ECMS Summer Music Festival Mainstage Concert
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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 festival's final weekend puts the music itself back in the spotlight. The Mainstage Concert on Saturday, July 25th will feature the world premiere of Ruehr's "Sixth Piano Trio," plus a selection of early 20th-century Viennese music that explores romanticism and inspirations from early studies of the subconscious. Ruehr's new piano trio was co-commissioned by the Eureka Chamber Music Series and the San Francisco based Ensemble for These Times. Stone, Shao, and Cheng will perform the premiere. The lyrical and poetic works of Anton Webern will also be featured, including his "Langsamer Satz" string quartet and his "Five Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 5," both performed by the Balourdet Quartet. The evening closes with the powerful "Transfigured Night for String Sextet, Op. 4" by Arnold Schoenberg, a deeply expressive "symphonic poem" actually composed in 1899 and inspired by the poem "Verklärte Nacht" by the German symbolist and expressionist writer Richard Dehmel. The concert will be presented at Calvary Lutheran Church in Eureka at 7:30 p.m.
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 festival's final weekend puts the music itself back in the spotlight. The Mainstage Concert on Saturday, July 25th will feature the world premiere of Ruehr's "Sixth Piano Trio," plus a selection of early 20th-century Viennese music that explores romanticism and inspirations from early studies of the subconscious. Ruehr's new piano trio was co-commissioned by the Eureka Chamber Music Series and the San Francisco based Ensemble for These Times. Stone, Shao, and Cheng will perform the premiere. The lyrical and poetic works of Anton Webern will also be featured, including his "Langsamer Satz" string quartet and his "Five Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 5," both performed by the Balourdet Quartet. The evening closes with the powerful "Transfigured Night for String Sextet, Op. 4" by Arnold Schoenberg, a deeply expressive "symphonic poem" actually composed in 1899 and inspired by the poem "Verklärte Nacht" by the German symbolist and expressionist writer Richard Dehmel. The concert will be presented at Calvary Lutheran Church in Eureka at 7:30 p.m.
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Calvary Lutheran Church, 716 South Ave, Eureka, CA 95503-5042, United States
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