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 Katonah, NY - Sarah Chang, recognized as one of classical music’s most gifted performers, performs Mendelssohn’s last large orchestral work and one of the most popular violin concerti of all time, in a concert with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, led by Peter Oundjian, at the Caramoor International Music Festival on Saturday, July 19 at 8:00pm.
The program will also include Mozart’s Overture to The Magic Flute, K. 620; Mussorgsky’s Dawn on the Moscow River from Khovantchina (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov); and Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Sarah Chang
Violinist Sarah Chang is recognized the world over as one of classical music's most captivating and gifted artists. She was recently featured in Newsweek as one of the “Top Twenty Women on Leadership.” Appearing in the music capitals of Asia, Europe, and the Americas, she has collaborated with major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, principal London orchestras, and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. Notable recital engagements have included her Carnegie Hall debut and performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Symphony Hall in Boston, the Barbican Centre in London, the Philharmonie in Berlin as well as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. She has reached an even wider audience through her many television appearances, concert broadcasts, and best-selling recordings for EMI Classics. The remarkable accomplishments of her career were recognized in 1999 when she received the Avery Fisher Prize, one of the most prestigious awards given to instrumentalists. Sarah Chang recently recorded Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons with Orpheus for EMI Classics, released in October 2007.
Peter Oundjian
Peter Oundjian’s relationship with Caramoor began in 1981 as the first violinist of the renowned Tokyo String Quartet, a position he held for 14 years. He made his formal conducting debut at Caramoor in 1995, sharing the podium with André Previn in a concert with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. In 1997, he began a ten-year formal artistic relationship with Caramoor, where he most recently served as Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor. Peter Oundjian has been Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since the 2004-2005 season.
Orchestra of St. Luke's
The Orchestra of St. Luke's is America's foremost and most versatile chamber orchestra. Formed at the Caramoor International Music Festival in the summer of 1979, the Orchestra evolved from the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble (1974), with Ensemble members forming the Orchestra's artistic core as principal players. The Ensemble and the Orchestra still co-exist today, and the collaborative chamber aesthetic that is the St. Luke’s hallmark has resulted in consistent critical acclaim, both for mastery of a diverse repertoire spanning the Baroque to the contemporary, and for vibrant music-making of the highest order.
In addition to serving each summer as the Orchestra-in-Residence at the Caramoor Festival, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s participates in such Carnegie Hall events as a four-concert series in the Isaac Stern Auditorium, the Choral Workshop and Carnegie Family Concerts, as well as in numerous artistic collaborations with other New York City cultural organizations.
TICKETS
Tickets are $15.00, $27.50, $40.00, $52.50 and $65.00 and may be ordered by calling the Caramoor Box Office at 914.232.1252 or online at www.caramoor.org.
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is located at 149 Girdle Ridge Road in Katonah, New York.
ABOUT CARAMOOR
Caramoor is the legacy of Walter and Lucie Rosen, who built the great house and filled it with their treasures. Walter Rosen was the master planner for the Caramoor estate, bringing to reality his dream of creating a place to entertain friends from around the world. Their musical evenings were the seeds of today’s International Music Festival. Realizing the pleasure their friends took in the beauty of Caramoor – the house with its art collection, the gardens, and the musical programs on summer evenings – in 1946 the Rosens gave Caramoor to the public as a center for music and the arts.
Lucie Rosen survived her husband by seventeen years. During those years, she expanded the Music Festival: the Spanish Courtyard was used as a setting for musical events, as it is today, and, under her direction, the great stage of the Venetian Theater was built.
Caramoor is a Garden of Great Music. “We invite people to come early, explore our beautiful grounds, take a tour of the House Museum, visit our gift shop, enjoy a pre-concert picnic, and discover beautiful music in a relaxed setting,” advises Paul Rosenblum, Caramoor’s Managing Director. With its unique heritage, Caramoor remains a place where magical summer days and nights are shared and enjoyed by thousands. “Caramoor is the loveliest Festival of them all.” - The New York Times
Art and Gardens
Concerts take place in two outdoor theaters: the large, acoustically superb Venetian Theater and the more intimate, romantic Spanish Courtyard. Caramoor is more than just music – there is beauty at every turn. The House Museum, the former summer home of Caramoor’s founders, Lucie and Walter Rosen, contains a vast collection of Renaissance, 18th-century, and Eastern art objects, including furniture, tapestries, sculpture, paintings, textiles, porcelain, and jade in twenty rooms that are open to the public. There are entire rooms that were imported from European palaces and villas. In fact, Caramoor is one of just five mansions in the country that incorporate entire rooms into its collection. On Thursdays and Fridays, afternoon tea is served in the Summer Dining Room, overlooking the charming Spanish Courtyard.
Caramoor’s gardens are also well worth the visit and include nine unique perennial gardens. Among them are a Sense Circle for the visually handicapped, a Butterfly Garden, Tapestry Hedge, and an Iris and Peony Garden, which may be enjoyed on one’s own or seen on a guided tour.
Enjoy a Picnic at Caramoor
Extend your Caramoor experience by arriving for concerts early and enjoying a picnic amidst the beautiful gardens. Bring your own picnic or pre-order from Great Performances® by calling 212.337.6055.
House Museum
Guided tours of the House Museum are provided from Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00pm-4:00pm with the last tour at 3:00pm. On Saturdays, during the Festival, tours are given from 1:00pm-5:00pm, with the last tour at 4:00pm. Tickets are $10 (children 16 and under free).
GETTING TO CARAMOOR
Caramoor is easy to get to by car and mass transportation.
By car from the West Side of Manhattan and New Jersey, take the Saw Mill River Parkway north to Katonah. Exit at Route 35/Cross River. Turn right and, at the first traffic light, make a right turn onto Route 22 south. Travel 1.9 miles to the junction of Girdle Ridge Road. Follow the signs to Caramoor. (For detailed directions call 914.232.5035 and press 2, or online at www.caramoor.org). Parking at Caramoor is free.
By train, take the Harlem Division of the Metro-North Railroad to Katonah, New York. Taxi service from the station to Caramoor (five minutes away) is available.
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