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In August we visit the Marlboro and Bowdoin Music Festivals, Tue 8/20 @ 8pm

Marlboro Music is known world-wide as an institution devoted to artistic excellence and to developing new leaders who illuminate all areas of music. It is where the concept of having master artists play together with exceptional young professionals was born

String players and pianist taking a bow front of stage
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Musicians from the Marlboro Music Festival

8/6 Newport Music Festival and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival
Genin:  Carnival of Venice (Maria Piccinini, f; Nelson Padgett p) Seixas: Sonatina (Maria Joao Pires, p) Schubert: Sonatina for violin and piano (Livia Sohn, v; John Lenahan, p) Chopin: Variations on Non piu Mesta from Rossini's La Cenerentola (Pedja Muzijevic, p; Goran Marcusson, f) Chopin: Nocturne (Bella Davidovich, p) Mozart: Serenade No. 11 (Randall Wolfgang, ob; Rebecca Kim, ob; Richard Stoltzman, cl; Graham Lord, cl; Frank Morelli, bn; Jeremy Friedland, bn; William Purvis, hn; Elizabeth Upton, hn) Debussy: String Quartet (Tokyo String Quartet: Martin Beaver, v; Kikuei Ikeda, v; Kazuhide Isomura, vla; Clive Greensmith, c) Schubert: Piano Trio, Notturno (Martin Beaver, v; Clive Greensmith, c; Juan Carlos Fernandez-Nieto, p) Brahms: Piano Quartet (Magdelena Filipczak, v; Minjung Chun, vla; Mei-En Ho, c; Lee Erik Dionne, p)

8/13 Newburyport Chamber Music Festival and Rockport Chamber Music Festival
Mendelssohn: String Quartet - Finale (David Ehrlich & Adela Pena, v; David Yang, vla; Caroline Stinson, c) Kutnowski: In the Sea There is a Tower (Todd Palmer, cl; David Ehrlich & Nurit Pacht, v; David Yang, vla; Caroline Stinson, c) Smetana: String Quartet No. 1, From My Life (David Ehrlich & Nurit Pacht, v; David Yang, vla; Caroline Stinson, c) Beethoven: String Quartet No. 1: Finale (Jupiter String Quartet: Nelson Lee, v; Meg Freivogel, v; Liz Freivogel, c; Daniel McDonough, c) Ravel: Ondine , from Gaspard de la nuit (Marc-Andre Hamelin, p) Stravinsky: Suite Italienne (Stefan Jackiw, v; Gilles Vonsattel, p) Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 7 (A Far Cry)

8/20 Marlboro Music Festival and Bowdoin International Music Festival
Schubert: Trout Quintet (Rudolf Serkin, p; Jaime Laredo, v; Philipp Naegele, vla; Leslie Parnas, c; Julius Levine, bs) Haydn: Flute Trio (Anna Polansky, p; Emi Ferguson, f; Andrew Janss, c) Schubert: Adagio (Mitsuko Uchida, p; David McCarroll, v; Bronwyn Banerdt, c) Purcell: O Solitude (Karim Sulayaman, t; Judith Serkin, c) Poulenc: Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon (Mary Lynch, ob; Natalya Rose Vrbsky, bn; Thomas Sauer, p) Ysaye: Sonata for Two Violins: mvmt II (Ray Chen & Suyoen Kim, v) Adler: Canto XIX (Ricardo Iznaola, g) Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht, Transfigured Night (The Ying Quartet ) Bermel: Soul Garden (Paul Neubauer, vla; Maria Schleuning, v; Laura Lutzke, v; Jesus Rodriguez Gonzalez, vla; Rosemary Elliott, c; Seth Russell, c)

8/27 Monadnock Music Festival and Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival                   
Dello Joio: Con Brio from Diversion of Angels (Monadnock Sinfonia; Gil Rose, cond) Copland: Appalachian Spring (Monadnock Sinfonia; Gil Rose, cond) Ruo: Chamber Concerto No. 1, Yueh Fei (Monadnock Sinfonia; Gil Rose, cond) Dvorak: Five Bagatelles (Soovin Kim, v; Jennifer Frautschi, v; Edward Arron, c; Jeewon Park, harmonium) Mozart: Flute Quartet No. 1 (Joshua Smith, f; Elena Urioste, v; Hsin-Yun Huang, vla; Clancy Newman, c) Schubert: String Quintet (Jennifer Frautschi & Soovin Kim, v; Hsin-Yun Huang, vla; Alisa Weilerstein & Edward Arron, c) Beethoven: Piano Trio, Archduke (Soovin Kim, v; Colin Carr, c; Ignat Solzhenitsyn, p)