California State University Northridge

The Plaza del Sol Performance Hall is a state-of-the-art 500-seat theatre conveniently located in the heart of the San Fernando Valley. Completed in 1995, the Performance Hall is a beautiful, technically superior performance space.

Entrance to parking lot G-4 on Zelzah: Ticket booth between Plummer and Prairie.

California State University Long Beach

The University Music Center offers an environment to compliment and magnify the artistic experience sitting on 3.2 acres of park-like landscape and is comprised of twenty freestanding buildings containing all the necessary amenities. The Gerald R. Daniel Recital Hall is a 270-seat state-of-the-art performance theater with all the amenities for aesthetically pleasing musical presentations.

Parking Lot on Atherton, 1/4 block west of Palo Verde Ave.

University of California, Los Angeles

On the northeast corner of one of the most beautiful campuses in North America, the acoustically rich Schoenberg Hall seats 528. The building is named for the internationally acclaimed composer Arnold Schoenberg , who taught at UCLA from 1936 until his retirement in 1944.

Perched on an 80-foot bluff on the edge of the Tennessee River, the Hunter Museum of American Art offers stunning views of the river and the surrounding mountains. This panorama is equaled only by the exceptional collection of American art inside recognized as one of the country's finest.

Once inside, the inspiration continues, because it's not just about the art; it's all about you, the visitor. The Hunter is for the entire family to enjoy. Together, you will see art with new eyes as a way to better understand American history and to learn more about what makes us Americans today.

The Hunter Museum focuses on American art from the Colonial period to the present day. The museum is located in an historical mansion and a sleek contemporary building on the bluffs overlooking the Tennessee River.

The collection includes paintings, works on paper, sculpture, furniture and contemporary studio glass covering a diverse range of styles and periods. Just a few of the well known artists whose work is represented in the Hunter include Thomas Cole, Fitzhugh Lane, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, John Marin, Thomas Hart Benton, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Nevelson, Jack Beal, George Segal, Duane Hanson and Robert Rauschenberg.

MERESTEAD

Merestead, which means “farmland” in Scottish, was designed and built in 1906-07 by the famed architectural firm of Delano & Aldrich as the country home of William Sloane, President of the W & J Sloane Furniture Company, and his wife, Frances Crocker Sloane. Tucked away in the hills overlooking the Byram Lake Reservoir and surrounding valley around the border of Mount Kisco and Bedford in northern Westchester County, the 130-acre estate includes a 26-room Georgian Revival mansion, a carriage house, farm buildings, gardens, and over two miles of trails. The property was bequeathed to the county in 1982 by Sloane’s daughter, Mrs. Margaret Sloane Patterson, and her husband, Dr. Robert L. Patterson, Jr., a prominent New York City orthopedic surgeon. They envisioned that Merestead would be used for “conservation, educational, cultural, intellectual, historical, and recreational purposes.” Upon Mrs. Patterson’s death in 2000, the County took possession of the property, which is now a county park.

COPLAND HOUSE

Recently declared a National Historic Landmark, Copland House is the only composer’s home in the U.S. devoted to nurturing and renewing America’s rich musical heritage through a broad range of activities. These include a coveted composer residency program; an acclaimed, touring resident chamber ensemble called Music from Copland House; in-school activities for students from 2^nd grade through college; on-site tours; recordings, broadcasts, and Internet projects; and lectures, master classes, workshops, exhibits, film screenings, and other presentations. The hilltop, prairie-style 1940s home was Copland’s residence for the last thirty years of his life, from 1960 to 1990. The successful effort to preserve Copland’s home and honor his extraordinary musical and personal legacies began soon after his death with a genuine grassroots coalition of local citizens and Cortlandt Town officials. The house became operational as a creative center for American music in Fall 1998. As the American Record Guide noted in 2002, “Copland’s generosity, gentleness, and a sense of measure live on at Copland House.” A 501(c)3, not-for-profit organization, all programs are supported by the nationwide Friends of Copland House. Copland House is open to the public by appointment only.

For TICKETS please contact the Symphony Hall box office at 888-266-1200

This evening's performance also includes Gunther Schuller's String Quartet No. 2, which the Borromeos will also perform at their very popular "Early Evening with the Borromeo" series in Williams Hall. NEC on October 14.

Tonight's concert concludes with Beethoven's Op. 127.

Additional NEC Borromeo String Quartet dates:

October 14, 6pm: Early Evening with Schuller's String Quartet No. 2

February 15, 6pm: Early Evenings with Schuller's String Quartet No. 1

February 23, 8pm: Borromeos joined by NEC student Guest Award winners

October 18, 8pm: Borromeos fuse electrical processing with Bach and other music

February 15, 6pm: Early Evenings with Schuller's String Quartet No. 1

February 23, 8pm: Borromeos joined by NEC student Guest Award winners

Tickets: $23 Adults; $18 Seniors; $15 Members; $10 College Students; $5 Children ages 5-17

Tickets are now available to museum members for advance purchase; please call the Gardner Box Office at 617 278 5156 (open 11am-4pm, Tues-Sun). Tickets go on sale to the general public on August 18.

For the opening night program, Lesser has assembled an all-German/Austrian program with works of Beethoven, Schoenberg, and Robert Schumann, whose 200th birthday is being celebrated worldwide.

This concert opens with the Beethoven Quintet for Piano and Winds in Eb Major, Opus 16. Performers, highlighted by NEC wind faculty who are members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, include: Pei-Shan Lee*, piano; John Ferrillo, oboe; Thomas Martin, clarinet; Richard Svoboda, bassoon; Eli Epstein, French horn.

WORLD PREMIERE of MOHAMMED FAIROUZ' DOUBLE CONCERTO, written for NICHOLAS KITCHEN and YEESUN KIM

ENSEMBLE 212, Yoon Jae Lee, Conductor
Nicholas Kitchen, violin
Yeesun Kim, cello

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
Coriolan Overture, Op. 62

Mohammed FAIROUZ
Symphony No. 2 (New York Premiere)

Mohammed FAIROUZ
Double Concerto for Violin, Cello & Orchestra, "States of Fantasy"
World Premiere (comissioned by Ensemble 212)
with Nicholas Kitchen, Violin & Yeesun Kim, Violoncello

New York's celebrated Ensemble 212, under the direction of Yoon Jae Lee, will open it's 2010-11 season with an orchestral concert featuring work by Ludwig van Beethoven and Mohammed Fairouz, one of the most sought out young composers today.

The concert features the World Premiere of Fairouz's Double Concerto "States of Fantasy", which was commissioned by Ensemble 212 and written especially for violinist Nicholas Kitchen and cellist Yeesun Kim, of the Borromeo Quartet.

The Double Concerto is based on Jacqueline Rose's monumental book "States of Fantasy".

Fairouz's Second Symphony will be receiving it's New York premiere.

The Concert Hall built in 1918, now on the National Register of Historic Buildings, was specifically designed for chamber music and built in a colonial style using timber from an old textile mill. The hall seats 440 and enjoys particularly fine acoustics.

Artists such as Leonard Bernstein, Gary Graffman, Leontyne Price, Alexander Schneider, Rudolph Serkin and Peter Serkin have appeared here. String quartets including the Borromeo, the Emerson, the Guarneri, the Juilliard, the Orion, the Tokyo, and the Vermeer have been frequent visitors to the series of concerts. Piano trios have included the Beaux Arts Trio and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio.

LOCATION

The South Mountain Concert Hall is located on Routes 7 & 20 (South Street) in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, approximately two miles south of Park Square at the center of the downtown area. The driveway to the property, just south of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company building, is marked by a white sign with brown lettering, reading "South Mountain Western Region," and a panel below it reading "South Mountain Concerts." The dirt road leads up South Mountain to the parking areas and the Concert Hall.

Haydn, String Quartet in Bb Major, Op. 76, No. 4 “Sunrise”
Bartok, String Quartet No. 3
Beethoven, String Quartet in Eb Major, Op.127

The Borromeo will be in residence at this Chamber Music Seminar for El Sistema which will include multiple performances and masterclasses.

Since 2001, the Tuckamore Festival has offered an inspiring and intensive chamber music program for emerging musicians in historic St. John's, Newfoundland. For two weeks, talented pianists and string players perform and attend numerous concerts as well as participate in workshops, open rehearsals, private lessons, coachings, and master classes.

In previous years, the Festival has featured guest artists such as Richard Raymond, the Avalon String Quartet, and the Jupiter String Quartet. Participants in the Young Artist Program have included winners of nation competitions and students from some of North America's finest music schools including The Juilliard School, Glenn Gould School, Rice University, SUNY Stony Brook, University of Toronto and McGill University.

Don't miss this season's series: extraordinary performances packed with exuberance, passion and great beauty that are sure to move and inspire you.

Since 2001, the Tuckamore Festival has offered an inspiring and intensive chamber music program for emerging musicians in historic St. John's, Newfoundland. For two weeks, talented pianists and string players perform and attend numerous concerts as well as participate in workshops, open rehearsals, private lessons, coachings, and master classes.

In previous years, the Festival has featured guest artists such as Richard Raymond, the Avalon String Quartet, and the Jupiter String Quartet. Participants in the Young Artist Program have included winners of nation competitions and students from some of North America's finest music schools including The Juilliard School, Glenn Gould School, Rice University, SUNY Stony Brook, University of Toronto and McGill University.

Don't miss this season's series: extraordinary performances packed with exuberance, passion and great beauty that are sure to move and inspire you.

Since 2001, the Tuckamore Festival has offered an inspiring and intensive chamber music program for emerging musicians in historic St. John's, Newfoundland. For two weeks, talented pianists and string players perform and attend numerous concerts as well as participate in workshops, open rehearsals, private lessons, coachings, and master classes.

In previous years, the Festival has featured guest artists such as Richard Raymond, the Avalon String Quartet, and the Jupiter String Quartet. Participants in the Young Artist Program have included winners of nation competitions and students from some of North America's finest music schools including The Juilliard School, Glenn Gould School, Rice University, SUNY Stony Brook, University of Toronto and McGill University.

Don't miss this season's series: extraordinary performances packed with exuberance, passion and great beauty that are sure to move and inspire you.

Since 2001, the Tuckamore Festival has offered an inspiring and intensive chamber music program for emerging musicians in historic St. John's, Newfoundland. For two weeks, talented pianists and string players perform and attend numerous concerts as well as participate in workshops, open rehearsals, private lessons, coachings, and master classes.

In previous years, the Festival has featured guest artists such as Richard Raymond, the Avalon String Quartet, and the Jupiter String Quartet. Participants in the Young Artist Program have included winners of nation competitions and students from some of North America's finest music schools including The Juilliard School, Glenn Gould School, Rice University, SUNY Stony Brook, University of Toronto and McGill University.

Don't miss this season's series: extraordinary performances packed with exuberance, passion and great beauty that are sure to move and inspire you.

The Borromeo Quartet will be joined by pianist Victor Asuncion, violionist David Coucheron, cellist Lynn Harrell, violist Paul Neubauer and harpsichordist Anthony Newman.

ANTHONY NEWMAN Sonata for Violin and Piano (West Coast premiere)
BEETHOVEN Viola Quintet in C Major, Op. 29
BRIGHT SHENG Northern Lights (WORLD PREMIERE)
RACHMANINOFF Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19

Tickets: $60, $40