The Peru Gazette

A Hill and Hollow Music Presentation

One can always depend upon a concert by the violist Patricia McCarty to be absolutely tops. Tops, in terms of choosing music partners, selecting fascinating repertoire, communicating deep musical understanding with clarity, displaying sheer virtuosity, and radiating sincere feeling. From Bach to Keith Jarrett, McCarty’s performances on five continents have been acclaimed for her“dark tone analogous to the quality of a fine tawny port” (Strad), and “the fine blue-flamed torch of her mind” (Ottawa Citizen). Her recordings for Northeastern, ECM and Ashmont have received international accolades including “Critics’ Choice” (Gramophone) and “Selection CD” (Strad).

Ms. McCarty has assembled a string quartet of a rather unusual stripe. Instead of the customary configuration of two violins, viola, and cello, it will be a single violin, viola, and two cellos. All the players are luminaries of the classical music world. Her frequent music collaborator Arturo Delmoni will be violinist. Julia Lichten and David Geber will be the cellists. They will perform Anton Arensky’s String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 3 (1894) – arguably the most significant work written for this uncustomary ensemble. They will also give the North American premiere of Seven into Eight (2008) by the British composer John Hawkins.

The quartet will perform on Sunday, November 3 at 3:00 pm at the historic Saranac Methodist Church on Route 3 in Saranac. Other featured works on the program are Beethoven’s String Trio in G major, Op. 9, No. 1 (1797) and Jean Francaix’s String Trio in C major (1933). Seating is open with a requested general donation of $15; special rates for students and seniors; children under 12 attend free. For further info please telephone 518-293-7613, e-mail hillholl@hughes.net or visit www.hillandhollowmusic.org.

More About the Players

Violinist Arturo Delmoni, Concertmaster of the New York City Ballet, is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation. His remarkably distinctive playing embodies the romantic warmth that was the special province of the great virtuosi of the golden age of violin playing. Mr. Delmoni has appeared as soloist with major symphony orchestras, including Dallas, St. Louis, Boston, Los Angeles, and with the NYCB Orchestra in New York. He has appeared as a recitalist throughout the US, Europe, Japan, and Hong Kong. As a chamber musician he has performed with illustrious colleagues including Yo-Yo Ma, Pinchas Zukerman, Emanuel Ax, Elmar Oliveira, Nathaniel Rosen, Jon Kimura Parker, Jeffrey Kahane, and Dudley Moore. https://nycbo.org/musicians/delmonia/

Violist Patricia McCarty’s has appeared as soloist with the Detroit, Houston, Kyoto and Shinsei Nihon symphonies, Boston Pops, Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn, l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and Turiae Camerata of Valencia, and in recitals throughout the US, as well as Valencia, Geneva, Caracas, and a debut at London’s Wigmore Hall hailed by the Times to be “an outstanding exhibition of string playing of the highest American class.” Former assistant principal violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, she is a faculty member of the Meadowmount School of Music. www.patriciamccarty.com

Cellist Julia Lichten was a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra from 1995-2014, and has toured as soloist with Orpheus, Musicians from Marlboro, American Chamber Players, and as Artistic Ambassador for the US State Department. Festival engagements have included Marlboro Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, Taos Chamber Music Festival, Library of Congress, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Chesapeake Chamber Music, and Rencontres Musicales d’Évian. She has recorded for Marlboro Recording Society, Arabesque, Koch International Classics, Music Masters, Sony Classical, and Deutsche Grammophon. Tenured Associate Professor and Chair of Strings at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, she is also a faculty member at Manhattan School of Music and Meadowmount School of Music. https://www.msmnyc.edu › faculty › julia-lichten

Cellist David Geber has been the recipient of numerous cello and chamber music awards, including the Naumburg Award and the Coleman Prize. He has appeared as soloist at Tanglewood and Aspen, as well as with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Montreal Symphony. As a founding member of the American String Quartet, he concertized with that ensemble for twenty-eight years, giving up to 100 concerts annually, and performing regularly in most major musical centers of the world. A member of the Manhattan School of Music College faculty since 1984, and of the Precollege faculty since 2004, he also maintains summer teaching and performing affiliations with Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and the Tanglewood Music Center and is a faculty member with DeTao Masters Academy in China. He has recorded for Albany Records, Capstone Records, CRI, Musical Heritage Society, New World Records, Nonesuch Records, and RCA. https://www.msmnyc.edu › faculty › david-geber