Name: 2024 Concert #5
Start: 2024-08-11T16:00:00
Location: TBA

Stephanie Zyzak

Solenne Païdassi

David Yang

Soo Bae

Elizabeth Brown

Newburyport Chamber Music Festival

Experience a unique evening of music while supporting future NCMF festivals.

Join an intimate gathering in a private home for an evening of chamber music performed by Festival artists—including Artistic Director David Yang. Experience music and conversation unfolding together, with composer Jon Deak and soprano Lucy Shelton sharing insights along the way. As the evening draws to a close, linger with the musicians over wine and hors d’oeuvres —an easy, elegant gathering where cocktail attire feels right at home.

The salon address will be provided to ticket holders a few days before the evening.

Salon

Private Residence (address on tickets)

It is always a good day when Jon Deak shows up on your doorstep. This concert marks his triumphant return (indeed, his third visit!) to Newburyport and the first appearance at NCMF of his friend and collaborator, legendary Metropolitan opera soprano Lucy Shelton. The concert begins with Lucy performing Cathy Berberian’s tour-de-force for solo soprano with a score written not in musical notation but as a cartoon (the score will be projected so the audience can follow along). Also featured on the program is Haydn’s B Minor quartet. Papa Haydn was famous for his sunny disposition but this is an unusually dark and enigmatic work. As long as we are flipping traditional roles, Shostakovich, known a bit as the king of despair, has, with his first quartet in C Major, a work that is warm and even sunny at times.

Return of Jon Deak

Immaculate Conception Church, Newburyport

Nachtmusik

St. Anna's Chapel, Newburyport, MA

For 25 years I’ve wanted to perform the Mendelssohn Octet in Newburyport. Finally, I’m getting the chance. One of the most adored works in all the repertoire, which is affectionately referred to by my colleagues as the “Mocktet” - not to be confused with Shostakovich’s own version known as the “Shocktet” - which opens the final concert. The two octets are a natural pairing and fitting conclusion to a celebration of all that chamber music can be. The Mendelssohn is one great movement after another and an astonishing mature piece of music from a composer who was, annoyingly, only 16 when he wrote it. The festival artists are joined by the Miró String Quartet, one of the world’s great ensembles with multiple Grammys and first prizes from international competitions under their belt.

Twenty-Five Years of NCMF

Music of Haydn, Castillo (world premiere), Brown (“Rural Electrification”), Kurtág, Ravel