The 16th annual Chelsea Music Festival has announced their programming of “There’s More to Tell: Swiss Trails Ahead,” taking place from June 18-20 in New York City.
This year’s annual summer festival plays on the age-old mythical tale of Swiss hero William Tell, featuring nine days and evenings of concerts, dinings and tasting, visual art and family events that explore Swiss culture. The festival will also include classical music, jazz, visual and culinary arts. Notable anniversaries of Swiss composers will be honored, including the 70th anniversary of Arthur Honegger’s death and the 135th and 145th anniversaries of Frank Martin and Ernest Block’s birth.
“Our programming celebrates Switzerland as a symbol of a safe haven for the exchange of ideas and differences, and a fertile ground for artistic collaborations between the performing, visual, and culinary arts,” Festival Artistic Directors Melida Lee Msaur and Ken-David Masur said. “This season, highlighting Swiss composers over the course of the last 900 years alongside folk, jazz, and multimedia music, will be a feast for the ears, eyes and palate, and a welcome place for audiences of all ages and backgrounds.”
Festival concerts will also feature world and U.S. premiers by composers, including Doug and Brad Balliett, John Patitucci and Benedict Strahl. The Balliett’s will perform a tone poem featuring violinist Rachell Ellen Wong and the Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ken-David Masur and “Historia Sancti Magni (Midnight Office),” a re-envisioned 90-minute mass by the 11th-century disabled monk, Hermaan au Reichenau. Patitucci will premiere “Planet in Peril” for jazz trio and string orchestra and Strahl will premiere “Felix Mendelssohn’s Schweizereisen (Felix Mendelssohn’s Swiss Journeys)” by the Verona Quartet.
This season’s featured visual artists include Chrissy Angliker, Jonathan Feldschuh and Léo Tardin. Culinary events will honor Swiss hospitality with Swiss Chef Reigne Bigler as the festival’s featured culinary artist, showcasing plant-based creations in collaboration with artists.
Chelsea Music Festival celebrates music by conveying world-leading musicians and artists in the culinary and visual arts world. Through inviting artists, composers and performers to collaborate towards new perspectives, the festival celebrates its Chelsea roots and reflects one of New York City’s most dynamic neighborhoods. Since 2010, the festival has established itself as a critically-acclaimed, accessible and interactive gateway to chamber music through non-traditional spaces.
Festival tickets are available to the general public starting Wednesday, May 1. For more information, visit here.
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