Featured on this concert will be the pianistic skills of Dharshini Tambiah as she performs the mini-concerto by Olivier Messiaen entitled Oiseaux Exotiques, or Exotic Birds. Messiaen based his 
composition on actual birdsong with which he was intrigued as a source for melody. As a compliment to Messiaen’s composition, we will be including another kind of bird song, the Suite in D by Arthur 
Bird. The concert will also feature the Southeastern premiere of a new work by Mattthew Tommasini entitled Torn Canvases. Several other chamber works will be on the program conducted by various 
master degree candidates.