The Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival will present its fifth Digital Concert on the Zoom video meeting platform on Sunday, June 14th at 11:00am Pacific Time. This program is called “A Tour of Europe, Part 2”, and will feature live performances from musicians living in Germany, Denmark, and Sweden.
The concerts will be hosted by festival director Ian Scarfe, and feature interviews with musicians, musical performances, and a live Q&A session. Instead of selling tickets at a set price, the festival instead invites guests and participants to make a contribution of their own choosing. This “pay what you can” model has been a part of the festival's mission since its founding in 2011.
The June 14 program will feature violinist Emma Steele performing from her home in Copenhagen, Denmark. Steele, who was a guest artist at the 2019 and 2017 summer festivals, will perform the virtuoso showpiece “Chaconne in G Minor”, a mysterious piece that may or may not have been composed by the Italian composer Tomaso Antonio Vitale in the late 1600s.
Percussionist Owen Weaver will join the concert for two highly original works that show how creative minds can make a musical instrument out of unexpected things. Weaver will perform “To the Earth”, a work composed by Frederic Rzewski that sets the text of a seventh-century-BC prayer to Gaia – goddess of the Earth – to the accompaniment of pitched clay flower pots. Weaver will also perform one of his own compositions, Fløien, for singing saw blades, pitched metal pipes, and glockenspiel.
The final set of the program will feature tenor Samuel Levine, an American opera star who has been described as a “wonderfully appealing,” “ardent tenor” by The New York Times. Levine currently lives in Frankfurt, Germany, where he is a regular performer at the Frankfurt Opera. He will be joined by Frankfurt Opera pianist and coach Takeshi Moriuchi, and the duo will perform a set of German art songs by composers such as Franz Schubert, Engelbert Humperdinck, Franz Lehar, and the popular “A Song Goes Round the World” from the 1934 German film of the same name.
To attend a Digital Concert, guests must register using an online form on the festival website, at www.TrinityAlpsCMF.org.
Admission is on a “pay what you can” basis - attendees are invited to choose their own ticket price, and make a contribution of any amount to support these concerts, these musicians, and the mission of the festival. Guests can make a contribution directly on the festival website.