The Twenty-Fourth Raritan River Music Festival
WHEN: May 4-25, 2013
To purchase tickets please visit the Web site:
www.RaritanRiverMusic.org
For more information and reservations:
Phone: 908.213.1100
E-Mail: info@RaritanRiverMusic.org
This year’s theme is “Classics of Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow.” Hearing uplifting music live in the festival’s magical, historic venues awakens the senses and stirs the imagination. Composers and performers share their insights into the music. All audience members are invited to meet the musicians at a reception following each concert.
Adaskin String Trio: “To the Heart of the Music"
WHEN: Saturday, May 4 at 7:30 PM
WHERE: Prallsville Mills, Stockton, NJ
Every concert of this year's festival will begin with a short piece by elementary and high school winners of the 2013 Hunterdon County Young Composers Competition. (Photo by Susan Wilson)
Celebrating its 20th anniversary season, the Adaskin String Trio (violin, viola, cello) has won over audiences internationally with exuberant and stirring performances, including a standing ovation at a recent Raritan River Music Festival concert.
| Their program will include music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Lennox Berkeley, Sergei Taneyev and the String Trio by 24-year-old Gideon Klein (right) , written during the last year of his internment at Terezín concentration camp. |
Opus Two
William Terwilliger, violin
Andrew Cooperstock, piano
“A Celebration of Gershwin: Music from Porgy and Bess, An American in Paris, and more”
WHEN: Saturday, May 11 at 7:30 PM
WHERE: Stanton Reformed Church, Stanton, NJ
Following in their tradition of championing the works of great American composers for over 20 years throughout the United States and on six continents, Opus Two takes on the brilliant works of George Gershwin, one of America’s most popular and iconic composers. In honor of the 75th anniversary of Gershwin’s death, violinist William Terwilliger and pianist Andrew Cooperstock will perform Jascha Heifetz’s virtuosic arrangements of music from Gershwin’s landmark folk opera Porgy and Bess, plus Heifitz’s arrangements from An American in Paris and more.
Opus Two has been internationally recognized for its “divine phrases, impelling rhythm, elastic ensemble and stunning sounds” (Columbia, SC Free Times) on Naxos, Albany, and Azica Records, as USIA’s Artistic Ambassadors to the Americas and Africa, and at music festivals in Europe, Australia, and Hong Kong. (Photo by J. Henry Fair)
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Joao Luiz (Brazil) WHEN: Saturday, May 18 at 7:30 PM
A top player of his generation, 21-year-old Celil Refik Kaya (above) is First Prize Winner of the 2012 JoAnn Falletta International Competition with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and has won prizes at competitions in Greece, Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey, and the USA. (Photo by Orhan Cem Cetin) | |
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Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo (New Jersey)
João Luiz already has a dozen CDs to his credit, teaches at New Jersey City University, and tours the world at festival and with major orchestras. His compositions have been played by Paquito d’Rivera and other notable artists. (Left: Photo by Andrea Johnson)|
WHEN: Saturday, May 25 at 7:30 PM The glorious music of Johann Sebastian Bach will fill the Clinton Presbyterian Church, performed by the 7-piece Soclair Ensemble, Edward Brewer, director and harpsichordist, and Virginia Brewer, oboe soloist. Do not miss this rare opportunity to hear live in concert the “house band” from the Soclair Music Festival (1976-2005). |
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“Bach's Brandenburg Concertos stand as supreme achievements in the concerto grosso literature of the Baroque. The variety of the instrumental combinations they exploit sets them apart from any other opus. Subtle and brilliant at the same time, they are a microcosm of Baroque music, with an astonishingly vast sample of that era's emotional universe.”—Ted Libby, The NPR Classical 50 (Guide to Essential Classics) |
The programs of Raritan River Music—the Raritan River Music Festival, the Educational Enrichment Program, the Artists-in-the-Community Residency Program, and the New Music Commissioning Program—are presented in part with generous support from The Augustine Foundation, The D’Addario Foundation, The June & Ira Kapp Foundation, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission, The Large Foundation, the Stover Foundation, Holiday Inn of Clinton, The Garden Gourmet, Terminal Velocity Video, Town Market of Washington NJ, WWFM, Clinton House Bakery, Steel Mill Studio, Robert Olmsted Recordings, Service Electric Cable, Zidster.com.
Funding has been made possible in part by the Hunterdon County Board of Chosen Freeholders, through funds administered by the Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission. Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, through funds administered by the Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission.
