Thursday, Aug 15, 2024 at 8:00pm
8:00 Pm - Kinan Azmeh and Claremont Trio
First Presbyterian Church
7:00 Pm Backstage Pass: Composer And Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh Joins Festival Artistic Directors Aaron Wunsch And Julia Bruskin For A Conversation On His New Trio, A Skaneateles Festival Commission, To Debut This Evening.
Syrian Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh Is A "Spellbinding" Performer (New Yorker), And His Works Have Been Commissioned By The New York Philharmonic And The Silkroad Ensemble, Of Which He Is A Member. The Claremont Trio Performs A New Work By Azmeh, Commissioned By The Festival, And He Joins Them On Clarinet For Khatchaturian’s Rousing Trio And His Own Clarinet Quartet; The Trio Ends The Program With Brahms’ Rich And Ravishing Trio In C Major.
Program:
Khatchaturian Trio For Clarinet, Violin, And Piano
Kinan Azmeh New Work For Piano Trio Commissioned By The Skaneateles Festival*
Kinan Azmeh On Solitude And Other Ambiguous Emotions
Brahms Trio In C Major, Op. 87