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Have a String Fling
Written By: Nancy Gould Aaron - Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival | Issue: 2020/04 - April
The Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival will celebrate its 39th season of bringing world-class Chamber Music performed by internationally-known performers in creative programs to Cashiers in style, moving into its new Cashiers home at the stunningly beautiful Village Green Commons.
The sound, the look, and the ambience of the new space will enhance the concert-going experience and match the magic that happens on stage.
The Highlands concerts will continue at the acoustically-perfect Performing Arts Center on Chestnut Street.
Founded in Highlands in 1982 by Dr. Lucas Drew, “the Dean of American Double Bassists,” the festival has emulated its founding models – the idealism of the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, coupled with the varied programming of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. The festival is now amongst the oldest and most extensive summer Chamber Music Festivals in the United States.
This summer, the season proper begins on July 3 by welcoming world-renowned violinist Cho-Liang Lin making his Festival debut, joined by Grammy Award-winning cellist Zuill Bailey for twice the star power.
Also new this season are the brilliant Hermès String Quartet from Paris, pianist Anastasia Huppmann from Vienna (in a program of “Champagne & Chopin”). Superstar violinist Ray Chen will electrify our stages for the first time.
Also new to the Festival, the Hollywood Trio featuring pianist Inna Faliks; and harpist Bridget Kibbey – called “the Yo-Yo Ma of the Harp.”
We welcome back the Attacca String Quartet who just won a Grammy, and our final Gala on August 9 brings together two favorites – The Eroica Trio and violinist David Coucheron with the Festival Chamber Orchestra.
You can check out all the exciting offerings of the Festival online at h-cmusicfestival.org/. Join us this summer to celebrate “Chamber Music at its Best” in a beautiful new setting!
