Join us for a special evening chamber music performance in the Great Room of a beautiful chateau in South Poinsettia Park, followed by a reception with artists. This intimate experience gets to the heart of chamber music's origins, and will feature the 12 remarkable resident artists of international acclaim associated with such esteemed institutions such as The Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Opera Philadelphia, Staatskapelle Dresden, San Francisco Classical Voice, and more. Details about Soundbox's upcoming season of Listen Hear Salon Concerts will be announced at this event! Tickets are $80.
Suggested dress code: cocktail attire!
Program:
Sean Friar: String Quartet No. 2
Maurice Ravel: Berceuse on the name of Gabriel Fauré
Sam Wu: Mass Transit for Piano Quintet
-intermission-
Sarah Gibson: "our eyes once watered" for piano four hands
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89
About the Suncoast Composer Festival (SCF) and the Suncoast Composer Fellowship Program (SCFP):
Soundbox Ventures's inaugural Suncoast Composer Festival (SCF) includes events open to the Sarasota public on October 4th, 5th, and 7th. The Suncoast Composer Festival is the latest component of Soundbox’s Suncoast Composer Fellowship Program (SCFP), established in 2022 as a private residency for early-career composers to work with world-class mentors and performers/recording artists. This year’s festival will be the Fellowship’s first public showcase after two closed sessions in September 2023 and 2024.
The Suncoast Composer Fellowship Program brings the work of important early-career composers to Sarasota. Through SCFP, the city serves both as an exciting early staging ground for new musical work that will go on to national and international acclaim as well as a meeting place in which composers and preeminent performers can form important working relationships. By opening the residency to public performances and seminars this year, audiences will have a special opportunity to see how performers and composers think and address important and sometimes existential questions facing classical music today.