PianoSummer begins with a faculty gala festival concert on Saturday, July 14 at McKenna Theatre. Faculty performers that evening include Feltsman, Robert Hamilton, Phillip Kawin, Alexander Korsantia, Paul Ostrovsky, Robert Roux and Susan Starr. Guest artists will also pay visits: Alexander Melnikov will give a solo recital on July 21 and Jeremy Denk on July 28. Tickets for these concerts cost $24 and $29 each. Melnikov, Feltsman and Haesun Paik will all offer weekday afternoon master classes, which cost $10 to attend.
Among the younger performers, Baron Fenwick, the winner of last year’s competition, will give a recital in the Shepard Recital Hall on Wednesday, July 18. The second- and third-place winners will perform on July 30, with tickets going for $10. Students in the competition will offer free recitals on campus, at Mohonk Mountain House and the Steinway Recital Hall in Manhattan. The piano competition itself proceeds in two afternoon rounds: Admission to the first round, on Monday, July 23, is free, and it costs $10 to attend the nail-biting finals on Wednesday, July 25. This year’s winner gets to strut his or her stuff, sharing the McKenna stage with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic under Feltsman’s baton, on the evening of Friday, August 3 in what’s called the symphony gala. Tickets go for $34 and $39.
June 9 to August 12
Mount Tremper Arts Summer Festival
Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper
Box office: 877-238-5596
Farther north, the young and the edgy converge as Mount Tremper Arts (MTA) presents its fifth annual summer festival of contemporary art and performance in the Catskill Mountains, featuring works by artists in the fields of dance, theatre, music, poetry, visual and conceptual art — some of it created in residency during the course of the festival. Season tickets are available for $95, and are good for all festival events, including the benefit.
The centerpiece of the festival is a visual arts exhibition titled “Meeting Point,” curated by Boru O’Brien O’Connell and including works by Charles Atlas, Nicholas Buffon, Xavier Cha, David Horvitz, David Levine, Sharon Lockhart, Jen Rosenblit and C. Spencer Yeh, Sergei Tcherepnin and Ei Arakawa, Triple Canopy and Jacques Louis Vidal. It’s open for free public viewing for the duration of the festival on Sundays from 12 noon to 5 p.m., after all festival events and by appointment, But the official opening bash is an afternoon of free performance and a $20 pig-roast dinner on Saturday, July 14.
This looks like fun. Where can I get more information? We usually just stay with our local sun valley resort, but wed like to try somewhere new. 🙂