Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival-in-Residence #1 – Measured Momentum: Music Propelled by Pulse & Precision

The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival returns to Kerrytown Concert House this June with Measured Momentum: Music Propelled by Pulse & Precision—an electrifying evening of rhythmic drive, classical elegance, and vivid contemporary storytelling.

Pianist Gilles Vonsattel opens with Ludwig van Beethoven’s luminous Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major, Op. 78, a work of lyric intimacy and sparkling vitality. The Candide Quartet follows with Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4, a masterwork of driving rhythms, inventive textures, and bold modernism.

After intermission, ZaRiah brings vibrant color to Valerie Coleman’s Suite: Portraits of Josephine, a spirited tribute to Josephine Baker that dances through jazz-age Paris and beyond. The program concludes with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Serenade No. 12 in C minor, K. 388, in a brilliant wind arrangement by Mordechai Rechtman—a work of dramatic intensity and refined interplay.

Join us for an evening where pulse meets precision and momentum carries the music forward with brilliance and bold imagination.

Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Candide Quartet, Shouse ensemble
ZaRiah, Sphinx ensemble

Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major, Op. 78
(1732-1809)
Adagio cantabile – Allegro ma non troppo
Allegro vivace
Vonsattel

Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 in C major, Sz. 91
(1881-1945)
Allegro
Prestissimo, con sordino
Non troppo lento
Allegretto pizzicato
Allegro molto
Candide Quartet

INTERMISSION

Valerie Coleman: Suite: Portraits of Josephine (2006)
(b.1970)
Ol’ St. Louis
Les Milandes
1925 Paris
Thank You Josephine
ZaRiah

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arr. Mordechai Rechtman: Serenade No. 12 for winds in C minor, K. 388
(1756-1791)
Allegro
Andante
Menuetto in canone
Allegro
ZaRiah