Spivey Hall,

the concert hall on the campus of Clayton College and State University,

has locked up a number of solid acts on the classical music and choral

scene for the first part of 2002.

Not only will

world renowned artists be taking the stage at Spivey Hall, but students

and faculty members will also get to showcase their talents on a number

of occasions.

The 2002 season

starts with the CCSU Alumni Recital Jan. 18. The show, which will be an

all-British program, will feature soprano Wendy Baker, pianist Holly Chatham,

bass Mitch Gindlesperger, mezzo-soprano Tami Petty and tenor David Schnell

performing "Britten" and "In a Persian Garden." The

show will start at 8:15 p.m. and admission is free.

The following

evening's performance of the CCSU string quartet also will begin at 8:15

p.m. and will be free. The group will perform works by Prokofiev and Mendelssohn.

CCSU's organist

in residence, Richard Morris, will perform at 8:15 p.m. Jan. 26. Admission

to the concert, which will also feature brass, winds and piano, will be

$25. The Georgia Chamber Players with Misha Dichter on piano will perform

at 3 p.m. Jan. 27 for a fee of $25. Saxophonist Todd Oxford will perform

a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 31.

February begins

with a visit from the Morehouse Glee Club Feb. 1 at 8:15 p.m. Tickets

are $15. The following evening will feature the Brazilian Guitar Quartet

at 8:15 p.m. Tickets will be $30. Sunday, Feb. 3, guitarist Manuel Barrueco

and Michala Petri, who will play the recorder, will perform at 3 p.m.

Tickets, which will include works by Bach and Handel, are $40. The Albert

McNeil Jubilee Singers, a 13-member group founded over 29 years ago, will

perform Feb. 8 at 8:15 p.m. Tickets will be $25. Countetenor David Daniels,

BBC Music's Male Singer of the Year for 2000, will perform Feb. 9 at 8:15

p.m. Tickets for his concert are $35.

Dr. Shaun Amos

will direct two one-act operas, one by Gustav Holst and one by Ralph Vaughn

Williams, Feb. 15 and 16. Tickets are $10 and the show begins at 8:15

p.m. The opera continues Sunday with the Southeast Regional Finals of

the Metropolitan Opera Auditions at 2 p.m. Admission is $10. Organist

Robert Plimpton will perform Feb. 22 at 8:15 p.m. with tickets priced

at $25. The Atlanta Singers will perform Feb. 23 at 3 p.m. for $15. The

Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music will perform works by Dvorak, Debussy

and Brahms at 3 p.m. Feb. 24. Tickets will be $30.

March begins

with an exciting group, the Turtle Island String Quartet. The group combines

elements of bluegrass, salsa, hip hop, rock and swing and will perform

at 8:15 p.m. March 1 and tickets will be $25.

Organist Diane

Meredith Belcher will perform the following evening at 8:15 p.m for $25.

The Georgia Chamber Players will perform Sunday, March 3 at 3 p.m. They

will be joined by violinists William Preucil and Gwen Starker. Tickets

are $25.

Mezzo-soprano

Anne Sofie von Otter will perform at 8:15 p.m. March 8. Tickets will be

$35 or $50. The Beaux Arts Trio will perform the works of Beethoven and

Schumann at 8:15 p.m. March 9 for $35. Nineteen-year-old Chinese pianist

Lang Lang will perform at 3 p.m. March 10. Tickets will be $25. CCSU faculty

composer Mary Lynn Badarak will present her new works March 12 at 7:30

p.m. Admission is free.

The Shorter

College Chorale will come to Spivey Hall March 16 for an 8:15 p.m. performance.

Tickets will be $15. St. Patrick's day, Celtic fiddler Liz Carroll will

perform a 3 p.m. concert for $25. Pianist Angela Hewitt will perform at

8:15 p.m. Her concert, which will feature the works of Bach, Beethoven

and Ravel, will be $35. ASO Concertmaster Cecylia Arzewski and ASO Music

Director Robert Spano will perform on the violin and piano respectively

March 24. Admission to their concert will be $30.

That is merely

the tip of the iceberg for Spivey Hall in 2002. For information, phone

770-961-3683 or visit www.spiveyhall.org .

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