chamber music Archives - KCAW https://www.kcaw.org/tag/chamber-music/ Community broadcasting for Sitka and the surrounding area Thu, 20 Jun 2019 20:40:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Sitka Summer Music Festival gears up for a busy weekend https://www.kcaw.org/2019/06/20/sitka-summer-music-festival-gears-up-for-a-busy-weekend/ https://www.kcaw.org/2019/06/20/sitka-summer-music-festival-gears-up-for-a-busy-weekend/#respond Thu, 20 Jun 2019 20:39:58 +0000 https://www.kcaw.org/?p=94484 Violinists Allison Bailey and Helen Kim join KCAW’s Rich McClear to talk about the specific dynamics of playing chamber music, and why it takes the right group of people to play it best.

Bailey and Kim will perform on Friday and Saturday nights, as well as Sunday evening. The programs include Dvorak, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, and much more.

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Zuill Bailey and Richard Dowling join KCAW’s Brooke Schafer to talk all about the 47th annual Sitka Summer Music Festival, which kicked off last night with a free cafe concert at the Mean Queen. This is Bailey’s seventh year as the artistic director of the festival, and his thirteenth summer in Sitka.

The first days of the music festival explore Beethoven’s often overlooked string trios. At various events around town, Bailey will play all five of the trios with Kurt Nikkanen and Scott Rawls. Looking for an excuse to leave to office during lunch? Catch three of the trios today at 12:15pm at the Odess Theater. And don’t miss Dowling playing the best Scott Joplin tunes you don’t know about (yet) at Centennial Hall tomorrow night.  Find programming for the rest of the festival here.

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Zuill Bailey is a celebrated cellist and took over as SSMF artistic director for Paul Rosenthal in 2012. (Photo courtesy of SSMF)

Kayla Boettcher, the Executive Director of the Sitka Summer Music Festival, was joined by Artistic Director Zuill Bailey. Founded in 1972, SSMF is a month-long classical chamber music festival that begins today (06-02-15) and runs through Sunday, June 28.

Boettcher and Bailey previewed this month’s evening concerts, free lunchtime performance, movie screenings, and community gatherings. The full schedule can be found here. Bailey also discussed the performers – new and old – who he has invited to Sitka. Those include pianist Navah Perlman and violist Martin Sher.

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