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HCCMF’s 40th Anniversary
Issue: 2021/05 – May
Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival’s bravura 40th Anniversary delivers an entire season of superlatives. For information or tickets, call (828) 526-9060 or visit h-cmusicfestival.org.
Cho-Liang Lin
George Li
Since 1982, the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival has been bringing internationally-known musicians to the mountains in fun and creative programming, and they plan to kick off their milestone 40th Anniversary Season Live with a bang on Monday, July 5.
Legendary violinist Pinchas Zukerman opens the Festival with his wife, cellist Amanda Forsyth, and brilliant young pianist George Li in a program of Trios of Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich. This concert will only be offered once, and will be the first concert in the Festival’s new home in Cashiers, in the beautiful new addition to the Village Green.
Cho-Liang Lin, one of the most important violinists in classical music these days, will lead a crack group of string players including members of the Vega Quartet in Mendelssohn’s thrilling Octet for Strings on July 9 (Highlands) and July 10 (Cashiers); and continuing their tradition of presenting and nurturing rising young stars at the beginning of their careers, HCCMF will welcome the Rasa String Quartet also making their Festival debut in music of Beethoven, Haydn and Dvorak on July 11 and 12. The Rasa will also be featured at a special program entitled Martinis & Mozart on Tuesday, July 13, at the Orchard House at Old Edwards Farm. You’ll have a chance to mix and mingle with the Quartet while enjoying cocktails and hors d’oeuvres along with great music of Mozart and Beethoven in a magical setting.
These concerts represent just the first two weeks of the six-week Festival – check out the entire lineup on their website at h-cmusicfestival.org. Tickets may be limited if restrictions are still in place, so make your reservations now and secure your seat to finally experience live music again after a year away.
