Lumina String Quartet's Chamber Music Institute Set for 8/5-18 at Palace Theatre

For the past 17 years, Stamford's Palace Theatre has hosted the Lumina String Quartet's Chamber Music Institute for Young Musicians, and it returns again this year August 5-18. The institute was created by the Lumina String Quartet so that talented students could learn and perform the major repertory - Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Bartok - in the beautiful setting of the major performing arts center in Stamford. The Palace is able to subsidize this program through the generous support of our Arts Education Presenting Sponsors F. D. Rich, Purdue Pharma, RFR, and Trump Parc Stamford.

As part of the eighteenth annual Lumina String Quartet's Chamber Music Institute for Young Musicians, there will be two concerts presented at the Palace Theatre, at 61 Atlantic Street in Stamford. Each of these Sunday afternoon concerts will feature seven youthful string quartets playing works by the greatest classical composers, including Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Weber, Mendelssohn, Borodin, and Schubert, including the famous Cello Quintet, his last work.

These young musicians have all participated in a competitive audition, been placed in a quartet with other highly motivated youngsters, and worked ardu­ously under the tutelage of Lumina String Quartet members to master all four movements of a major work by a great composer. In concert, each group will play a complete quartet. Some of these groups have been together for several years, during which time they have enjoyed many opportunities to play both professional and benefit engagements throughout lower Fairfield County and New York City.

The first such concert of the Chamber Music Institute for Young Musicians will take place on Sunday, August 11, and the second will be presented the follow­ing week, Sunday, August 18. Each begins at 2 p.m. Admission for each concert is $10. To obtain tickets, call (203) 655-8543.

Also, on Tuesday, August 6, at the Ferguson Library main auditorium at 6:30 p.m., the Lumina String Quartet will present a concert of two Viennese composers, Haydn and Mozart, the founders of Classical Style in music, who also happened to be close friends and frequently played together in a string quartet. The concert will feature two New York composers, sixteen-year-old Scott Feiner (who attends Juilliard Pre-College and wrote a piece for the Lumina String Quartet and clarinetist Phillip Bashor called "Glasswork") and David Schober who is a professor of composition at the Copland School of Music at Queens College, New York. Admission is free for this special event.

Presented with support from the Community Arts Partnership Program. Made possible with public funds from the City of Stamford, Michael A. Pavia, Mayor.

For more information, visit www.ChamberMusicInstitute.org.

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