Opening Night Concert

Friday, July 7 | 8:00pm
Works by Jónsdóttir, Mendelssohn, Debussy, Bartók, Janáček, and Shaw
Thurídur Jónsdóttir (b.1967) INNI–musica da camera, for baroque violin and tape (2013)
United States Premiere
Harriet Langley, baroque violin
                                 
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Sonata in B-flat Major, Op.45 (1838)
Coleman Itzkoff, cello; Peter Frankl, piano   
 
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894), trans. for piano four-hands by Maurice Ravel (1910)
Peter Frankl, primo; Seth Knopp, secundo
 
Intermission
 
Béla Bartók (1881-1945) String Quartet No.3, Sz.85 (1927)
Omer Quartet
Mason Yu, Erica Tursi, violins; Jinsun Hong, viola; Alex Cox, cello 
 
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) Pohádka (1910)
Edvard Pogossian, cello; Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, piano
 
Caroline Shaw (b.1982) By and By (2010, rev. 2017)
Melanie Henley Heyn, soprano; Suliman Tekalli, Magdalena Filipczak, violins; Meredith Kufchak, viola; Julia Yang, cello

Special Thanks

Baroque violin on generous loan from Douglas Cox, a violin maker based in Brattleboro, VT