Buika Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts June 29
Mission
Caramoor Centre for Music and the Arts - a unique Westchester County setting of Italianate compages and gardens-enriches the lives of its audiences through innovative and diverse musical performances of the highest quality, mentors immature professional musicians, and engages young children through interactive, educational experiences that deepen their human relationship to and understanding of music.
Ruling year info
1946
Principal Officer
Nina Curley
Main address
149 Girdle Ridge Rd
Katonah, NY 10536
EIN
13-5643627
NTEE code info
Music (A68)
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Program 1
Musical Performances - See Schedule OIn 2019, Caramoor presented a total of 52 stand-lone musical performances and day-long, multi-set festivals to audition members in venues throughout our campus, including the 1,500-seat Venetian Theater, the 400-seat Spanish Courtyard, the 180-seat Music Room of the historic Rosen House, the Sunken Garden, Tapestry Hedge, Picnic Lawn, and Friends Field. While maintaining our commitment to the core classical repertoire, including symphonic, opera, and bedroom music, we likewise presented a wide assortment of other genres, including jazz, American Songbook, earth, and American roots music, as well equally programs designed for families with young children.Caramoor's 74th almanac Summer Music Season, which ran from June 15 to July 28 and included 34 concerts and multi-prepare day festivals, was the well-nigh popular of our musical offerings. Highlights included a spotlight on works by Caroline Shaw plus music from 14 other living composers, including regional and world premieres; a rare opportunity to hear pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard perform Messiaen'southward complete Catalogue d'oiseaux in a weekend dedicated to birdsong; a recital by pianist Daniil Trifonov, and more. Amidst the performers of Shaw's pieces were the vocal group Roomful of Teeth, singer Davone Tines, and pianist Jonathan Biss, who performed the New York premiere of Shaw's new pianoforte concerto, Watermark. Performances by cellist Alisa Weilerstein and violinist Christian Tetzlaff with the resident Orchestra of St. Luke's opened and closed the season respectively. This flavour's vocal lineup included mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux with New York Bizarre Incorporated; the Boston Early Music Festival presenting Versailles: Portrait of a Royal Domain, a program of French chamber operas; and singers Anthony Roth Costanzo and Paul Appleby performing with pianist/composer Matthew Aucoin. Broadway star Laura Benanti also performed this summer. Our almanac "Guitar in the Garden" concert, which was moved to the Venetian Theater due to choppy weather, featured Milos Karadaglic, who performed works by J.S. Bach, Villa-Lobos, Granados, Duplessy, Lennon & McCartney, and others.Chamber offerings included concerts featuring the Takacs, Dover, Omer, and Aizuri quartets; and mandolinist Avi Avital with the Venice Baroque Orchestra. This flavor's Ernst Stiefel Cord Quartet-in-Residence, the Omer Quartet, performed the world premiere of Porcupine Wash, a Caramoor-deputed quartet by Gabriella Smith. Pianist Timo Andres presented a recital of music from the 20th and 21st centuries.This summer Caramoor held its tertiary annual Chamber Feast, featuring a host of alumni from Caramoor's mentoring programs. The concert, held in the Venetian Theater, included pianist Andrew Tyson and violist Dimitri Murrath, both Evnin Rising Star alumni, and our 2015-16 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence the Aizuri Quartet (whose violist and cellist were also Evnin Ascension Stars). Their functioning included Brahms, Mozart, and Caroline Shaw's Blueprint, featured on the Aizuri's 2018 Grammy-nominated album, Blueprinting.The Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra headlined Caramoor's Jazz Festival, which was produced in partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Heart. A "Hot Jazz Age Frolic," complete with bandstand and swing dancing lessons, featured Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks and Bria Skonberg's Hot V. Other artists included Etienne Charles & Creole Soul; the Willie Jones Iii Quintet; Sammy Miller and The Congregation; the Marquis Hill Quartet; Brianna Thomas & Danny Mixon; the Lakecia Benjamin Quartet; the Andrea Motis Quintet; Michela Marino Lerman's Dear Move; The Isaiah J. Thompson Quartet; Cedric Easton; Andrew Renfroe; Molly Miller & Friends; Jorge Glem; the Julian Lee Family unit Band; Sean Mason; the Abdias Armenteros Trio; and the Jazz at Lincoln Centre Youth Orchestra.Caramoor's American Roots Festival featured The Milk Carton Kids and Amythyst Kiah as the evening's headliners. Other performers who appeared at the daylong event were Deva Mahal; Bumper Jacksons; the Rainbow Girls; Youth in a Roman Field; Oliver the Crow; Damn Tall Buildings; Our Band; the Oshima Brothers; Bethlehem and Sad Patrick; and the Porch Stomp Revue. Earth music this summer featured BUIKA, who combined jazz, flamenco, pop, soul, and African polyrhythm. Colombia's Tribu Baharu performed champeta, a high-energy hybrid of Colombian, African, and Afro-Caribbean area styles. Later in the summertime, folk artists Bela Bit and Abigail Washburn performed pieces from their Grammy-winning cocky-titled debut album in a sold out concert.Caramoor'due south Dancing at Sunset family series introduces children and their families to global musical traditions in an informal and welcoming manner. Concert-goers picnic, trip the light fantastic toe to live music, appoint in related craft activities, and collaborate with the musicians. In 2019 the series included music from Ireland (Cady Finlayson & Vita Tanga), Greece (bouzouki player Kostas Psarros), the South Pacific (Lei Pasifika), and Argentina (Hector Del Curto).Other family unit events included a special set past Bria Skonberg's Hot Five; an interactive family unit performance called "TRAPEZE!" with Decoda, based on a lost ballet about the circus by Prokofiev; and interactive children'southward activities provided by the Stamford Museum & Nature Center in conjunction with our birdsong weekend. Curt Ebersole and the Westchester Symphonic Winds historic Independence Twenty-four hours in style with a family-friendly "Pops, Patriots and Fireworks" concert on July 4.Pre-concert conversations with the artists were held at several performances. The breezy talks happened on stage one hour before the performances of Versailles, Roomful of Teeth, Orchestra of St Luke'southward, Dover Quartet, songbirdsongs, and A Far Weep. The birdsong programming also featured bird walks with the Bedford Audubon Society.Caramoor's fall season featured violinist Rachel Podger; jazz singer Veronica Swift; and vocaliser-songwriter Anas Mitchell. Soprano Sherezade Panthaki, in concert with the Helicon Ensemble, performed early music. Our leap flavor included Christine Ebersole; Edmar Castaeda performing Afro-Cuban music; France's Quatuor Ebene performing Faure's Eastward-small-scale String Quartet and 2 Beethoven quartets; and Leyla McCalla in an American Roots concert. A 2018 Grammy nominee, Alexandre Tharaud, fabricated his Caramoor debut with a performance of the Goldberg Variations.Another important component of Caramoor's programming is its commitment to sound art. Collectively titled Sonic Innovations, our rotating annual exhibition of outdoor audio pieces featured two new works this flavour: Miya Masaoka'southward Listen Ahead, and Tonally Inclined, a collaboration betwixt Gayle Immature and sculptor REITZENSTEIN. Three previous pieces also returned this summer. Caramoor also curated a film series, based on musical movies selected by artists, at the Jacob Burns Moving picture Center in Pleasantville.In 2019 contributions to Caramoor's Inspire capital entrada helped secure the fiscal and programmatic future of the establishment past increasing Caramoor'due south endowment, equally well as restoring and modernizing the grounds and gardens to make it a true coming together place for the customs. Thanks to the campaign, Caramoor's endowment reached $29 one thousand thousand in 2019.Improvements to Caramoor'south campus included new chairs and risers in the Music Room, new audience bathrooms, new outdoor lighting, a new audition concession area, and new paving and accessibility infrastructure (started in 2019 and to be completed in 2020). A permanent box part near the outdoor venues, a new entrance to the Venetian Theater, and two new plazas were likewise started in 2019 and to exist completed in 2020.
Plan 2
Rosen House, Gardens and Estate - See Schedule OThe Rosen House is a Mediterranean Revival villa at the center of the Caramoor campus. In recognition of the unsurpassed quality and dandy quantity of European period rooms incorporated into the textile of the house, Caramoor was recognized as nationally meaning on the National Annals of Celebrated Places in 2011, a distinction that it shares with sites such every bit Vizcaya in Miami, FL and Hearst Castle in San Simeon, CA. Built in the 1930s, information technology is an incomparable concert venue, a unique classroom for visiting schoolchildren, and a oasis for the creative growth of young musicians. In 2019, 1,721 people visited the celebrated business firm for teas, musicales, and tours.Gardens and Estate: The 81-acre Caramoor campus is comprised of 4 primary buildingstoday known as the Rosen Business firm, the Administration Edifice, the Gifford Residence, and the Diane Moss Teaching Centeras well as ancillary buildings and landscape features, gardens, lawns, and woodland areas. A central focus of the campus is the 1,500 seat Venetian Theater congenital in 1958.Forty-5 acres of the campus is deer-fenced and open to the visiting public, including the Sunken Garden, established in 1912; a Mediterranean Revival pavilion; an alley of cedar trees; and a number of gardens designed in the 1930s by landscape architect and Katonah resident Robert Ludlow Fowler, Jr. The Caramoor estate provides an incomparable setting for our cultural programs by serving as a stage for music performances and contextualizing the concerts that occur here; providing a learning laboratory for arts-in-teaching and emerging artist programs; and providing an idyllic haven for more than 40,000 visitors annually.
Program 3
Mentoring and Arts-In-Didactics - See Schedule OThe development of emerging artists is central to Caramoor'southward mission and woven into much of our programming. Through our mentoring programs, we identify, train, and promote the next generation of vocal and instrumental artists. In 2019, 20 young musicians participated. Through these programs, we take worked with some of the finest musicians of the next generation and helped them cross the threshold from their student years into the early stages of their professional careers. For many of these artists, this is the beginning of a longstanding relationship with Caramoor, as they return throughout their careers to perform for our audiences.Evnin Ascent StarsFor over 2 decades there has been an institutional focus on training instrumental artists. Pianist, conductor, and composer Andre Previn established the mentoring program now known as the Evnin Rising Stars at Caramoor in 1992; as his tenure at Caramoor concluded, conductor Peter Oundjian took on artistic leadership of the program. Since 2008 violinist Pamela Frank has acted as Creative Managing director for the Evnin Ascension Stars. Each fall, eight to ten instrumentalists come up together with three distinguished artists-past musicians have included Atar Arad, Kim Kashkashian, Ani Kavafian, Marcy Rosen, Ronald Thomas, and Donald Weilerstein, among others-for a calendar week of intensive sleeping room music rehearsals, coaching, and performances of works from the heart of the chamber music repertoire. At the finish of the residency the musicians perform for audiences in the intimate Music Room of the historic Rosen House, giving them valuable exposure and performance experience.In 2019, eight Rising Stars (Rubn Rengel, violin; Maria Ioudenitch, violin; Amarins Wierdsma, violin; Zo Martin-Doike, viola; Zhanbo Zheng, viola; Oliver Herbert, cello; Tim Petrin, cello; and Janice Carissa, piano) joined violinist Pamela Frank, clarinetist David Shifrin, and cellist Peter Wiley in a calendar week-long residency program of coaching and rehearsals. The programme culminated in ii performances at Caramoor. Alumni of the Rising Stars program were featured in other performances throughout the year, such equally the Chamber Feast program and daytime concerts in the Rosen House. Ernst Stiefel Cord Quartet-in-ResidenceIn 1999, with generous underwriting support from The Ernst C. Stiefel Foundation, Caramoor established a residency programme for young bedroom ensembles. In performing at Caramoor throughout the year, the quartet gains recognition and performance experience. In plough, the quartet hones their mentoring skills with didactic performances and workshops for approximately ane,000 expanse schoolchildren who attend as role of Caramoor's Student Strings arts-in-education programme. The quartet also partners with a composer on a new commission which is premiered during Caramoor's Summertime Music Festival.In spring 2019, the Omer Quartet, Caramoor's 2018-19 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence performed at Caramoor and toured nine surface area schools to coach middle and loftier schoolhouse student cord musicians. They also performed in the Music Room with composer/conductor Rob Kapilow in "What Makes It Swell?" a programme that explored Mozart's "Racket" String Quartet. The Omers returned to Caramoor in the summer to perform the earth premiere of a Caramoor-commissioned piece Porcupine Launder, by Gabriella Smith. In fall 2019, the Thalea Quartet, Caramoor's 2019-20 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence, toured 7 area schools and performed a concert in Caramoor's Music Room.Schwab Vocal Rising StarsThe Schwab Song Ascension Stars, established in 2009 and under the creative leadership of the New York Festival of Song's Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, is a program for young vocal artists. The initiative focuses on singing exterior the realm of opera, including the song recital and vocal bedchamber music. The calendar week-long residency offers intensive daily coaching, rehearsals, and workshops with mentors and leaders in the field and concludes with performances at Caramoor and at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.Due to construction and restoration work in the Rosen House during 2019, this yr'due south performance was relocated to the Walker Heart for the Arts at the Harvey School. 4 singers (Devony Smith, soprano; Gina Perregrino, mezzo-soprano; Philippe Fifty'Esperance, tenor; and Erik Van Heyningen, baritone) joined pianist Danny Zelibor to perform "Love at the Crossroads," featuring music from Faure to Cole Porter to Jason Robert Chocolate-brown. Invitee coaches were Benedicte Jourdois and Stephen Barker Turner. Arts-in-EducationSince 1974, Caramoor has provided students with arts enrichment opportunities that apply our infrequent facilities, visiting artists, and dedicated staff, while coming together New York State pedagogy standards. Nosotros identify an emphasis on reaching out to schools from under-resourced communities, in particular schools in Yonkers such as the Casimir Pulaski Schoolhouse, the Kahlil Gibran Elementary School, and Scholastic Academy. In 2019, nosotros welcomed 3,031 students to our campus, with virtually one-half of those students participating through our Underserved Youth Arts Initiative.Developed in collaboration with teachers and school administrators, our programs meet New York State standards and complement students' classroom education in the arts, social studies, and career development. They include The Renaissance and The Middle Ages At Caramoor, Chinese Arts & Culture, and Student Strings.
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