

A native of Utah, Corey Christiansen has performed at many notable festivals and venues and has conducted guitar clinics across the country. Christiansen’s performance venues include the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.; the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy; the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival; and the St. Louis Jazz Festival. He has also performed and/or recorded with outstanding jazz artists such as Jimmy Bruno, John Pisano, Joe Negri, Willie Akins, Chuck Redd, and Rob McConnell.

Southeast Baroque Quartet

3 p.m. Sunday, Feb 10

Specializing in the performance of Baroque and early classical music on historical instruments, this ensemble has performed to enthusiastic audiences throughout the Midwest. Enjoy the music of Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, and other Baroque master composers performed with the rich sonorities and crisp articulations of the 18th century performed by one of Missouri's notable period-instrument groups.

St. Louis Chamber Orchestra

3 p.m. Sunday, May 4

Having performed locally for more than a quarter century, the Saint Louis Chamber Orchestra features 12 permanent members chosen from the area’s finest string performers. Other players and guest soloists are added on occasion to broaden and diversify the performing repertoire. Through many seasons of collaboration, the orchestra has become a very cohesive ensemble, and has earned high praise from audiences and critics for its artistic sensitivity and lyrical phrasing.

Quartet Seraphin