MUSIC MOUNTAIN presents The Shanghai String Quartet
By: A.A. Cristi Aug. 22, 2016
Music Mountain, America's oldest continuing summer chamber music festival, continues its blockbuster 87th Anniversary Season with the brilliant Shanghai String Quartet presenting two unique programs on Saturday, September 3(6:30PM) and Sunday, September 4 (3PM). Guest artist Gilbert Kalish, Piano joins the quartet for the Labor Day Benefit Concert & Reception on September 4! The Music Mountain summer is coming to a close with final concerts scheduled for September 11. Don't miss out on "The Summer Shrine of the String Quartet" (The New Yorker)!
Saturday evening welcomes the Shanghai String Quartet withJonathan Yates, Piano offering the following program: Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F Minor, Opus 80; Zhou Long: Song of the Ch'in; and Brahms: Piano Quartet in C Minor, Opus 60. The Shanghai String Quartet returns Sunday afternoon for Music Mountain's Labor Day Benefit Concert & Reception. The afternoon program will begin with a special piano 4 hands played by Pianists Gilbert Kalish and Jonathan Yates, Music Mountain's Musical Director; they will perform Schubert: Lebenssttürme in A Minor for Piano 4 Hands, D.947. The Shanghai Quartet follows with Beethoven: String Quartet in C Minor, Opus 18 # 4; and Brahms: Piano Quartet in A Major, Opus 26, featuring guest artist Gilbert Kalish, Piano. Renowned for its passionate musicality, impressive technique and multicultural innovations, the Shanghai String Quartet has become one of the world's foremost chamber ensembles. Formed at the Shanghai Conservatory in 1983, the Quartet has worked with the world's most distinguished artists and regularly tours the major music centers of Europe, North America and Asia. The Quartet has a long history of championing new music and juxtaposing traditions of Eastern and Western music. The Shanghai Quartet currently serves as Quartet-in-Residence at the John J. Cali School of Music, Montclair State University, New Jersey, Ensemble-in-Residence with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and visiting guest professors of the Shanghai Conservatory and the Central Conservatory in Beijing.A distinguished professor at SUNY Stony Brook, Mr. Kalish has been an Artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2006. Jonathan Yates, pianist, is the fourth Musical Director of Music Mountain in its eighty seven year history. He is also Music Director of both the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra and the Norwalk Youth Symphony. He has collaborated with many of the country's most respected musicians, including Midori, Kim Kashkashian, David Finckel, Gilbert Kalish, Ida Kavafian, Colin Carr, Paul Neubauer, Joseph Lin, and Anthony McGill. Mr. Yates made his professional orchestral conducting debut at 23, leading the National Symphony Orchestra in a Millennium Stages Concert, and made his Carnegie Hall debut (Stern Auditorium) as a pianist in the following year. He has also served on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College.
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