Chelsea Music Festival presents Reimagined Gems— Vignettes Across Time

Chelsea Music Festival celebrates its 15th season with nine evenings of concerts, conversation, and tastings with musicians, visual artists, chefs from June 21-29, 2024 — festival tickets are on sale now! This summer Festival, led by Artistic Directors Melinda Lee Masur and Ken-David Masur presents “Connecting the Dots,” which traces how music and art allow us to touch what seems intangible, repair what seems broken, and reimagine our interconnectedness with one another. The Festival will focus on the restorative powers of the arts as we examine ways that music and art both calm and reinvigorate the brain and nervous system. We will also explore together various neurological challenges and changes we can encounter in ourselves and our loved ones. For more information and ticketing, visit https://www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2024/connectingthedots.

Featuring musical gems written by Ania Vu, Caroline Shaw, Remy Le Boeuf, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, and Arcangelo Corelli, tonight’s works bring our attention to moments in life that surprise us, slip by us, and shape us.  Enjoy performances by the Harlem Quartet, Caleb Hudson, Marisa Karchin, Max Tan, Oliver Xu, Christine Lamprea, Mark Dover, Catherine Boyack, and Emi Ferguson. The concert will be followed by a reception curated by our 2024 Culinary Artist-in-Residence, Rachel Snyder. https://www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2024/connectingthedots/events/reimagined-gems

And come before the concert for a pre-concert talk, Connecting the Dots of the Musical Brain, given by neuroscientist and founder of Growing Brains, Dr. Jessica Phillips-Silver.

PROGRAM

Caroline Shaw (b. 1982) | Entr’acte (2011)

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847) | String Quartet in E Flat Major (1834)

Ania Vu (b. 1994) | Tik-Tak Part 1 (2019) and Part 2 (2024 World Premiere) co-commissioned by the Chelsea Music Festival and the Zohn Collective

Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) arr. by Caleb Hudson (b. 1988) | Sonata in E Minor, Op. 5 No. 8 (1700)

Remy Le Boeuf (b. 1986) | Vignettes (2023)

Reception to follow featuring Culinary Artist-in-Residence Rachel Snyder

FEATURING

Harlem Quartet
Violin | Ilmar Gavilan, Melissa White
Viola | Jaime Amador
Cello | Felix Umansky

Soprano | Marisa Karchin
Flute | Catherine Boyack, Emi Ferguson
Clarinet | Mark Dover
Violin | Max Tan
Cello | Christine Lamprea
Percussion | Oliver Xu
Trumpet | Caleb Hudson

*Program subject to change

ABOUT THE CHELSEA MUSIC FESTIVAL

Chelsea Music Festival celebrates great music by convening world-leading musicians & artists in the performing, culinary, and visual arts for an international audience. The Festival invites artists, composers, and performers to collaborate in pursuit of new perspectives in artistic expression. Inspired by its Chelsea roots, the Festival reflects the creativity of one of New York City's most dynamic neighborhoods. Programs span musical genres ranging from classical to contemporary to jazz with a special emphasis on Festival commissions by composers whose works are not in the traditional western canon. In addition, the Festival hosts an online library of recordings so music enthusiasts, artists, and students alike can explore unique interpretations of classical, jazz, and contemporary works via high-quality videos of world-class performances. Since 2010, the Festival has established itself as a critically-acclaimed, accessible and interactive gateway to chamber music in non-traditional concert spaces such as art galleries, public squares, schools, and churches. Programming includes concerts, lectures, exhibitions, family events, and free outreach performances. In 2020, the Festival inaugurated its Online Encores and Online Originals YouTube series; Online Encores presents highlights from Festival archives while Online Originals presents new performances and recordings. We are proud to give emerging voices, particularly those of women and people of color, a stage and are working to build an audience and intimate community to support a new generation of musicians, composers, and artists. The Chelsea Music Festival Artistic Directors are Melinda Lee Masur and Ken-David Masur.