Music Mountain, America's oldest continuing summer chamber music festival, continues its 86th anniversary season with a mid-season benefit concert featuring the famed Juilliard String Quartet on Sunday, June 28th (3PM) performing Haydn, Webern, and Schubert. The weekend also welcomes Cantata Profana, performing the music of Stravinsky on Saturday, June 27th (6:30pm) and a solo performance by Kim Kashkashian, viola as the second offering of the Distinguished Artist Recital Series tonight, June 26th (7:30pm). Jazz, country, folk groups plus opera and musical theatre join world-renowned string quartets for an extended summer of music. Concerts are scheduled thru September 27th.
The renowned Juilliard String Quartet comes to Music Mountain on Sunday afternoon for a special mid-season benefit concert. The special program will feature Haydn: String Quartet in G Major, Op. 33 No. 5; Webern: Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5; Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 "Death and The Maiden." The program highlights both works that are rarely performed at Music Mountain - The Haydn Quartet being heard for only the second time, and the Webern for only the fifth time in Music Mountain's history, as well as a work of historical significance at the festival: the Schubert, which was one of the pieces performed during Music Mountain's inaugural season in 1930.
The Juilliard String Quartet, widely known as the quintessential American string quartet, continues their busy 2014/2015 season with performances at premiere chamber music venues around the country including Boston, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. With The Juilliard School they begin a new collaboration in China during their spring tour of Asia. They also embark on two tours of Europe to include concerts in Spain, France, Switzerland and Germany.In 2011 the Quartet became the first classical music ensemble to receive a
Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. For nearly seven decades, the Quartet has made manifest the credo of its founders to "play new works as if they were established masterpieces and established masterpieces as if they were new."
Spend Saturday evening with Stravinsky. Cantata Profana, a wildly gifted young ensemble, will perform two 20th Century masterpieces - both Music Mountain premieres! The program will include Stravinsky: Sacre du Printemps (arr. for Piano, Four Hands); and Stravinsky: L'histoire du Soldat for narrator, strings, winds & percussion.
Cantata Profana is a fearless new vocal and instrumental ensemble dedicated to bringing eclectic and diverse masterpieces together and presenting them with a narrative programmatic voice and an engaging sense of theatricality. Founded in 2013 with students from the Yale School of Music and
Institute for Sacred Music, Cantata Profana is comprised of a dedicated core group of nine performers. They seek to create an experience for the audience member that goes beyond the traditional scope of music performance, by combining virtuosic musical talent with exciting staging, lighting, and design ideas.
Friday evening welcomes Kim Kashkashian, Viola, for the second Distinguished Artist Recital. Ms. Kashkashian will perform her Grammy Award winning performance of György Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages for Solo Viola interwoven with Bach: excerpts from Six Suites for Solo Cello 1-6, BWV 1007-1012.
Kim Kashkashian is recognized internationally as a unique voice on the viola. She has worked tirelessly to broaden the range of technique, advocacy and repertoire for the viola. Ms. Kashkashian is a regular participant at the Salzburg, Lockenhaus, and Ravinia festivals. As a soloist, she has appeared with the great orchestras of Berlin, London, Vienna, Milan, New York and Cleveland. She has also given recitals at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Kaufmann
Concert Hall in New York. Ms. Kashkashian teaches chamber music and viola at the New England Conservatory and is a founding member of Music for Food, a musician-led initiative to play benefit concerts for local hunger relief.
Music Mountain is located in Falls Village, Connecticut on Music Mountain Road, where a short scenic drive will bring you to Gordon Hall atop Music Mountain. Free parking and picnic facilities are available. Food, locally baked cookies, coffee, and spring water are available for purchase.
Upcoming quartets scheduled to perform include Arianna String Quartet with Colin Carr, cello (July 5);
Peter Serkin and Julia Hsu, piano, 4 hands (July 12); Enso String Quartet with Soyeon Kate Lee, piano (July 19); Avalon String Quartet with Jan Opalach, bass-baritone and Jonathan Yates, piano (July 26).
The Saturday Evening Twilight Series will continue with Jeff Newell's New-Trad Quartet (July 4); Vince Giordano and
The Nighthawks (July 11); The New Black Eagle Jazz Band (July 18); Swingtime
Big|Brave Band (July 25); The Sharon
Playhouse (August 1).
The Friday Evening Distinguished Artist Recital Series will conclude with Colin Carr, cello and Jonathan Yates, piano (July 3).
All tickets for the Juilliard String Quartet concert on Sunday, June 28 are $60. Tickets for Sunday, July 12 with
Peter Serkin and Julia Hsu are $60. Tickets for the Labor Day Benefit Concert & Reception on Sunday,
September 6 are $75 and include a voucher for any regularly priced 2015 or 2016 concert.
Chamber Music Concerts are $35 at the door/$30 in advance. Twilight Series Concerts are $30 at the door/$27 in advance. Friday evening Distinguished Artist Recital Concerts are $35 at the door/$30 in advance. Children ages 5-18 are admitted FREE for ALL CONCERTS when accompanied by a ticket holder. Saturday Twilight Concerts are at 6:30pm. Chamber Music concerts are at 3pm on Sundays, unless otherwise noted. Group rates and pre season ticket vouchers are available. Discounts apply through participating organizations. For a complete summer schedule, special ticket prices, and to download a ticket order form visit
www.musicmountain.org or call
860-824-7126.
Photo credit: Simon Powis
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