From the Directors:
We are proud to announce the 12th annual Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival. After a year of traveling the world and performing, it is always a pleasure to return to our home in Charlottesville for a series of concerts offering the best we have found and the best we can give to our friends, family, audience, and supporters.
We have once again selected works showing the idea of chamber music at its most broad, with works from many Americans (Joan Tower, Elliott Carter, David Bruce, Aaron Copland, and André Previn), and many composers from the classic European tradition (Joseph Haydn, Max Bruch, Felix Mendelssohn, and J.S. Bach, to name a few). It should once again be a fantastic tour through musical history, geography, repertoire, and sonic possibility.
Our performers this year will come from far and wide to work and play together in Charlottesville. From Great Britain: oboist Emma Schied, clarinetist Matthew Hunt, and pianist Alasdair Beatson; from France, violinist Aki Saulière; and from Germany, violinist Annette zu Castell. We will also be joined by many friends from New York: Nicholas Cords and Johnny Gandelsman from the quartet Brooklyn Rider; cellists Raman Ramakrishnan, James Wilson, and Edward Arron; violist Melissa Reardon; flutist, Sooyun Kim; and Jesse Mills, violin, and Rieko Aizawa, piano, of the Prism Duo. Also, from Seattle, harpsichordist Byron Schenkman, and from Washington State by way of Spain, violist David Quiggle. We are also proud to bring from Amsterdam, Holland, the celebrated soprano Roberta Alexander: a Lynchburg native, Ms. Alexander has long enjoyed a rich singing career of international scope.
It promises to be another very fine year of concerts, and we are deeply grateful for all the help of everyone who has worked so hard to make our concerts possible each year. With thanks to all the friends and supporters of the festival, we are happy, once again, to invite Central Virginia to enjoy fine chamber music with us each fall in Charlottesville.
Sincerely,
Raphael Bell Timothy Summers
Co-director Co-director