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CARAMOOR INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
presents
Carnival in Venice
The Orchestra of St. Luke's
in an
All-Vivaldi Program
Featuring The Four Seasons
Saturday, July 5 at 8:00pm

"St. Luke's plays like angels." - Loren Maazel

Katonah, New York - The Caramoor International Music Festival will present the Orchestra of St. Luke's in an All-Vivaldi program, Carnival in Venice, featuring the composer's masterpiece, The Four Seasons, on Saturday, July 5 at 8:00pm in the Venetian Theater.  Carnival in Venice will begin with a pre-concert extravaganza at 5:00pm with comic performances by Caramoor's resident commedia dell-arte troupe, Il Giullari di Piazza.  Audiences are invited to dine amidst Caramoor's gardens prior to the evening concert by bringing their own picnics or pre-ordering picnics from Great Performances® by calling 212.337.6055.

The Orchestra of St. Luke's, Caramoor's resident orchestra, will not have a conductor for this Vivaldi program.  Members of the ensemble will be featured as soloists:  Krista Bennion Feeney, violin, will be the soloist in Le Quattro stagioni, Op. 8, Nos. 1-4 (The Four Seasons).  Elizabeth Mann, flute, will be the featured soloist in the Concerto for Flute in D Major, RV 428, Op. 10, No. 3 and in the Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon in F Major, RV 570 (La Tempesta di Mare) with Stephen Taylor, oboe, and Mark Goldberg, bassoon. Stephen Taylor and Melanie Feld, oboes, will be featured in the Concerto for Two Oboes in D minor, RV 535.

TICKETS

Tickets for Carnival in Venice, including the pre-concert extravaganza and the Orchestra of St. Luke's all-Vivaldi program, are $15.00, $27.50, $40.00, $52.50, and $65.00 and may be ordered by calling the Caramoor Box Office at 914.232.1252 or online at www.caramoor.org.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is located at 149 Girdle Ridge Road in Katonah, New York.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Krista Bennion Feeney
Violinist, Krista Bennion Feeney, is one of the leading American violinists, particularly in the field of chamber music and chamber orchestra leadership.  Raised in Menlo Park, CA, Ms. Feeney developed rapidly as a violinist during her childhood.  She played solo concerto performances and in a student string quartet, performed in the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, and, at the age of 13, entered the preparatory department of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.  She went on to attend the Conservatory as a collegiate student, studying with Isadore Tinkleman and Stuart Canin.  While she has lived in New York since 1999, she maintains her musical contact with the San Francisco Bay area, returning often to play concertos and chamber music appearances, including an appearance as guest concertmaster with the San Francisco Opera.  In 1999, she accepted the position of music director of the San Francisco-based New Century Chamber Orchestra, a 15-member group that is one of America's leading conductorless chamber orchestras.

Melanie Feld
A native of San Francisco, Melanie Feld has served as principal oboist with the Stamford Symphony since 1980.  She is a member of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Composers' Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Caramoor Festival Orchestra, Philharmonia Virtuosi, the Bard Festival Orchestra, and P.D.Q. Bach.  Ms. Feld has worked with such conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Raymond Leppard, Julius Rudel, John Eliot Gardiner, and Andrè Previn.  Her recording credits include albums on the CBS, Angel, Moss Music Group, MusicMasters, Telarc, Nonesuch, and New World labels.  Since 1992, she has been a member of the orchestra with the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera.  Ms. Feld moved to New York City to attend the Mannes College of Music and completed her graduate studies at The Juilliard School.  Her teachers have included Leland Lincoln, Marc Lifschey, Stephen Adelstein, and Ronald Roseman.

Marc Goldberg
Marc Goldberg is currently a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet and principal bassoonist of Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra.  Previously with the New York Philharmonic (associate principal bassoon, 2000-2002) and New York City Opera (acting principal bassoon, 2004-2005), he has also appeared across four continents with the Metropolitan Opera, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.  Solo appearances include performances with the Brandenburg Ensemble at Boston?s Symphony Hall and New York's Avery Fisher Hall, and performances throughout the U.S., in South America, and across the Pacific Rim with the American Symphony Orchestra, Jupiter Symphony, New York Chamber Soloists, Sea Cliff Chamber Players, New York Symphonic Ensemble, and the New York Scandia Symphony.  He holds BM and MM degrees from The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Harold Goltzer.  Mr. Goldberg is on the faculty of The Juilliard School, Mannes College, The Hartt School, Columbia University, SUNY Purchase, and the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Elizabeth Mann
Elizabeth Mann began studying flute at age eight.  She won the Boston Young Artist Concerto Competition at age 12, performing as soloist with the Boston Symphony.  Ms. Mann is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she was a student of Julius Baker.  She has served as principal flute of the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble for the past seventeen seasons.  She has toured the United States performing the Mozart Flute Concerto under the baton of Andrè Previn, traveled throughout Spain and Japan performing the Brandenburg Concerti with renowned violinist/conductor Jaime Laredo, and was guest artist at the Lochenhaus Festival in Austria under the direction of Gidon Kremer.  In 1998 Ms. Mann and Mr. Kremer played the U.S. premiere of the Gubaidulina Concerto for Flute and Violin with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.  She has appeared in recital at the Aldeburgh Music Festival in England, the Library of Congress and at Carnegie Hall.  Other solo performances include concertos with the Boston Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic and the National Chamber Orchestra of Baltimore.

Stephen Taylor
Oboist Stephen Taylor holds the Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III solo oboe chair with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.  He is also solo oboe with the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Orchestra of St Luke's, the St Luke?s Chamber Ensemble (where he is co-director of chamber music), the American Composers Orchestra, the New England Bach Festival Orchestra, the renowned contemporary music group Speculum Musicae, and plays as co-principal oboe with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.  In addition to Caramoor, he appears regularly as soloist and chamber musician at such major festivals as Spoleto, Aldeburgh, Bravo! Colorado, Music from Angel Fire, Chamber Music Northwest, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and Schleswig- Holstein.  His discography includes some 200 recordings including Bach arias with Itzhak Perlman and Kathleen Battle; Bach's Oboe d?amore Concerto; first recordings of Wolpe?s Oboe Quartet; Elliott Carter's Oboe Quartet, for which he received a Grammy Nomination; and works of André Previn.  Trained at the Juilliard School by teachers Lois Wann and Robert Bloom, Stephen Taylor is a member of its faculty as well as of the Yale School of Music, SUNY Stony Brook and the Manhattan School of Music.  The Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University awarded him a performer's grant in 1981. He plays on a rare Caldwell model Loree oboe.

I Giullari Di Piazza
I Giullari Di Piazza, affiliated with Caramoor since 1993, is the only performing troupe in America devoted to the creation of new musical and theatrical operas reviving the old traditions of Italian music and dance.  The company vividly recreates the atmosphere of the town square, performing operas and concerts based on folk legends, myths and rituals and on scenarios from the commedia dell'arte.  They perform in traditional costumes and masks, accompanied by authentic instruments such as the chitarra battente (renaissance guitar), classical guitar, mandolins, violin, flute, recorder and piccolo, traditional Italian frame drums and castanets.  The company was founded in 1979 by Artistic Director/Mezzo-Soprano Alessandra Belloni and Musical Director/Composer John La Barbera.  Together the directors have produced a wide repertoire based on extensive library and field research into the Southern Italian folk music and ritual theater.

Orchestra of St. Luke's
The Orchestra of St. Luke's is America's foremost and most versatile chamber orchestra.  Formed at the Caramoor International Music Festival in the summer of 1979, the Orchestra evolved from the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble (1974), with Ensemble members forming the Orchestra's artistic core as principal players.  The Ensemble and the Orchestra still co-exist today, and the collaborative chamber aesthetic that is the St. Luke's hallmark has resulted in consistent critical acclaim, both for mastery of a diverse repertoire spanning the Baroque to the contemporary, and for vibrant music-making of the highest order.

In addition to serving each summer as the Orchestra-in-Residence at the Caramoor Festival, the Orchestra of St. Luke's participates in such Carnegie Hall events as a four-concert series in the Isaac Stern Auditorium, the Choral Workshop and Carnegie Family Concerts, as well as in numerous artistic collaborations with other New York City cultural organizations.

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 today's International Music Festival.  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 - in 1946 the Rosens established a Foundation to open Caramoor to the public.

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, and, 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, including furniture, tapestries, sculpture, paintings, textiles, porcelain, and jade in twenty rooms that are open to the public.  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.  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 and include nine unique perennial gardens.  Among them are a Sense Circle for the visually handicapped, a Butterfly Garden, Tapestry Hedge, and an Iris and Peony Garden, which may be enjoyed on one's own or seen on a guided tour.

Enjoy a Picnic at Caramoor
Extend your Caramoor experience by arriving for concerts early and enjoying a picnic amidst the beautiful gardens.  Bring your own picnic or pre-order from Great Performances® by calling 212.337.6055.

House Museum
Guided tours of the House Museum are provided from Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00pm-4:00pm with the last tour at 3:00pm.  On Saturdays, during the Festival, tours are given from 1:00pm-5:00pm, with the last tour at 4:00pm.  Tickets are $10 (children 16 and under free).

GETTING TO CARAMOOR

Caramoor is easy to get to by car and mass transportation.  

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).  Parking at Caramoor is free.

By train, take the Harlem Division of the Metro-North Railroad to Katonah, New York. Taxi service from the station to Caramoor (five minutes away) is available.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is located at 149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, New York.

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CARAMOOR INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
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CARNIVAL IN VENICE

Saturday, July 5        PRE-CONCERT EVENTS
5:00pm                      Il Giullari di Piazza, commedia dell-arte
Throughout Caramoor

8:00pm                      ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE'S - ALL VIVALDI PROGRAM
Venetian Theater      Orchestra of St. Luke's
$65.00, $52.50          Krista Bennion Feeney, violin
$40.00, $27.50          Elizabeth Mann, flute
$15.00                       Melanie Feld, oboe
                                  Stephen Taylor, oboe
                                  Marc Goldberg, bassoon
                                  Orchestra of St. Luke's

                                  Concerto for Flute in D Major, RV 428, Op. 10, No. 3
                                  Concerto for Two Oboes in D minor, RV 535
                                  Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon in F Major, RV 570
                                                (La Tempesta di Mare)
                                  Le quattro stagioni, Op. 8, Nos. 1-4 (The Four Seasons)

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CREDITS
  Performances are made possible, in part, by Westchester Arts Council, with funds from Westchester County Government
 Performances are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
 
TICKETS

Tickets may be ordered by calling the Box Office at 914.232.1252 or online at www.caramoor.org. 

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

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Press Tickets:
Laura Malick
917.339.7183
lmalick@cohndutcher.com