Category Archives: Concerts

Sunday, August 26, 3:00 p.m.

The Juilliard String Quartet
(Music Mountain Debut)
(Underwritten by an Anonymous Donor)

All Beethoven Program

*Late Summer Benefit*
All Tickets: $50

String Quartet in C Sharp Minor, Opus 131 (1826)
String Quartet in A Minor, Opus 132 (1825)
Join us for our late summer benefit concert featuring one of the great quartets performing today. The Juilliard String Quartet will present Beethoven’s String Quartet in A Minor, Opus 132 and String Quartet in C Sharp Minor, Opus 131.

Since 1946 the Juilliard String Quartet has been recognized for its technical excellence, extraordinary sound, clarity and musical expression. The famed quartet is one of the most widely recorded string quartets of our time. The credo, established by founders Robert Mann and William Schuman states: to “play new works as if they were established masterpieces, and established masterpieces as if they were new.”

Sunday, August 19, 3:00 p.m.

The Dover String Quartet
(Music Mountain Debut)
Pamela Mia Paul, Piano
Ravel: String Quartet in F (1903)
Schumann: String Quartet In A Major, Opus 41 # 3 (1842)
Dohnanyi: Piano Quintet in C Minor, Opus 1 (1895)
Post Concert Discussion:
Nicholas Gordon, president, Music Mountain:
“The String Quartet Literature through the Lens of the Music Mountain Repertory” (Third of three)

Considered one of the most remarkably talented young string quartets ever to emerge at such a young age, the Dover Quartet (formerly known as the Old City String Quartet) was the Grand Prize-winner of the 2010 Fischoff Competition. Formed at the Curtis Institute of Music in 2008, when its members were just 19 years old, the Quartet draws from the musical lineage of both the Vermeer and Guarneri Quartets, but brings a youthful enthusiasm and musical conviction to the repertoire that is truly its own. The Strad recently raved that the Quartet is “already pulling away from their peers with their exceptional interpretative maturity, tonal refinement and taut ensemble.”

Pamela Mia Paul is both a brilliant performer and a deeply dedicated teacher. On stage, she has performed with the world’s great orchestras. She has given concerts throughout the U.S., and in Europe, the People’s Republic of China, South Korea and Turkey both as soloist and as chamber musician. In the studio, or in the setting of a Master Class, she is an internationally sought-after pedagogue whose students hold teaching positions throughout the United States and Asia. Miss Paul has received critical acclaim for her appearances with orchestras in the U.S. and Europe, where her interpretations of both standard repertoire and twentieth-century piano concertos have garnered consistent critical praise. As a chamber musician, she has been an invited guest artist at the Salzburg and Bregenz Festivals in Austria, Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, and here at Music Mountain. Quartets with which she has performed include Cassatt, Penderecki, Borromeo, Chester, Orlando, Leontovich, Miro, DaPonte and St. Petersburg. Pamela Mia Paul received the doctor of musical arts, master of music, and bachelor of music degrees from the Juilliard School. She is currently Regents Professor of Piano at the University of North Texas and is a Steinway artist.