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Cooperstown Summer Music Festival Presents the Jasper String Quartet in the First of Five August August Performances
An award-winning string quartet known for “guerilla chamber music” and a hand-picked quintet of jazz all-stars kick off an eventful August for the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival.
On Friday, August 5 at 7:30 pm, the Jasper String Quartet (J Freivogel and Sae Chonabayashi, violins; Sam Quintal, viola; and Rachel Henderson Freivogel, cello) will perform quartets by Haydn and Mendelssohn, and with Festival artistic director and flutist Linda Chesis, Theme and Variations by Amy Beach.
The Jasper's Sam Quintal said that they have performed the Mendelssohn and Haydn quartets many times, but the Beach work is new to them. "Op. 76 No. 1 is one of our favorite of the Haydn quartets. We have been playing it for quite a long time now and it feels like an old friend. It is a warm and inviting piece of music, full of wit, character and charm," he explains. "The Beach on the other hand is new to us - we are very happy to play with Linda for this piece and delighted that she suggested it. We have all been enjoying getting to know the work - it is beguilingly beautiful, and it weaves the sound of the flute and strings together in a wonderfully compelling manner." The final piece on the program is the Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80.
"Composed in memory of Felix’s sister Fanny, the work has an understandable melancholy undertone melded with Mendelssohn’s brilliant and energetic style. Full of both fire and poise, sadness and optimism, this piece flies off the page full of passion, and we just have to hang on for the ride," says Quintal. The Quartet is named for Jasper National Park in Alberta Canada. It was there on a residency at the Banff Centre that the Quartet embarked on “guerilla chamber music,” performing in non-traditional places around Alberta, including a mountain-top performance in 40 degree weather. They continue to make education and outreach a priority, having presented more than 100 programs at schools.
In 2008, the Jaspers swept through the competition circuit, winning the Grand Prize and the Audience Prize in the Plowman Chamber Music Competition, the Grand Prize at the Coleman Competition, First Prize at Chamber Music Yellow Springs, and the Silver Medal at the 2008 and 2009 Fischoff Chamber Music Competitions. They were also the first ensemble honored with Yale School of Music’s Horatio Parker Memorial Prize, an award established in 1945 and selected by the faculty for “best fulfilling… lofty musical ideals." In 2010, they joined the roster of Astral Artists after winning their national auditions.
Theme and Variations by Amy Beach premiered in September 1916. Born in 1867, Amy Beach was n internationally respected and prolific composer, and a leader in the American Romantic style, an especially noteworthy achievement for a woman of her era. "How inevitable it was that music should be my life's work, “ Amy Beach said. “Both in composition and piano playing, there seemed to be such a strong attraction … that no other life than that of a musician could ever have been possible for me."
The concert will be held at Christ Episcopal Church, 46 River Street in Cooperstown. Tickets are $25 for adults, $15 for students. Purchase online, cooperstownmusicfest.org; by phone through Brown Paper Tickets, 800/838-3006, or at the door.
The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival's 18th season continues August 7 at 7:30 pm at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown with a Sinatra tribute concert featuring saxophonist Loren Schoenberg, pianist John DiMartino, bassist Mike Karn, trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso, and drummer Aaron Kimmel. On August 19 the Festival presents Bach and Sons featuring Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Linda Chesis, flute; Quinn Bernegger, tenor; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; and Bradley Brookshire, harpsichord. On August 21 at Hyde Hall, lutenist Hopkinson Smith will perform works by John Dowland, John Johnson, and Anthony Holborne in the drawing room of historic Hyde Hall. On August 28, a busy August is capped off with an evening of Flamenco, a first for the Festival. The Sonia Olla Flamenco Dance Company will perform at the Otesaga Hotel, 60 Lake Street in Cooperstown.
The Festival’s extended season continues September 11 with a concert of Debussy, Bax and Ravel featuring Linda Chesis, June Han, harp; and Dimitri Murrath, viola; and on October 2 the Season Finale features works by Mendelssohn, Smetana and Katterburg performed d by Linda Chesis, Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Clancy Newman, cello; and Alexandre Moutouzkine, piano.
About the Festival Flutist Linda Chesis started the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival with three events in 1999, and since then the Festival has offered the region more than 100 concerts, from classical to contemporary, jazz to bluegrass, cabaret to kids’ concerts. The Festival has featured: Midori, Hank Jones, the Tokyo String Quartet, the American String Quartet, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, Kurt Elling, Tim Fain, Bill Charlap, Hilary Kole, Simone Dinnerstein, Mark O’Connor, and many more. The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. ###
Calendar Listings Friday, August 5, 7:30 pm Cooperstown Summer Music Festival: Jasper String Quartet with Linda Chesis Christ Episcopal Church, 46 River Street, Cooperstown, NY Haydn: String Quartet Op. 76, No. 1 Amy Beach: Theme and Variations Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 Artists: Jasper String Quaret (J Freivogel and Sae Chonayashi, violins; Sam Quintal, viola; Rachel Henderson Freivogel, cello) and Linda Chesis, flute $25 for adults, $15 for students. Tickets available at cooperstownmusicfest.org, by calling Brown Paper Tickets, 800/838-3006; or at the door.
Sunday, August 7, 7:30 pm Cooperstown Summer Music Festival: Sinatra at 100 The Otesaga Hotel, 60 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY Multi-generational jazz all-stars present an instrumental tribute to Frank Sinatra Artists: Loren Schoenberg, saxophone; Jon-Erik Kellso, trumpet; John DiMartino, piano ; Mike Karn, bass; Aaron Kimmel, drums $25 for adults, $15 for students. Tickets available at cooperstownmusicfest.org, by calling Brown Paper Tickets, 800/838-3006; or at the door.
Friday, August 19, 7:30 pm Cooperstown Summer Music Festival: Bach and Sons Christ Episcopal Church, 46 River Street, Cooperstown, NY Enjoy works by Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons CPE Bach and WF Bach. Artists: Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Linda Chesis, flute; Quinn Bernegger, tenor; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; Bradley Brookshire, harpsichord $25 for adults, $15 for students. Tickets available at cooperstownmusicfest.org, by calling Brown Paper Tickets, 800/838-3006; or at the door.
Sunday, August 21, 5:30 pm Cooperstown Summer Music Festival: Elizabethan Lute Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd, Cooperstown, NY Lutenist Hopkinson Smith performs works by John Dowland, John Johnson, and Anthony Holborne in the drawing room of historic Hyde Hall. $25 for adults, $15 for students. Tickets available at cooperstownmusicfest.org, by calling Brown Paper Tickets, 800/838-3006; or at the door.
Sunday, August 28, 7:30 pm Cooperstown Summer Music Festival: Flamenco The Otesaga Hotel, 60 Lake Street , Cooperstown, NY The Sonia Olla Flamenco Dance Company presents an evening of authentic flamenco, direct from Spain. $25 for adults, $15 for students. Tickets available at cooperstownmusicfest.org, by calling Brown Paper Tickets, 800/838-3006; or at the door. ### For more information or artist photos, please contact Peg Odell pegodell5@gmail.com, info@cooperstownmusicfest.org, or call 607/282-0295. A downloadable photo of Linda Chesis is available at http://www.cooperstownmusicfest.org/?p=1740 Electronic Press Kit of the Jasper String Quartet available: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5583785be4b038d887341ab2/t/569fb3d87086d70664b88389/1453306860532/JasperStringQuartetElectronicPressKit.pdf
On Friday, August 5 at 7:30 pm, the Jasper String Quartet (J Freivogel and Sae Chonabayashi, violins; Sam Quintal, viola; and Rachel Henderson Freivogel, cello) will perform quartets by Haydn and Mendelssohn, and with Festival artistic director and flutist Linda Chesis, Theme and Variations by Amy Beach.
The Jasper's Sam Quintal said that they have performed the Mendelssohn and Haydn quartets many times, but the Beach work is new to them. "Op. 76 No. 1 is one of our favorite of the Haydn quartets. We have been playing it for quite a long time now and it feels like an old friend. It is a warm and inviting piece of music, full of wit, character and charm," he explains. "The Beach on the other hand is new to us - we are very happy to play with Linda for this piece and delighted that she suggested it. We have all been enjoying getting to know the work - it is beguilingly beautiful, and it weaves the sound of the flute and strings together in a wonderfully compelling manner." The final piece on the program is the Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80.
"Composed in memory of Felix’s sister Fanny, the work has an understandable melancholy undertone melded with Mendelssohn’s brilliant and energetic style. Full of both fire and poise, sadness and optimism, this piece flies off the page full of passion, and we just have to hang on for the ride," says Quintal. The Quartet is named for Jasper National Park in Alberta Canada. It was there on a residency at the Banff Centre that the Quartet embarked on “guerilla chamber music,” performing in non-traditional places around Alberta, including a mountain-top performance in 40 degree weather. They continue to make education and outreach a priority, having presented more than 100 programs at schools.
In 2008, the Jaspers swept through the competition circuit, winning the Grand Prize and the Audience Prize in the Plowman Chamber Music Competition, the Grand Prize at the Coleman Competition, First Prize at Chamber Music Yellow Springs, and the Silver Medal at the 2008 and 2009 Fischoff Chamber Music Competitions. They were also the first ensemble honored with Yale School of Music’s Horatio Parker Memorial Prize, an award established in 1945 and selected by the faculty for “best fulfilling… lofty musical ideals." In 2010, they joined the roster of Astral Artists after winning their national auditions.
Theme and Variations by Amy Beach premiered in September 1916. Born in 1867, Amy Beach was n internationally respected and prolific composer, and a leader in the American Romantic style, an especially noteworthy achievement for a woman of her era. "How inevitable it was that music should be my life's work, “ Amy Beach said. “Both in composition and piano playing, there seemed to be such a strong attraction … that no other life than that of a musician could ever have been possible for me."
The concert will be held at Christ Episcopal Church, 46 River Street in Cooperstown. Tickets are $25 for adults, $15 for students. Purchase online, cooperstownmusicfest.org; by phone through Brown Paper Tickets, 800/838-3006, or at the door.
The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival's 18th season continues August 7 at 7:30 pm at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown with a Sinatra tribute concert featuring saxophonist Loren Schoenberg, pianist John DiMartino, bassist Mike Karn, trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso, and drummer Aaron Kimmel. On August 19 the Festival presents Bach and Sons featuring Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Linda Chesis, flute; Quinn Bernegger, tenor; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; and Bradley Brookshire, harpsichord. On August 21 at Hyde Hall, lutenist Hopkinson Smith will perform works by John Dowland, John Johnson, and Anthony Holborne in the drawing room of historic Hyde Hall. On August 28, a busy August is capped off with an evening of Flamenco, a first for the Festival. The Sonia Olla Flamenco Dance Company will perform at the Otesaga Hotel, 60 Lake Street in Cooperstown.
The Festival’s extended season continues September 11 with a concert of Debussy, Bax and Ravel featuring Linda Chesis, June Han, harp; and Dimitri Murrath, viola; and on October 2 the Season Finale features works by Mendelssohn, Smetana and Katterburg performed d by Linda Chesis, Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Clancy Newman, cello; and Alexandre Moutouzkine, piano.
About the Festival Flutist Linda Chesis started the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival with three events in 1999, and since then the Festival has offered the region more than 100 concerts, from classical to contemporary, jazz to bluegrass, cabaret to kids’ concerts. The Festival has featured: Midori, Hank Jones, the Tokyo String Quartet, the American String Quartet, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, Kurt Elling, Tim Fain, Bill Charlap, Hilary Kole, Simone Dinnerstein, Mark O’Connor, and many more. The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. ###
Calendar Listings Friday, August 5, 7:30 pm Cooperstown Summer Music Festival: Jasper String Quartet with Linda Chesis Christ Episcopal Church, 46 River Street, Cooperstown, NY Haydn: String Quartet Op. 76, No. 1 Amy Beach: Theme and Variations Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 Artists: Jasper String Quaret (J Freivogel and Sae Chonayashi, violins; Sam Quintal, viola; Rachel Henderson Freivogel, cello) and Linda Chesis, flute $25 for adults, $15 for students. Tickets available at cooperstownmusicfest.org, by calling Brown Paper Tickets, 800/838-3006; or at the door.
Sunday, August 7, 7:30 pm Cooperstown Summer Music Festival: Sinatra at 100 The Otesaga Hotel, 60 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY Multi-generational jazz all-stars present an instrumental tribute to Frank Sinatra Artists: Loren Schoenberg, saxophone; Jon-Erik Kellso, trumpet; John DiMartino, piano ; Mike Karn, bass; Aaron Kimmel, drums $25 for adults, $15 for students. Tickets available at cooperstownmusicfest.org, by calling Brown Paper Tickets, 800/838-3006; or at the door.
Friday, August 19, 7:30 pm Cooperstown Summer Music Festival: Bach and Sons Christ Episcopal Church, 46 River Street, Cooperstown, NY Enjoy works by Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons CPE Bach and WF Bach. Artists: Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Linda Chesis, flute; Quinn Bernegger, tenor; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; Bradley Brookshire, harpsichord $25 for adults, $15 for students. Tickets available at cooperstownmusicfest.org, by calling Brown Paper Tickets, 800/838-3006; or at the door.
Sunday, August 21, 5:30 pm Cooperstown Summer Music Festival: Elizabethan Lute Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd, Cooperstown, NY Lutenist Hopkinson Smith performs works by John Dowland, John Johnson, and Anthony Holborne in the drawing room of historic Hyde Hall. $25 for adults, $15 for students. Tickets available at cooperstownmusicfest.org, by calling Brown Paper Tickets, 800/838-3006; or at the door.
Sunday, August 28, 7:30 pm Cooperstown Summer Music Festival: Flamenco The Otesaga Hotel, 60 Lake Street , Cooperstown, NY The Sonia Olla Flamenco Dance Company presents an evening of authentic flamenco, direct from Spain. $25 for adults, $15 for students. Tickets available at cooperstownmusicfest.org, by calling Brown Paper Tickets, 800/838-3006; or at the door. ### For more information or artist photos, please contact Peg Odell pegodell5@gmail.com, info@cooperstownmusicfest.org, or call 607/282-0295. A downloadable photo of Linda Chesis is available at http://www.cooperstownmusicfest.org/?p=1740 Electronic Press Kit of the Jasper String Quartet available: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5583785be4b038d887341ab2/t/569fb3d87086d70664b88389/1453306860532/JasperStringQuartetElectronicPressKit.pdf
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