Wyoming Arts Council

Wyoming Arts Council Announces Fall 2024 Piatigorsky Tour

Featured News, Program News | October 7, 2024

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The Wyoming Arts Council (WAC), in partnership with The Piatigorsky Foundation, is hosting a free tour of Wyoming this fall. The tour features clarinetist Katsuya Yuasa. The soloist and his accompanist, Mary Au, will travel throughout Wyoming from October 16-21, 2024, hosting free public concerts and school outreach programs. 

The Piatigorsky Foundation works to bring the joy of live classical music to communities throughout the country. Since 1990, the foundation has brought live classical music to over 3,775 communities nationwide, reaching seniors, schoolchildren, and underserved populations. The Wyoming tour, made possible by the generous support of the Muriel & Seymour Thickman Family Charitable Trust in Sheridan, provides rural residents with access to world-class performances, offering an opportunity for people to experience high-caliber cultural events often only available in larger cities. 

The Wyoming Arts Council partners with the Piatigorsky Foundation to book the tours each year, ensuring that these enriching experiences continue to reach communities across the state. This initiative goes beyond offering concerts—it brings communities together, igniting passion, creativity, and a deep appreciation for the arts in places that rarely have access to such enriching experiences.

The schedule of the community performances for the tour is as follows:

• Wednesday, October 16, 2024 – Rock Springs, WY
  •  Broadway Theater, 7pm (free and open to the public)
• Thursday, October 17, 2024 – Rawlins and Sinclair, WY
  • Rawlins Music Academy, 5pm (free and open to the public)
  • Sinclair Parco Theater, 7pm (free and open to the public)
• Friday, October 18, 2024 – Lander, WY and Shoshoni, WY
  • Westward Heights, 10:30am (Organization show only, not open to the public)
  • Shoshoni Senior Center, 4pm (free and open to the public)
• Saturday, October 19, 2024 – Meeteetse, WY
  • Meeteetse School, 7pm (free and open to the public)
• Sunday, October 20, 2024 – Dubois, WY
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 3pm (free and open to the pubic)
• Monday, October 21, 2024 – Riverton, WY
  • Rendezvous Elementary (school show only, not open to the public)

About the Musician:

A charismatic and versatile clarinetist, KATSUYA YUASA has been praised by critics as a “born performer with rare ability to express the beauty and soulfulness of the composer’s music” – and has toured in the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia as a concert soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. Born in Kobe, Japan, he is presently the International Concert Artist of Mu Phi Epsilon (MPE) and Professor of Clarinet at Florida A&M University. He is a founding member of Duo Esplanade (flute, clarinet) and Cosmos New Music (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano). An inventive artist, he explores a wide repertoire of classical, jazz, ethnic, pop, rock, and contemporary music.

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For more information about the Piatigorksy Tours, contact the Wyoming Arts Council’s Community Development and Arts Learning Specialist Amara Fehring at 307-630-3918 or amara.fehring@wyo.gov.

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