Classical Music Chicago's July 2023 Summer Concerts

June 29, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Classical Music Chicago

offers pyrotechnics throughout July

with its acclaimed Summer 2023 Concerts

24th season

of popular free-to-the-public Chicago-based summer festival

features 20 renowned and up-and-coming artists in performance

Fireworks aren't only at Chicago's Navy Pier this July - they can be found in Classical Music Chicago's CMC's) July 2023 summer concerts every Tuesday and Wednesday. Beginning with Francis Poulenc's Sonata for Violin and Piano, FP 119 and Henri Wieniawski's Fantasia on Themes from Faust, Op. 20 performed by award winning musicians Chicago violinist Masha Lakisova with pianist Lindsay Garritson to Clarice Assad's Impressions - "Lushly film-score-ish, with echoes of black spirituals, dances from Brazilian salons of yore — and Vivaldi’s sunshine." (San Jose Mercury News) performed by Musicians from the Grant Park Music Festival String Fellows to the silken sounds of Villa-Lobos' Ciranda Das Sete Notas, W32 -and everything in between, including works by Doppler, Tailleferre, Foley, Tchaikovsky, Handel and more, CMC fills the air with incandescent sound by local and nationally renowned artists.

July artists include: Masha Lakisova, violin and Lindsay Garritson, piano; Gabriela Vargas, flute, David Cooper, horn, and Kuang-Hao Huang, piano; Amir Ron, piano; Matthew Adams and Esther Roestan, violins, Rafael Pablo Gargate Santamaria, viola,and David Caplanbegan, cellist; Taylor Mackenzie Adams, soprano, Miya Higashiyama, mezzo-soprano,Eric Botto, tenor, and Anthony Pilcher, baritone; Ars Musica Chicago - Hannah De Priest, soprano, Shelby Yamin, violin, Morgan Little, cello, and Jason J. Moy, harpsichord; and Mackenzie Brauns, bassoon and Lillia Woolschlager, piano.

Classical Music Chicago's summer offerings include Rush Hour Concerts at 5:45 pm on Tuesdays and Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts at 12:15 pm on Wednesdays.

Based in Chicago, the reach of Chicago Classical Music is much farther with livestreams of every concert through its website, offering free concerts to music lovers around the globe. A staple on the airwaves as well as in the concert hall for almost 50 years, the Hess Concerts are broadcast live every Wednesday at 12:15 pm on 98.7 WFMT radio while excerpted performances from the Rush Hour Concerts are broadcast throughout the summer.

Masha Lakisova, violin and Lindsay Garritson, piano; Gabriela Vargas, flute, David Cooper, horn, Kuang-Hao Huang, piano; Amir Ron, piano; Matthew Adams and Esther Roestan, violins, Rafael Pablo Gargate Santamaria, viola, David Caplanbegan, cellist; Taylor Mackenzie Adams, soprano; Miya Higashiyama, mezzo-soprano; Eric Botto, tenor; Anthony Pilcher, baritone; Ars Musica Chicago - Hannah De Priest, soprano; Shelby Yamin, violin;

Morgan Little, cello; Jason J. Moy, harpsichord; Mackenzie Brauns, bassoon' Lillia Woolschlager, piano

Rush Hour Concerts

Tuesdays, July 11 - 25, 2023 from 5:45 - 6:30 pm

St. James Cathedral – 65 E Huron Street, Chicago

Tickets: Free

Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts

Wednesdays, July 5 - 26, 2023 from 12:15 - 1:00 pm

Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago

55 E. Wacker Drive

Tickets: Free

July 5, 2023 - DAME MYRA HESS MEMORIAL CONCERT

Francis POULENC - Sonata for Violin and Piano, FP 119

Henri WIENIAWSKI - Fantasia on Themes from Faust, Op. 20

Masha Lakisova, violin; Lindsay Garritson, piano

July 11, 2023 - RUSH HOUR CONCERT

Scenes and Souvenirs

Mel BONIS - Scènes de la foret, Op. 123

Eric EWAZEN - Ballade, Pastorale and Dance

Franz DOPPLER - Souvenir du Rigi

Gabriela Vargas, flute; David Cooper, horn;

Kuang-Hao Huang, piano

July 12, 2023 - DAME MYRA HESS MEMORIAL CONCERT

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN - Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109

Germaine TAILLEFERRE - Two Pieces

Impromptu (1909)

Valse Lente (1948)

Frédéric CHOPIN - Mazurka, Op. 59 No. 1

Frédéric CHOPIN - Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52

Amir Ron, piano

July 18, 2023 - RUSH HOUR CONCERT

Impressions

Clarice Assad - Impressions

Xavier Foley – String Quartet

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70

Musicians from the Grant Park Music Festival String Fellows:

Matthew Adams, violin; Esther Roestan, violin;

Rafael Pablo Gargate Santamaria, viola, David Caplanbegan, cellist

July 19 2023 - DAME MYRA HESS MEMORIAL CONCERT

Join the Grant Park Music Festival Vocal Fellows for a program

exploring human connection, song, and dance featuring the

Liebeslieder Waltzes by Johannes Brahms and other works

by Margaret Bonds, Bernstein, and more.

Grant Park Music Festival Vocal Fellows

Taylor Mackenzie Adams, soprano; Miya Higashiyama, mezzo-soprano;

Eric Botto, tenor; Anthony Pilcher, baritone

July 25, 2023 - RUSH HOUR CONCERT

Ars Musica Chicago

(All works on this program are RHC Premieres)

G.F. HANDEL - Singe, Seele Gott zum Preise, HWV 206

G.F.HANDEL - Süße Stille, sanfte Quelle, HWV 205

G.P. TELEMANN - Trio for Violin, Cello and Continuo in F Major, TWV 42:F1

Antonio CALDARA - Risoluto son già tiranno amore

G.F. HANDEL - Violin Sonata in A Major, HWV 361

G.F. HANDEL - Meine Seele hört im Sehen, HWV 207

Ars Musica Chicago

Hannah De Priest, soprano; Shelby Yamin, violin;

Morgan Little, cello; Jason J. Moy, harpsichord

July 26, 2023 - DAME MYRA HESS MEMORIAL CONCERT

Paul JEANJEAN - Prelude and Scherzo

I. Andante Espressivo

II. Allegretto scherzando

Amanda HARBER - Bassoon Sonata

Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Ciranda Das Sete Notas, W32

Mackenzie Brauns, bassoon; Lillia Woolschlager, piano

About Classical Music Chicago

Since 1976, Classical Music Chicago (CMC) has offered a variety of unforgettable classical music performances by up-and-coming and established artists throughout the Chicago community. A celebrated innovator from the very beginning and one of the first to focus on the importance of accessibility, presenting engaging concerts in various formats and venues free of charge, CMC is the 2016 union of two distinguished Chicago music institutions: the International Music Foundation (IMF), founded by Chicagoan Al Booth in 1977, and Rush Hour Concerts (RHC) founded by pianist and civic leader Deborah Sobol in 2000. Over the next few seasons, CMC will celebrate landmark anniversaries of each of its acclaimed series, beginning with the year-long 25th anniversary of the Rush Hour Concerts in 2024-2025, the 50th Anniversary of the Do-It-Yourself Messiah concert in 2025, and the 50th anniversary of the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in fall 2026.

IMF, composed of the Do-It-Yourself Messiah at Orchestra Hall, begun in 1976, and the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, begun in 1977 and modeled on the series launched by Dame Myra Hess during World War II, to provide young artists with a performance outlet and present top caliber concerts free to the public. Such acclaimed musicians as sopranos Elizabeth Frutal, June Anderson and Jo Ann Pickens; baritone Richard Cowan; oboist Alex Klein; guitarists Eliot Fisk and Paul Henry; violinists Rachel Barton Pine, Jennifer Frautschi, Jennifer Koh, Robyn Bollinger, and Tessa Lark; cellists Steven Isserlis, Nathanel Rosen, Jeffrey Solow and Bion Tsang; pianists David Shrader, Jeffrey Kahane, Angela Hewitt, Barry Douglas, Daniel Trifonov, and Max Levinson; and ensembles including the Vermeer Quartet, the Chicago Bassoon Quartet, His Majesties Clerkes, the Ensō String Quartet, and Orchestra Sinfonica Haydn di Bolzano e Trentoto, to name a few, have graced the Hess stage. In 1982, Live Music Now! - currently Young People’s Concerts - was founded by Booth with the assistance of his friend Yehudi Menuhin to bring professional musicians into the Chicago Public Schools. Students in grades K – 8 experience live performances, which have grown to reach more than 90 Chicago Public Schools annually.

Rush Hour Concerts, begun in 2000 as a welcoming summer concert format that removed accessibility barriers, in 2011 introduced Make Music Chicago, a citywide, daylong celebration of music making held on the summer solstice. It was followed by the addition of a professional ensemble residency program in Chicago’s neighborhoods in 2012. The 2023 Rush Hour Concerts at the beautiful St. James Cathedral begin in June.

The latest addition to Classical Music Chicago’s roster of offerings is The Concerts for Well-being and Rejuvenation, bringing the healing power of music to people and places who do not have access to live performances. CMC partners onsite with health care facilities, community centers, meals programs and other organizations where music can make a vital difference. promoting community, creative interaction and therapeutic benefits through 45-minute interactive performances followed by a Q & A with the artists.

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