The Gateways Music Festival to Present Finale Concert Tonight

Tonight, the 2020 Gateways Music Festival Finale Livestream Concert will feature the Traveling Through Time string quartet with Edward W. Hardy, violin (composer of The Woodsman); Candace Rembert, violin; Drew Alexander Forde, viola (social media influencer, ThatViolaKid); Thapelo Masita, cello; and the Gateways Brass Collective with Courtney Jones, trumpet; Herb Smith, trumpet; Eric Davis, French horn; Isrea Butler, trombone; Richard White, tuba.

This concert includes a special premiere between Gateways' musicians and students of ROCmusic, Rochester's El Sistema-inspired community-based music education program.

The program includes works by Duke Ellington, Jessie Montgomery, Astor Piazzolla, Herb Smith, Edward W. Hardy, William Grant Still, George Walker, and more.

There will be a pre-concert conversation with the President, Artistic Director and host of The Gateways Musice Festival Lee Koonce; Isrea Butler, trombone; Armand Hall, Executive and Artistic Director, ROCmusic; Edward W. Hardy, composer/ violinist.

For the complete program: https://gatewaysmusicfestival.org/gmf2020-finale-concert/

Ticket price: $5-$20; festival passes $20-$50. For live stream tickets: gatewaysmusicfestival.org