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 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 Remember Thurs. August 10, 2023Led by Time for Three's Nick Kendall, ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra) fills the stage to share music of loss, remembrance, and the will to live. The program features Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga’s tender elegy for her mother; Grieg’s Holberg Suite “in the olden style”; and Franz Schubert’s searing, intense “Death […]
Skaneateles Festival Strings of RomanceFri. August 11, 2023Members of ECCO including Grammy-winning Time for Three member and ECCO founder, Nick Kendall, lead a program that includes Max Bruch's lush, romantic Octet for Strings. Pianist Shai Wosner, known for his "remarkable blend of the intellectual, physical and even devilish sides of performance" (Chicago Sun Times), joins for […]
Skaneateles Festival KidsFest with Steven Banks Wed. August 16, 2023 STEVEN BANKS: MEET THE SAXOPHONE! Find out how the saxophone can sing, talk, laugh, and everything in between, with Stephen Banks, the classical saxophonist who has taken the music world by storm. Hear diverse music for saxophone and piano (with pianist Xak Bjerken) by Saint-Saëns, tango master Astór Piazzolla, […]
Skaneateles Festival Parker Quartet: Beethoven Illuminated Thurs. August 17, 2023 The Grammy-winning Parker Quartet (“something extraordinary,” New York Times) leads a Beethoven-based program that includes a work by Beethoven’s teacher, Haydn; three short works inspired by Beethoven’s Quartets, by Suzanne Farrin, Anthony Cheung, and Michi Wiancko (also heard at the Festival as violinist); and Beethoven’s monumental String Quartet, […]
Skaneateles Festival Steven Banks & Friends Fri. August 18, 2023 Steven Banks is a charismatic ambassador for the classical saxophone. Winner of the prestigious 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant, he captivates audiences with his balance of refined lyricism and virtuosic flair. Traversing classical, contemporary, and popular repertoire, he leads a program that includes Saint-Saëns Sonata for Saxophone and […]