SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
University Affairs Office
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e-mail: jean.wasp@sonoma.edu
University Affairs Office
1801 E. Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928-3609
(707) 664-2057
e-mail: jean.wasp@sonoma.edu
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 2, 2003 File #
Contact: Jean Wasp, Media Relations, (707) 664-2057
Jeffrey Kahane Supersizes Chamber Series With Borromeo, Weilerstein, Chee-Yun, Walther and More
Due to the runaway sell-out of last year’s performances, Green Music Festival’s artistic director Jeffrey Kahane has invited twice the number of musical friends to join him on stage for this summer’s Chamber Music Series at Sonoma State University.This year, Kahane’s musical colleagues will offer four spectacular programs on July 13, 17, 19, and 20. Kahane has invited back the world-renowned Borromeo String Quartet, the fast-rising young cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and the San Francisco Symphony’s principal violist Geraldine Walther.
Also included this year are international solo violinist Chee-Yun, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Eric Wyrick, San Francisco Symphony cellist Peter Wyrick, clarinetist Todd Palmer and internationally acclaimed concert pianist Jon Kimura Parker.
The four chamber music concerts, called "Jeffrey Kahane and Friends I, II, III and IV," will be held in the Evert B. Person Theatre at 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 13 and Sunday, July 20 and 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 17 and Saturday, July 19. Works by Debussy, Golijov, Franck, Mendelssohn, Messiaen, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Haydn, Dohnányi, and Brahms will be featured.
On Sunday, July 13, Jeffrey Kahane and Eric Wyrick will launch the program with Claude Debussy’s exquisite Violin Sonata. Next, Todd Palmer joins the Borromeo String Quartet in Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov’s rousingly energetic Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind. Kahane and the Borromeo String Quartet will end the afternoon with César Franck’s powerful Piano Quintet.
On Thursday, July 17, Chee-Yun, Peter Wyrick and Kahane begin the program with Mendelssohn’s D minor Trio. Palmer and both the Wyricks will join Kahane in Oliver Messiaen’s chamber masterwork, Quartet for the End of Time.
On Saturday, July 19, Jon Kimura Parker and Kahane will display their shared keyboard prowess with Schubert’s Fantasy for Piano Four Hands. Weilerstein will join Kahane in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Sonata for Cello and Piano followed by the composer’s virtuosic Symphonic Dances for Two Pianos.
On Sunday, July 20, Kahane, Chee-Yun, and Peter Wyrick will perform Haydn’s G minor "Gypsy" Trio. Walther will join Eric and Peter Wyrick on stage for Erno Dohnányi’s Serenade for String Trio. Chee-Yun, Walther, Weilerstein and Kahane conclude the four-day series with Brahms’ enduring Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor. Tickets to the chamber concerts are available at (707) 546-8742 or visit the web site at www.greenmusicfestival.org. For groups of ten or more, call (415) 346-7805.
The campus is located at 1801 E. Cotati Ave. in Rohnert Park, Calif., which is 40 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge. The Festival will move to its permanent home, the Donald and Maureen Green Music Center at SSU, when it opens in a few years.