The second day of Sarajevo Chamber Music Festival (SCMF) is reserved for the performance of the Manhattan String Quartet, one of the leading chamber music ensembles in the United States and a resident quartet of the Festival.
At the program of the concert that will be held tonight at the House of Armed Forces B&H will be pieces from Haydn, Bartok and Brahms.
The most prestigious chamber music festival in the region Sarajevo Chamber Music Festival, this year will offer to the audience eight free concerts at which will perform top artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the world.
Manhattan String Quartet from New York is made of Curtis Macomber and Calvin Wiersma (violin), John Dexter (viola) and Chris Finckel, who is also artistic co-director of Sarajevo Chamber Music Festival (cello).
As a resident quartet, Manhattan String Quartet with its concert and pedagogical activity is the backbone of this festival.
The ensemble was founded in 1970 at the Manhattan School of Music and since then, they have performed on their tours around the world, among others in prominent venues such as Rudolphinum in Prague, Salle Cortot in Paris and New York’s Town Hall.
In Sarajevo, they performed for the first time in 2010, at a very well-attended concert.
This year, the Quartet will perform a program of an interesting mix of classical and modern repertoire, which consists of string quartets by Joseph Haydn (op. 71, no. 2), Bela Bartok (No. 5, sz. 102) and Johannes Brahms (op. 51, no. 2, a mol).
One of the top American pianist Christopher Taylor will present a complete performance of Messiaen piece “Twenty views of the child Jesus,” which is a curiosity in the world, and certainly this year’s SCMF is a very important concert.
The organizers once again note that the entrance to the concert is free of charge, was announced from the SCMF.
