25 CONCERTS
Friday (6 PM - New Time) & Sunday (5 PM) concerts are at the Highlands Performing Arts Center
Saturday and Monday concerts (both 5 PM) are at the Albert Carlton Library in Cashiers
- Grand Opening Receptions
- 30 internationally acclaimed musicians
- Solo works to large chamber ensembles
- Feasts of the Festival
- Open rehearsals
- Final Gala Concert and Dinner
Special Performances, Benefits and Lectures
GALA EVENT AT THE INN AT HALF MILE FARM
On Wednesday, July 14th, please join the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival for a Gala Period Dinner hosted by the Inn at Half Mile Farm to benefit the Festival. The Inn features a converted 19th century farmhouse situated in a wooded 14 acre, romantic setting with ponds and streams, where simplicity is luxury. This event will be catered by well-known Athens, Georgia caterer, Lee Epting, wines will provided by Tiger Mountain Vineyards and the evening will feature Chamber Music guest musicians, The Vega String Trio. Tickets are $100 per person. For more information or to purchase tickets, please call the HCCMF office at 828-526-9060 or email us at hccmf@verizon.net. Space is limited, so call soon!
GREAT PERFORMANCES WITH GREAT FOOD ON FRIDAYS
This summer HCCMF, in conjunction with Mindy and Wolfgang Green of WOLFGANG’S RESTAURANT AND WINE BISTRO, will present a wonderful opportunity for our audience to enjoy a perfect concert and a perfect meal while simultaneously supporting Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival. Every Friday during the Festival Season, Wolfgang’s will present a prix fixe dinner after the concert joined by that evening’s performers. Dinner will begin with a short cocktail hour of a glass of wine and passed hors d’oeuvres followed by dinner at a cost of $60/person. The wine list will be available at extra cost. A percentage of each dinner will go to benefit Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival.
Reservations for the concert and dinner can be made by calling the HCCMF office at 828-526-9060. This is a marvelous opportunity to engage with some of the world’s best musicians, enjoy superb Wolfgang’s Restaurant cuisine, AND make a contribution to HCCMF.
HCCMF-WOLFGANG’S RESTAURANT-HIGHLANDS INN PROMOTE HIGHLANDS
Coming to Highlands for a short visit this season? HCCMF, Wolfgang’s Restaurant and Wine Bistro and Highlands Inn have the perfect venue for you: Deluxe accommodations, fine food and superb chamber music concerts featuring world-class musicians all packaged together for a two or three night stay in one of America’s most exceptional destinations. Please call The Highlands Inn at 800-964-6955 for package information and to make reservations or visit www.Highlandsinn-nc.com, www.wolfgangs.net. Packages are listed below but reservations MUST be made with Highlands Inn.
WOLFGANG’S/HIGHLANDS INN/HCCMF PACKAGES
Dates Packages are available are Friday, July 9 – Saturday, August 14, 2010
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$580 |
Deluxe Room – 2 nights, includes tax |
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FRIDAY/SATURDAY/SUNDAY: |
$795 |
Deluxe Room – 3 nights, includes tax |
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SUNDAY/MONDAY: |
$370 |
Deluxe Room – 2 nights, includes tax |
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WEDNESDAY DINNER WITH LAKESIDE RESTAURANT
Lakeside Restaurant, Marty Rosenfield and Donna Woods are again hosting a special Wednesday evening dinner on July 7th starting at 5:30 PM. This event will benefit the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival; Marty and Donna are graciously donating a percentage of each supporter’s dinner to the Festival. Because seating is limited, mark your calendar now to participate in this fun evening on Harris Lake! Lakeside will reopen for the season in mid-April, so plan to make your reservation early. CALL 828-526-9419 AND MENTION HCCMF.
“BACH AT BUCK’S”
Wednesday night, August 11th, enjoy free Chamber music at Buck’s Coffee Café on Main Street in Highlands with your favorites, The Vega String Quartet. This performance is at 8 PM.
Festival/Center for Life Enrichment Classes
CHARLES WADSWORTH: MY LIFE WITH CHAMBER MUSIC
A true legend in the field of Chamber Music, widely credited with the explosion of interest in the genre in the US over the last fifty years, pianist and presenter Charles Wadsworth will give us a glimpse into his extraordinary life from studies at Juilliard to his concerts and friendships with the most important composers and performers of the last fifty years from around the world. Founder of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he led it as Artistic Director and pianist for twenty years, bringing chamber music the unprecedented popularity that it enjoys today. From 1977-2009, Mr. Wadsworth was one of the Artistic Directors of the Spoleto USA Festival in Charleston, SC. This class is scheduled for Saturday, August 14th from 10 AM-12 Noon. The lecture will be followed the next day by Mr. Wadsworth performing with Mr. Ransom and the Vega String Quartet in HCCMF’s final Gala concert.
Presenter: Charles Wadsworth recently retired as Artistic Director for Chamber Music at the Spoleto USA Festival, where he was a Festival favorite as a pianist and host of the Daily concerts and the Dock Street Theater, a role he began at the Spoleto Festival in Italy in 1960. He has received numerous awards of distinction and has been invited to perform at the White House for Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan.
THE GREAT ROMANTICS:
Frederic Chopin/Robert Schumann Bicentennial
The early 1800s were one of the most fertile times in all of music history. In celebration of the bicentennial of Chopin and Schumann, this class will focus on the extraordinary lives and music of these two composers who epitomized, in their dramatic lives and work, the Romantic era in all its excess, dizzying highs and tragic lows. The class will also discuss some of the specific works by Chopin and Schumann to be performed at the concert at 5:00 pm the same afternoon in Cashiers performed by Festival Artistic Director pianist William Ransom and the Attacca String Quartet. This class is scheduled for Saturday, July 10th from 10 AM -12 Noon.
Presenter: Kevin C. Karnes joined the music department at Emory in 2004. He is the author of Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History: Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna and co-edited Brahms and His World, as well as numerous other publications. Kevin received his PhD in 2001 from Brandeis University. He also holds BS degrees in mathematics and management science from MIT and an MM degree in trombone performance from the University of Washington.
Both of these classes will be held at the Performing Arts Center in Highlands. For class tickets, please call CLE at 828-526-8811, send emails to clehighlands@yahoo.com, or visit their website at www.clehighlands.org. For concert tickets, please call HCCMF at 828-526-9060 or email us at hccmf@verizon.net.
Picnic Concert in Cashiers
Festival favorites, The Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet, will once again entertain picnic-goers on Saturday, June 26th at 5 PM. This fun, outdoor concert will be at the Zachary-Tolbert House in Cashiers. Bring a picnic and blanket and enjoy the music! Free-donations happily accepted.
Concert Programs
In an effort to make the concerts easier to identify, we have color-coded the concerts — HIGHLANDS concerts (Friday & Sunday) in Blue and CASHIERS concerts (Saturday & Monday) in Red.
Grand Opening Weekend: Concerts and Receptions
Friday, July 9th, 6 PMSaturday, July 10th, 5 PM
Chopin/Schumann Bicentennial Celebration
Sunday, July 11th, 5 PMMonday, July 12th, 5 PM
Haydn, Barber, Mendelssohn
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 William Ransom. The Attacca Quartet |
Week Two: July 16th-19th |
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 Clockwise: Franco Mezzena, Edoardo Catemario, William Ransom |
Friday, July 16th, 6 PMSaturday, July 17th, 5 PM“The Italian Connection”
Sunday, July 18th, 5 PMMonday, July 19th, 5 PMSchumann, Ravel, Paganini |
Week Three: July 23rd-26th Clockwise: Albers Trio, William Ransom, Kate Ransom |
Friday, July 23rd, 6 PMSaturday, July 24th, 5 PM“All in the Family”
Sunday, July 25th, 5 PMMonday, July 26th, 5 PM “All in the Family” |
Week Four: July 30th-August 2nd |
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 Clockwise: William Preucil, Charae Krueger, Yinzi Kong, Valerie Von Pechy Whitcup, Lea Kibler, Victor Asuncion |
Friday, July 30th, 6 PMSaturday, July 31st, 5 PMBeethoven, Debussy, Dvorak
Sunday, August 1st, 5 PMMonday, August 2nd, 5 PMMozart, Chopin, Schumann |
Week Five: August 6th-9th Clockwise: The Eroica Trio (Sara Sant’Ambrogio, Susie Park, Erika Nickrenz), Anton Nel, Brice Andrus, Laura Ardan, Christopher Rex |
Friday, August 6th, 6 PMSaturday, August 7th, 5 PM The Eroica Trio
Sunday, August 8th, 5 PMMonday, August 9th, 5 PMChopin, Schumann |
Week Six: August 13th-14th The Vega String Quartet |
Friday, August 13th, 6 PMSaturday, August 14th, 5 PMMozart, Beethoven |
Final Gala Concert and Dinner Party Sunday, August 15th at 5 PM Highlands Performing Arts Center
Charles Wadsworth
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 The Vega String Quartet, Charles Wadsworth, William Ransom |
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William Ransom Artistic Director |
Nancy Gould-Aaron Executive Director |
Lucas Drew Artistic Director Emeritus |