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ChamberFest Canandaigua offers Schumann’s colorful Piano Quintet 12/15 @8pm

Enjoy concert highlights captured live in theaters, museums, and in university halls across Upstate New York.

Bob Ward - bward@nsms.com

PERFORMANCE UPSTATE Program 2603

Support for Performance Upstate is made possible in part by Dawn F. Lipson, investing in the future of Classical Music.

Hour 1

Elizabeth Raum: Romance for Horn and Piano
Society for Chamber Music in Rochester | Michael Stevens, horn | Chiao-Wen Cheng, piano | October 2024 | Nazareth University, Rochester, NY | John Truebger, recording engineer

Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44
ChamberFest Canandaigua | Kevin Kumar, violin | Min-Young Kim, violin | Jessica Thompson, viola | Amy Sue Barston, cello | Jessica Choe, piano | July 19, 2024 | Fort Hill Performing Arts Center, Canandaigua, NY | Jim LaRonde, recording engineer

Carlos Simon: Breathe (2022)
Cordancia Chamber Orchestra | Evan Meccarello, conductor | March 30, 2025 | Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester, NY | Carl Pultz, Alembic Productions

Ludwig van Beethoven: Cavatina from Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Major
Skaneateles Festival | Ivalas Quartet | Reuben Kebede, violin | Tiani Butts, violin | Marcus Stevenson, viola | Pedro Sánchez, cello | First Presbyterian Church, Skaneateles, NY | August 23, 2024 | Jim LaRonde, engineer

Hour 2

Max Bruch: Piano Quintet
Society for Chamber Music in Rochester | David Bowlin, violin| Jeanelle Thompson, violin | Phillip Ying, viola | Joseph Johnson, cello | Chiao-Wen Cheng, piano | April 6, 2025 | Beston Hall at Glazer Music Performance Center at Nazareth University, Rochester, NY | John Truebger, sound engineer

Caroline Shaw: Microfictions [volume 1]
Cooperstown Summer Music Festival | The Miró Quartet | July 18, 2024 | The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown, NY | Jim LaRonde, sound engineer

Barbara Strozzi: “Che si puo fare”
Pegasus Early Music | Clara Rottsolk, soprano; Christa Patton, harp; Deborah Fox, theorbo | Downtown United Presbyterian Church | September 29, 2024 | Carl Pultz, sound engineer

This program will repeat February 23, 2026.