Exeter, NH (July 14, 2009)—The Friends of the Academy Library of Phillips Exeter Academy will host clarinetist Christine Fell and pianist Arlene Kies in “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue” on Wednesday, July 15, at 7 p.m. This is the third of five concerts of the summer series in Rockefeller Hall, in the Class of 1945 Library on Front Street. The event is free and open to the public.

The duo will perform a combination of classical and jazz selections, including Brahms Sonata in E-Flat, Op. 120, no. 2, Schubert Impromptu in B-Flat, Op. 142, no. 3, and the jazz standard My Blue Heaven, by Donaldson and Whiting, arranged by Artie Shaw.

Fell moved to Exeter, NH, in 1994, and founded and performed with the clarinet quartet “4 of 1” throughout New England. For more than 10 years, she has performed in New York City with the Mt. Sinai Orchestra and the Westchester Symphony Orchestra, and in chamber music recitals at Trinity Church and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Presently, Fell has been performing as a soloist and chamber music player in the southern New Hampshire area, and has appeared in concert at the Duxbury, MA, Art Complex Museum with violinist Paul MacDowell and Kies. 

Kies has worked with local pianists Russell Sherman and Anthony di Bonaventura. She formerly taught at Tufts University and Phillips Exeter Academy, and has been a member of the music faculty of the University of New Hampshire since 1995. Kies recently completed a Vienna, Austria, concert tour with Jenni Carbaugh Cook, as well as a solo tour in Tuscany, Italy, where she performed the Goyescas of Enrique Granados. In recent seasons, she has performed both the Ravel Piano Concerto in G and the Mozart C Minor Concerto with the Granite State Symphony Orchestra.

The concert will begin at 7 p.m., and is free and open to the public. For further information, please call Academy Reference/Music Librarian Andrew R. Gatto at 603-777-3308 or visit the library’s webpage for a complete list of its upcoming events. For more information on other events, contact the Academy’s public events line at 603-777-4309, or visit the Academy’s Events Calendar. To learn more about the Academy, visit our website; for directions, call 603-777-4330.