BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.4.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Esteemed Cassatt String Quartet Returns to Seal Bay Festiva l X-WR-CALDESC:Portland Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220313T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220313T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Esteemed Cassatt String Quartet Returns to Seal Bay Festival DESCRIPTION:Cassatts To Be Joined by Pianist Lily Funahashi &\; Guita rist Eliot Fisk\n\nA much loved\, regular participant of the Seal Bay Fe stival\, the acclaimed Cassatt String Quartet will return to the 19th Se al Bay Festival of American Chamber Music\, July 5 – 16\, 2022. This t welve-day festival celebrating America’s contemporary classical music and composers features the Cassatts performing four live concerts and tw elve private outreach concerts for the local community. The Cassatt Stri ng Quartet will appear in the formation of first violinist Muneko Otani\ , second violinist Jennifer Leshnower\, violist Ah Ling Neu\, and cellis t Kirsten Jermé.\n\nChampioning chamber music by contemporary American composers\, the Cassatts will perform at Smith Hokanson Memorial Hall\, Vinalhaven School (22 Arcola Lane\, Vinalhaven\, ME 04863) on July 11\, 6 pm EDT and July 12\, 7 pm EDT\; Waterfall Arts (256 High Street\, Belf ast\, ME 04915) July 13\, at 7 pm EDT\; and at SPACE (519 Congress Stree t\, Portland ME 04101) July 14\, 7:30 pm EDT. The repertoire\, supportin g Seal Bay Festival’s mission of making American chamber music a livin g experience\, will include a world premiere by Vineet Shende as well as works by leading American composers Ellington\, Gershwin\, Copland\, Wa re\, Shekhar\, Godfrey\, Schneider\, and Scrugg.\n\nTicketing informatio n follows:\nTickets of $15 in advance\, and $20 on the day of the show a re available for purchase here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cassatt-qua rtet-tickets-372874757437. Members of SPACE are eligible for a $2 discou nt.\nWaterfall Arts- $10 admission. For further information\, please vis it the Sealbay Festival website: http://www.sealbayfestival.org/concerts .html\; and the Cassatt String Quartet website: https://www.cassattquart et.com/.\n\nHailed for their “mighty rapport and relentless commitment ” (Jay Harvey Upstage\, 2021)\, the New York City-based Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout the world\, with appearances at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall\; Tanglewood Music Ce nter\; the Kennedy Center\; Théâtre des Champs-Élysées\; Centro Nati onal de las Artes\; Maeda Hall\; and Beijing Central Conservatory. At th e Library of Congress\, the Cassatts performed on the Library’s matche d quartet of Stradivarius instruments.\n\nThe Cassatt’s upcoming proje cts include premiere performances and recordings of works by Daniel S. G odfrey\, Dylan Schneider\, Gerald Cohen\, and Shirish Korde\; collaborat ions with Ursula Oppens\, Eliot Fisk\, Oskar Espina Ruíz\, Colin Willia ms\, and Narek Arutyunian\; their annual residencies in Texas and Maine\ ; hometown concerts in the New York City area\; and appearances at Music Mountain\, Treetops Chamber Music Society\, Maverick Concerts\, and Jor dan Hall.\n\nAlex Ross has named the Cassatt Quartet’s work three time s in his “10 Best Classical Recordings” roundup in The New Yorker Ma gazine. The group’s prolific discography of over forty recordings incl udes new quartets by Steven Stucky\, Daniel S. Godfrey\, Sebastian Curri er\, and Samuel Adler. They have recorded for the Koch\, Naxos\, New Wor ld\, Point\, CRI\, Tzadik\, and Albany labels.\n\nThe quartet has been f eatured on NPR’s “Performance Today\,” WGBH Boston\, WQXR and WNYC of New York\, Canada’s CBC Radio\, and Radio France. They have appear ed in numerous virtual concert series and performances across online pla tforms.\n\nFormed in 1985 with the encouragement of the Juilliard Quarte t\, the Cassatt String Quartet served as the inaugural participants in J uilliard’s Graduate String Quartet Residency. They have received major awards from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the USArtists Interna tional\, Chamber Music America\, CMA/ASCAP\, Banff International String Quartet Competition\, Fischoff and Coleman Chamber Music Association\, t he Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust\, Meet the Composer\, and the Amph ion\, Copland\, Fromm and Alice M. Ditson Music Foundations. Since 1995\ , the ensemble has been on the performing artist roster for the New York State Council on the Arts.\n\nThe CSQ has played nationally and interna tionally to critical acclaim. The New York Times praised their “bold a nd probing account” of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8 (Anthony Tommasini\, 2015). Concerto Net wrote: "Wherever one encounters the Cass att Quartet...one is astonished both at their prowess and their unfailin g inspiration” (2018). SoundWordSight praised their "wonderful perform ance\, with a beautifully integrated sound” (Jeffrey James\, 2017)\; a nd Jay Harvey said their “performance’s rapturous reception by the l arge audience was both predictable and well-deserved” (Jay Harvey Upst age\, 2021).\n\nThe Cassatt Quartet is deeply committed to nurturing you ng musicians\, and has given classes for composers and performers at the American Academy in Rome\; the Toho School in Tokyo\; the Bowdoin Inter national Music Festival\; Columbia\, Cornell\, Princeton and Syracuse Un iversities\; and the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1995\, the CSQ ha s been in residence at the Seal Bay Festival of Contemporary American Ch amber Music in Maine\; and\, since 2005\, at Cassatt in the Basin!\, an annual educational residency in Odessa\, Texas.\n\nThe Cassatt Quartet i s noted for its brilliance in both contemporary and traditional repertoi re\, and has collaborated with members of the Tokyo\, Cleveland and Verm eer Quartets\; pianists Ursula Oppens and Marc-André Hamelin\; clarinet ist David Shifrin\, flutist Ransom Wilson\, jazz pianist Fred Hersch\, a nd didgeridoo player Simon 7\; the Trisha Brown Dance Company\; and comp osers Louis Andriessen\, Kaija Saariaho\, Joan Tower\, John Corigliano\, Tania León\, Shulamit Ran\, and Augusta Read Thomas.\n\nNamed for the Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt\, the quartet consists of violinists Muneko Otani and Jennifer Leshnower\; violist Rosemary Nelis\; and celli st Gwen Krosnick. Ah Ling Neu will serve as violist\, and Kirsten Jermé will serve as cellist for this concert.\n\nFor further information\, pl ease contact Hemsing Associates at (212) 772-1132 or visit www.hemsingpr .com.\n### URL;VALUE=URI:https://portlandmaine.com/events/esteemed-cassatt-string-q uartet-returns-to-seal-bay-festival/ UID:urn:uuid:df9353ea-bf41-45bf-a7e1-c8f344fb800c STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260625T124545Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220714T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220714T213000 LOCATION:519 Congress Street\, Portland\, Maine 04101\, US END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR