Twenty-one year old Joyce Yang, the 2005 Van Cliburn Competition silver medalist, made her Caramoor debut with a very personal selection of works from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

JUNE 28  SERKIN, DELFS, OSL
Saturday, 8:00pm - Venetian Theater
Tickets:  $65.00, $52.50, $40.00, $27.50, $15.00   Program Notes & Bios
Peter Serkin, piano; Orchestra of St. Luke's; Andreas Delfs, conductor (Caramoor debut) 
 

J. C. Bach		Symphony in G Major, Op. 3, No. 6
J. S. Bach		Keyboard Concerto No. 1,  D minor, BWV 1052
Mozart		Concert Rondo for Piano and Orchestra, K. 382
Mozart		Symphony No. 40, G minor, K. 550

Peter Serkin, a vital force in American musical culture, returned to Caramoor to illuminate works for piano and orchestra by Bach and Mozart.  The Orchestra of St. Luke's presented a scintillating program under the baton of internationally-distinguished conductor, Andreas Delfs, who made his Caramoor debut.

JUNE 29 FROM SPAIN TO THE NEW  WORLD
SONIDOS LATINOS I
Sunday, 4:30pm - Venetian Theater
Tickets:  $40.00, $32.50, $25.00, $17.50   Program Notes & Bios
Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano; Max Barros, piano; Orchestra of St. Luke's; Michael Barrett, conductor

Guarnieri		Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
Revueltas		Homenaje a Federico Garcia Lorca
Falla		El Amor Brujo

The passion, flair, and influence of Iberian concert music in the New World was re-explored in a program of rarely heard 20th century masterpieces.  2007 winner of the New York City Opera's Christopher Keene Award, mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux returned to Caramoor in the original 1915 version of Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo:  a work perfect for her distinctive voice.  Pianist Max Barros introduced the music of Brazilian composer Mozart Carmago Guarnieri, and Michael Barrett and the Orchestra traversed Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas' striking homage to Spanish poet Garcia Lorca.

Sonidos Latinos was made possible by generous support from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rckefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
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WEEK THREE

JULY 3 trio solisti
Thursday, 7:30pm - Spanish Courtyard
Tickets:  $25.00, $15.00  Program Notes & Bios
Maria Bachmann, violin; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; Jon Kilbonoff, piano

Ravel		Trio in A minor
Piazzolla		Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Mussorgsky		Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Trio Solisti)

These three brilliant instrumentalists presented a delightfully diverse program featuring their own arrangement of Mussorgsky's classic, Ravel's masterpiece, and Piazzolla's tango-inflected Seasons.

JULY 4 JOHN PIZZARELLI QUARTET
GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK CELEBRATION
Friday, 8:00pm - Venetian Theater
Tickets:  $75.00, $60.00, $47.50, $35.00, $25.00   Program Notes & Bios
John Pizzarelli Quartet

Ascending stars in the musical firmament, composer, pianist, and poet Lera Auerbach and Caramoor favorite Alisa Weilerstein journeyed through a sublime and poetic Russian soundscape.  With the composer at the piano, these two brilliant artists presented the world premiere of Auerbach's Twenty-four Preludes for Violoncello & Piano.

JULY 12  Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
(Barber of Seville - New Baerenreiter Critical Edition)
Saturday, 8PM  - Venetian Theater 
Tickets: $80.00, $65.00, $50.00, $35.00, $20.00   Program Notes & Bios
Pre-Opera Events in the Spanish Courtyard. Free for Opera ticket holders.

Figaro - Daniel Mobbs, baritone; Rosina - Priti Gandhi, soprano; Count Almaviva -Barry Banks, tenor; Don Basilio - Matthew Treviño, bass-baritone; Don Bartolo - Ricardo Herrera, bass-baritone; Berta - Eve Miedel, soprano; Orchestra of St. Luke's; Caramoor Opera Chorus; Will Crutchfield, conductor

Verdi, no less, called it “the greatest opera buffa ever written.” The public has agreed for nearly two centuries, and Caramoor now offered a new look at the beloved Barber  in the much-anticipated Baerenreiter critical edition produced under the supervision of the renowned Philip Gossett.  Il Barbiere was performed with Rossini's original orchestration -- lighter and more sparkling than the version usually performed -- and with the brilliantly florid vocal style reconstructed from performing documents of the composers' day.  Like Caramoor's recent revivals of La Sonnambula, Tancredi, and others, it promised to be a completely fresh take on a well-known masterpiece.
This production was semi-staged and sung in Italian with English super titles.

Pre-Opera Events:
3:30pm Edition and Tradition
Il Barbiere di Siviglia has the distinction of being the oldest opera from the Italian repertory that has remained in that repertory without a break.  That means it also has the longest accumulated set of performing traditions.  Philip Gossett and Will Crutchfield discussed the transformations Il Barbiere has undergone in its nearly two centuries of existence and the differences a new edition can make.  Members of the Caramoor Bel Canto Young Artists program illustrated with alternative arias and versions from Rossini's pen.

4:30pm The Great Garcias
The star of the first Barbiere was its tenor, Manuel Garcia (the opera was actually called Almaviva on its opening night).  His son, Manuel Jr., was America’s first Figaro (and the inventor of the laryngoscope).  His daughters, Maria and Paolina (Pauline), became celebrated prima donnas under their married names of Malibran and Viardot, and both of them kept Rosina as a star part. And they composed too! The Caramoor Bel Canto Young Artists with Rachelle Jonck performed a program of music written by and for this extraordinary family.

5:30pm  dinner break

7:00pm Philip Gossett introduces Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Philip Gossett is the world’s pre-eminent scholar of Italian opera.  He is the General Editor of the critical editions of both Rossini and Verdi, the author of Divas and Scholars, and the recipient of innumerable awards and prizes.

JULY 13 BUENOS AIRES NOW
Tango after Piazzolla - Sonidos Latinos III
Venetian Theater, 4:30pm
Tickets:  $40.00, $32.50, $25.00, $17.50   Program Notes & Bios
Camerata Latina: Paquito D'Rivera, clarinet; Marco Granados, flute; Pablo Aslan, bass; Emilio Solla, piano; Fernando Otero, piano; Nicolas Danielson, violin; Raul Jaurena, bandoneon; Ayano Kataoka, marimba

Piazzolla		Tres Minutos con la Realidad
Solla		Suite Piazzolleana
Jaurena		La Soledad y El Angel
Jaurena		Suite Paicas y Malevos
Otero		Milonga 10
Otero		Expansion
Otero		Desde Adentro
Salgan		Don Agustin Bardi
Rodriguez		La Cumparsita

Sonidos Latinos heats up with an all Tango program.  Regarded as the father of the modern Tango, which was well known only as a strikingly dramatic dance, Astor Piazzolla elevated and introduced its form and feeling into concert music.  Buenos Aires Now explored how composers since have taken up Piazzolla's call.  Caramoor's Composer-in-Residence Paquito D'Rivera and Sonidos Latinos favorite Marco Granados returned with a star-studded cast of musicians deeply versed in this vibrant art form.

Introduce your family to Caramoor and enjoy the sounds of the concert from the picnic grounds. Purchase concert Al Fresco Tickets ($9.00).

Sonidos Latinos was made possible by generous support from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
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WEEK FIVE