2017 CANANDAIGUA LAKEMUSIC FESTIVAL - “Co-Directors and Friends”

Formal Concert #2: 
SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2017
“Co-Directors and Friends”
featuring... Ieva Jokubaviciute
& Avalon String Quartet

Pre-Concert Chat: 1:45 pm
Concert Time: 2:00 pm
Location: FLCC Concert Hall (Directions)

Beloved festival Co-Directors Amy Sue Barston (cello) and Kevin Kumar (violin) will join forces with esteemed guests Ieva Jokubaviciute and the Avalon String Quartet to present some of their favorite works of chamber music. Amy and Kevin have individually performed to great acclaim as soloists and chamber musicians all over the world, and their charismatic music-making together has been a fixture at the festival for years.

In the first half, Ieva Jokubaviciute will join them for one of Beethoven’s most lyrically beautiful compositions, the "Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op. 70 No.2," which finds Beethoven in an unusually mellow and intimate mood.

In sharp contrast in the second half, the Avalon String Quartet joins Amy and Kevin (this time on viola) in Tchaikovsky’s fun and bombastic "Souvenir de Florence," written for two violins, two violas, and two cellos. Tchaikovsky was inspired to begin writing this fantastic piece while visiting Florence, Italy.


PROGRAM:

Music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
   – Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op, 70 No. 2

Performers:
    Amy Sue Barston, cello
    Kevin Kumar, violin
    Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano

Music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
   – Souvenir de Florence

Performers:
    Amy Sue Barston, cello
    Kevin Kumar, viola
    Avalon Quartet
     – Blaise Magnière, violin
     – Marie Wang, violin
     – Anthony Devroye, viola
     – Cheng Hou-Lee, cello