2010 Festival celebrations
2010 sees the anniversaries of key figures of the romantic era – Chopin, Schumann and Mahler. As well as these familiar figures, 2010 is also the anniversary of many fine and important composers whose names are less familiar on the concert platform but whose achievements helped shape musical history.
We’ve taken the many anniversaries of 2010 as our starting point to create an exciting and truly diverse array of concert programmes that will surprise and delight you.
Mahler’s rarely heard piano quartet, the finest of Luigi Cherubini’s string quartets, Schumann’s delightful Piano Quartet, his Fantasies for Trio and First violin sonata – where else could you hear such gems except during the two weeks of music - making at the Stamford International Music Festival.
Just in case you appreciate the creature comforts of listening to your familiar favorites, we’ve complemented these rarely heard gems with a generous smattering of classics. We hope you enjoy our hors d’ouevres of favorite Chopin piano works played by British pianist, Ashley Wass, Italian pianist, Diego Tornelli and Japanese pianist, Mika Tanaka.
We know you will enjoy our main course of classics by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Dvorak. We hope our desserts of Gershwin, Puccini and Walker leave you coming back for more.
We are also particularly proud to feature in this year’s festival the young New York Composer, Kenji Bunch who has forged a name for himself in the American music scene for his original and refreshing look at “concert music” over the last five years. Using contemporary sounds from the urban soundscapes of New York, Kenji combines the highly rhythmic and freely tonal music that you won’t want to miss.
