Yachats Music Festival
Four Seasons Arts’ Yachats Music Festival stands apart in its fusion of artist and audience with the splendors of nature in this Oregon coast phenomenon. Join 20-25 artists in four days of magnificent music making, friendly sharing and the wondrous mystery that is the Yachats Music Festival experience.
Concerts:
Friday, July 8 – 8:00 pm
Saturday, July 9 – 8:00 pm
Sunday, July 10 – 2:00 pm
Sunday, July 10 – 8:00 pm
Location: Yachats Community Presbyterian Church; 360 West 7th Street, Yachats 97498
Artists:
Ayn Balija, Violist
Leon Bates, Pianist
Alison Buchanan, Soprano
Tom Buckner, Baritone
David Burnett, Violinist
Aileen Chanco, Pianist
Portia Diwa, Celtic Harpist
Marco Granados, Flutist
Gerry Hecht, Pianist
Dennis Helmrich, Pianist
Justin Hopkins, Bass-baritone
Elaine Kreston, Cellist
Rafael LeBron, Baritone
Ilya Martinez, Soprano
Autris Paige, Baritone
Tom Rose, Clarinetist
Anthony Turner, Baritone
David Wong, Guzheng and Guqin
Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, Violinist
Concert programs are as follows:
Piano solo – Mendelssohn: Andante & Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14 (Bates)
Violin/viola – Handel/Halvorson: Passacaglia (Yarbo-Davenport, Balija)
Baritone/piano – Schubert – Die Allmacht (Buckner, Kubera)
Clarinet/viola/piano – Mozart: Clarinet Trio “Kegelstatt” KV 498 (Movement #1 Andante) (Rose, Balija, Helmrich)
Soprano/piano – Verdi: In solitaria stanza (Martinez, Hecht)
Baritone/piano – Tchaikovvsky: None But the Lonely Heart (Turner, Hecht)
Guzheng solo: Su Wu’s Thoughts of Home (Wong)
Cello solo – Bach: Cello Suite No. 1, Prelude (Kreston)
Soprano/clarinet/piano – Spohr: Wiegenlied (Buchanan, Rose, Sennet)
Soprano/baritone/piano – Schumann: So wahr die Sonne scheinet (Martinez, LeBron, Kubera)
Baritone/piano – Guastavino: La Tempranera (LeBron, Kubera)
Soprano/baritone/piano – Jose White: La Bella Cubana (Martinez, LeBron, Kubera)
Bass-baritone/piano – Rachmaninoff: I Shall Tell You Nothing (Hopkins, Helmrich)
Bass-baritone/piano – Rachmaninoff: Spring Torrents (Hopkins, Helmrich)
Piano solo – Chopin: Etude Op. 10, No. 10 (Sennet)
Flute/piano – Franck: Sonata in A Major, 4th movement (Granados, Chanco)
Baritone/piano – Moses Hogan: My Good Lord Done Been Here (Paige, Hecht)
Dedication
Guqin solo – Tune for a Pleasant Evening (Wong)
Clarinet/string quartet – Brahms: Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115, 3rd movement (Andantino) (Rose, Yarbo-Davenport, Burnett, Balija, Kreston)
Soprano/baritone/piano – Mozart: Laci Darem La Mano (from Don Giovanni) (Martinez, LeBron, Helmrich)
Soprano/piano – Puccini: Donde lieta usci (from La Boheme) (Martinez, Helmrich)
Bass-baritone/piano – Bellini: Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni (from La Sonnambula) (Hopkins, Hecht)
Soprano/clarinet/piano – Massenet: Pleurez mes yeux (from Le Cid) (Buchanan, Rose, Helmrich)
Baritone/piano – Giordano: Nemico della Patria (from Andre Chenier) (LeBron, Helmrich)
Piano solo – Wagner/Liszt: Isolde’s Liebestod (Sennet)
Baritone/piano – Faure: Poem d’un Jour (Buckner, Kubera)
Flute/piano – Paul Taffanel: Mignon Fantasy (Granados, Sennet)
Baritone trio/piano – Mozart: La ciala indegno (from Don Giovanni) (LeBron, Turner, Hopkins, Hecht)
Guzheng/baritone/cello – Jasmine Flower (Wong, Turner, Kreston)
Bass-baritone/piano – William Finn: I’d Rather Be Sailing (from A New Brain) (Hopkins, Hecht)
Baritone/piano – Weill/Anderson: Lost in the Stars (from Lost in the Stars) (LeBron, Hecht)
Piano solo – Schumann: Fantasy in C, movement #2 (Bates)
Baritone/piano – Ellington: In the Beginning (from Sacred Concert) (Paige, Hecht)
Clarinet/piano – Gershwin: Prelude #1 (Allegro ben ritmato e deciso) (Rose, Hecht)
Baritone/piano – Ives: In the Mornin’ (Buckner, Kubera)
Baritone/piano – Ives: Abide with Me (Buckner, Kubera)
Bass-baritone/clarinet/piano – Christopher Marshall: Epitaph (Hopkins, Rose, Bates)
Guqin solo – Spring Dawn (Wong)
Soprano/piano – Onoverosuoke: Ngula (Kamba Lullaby) (Buchanan, Sennet)
Soprano/piano – Onoverosuoke: Ne Kansu (Healing Dance) (Buchanan, Sennet)
Guzheng/flute/cello – Moon Over the Mountain Pass (Wong, Granados, Kreston)
Baritone/piano – Tosti: Serenata (LeBron, Kubera)
Soprano/piano – Piazzolla: Los Pajaros Perdidosa (Martinez, Kubera)
Piano solo – Cole Porter: Begin the Beguine (Bates)
Piano solo – Ravel: Ondine (from Gaspard de la Nuit) (Chanco)
Baritone/piano – Vaughan Williams: Love Bade Me Welcome (Turner, Helmrich)
Flute/piano – Taktakishvili: Sonata for Flute & Piano, movement #3-Allegro scherzando) (Granados, Bates)
Piano solo – Joplin: Pine Apple Rag (Graamans)
String Quartet – William Grant Still: The Sentimental One (Yarbo-Davenport, Burnett, Balija, Kreston)
Violin/piano – Novacek: 4th Street Drag (Yarbo-Davenport, Bates)
Piano solo – Bach: English Suite No. 5 in E minor, #1. Prelude (Sennet)
Baritone/piano – Purcell: Music For A While (Paige, Hecht)
Soprano/viola/piano – Brahms: Geistliche Wiegenlied, Op. 91, No. 2 (Buchanan, Balija, Chanco)
Piano solo – Chopin: Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2 (Graamans)
Baritone/piano – Ginastera: Cancion al arbol del olvido (LeBron, Sennet)
Flute/piano – Piazzolla (arr. Exequiel Mantega): Decarisimo (Granados, Bates)
Soprano/piano – Guastavino: Pampamapa (Martinez, Kubera)
Clarinet/viola/piano – Mendelssohn: Concert Piece, No. 2 (Rose, Balija, Helmrich)
Baritone/piano – Ives: Memories (a) and (b) (Buckner, Kubera)
Guzheng/viola – Fisherman’s Song in the Evening (Wong, Balija)
Baritone, piano – Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon (Turner, Sennet)
Piano solo – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Parts I and II) (Chanco)
Baritone/piano – Liszt/Petrarch: Sonnet No. 123 (I’vidi in terra) (Hopkins, Helmrich)
Piano/String quartet – Dvorak: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81 (movement #1 – Allegro, ma non tanto) (Bates, Yarbo-Davenport, Burnett, Balija, Kreston)
All – closing chorus – Verdi: Va pensiero (from Nabucco)
Morning and afternoon seminars are also presented during the weekend for Festival Patrons:
Friday, July 8
10:00 am – “An Interactive Look Inside Great Works of Flute Literature” (Marco Granados, flutist)
1:00 pm – “The Violin/Piano Music of Composer Jennifer Higdon” (Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, violinist; Rochelle Sennet, pianist)
Saturday, January 9
10:00 am – “The Licorice Stick: A Survey of Clarinet Music from the Early 19th Century to the Present”
(Tom Rose, clarinetist; Gerry Hecht, pianist)
1:00 pm – “British Composers: A Personal Journey” (Alison Buchanan, soprano; Dennis Helmrich, pianist)
Tickets: $20 each – General Admission
Available by credit card by using the link below.
Also available after June 1st at the Adobe Resort and the Yachats Visitors Center in Yachats.
In addition to individual tickets, Patron ($140) and Member ($85) packages are available.
PATRON: Includes Thursday (July 7-8:00 pm) reception with the artists, tickets to all concerts, admission to 4 daytime seminars on Friday and Saturday morning and afternoon.
MEMBER: Includes Thursday (July 7-8:00 pm) evening reception with the artists and tickets to all concerts.
For more information on these packages, please call Joanne Kittel at 541-961-8374 or Four Seasons Arts at 510-845-4444.
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