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28 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- 44 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. 29 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. 30 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