ECMS Summer Music Festival Concert & Conversation with composer Elena Ruehr
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The Eureka Chamber Music Series presents its first-ever Summer Music Festival from Saturday, July 18th through Sunday, July 26th, featuring world-stage musicians and world premiere compositions by the celebrated American composer Elena Ruehr. Familiar faces will include two Avery Fisher Career Grant winners—the Balourdet Quartet and cellist Sophie Shao—as well as ECMS artistic director and violinist Tom Stone and violist Ethan Filner. Stone and Filner were one-half of the Cypress String Quartet, an early ECMS favorite ensemble. Newcomers include violinist Iris Stone, pianist Amy I-Lin Cheng, and the festival's composer-in-residence Elena Ruehr.
The festival will feature four Mainstage Concerts and two Concert and Conversation events over nine days. Rarely heard chamber works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Webern, Schoenberg, and Brahms will contrast with intriguing, contemporary pieces by Elena Ruehr, whose work has been described as "unspeakably gorgeous" by Gramophone magazine. Additionally, there will be two free outdoor "Bach Under the Canopy" concerts, the first at the Sequoia Park Gazebo in Eureka on Sunday, July 19th at 11:00 a.m. and the second at Fieldbrook Winery on Sunday, July 26th, also at 11:00 a.m.
ECMS is offering a Summer Musical Festival Pass that includes admission to all six formal concerts for the discounted price of $180. Individual Mainstage Concert tickets are $40 general and $10 for students. Concert and Conversation tickets are $20 general and $5 for students. Please visit eurekachambermusic.org and follow the "purchase tickets" link. There are no added fees or service charges when ordering tickets online. Tickets will also be available at the door.
The first Concert and Conversation of the festival will be held on Thursday, July 23rd at 7:30 at Calvary Lutheran Church in Eureka. The event will feature the work of composer-in-residence Elena Ruehr, an award-winning faculty member emerita at MIT, a Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, and a composer-in-residence with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. This is a rare opportunity to interact with a composer of her stature and to hear not only her viola and cello sonatas performed by the artists they were composed for, Filner and Shao respectively, but to hear the world premiere of her new "Violin Sonata," written for and performed by Tom Stone and pianist Amy I-Lin Cheng. There will be plenty of time allotted for conversation between artists and the audience.
The festival will feature four Mainstage Concerts and two Concert and Conversation events over nine days. Rarely heard chamber works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Webern, Schoenberg, and Brahms will contrast with intriguing, contemporary pieces by Elena Ruehr, whose work has been described as "unspeakably gorgeous" by Gramophone magazine. Additionally, there will be two free outdoor "Bach Under the Canopy" concerts, the first at the Sequoia Park Gazebo in Eureka on Sunday, July 19th at 11:00 a.m. and the second at Fieldbrook Winery on Sunday, July 26th, also at 11:00 a.m.
ECMS is offering a Summer Musical Festival Pass that includes admission to all six formal concerts for the discounted price of $180. Individual Mainstage Concert tickets are $40 general and $10 for students. Concert and Conversation tickets are $20 general and $5 for students. Please visit eurekachambermusic.org and follow the "purchase tickets" link. There are no added fees or service charges when ordering tickets online. Tickets will also be available at the door.
The first Concert and Conversation of the festival will be held on Thursday, July 23rd at 7:30 at Calvary Lutheran Church in Eureka. The event will feature the work of composer-in-residence Elena Ruehr, an award-winning faculty member emerita at MIT, a Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, and a composer-in-residence with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. This is a rare opportunity to interact with a composer of her stature and to hear not only her viola and cello sonatas performed by the artists they were composed for, Filner and Shao respectively, but to hear the world premiere of her new "Violin Sonata," written for and performed by Tom Stone and pianist Amy I-Lin Cheng. There will be plenty of time allotted for conversation between artists and the audience.
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Calvary Lutheran Church, 716 South Ave, Eureka, CA 95503-5042, United States
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