Pianists in the Mountains

Lecture by Dr. Jeffrey Langford

Monday, August 22, 2022
@ 7:30pm

Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter

This lecture by Dr. Jeffrey Langford will discuss the duo piano works by Lutoslawski, Amy Beach, Camille Saint Saëns, Aaron Copland and Milhaud that Joanne Polk and Inesa Sinkeyvich will perform in full on Tuesday, August 23. Drs. Polk and Sinkeyvich will demonstrate a few movements and passages during the lecture.

Sylvan Winds Ensemble

Saturday, September 10, 2022
@ 7:30pm

Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Village of Tannersville

Hailed by the New York Times for "…its venturesome programming and stylishness of performance," the Sylvan Winds has appeared under the auspices of Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and the Caramoor International Music Festival. Chosen to perform at the NY Governor’s Arts Awards, the ensemble has presented imaginative and scintillating programs of chamber works for winds in such places as Town Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the White Mountains, the Cape Cod and Skaneateles Festivals, Rutgers University’s Summerfest, Amherst College, the Chicago Chamber Music Society and the Sejong Cultural Center in Seoul, Korea. They have recorded for the Koch Classics, and CRI/New World, and North/South labels, and have enjoyed collaborations with such distinguished artists as Gerard Schwarz, Ransom Wilson, the Guarneri String Quartet, pianist Claude Frank, radio personality Robert Sherman, and actor Louis Zorich.

Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra

Music for Harp & String Orchestra

Robert Manno, Conductor
Jacqueline Kerrod, Harp
Sato Moughalian, Flute

Saturday, November 26, 2022
@ 8:00pm

Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter

The Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra returns to the Doctorow Center for a Thanksgiving weekend concert, including Ralph Vaughan Williams: Variants on Dives and Lazarus for Strings & Harp; Sir Edward Elgar: Sospiri for Strings & Harp; Claude Debussy: Danses sacrée et profane for Harp & String Orchestra; Robert Manno: Petit Voyage en Nostalgie for Flute, Harp & String Orchestra; Howard Hanson: Serenade for Flute, Harp & String Orchestra; Jacqueline Kerrod: New Work for Harp & String Orchestra (Premiere); Jean Sibelius: Elegie from King Christian Suite II; and, Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.

Since 2000 the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra under the direction of composer/conductor, Robert Manno has earned accolades and national attention through the many broadcasts of its live performances from the Windham Chamber Music Festival and Catskill Mountain Foundation over American Public Media’s Performance Today. The orchestra is comprised of the finest musicians from the New York area and includes current and former members of the MET Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony, NYC Opera Orchestra, NYC Ballet Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, American Ballet Theatre Orchestra, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Albany Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and many other esteemed New York area ensembles.

Robert Manno is Co-Director of the Windham Chamber Music Festival, an award-winning composer, and an acclaimed conductor whose many performances from the Windham Festival and the Catskill Mountain Foundation have been featured nationally on “Performance Today.” The Atlanta Audio Society has described him as “a composer of serious music of considerable depth and spiritual beauty.”