SSC's Duxbury Music Festival Presents Celebratory Opening Concert

The tenth anniversary season of South Shore Conservatory’s (SSC) Duxbury Music Festival (DMF) concert series begins with an Opening Concert, featuring repertoire programmed by Festival Director Stephen Deitz, on Sunday, July 19, 6:30 pm. The concert’s outdoor venue overlooks Duxbury’s Back River and Powder Point Bridge, on the tented lawn at the home of Diane and Sherm Hoyt, providing incomparable views and backdrop for the performance.

The Opening Concert is the first of the four faculty concerts of its tenth summer season. To mark the momentous occasion of the first decade as one of the premier chamber music festivals in New England, the Festival’s founding faculty, Oxana Yablonskaya and Dmitry Yablonsky, as well as other 2015 DMF faculty members, will join Artistic Director Stephen Deitz in the performance of works by American composers, John Adams and Steve Reich, and by the Russian composer, Dmitry Shostakovich. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, also on the program, will be performed with featured violinist, Caroline Cox, 2014 DMF Concerto Competition winner.

A post-concert reception of wine and light hors d’oeuvres offers guests a cordial opportunity to visit with the DMF faculty and students. The Duxbury Music Festival Opening Concert is generously sponsored by Diane and Sherm Hoyt.

With limited parking available, guests are asked to park at South Shore Conservatory, at the Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury. Shuttles from the Conservatory to the concert begin at 5:30 pm. Tickets are $60. Individual tickets as well as a variety of series subscriptions are available. For complete program, ticket and event information, visit www.duxburymusicfestival.org, call 781-934-2731, ext. 23, or follow Duxbury Music Festival on Facebook.

About Duxbury Music Festival

Duxbury Music Festival (DMF), entering its tenth 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 15-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. Duxbury Music Festival is a program of South Shore Conservatory. For more information, follow Duxbury Music Festival on Facebook or visit www.duxburymusicfestival.org.

In keeping with SSC’s inclusive mission to provide access to quality education in the arts for all, the Conservatory offers programs for all segments of the population to enjoy, regardless of age, ability, geography, and financial means. Furthermore, South Shore Conservatory admits students and families of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.