The Chelsea Music Festival of NYC launches Online Encores, a bi-weekly video series on YouTube (YouTube.com/ChelseaMusicFestivalNYC) curated by Co-Artistic Directors Melinda Lee Masur and Ken-David Masur who have selected favorite Festival performances from past seasons interspersed with short interviews and talks with composers and artists. Each video will be premiered online as live-viewing events and will feature classical, jazz, new music, as well as highlights from the culinary and visual arts to reflect the Festival’s Hear | Taste | See motto.
Seven videos on YouTube will première bi-weekly on Thursdays from July 30th through Oct 22nd. The episodes will include New York and World Premières by 2019 Composers-in-Commission Binna Kim, Jessica Mays, Augusta Read Thomas, as well as Eric Nathan, Miguel Del Águila, and Michael Gandolfi from earlier seasons.
“Opening Nights” of Online Encores presents Festival musicians alongside the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra from Finland; orchestral works include Sibelius’s Andante Festivo and Rautavaara’s Finnish Myth conducted by Ken-David Masur. The world première of Tanglewood Music Fellow and composer Binna Kim’s stacked emotions is performed by pianist Andrea Lam and the acclaimed GHOSTLIGHT Chorus of NYC. An excerpt from Del Águila’s Clocks closes the event with the lauded Verona Quartet and pianist Melinda Lee Masur; Clocks was nominated for best composition at the Latin Grammys in 2010.
Additional dates/times:
08/13/2020 7:30pm EDT (with pre-concert Talk 7-7:30pm EDT) - Jazz with John Patitucci;
08/27/2020 7:30pm EDT - Best of Bach;
09/10/2020 7:30pm EDT (with pre-concert Talk 7-7:30pm EDT) - Visual Arts Highlights;
09/24/2020 7:30pm EDT - Culinary Arts Highlights;
10/08/2020 7:30pm EDT - Jazz Highlights;
10/22/2020 7:30pm EDT - Beethoven Preview
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