Ingrid Fliter, the young star pianist originally from Argentina, will be in Salida Saturday, July 10 to open the 34th annual Salida Aspen Concert series at 7:30 p.m. in the John Held Auditorium at Salida High School, 10th and D Streets.
As in past years, the series continues each week for a total of six concerts produced in partnership with the Aspen Music Festival and School. Tickets are $15.00, or students $3.00 at the door or online at SalidaAspenConcerts.org.
For the opening concert, Fliter will be joined by Russian clarinetist Anton Dressler. Both have soloed and played together for some of the world’s greatest orchestras. The duo will play three romances by the great Romantic Era composer Robert Schumann, a rhapsody by Claude Debussy and the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano by Francis Poulenc, which featured Benny Goodman on clarinet when it was first heard in New York in 1963.
Fliter and Dressler will also solo on their instruments. Fliter (pronounced FLEEter) will play several specialties of hers, Grand valse brilliante, in E-flat major, Op. 18, and five waltzes, one ballade and one nocturne all by Polish composer Frederic Chopin. Dressler will play three pieces for solo clarinet by Igor Stravinsky. Links to the two artists follow: www.IngridFliter.com and www.AntonDressler.com.
This will be Fliter’s second appearance in Salida since 2007 when she thrilled the Salida audience. Her concert is underwritten by Collegiate Peaks Bank of Salida.
Salida Aspen Concerts continues with artists and programs as follows:
Monday, July 19
The Conundrum Wind Quintet, which played in Salida for the first time last year, is a remarkable aggregation made up of faculty members at the Aspen Music Festival and School. They occupy first chairs in bassoon, clarinet, flute, oboe and horn at, respectively, Norway’s Bergen Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra and Montreal Symphony. The quintet will play Anton Reicha, Quintet for Winds in E flat major; Carl Nielsen, Quintet for Winds Opus 43; Sofia Gubaidulina, flute and piano pieces, and Francis Poulenc, Sextet for Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn.
Tuesday, July 27
For the fourth consecutive year, Joyce Yang, the young South Korean pianist, returns to Salida. She has been called by one critic “the most gifted young pianist of her generation.” Yang has soloed with the New York Philharmonic more than ten times. She has performed with the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, and Houston Symphony.
She will play either Johannes Brahms’ Klavierstucke Op. 119, or Carl Vine’s Piano Sonata No.1. She will play Claude Debussy, Estampes, and two pieces by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Etude and Tableaux Op. 33, No. 6, and Elegie Op. 3, Prelude Op. 23, No. 2.
For the rest of the program, she will join with violinist David Halen, concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony, and Andrew Shulman, principal cellist of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. They will perform Johannes Brahms, Piano Trio No. 1 in B major Op. 8. This concert is underwritten by Collegiate Peaks Bank of Salida. The weblink for Miss Yang is www.pianistJoyceYang.com.
Saturday, July 31
They have been coming to Aspen and then over Independence Pass to play for Salida audiences every year since 1978. The members of the American Brass Quintet have been called “the high priests of brass.” This quintet, which specializes in Renaissance and modern music, will be joined by an up-and-coming ensemble, the Oracle Brass Quintet. This is the one concert every year that is held just up the Arkansas Valley in Buena Vista at Valley Fellowship Church, 608 S. San Juan. The program will be announced later. Weblink to the ABQ is www.AmericanBrassQuintet.org.
Saturday, August 7
Israeli-born pianist Inon Barnatan (BARNatan) came to Salida for the first time last year. Only 31 years old, Barnatan is considered an expert on Schubert. He will play Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat major (The Hunt); Britten/Stevenson’s Peter Grimes Fantasy (from the opera Peter Grimes); Maurice Ravel’s La Valse; and Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959. Mr. Barnatan’s weblink is www.InonBarnatan.com.
Saturday, August 14
For the final concert in the series, the audience will get a treat they haven’t had since 1981: a solo guitarist. Benjamin Pila is the only classical guitarist chosen to be a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. He has played at New York’s Lincoln Center and Washington DC’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He will play Joaquin Rodrigo’s Tres Piezas Espanolas for Guitar and other pieces for solo guitar. Then Pila will be joined by the Tesla Quartet of Boulder, Colo. Together they will play Luigi Boccherini’s Quintet for Guitar and Strings and Antonin Dvorak’s American Quartet. Weblink: www.BenPila.com.
Tesla Quartet—Ross Snyder, Xian Meng, Megan Mason, and Kimberly Patterson—formed in 2008 at Juilliard and currently holds a fellowship as the Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Last year, the quartet won Second Prize at the Arriaga Chamber Music Competition. The ensemble currently serves as string mentors to the Boulder Youth Symphony, and has public school residencies in Aspen and Vail.
Except for the July 31st performance in Buena Vista, all the concerts will be at Held Auditorium, Salida High School, Salida, Colo. Concert time is 7:30 p.m. Pre-concert talks with Aspen Program Director Deborah Barnekow and the artists are scheduled for 6:30-7p.m.
Questions can be addressed to Earle Kittleman at 719-539-6153.
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