BY KAREN BOSSICK

Registration opens today for Alasdair Neale’s upcoming conversation with violinist Benjamin Beilman.

Beilman, guest curator of the Sun Valley Music Festival’s Winter Season, will take part in the newest rendition of Upbeat with Alasdair at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, at The Community Library in Ketchum.

Reservations, which open at 7:30 a.m. today—Monday, March 2--are recommended at https://thecommunitylibrary.libcal.com/event/15583152.

The program also will be livestreamed at https://vimeo.com/event/5598390 and recorded to watch later on the library’s Event Archive.

Beilman last performed with Neale and the Festival Orchestra in 2018, playing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto.

An accomplished chamber musician praised for his passionate performances, he’ll join Festival Orchestra musicians in the Winter Festival program featuring Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring Suite,” John Adams’ “Road Movies,” and Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.”

Beilman will also open each of the three programs with a piece for solo violin called “Sanguineum,” which was written for him by the composer Gabriella Smith, an American composer from Berkeley, Calif., whose work invites listeners to find joy in climate action.

Born in Western Springs, Ill., Beilman won the 2018 Montreal International Violin Competition. Now 36, he has been called “poised and monstrously talented” by the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The Festival’s Winter Season will be held March 19-21 at The Argyros.