|
 |
|
Katonah, NY ~ 5/3/2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Cohn Dutcher Associates
Lois Cohn, 917.339.7187, lcohn@cohndutcher.com
Dan Dutcher, 917.339.7157, ddutcher@cohndutcher.com
Christina Jensen, 917.339.7188, cjensen@cohndutcher.com
Caramoor Launches Latin American Music Festival on June 29
World Premieres by
Cuban Composer / Saxophonist / Clarinetist
PAQUITO D'RIVERA
Conversations with Cachao on June 30
Venezuelan Composer / Flutist MARCO GRANADOS
The Venezuelan Suite on June 29
Katonah, New York - This summer, the Caramoor International Music Festival will present a seven-concert series called Sonidos Latinos, which will open on June 29. The Festival is an annual seven-week summer extravaganza, which traditionally presents classical orchestral and chamber music, opera, cabaret, and jazz performances. This year, it has been expanded to include the vibrant music of Latin American, and will feature performances of Venezuelan dance music, Cuban folk and jazz, Brazilian-inspired jazz, Andean music, and classical music written by composers influenced by their Latin American roots. In addition, Sonidos Latinos will feature two world premieres: The Venezuelan Suite by Marco Granados, Sonidos Latinos Musical Advisor, and the Concerto for Double Bass, Clarinet/Alto Saxophone and Orchestra (Conversations with Cachao) by Caramoor's 2007-08 Composer-in-Residence, Paquito D'Rivera.
"Sonidos Latinos celebrates the variety and richness of Latin American music and its growing relevance, commensurate with the growing prominence and influence of Latin American culture in our society," said Caramoor's Chief Executive and General Director, Michael Barrett. "Over the past three years, we have been showcasing more and more Latin American music during the Festival. With the now-legendary Paquito D'Rivera's appointment as Composer-in-Residence and Marco Granados' participation as Music Advisor, Sonidos Latinos will offer more opportunities for our audiences to experience these thrilling Latin sounds. By commissioning new pieces, we hope to contribute more great music to this repertoire."
Un Mundo - The Music of Venezuela will kick off the 2007 installment of Sonidos Latinos on Friday, June 29 at 8:00 pm in the Spanish Courtyard. After an extraordinary performance at last year's Festival, flutist Marco Granados and Un Mundo - Francisco Flores, trumpet; Jorge Glem, cuatro; Roberto Koch, bass; Leonardo Granados, maracas and vocals; and Edward Simon, piano - return in a program bursting with Latin rhythms and styles that includes the world premiere of Granados' The Venezuelan Suite.
On Saturday, June 30, the first annual Caramoor Cavalcade - a one-day event featuring six concerts held throughout the exquisite gardens of the estate - will make its debut. There will be two Sonidos Latinos Family Concerts, each geared toward a different age group. At 4:30 pm in the Venetian Theater, narrator Jamie Bernstein and flutist Marco Granados will explore traditional instruments of seven Latin American countries in a program appropriate for ages six and up. Featured artists will be the Sonidos Latinos Festival Ensemble - Un Mundo, Choro Ensemble, and Group Inkay - as well as young soloists Elena and Samora Pinderhughes. Also at 4:30 pm in a parallel program presented in the Spanish Courtyard, Andes Manta will perform vibrant music from the Andes on traditional instruments, for children under the age of six.
At 8:00 pm, the opening weekend of Sonidos Latinos will culminate with the final Cavalcade performance in the Venetian Theater, featuring the world premiere of Paquito D'Rivera's Concerto for Double Bass, Clarinet/Alto Saxophone, and Orchestra (Conversations with Cachao) with John Feeney, bass and Paquito D'Rivera on clarinet/alto sax. The concert will also feature Aaron Copland's Three Latin American Sketches and George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue performed by Jeremy Denk, with Michael Barrett leading the Orchestra of St. Luke's. D'Rivera's Conversations with Cachao was inspired by the legendary Cuban musician Israel Lopez, known as "Cachao," an 88-years-young bassist who has played everything from symphonies and ballets to silent movies, circuses, and nightclubs. According to D'Rivera, "The piece intends to reflect Israel Lopez's extraordinary sense of humor as well as his eclectic career. As a bass player, bandleader and creator he epitomizes the very concept of versatility in a musician. He is a role model for the younger generations, and Conversations with Cachao is a tribute to this legendary and most beloved member of our music community."
Sonidos Latinos will continue on Friday, July 13 at 8:00 pm in the Spanish Courtyard with Camerata Latina. In an exclusive Caramoor performance, Paquito D'Rivera and Marco Granados will team up with Alon Yavnai, piano; Roberto Koch, bass; and the Daedalus Quartet for a fascinating evening of chamber music. The concert captures the beguiling flavor of Latin American music with Ginastera's Impresiones de la Puna for Flute and String Quartet; D'Rivera's Pipe Dreams, Golijov's Lullaby & Doina for Flute, Clarinet, and String Quartet; Otero's Milonga 19, and Contacto Permanente; selections of Latin American favorites arranged by Carlos Franzetti; and duos for flute and clarinet by various composers.
Summer 2007 Sonidos Latinos continues on Saturday, July 28, with most of the first day of Caramoor's annual two-day Jazz Festival. Jazz Festival I/The Latin Pulse will take place in the Venetian Theater on Saturday, July 28. The soulful tenor saxophone playing of David Sanchez and his quartet opens the afternoon at 3:00 pm. Steve Turre, whose work on trombone and conch shells has made him a favorite of everyone from Ray Charles to the Saturday Night Live Band, will perform at 5:00 pm. Following a dinner break, the evening festivities continue at 8:00 pm with a piano summit between two supremely talented Brazilian pianists, Weber Iago and Jovino Santos Neto. Jazz Festival I/The Latin Pulse concludes with a 9:00 pm set by the legendary Eddie Palmieri, influenced in his youth by the riotous sounds of Latin music in Spanish Harlem. Closing out the Latin Sounds are two sets on the second Jazz Festival day, Saturday, August 4. Arturo O'Farrill, son of the legendary Chico O'Farrill, begins the day with his trio at 3:00 pm and the day concludes with the 9:00 pm set of the Joe Lovano/Paquito D'Rivera Festival Ensemble, bringing together Caramoor's Jazz Festival Artistic Director and Composer-in-Residence in a powerhouse meeting of great musical minds.
Caramoor's Sonidos Latinos initiative has been made possible through a generous grant from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Caramoor is one of two organizations to have been awarded $500,000, the highest amount in the Fund's second cycle of grant making. In addition to the five concerts during the 2007 Caramoor International Music Festival and the appointment of Paquito D'Rivera as 2007-08 Composer-in-Residence, Sonidos Latinos will continue in 2008 with additional concerts and commissions, and will encompass free family-friendly outreach concerts at partnering venues, and radio broadcasts of performances recorded live at Caramoor and in-depth interviews in partnership with WNYC radio.
Tickets to Sonidos Latinos performances, as well as all other events at Caramoor, may be ordered by calling the Box Office at 914-232-1252 or online at www.caramoor.org.
SONIDOS LATINOS ARTISTS
Michael Barrett
Michael Barrett is Chief Executive and General Director of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts where he is responsible for the administration and programming of the year-round program and Summer Music Festival. In 2003, building on a career of over 25 years of programming and performing experience in the arts, Mr. Barrett assumed the position at Caramoor, where he leads the artistic mission and is responsible for its fiscal well-being. In the last three seasons, Mr. Barrett has reaffirmed his reputation as an innovator. He has enhanced or implemented programming for a wide variety of ambitious music rarely heard in a festival setting covering a wide range of new presentations that attract diverse audiences. In 1988, Mr. Barrett co-founded, with Steven Blier, the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS), which presents a diversity of thematic song recitals in New York City and beyond; and, in 1992, co-founded the Moab Music Festival (MMF) with his wife, violist Leslie Tomkins. He is also the Artistic Advisor for the Estate of Leonard Bernstein. Mr. Barrett has been a guest conductor with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, New York Philharmonic, London Symphony, Israel Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de France among others. He also has served variously as conductor, producer, and music director of numerous special projects, among them The Bernstein Beat, a young people's symphonic concert about rhythm at Carnegie Hall; the world premiere of Volpone by John Musto, which took place at Wolf Trap in 2004; and Hopper's Wife by Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie at the Long Beach Opera.
Jamie Bernstein
Jamie Bernstein is a narrator, writer and broadcaster who has transformed a lifetime of loving music into a career of sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm with others. She grew up in an atmosphere bursting with music, theater and literature. Her father, composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, together with her mother, the pianist and actress Felicia Montealegre, and their legions of friends in the arts, created a spontaneous, ebullient household that turned Jamie into a dyed-in-the-wool cultural enthusiast. Replicating her father's lifelong compulsion to share and teach, Jamie has devised several ways of communicating her own excitement about classical music, including "The Bernstein Beat," a concert for young people about her father, modeled after his own groundbreaking Young People's Concerts.
Choro Ensemble
The Choro Ensemble has pioneered the introduction of the Choro styles of music in the U.S., a genre that combines the classical European elements, Afro-Brazilian rhythms, improvisation and constant counterpoints between melody and the 7 string guitar. More than merely playing Choro music for the American public, the Choro Ensemble also presents its own innovations in terms of arrangements and original compositions. In its 5 years of existence, the Choro Ensemble has been voted Best Weekly Jazz gig in Manhattan by Time Out magazine, played as special guest group with the Wynton Marsalis Lincoln Jazz Orchestra at the legendary Apollo Theater, performed as a special guest group with the New York Pops in Carnegie Hall, released two CDs, and has performed at the JVC Jazz Festival.
Paquito D'Rivera
Caramoor's 2007-08 Composer-in-Residence, Paquito D'Rivera last appeared during the 2005 Caramoor International Music Festival. D'Rivera was a child prodigy on the clarinet and saxophone and performed with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra at a very early age. He founded the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna and Irakere, whose explosive mixture of jazz, rock, classical and traditional Cuban music was a groundbreaking addition to the Cuban musical milieu. His discography includes over 30 solo albums, and he has appeared in solo performances throughout the world. In 2005 the multi-Grammy Award winner was the recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States government.
The Daedalus Quartet
The Daedalus Quartet - Min-Young Kim, violin; Kyu-Young Kim, violin; Jessica Thompson, viola; and Raman Ramakrishnan, cello - was founded in the summer of 2000, and one year later captured the Grand Prize of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition, quickly establishing itself as among America's outstanding string quartets. The Quartet was named by Carnegie Hall to participate in the ECHO (European Concert Hall Organization) Rising Stars program, through which it made debuts during the 2004-2005 season in major concert halls throughout Europe as well as at Weill Recital Hall for Carnegie Hall's "Distinctive Debuts" series. A re-engagement to perform at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall followed. The Daedalus Quartet was appointed by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as the Chamber Music Society Two quartet for the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 seasons, leading to numerous performances at Lincoln Center, including collaborations with artist members of the Society and other Chamber Music Society Two artists, as well as participation in many of the Society's educational programs. The ensemble was appointed Columbia University's Quartet-in-Residence for the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 seasons, and its members are Visiting Artists at the University of Pennsylvania for the 2006-2007 season.
Jeremy Denk
Jeremy Denk was a 1998 recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and in 1997 won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, both of which helped launch his national career as a recitalist and concerto soloist. He has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, and the London Philharmonia, among others, and makes his debuts with the St. Louis, Houston, and San Francisco Symphonies in 2006/2007 season, as well as touring as soloist with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with which he will make his Carnegie Hall debut. He made his New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in April 1997 as the recipient of the Juilliard School's Piano Debut Award, and since then has appeared regularly in recital in Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. This last summer he was called at the last minute to replace Emanuel Ax for two recitals at the Mostly Mozart festival, performances that were acclaimed in both The New Yorker and the New York Times. This season includes a survey of all the Partitas of Bach, all-Beethoven programs, and the Berg Chamber Concerto. He has been a featured artist-in-residence on NPR's Performance Today. Currently he is collaborating with the violinist Joshua Bell, and they will appear in Carnegie Hall this upcoming season, as well as in two performances at the Wigmore Hall Schubert Festival in May 2006.
John Feeney
John Feeney, principal double bass of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, has distinguished himself as a chamber musician, soloist and early music artist. In 1975 he joined La Filharmonica De Las Americas in Mexico City and was named principal bass the following three seasons. In 1978 he was a medalist and prize winner at the Geneva and Isle of Man Competitions. In 1980 John Feeney and Edgar Meyer shared first prize at this country's first international bass competition and in 1981 Mr. Feeney garnered first prize in the prestigious Concert Artist Guild Competition. Famous for his remarkably robust tone and versatile musicianship, John has remained the bassist of choice among the musical elite in the U.S. and Europe. He performed Schubert's Trout Quintet with Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Josh Bell and Steven Isserlis several times and has appeared in concert playing duos with cellists Carter Brey, Laurence Lesser and Fred Sherry. In demand as a period instrumentalist, he is principal bass of The Grand Tour Orchestra and The Smithsonian Chamber Players and has toured with The London Classical Players. His numerous performances of double bass concertos, with orchestras such as the American Symphony and St. Luke's, include engagements at Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls along with many other major NYC venues. Also a seasoned studio musician, he has recorded for most major record labels. Mr. Feeney began his bass studies with Linda McKnight and holds Bachelor and Masters degrees from the Juilliard School where he was a scholarship student of David Walter.
Marco Granados
Marco Granados last appeared at Caramoor with Un Mundo in 2006. Since his 1991 New York debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall his performance highlights have included concerts at Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, The 92 Street Y, the 1999 British Flute Society International Convention in Manchester, as well as his thrilling performance at the closing ceremonies concert for the National Flute Association in Columbus, Ohio in 2000. In 2001, he made his London debut at the fabled Wigmore Hall, with a solo recital of classical Latin American compositions, as well as recitals at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and for The British Flute Society at Queens College in London. Over the past several years, he has been a favorite performer at flute festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Weber Iago
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Weber Iago won many prestigious piano and organ competitions throughout his teenage years. While attending the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, he developed his compositional skills writing for the University's ensembles. A soloist for the university's 1984 symphonic season, he performed Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. After graduating in 1985, Iago was invited to join the famous Tabajara Orchestra, and gained recognition as a consummate classical pianist touring throughout Brazil. In 1987, he immigrated to the US and began opening for such artists as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dianne Reeves, and Terrence Blanchard, and recording with James Newton, Moacir Santos, and the great Brazilian guitarist Romero Lubambo, as well as leading his own group Zen Blend. Iago has spent recent years recording and performing his compositions around the world.
Inkhay
Inkhay is a Quechua verb that means "to tend the fire." The members of the group have chosen this name to symbolize their commitment to keep alive, expose and spread the beautiful music of the Andes mountains of Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. The musicians play over two dozen musical instruments. Among the wind instruments, they play a variety of pan-pipes known to the natives as "sikus", "antaras" or "zamponas". They also play end-notched vertical flutes called kenas, transverse flutes, whistles and ocarinas as well as an array of percussion instruments. All these instruments have their roots in pre-Hispanic civilization. Inkhay originated in New York in 1984. Their performances at music festivals, museums, schools and concert halls have created a new source of reference for folk music lovers. The members of Inkhay, under the direction of Pepe Santana, a native from Ecuador, are: Rothman Teran, Cesar Vele, Ivan Vele, all from Ecuador, Fernando Leiva from Bolivia and Andres Jimenez from Peru.
Joe Lovano
Joe Lovano has been Artistic Director of the Caramoor Jazz Festival since 2003. His reputation as one of the great tenor saxophonists performing today stems from his search for new modes of artistic expression and new takes on what defines the jazz idiom. Recent award highlights and accolades include Down Beat Critic's and Reader's poll 2005 and 2004 number one Tenor Saxophone performer; The New York Times "Jazz Album of the Year" in 2004 for his Ballads recording I'm All For You, featuring legendary pianist Hank Jones; as well as nominations for three Grammy Awards.
Jovino Santos Neto
Rio de Janeiro-born pianist, flutist, and composer Jovino Santos Neto was a member of Hermeto Pascoal's legendary band from 1977 to 1992 and built a reputation as a creative musician, producer and arranger working with such artists as Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, and Mike Marshall. Relocating to the US in 1993 after performing on Sergio Mendes's GRAMMY® Award-winning world music album Brasileiro, Santos Neto released a debut solo album, Caboclo, in 1997, followed by Live in Olympia in 2000 and Canto do Rio in 2003, which was commissioned by Chamber Music America's New Works program and was nominated for a 2004 Latin GRAMMY® Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. His latest CD, Roda Carioca, was released in 2006 on Adventure Music and earned his second Latin GRAMMY nomination. Santos Neto received the Golden Ear Award as the Best Jazz Instrumentalist of the Pacific Northwest in 2004.
Arturo O'Farrill
Arturo O'Farrill, son of legendary bandleader Chico O'Farrill, was born in Mexico and grew up in New York City. Educated at the Manhattan School of Music, Brooklyn College Conservatory, and the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, O'Farrill played piano with the Carla Bley Big Band from 1979 through 1983 and later performed with such artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Steve Turre, The Fort Apache Band, Lester Bowie, and Harry Belafonte. In 1995 he became music director of Chico O'Farrill's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, which has been in residence at Birdland for ten years. He has recorded five albums as a leader and appeared on numerous recordings, including his father's GRAMMY-nominated Heart of a Legend and Carambola, and the soundtrack to the critically acclaimed film "Calle 54." O'Farrill was a guest soloist at three landmark Jazz at Lincoln Center concerts. In 2002 he created the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra for Jazz at Lincoln Center. His debut album with the Orchestra, Una Noche Inolvidable, earned a GRAMMY nomination in 2006.
Orchestra of St. Luke's
Formed at the Caramoor International Music Festival in the summer of 1979, the Orchestra of St. Luke's evolved from the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble (founded in 1974), with Ensemble members forming the Orchestra's artistic core as principal players. In addition to being Caramoor's orchestra-in-residence for the Caramoor International Music Festival each summer, the Orchestra of St. Luke's continues a 20-year collaborative relationship with Carnegie Hall that currently includes participation in such Carnegie events as the Choral Workshop, Family Concerts, concert presentations of musical theater, including the recent presentation, recording, and telecast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, and others. The Orchestra is also engaged throughout the year in a number of artistic collaborations, including the U.S. premiere of Paul McCartney's Ecce Cor Meum at Carnegie Hall.
Eddie Palmieri
Eddie Palmieri, the Spanish Harlem-born leader of salsa and Latin jazz orchestras and one of the foremost Latin pianists of all time, revolutionized the sound of Latin music. Palmieri's discography includes more than 32 titles, and he's received nine GRAMMY® Awards, including the first presentation in the Best Latin Album category for his 1975 release The Sun of Latin Music, and the following year for Unfinished Masterpiece. Palo Pa' Rumba won in 1984, Solito in 1985, and La Verdad in 1987. He received both a GRAMMY Award and a Latin GRAMMY for his 2000 release Obra Maestra/Masterpiece with Tito Puente. His 2005 recording Listen Here! (Concord Records) won the GRAMMY for Best Latin Jazz Album, and he recently won the honor again for his 2006 collaboration with Brian Lynch, Simpatico. In 1988, the Smithsonian recorded two of Palmieri's performances for the National Museum of American History. At the 1998 Heineken Jazz Festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he was honored for his contributions as a bandleader, he received an honorary doctor of music degree from Berklee College of Music.
Elena Pinderhughes
Flautist and vocalist Elena Pinderhughes is 12 years old. She plays jazz, Latin jazz, Cuban, Brazilian, and classical music and sings in English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, and French. She performs regularly with the San Francisco Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble, the YMP Junior Jazzers, and with Catch 22, a trio she founded with her brother who plays piano and composes and arranges for the group. She has performed at the Fillmore Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, Yerba Buena Center, Yoshis Jazz Club, the White House, and Carnegie Hall. In April 2007, she was the featured soloist with the Montclair Women?s Jazz Band at the Gualala Whale and Jazz Festival; the first time the producers featured a child on the main stage. She has been featured in articles on jazz and in an HBO special on young musicians entitled The Music in Me. Her first CD, entitled Catch 22, was released in 2005.
Samora Pinderhughes
Pianist, composer, and arranger Samora Pinderhughes is 15 years old. He has won several awards for his musicality and original compositions, including the prestigious Downbeat Award for "best original composition/best song" for Catch 22, the title track on his first CD. In 2006 and 2007 he won awards for Outstanding Musicianship at the Folsom Jazz Festival. His original compositions have been recorded and performed by a number of San Francisco Bay Area artists, including Grammy nominated percussionist John Santos and his Machete Ensemble. He performs regularly with many groups, including the San Francisco Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble, YMP Junior Jazzers, and Catch 22, a trio he founded with his sister who plays flute and sings with the group. He has performed at the Fillmore Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, Yerba Buena Center, Yoshis Jazz Club, San Jose Jazz Festival, the White House, and Carnegie Hall.
David Sanchez
Hailed as the most profound young tenor saxophonist working today, David Sanchez pushes the frontiers of mainstream jazz with Latin and Afro-Caribbean influences. Puerto Rican-born Sanchez won a music scholarship at Rutgers University in 1988 and quickly joined New York's jazz scene, gigging with piano giant Eddie Palmieri and trumpeter Claudio Roditi, and joining Dizzy Gillespie's "Live the Future" tour with Miriam Makeba in 1991. He garnered his first GRAMMY nomination with the Branford Marsalis-produced Obsesion, followed by the GRAMMY-nominated Melaza. A prolific composer, Sanchez was named a 2005 grant recipient of Chamber Music America's prestigious "New Works: Creation and Presentation" program. He has been a visiting professor at conservatories and universities around the world and was artist-in-residence at Georgia State University in 2005-6. His most recent recording for Columbia, Coral, recorded in Prague with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, earned the saxophonist's fourth GRAMMY nomination and won a 2005 Latin GRAMMY for Best Instrumental Album.
Edward Simon
Edward Simon was born in the coastal town of Punta Cardon, Venezuela where he grew up in a family of musicians surrounded by the sounds and rhythms of Latin and Caribbean music. Settling in New York City in 1989, he performed with many jazz masters, including Herbie Mann, Paquito D'Rivera, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Watson, Terence Blanchard, Jerry Gonzalez and The Fort Apache Band, Arturo Sandoval, Many Oquendo and Libre and Don Byron. Simon has participated on more than forty recordings (including several Grammy nominated albums) led by jazz greats such as Terence Blanchard, John Patitucci, Bobby Watson, and Herbie Mann among others. He has produced seven critically acclaimed albums as a leader including two New York Times Top Ten jazz records of the year: Edward Simon (Kokopelli, 1994) and Simplicitas (Criss Cross, 2005). Today, Simon keeps himself busy writing for and leading his trio, Ensemble Venezuela; Afinidad, a quartet co-led with long time collaborator saxophonist David Binney; and Simon, Simon & Simon, a project co-led with his two brothers.
Steve Turre
One of the world's preeminent jazz innovators, Steve Turre has consistently won both Readers and Critics polls in JazzTimes, Downbeat, and Jazziz for Best Trombone and Best Miscellaneous Instrumentalist (shells). Born to Mexican-American parents, he grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and while attending Sacramento State University joined the Escovedo Brothers salsa band. In 1972 Ray Charles hired him to go on tour. A year later Turre's mentor Woody Shaw brought him into Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Turre has worked with a diverse list of musicians from the jazz, Latin, and pop worlds, including Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, J.J. Johnson, Herbie Hancock, Tito Puente, Van Morrison, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, who introduced him to the seashell as an instrument. A member of the Saturday Night Live Band since 1984, Turre leads and records with several different ensembles, including Sanctified Shells and Sextet with Strings.
Un Mundo
Un Mundo has toured since 1999 under the leadership of Marco Granados. The ensemble is dedicated to the mission of bringing the passion and energy of Latin American music to the world. It is also called to educate and instill in young people the love for music and the bridging of cultures by combining elements of classical as well as folk music into a program that is as diverse as it is exciting. In addition to Mr. Granados, the current ensemble is Francisco Flores, trumpet; Jorge Glem, cuatro; Roberto Koch, bass; and Leonardo Granados, maracas and vocals.
Alon Yavnai
Pianist Alon Yavnai was born in Israel in 1969 and started playing piano at the age of four. At the age of thirteen he was already performing professionally. In 1993 he arrived in the United States and attended Berklee College of Music, in Boston. Three years later he won the first place in The 1996 Great American Jazz Piano Competition. Alon has toured all over the world, and has performed at some of the most prestigious concert halls such as Colon Theater in Argentina, Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Heichal Hatarbut Concert Hall in Israel and Alfredo Kraus Theater in Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Most notable appearance was at Carnegie Hall in New York, together with the great cellist Yo Yo Ma and Clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera, performing the Clarinet Trio in A minor by Johannes Brahms. In 2006 he was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Classical Crossover category, along with Paquito D'Rivera and cellist Mark Summer, for their album The Jazz Chamber Trio.
About Caramoor
Caramoor is the legacy of Walter and Lucie Rosen, who built the great house and filled it with their treasures. Walter Rosen was the master planner for the Caramoor estate, bringing to reality his dream of creating a place to entertain friends from around the world. Their musical evenings were the seeds of the International Music Festival today. Realizing the pleasure their friends took in the beauty of Caramoor - the house with its art collection; the gardens; and the musical programs on summer evenings - the Rosens established a Foundation to open Caramoor to the public in perpetuity.
Lucie Rosen survived her husband by seventeen years. During those years, she expanded the Music Festival: the Spanish Courtyard was used as a setting for musical events, as it is today. Under her direction, the great stage of the Venetian Theater was built.
Caramoor is a Garden of Great Music. "We invite people to come early, explore our beautiful grounds, take a tour of the House Museum, visit our gift shop, enjoy a pre-concert picnic, and discover beautiful music in a relaxed setting," advises Paul Rosenblum, Caramoor's Managing Director. With its unique heritage, Caramoor remains a place where magical summer days and nights are shared and enjoyed by thousands. "Caramoor is the loveliest Festival of them all." - The New York Times
Art and Gardens
Concerts take place in two outdoor theaters - the large, acoustically superb Venetian Theater, and the more intimate, romantic Spanish Courtyard. Caramoor is more than just music - there is beauty at every turn. The House Museum, the former summer home of Caramoor's founders, Lucie and Walter Rosen, contains a vast collection of Renaissance, 18th-century, and Eastern art objects - furniture, tapestries, sculpture, paintings, textiles, porcelain and jade. There are entire rooms that were imported from European palaces and villas. In fact, Caramoor is one of just five mansions in the country that incorporate entire rooms into its collection, twenty of which are open to the public. On Thursdays and Fridays, Afternoon Tea is served in the Summer Dining Room, overlooking the charming Spanish Courtyard.
Caramoor's gardens are also well worth the visit. Nine unique perennial gardens - including a Sense Circle for the visually handicapped, a Butterfly Garden, a Medieval Mount, and two gardens whose special characteristics are enjoyed primarily at night may be seen on a guided tour or on one's own.
House Museum
Guided tours of the House Museum are provided from Wednesday through Sunday, 1-4 p.m., with the last tour at 3 p.m. On Saturdays, during the Festival, tours are given from 1-5 p.m., with the last tour at 4 p.m. Tickets are $10 (children 16 and under free).
Getting to Caramoor
Caramoor is easy to get to by car, mass transportation, or the Caramoor Caravan.
From Manhattan, take the Caramoor Caravan and ride comfortably in a luxurious, air-conditioned coach. Round trip service is $22 and is available for all Saturday and Sunday performances during the Festival, as well as the July 20 performance of Il Trovatore and the August 3 performance featuring pianist Mitsuko Uchida. The Caravan departs from the Port Authority Bus Terminal and Upper West Side and East Side locations. Call the Box Office (914-232-1252) for further information and reservations.
By train, take the Harlem Division of the Metro-North Railroad to Katonah, New York. Taxi service from the station to Caramoor (5 minutes away) is available.
By car from the West Side of Manhattan and New Jersey, take the Saw Mill River Parkway north to Katonah. Exit at Route 35/Cross River. Turn right, and at the first traffic light make a right turn onto Route 22 south. Travel 1.9 miles to the junction of Girdle Ridge Road. Follow the signs to Caramoor. (For detailed directions call 914.232.5035 and press 2, or online at www.caramoor.org).
TICKETS
Tickets may be ordered by calling the Box Office at 914-232-1252 or online at www.caramoor.org. (For opening night gala tickets, including cocktail reception, dinner, concert, and post-concert dessert and dancing, email events@caramoor.org or call 914-232-1492.)
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is located at 149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, New York.
ALL PROGRAMS AND ARTISTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
___________________________________________________________________
June 29 Un Mundo - The Music of Venezuela
Friday, 8:00 pm Sonidos Latinos I
Spanish Courtyard Marco Granados, flute - Sonidos Latinos Musical Advisor
$35, $25 Edward Simon, piano
Francisco Flores, trumpet
Jorge Glem, cuatro
Roberto Koch, bass
Leonardo Granados, maracas & voice
Granados ~ The Venezuelan Suite
(World Premiere of a Caramoor commission)
traditional ~ Pajarillo (Little Birds) - Venezuelan Traditional Joropo
Additional selections will include works by Aquiles Baez, Frailio Rodgriguez,
Orlando Cardozo and others
______________________________________________________________________________
June 30 Caramoor Cavalcade Family Concert
Saturday, 4:30 pm Sonidos Latinos II
Venetian Theater Family Concert for ages 6 and up
4:30 pm Jamie Bernstein, narrator
$25, $15 Marco Granados, flute (Sonidos Latinos Musical Advisor)
Elena and Samora Pinderhughes, young soloists
Sonidos Latinos Festival Ensemble
Un Mundo
Choro Ensemble
Group Inkay
Spanish Courtyard Andes Manta: traditional Andean music
4:30 pm Family Program for children under the age of 6.
$15
Family concert tickets include admission to House Museum,
gardens, and picnic grounds
______________________________________________________________________________
June 30 Cavalcade Celebration
Saturday, 8:00 pm Sonidos Latinos III
Venetian Theater Paquito D?Rivera, clarinet
$67.50, $55, John Feeney, bass
$42.50, $30, Jeremy Denk, piano
$17.50 Orchestra of St. Luke's
Michael Barrett, conductor
Copland ~ Three Latin American Sketches
Gershwin ~ Rhapsody in Blue
D'Rivera ~ Concerto for Double Bass, Clarinet/Alto Saxophone
and Orchestra (Conversations with Cachao)
(World Premiere of a Caramoor commission)
______________________________________________________________________________
July 13 Camerata Latina
Friday, 8:00 pm Sonidos Latinos IV
Spanish Courtyard Paquito D'Rivera, clarinet
$35, $25 Marco Granados, flute
Alon Yavnai, piano
Daedalus Quartet
Ginastera ~ Impresiones de la Puna for Flute and String Quartet
Various ~ Duos for Flute & Clarinet
D'Rivera ~ Pipe Dreams
Golijov ~ Lullaby & Doina for Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet
Otero ~ Milonga 19; Contacto Permanente
Franzetti Selections of Latin American Favorites
______________________________________________________________________________
July 28 Jazz Festival I - The Latin Pulse
Saturday, All Day Sonidos Latinos V
Venetian Theater 3:00 pm David Sanchez Quartet
$50, $35 4:00 pm Geri Allen Trio
5:00 pm Steve Turre Quintet
Dinner Break
8:00 pm Piano Summit: Weber Iago & Jovino Santos Neto
9:00 pm Eddie Palmieri Afro-Caribbean Jazz Septet
August 4 Jazz Festival II - Great Musical Minds
Saturday, All Day Sonidos Latinos sets:
Venetian Theater 3:00 pm Arturo O'Farrill Trio
$50, $35 9:00 pm Joe Lovano/Paquito D'Rivera Festival Ensemble
______________________________________________________________________________
TICKETS
Tickets may be ordered by calling the Box Office at 914-232-1252 or online at www.caramoor.org. (For opening night gala tickets, including cocktail reception, dinner, concert, and post-concert dessert and dancing, email events@caramoor.org or call 914-232-1492.)
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is located at 149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, New York.
ALL PROGRAMS AND ARTISTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
# # #
Press Tickets:
Katie Barna
917.339.7189
kbarna@cohndutcher.com
|
