Savor an afternoon of beautiful Baroque music performed in the stunning acoustics of Faith United Methodist Church. This year’s concert starts with spectacular music by George Frideric Handel. You’ll delight in hearing famous choruses recast for two instrumental “choirs” in the Concerto a due cori in B-Flat Major. Concertmaster Maria Arrua and Music Director Stephen Alltop will team up in a fabulous and rarely heard concerto for Violin and Harpsichord by Joseph Haydn. Principal oboist John Dee will shine in Tomaso Albinoni’s Oboe Concerto in D Minor. Magical and enchanting music from Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera Les Boréades will conclude this enjoyable afternoon.

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Concertofest

Faith United Methodist Church

Sinfonia da Camera presents an evening of intimate—and adventurous—20th-century chamber music featuring their illustrious principal musicians. The evening begins with the most popular of Milhaud’s more than 400 compositions, Scaramouche for two pianos. Orchestra percussion stars William Moersch and Ricardo Flores join to present a performance of Bela Bartok’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. The three-movement work experiments with the many varied sounds the piano and the percussion can produce together. Featuring principal oboist John Dee, William Grant Still’s Incantation and Dance for Oboe and Piano follows intermission with a melancholy evocation of a distant land that transitions to a joyful pentatonic dance. The evening concludes with Poulenc’s charming and exuberant Sextet for Piano and Woodwind Quintet. 

John Dee

Events

Past events

Nov 22, 2025

Concertofest · Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra

Nov 28, 2023

Sinfonia Da Camera: 20th-century Chamber Gems · Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Future and recently performed repertoire

Oboe in Oboe Concerto in D minor by Albinoni

Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra

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