Skaneateles Festival Season Preview: An Afternoon with Eliot Fisk Wed. July 26, 2023 By popular demand, Eliot Fisk opens the Festival with a solo recital for the Skaneateles Festival's first-ever matinee concert. More details to come! Program will include: J. S. BACH - Cello Suite No. 1, arr. Eliot Fisk Latin American and Spanish selections FERNANDO SOR - […]
Skaneateles Festival Opening Night: Eliot Fisk & Friends Thurs. July 27, 2023 This concert is presented in memory of David Stam. World-renowned guitar virtuoso and Syracuse native Eliot Fisk opens the 2023 Festival with a celebratory program for guitar and strings. By turns lively and lyrical, the program showcases Fisk’s “fine balance of focused introspection and incendiary virtuosity” […]
Skaneateles Festival The Danish String Quartet Fri. July 28, 2023 Event Sponsored by:Dave Graham Fred & Ginny Marty Pete & Betsy McKinnellThe Danish Quartet may well be the world’s most in-demand string quartet. The foursome from Denmark has captivated audiences worldwide with its blend of apparent ease and wild abandon. Their program showcases both their mastery of classics […]
Skaneateles Festival Béla Fleck: My Bluegrass Heart Sat. July 29, 2023 Event Sponsored by:The Bob and Sally Neumann Fund for Jazz & Innovative Programming Banjo king Béla Fleck is at the epicenter of American folk and bluegrass - but the 15-time Grammy winner has also “baffled the Grammy awards” (New York Times), winning for country, jazz, pop, world music, […]
Skaneateles Festival Inventing Mozart Thurs. August 3, 2023 Event Sponsored by:Sieglinde Wikstrom250 years later, Mozart’s music continues to uplift and entrance us, as well as a new generation of composers. Hear Mozart’s joyous Exultate Jubilate for soprano and strings (featuring Kearstin Piper Brown); the ultra-famous Eine kleine Nachtmusik; a new work by jazz polymath Vijay Iyer based on […]
Skaneateles Festival Following Harriet Fri. August 4, 2023 Event Sponsored by:Doug and Peg Whitehouse The Festival celebrates the 200th anniversary of Harriet Tubman’s birth with a program of American music on themes of struggle and hope. Samuel Barber’s intense Cello Sonata (with Artistic Directors Julia Bruskin and Aaron Wunsch), William Grant Still’s Violin Suite based on Harlem Renaissance art […]
Skaneateles Festival Kelli O'Hara: Songs From My Heart Sat. August 5, 2023 Event Sponsored by:Noreen and Michael Falcone Fund for Artistic Excellence Kelli O'Hara, star of stage and screen, has established herself as one of Broadway's greatest leading ladies. Her portrayal of Anna in The King and I garnered her the 2015 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in […]