Caramoor Presents Turns of the Centuries: Caramoor Virtuosi

Feb. 11, 2010 - PRLog -- WHO:
Edward Arron, Artistic Director and cello | Jeewon Park, piano | Jesse Mills, violin | Yura Lee, violin |
Max Mandel, viola | Raman Ramakrishnan, cello

WHEN:   Saturday, April 17, 2010 | 8:00 p.m.

WHERE:  Rosen House Music Room | Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
 
PROGRAM: Works by BEETHOVEN, WEBERN, CHEN YI, DOHNANYI

TICKETS:
$40. To purchase tickets, call the Caramoor Box Office at 914.232.1252, or visit www.caramoor.org

PRESS TICKETS: Whitney Holden, 917.339.7188, wholden@cohndutcher.com

Katonah, New York - On Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 8:00 pm, the Caramoor Virtuosi - led by Artistic Director and cellist Edward Arron - takes concertgoers on a journey through the "Turns of the Centuries", as part of Caramoor's Great Artists in the Music Room series.  The program paints vivid landscapes of the musical culture and creativity of the turns of the last three centuries.  Beethoven's Opus 44 Variations for piano trio foreshadow later innovations in composition, as well as the first turns towards Romanticism.  Dohnanyi's lush opus 1 piano quintet straddles the late-Romantic style, and the breaking apart of tonality is captured in Webern's sets of miniatures for cello and piano. Chen Yi's exhilarating Sound of the Five is a nod to the growing presence and contributions of Chinese and female composers in today's musical culture. "Turns of the Centuries" is curated by Christopher Zimmerman, Caramoor's Artistic Administrator.

Great Artists in the Music Room: Turns of the Centuries
Where we find significant social, political and cultural shifts throughout history, we also find important music. Turns of the Centuries presents music of transitional importance, written at the turns of the 18th into the 19th, the 19th into the 20th, and the 20th into the 21st centuries, performed by some of today's most extraordinary artists.  Each program explores influential music written at the time of seminal historical shifts, whether it be the movement away from the Classical style towards Romanticism of the late Haydn and middle period Beethoven, or the development of new musical languages in response to the loosening of tonality during the first decade of the 20th Century, or the entirely new world of our contemporary musical culture(s). Turns of the Centuries is curated by Christopher Zimmerman, Artistic Administrator for the Caramoor Center.

Caramoor Virtuosi
The Caramoor Virtuosi is an ever-evolving ensemble of some of America's finest young professional musicians, who began their association with Caramoor as participants in the Rising Stars workshops. Founded by André Previn in 1992, the Rising Stars workshops were designed to identify exceptional young musicians and provide them with the artistic and collegial support needed to cross the threshold from promising student to committed artist.  Over the past seventeen years, only 100 musicians have qualified for this highly selective mentoring and performance program.

After completing Rising Stars, these young musicians may be selected to participate in the Caramoor Virtuosi and traditionally appear as the resident ensemble, during one week of the Caramoor International Music Festival.  There are currently 40 active Virtuosi, who perform in various combinations at concerts during Caramoor's Indoors and Festival seasons.  While still young, they are artists and musicians with virtuosic command-of their instruments, of the music, of the ensemble process and, ultimately, of communicating a musical message to the audience.

According to Edward Arron, Artistic Director of the Caramoor Virtuosi, "Each Caramoor experience is memorable. The musicians establish relationships, even if only for a week, and a chemistry develops.  Caramoor is unique in that the Rising Stars and Virtuosi programs have created an association among musicians that's especially long lasting.  The number of musicians who consider Caramoor to be their musical home grows each year.  Each year we see familiar faces combined with newer talents; each year the combination changes, creating a different chemistry every season."

About Caramoor
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts - a performing arts center located on a unique 90-acre setting of Italianate architecture and gardens in Westchester County, NY - enriches the lives of its audiences through innovative and diverse musical performances of the highest quality.  Its mission also includes mentoring young professional musicians and providing educational programs for young children centered around music. For more information, go to Caramoor.org, or call (914) 232-5035.

Tickets:
$40.00.  To purchase tickets, call the Caramoor Box Office at  914.232.1252, or visit www.caramoor.org
Subscription Series Price:  Trio (any  3 concerts and lecture/dramatization) $105.00  (SAVE 12.5%)

For Press Tickets:
Contact Whitney Holden, Cohn Dutcher Associates | 917.339.7188 | wholden@cohndutcher.com

PROGRAM
GREAT ARTISTS IN THE MUSIC ROOM SERIES
TURNS OF THE CENTURIES: CARAMOOR VIRTUOSI
SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2010, 8:00 P.M.
ROSEN HOUSE MUSIC ROOM
Edward Arron, Artistic Director and cello
Caramoor Virtuosi: Jeewon Park, piano; Jesse Mills, violin; Yura Lee, violin; Max Mandel, violin; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello

BEETHOVEN   Variations in E-flat Major for Piano Trio, Op. 44 (1804)
WEBERN         Two Pieces for Cello and Piano (1899)
WEBERN         Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 11 (1914)
CHEN YI          Sound of the Five for Cello and String Quartet (1998)
DOHNANYI     Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1 (1895)

CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS IS LOCATED AT 149 GIRDLE RIDGE ROAD, KATONAH, NEW YORK.

This performance is made possible, in part, by ArtsWestchester with funds from Westchester County Government.
This performance is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

The Spring 2010 Indoors season is made possible, in part, through generous funding from Floy and Amos Kaminski.

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With its outstanding summer music festival & indoors concerts, arts-in-education programming and beautiful grounds, Caramoor is a cornerstone of the cultural life of Westchester County, NY.