Maine Mountain Chamber Music
featuring
Joseph Swensen, violin Victoria Eisen, horn
Tom Kraines, cello Eric Thomas, clarinet
Laurie Kennedy, viola Yuri Funahashi, piano
Sunday, September 26, 2010, 3:00 p.m. Nordica Auditorium at UMF
$9 adult / $7 seniors / free for under 16 & UMF students
Since 2002, MMCM has presented innovative chamber music programs to audiences in western Maine. The diverse programs have included world premieres by Fernando Otero and Tom Kraines, along with contemporary works by Stephen Hartke, Gyorgy Ligeti, and Bright Sheng, in addition to many works from the traditional repertoire. The acclaimed performers on the series include members of the Brentano String Quartet, Muir Quartet, Formosa String Quartet, Meliora String Quartet, The Chicago Chamber Players, Mistral, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the New York City Opera Orchestra. Several concerts from the series have been broadcast on MaineStage on Maine Public Radio.
For the fall 2010 concert, MMCM will have the rare opportunity to feature guest artist Joseph Swensen on violin. Mr. Swensen is principal conductor of the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and Malmö Opera of Sweden and is conductor emeritus of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Before devoting his time to conducting, Mr. Swensen enjoyed international success as a violin soloist. He has recorded the concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Prokofiev, Mendelssohn and Sibelius with the Royal Phil harmonic, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
The roster for the fall 2010 program will also include Victoria Eisen on horn (member, Music from Marlborough, Orpheus), cellist Tom Kraines (member, Mistral), clarinetist Eric Thomas of Colby College, and MMCM co-directors, Laurie Kennedy (viola) and Yuri Funahashi (piano). The program will feature the Dohnanyi Sextet among other works.
Yuri Funahashi