Craftsbury Chamber Players Highlights Female Composers

Craftsbury Chamber Players present their fourth concert of the season, featuring Artists-in-Residence the Kompass Quartet, on Wednesday, August 2, at 7:30 p.m. at the Elley-Long Music Center in Colchester. There will be a pre-concert chat with one of the artists at 6:45 p.m.

This concert features works by three remarkable 19th- and 20th-century composers — all of them women.

The program opens with Amy Beach's beautiful Sonata in A minor for violin and piano, and closes with Ethel Smyth's Trio in D minor for violin, cello, and piano. Though Beach and Smyth were contemporaries, they led remarkably different lives – Amy Beach was an American whose career was suppressed by societal conventions; Ethel Smyth a Brit who eventually set her composing aside to focus on her work as a Suffragette. Between these two pieces, CCP features the players of our inaugural Young Artist Residency, Kompass Quartet, performing Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz's string quartet No. 4, which received international acclaim upon its completion in 1951.

Performers are Marcantonio Barone, piano; Jessica Gehring, Mary Rowell, Jade Schoolcraft, and Katherine Winterstein, violins; Matthew Ryan, viola; and Victoria Lin and Frances Rowell, cello.

Tickets are available at the door or online. Single admission – $25; Students – $10; Children 12 and under – free; or borrow a season pass from your local library! For information, please visit craftsburychamberplayers.org or call 1-800-639-3443.

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