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The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, a much-loved and essential part of the East End’s summer cultural life, announces its 27th season of concerts slated for Wednesday, July 28th through Sunday, August 22nd, 2010. The Festival’s Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church series has been programmed with flair to offer works by Bach, Vivaldi, Schumann, Beethoven, and Mozart alongside a wealth of contemporary music. Fifteen works composed in the past ten years will be performed over the course of twelve concerts, including a BCMF commission by Bruce MacCombie, world premieres of SeaSkye Songs for Flute, Violin, Cello, Piano, and Soprano (new version) by Eric Ewazen, and of Memoir for Flute and Piano by Russell Platt, as well as works by Arvo Pärt, Leon Kirchner, Paul Brantley and Sean Hickey.
The adventurous BCMF: offbeat series continues with a program performed by the string quartet ETHEL in works by Phil Kline, Terry Riley, Marcello Zarvos and members of the group, and trio Real Quiet in two world premieres by Richard Baker and Paul Lansky as well as works by Jacob Ter Veldhius and Annie Gosfield.
Other highlights of the 2010 Festival include a Free Outdoor Concert at the Bridgehampton Historical Society on Wednesday, July 28th at 6:30 p.m. with a program of Handel, Ravel, Weber and Debussy; a Benefit Concert featuring works by Bach and Vivaldi at the Atlantic Golf Club on Saturday, July 31st at 6:30 p.m. and the annual Wm. Brian Little Concert which will present a 7 p.m. performance of Saint-Saëns classic Carnival of the Animals, with noted actor Alan Alda as narrator, preceded by a wine-tasting at 6 p.m. at the Channing Sculpture Garden on Friday, August 13th.
This year’s performers includes a stellar roster of seasoned and young performers, including founder and Artistic Director flutist Marya Martin, cellists Edward Arron, Carter Brey, Fred Sherry and Peter Wiley; violinists Karen Gomyo, Stefan Jackiw, Juliette Kang and Ani Kavafian; violists Misha Amory, Hsin-Yun Huang and Cynthia Phelps; pianists Jeremy Denk, Gilles Vonsattel and Shai Wosner; clarinetists Anthony McGill and Alexander Fiterstein; oboist John Snow; bassoonist Judith LeClair; and singers Susan Narucki and Randall Scarlata, among many others.
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