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Newport Music
Festival 2010 Celebrates 42nd Season
65 Concerts in Newport Mansions Scheduled July 9-25
Newport, RI, April 01, 2010—The Newport Music Festival 2010
celebrates its 42nd season July 9–25, continuing the tradition
of presenting unique chamber music programs, American debuts,
world-class artists and special events in the Gilded Age “summer
cottages” of Newport, Rhode Island. Entering his thirty-sixth
season, Artistic Director Dr. Mark P. Malkovich, III researches
and selects works from the 19th century chamber music, vocal
repertoire and the Romantic-era piano literature, to create one
of the most extraordinary festivals in the world. In its
forty-one year history, the Newport Music Festival has become
celebrated for presenting over one hundred thirty artists and
ensembles in their American debuts. Yamaha Pianos and Your New
England Toyota Dealer are the major Festival sponsors.
The Festival will present 65 concerts—three to five per day—in
the famous Newport Mansions with 35 American and international
artists from 14 countries. Season-long tributes to the
bicentenaries of composers Frédéric François Chopin and Robert
Alexander Schumann will feature their enduring music. Morning
concerts are at 11 a.m., afternoons usually at 4 p.m. and
evenings at The Breakers, the queen of the Newport Mansions, at
9 p.m. Midnight concerts feature one-hour intermission-free
works with champagne receptions preceding. The Festival was
again selected for “America’s Elite 1000—the Ultimate List,” the
very best American luxury goods, shops, services and special
events; it has also been named one of the “Top 50 Outstanding
Festivals & Events” in North America by Leisure Group Travel
magazine.
We’re planning one of our “most festive of festivals” [Bernard
Levin, London Times]. Afternoon concerts are being given the
names of international toasts, e.g. “Cheers!,” “Skål,” “Salud,”
“Zdorovie,” etc., featuring music of their respective countries.
Hungarian pianist Gergely Bogànyi will perform the complete
piano works of Chopin in a series of ten morning concerts. Every
single piano piece, including a newly reconstructed one, will be
heard. Italian pianist Carlo Grante will follow with his own
Scarlatti Series and a Schumann Series. To date, 35 artists are
confirmed, including Ukrainian pianist Alexei Grynyuk, American
pianist Frederick Moyer and the American debuts of Ukrainian
bayan sensation Aleksandr Hrustevich (of YouTube fame) and
soprano Julia Sitkovetsky, who will perform with her father,
violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky, and her grandmother, pianist Bella
Davidovich. Claire Huangci, winner of the US Chopin Competition
2010, will bring a close to the Festival with a recital on July
25th. More than 500 compositions are included in the morning,
afternoon and evening concerts, many of which are unusual and
seldom played. Several works by American composers are planned
as well.
For further information and brochure requests, kindly write the
Newport Music Festival, PO Box 3300, Newport, RI 02840-0992, or
phone 401-846-1133. Newport County tourist information is
available at the Newport County Convention & Visitors Bureau, 23
America’s Cup Avenue, Newport, RI 02840, local phone
401-849-8098 or toll-free 800-976-5122. The Rhode Island
Division of Tourism may also be reached toll-free at
800-845-2000. Informational websites include
GoNewport.com and
VisitRhodeIsland.com. Current Festival information is also
available on the official Festival website www.newportmusic.org.
Or you may e-mail your request to staff@newportmusic.org.
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