Concert Calendar, January 22-31

Friday, January 22

• Bang on a Can All Stars and percussionist Glenn Kotche perform at Emory University's Schwartz Center in Atlanta.
• Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats are at Georgia Southern University.
• National touring production of Camelot opens at Macon's Grand Opera House. Repeats Saturday.
• Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Khatchaturian with the Atlanta Symphony and Robert Spano conducts Sibelius's First Symphony and Finlandia. Symphony Hall, Atlanta. Repeats Saturday.

Saturday, January 23

• Shizuo Kuwahara leads Symphony Orchestra Augusta in Bruckner's Fourth Symphony and Saint-Saens's Cello Concerto No. 1 with Yanghee Lee as soloist. Ms. Lee has been principal cellist in Augusta but is taking a job with the Bamberg Symphony in Germany; this is her last appearance with SOA.
• The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players present G&S's Pirates of Penzance at the Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Tech campus, Atlanta.
• Political comedy troupe the Capitol Steps are at Atlanta's Rialto Center.
• Organist Gunnar Idenstam performs at Spivey Hall, Clayton State campus, Morrow.
• Pianist and composer Joe Chapman gievs a free concert in Hoag Auditorium, North Georgia College and State University, Dahlonega, to mark the bicentennial of Chopin and Schumann's births.

Sunday, January 24

• Moscow State Radio Symphony is at UGA's Performing Arts Center in Athens with music of Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninoff.
• Columbus State University presents male vocal ensemble Cantus. RiverCenter, Columbus.
• The all-male Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo are at the Ferst Center in Atlanta.
• Emory University's Chopin/Schumann Bicentennial series presents pianist William Ransom playing Chopin and the Vega String Quartet joining him for Schumann's piano quintet. Atlanta.

Tuesday, January 26

• Music in a pub: the Atlanta Chamber Players play music of Bach and Carter and present a staged performance of Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale with actors and dancers at the New American Shakespeare Tavern, Atlanta.

Thursday, January 28

• Guest trumpeter Robert Sullivan joins the Columbus State University Wind Ensemble and conductor Robert Rumbelow in a free concert, RiverCenter, Columbus.
• Air Force Reserve Concert Band is at Georgia Southern University.
• The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performs Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Vaughan Williams' Tallis Fantasia and music of Golijov. Repeats Friday and Saturday.

Saturday, January 30

• The Ocmulgee Symphony Orchestra welcomes guest pianist Paolo Andre Gualdi for Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23.
• Celtic fiddlers Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are at UGA's Performing Arts Center, Athens.

Sunday, January 31

• Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (like American Idol for opera...) take place at Spivey Hall, Morrow.
• Celtic fiddlers Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are at Georgia Tech's Ferst Center, Atlanta.