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Welcome from the Directors
We are excited to present the 2017 Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival! Many old friends are returning - the Brooklyn Rider quartet, Sharon Roffman, Conor Hanick, Clancy Newman, Joseph Conyers, and Mimi Solomon. Also joining us are young artists such as soprano Ariadne Greif, described by the New York Times as a “physically fearless singer” with a “luminous, expressive voice,” violinist Alexi Kenney and violist Matthew Lipman, Avery Fisher Career Grant winners in 2016 and 2015 respectively, and celebrated pianist Andrew Armstrong. Completing our roster, we are delighted to welcome acclaimed Charlottesville-based Canadian pianist Jeremy Thompson.
This season’s musical journey begins close to home with a weekend residency and three wide-ranging concerts with Brooklyn Rider’s artists, who are long-time Festival friends. They will present music by living composers Evan Ziporyn, Philip Glass, Giovanni Sollima, their own Colin Jacobsen, as well as joining us for Boccherini, Berio and Mozart’s wonderful Sinfonia Concertante, here in an early 19th century version for string sextet.
A few lesser-known gems to look forward to are Nikolaj Kapustin’s jazzy piano quintet paired with Shostakovich’s dark romances on poems by Aleksandr Blok for piano trio and soprano; Schoenberg’s mighty “Ode to Napoleon”, composed during WWII as a protest against tyranny by setting to music poet Lord Byron’s ironic 1814 “Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte”. There is Richard Strauss’s powerful Metamorphosen, written in 1945 as an elegy to the devastation of Munich and its famous opera house, where his father had been the principal horn. Throughout the Festival we will be traveling across Europe from Paris to St. Petersburg to Vienna and Prague.
Each concert will take us deep into different musical worlds. We look forward to seeing you in September at The Paramount, Old Cabell Hall, and The Jefferson Theater!
This season’s musical journey begins close to home with a weekend residency and three wide-ranging concerts with Brooklyn Rider’s artists, who are long-time Festival friends. They will present music by living composers Evan Ziporyn, Philip Glass, Giovanni Sollima, their own Colin Jacobsen, as well as joining us for Boccherini, Berio and Mozart’s wonderful Sinfonia Concertante, here in an early 19th century version for string sextet.
A few lesser-known gems to look forward to are Nikolaj Kapustin’s jazzy piano quintet paired with Shostakovich’s dark romances on poems by Aleksandr Blok for piano trio and soprano; Schoenberg’s mighty “Ode to Napoleon”, composed during WWII as a protest against tyranny by setting to music poet Lord Byron’s ironic 1814 “Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte”. There is Richard Strauss’s powerful Metamorphosen, written in 1945 as an elegy to the devastation of Munich and its famous opera house, where his father had been the principal horn. Throughout the Festival we will be traveling across Europe from Paris to St. Petersburg to Vienna and Prague.
Each concert will take us deep into different musical worlds. We look forward to seeing you in September at The Paramount, Old Cabell Hall, and The Jefferson Theater!
Tim Summers
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Raphael Bell
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The Co-Founders & Co-Artistic Directors
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