Skaneateles Festival 2020 Artist Sponsorships

The 41st Season forges into the future with artists who engage musical traditions in forward-thinking ways.

Chick Corea Artistic Directors $10,000 Julia Bruskin, cello August 8 & Aaron Wunsch, Jazz legend Chick Corea piano makes his Festival debut, $5,000 and you can expect a thrill August 4, 6, 11, 14, because Chick never plays it 18, 25, 27, 29 safe! He’ll be joined by the Co-Artistic Directors, Spanish Heart Quartet, a Julia and Aaron will flamenco-charged ensemble. perform throughout the season. They will be featured on They just won the Grammy Opening Night as we celebrate the 250th Anniversary of for Best Latin Jazz Album, Beethoven’s birth and The Russian Soul with music by Chick’s 23rd. He is “a luminary, ebullient and eternally Stravinsky and Shostakovich. youthful.” (New York Times) ECCO (East Coast Rhiannon Giddens Chamber Orchestra) $7,500 $5000 August 15 August 20, 21, and 22 A Grammy and The peerless string MacArthur Genius orchestra ECCO grant-winner, Rhiannon (East Coast Chamber Giddens is genre- Orchestra) brings its busting musician who signature enthusiasm is redefining American and “tonal radiance” back to Skaneateles. (New York Times) music. Rhiannon is Consisting of lead players from the world’s great ensembles also a recipient of the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence and orchestras, their performances are both virtuosic and in Banjo and Bluegrass, host of the Metropolitan Opera’s full of joy. Aria Code podcast, and was a featured actress on the hit-TV show Nashville. Calidore String Quartet Time for Three $4,000 $5,000 August 13 and 14 August 22 The “astonishing” The fun-loving Time Calidore Quartet for Three are both (L. A. Times) is the classically trained winner of almost virtuosos and inventive every major ensemble improvisers – their competition, including performances bring the 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant. The Quartet has together classical, jazz, drawn near universal praise, including “four more individual Americana, and pop in winning ways. Their motto is: “If we musicians are unimaginable, yet these speak, breathe, think like it, we play it.” and feel as one.” (Washington Post).

For more information, contact Susan Mark at 315-685-7418 or [email protected] Skaneateles Festival 2020 Artist Sponsorships

Claremont Trio The Brass Project $4,000 $3,500 August 27 and 28 August 6 and 7 The Claremont Trio The “six superb brass brings its signature players” of The Brass blend of “passion and Project (Philadelphia precision” (Boston Enquirer) are breathing Globe) to whatever it new life into the brass performs, including ensemble. Hear the the exciting new works it has commissioned from younger brass ensemble redefined through their own arrangements of composers. The Trio performs with “aesthetic maturity, Baroque and Renaissance music as well as the nearly 40 short interpretive depth, and exuberance” (Palm Beach Daily News). new works they have commissioned.

Rubén Blades Pegasus Early Music $4,000 August 7 August 8 $2,000 Latin Music icon Rubén Blades Rochester-based has won 17 Grammy and Latin Pegasus Early Music Grammy Awards, including the brings world-class 2017 Latin Grammy Album of the instrumentalists and Year for his album Salsa BigBand. singers in early music An actor, as well as a musician, to central New York. Blades has played memorable roles in Robert Redford’s The They perform medieval, baroque, classical, and romantic Milagro Beanfield War, Spike Lee’s in Mo’ Better Blues, and repertoire on historical instruments in ways that are “highly Jack Nicholson’s The Two Jakes and this year returns to star unique…always original,” (Democrat & Chronicle). in the AMC television series Fear the Walking Dead. Daniel Chong, violin, and Davóne Tines Jessica Bodner, viola $3,500 $2,000 August 27 and 28 August 6 “A singer of immense power This husband and wife team are and fervor,” (L A Times), bass- familiar to Festival audiences from baritone Davóne Tines is the their performances with the Parker buzz of the music world. At age Quartet. Now they return Opening 33, he has emerged as one of the Night for the Dvorˇák E-flat Piano most expressive and versatile Quartet and Martinu’s Madrigals. voices of his generation. A native of Virginia and graduate of Harvard University, he is equally at home in opera, lieder, and spirituals.

Artist Sponsorship may include the following benefits For more information, contact Susan Mark at (based on level): 315-685-7418 or [email protected] • Recognition at concert, in program, and on website Skaneateles Festival • VIP tickets 97 East Genesee Street • Invitation to pre-concert dinner Skaneateles, NY 13152 • Program advertisement Skaneateles Festival 2020 Artist Sponsorships

Charles Neidich, clarinet $1,500 August 26 “He’s an artist of uncommon merit — a master of his instrument and, beyond” (The New Yorker). Neidich became the first clarinetist to win the Walter W. Naumburg Competition, which brought him to prominence as a soloist.

Andrew Russo, piano $1,500 August 14 A staple of the Festival from 1998 to 2003, Andy’s career highlights include being a finalist in the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and a Grammy Award nomination in 2007.