This Week at SummerFest
SummerFest 2022: Wednesday, August 10 – Tuesday, August 16
at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
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All events are in The Baker-Baum Concert Hall unless otherwise noted.
Coaching Workshops
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 • 10 AM • The JAI
A member of Pelia Quartet coaches a local student
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 • 11 AM • The JAI
Angie Zhang coaches a local pianist
Under the Influence:
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 • 7 PM
Prelude performance by Aestas Trio • 6 PM
Join us for this special Wednesday evening event at The Conrad as we transport ourselves to the Italian countryside. The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi’s radical violin concerto, is by far the composer’s most popular work. The concerto was one of the first of its kind and, in the right hands, can sound as revolutionary today as it did when it was first heard. The festivities continue after the concert with the best of San Diego’s culinary scene, libations, and more music in the Wu Tsai QRT.yrd.
Featuring Andrew Ilhoon Byun, Sterling Elliott, Liza Ferschtman, Stefan Jackiw, Alexi Kenney, Tessa Lark, and the SummerFest Chamber Ensemble
Coaching Workshops
Thursday, August 11, 2022 • 10 AM • The JAI
A member of Dover Quartet coaches Pelia Quartet on Haydn’s String Quartet in G Major, Op. 64, No. 4
Thursday, August 11, 2022 • 11 AM • The JAI
Marc-André Hamelin coaches Aestas Trio on Arensky’s Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 32
Encounter: The Wagner Effect
Thursday, August 11, 2022 • 2 PM • The JAI
Alex Ross, award-winning author and music critic for The New Yorker, draws from his new book, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music, and delves into the life and music of composer Richard Wagner.
Coaching Workshops
Friday, August 12, 2022 • 10 AM • The JAI
A member of Dover Quartet coaches Pelia Quartet on Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3 in C-sharp Minor, Sz.85
Friday, August 12, 2022 • 11 AM • The JAI
Stefan Jackiw coaches Aestas Trio
The New Romantics
Friday, August 12, 2022 • 7:30 PM
Prelude Performance by Tessa Lark • 6:30 PM
Stirred by the sublime lyricism and expressive richness of the Romantic era, the composers on this evening’s program display passionate intensity and striking emotional honesty. We begin with Schubert’s Quartettsatz, one of the pieces that helped pave the road to the Romantic era, followed by the première of Marc-André Hamelin’s lush Piano Quintet, heard in its recently completed version for the first time, and we end with Dvořák’s Piano Trio in F Minor, perhaps the composer’s most romantic outpouring and one that owes much to his mentor, Johannes Brahms.
SummerFest Gala
Saturday, August 13, 2022 • 5 PM
Travel back in time to La Belle Époque at The Palais Conrad, Paris 1888!
FAURÉ
Dolly Suite, Opus 56
Inon Barnatan, Marc-André Hamelin, pianos
MASSENET
Meditation from Thaїs
Stefan Jackiw, violin; Inon Barnatan, piano
STRAUSS
Rosen aus dem Süden, Opus 388 (arr. Schoenberg)
Inon Barnatan, piano; Angie Zhang, harmonium; Dover Quartet
The Wagner Effect
Sunday, August 14, 2022 • 3 PM
Prelude performance by Pelia Quartet • 2 PM
The complex textures and rich harmonies characteristic of Richard Wagner’s compositions had a magnetic force on the composers featured on this afternoon’s program. From Strauss’ lusciously scored and radiantly colorful Sextet from his opera Capriccio and a string version of Berg’s intense Piano Sonata to arrangements and works in honor of Wagner by his own father-in-law, Franz Liszt, this program is a testament to the dominant force of this Romantic master. The program ends with the rarely heard, lushly exuberant Sextet by Hungarian composer Ernst Von Dohnányi for strings, clarinet, and horn.
Fellowship Artist Spotlight II
Monday, August 15, 2022 • 2 PM • The JAI
The first Asian musician ever appointed to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra—and now its longest-serving clarinetist—beloved SummerFest artist John Bruce Yeh joins Fellowship Artists Pelia Quartet for a delightful afternoon performance along with the Aestas Trio.
ARENSKY
Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 32
MOZART
Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K.581
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Coaching Workshops
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 • 10 AM • The JAI
Nina Lee coaches Pelia Quartet on Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 • 11 AM • The JAI
Inon Barnatan coaches Aestas Trio on Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht
Artist Lounge: Anthony Roth Costanzo & Zack Winokur
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 • 1 PM • The Atkinson Room
Acclaimed as “a perfect musician” (Le Monde) and “vocally brilliant and dramatically fearless” (The New York Times), countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has gone on to appear with many of the world’s leading opera houses. This summer he’ll work with stage director, choreographer, and dancer Zack Winokur, who is recognized as one of the most innovative and exciting talents working in opera today, creating masterpieces described as “pure poetry” (Boston Globe). Get to know these great artists ahead of their newly conceived celebration of Kurt Weill on Thursday, August 18.