Hunter – Hunter International Music Festival is a unique, immersive, ten day music festival with solo and chamber music performances by renowned faculty and guest artists and highly talented students from around the world. The festival ends this weekend with a faculty concert on Friday, August 8 and a guest artist concert on Saturday, August 9, both at the Doctorow Center for the Arts at 7:00 PM. Echoes of Nations: Nationalism in 19th-Century Music, performed by faculty and guest artists, includes works by Sibelius, Smetana, and Dvořák. Parker Quartet will perform works by Beethoven, Kurtág and Ravel in Saturday night’s guest artist.
Praised by the Washington Post for “exceptional
virtuosity (and) imaginative interpretation,” Parker
Quartet is internationally recognized for their
“fearless, yet probingly beautiful” (The Strad)
performances. The Grammy Award-winning
Parker Quartet, comprised of violinists Daniel
Chong and Ken Hamao, violist Jessica Bodner
and cellist Kee-Hyun Kim, has distinguished itself
as one of the preeminent ensembles of its
generation, dedicated purely to the sound and
depth of their music. They are renowned for their
fresh and unique approach to the great classics
while being passionate ambassadors for music of
our time. Inspired performances and exceptional
musicianship are hallmarks of the Quartet, having
appeared at the world’s most illustrious venues
since its founding in 2002.
This Saturday night, the Parker Quartet will
perform Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11 in F
minor, Op. 95, “Serioso,” Kurtág’s Officium Breve
in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, Op. 28, and
Ravel’s String quartet in F major.
This weekend’s concerts also include a free chamber music concert at the Doctorow Center for the Arts on Friday, August 8 at 2:00 PM featuring student participants in Hunter International Music Festival.
Get tickets at www.catskillmtn.org, boxoffice@catskillmtn.org or 518-263-2063. ###
About Catskill Mountain Foundation
The Catskill Mountain Foundation’s (CMF) aim is to provide educational opportunities in the arts for youth and lifelong learners, to bring the experience of the arts to the Catskill community, and to support artists and art organizations in the development of their work through residencies. Since its founding in 1998, CMF has presented hundreds of music, dance, and theater performances; screened over 1,000 films to tens of thousands of audience members; provided studio arts classes to thousands of students of all ages; and served thousands of art-loving patrons in the Catskill Mountain Foundation Gift Shop. The Catskill Mountain Foundation operates the Doctorow Center for the Arts in Hunter, the Orpheum Performing Arts Center in Tannersville, and the Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts in Maplecrest, NY.
Since 1998, CMF has raised, generated, and invested close to $16 million in facility development and an excess of $42 million in programming operations, for a total investment in the Catskill community of over $58 million. Catskill Mountain Foundation is supported in part by New York State Council on the Arts, the Greene County Cultural Fund administered by the Greene County Legislature, The Jarvis and Constance
Doctorow Family Foundation, The Royce Family Foundation, The Samuel and Esther Doctorow Fund, The Orville and Ethel Slutzky Family Foundation, Platte Clove Bruderhof Community, Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation, The Greene County Youth Bureau, Marshall & Sterling Insurance, All Souls’ Church, Stewarts Shops, Windham Foundation, and by private donations. CMF believes that the arts can transform the lives of those touched by it and can transform the community. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.
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