So we decided to take the plunge and start a festival,” Sussmann said.įor Boscobel, the festival came at a time when the house was looking to refresh its programming, said Jennifer Carlquist, Boscobel’s executive director.
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Sussmann said Moss approached the society around two years ago with the idea of doing performances at Boscobel, and last September, the society played two concerts there in a trial run. The idea for the Boscobel festival came from Arnold Moss, co-chair of the Boscobel board of directors and a part-time Palm Beach resident who is a patron of the Chamber Music Society. “They are already part of musical history, and will be even more so once they’re retired, and so I’m so happy we have them on our first concert,” he said.
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He said he hopes that future audiences at the Boscobel festival will look back on its beginnings in 30 years’ time and note that the concert series presented the Emerson in its farewell season. “The Emerson is, without a doubt, the foremost American string quartet of the last 40 years,” Sussmann said, citing as its chief quality “a total musical commitment to the composers and the music, and a level of excellence instrumentally and individually that’s matched by few groups.” Drucker and Setzer have been with the quartet since its founding in 1976 at the Juilliard School, and its cellist for 34 years was David Finckel, who, with his pianist wife Wu Han, are artists-in-residence at The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach. The Emerson Quartet is regularly regarded as one of the finest American quartets in the genre’s history, racking up nine Grammy Awards and making more than 40 albums, including landmark readings of the 15 quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich and the six quartets by Béla Bartók.
2), one of the so-called “Razumovsky” quartets, named for an aristocratic Russian patron of the composer. Violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violist Lawrence Dutton and cellist Paul Watkins will perform two standout pieces: Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet in F and Beethoven’s String Quartet No. “I just hope the audiences will know about it and be happy to come and hear the concerts.” Who is performing at Boscobel Chamber Music Festival?įirst up is the Emerson String Quartet, which will end its career of 47 years in the coming season. “I know for the quality of the musicians and the music we’re bringing, you can’t ask for any better,” Sussmann said earlier this month. The festival, led by violinist Arnaud Sussman, artistic director of the Palm Beach Chamber Music Society, will feature some of the leading performers on the international chamber music circuit, including violinists Jennifer Frautschi and Stella Chen, violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, cellists David Requiro and Nicholas Canellakis, bassist Blake Hinson, clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein and pianist Gloria Chien.
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