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David Abrams moves to CNY Café Momus
Long-time local music critic David Abrams will begin posting his classical music reviews and commentaries on his new blog, http://blog.cnycafemomus.com. Abrams, the chair of Onondaga Community College's Music Department, served as a freelancer with The Post-Standard on and off over the past 17 years. He earned nine Syracuse Press Club awards (judged by the Associated Press and San Diego Press Club), winning first-place ( Best in Category") awards in the categories of Critiques, Best Human Interest Story and the Robert Haggart Memorial Award for Best Daily Newspaper Column. On May 9 this year he received the Syracuse Press Club's "Best in Category Award" for Critiques for 2008 for his review of the October 3 Syracuse Symphony Orchestra Classics Series concert. CNY Café Momus opens for business with the 2009 Glimmerglass Opera's opening-week productions of Verdi's La Traviata and Rossini's La Cenerentola (July 18 and 19), followed by the entire Skaneateles Festival season (August 12 through September 5). You can visit Abrams' Web page at www.cnycafemomus.com.
For more information: Please Note: High resolution photos are available at www.skanfest.org under For the Media or go directly to: http://skanfest.org/media.cfm
Wednesday, August 12 - Workshops for Music Students Open to students of all ages and abilities. With: Katherine Collier and Elinor Freer, piano; Renata Artman Knific, violin; Deborah Chodacki, clarinet; and Rosemary Elliott, cello.
Peter Child: Pantomime for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Oboe featuring: Deborah Chodacki, clarinet; Katherine Collier, piano; Steven Doane, cello; Rosemary Elliott, cello; Elinor Freer, piano; Mark Kaplan, violin; Renata Artman Knific, violin; W. Peter Kurau, horn; Michelle LaCourse, viola; Peggy Pearson, oboe; Gregory Quick, bassoon
7pm Pre-concert event: Meet and hear the 2009 Robinson Award Winner, Nicholas Hrynyk featuring: Edward Castilano, bass; Deborah Chodacki, clarinet; Katherine Collier, piano; Steven Doane, cello; Rosemary Elliott, cello; Mark Kaplan, violin; Renata Artman Knific, violin; W. Peter Kurau, horn; Michelle LaCourse, viola; Peggy Pearson, oboe
Bach: Cantata No. 51, Praise God in Every Nation featuring: Edward Castilano, bass; Deborah Chodacki, clarinet; Katherine Collier, piano; Steven Doane, cello; Rosemary Elliott, cello; Elinor Freer, piano; Lindsay Groves, cello; Mark Kaplan, violin; Renata Artman Knific, violin; W. Peter Kurau, horn; Michelle LaCourse, viola; Joanna Manring, soprano; Melissa Matson, viola; Wesley Nance, trumpet; Peggy Pearson, oboe; Gregory Quick, bassoon
Wednesday, August 19 - Special Event: Villas, Vittles, and Fiddles
Songs of Handel and Mendelssohn featuring: Michael Larco, viola; Adam Neiman, piano; Parker Quartet; Robert Swensen, tenor
Bach-Busoni: Chorale Prelude: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland featuring: Melissa Matson, viola; Adam Neiman, piano; Parker Quartet; James VanDemark, bass
Kodaly: Summer Evening featuring: Festival Chamber Orchestra; Robert Moody, conductor; Conrad Tao, piano Week Three: I Love New York Tuesday, August 25 - Behind the Scenes: Open Rehearsal with composer Carter Pann
Join festival musicians for a rollicking FamilyFest concert featuring music by and about New Yorkers. You'll be the first to hear composer Carter Pann's "Songs of Summer," a piece he wrote especially for us about life in Central New York. Don't miss it! featuring: Carter Pann, composer; Derrick Smith, baritone
Featuring music from West Side Story; Spirtuals by R. Nathaniel Dett; selections from Michael Torke and Antonin DvoYák and a new work narrated by Thom Filicia
R. Nathaniel Dett: Follow Me, Somebody's Knockin' at My Door, Zion Hallelujah, Hymn to Parnassus, God Understands featuring: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet; Elinor Freer, piano; Jupiter String Quartet; John Novacek, piano; Derrick Smith, baritone
7pm Behind the Scenes: Pre-Concert Chat with composer Carter Pann 8pm Samuel Barber: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6 featuring: Thom Filicia, narrator; Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet; Elinor Freer, piano; Jupiter String Quartet; John Novacek, piano; Carter Pann, composer; Derrick Smith, baritone; David Ying, cello
Selections from: featuring: Festival Chamber Orchestra; Paul Sportelli, conductor & music director; Sarah Franz, soprano; Brian Giebler, tenor; Elizabeth Ward Land, soprano; Rob Lorey, tenor Week Four: Viva Latina! Wednesday, September 2 - Special Event: Eliot Fisk in Recital Agustin Barrios Mangore: Four Piezas Latinas
Gabriela Lena Frank: Cuatro Bosquejos Pre-Incaicos (Four Pre-Inca Sketches) Granados: Quintet for Piano and Strings in G minor, Op. 49 featuring: Mauricio Aguiar, violin; Linda Chesis, flute; Eliot Fisk, guitar; Elinor Freer, piano; Friday, September 4 - Viva Latina! Part II Paganini: Quartet No. 15 in A minor featuring: Mauricio Aguiar, violin; Andres Cardenes, violin; Linda Chesis, flute; Eliot Fisk, guitar; Elinor Freer, piano; Mimi Hwang, cello; Barry Snyder, piano; Michi Wiancko, violin; David Ying, cello; Keiko Ying, cello; Phillip Ying, viola
Mozart: Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K. 525, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik featuring: Festival Chamber Orchestra; Andres Cardenes, violin; Eliot Fisk, guitar; Tito Muñoz, conductor
The 2009 Grammy Awards were held recently and there are a few winners with Festival connections... Long-time Festival favorite, violinist Hilary Hahn won again - Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with Orchestra) for Schoenberg/Sibelius: Violin Concertos (this was also nominated for Best Classical Album) The Pacifica Quartet won Best Chamber Music Performance. They were here in 2005 and their violist Matsumi was also here in 2006. Also nominated: Baritone Sanford Sylvan was nominated for Best Classical Vocal Performance
Co-artistic director David Ying discusses the Tchaikovsky string quartets in an interview with Strings magazine. Last year, the Ying Quartet released a recording of those three works, along with the string sextet "Souvenir de Florence" (with James Dunham and Paul Katz). The critically acclaimed disc was nominated for a Grammy Award. The Yings also will appear in the Quartets Plus series at Carnegie Hall this season. They play in Weill Recital Hall on Friday, April 17, a program of Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 1, Bartók's String Quartet No. 6, and Dvorák's String Quartet No. 14. The series also features the Miro Quartet, which played with us last summer, on Friday, January 23.
The Festival is pleased to congratulate the five people whose poems have been chosen by composer Carter Pann for his new composition, A Celebration of Life in Central New York. The five winning poems are: Showing At The State Fair, by Mary Gardner, of Skaneateles First Swim, by David Hitchcock, of Fayetteville When The Midnight Musicians Play, by Rose Keady, age 8 when she wrote it, of State Street Elementary School, Skaneateles I Come Down In The Morning, by Dr. David Manfredi, of Onondaga Hill Dragonflies, by Jeffrey Powell Jr., of Baldwinsville. The world premiere of this piece, commissioned on honor of the Skaneateles Festival's 30th Anniversary, will take place the week of August 23, 2009. In 2007, the Festival conducted a contest for poems written by area residents of all ages, about summertime, music, musicians, lakes, or life in Skaneateles and Central New York. We received more than 100 submissions from poets ages 6 to 90 from places as diverse as Skaneateles, Syracuse, Auburn, Fayetteville, Oneida, a poetry club, and a class of 8- and 9-year-olds at State Street Elementary School in Skaneateles. Carter Pann is now composing the music, for violin, clarinet, cello, piano, and narrator. Excerpts will first be performed at a free FamilyFest concert on the morning of August 26 at First Presbyterian Church in Skaneateles and at a Community Concert at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse that same evening. The premiere of the complete work will be performed August 28 at First Presbyterian Church at a Festival concert. Congratulations to the winners and Thank You to all who participated!
Diane Walsh (Festival Artistic Director 2000-2004) is currently appearing in "33 Variations" on Broadway. Read more about the play in this New York Times piece by Anthony Tommasini, click here
Live Festival recordings have returned to the national airwaves on American Public Media's "Performance Today." The November 10 broadcast included the Scherzo and Finale of Bohuslav Martinu's Sextet for flute, oboe, clarinet, two bassoons, and piano, with pianist Joel Fan; members of the Imani Winds Valerie Coleman on flute, Toyin Spellman-Diaz on oboe, Mariam Adam on clarinet, Monica Ellis on bassoon; and Gregory Quick on bassoon. It was recorded August 8 of this year. The November 5 broadcast included "And Legions Will Rise" for clarinet, violin and marimba, by Kevin Puts, recorded August 17, 2007. Players included Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet; Lisa Kim, violin; and Ayano Kataoka, marimba. Thanks to our recording engineer, Jim LaRonde. For more on "Performance Today" click here.
The Pacifica Quartet, which thrilled Festival audiences in 2005, has been named Ensemble of the Year by Musical America. Musical America's citation says, "Pacifica Quartet is a model string quartet of the 21st century. Its open-minded approach to repertory embraces both venerable and modern masters, overlooked gems, and brand-new works." YoYo Ma was named Musician of the Year, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Marin Alsop Conductor of the Year. The 2009 Musical America Awards will be presented in December at Lincoln Center in New York City. The Pacifica Quartet performed string quartets by Mendelssohn and Jancek and in the Brahms String Sextet for us in 2005. Violist Masumi Per Rostad returned to play in 2006, the same year the Pacifica was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, only the second chamber music ensemble to be selected. To see the full report from Musical America click here. For more on the Pacific Quartet,
"Sound of Woodwinds, Calling for Change" Puerto Rican-born Roberto Sierra, who has composed for the Imanis, told The Times, "You can see that they are very virtuosic. They have zest, and they play with gusto." Those who heard the Imanis perform for us last summer will certainly agree. To read the article from the November 16 newspaper, click here. For more on the Imanis click here.
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