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ROCKPORT MUSIC 33rd Season ROCKPORT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL David Deveau, Artistic Director June 6-July 13, 2014
Festival Week 1 Opening Night Gala Friday, June 6 Emerson String Quartet Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violins | Lawrence Dutton, viola | Paul Watkins, cello 5:30 PM Cocktail Reception :: 7 PM Concert :: 8:30 PM Dinner
Program Shostakovich: Quartet No. 13 Schubert: Quartet in D minor, D.810 Death and the Maiden
Honorees: Mollie and John Byrnes Gala Committee Chairs: Janice Cane & Walter Hess and Diane Chen Koch-Weser & Jan Koch-Weser Honorary Chairs: Sherif & Mary Nada
Tickets: Reception, Concert & Dinner: $750/$500 | Reception & Concert: $300 | Concert Only: $95
Saturday, June 7, 8 PM Stefan Jackiw, violin & Anna Polonsky, piano Pre-Concert Talk, 7 PM
MOZART: Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 454 LUTOSLAWSKI: Partita for violin and piano SAARIAHO: Nocturne (in Memory of Lutoslawski) BRAHMS: Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
Tickets: $39-$58
Sunday, June 8, 5 PM David Finckel, cello & Wu Han, piano
BACH: Sonata for viola da gamba and keyboards No. 1 in G major, BWV 1027 BEETHOVEN: Sonata in C major, Op. 102, No 1 MENDELSSOHN: Sonata in D major, No. 2, Op. 58 DEBUSSY: Sonata in D minor (1916) BRITTEN: Sonata in C major, Op. 65
Tickets: $45-$78
Festival Week 2 Thursday, June 12, 8 PM Borromeo Quartet with Laurence Lesser, cello
RAVEL: Sonata for violin and cello BARTÓK: Quartet No. 4 SCHUBERT: Quintet in C major, D.956
Tickets: $45-$65
Friday, June 13, 8 PM Charlie Albright, piano Dinner with David, 5:45 PM Pre-Concert Talk, 7 PM
SCHUBERT: Impromptus, Op. 90 No. 3 in G-flat major No. 2 in E-flat major JANAČEK: Sonata I.X. 1095 (From the Street) SCHULZ-EVLER/STRAUSS: Concert Arabesques on Themes from "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" CHOPIN: Etudes Op. 25 MOZART/VOLODOS: Rondo alla Turca, K. 331
Tickets: $31-$52
Saturday, June 14, 8 PM David Deveau & Friends Andrés Cárdenes, violin | Yinzi Kong, viola |Sophie Shao, cello| David Deveau, piano Pre-Concert Talk, 7 PM
BEETHOVEN: Piano Quartet in E-flat, Op. 16 JEAN FRANCAIX: String Trio FAURE: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op.15
Tickets: $49-$68
Sunday, June 15, 5 PM Parker Quartet with Tom van Dyck, bass Daniel Chong and Ying Xue, violins | Jessica Bodner, viola | Kee-Hyun Kim, cello
HAYDN: Quartet in F Minor, Op.20, No.5 DUTILLEUX: Ainsi la nuit DVORÁK: Quintet for string quartet and bass in G major, Op. 77
Tickets: $45-$65
Festival Week 3 Tuesday, June 17, 8 PM Rising Star Series: Neave Trio Anna Williams, violin | Mikhail Veselov, cello | Toni James, piano
HAYDN: Trio in D major, Hob.XV No.16 DVORÁK: Trio in E minor, Op. 90 “Dumky” SHOSTAKOVICH: Trio in E minor (1944)
Tickets: $19-$34
Thursday, June 19, 8 PM Joyce Yang, piano
DEBUSSY: Selected Preludes SCHUMANN: Faschingsswank aus Wien (Carnival Jest of Vienna), Op.26 MOMPOU: Cancion y danza No.5 DEBUSSY: Estampes (Woodcuts) GINASTERA: Danzas Argentinas
Tickets: $49-$68
Friday, June 20, 8 PM Schubertiade Evening Elita Kang, violin | Jonathan Chu, viola | Owen Young, cello | Tom van Dyck, bass David Deveau, piano | Victor Rosenbaum and Mana Tokuno, piano Pre-Concert Talk, 7 PM
Schubert Program: String Trio in B-flat major, D. 471 Fantasy in F minor for piano four-hands Piano Quintet in A major, D.667 “Trout”
Tickets: $45-$65
Saturday, June 21, 8 PM Shanghai Quartet Weigang Li, violin |Yi-Wen Jiang, violin | Honggang Li, viola | Nicholas Tzavaras, cello Pre-Concert Talk, 7 PM
SCHUBERT: Quartettsatz in C minor, D.703 ZHOU LONG: Song of the Ch’In PENDERECKI: Quartet No. 3, "Leaves of an Unwritten Diary" (written for Shanghai Quartet's 25th anniversary in 2008) BEETHOVEN: Quartet in C Major, Op.59/3, "Razumovsky"
Tickets: $39-$58
Sunday, June 22, 5 PM Shanghai Quartet with Wendy Chen, piano Weigang Li, violin | Yi-Wen Jiang, violin | Honggang Li, viola | Nicholas Tzavaras, cello
BEETHOVEN: Quartet in A major, Op. 18, No. 5 BRAHMS: Waltzes for solo piano BARBER: Tango for solo piano FRANK BRIDGE: Piano Quintet (1912), a neglected Romantic tour de force
Tickets: $39-$58
Festival Week 4 Tuesday, June 24, 8 PM Rising Star Series: Daria Rabotkina, piano
DOWLAND: Flow My Tears COUPERIN: Selections from Ordre 18ème de clavecin in F Major. SCARLATTI: Sonata in E Major, K.162 BACH: The Italian Concerto, BWV 971 RAVEL: Sonatine PROKOFIEV: Sonata No.3 in A minor RABOTKIN: Fantasy-Suite after Bizet’s Carmen, 1st Movement
Tickets: $19-$34
Thursday, June 26, 8 PM Claremont Trio Emily Bruskin, violin | Julia Bruskin, cello| Andrea Lam, piano
BEETHOVEN: Trio in E-flat major, Op.1, No.1 GABRIELA LENA FRANK: Folk Songs (2012) BRAHMS: Trio in B major, Op.8
Tickets: $39-$58
Friday, June 27, 8 PM Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble Robert Mealy, concertmaster Sarah Darling, violin | Emily Dahl, violin | Jesse Irons, violin | Abigail Karr, violin Laura Jeppesen, viola | Phoebe Carrai, cello | Beiliang Zhu, cello Robert Nairn, double bass | Michael Sponseller, harpsichord Dinner with David, 5:45 PM Pre-Concert Talk, 7 PM From the Pleasure Gardens of Europe: Eighteenth-century orchestral music to delight and entertain Works by George Frideric Handel, Arcangelo Corelli, Thomas Augustine Arne, John Stanley and Capel Bond.
Tickets: $39-$58
Saturday, June 28, 8 PM Boston Symphony Chamber Players Pre-Concert Talk, 7 PM
YEHUDI WYNER: Into the Evening Air (commissioned for the BSCP’s 50th Anniversary) DEBUSSY: Sonata for flute, viola, and harp, L. 137 SCHUBERT: Octet for winds and strings, D. 803
Tickets: $55-$85
Sunday, June 29, 5 PM Jeremy Denk, piano
IVES: Piano Sonata No. 2 “Concord, Mass., 1840-60” BACH: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Tickets: $49-$68
Sunday, July 6, 5 PM Richard Stoltzman, clarinet & Mika Yoshida Stoltzman, marimba
Program: Bach to the Future! An eclectic mix of the old and the new, written (or reimagined) for clarinet and marimba Music of Bach, Bill Douglas, Toru Takemitsu, John Zorn, Steve Reich, Ravel and Piazzolla
Tickets: $45-$78
Festival Week 5 Tuesday, July 8, 8 PM Rising Star Series: Donald Sinta Saxophone Quartet Dan Graser, soprano saxophone | Zach Stern, alto saxophone |Joe Girard, tenor saxophone | Danny Hawthorne-Foss, baritone saxophone
PROGRAM “Then and Now” Works of Schubert, Glazunov, Barber (Adagio for Strings), Wanamaker and Michael Nyman
Tickets: $19-$34
Thursday, July 10, 8 PM Calder Quartet with Marcus Thompson, viola Benjamin Jacobson and Andrew Bulbrook, violins | Jonathan Moerschel, viola | Eric Byers, cello
MOZART: Quartet in G major, K. 387 WEBERN: Five pieces for string quartet DON DAVIS: Vexed (based on Messerschmidt’s sculpture “The Vexed Man”) BRAHMS: Quintet in G major, Op. 111
Tickets: $45-$65
Friday, July 11, 5 & 8 PM Chanticleer Program “She said/He said” Works by Palestrina, Hildegard von Bingen, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Brahms, Ravel and more
Ticket Price: $49-$68
Saturday, July 12, 8 PM Calder Quartet Pre-Concert Talk, 7 PM
BEETHOVEN: Quartet in F minor, Op. 95Serioso JANÁČEK: Quartet No. 2 Intimate Letters SMETANA: Quartet No. 1 in E minor From my Life
Tickets: $49-$68
Sunday, July 13, 5 PM Imani Winds
STRAVINSKY: Rite of Spring Original music and transcriptions of favorites
Tickets: $39-$58
ROCKPORT DEBUTS Chanticleer Jeremy Denk, piano Emerson String Quartet Donald Sinta Saxophone Quartet Elita Kang, violin Neave Trio Anna Polansky, piano Mana Tokuna, piano Tom van Dyck, bass Owen Young, cello
Rockport Jazz Festival and other Summer Concerts Continue on Next Page
ROCKPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL
Wednesday, August 13, 8 PM Ali Jackson Tickets: $28-$46
Thursday, August 14, 8 PM Cyrille Aimée Tickets: $31-$52
Friday, August 15, 8 PM Donal Fox Tickets: $31-$52
Saturday, August 16, 8 PM Kenny Barron Trio Tickets: $49-$68
Sunday, August 17, 2 PM Swing Xing! Three Generations of Swing Guitar Bucky Pizzarelli, Frank Vignola, Vinny Raniola Tickets: $25-$39
Sunday, August 17, 7 PM Christian McBride Tickets: $49-$68
SUMMER AT ROCKPORT Tuesday, July 1, 8 PM Wednesday, July 2, 8 PM Livingston Taylor Tickets: $31-$52
Saturday, July 5, 8 PM Zappa Plays Zappa Dweezil Zappa, guitar | Scheila Gonzalez, saxophone, flute, keyboards & vocals Ben Thomas, vocals | Chris Norton, keyboards & vocals | Ryan Brown, drums Tickets: $55-$85
Thursday, July 17, 8 PM Kathy Mattea Tickets: $41-$61
Friday, July 18, 8 PM Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas Tickets: $25-$39
Friday, July 25, 8 PM Heritage Blues Quintet Tickets: $28-$46
Saturday, July 26, 8 PM YellowJackets Tickets: $49-$68
Sunday, July 27, 5 PM Loudon Wainwright III Tickets: $28-$46
Sunday, August 3, 5 PM Hot Club of San Francisco Tickets: $28-$46
Thursday, August 7, 8 PM The Bad Plus & Joshua Redman Tickets: $45-$78
Friday, August 8, 8 PM Anthony de Mare Liaisons: Re-imagining Sondheim from the Piano Tickets: $31-$52
Friday, August 22, 8 PM The Kingston Trio Tickets: $49-$68
Saturday, August 23, 8 PM Sunday, August 24, 5 PM Tom Rush Tickets: $49-$68
Thursday, August 28, 8 PM Friday, August 29, 8 PM Paula Cole Tickets: $49-$68
Saturday, August 30, 3 & 8 PM Capitol Steps Tickets: $45-$78
National Theatre of London-HD Broadcast Monday, June 16, 7 PM A Small Family Business Tickets: $22/ $15 Students & Seniors, $5 Youth
COMMUNITY & OUTREACH EVENTS DINNER WITH DAVID Fridays, June 13 & 27 Time: 5:45 PM, Third Floor Reception Hall
Tickets: $35 (includes 3-course meal, water, soda)
PRE-CONCERT TALKS Fridays: June 13, 20, 27 Saturdays: June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 12 Location: Concert Hall, 7 PM Free & open to all ticket holders
Speakers Dr. Elizabeth Seitz: musicologist, author, lecturer and faculty at The Boston Conservatory Dr. William Matthews (June 27-28): composer, conductor and professor at Bates College
FAMILY CONCERTS Saturday, June 14, 10 AM Inkas Wasi
Saturday, June 28, 2 PM Next Generation Recital Matthew Woodard, violin | John Belk, cello | Annie Jeong, piano
Saturday, July 12, 10 AM Bohemian Quartet
OPEN REHEARSAL: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble Friday, June 27, 3 PM
MASTERCLASS: Andrés Cárdenes, violin Friday, June 13, 1-3 PM
Monday, July 7, 7 PM FILM: Clash of the Wolves Silent Movie Night featuring Rin Tin Tin in the 1924 film Clash of the Wolves with introductory remarks and live piano accompaniment by Martin Marks.
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