FILL YOUR SUMMER WITH MUSIC DRAFT SUMMER 2020 CLASSICAL | JAZZ | FOLK | POP | WORLD = THE MEMORABLE ROCKPORT MUSIC EXPERIENCES EXPERIENCE DEMAND AN INSPIRED • World-class artists EXCEPTIONAL from around the globe • stellar acoustics SPACE. • engaging and accessible community events for all ages INTIMATE • A warm, inviting setting for an unparalleled "…beautiful to the eye concert experience as well as the the ear" The New York Times • Salon-like setting evoking ©Acadia Mezzofanti ©Acadia late night cabarets, jazz clubs and Celtic sessions CONTENTS 5 SEASIDE 39th Annual • Gorgeous harbor views ROCKPORT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL • Picturesque New England June 12–July 12 | August 7-9 coastal village 18 Ten years ago, the opening of the Shalin Liu 9th Annual ROCKPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL Performance Center brought a much-anticipated July 26–August 2 dream to reality for Rockport Music. Originally founded as a chamber music festival in the 80’s, 21 Rockport Music’s new concert hall has truly SUMMER AT ROCKPORT surpassed all expectations. With the opening of Jazz, Folk, Pop & World the hall, the organization has seen exponential May–September growth into multiple musical genres, hosted 28 broadcast events from around the world, and is 2nd Annual ROCKPORT CELTIC FESTIVAL YEAR-ROUND considered “one of the most beautiful halls in OFFICIAL the country.” This year we celebrate the 10th August 27–30 PARTNERS EXCLUSIVE REALTOR anniversary of its opening with a spectacular 30 OFFICIAL HOTEL OFFICIAL TRANSPORTATION summer gala on June 5. We hope you'll join us! Ticket Information ARTISTS ON FRONT COVER: Ray Chen, Jason Moran, Ranky Tanky, Mary Chapin Carpenter PLEASE NOTE: ALL PROGRAMS & ARTISTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE BARRY SHIFFMAN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 5:30 PM Reception/ Dinner | 8:00 PM Concert Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the opening of the Shalin Liu Performance Center at Rockport Music’s fundraising Gala! This evening of exceptional chamber music features works of three great musical masters—Bach, Vivaldi and Beethoven—performed in a THIS YEAR’S ROCKPORT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL unique collaboration by the legendary violinist Pinchas Zukerman and his Zukerman Trio CELEBRATES THE 250TH BIRTHDAY OF along with the Grammy-nominated chamber orchestra A Far Cry. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, A COMPOSER WHOSE MUSICAL INFLUENCES ARE FELT WORLDWIDE TODAY. BACH: Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 VIVALDI: Concerto in B-flat major for violin, cello and orchestra, R. 547 From his Ninth Symphony with the jubilant “Ode to Joy” BEETHOVEN: Trio No. 1, Op. 70 "The Ghost" chorus opening the season to his groundbreaking final Quartet (Op. 131) closing the Festival Annex, audiences will hear Beethoven’s genius through world-class GALA CONCERT & DINNER TICKETS performances of his sonatas, trios, quartets, and more. TABLE SPONSORSHIPS: $20,000 | $10,000 | $5,000 INDIVIDUAL TICKETS: $1,250 | $1,000 | $750 If that wasn’t enough, the Festival also brings works More information: Development Office 978.546.7391 x106. FESTIVAL from Vivaldi and Bach to Brahms and Liszt, as well as CORPORATE PARTNER intriguing new commissions. From the mainstage to the upstairs salon-style performances, the Festival brings a fresh perspective to chamber music. PHONE 978.546.7391 : 5 Friday, June 12 OPENING 8PM SATURDAY, JUNE 13 :: 7:30PM BRENTANO QUARTET SUNDAY, JUNE 14 :: 7:30PM NIGHT LA BOHÈME STEWART GOODYEAR, piano BY AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE HANDEL+ HAYDN CHORUS A modern love story sung in English. The Against the Grain WITH production that started it all, and uprooted opera from Soloists: the opera house. This fully-staged modern adaptation Mireille Asselin, soprano and English translation of the Puccini classic shifts LUDWIG the tale of struggling artists to the present day. Emily Marvosh, mezzo-soprano With Miriam Khalil as Mimi, this fresh look at Featuring Beethoven’s Mario (Seungju) Bahg, tenor La Bohème takes you to the Pyramid Cabaret, Davóne Tines, baritone the most comforting bar in town. 9th SYMPHONY and Quartet, Op. 127 Experience it (with wine or beer in hand) for the first time. Come out for an evening of Beethoven— LOCATION: ROCKPORT ART ASSOCIATON with the world-renowned Brentano TICKETS: $89 “a phenomenon” Quartet, currently the Resident String Miriam Khalil LOS ANGELES TIMES Quartet at Yale University, performing as Mimi in La Bohème the first of Beethoven’s late quartets, Op. 127. The second half of the concert is a spectacular chamber performance SUNDAY, JUNE 14 :: 2PM of Beethoven’s unequivocally greatest of CASTALIAN QUARTET symphonies—the Ninth (including the GILLES VONSATTEL, piano incomparable “Ode to Joy”), in an DAVÓNE TINES, baritone arrangement for piano, chorus The award-winning London-based and soloists. Castalian Quartet makes its Festival debut with two Festival favorites—pianist Gilles The evening’s star power continues with DRAFTVonsattel and baritone Davóne Tines—to Juno-nominated pianist Stewart Goodyear perform Schumann’s marvelous piano joined by renowned soloists at the height quintet as well as Barber’s remarkable of their career and the acclaimed Handel setting of the famous poem. Davóne’s & Haydn Chorus for a truly memorable moving performance in the 2018 Festival Opening Night. is only part of his skyrocketing career, with recent major performances at the BEETHOVEN: String Quartet, Op. 127 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Center, and Harvard’s ART. Gilles joins Op. 125 (arr. Liszt/Goodyear) Castalian for Schumann’s Piano Quintet, Op. 44, bringing dramatic balance “something special” TICKETS: $105 | $95 | $75 between the kinetic energy and sublime THE NEW YORK TIMES AN OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION WILL pastoral passages. IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW THE CONCERT. BARBER: Dover Beach, Op. 3 BRAHMS: Quartet in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2 SCHUMANN: Piano Quintet, Op. 44 TICKETS: $65 | $59 | $47 “The Castalian Quartet makes the simplest things we hear into the most important things we could ever want to hear.... There were times that I simply could not believe my ears." CALGARY HERALD PHONE 978.546.7391 : 7 TUESDAY, JUNE 16 :: 8PM SATURDAY, JUNE 20 :: 7:30PM BAROQUE VIOLIN MASTERPIECES THE FOUR SEASONS WITH RACHEL PODGER VIOLIN SOLOISTS: Timothy Chooi | Julian Rhee Jung Min Choi | HyunJae Lim | Dennis Kim A Gramophone Artist of the Year (2018) and current Artist-in-Residence at Wigmore Hall, Rachel Podger is “the unsurpassed British glory with Chamber Ensemble of the baroque violin” (The Times). The founder and artistic director & Max Levinson, harpsichord of Brecon Baroque, Podger is a leading interpreter of baroque Vivaldi’s iconic masterpiece The Four Seasons music and brings an unaccompanied solo violin performance of gets a fresh perspective from rising violin stars, baroque favorites. Considered the most important precursor of including numerous recent prizewinners of the Bach’s solo works for violin, Biber’s 17th century Passacaglia shows Elmar Oliveira and Yehudi Menuhin competitions. the lineage to Bach’s renowned solo violin works, and has become Joined by a chamber ensemble, these violin for Podger “one of those pieces I can’t do without.” virtuosi also bring to the stage one of Arvo BACH, J.S.: Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 (for violin) Pärt’s most powerful and compelling works— TARTINI, GIUSEPPE: Sonata in B minor, No. 13, B:h:1-3 Tabula Rasa. MATTEIS, N.: From Other Ayres, Preludes, Allmands, Sarabands VIVALDI: The Four Seasons BIBER: Passacaglia “Guardian Angel” in G minor ARVO PÄRT: Tabula Rasa BACH, J.S.: Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004 TICKETS: $65 | $59 | $47 TICKETS: $42 | $36 A SUBS ME CR O IB A I R S C E T SATURDAY, JUNE 20 :: 10PM E R S B BUY 4 P & SAVE! U CABARET: VIRTUOSO VIOLIN T Timothy Chooi, violin | Julian Rhee, violin C E Purchase 4 or more A B A R Top competition winners perform electrifying violin works by Paganini, Sarasate concerts & save WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 :: 11 AM up to 15% and more in a casual, salon setting. TICKETS: $27 SEATED | $10 STANDING FILM: BBC'S THE GENIUS OF BEETHOVEN 1 OF 3 SERIES: THE REBEL In this BBC three-part documentary by Charles Hazlewood, the series takes a look at the life and work of Beethoven. Part one takes viewers through Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and 2nd Symphony, as well as his early years in Vienna. FREE, NO TICKETS REQUIRED DRAFT FRIDAY, JUNE 19 :: 8PM TIMOTHY CHOOI, violin MAX LEVINSON, piano First Prize winner of the 2018 Joseph Joachim Competition and Second Prize winner of the 2019 Queen Elisabeth Competition, Canadian-American violinist Timothy Chooi has garnered critical and public acclaim through his remarkable competition SUNDAY, JUNE 21 :: 5PM success and his high profile appearances around the globe. He’ll perform a program of works by HORSZOWSKI TRIO WITH BARRY SHIFFMAN, viola Mozart, Beethoven, Grieg and others. Ensemble-in-Residence of the Leschetizky Association and the Longy School of Music, the Horszowski MOZART: Sonata in E minor, K. 304 Trio has received tremendous acclaim for their release of Schumann’s complete piano trios. In this BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 7 in C minor concert, they bring an evening of firsts—the Horszowski Trio in their debut performance in the Festival, GRIEG: Sonata No. 3 in C minor performs Beethoven’s first published chamber music work along with two Schumann firsts—his first KREISLER: Schön Romarin, Liebeslied published piano trio and piano quartet. The Horszowski join with RCMF Artistic Director Barry Shiffman and Liebesfreud for a moving, and at times explosive, performance of Schumann’s Piano