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2023-07-09 Festival Live

Sunday, July 9

Festival Live!

11:00 AM

The CIA at Copia

 

Featuring the faculty of the Frost School at Festival Napa Valley’s Blackburn Music Academy

This concert is dedicated to the memory of Geoff Nuttall

 

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Serenade in D major, Op. 25 (1795-1796)

Entrata, Allegro

Allegro molto

Andante con Variazioni

Adagio – Allegro vivace e disinvolto

 

Jennifer Grim, Flute

Bettina Mussumeli, Violin

Jodi Levitz, Viola

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Horn Quintet in E-flat major, K.407/386c (1782)

Allegro

Andante

Allegro

 

Patrick Pridemore, French horn

Laurie Hamilton, Violin

Jodi Levitz, Viola

Pei-Ling Lin, Viola

Chris Costanza, Cello

 

Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)

Piano Quartet, Op. 30 (1897)

Très calme

Animé

 

Laurie Hamilton, Violin

Pei-Ling Lin, Viola

Chris Costanza, Cello

Eric Zivian, Piano

 

Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962)

Zaka (2003)

 

Jennifer Grim, Flute

Maggie Donaghue, Clarinet

Bettina Mussumeli, Violin

Jeffrey Zeigler, Cello

Eric Zivian, Piano

Svet Stoyanov, Percussion

 

As the dictionary might say: Zaka, pronounced “za!- ka“...verb: To do the following almost simultaneously and with great speed: zap, sock, race, turn, drop, sprint.

Commissioned as part of the national series of works from Meet the Composer Commissioning Music/USA, which is made possible by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Helen F. Whitaker Fund, the Target Foundation, and through fiscal sponsorship of Concert Artists Guild.

 


 

Frost School at Festival Napa Valley is a multiyear partnership with the University of Miami, featuring Frost School of Music faculty and students playing a lead role in the Festival’s university-level educational, chamber music, and orchestral music programming.