By SDCN Editor
San Diego, CA–Video highlights from La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest 2024 chamber music festival is accessible on its YouTube channel and the company’s website in its Digital Concert Hall.
These selections differ from those currently showcased on the international streaming platform medici.tv.
The selections, shot and edited by New York-based performing arts cinematographer Tristan Cook, include Beethoven’s “Archduke” Piano Trio, Brahms’ String Sextet No. 1, Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings, Coleridge-Taylor’s Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp Minor, and Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending. Artists featured include Inon Barnatan, Alisa Weilerstein, Stefan Jackiw, Yura Lee, Simone Porter, Jack Liebeck, Anthony McGill, and many other renowned chamber musicians worldwide.
Selections available online:
Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97 “Archduke.” Performed by pianist Inon Barnatan, violinist Stefan Jackiw, and cellist Alisa Weilerstein.
Brahms: String Sextet No. 1, Op. 18. Performed by violinists Yura Lee and Jack Liebeck, violists Jonathan Vinocour and Brian Isaacs, and cellists Paul Watkins and Kyril Zlotnikov.
Dvořák: Serenade for Strings. Performed by the SummerFest Chamber Orchestra Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp Minor, Op. 10. Performed by clarinetist Anthony McGill, violinists Jack Liebeck and Njioma Grevious, violist Yura Lee, and cellist Kyril Zlotnikov.
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending, performed by violinist Jack Liebeck and the SummerFest Chamber Orchestra
In addition, La Jolla Music Society has just announced the launch of a new partnership with the prestigious international arts network medici.tv, with three other concerts from SummerFest 2024 to air starting October 26. Beginning this year, SummerFest and the Aspen Music Festival are the first music festivals in the United States to be aired on medici.tv.
SummerFest, now in its 39th year, is La Jolla Music Society’s annual month-long festival, bringing the brightest stars in chamber music and beyond to The Conrad in La Jolla.
The festival, with the theme “Inside Stories,” took place from July 26 to August 24. Over four weeks, it featured 20 concerts featuring more than 80 artists from the worlds of classical music, jazz, spoken word, and puppetry. In addition, more than 50 free learning and engagement events included artist encounters, open rehearsals, encounters, community concerts, and prelude lectures.
SummerFest 2025 is slated for July 25 to August 23, 2025.
