Sphinx Virtuosi, shown here at
the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater in Washington, D.C., will perform
Thursday at Shannon Hall on the UW-Madison campus.
KEVIN KENNEDY
September 29, 2021
Gayle Worland
After a year of separation due to COVID-19, the diverse and nationally renowned chamber orchestra Sphinx Virtuosi is back and rehearsing in what might seem like an unlikely spot: a Downtown ballroom in the Madison Concourse Hotel.
The group is preparing for a 7:30 p.m. performance Thursday in Shannon Hall at
Memorial Union.
It’s the first stop on Sphinx Virtuosi’s national fall tour, and also
the first classical music concert with an in-person audience held in the
UW-Madison theater since the pandemic halted operations in March 2020.
The concert also will be streamed online.
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Emilia Mettenbrink, a violinist with the ensemble and a UW-Madison alum, is a violinist with Sphinx Virtuosi. (Emilia Mettenbrink)
For musicians, “It always feels a bit like boot camp” when a group gets back together to rehearse after months apart, said Emilia Mettenbrink, a violinist with the ensemble and a UW-Madison alum.
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