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Katonah, NY ~ 10/3/05
| For Immediate Release |
| Contact: David Mayhew for Cohn Dutcher Associates |
| 203.453.4275 david@davidmayhew.net |
Acclaimed classical music concerts are family-appropriate
Katonah, New York - Four Caramoor Classics concerts are scheduled for this autumn at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, New York.
Caramoor Classics concerts are appropriate for families with children 8 years and older and will include comments from the artists about the program. They are presented in the Music Room, a 200-seat recital hall in the House Museum, the former home of Caramoor's founders, Lucie and Walter Rosen.
MustoMusic, the inaugural season of a new program curated by pianist and composer John Musto, Caramoor's composer-in-residence, will begin on October 15 at 7:30 pm. This joint recital will feature John Musto and soprano Amy Burton with a program that includes a selection of Bartolomeo Galluppi's Sonatas for Keyboard, Leonard Bernstein's 7 Anniversaries and Mr. Musto's song cycles Dove Sta Amore and Penelope. MustoMusic will return in the spring with another program.
Award-winning composer and pianist John Musto is regarded as one of the most versatile musicians before the public today. Mr. Musto was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his orchestral song cycle Dove Sta Amore. He has also garnered two regional Emmys and two CINE Awards for his scores written for television. In 2000 he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship at Bellagio, Italy. Mr. Musto has been featured on the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center and the Composer Portrait series at Columbia's Miller Theater. His opera Valpone was commissioned and premiered at Wolftrap in 2004.
Amy Burton has performed many starring roles with New York City Opera, including recently singing her first Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro. Her solo turn in La Voix Humaine at Glimmerglass garnered rave reviews. She starred in Yvonne Printemps - A French Diva Unveiled, a new one-woman show about the legendary French operetta star and actress, and recorded the show's music for Harbinger Records. On the concert stage, she has appeared with many of the world's leading orchestras, some of which include the Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Concordia, Scottish Chamber Symphony, Berner Orchester (Switzerland), St. Louis Symphony, Houston Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque, American Composers Orchestra and Orchestra of St. Luke's.
Rising Stars will feature outstanding young artists working with distinguished artists/mentors Donald Weilerstein, violin; James Dunham, viola; and Anton Kuerti, piano. The program for Rising Stars I on October 29 at 7:30 pm will be Haydn's String Quartet in F Major, Op. 74, No. 2; Bloch's String Quartet No. 2; and the Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 70, No. 2 by Beethoven. The program for Rising Stars II on October 30 at 4:00 pm will be Mozart's String Quartet in F Major, K. 590; Goetz's Piano Quartet in E Major; and the String Quartet in A minor by Brahms.
The Rising Stars Program was founded by André Previn and is currently led by Caramoor's Artistic Advisor, Peter Oundjian. The Program has attracted tremendous patron and audience support. As the years pass, alumni of the program have begun to establish themselves in the world of classical music performance, building reputations and making connections with audiences around the world. They are regularly invited to return to Caramoor to give recitals in the Music Room and to participate in the International Music Festival.
This year's Rising Stars are Korbi Altenberger, Karen Gomyo and Caitlin Tully, violin; Teng Li, viola; Earl Lee and Tao Ni, cello.
Soloist, chamber musician and teacher, James Dunham is active internationally as a recitalist and guest artist. He has collaborated with such renowned artists as Emmanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Lynn Harrell, Cho-Liang Lin and members of the American, Guarneri, Juilliard, Takács and Tokyo Quartets. An advocate of new music, composers with whom he has worked include John Corigliano, Osvalsdo Golijov, Libby Larsen and Christopher Rouse. Mr. Dunham is a frequent guest artist with many ensembles in theU.S. and abroad, and has served as acting principal viola with the Boston Symphony (Ozawa) and Dallas Symphony (Litton).
Anton Kuerti's distinguished performing career has included tours to nearly forty countries, including Japan, Russia, and most of Europe. He has performed with most major U.S. orchestras and conductors, such as the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony (Menuhin), Cleveland Orchestra (Szell), Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy), and the orchestras of Atlanta, Denver, Detroit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and San Francisco. His vast repertoire includes some 50 concertos, including one he composed himself.
Donald Weilerstein has appeared extensively throughout the world as soloist and chamber musician. He was a member of the Young Concert Artists Guild and a participant in the Marlboro Music Festival for three years, performing on several Music from Marlboro Tours. He was the founding first violinist of the renowned Cleveland Quartet, with whom he toured the world. His recordings with the quartet earned seven Grammy nominations and won Best of the Year awards from Time and Stereo Review.
The internationally-acclaimed Jupiter String Quartet, Caramoor's 2006 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet in Residence, will make one of several appearances this season at Caramoor on November 6 at 4:00 pm with a program featuring Haydn's Quartet in B Major, Op. 76, No. 4 (Sunrise); Dutilleux's Ansi La Nuit; and Quartet in A minor, Op. 31 by Mendelssohn.
The Jupiter String Quartet, which will return to Caramoor in the spring with another program, captured First Prize in the 8th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2004, as well as the Szekely Prize for the best performance of a Beethoven quartet. They won First Prize in the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. This summer and fall they made their Lincoln Center debut, performing Eine kleine Nachtmusik as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival, and their debut at Carnegie's Zankel Hall. In addition to Caramoor, they have performed at such prestigious venues as Boston's Jordan Hall and London's Wigmore Hall, the Aspen Music Festival, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Honest Brook Music Festival, and the Yellow Barn Music Festival.
In addition to the Fall 2005 Caramoor Classics concerts, three concerts are scheduled for Spring 2006. Caramoor Virtuosi, featuring alumni of Caramoor's Rising Stars Workshops, will perform on Sunday, March 19 at 4:00 pm; the Jupiter String Quartet will offer a recital on Sunday, April 9 at 4:00 pm, and John Musto will return with MustoMusic and guests The Amelia Trio on Saturday, April 29 at 7:30 pm.
Tickets for all Caramoor Classics performances are $25. In addition to single tickets, discounted subscriptions are available: the Sextet subscription includes tickets to six Caramoor Classics concerts for $120 and the Trio offers any three Caramoor Classics concerts for $63.75.
For tickets, subscriptions, further information, and directions to Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts call the Box Office at 914-232-1252 or visit www.caramoor.org.
Caramoor is located at 149 Girdle Ridge Road in Katonah, New York.
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts 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 of 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.
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