Maverick Concerts, America’s oldest continuous summer chamber music festival and winner of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, thrives on the love of great music and the spirit of its unique site in the unspoiled woods. The rustic 1916 concert hall, with its perfect acoustics, is ideally suited to chamber music and the intimacy of live performance.
Young People's Concerts
Maverick Concerts continues the vision of Hervey White, founder of the collaborative Maverick Art Colony. Artists and other volunteers built the hand-hewn “music chapel” in 1916 and the Hall is now a multi-starred attraction on the National Register of Historic Places. Click here to learn more history.
FROM MUSIC DIRECTOR ALEXANDER PLATT:
The 2009 Maverick Concerts Festival focuses on the worlds of Haydn, Bartók, and Brahms, celebrating the Haydn and Mendelssohn Bicentennials in a way that combines old and new, familiar and forgotten, performed by brilliant artists from around the world.
The bedrock of the festival is an extensive survey of the string quartets of the great Hungarian composers Joseph Haydn and Béla Bartók by eminent string quartets that have become extended family at the Maverick over the years: the Tokyo, Shanghai, Rossetti, American, Daedalus, and Amernet.
Cellist Zuill Bailey and pianist Robert Koenig will present an all-Mendelssohn concert; the acclaimed young Ensō Quartet and Janaki String Trio, in their Maverick debuts, will explore the worlds of Haydn, Bartók, and the contemporary Hungarian György Kurtág. The sublime Trio Solisti will perform Beethoven’s Archduke Trio and the second piano trio of that greatest of honorary Hungarian composers, Johannes Brahms.
New music once again features prominently at the Maverick in such a way as to blend seamlessly with the summer’s standard repertoire. The brilliant young ensemble Antares makes its Maverick subscription debut in a program pairing Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with music of one of America’s great living composers—and Hudson Valley resident—George Tsontakis. Composer Phillip Glass will be on hand for the area premiere of his new work for violin and piano, commissioned for Maria Bachman.
We join in the celebration of the four-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson River: New York City Opera performer Nancy Allen Lundy and accompanist Stephen Gosling have a unique program celebrating the river, the valley, and its residents.
The culmination of the summer, in what has become a new Maverick tradition, is the annual Chamber Orchestra concert, featuring the Maverick Chamber Players, which I will personally conduct. It includes exciting professional local artists and Haydn’s Piano Concerto in F Major performed by internationally-lauded soloist Frederic Chiu.
Our eclectic Saturday-night series at the Maverick continues with jazz great Roswell Rudd’s Trombone Tribe, legendary master of “roots” music Mike Seeger, and local songwriting duo Mike & Ruthy.Please join me for all of these wonderful musical events and our four exciting Young People’s Concerts.
Alexander Platt
