Rockport Chamber Music Festival
Friday, July 05, 2024 at 07:30pm
Rockport Chamber Music Festival
Shalin Liu Performance Center
37 Main Street
43rd Annual Rockport Chamber Music Festival
The 2024 Rockport Chamber Music Festival opens on June 7, 2024 and this year Artistic Director Barry Shiffman has assembled an intriguing blend of some of the most exciting artists of this new generation along with established, world-renowned chamber musicians at the peak of their careers.
Schedule:
7:30 p.m: A Far Cry
with Kinan Azmeh, Clarinet and Dinuk Wijeratne, piano
Grammy-nominated "world-wide phenomenon" (WBUR) A Far Cry, named Boston’s best classical ensemble by The Improper Bostonian, will be joined by clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh, hailed by The Times for his "brilliant liquidity and meltingly beautiful tone," and pianist/composer Dinuk Wijeratne to perform Wijeratne’s new Clarinet Concerto (co-commissioned by Rockport Music) as well as Janacek’s beautiful work Idyll, among other works.
