Local music lovers can feast their ears on magnificent chamber works performed by some of the world’s most talented young artists as The Quartet Program launches its fourth season in residence at SUNY Fredonia.
The Quartet Program’s 2009 regular concert season begins with a weekend of quartet and sonata concerts July 2 through 4 in Mason Hall.
Students
The Quartet Program, now in its 40th season, is a seven-week workshop that brings together 36 gifted and accomplished string players, ages 14 to 30.
In residence at SUNY Fredonia from June 14 to August 1, this summer’s participants come from 25 states, Canada, Japan, & Korea, including many who study at the world’s leading music schools and have significant competition and performance accolades to their credit. Each participant learns and performs one solo work and two string quartets working under the conditions of a professional position, to further develop their solo and ensemble skills.
Faculty
This year’s distinguished faculty includes violinists Charles Castleman (also Program Director), Laura Bossert, James Pember Lyon, and Solomia Soroka; violists Allyson Dawkins, John Kochanowski, Renee Moore Skerik, and Basil Vendryes; and cellists Anthony Elliott, Thomas Landschoot, Mark Rudoff, and Jeffrey Solow.
Chamber music coaches, in addition to many of the other faculty, include Kyoko Hashimoto, Einar Holm, Susan Waterbury, Annie Fullard and Diane Monroe.
Masterclasses will be presented by violinists Charles Castleman and Michael Ludwig, violist George Taylor, and cellist Michael Haber.
Concerts in the School of Music
Concerts by the participants and guest artists will be presented in Juliet Rosch Recital Hall and in Diers Recital Hall in Mason Hall on the SUNY Fredonia campus, in three time periods: July 2 through 4, July 10 through 13, and July 29 through August 1.
Admission is with a recommended contribution of $5 for participant concerts. The Quartet Program is a registered non-profit organization; donations are welcome and gratefully received.
Concerts in the community
The participants will also perform free concerts in the community. Venues will include Reed Library at SUNY Fredonia, Intermezzo’s Café (Fredonia), the Big Dipper Ice Cream Shop (Dunkirk), the Chautauqua County Home, and the Unitarian Church of Jamestown, as well as several private locations in Chautauqua County. For information on hosting one of these community concerts, call the Quartet Program office at 716-673-3567.
About our alumni...
Yo-Yo Ma calls The Quartet Program, “The best program of its kind, a training ground for lifemanship.”
Alumni have won prizes at the Tchaikovsky, Brussels, Munich, Naumburg, Leventritt and Szeryng solo competitions and, in 40 professional ensembles, have won every major national and international chamber competition.
They are represented by top concert managements and record companies and are in every important American symphony, chamber, opera and ballet orchestra.; one out of three alumni in orchestras is a Principal or Assistant Principal. They are employed in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Holland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine and Venezuela.
For more information
For a daily schedule of the 2009 program, visit the Quartet Program or call 716-673-3567 and ask for:
June 14 – July 4: Mark Rudoff or Nancy Nehring
July 5 – July 12: Allyson Dawkins July 13 – August 1: Renee Skerik
