FARMINGTON — ArtsFarmington will sponsor a Maine Mountain Chamber Music Concert featuring the internationally known Cassatt String Quartet at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 10, in the Nordica Auditorium of Merrill Hall at the University of Maine at Farmington. They will perform Mendelssohn’s “Quartet in A Minor”; Dvorák’s “Piano Quintet in A Major,” with Yuri Funahashi, piano; and “The Incomplete Journey” by XinYan Li. “Two Pieces for Viola and Cello” by Rebecca Clark will be performed by Betsy Anderson, cello, and Laurie Kennedy, viola.
Acclaimed as one of America’s outstanding ensembles, the Manhattan-based Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout North America, Europe and the Far East, with appearances in London for the Sapphire Jubilee Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II, the Beijing Modern Music Festival, New York’s Alice Tully Hall and the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Tanglewood Music Theater, the Kennedy Center and Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The quartet has been presented on major radio stations such as National Public Radio’s Performance Today.
The Cassatt String Quartet is named for the celebrated American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Laurie Kennedy and Yuri Funahashi, founders (in 2002) and co-directors of Maine Mountain Chamber Music, have been providing the community with the best of chamber music. Kennedy has been principal violist and concerto soloist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra since 1981, and has performed at chamber music festivals throughout the Northeast. She received her masters and performers certificate from Indiana University School of Music.
Funahashi has performed in Japan, Australia, Canada, throughout Europe and in many of the major halls in the U.S. She is a performing member of the Festival Chamber Music Society in New York City, and has collaborated with the Verdehr Trio and the Brentano and Cassatt String Quartets. She received her doctor of musical arts degree.
Adult tickets are $15; 18 and under, free as are UMF students with ID. College students from other schools will be $5 with ID. No one will be turned away. Arts Farmington is affiliated with the University of Maine in Farmington. For more information, call (207) 778-5074.
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