Pierrot Chamber Music Festival Announces Concert Series for its 42nd Summer Season Starting July 18

Garden City, N.Y.— The Pierrot Chamber Music Festival celebrates its 42^nd Summer Season this July with a series of six concerts. The Pierrot Chamber Music Festival is an intensive, two-week program for precollege and college student that focuses on the study and performance of standard and new chamber music repertoire. The Festival Concert Series is supported by the Department of Music at Adelphi University and the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center.

“The Department of Music at Adelphi University proudly welcomes back the Pierrot Chamber Music Festival to its new home at Adelphi's world-class Performing Arts Center. Participants in the Festival will enjoy rehearsing and performing in a variety of spaces throughout the Performing Arts Center including our beautiful Concert Hall.”

Detailed concert schedule:

Tuesday, July 18 at 8 p.m. – Festival Alumni Evening

Adelphi University Performing Arts Center located at 1 South Ave, Garden City, NY 11530.

Selected Festival Alumni will present an evening of chamber music.

General admission $15 and seniors/students $10. Further information and advance ticket sales can

be found at www.pierrotchambermusicfestival.com

Friday, July 21 at 8 p.m. – The Pierrot Consort

Adelphi University Performing Arts Center located at 1 South Ave, Garden City, NY 11530.

The Pierrot Consort, the faculty ensemble at the Pierrot Chamber Music Festival, which includes Susan

Deaver, flute; Dale Stuckenbruck, violin; Veronica Salas, viola; Maureen Hynes, cello; and Heawon Kim,

piano; joined by special guest artist Elizabeth Lim-Dutton, violin. The performance will include Swedish

composer Elfried Andree’s Piano Trio; composer/conductor Andrey Rubtsov’s Divertimento in E for

Flute & String Quartet and Camille Saint-Saens Piano Quartet in B-flat Major.

General admission $20 and seniors/student $10. Further information and advance ticket sales can

be found at www.pierrotchambermusicfestival.com

The Pierrot Consort has performed at Merkin Concert Hall, Weill Recital Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Bartok Society at Saranac Lake, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., BOCES, the Stockbridge Chamber Concerts in Great Barrington, Mass., the St. Paul Chapel Series at Columbia University and for the Islip Arts Council. The artist members of the ensemble are actively involved in the musical life of New York City and have a commitment to the cultural enrichment of Long Island.

The Pierrot Consort: "A cohesive ensemble with real affinity for the music...consistently interesting..."— Newsday

Wednesday, July 26 at 8 p.m., Participants Chamber Music Evening

Adelphi University Performing Arts Center located at 1 South Ave, Garden City, NY 11530.

Thursday, July 27 at 8 p.m., Participants Chamber Music Evening

Adelphi University Performing Arts Center located at 1 South Ave, Garden City, NY 11530. General admission $15 and seniors/students $10. Further information and advance ticket sales can be found at www.pierrotchambermusicfestival.com

Friday, July 28 at 4 p.m. – Afternoon of Chamber Music & Chamber Orchestral Music  Adelphi University Performing Arts Center located at 1 South Ave, Garden City, NY 11530. Selected ensembles from the Pierrot Chamber Music Festival and the Precollege Chamber Orchestra with conductor Douglas Aliano, will perform an afternoon concert of chamber ensemble and chamber orchestra music.

Suggested contribution $10. Further information and advance ticket sales can be found at www.pierrotchambermusicfestival.com

Friday, July 28 at 8 p.m.– Festival Chamber Orchestra Concert & Festival Participants  ORCHESTRAL MUSIC FOR A SUMMER EVENING

The Festival Chamber Orchestra with Susan Deaver, conductor, will perform Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor and music of Haydn, Florence Price and Rameau/Mottl. In addition, the concert will include a performance by the Precollege Chamber Orchestra with conductor Douglas Aliano. The concert will conclude with several final pieces featuring all Festival Participants.

General admission $15 and seniors/students $10. Further information and advance ticket sales can be found at www.pierrotchambermusicfestival.com

Program and performing artists subject to change.

For further information and advanced ticket sales to the Pierrot Chamber Music Festival please visit the Festival’s website at www.pierrotchambermusicfestival.com

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