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Feasts and Salons, Highlands Cashiers Chamber Music Festival
Written By: Mary Jane McCall | Issue: 2018/05 - May
Every season the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival offers opportunities to meet interesting people in some of the area’s most beautiful private homes while providing important and vital financial support to the festival necessary to bring world-class music to the mountains each year.
The Feasts are wonderful dinners or cocktail buffets attended by festival musicians (who engage in lively conversation in lieu of performing). The Salons are casual events from 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. with Festival musicians performing short programs followed by light hors d’oeuvres and drink.
The first Salons will feature Fei-Fei Dong, the brilliant, award-winning pianist who will entertain with virtuoso solo music in two house concerts from 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. on June 30 and July 1 with different programs each night. Fei-Fei is a winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition and a top finalist at the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. She was showcased prominently as a Cliburn finalist in the documentary film “Virtuosity” about the 2013 Cliburn Competition, which premiered on PBS in August 2015. These concerts will be hosted by Gay Graves and Boyd Letcher, and Kendra and Roger Haines on June 30 in Cashiers; and Teri Dolci, Sibyl Fishburn, and San Hollis on July 1 in Highlands.
Feasts and Salons will be offered throughout July and August with a special Feast on September 15 at Greg and Mary Thompson’s home with pianists Julie Coucheron and William Ransom performing four-hands. During the festival’s Fall Residency with the award-winning Argus Quartet, a Feast will be hosted by Mike and Cathy Crosby on October 12. (Please see our ad with all our feasts and salons listed on page 66 of this month’s Laurel).
To join us for this season’s events or learn more about these Feasts and Salons, call the Festival office at (828) 526-9060, email [email protected], or click on Festival website at h-cmusicfestival.org.
