HUNTER INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL - GUEST ARTIST CONCERT PARKER QUARTET

Hunter - Hunter International Music Festival is a unique, immersive, ten day music festival with solo and chamber music performances by renowned faculty and guest  artists and highly talented students from around the world. The festival ends this weekend with a faculty concert on Friday, August 8 and a guest artist concert on Saturday, August 9, both at the  Doctorow Center for the Arts at 7:00 PM. Echoes of Nations: Nationalism in 19th-Century  Music, performed by faculty and guest artists, includes works by Sibelius, Smetana,  and Dvořák. Parker Quartet will perform works by Beethoven, Kurtág and Ravel in Saturday  night’s guest artist.

Praised by the Washington Post for “exceptional  

virtuosity (and) imaginative interpretation,” Parker  

Quartet is internationally recognized for their  

“fearless, yet probingly beautiful” (The Strad)  

performances. The Grammy Award-winning  

Parker Quartet, comprised of violinists Daniel  

Chong and Ken Hamao, violist Jessica Bodner  

and cellist Kee-Hyun Kim, has distinguished itself  

as one of the preeminent ensembles of its  

generation, dedicated purely to the sound and  

depth of their music. They are renowned for their  

fresh and unique approach to the great classics  

while being passionate ambassadors for music of  

our time. Inspired performances and exceptional  

musicianship are hallmarks of the Quartet, having  

appeared at the world’s most illustrious venues  

since its founding in 2002. 

This Saturday night, the Parker Quartet will  

perform Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11 in F  

minor, Op. 95, “Serioso,” Kurtág’s Officium Breve  

in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, Op. 28, and  

Ravel’s String quartet in F major. 

This weekend’s concerts also include a free chamber music concert at the Doctorow Center for  the Arts on Friday, August 8 at 2:00 PM featuring student participants in Hunter International  Music Festival. 

Get tickets at www.catskillmtn.org, boxoffice@catskillmtn.org or 518-263-2063.  ### 

About Catskill Mountain Foundation 

The Catskill Mountain Foundation’s (CMF) aim is to provide educational opportunities in the arts for youth  and lifelong learners, to bring the experience of the arts to the Catskill community, and to support artists  and art organizations in the development of their work through residencies. Since its founding in 1998,  CMF has presented hundreds of music, dance, and theater performances; screened over 1,000 films to  tens of thousands of audience members; provided studio arts classes to thousands of students of all  ages; and served thousands of art-loving patrons in the Catskill Mountain Foundation Gift Shop. The  Catskill Mountain Foundation operates the Doctorow Center for the Arts in Hunter, the Orpheum  Performing Arts Center in Tannersville, and the Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts in Maplecrest, NY. 

Since 1998, CMF has raised, generated, and invested close to $16 million in facility development and an  excess of $42 million in programming operations, for a total investment in the Catskill community of over  $58 million. Catskill Mountain Foundation is supported in part by New York State Council on the Arts, the  Greene County Cultural Fund administered by the Greene County Legislature, The Jarvis and Constance  

Doctorow Family Foundation, The Royce Family Foundation, The Samuel and Esther Doctorow Fund,  The Orville and Ethel Slutzky Family Foundation, Platte Clove Bruderhof Community, Bank of Greene  County Charitable Foundation, The Greene County Youth Bureau, Marshall & Sterling Insurance, All  Souls’ Church, Stewarts Shops, Windham Foundation, and by private donations. CMF believes that the  arts can transform the lives of those touched by it and can transform the community. Like us on  Facebook, follow us on Instagram, and subscribe to our YouTube channel. 

Media Contact:  

Joan Oldknow 

oldknowj@catskillmtn.org