The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival at Cooperstown’s Christ Episcopal Church will present the American String Quartet for this fall’s performance on Sunday, October 2. The quartet will be joined by cellist Phillippe Muller and flutist and founder of the festival, Linda Chesis.
To set off the evening, the quartet will perform works from Haydn and Aaron Jay Kernis. The quartet has performed across all 50 states in the US and in concert halls across the world. Known for their specialty in examinations of composer’s complete cycles, audiences can look forward to the second half of the show, where the American String Quartet will be joined by Phillippe Muller to play Schubert’s cello quintet. Violinist Daniel Avshalomov said that every time the American String Quartet performs the cello quintet piece in rehearsals, they uncover more nuances in its meaning.
“Those who have heard this piece need no introduction,” Avshalomov. “But those who hear it for the first time will look back on the absolute inability of language to express even a shadow of this majestic work.”
The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival was started in 1999 by Linda Chesis. The festival specializes in chamber music, and has brought in performances from Julliard and St. Lawrence, Stefon Harris, Bill Charlap and Simone Dinnerstein, to name just a few.
Tickets for the show are $30 for adults and $15 for students and children. Tickets must be purchased in advance and can be bought at the music festivals site. The show will go from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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