Seven-week workshop by The Quartet Program in residence

Local music lovers can feast their ears on magnificent chamber works performed by some of the world’s most talented young artists as The Quartet Program launches its second summer in residence at SUNY Fredonia.

The Quartet Program, now in its 38th season, is a seven-week workshop that brings together 36 gifted and accomplished string players, ages 14 to 30.

The Quartet Program’s 2007 regular concert season begins with a weekend of quartet and sonata concerts June 28-30. The internationally renowned Lafayette Quartet opens the season with a special guest artist recital on June 22, performing works by Haydn, Schubert and Schafer. All concerts take place at Mason Hall on the SUNY Fredonia campus.

Concerts by the participants and guest artists will be presented in Juliet Rosch Recital Hall and in Diers Recital Hall in three time periods: June 28-30, July 6-9, and July 25-28. Admission is with a recommended contribution of $5 for participant concerts. Memberships (which include a season pass to all concerts) are $100 for a Patron or $75 for a Friend. A season pass is also available for $50.

The participants will also perform free concerts in the community. Venues will include Reed Library, Crino’s Music in Dunkirk, and Intermezzo’s Café in Fredonia, as well as several other Chautauqua County locations. For information on hosting one of these community concerts, call the Quartet Program office at 716-673-3567.
In residence at SUNY Fredonia from June 10 to July 29, this summer’s participants come from 25 states, Canada, Japan and Korea, including many who study at the world’s leading music schools and have significant competition and performance accolades to their credit. Each participant learns and performs one solo work and two string quartets working under the conditions of a professional position, and developing their solo and ensemble skills.

This year’s distinguished faculty are violinists Charles Castleman (also Program Director), Laura Bossert, and James Pember Lyon; violists Allyson Dawkins, John Kochanowski, and Basil Vendryes; and cellists Suren Bagratuni, Terry King, Mark Rudoff, and Jeffrey Solow. Chamber music coaches, in addition to many of the other faculty, include Renato Bonacini, Einar Holm, Kyoko Hashimoto, Diane Monroe, and Renee Moore Skerik. Masterclasses will be presented by violinists Charles Castleman, Charles Haupt and Jacques Israelievitch, violist Robert Vernon, and cellist Anne Martindale Williams.

Yo-Yo Ma calls The Quartet Program, “The best program of its kind, a training ground for lifemanship.” Alumni have won prizes at the Tchaikovsky, Brussels, Munich, Naumburg, Leventritt and Szeryng solo competitions and, in 40 professional ensembles, have won every major national and international chamber competition. They are represented by top concert managements and record companies and are in every important American symphony, chamber, opera and ballet orchestra.; one out of three alumni in orchestras is a Principal or Assistant Principal. They are employed in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Holland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine and Venezuela.
For further information, visit our website at https://www.castlemanquartetprogram.com/, or call 716-673-3567 and talk to: