14th Missouri Chamber Music Festival Announces 14th Festival June 6-21

ST. LOUIS - March 21, 2024 - PRLog -- The Missouri Chamber Music Festival presents Season 14: Game Changers and the Music of our Surroundings June 6 - 21, 2024.  The four concerts of the festival and opening reception/presentation explore musical works with profound emotional impact relevant to the present day.  The Festival highlights composers that changed things forever through their musical innovation.  MOCM Festival artists share performances of evocative works by Schumann, Brahms, Haydn, Caroline Shaw, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Arnold Schoenberg.  MOCM looks back to Schoenberg's ground-breaking Expressionist work of 1912, Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 and celebrates the future with the world premiere of MOCM's commissioned work, Huit-Clos for piano trio and mixed media by composer Florent Ghys.

​Nina Ferrigno, Director & Pianist said,  "While it is always a special experience to produce the concerts of each Missouri Chamber Music Festival season, this year holds the promise of something quite spectacular. The four concerts of the Festival show  how composer/artists make sense of our environment, cast new light on ordinary things, find music  in the mundane, and encourage individual ways to experience art as we collectively share in its live presentation."

Commissioned  Work:  Huit-Clos

Florent Ghys is a composer, upright bass player, and video artist from France. He describes his new work for piano trio, commissioned by the Missouri Chamber Music Festival to be premiered on June 21, 2024 at the Kemper Art Museum by The Calyx Piano Trio as, "an audiovisual and systematic exploration of the objects and sounds within a St. Louisian apartment. Essentially, it's an examination of the mundane objects surrounding us, or an object-based 'étude for the apartment'. Huit-Clos also delves into the fusion and interrogation of tradition and innovation."

FREE EVENT:
Opening Reception / The Art, The Music - June 6, 6 PM
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Concert I /    Entra'acte - June 10, 7 PM
First Congregational Church of Webster Groves
Music of Haydn, Brahms and Caroline Shaw

Concert II /   Dream Machine - June 13, 7 PM
First Congregational Church of Webster Groves,
Music of Schumann and Gabriela Lena Frank

Concert III /   MOCM Morning Music - June 19, 0:30 AM
Des Lee Concert Hall
Music of Missy Mazzoli, Stravinsky & Shoenberg

FREE EVENT:
Concert IV /  Pierrot      June 21, 7 PM
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
World Premiere "Huit-Clos" by Florent Ghys

Tickets www.mochambermusic.org (https://mochambermusic.org/season-14/)

ABOUT MOCM
The Missouri Chamber Music Festival (MOCM) was formed in June 2010 to educate, cultivate, promote, foster, sponsor, develop, and encourage understanding of and public interest in classical chamber music. MOCM brings nationally recognized professional musicians to St. Louis, MO to perform a series of chamber music concerts in collaboration with local artists during an annual Festival each June.