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String Theory, in partnership with Lee University and the Hunter Museum of American Art, will continue its sixth season with a concert featuring Anthony McGill, clarinet, and Gloria Chien, piano, on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 6:30 p.m.

String Theory was founded in 2009 by Artistic Director Chien and brings acclaimed chamber musicians from around the world to perform in the intimate setting of the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga.

McGill and Chien will perform Debussy’s “Premiere Rhapsodie,” selected preludes by Scriabin, Schumann’s “Romances Op. 94,” Berg’s “Four Pieces Op. 5,” and Weber’s “Grand Duo Concertant Op. 48.”

Prior to the concert will be an Art Connections event, which gives String Theory attendees the opportunity to visit the Hunter galleries at 5:30 p.m. to hear former Hunter Chief Curator Ellen Simak and Maestro Robert Bernhardt discussing works from the Hunter collection that relate to the music featured in the evening’s concert.

A masterclass with McGill will take place that day at 1 p.m. at the Hunter, and the public is welcomed to attend.

Recently named Principal Clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, McGill also served as Principal Clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for the past decade. He has been recognized as one of the classical music world’s finest solo, chamber and orchestral musicians. He has appeared as soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra and the New York String Orchestra, all at Carnegie Hall. Other recent performances have been with the Baltimore Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Orchestra 2001 and the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra.

McGill is a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and the first Sphinx Medal of Excellence. He serves on the faculty of the Juilliard School, the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Bard College Conservatory of Music and Manhattan School of Music, and has given masterclasses throughout the United States, Europe and South Africa. In 2009, McGill performed with Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma and Gabriela Montero at the inauguration of President Barack Obama. He has appeared on Performance Today, MPR’s St. Paul Sunday Morning and Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. In 2013, he appeared on NBC Nightly News, the Steve Harvey Show and on MSNBC with Melissa Harris-Perry.

Chien, who began playing piano at the age of five in her native Taiwan, has been called “a coat-of-many-colors pianist.” She holds a doctor of musical arts, a master’s and a bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. She is a Steinway Artist.

A prize winner of the World Piano Competition, Harvard Musical Association Award, and the San Antonio International Piano Competition, Chien has presented solo recitals at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Harvard Musical Association, Sanibel Musical Festival, Caramoor Musical Festival, Salle Cortot in Paris, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She has been praised by “The Strad” for “super performances…accompanied with great character.”

Chien was appointed the Director of the Chamber Music Institute at Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has participated there for six years. She has been a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2012, and now frequently plays at Alice Tully Hall in New York as well as other venues around the country with CMS on Tour.

Individual concert tickets are $25 for Hunter members, $35 for non-members, $10 for students with a valid student ID and $25 for groups of 20 or more people.

For more information on String Theory at the Hunter or to purchase tickets, call 423-267-0968 or visit www.stringtheorymusic.org.