22nd Annual Chamber Music Festival

  • Date: June 10, 2016 - June 17, 2016 (Saturday)
  • Time: 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Location: The Dunaway Center, Ogunquit

Ogunquit Performing Arts

P.O. Box 1608

Ogunquit, ME 03907

May 16, 2016

www.ogunquitperformingarts.org

 

For Immediate Release           Contact: Janel Lundgren,  opa@ogunquitperformingarts.org

 

 

 

22nd annual Chamber Music Festival June 10 & 17, 2016—8 pm features world-class musicians of Boston Chamber Music and Portland String Quartet

Ogunquit Performing Arts' 22nd annual Chamber Music Festival, Friday, June 10 and Friday, June 17, at 8:00 pm at the newly refurbished Dunaway Center, 23 School Street in Ogunquit, will feature the  music of Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, and Dello Joio, performed by two renowned chamber ensembles, Boston Chamber Music and the Portland String Quartet.  Receptions to meet the artists will follow the performances.

Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door, and $5 for students. Series ticket: $25.

This year's festival begins on Friday, June 10th, with Ogunquit's favorite Boston Chamber Music, returning for its 20th year of opening the Festival.   Clarinetist and Artistic Director Thomas Hill continues to bring together the finest ensembles especially selected for this concert, which this year will feature clarinet, 'cello and piano, performing the works of Brahms and Beethoven.   

To make the evening complete, ticket holders may dine at Clay Hill Farm on June 10th, and receive a 15% discount off the food portion of their bills by presenting their concert tickets.

The unique Boston Chamber Music ensemble performing at the Dunaway Center on Friday June 10 at 8:00 pm features:

Thomas Hill, Principal Clarinetist of The Boston Philharmonic from 1992 to 2015, has also been clarinetist of the acclaimed Boston Chamber Music Society since 1983. He has appeared on innumerable concert and festival series, and has been widely engaged as soloist and ensemble performer under a variety of auspices since the beginning his career in New York and Los Angeles;

Randall Hodgkinson, Pianist, is winner of the International American Music Competition for pianists sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and soloist and chamber music artist in festivals throughout the United States and Europe. He has received acclaim and praise for his recordings on various labels. Mr. Hodgkinson studied at The Curtis Institute and the New England Conservatory and Wellesley College.

Aristides Rivas, Venezuelan 'cellist,  was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2010 as  part of recording of Sounding Point by Julian Lage and featured in the Boston Globe Magazine as one of Boston’s leading international artists. He has an active schedule performing a combination of recitals, solos with orchestra, chamber music, and as an orchestral player. He is the principal cellist of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra and is a member of The Boston Philharmonic.

The Boston Chamber Music's program will include: Brahms Sonata in f minor op. 120 

#1  for clarinet and piano;   Brahms Sonata in Eb major op. 120  #2 for clarinet and  piano;  Beethoven Trio in Eb major Opus 38 for clarinet, ‘cello and piano.

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The acclaimed Portland String Quartet continues the Festival the following Friday, June 17, making a special appearance at Ogunquit Performing Arts, after many years' absence. Garnering rave reviews from The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe, this fabulous quartet will perform works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Dello Joio,  performed by   Dean Stein,  Ronald Lantz,  Julia Adams, and Patrick Owen.

 

"The Portland String Quartet performed brilliantly, arguing the composer's case with passion and precision.  One couldn't have asked for more persuasive, more unified and more yearningly lyrical playing."  The New York Times

 

Additional reviews include "Best Chamber Music Recording" for their ground-breaking cycles of the chamber music of Ernest Bloch, George Chadwick and Walter Piston. The Quartet was honored in 2013 by Chamber Music America with its Acclaim Award "in recognition of outstanding service and cultural contributions to the community." 

 

The PSQ's teamwork skills have been studied by business schools nationwide beginning with a captivating video produced by the Harvard Business School in 1981.  In l986 they were proclaimed "Maine treasures" and awarded Honorary Doctor of Music degrees by Colby College where they served as artists in residence for 20 years.  Annual workshops bring their depth of experience to aspiring young talent as well as dedicated amateur adult players.  Chamber Music By the Sea (Southport Island), the Workshop Day at The Maine Festival of American Music (Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village) and The Portland String Quartet Workshop at Saint Joseph's College offer intensive ensemble study.

Portland String Quartet's program will include Mozart String Quartet in F Major, K. 590;

Dello Joio Lyrical Interludes for String Quartet; Beethoven String Quartet in a Minor, Op. 132.  

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Boston Chamber Music performs at the Dunaway Center Friday June 10 at 8 pm and Portland String Quartet performs the following Friday, June 17 at 8 pm.

Tickets are: $15 advance sale, $18 at the door, and $5 for students. Series ticket for both performances is $25. Tickets are available from the Dunaway Center, Ogunquit Camera Shop, Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office, Ogunquit Welcome Center, and online at OPA's website www.ogunquitperformingarts.org.  Check the website too for more information about the Chamber Music Festival and upcoming events.

 

 

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The Dunaway Center

23 School Street
Ogunquit  ME  03907 

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Ogunquit Performing Arts

Judy Yates
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