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Natalie Clein in concert
at OPAC – 7pm
British cellist Natalie Clein has built a distin-
guished career, regularly performing at ma-
jor venues and with orchestras worldwide.
Her playing has been praised for its “aston-
ishing range of colours and ... wide variety of
expressive styles” (Gramophone Magazine).
• She is an exclusive recording artist for
Hyperion and has recorded the two Cello
Concertos by Camille Saint-Saëns as well
as Bloch’s Schelomo and Bruch’s Kol Nidrei
with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orches-
tra to great critical acclaim. A solo disc
with works by Bloch, Ligeti and Dallapicc-
ola was released on 27 Janaury 2017. She
has previously released 3 discs for EMI.
• Her performances have taken Natalie Clein
to orchestras including the Philharmo-
nia, Hallé, Bournemouth Symphony, City
of Birmingham Symphony, BBC National
Orchestra of Wales, Montreal Symphony,
Orchestre National de Lyon, New Zealand
Symphony and Orquesta Filarmónica de
Buenos Aires. She has performed with
conductors including Sir Mark Elder, Sir
Roger Norrington, Gennady Rozhdestven-
sky, Leonard Slatkin, Stéphane Denève
and Heinrich Schiff.
• A keen recital and chamber performer, she
has recently performed Bach’s Complete
Cello Suites in London, Southampton and
Oxford; and has curated a series of four
concerts for BBC Radio 3 at LSO St Luke’s.
She is the proud artistic director of her
own chamber music festival in Purbeck,
Dorset.
• She regularly works with contemporary
composers such as Thomas Larcher, Brian
Elias and Dobrinka Tabakova and has
also curated and been involved in cross-
disciplinary projects with the dancer Car-
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los Acosta, writer Jeanette Winterson and
director Deborah Warner amongst others.
• In 2015, Natalie Clein was appointed Artist
in Residence and Director of Musical Per-
formance at Oxford University for 4 years.
She will curate a concert series in the con-
text of this position.
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Creature Teacher
at Anniston Museum – 1pm
Anniston Museum houses a variety of live
animals who enhance the Exhibit Halls and
educate our visitors about the world’s ani-
mal kingdom and how important they are to
their ecosystem. Every animal has a purpose,
be it an apex predator or a decomposer.
Venture through the halls and meet a few
of the museum’s live animal ambassadors,
all while discovering what significance that
animal has to its environment. This program
is included in museum admission.
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2nd Annual The Arc of Calhoun
& Cleburne Counties Benefit Rides
9 am
The ride will be leaving from Harley-David-
son of Oxford, on Davis Loop
Registration will start at 9am. The Cost is $20
a bike and $5 per passenger. KSU at 11am.
There will be two stops along the way then
ending back at Harley-Davidson with door
prizes and money presentation.
Cars are welcome to participate in the ride
behind all motorcycles
• Extra door prize tickets will be on sale be-
fore the ride
• For more information or question please
see our Facebook page: Friends with Bikes
March 2019
INSIGHT