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Highland Park Strings to perform holiday concert

Chicago native Matthew Lipman will headline the Highland Park Strings classical music concert Sunday, Dec. 13, featuring the works of Mozart, Stamitz and Haydn.

Sponsored by The Negaunee Foundation, the program will begin at 2 p.m. with a preconcert conversation, followed by the performance at 3 p.m. The events take place at Highland Park High School, 433 Vine Ave., Highland Park.

Maestro Robert Hasty, music director of the Kenosha Symphony and the conductor of the Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonia at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, will make his second appearance of the season with the Strings as a substitute for Principal Conductor Francesco Milioto.

Soloist Lipman will perform one of the best known works for viola, the Concerto in D Major, Op. 1, by Carl Stamitz. An alumnus of the Ravinia Steans Music Institute and the recipient of a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Lipman was recently featured on WFMT's list of "30 under 30" top international classical musicians.

His engagements have been in halls across America, including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. His debut recording of Mozart's "Sinfonia Concertante" with violinist Rachel Barton Pine, Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, was released to critical acclaim and rose to No. 3 on the Billboard Classical chart.

The Strings will perform works by Stamitz's contemporaries, the Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K 201 by Mozart and the "Farewell" Symphony by Haydn.

The concert is the second of four in the Strings' 37th season.

The policy of free admission is made possible primarily by the Park District of Highland Park, augmented by funds from an annual benefit concert, YEA! Highland Park and the generosity of other donors.

For more information, visit www.HPStrings.com.

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