South Shore Conservatory's Duxbury Music Festival Celebrates First Decade

South Shore Conservatory’s Duxbury Music Festival (DMF) celebrates its tenth anniversary season, with exciting DMF faculty and student performances, and family-friendly events, from July 17 through July 31.

Duxbury Music Festival is a celebrated program for solo and chamber instrumental performance. Founded on the knowledge that music enriches the human spirit, that live performance is essential to the development of young musicians, and upon the belief that this enrichment endures, this intensive program of chamber music brings together world-renowned pedagogues, performers and aspiring young artists in the beautiful bayside village of Duxbury. For nearly three weeks each summer, Duxbury comes alive with chamber music, student recitals, festival competitions, family events and faculty concerts. In keeping with SSC’s inclusive mission to provide access to quality education in the arts for all, DMF presents programs for all segments of the population to enjoy. The Festival has offered life-changing experiences for the next generation of musicians, and outstanding musical performances for audiences and friends. A decade later, DMF is now recognized as a premier chamber music festival unique to all of New England.

Additionally, DMF has tremendous community support, involving over 200 volunteers and over 2500 patrons each season.

Summer 2015 features the return of DMF’s celebrated founding educators/musicians after an absence of eight years, renowned pianist Oxana Yablonskaya and renowned conductor/cellist Dmitry Yablonsky. These two magnificent musicians waited more than two years to obtain a visa permitting them to emigrate in 1977 from the former Soviet Union to the United States. Their success in obtaining visas was due, in part, to a petition organized by American composers, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. It is fitting that the first performance of the DMF 2015 season is a review of the masterful music of Bernstein and Sondheim. In addition, Yablonsky’s wife, Janna Gandelman, violinist and former concertmaster of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, also performs.

This tenth anniversary season, which will feature the chamber works of Russian and American composers, including Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Kapustin, Bernstein and Adams, promises to be a season of renewal and glorious music and music-making. Festival Artistic Director Stephen Deitz has invited the 2015 faculty of internationally-acclaimed musicians to perform in five faculty concerts. Faculty include pianists Jonathan Bass, Jeffrey Cohen, Stephen Deitz, Regina Yung and Andrew Chen; violinists Lucie Robert and Christophe Poiget; violist Michael Strauss; and cellist Amir Eldan.

Duxbury Music Festival Schedule HIGHLIGHTS

July 17, 6 & 8:30 pm BERNSTEIN/SONDHEIM REVUE
South Shore Conservatory, Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George
Street, Duxbury $50 per person
Spend an evening of tribute to two of America’s musical geniuses. Be swept away by the beauty, intimacy, poignancy, and humor of their lyrics and melodies. Revel in the mastery of these consummate composers in a celebration of quintessential American music.
Duxbury Music Festival and South Shore Conservatory faculty in concert
Seating at café tables, snacks, and wine cash bar
Sponsored by Frank Wisneski and Lynn Dale

July 18, 10 am PIANO MASTER CLASS WITH OXANA YABLONSKAYA
South Shore Conservatory, Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury
Free
Non-DMF pianists may audition via CD to perform in Ms. Yablonskaya’s Master Class
Non-DMF performers incur a $60 fee
Sponsored by Mead Witter Foundation

July 19, 6:30 pm FESTIVAL OPENING CONCERT
Private Waterfront Duxbury home, lawn concert under a tent, followed by reception
Repertoire celebrates the seasons, the music of two of America’s pre-eminent minimalist composers and a great Russian chamber work of the 20th Century. “Summer” and “Fall” of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, John Adams’ Shaker Loops, Steve Reich’s Music for Pieces of Wood, and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57.
Shuttle Service begins at 5:30 pm at South Shore Conservatory, Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury
$60 per person
Sponsored by Diane and Sherm Hoyt

July 20, 10 am STRING MASTER CLASS WITH DMITRY YABLONSKY
AND JANNA GANDELMAN
South Shore Conservatory, Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury
Free

July 24, 7:00 pm DISCO FEVER ON THE GREEN
Duxbury Town Green, Washington Street, Duxbury
For one evening only, it’s the mid-70s again, the venue is NYC’s Studio 54, the Hustle is all the rage, the scene is “stardust” and the beat is disco. Revel in the era of the disco ball and the music of Chic, Barry White, The Trammps, Donna Summer, and The Bee Gees, among others.
$20 adults, $5 children under 18, $50 family maximum, lawn chairs welcome
Sponsored by GAGNONware

July 25, 6:30 pm RHYTHM & BLUES ON THE GREEN
Duxbury Town Green, Washington Street, Duxbury
$75 per person, tables of 8 for $600
Buffet dinner and dance, music by In the House
Sponsored by Mollie Dunn

July 26, 10:30 am FAMILYFEST
Duxbury Town Green, Washington Street, Duxbury
Parent’s Choice Winner Little Groove in concert, South Shore Conservatory movement, music and arts activities including: Dance Party! ; Act UP!; Chill Zone! Yoga and music, facepainting and art projects parade sponsored by Amy and Brian Sack.
Hot dogs, ice cream and refreshments sponsored by Foodies Market.
$10 adults, $5 children under 12, $30 family maximum
Sponsored by Foundation for Creative Achievement

July 26, 5:00 pm SUNDAY IN THE PARK
Duxbury Town Green, Washington Street, Duxbury
Free, lawn chairs welcome; lobster roll, sandwich and wine concessions
DMF faculty and students in free concert of chamber repertoire
Sponsored by Cordage Commerce Center

July 27, 7:30 pm FROM BROADWAY TO BEBOP FACULTY CONCERT
and Snug Harbor Wine Tasting
South Shore Conservatory, Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury
Duxbury Music Festival faculty in concert celebrate jazz-influenced music by American, French, and Russian composers. Bernstein’s West Side Story, Bill Dobbins’ Sonata for Saxophone and Piano, Claude Bolling’s Suite for Violin and Jazz Piano Trio, and Nicolai Kapustin’s “Paraphrase on Dizzy Gillespie’s Manteca” are the Festival’s offerings.
$35 per person
Sponsored by Wendy and Vince Spiziri

July 31, 7:00 pm WINNERS CONCERT
and Snug Harbor Wine Tasting
South Shore Conservatory, Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury
$50 per person
Winners of DMF solo and chamber competitions in concert
Post-concert farewell reception
Sponsored by Cynthia and John Reed

For the complete schedule, more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.duxburymusicfestival.org, call 781-934-2731, ext. 14, or follow Duxbury Music Festival on Facebook. A variety of series subscriptions are available for purchase. DMF is a program of South Shore Conservatory. DMF’s office is located at South Shore Conservatory’s Duxbury campus at the Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury.
About Duxbury Music Festival

Duxbury Music Festival (DMF), entering its 10th season, is a celebrated program for solo and chamber instrumental performance unique to all of New England. Founded with the knowledge that music enriches the human spirit and upon the belief that this enrichment endures, DMF is an intensive 17-day program of chamber music, bringing world-renowned pedagogues and performers and aspiring young artists together in one of New England’s most beautiful bayside villages, Duxbury, thirty-five miles south of Boston and twenty miles north of Cape Cod. For nearly three weeks each summer, Duxbury is abuzz and alive with chamber music whether it be chamber coachings and student recitals or festival competitions and faculty concerts. For a little more than a fortnight chamber music abounds perfectly complementing this picturesque historic town’s cultural diversity. Both Festival faculty and students perform in concerts in public and private venues, from the Duxbury Town Green and The Ellison Center for the Arts to beautiful seaside homes and venues. DMF has tremendous community support, involving over 200 volunteers and over 2500 patrons each season. DMF headquarters are located at South Shore Conservatory’s Duxbury campus at the Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury, 781-934-2731. For more information, follow Duxbury Music Festival on Facebook or visit www.duxburymusicfestival.org.

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