MUSIC FROM HIGH PEAKS 2016
presented by the Catskill High Peaks Festival
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 at 8 PM
TICKETS: $20 in advance / $25 at door / $10 students
On Friday, August 14 at 8 PM, the Catskill High Peaks Festival presents Music from High Peaks, featuring Catskill High Peaks Festival’s renowned faculty and international rising young artists playing chamber music in Basilica’s North Hall.
Filling the Basilica’s resonant space with an exuberant display of virtuosity and talent, the program will feature both chamber and orchestral music, including a rare cello chorus playing Julius Klengel’s Hymnus for 12 Cellos. Other musical selections will include works by Arvo Pärt, Villa-Lobos, Grieg, Bach Brandenburg Concerto, Dvorak, Mozart and more.
Hear Julius Klengel’s Hymnus for 12 Cellos, which will be included in the program:
A program of Close Encounters With Music, the Catskill High Peaks Festival is a teaching and performance summer festival in the Northern Catskills that combines a residency program for 50 hand-picked emerging artists from around the world with evenings of classical music concerts for the public. Now in its 6th season, the Catskill High Peaks Festival has performed throughout the Hudson Valley-Berkshire region — at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, in the orchard at Olana, at historic Clermont, at the Doctorow PAC in Hunter and the Orpheum Theater in Tannersville, NY.
For more information, please visit www.catskillhighpeaksmusic.org.