The Yavapai Symphony Association’s penultimate ‘22-‘23 season concert combines a French-Canadian orchestra, an Israeli piano master, and a sound meticulously curated to conjure the music of kings. The YSA proudly presents Les Violons du Roy Chamber Ensemble, Sunday afternoon, April 30, at 3 p.m., at the Jim & Linda Lee Performing Arts Center in Prescott.

Taking its name from the court orchestra of French kings, Les Violons du Roy was founded in Québec City thirty-nine years ago to explore chamber music in performances that matched the period of each work’s composition. The fifteen-member ensemble plays modern instruments, but with period bows for Baroque and Classical music. Its interpretations are informed by the latest research on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century performance practices. Their repertoire of nineteenth- and twentieth-century works receives similar attention and figures regularly on the orchestra’s programs.

Les Violons du Roy has won Canada’s Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year twice: Their recording of George Frideric Handel’s “Apollo e Dafne” and Handel’s “Silete Venti” won the award in 2001; and for their recording of Mozart’s “Requiem” captured the prize in 2003.

In Prescott, Les Violons du Roy will perform a program of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, with special guest artist Inon Barnatan. Hailed by the New York Times as “One of the most admired pianists of his generation,” Barnatan was the New York Philharmonic’s inaugural Artist-in-Association, and has played with the BBC Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and most major orchestras in the U.S., as well as the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra Symphony and the London, Helsinki, Hong Kong, and Royal Stockholm Philharmonics.

Les Violons du Roy will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon, April 30, at the Jim & Linda Lee Performing Arts Center, on Yavapai College’s Prescott Campus, at 1100 E. Sheldon Street. Tickets for Los Violons du Roy are $36 to $54, and only available by contacting the Yavapai Symphony Association at (928) 776.4255. For further information, please call the YSA or visit: www.yavapaisymphony.org.

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