This summer, we’re going Under the Influence, exploring the muses that seduced and inspired some of the greatest composers in musical history.

Schedule:
Friday, July 29, 2022
7:30pm: Opening Night: Side by Side
Our opening concert brings together compositions written in collaboration with multiple composers or played by multiple performers on the same instruments, all performed by some of the most brilliant chamber musicians of our time. A series of Romantic-era variations culminates in two stunning quartets, Bacewicz’ Quartet for Four Violins and Czerny’s Quartet for Four Pianos, with four of the finest pianists in the world—Garrick Ohlsson, Inon Barnatan, Joyce Yang, and Wynona Yinuo Wang-on stage at once.

VARIOUS
Variations in A Major on a Russian Theme

CHOPIN-FRANCHOMME
Grand Duo Concertant on Themes from Robert le Diable

BRAHMS
Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b

BACEWICZ
Quartet for Four Violins

CZERNY
Quatuor Concertant No.1, Op. 230

featuring Inon Barnatan, Jay Campbell, Tessa Lark, Johannes Moser, Garrick Ohlsson, Simone Porter, Blake Pouliot, Masumi Per Rostad, Sophia Stoyanovich, Winona Yinuo Wang, and Joyce Yang

Saturday, July 30, 2022
7:30pm: Point Counterpoint

Interdependent yet independent, these selections explore the musical concept of counterpoint-the relationship between two or more musical lines or voices, used by composers spanning the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century. The evening includes the world première of a multimedia version of Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint, commissioned by La Jolla Music Society for SummerFest, the Synergy Initiative, and Lincoln Center, which will feature clarinetists from all of the Lincoln Center performing ensembles.

VALENTINI
Sonata for Two String Quartets and Bass “EnHarmonic”

HAYDN
String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20, No. 5

STEVE REICH
New York Counterpoint
Synergy Initiative Commission*

MOZART
Fantasy in F Minor for Two Pianos, K.608 (arr. Busoni)

ELGAR
Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84

featuring Doug Balliett, Inon Barnatan, Jay Campbell, Francisco Fullana, Sung Jin Lee, Tessa Lark, Anthony McGill, Johannes Moser, Garrick Ohlsson, Richard O’Neill, Simone Porter, Blake Pouliot, Masumi Per Rostad, and Joyce Yang

Sunday, July 31, 2022
3:00pm: Beyond Bach

The Baroque period contains riches that inspired composers above any other. We begin with J.S Bach’s immortal concerto for two violins, and continue to explore some of the most captivating pieces of his era and beyond, with C.P.E. Bach’s (his son) Cello Concerto, Biber’s brilliant and irreverent Battalia, a commentary on the Thirty Year War that engulfed Europe at the time, and Grosso Mogul, Vivaldi’s fiery and dazzling concerto.

FALCONIERI
Chaconne in G Major

J.S. BACH
Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins and Strings, BWV 1043

C.P.E BACH
Cello Concerto in A Major

BIBER
Battalia à 9

VIVALDI
Violin Concerto in D Major, RV 208 “Grosso Mogul”

featuring Heejeon Ahn, Doug Balliett, Jay Campbell, Liza Ferschtman, Francisco Fullana, Katherine Hatmaker, Tessa Lark, Sung Jin Lee, Paul Holmes Morton, Johannes Moser, Richard O’Neill, Simone Porter, Blake Pouliot, Masumi Per Rostad, and Ruben Valenzuela

Wednesday, August 3, 2022
7:00pm: Under the Influence: Shakespeare’s World

What creative genius’ work has permeated the culture and had more influence than that of the Bard himself? Join us for this intermission-free Wednesday evening event as we enjoy music from Shakespeare’s time and hear some of his most famous words composed into song. Following Korngold’s popular incidental music for the comedy Much Ado About Nothing, composed in 1920, we conclude with Beethoven’s “Ghost” Piano Trio, which came out of sketches for an opera based on Macbeth that he never completed. Stay after the concert for an After Party in the Wu Tsai QRT.yrd to enjoy more music and a feast featuring the best of San Diego’s culinary and craft cocktail scene!

PURCELL
If Music be the Food of Love, Z.379

PURCELL
A Selection of Fantasias

VARIOUS
A Selection of Songs by Schubert, Dale, and Vaughn Williams

KORNGOLD
Suite from Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11

BEETHOVEN
Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1 “Ghost”

featuring Doug Balliett, Efe Baltacigil, Andrew Ilhoon Byun, Imogen Cooper, Liza Ferschtman, Francisco Fullana, Sung Jin Lee, Paul Holmes Morton, Francesco Piemontesi, Blake Pouliot, Masumi Per Rostad, Sophia Stoyanovich, Robin Tritschler, and Joyce Yang

Friday, August 5, 2022
7:30pm: A Weekend in Paris: The Salon and The Masquerade

Salons were the cultural and intellectual hub of Paris; open forums for the city’s most creative minds to engage in thought-provoking and often subversive conversations. These events, along with the famed Masquerade balls, were rife with stirring and seductive new ideas, art, literature, and music. The pieces on this program emerged from these glamorous salons and range from the charming piano duo by Debussy and Sarasate’s devilishly virtuosic Carmen Fantasy to Ravel and Caplet’s decadent and macabre evocations of Edgar Allan Poe’s story The Masque of the Red Death.

DEBUSSY
Petite Suite, for Piano Four-Hands

CHOPIN
Nocturne, Op. 62, No. 2

VARIOUS
A Selection of Songs by Poulenc, Fauré, and Duparc

CAPLET
Conte Fantastique

RAVEL
La Valse for Two Pianos

SARASATE
Fantasy on Bizet’s Carmen, Op. 25

featuring Doug Balliett, Efe Baltacigil, Inon Barnatan, Imogen Cooper, Augustin Hadelich, Erin Keefe, Alexi Kenney, Bridget Kibbey, Yura Lee, Francesco Piemontesi, Robin Tritschler, and Joyce Yang

Saturday, August 6, 2022
7:30pm: A Weekend in Paris: Le Conservatoire

DEBUSSY
Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane

L. BOULANGER
Nocturne

FRANCK
Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano

MESSIAEN
Theme and Variations

FAURÉ
Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15

featuring Doug Balliett, Efe Baltacigil, Inon Barnatan, Sterling Elliott, Liza Ferschtman, Augustin Hadelich, Erin Keefe, Alexi Kenney, Bridget Kibbey, Yura Lee, and Francesco Piemontesi

Sunday, August 7, 2022
3:00pm: A Weekend in Paris: Beg, Borrow and Steal

Composers in Paris took pride in absorbing the artistry of others and building on it to create their own auditory worlds. Composers like Milhaud, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, and Ravel drew inspiration from Baroque composers and idioms to create the masterworks in this concert.

COUPERIN
L’Apothéose de Corelli

MILHAUD
Suite for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano

SAINT-SAËNS
Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 65

SCHUMANN
Six Canonic Études, Op. 56 (arr. Debussy)

RAVEL
Piano Trio in A Minor

featuring Doug Balliett, Efe Baltacigil, Inon Barnatan, Imogen Cooper, Sterling Elliott, Liza Ferschtman, Augustin Hadelich, Erin Keefe, Alexi Kenney, Yura Lee, Francesco Piemontesi, Osmo Vänskä, and Angie Zhang

Wednesday, August 10, 2022
7:00pm: Under the Influence: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons

BARRIERE
Sonata for Two Cellos

VIVALDI
The Four Seasons

featuring Andrew Ilhoon Byun, Sterling Elliott, Liza Ferschtman, Stefan Jackiw, Alexi Kenney, Tessa Lark, and the SummerFest Chamber Ensemble

Friday, August 12, 2022
7:30pm: The New Romantics

Stirred by the sublime lyricism and expressive richness of the Romantic era, the composers on this evening’s program display passionate intensity and striking emotional honesty.  We begin with Schubert’s Quartettsatz, one of the pieces that helped pave the road to the Romantic era, followed by the première of Marc-André Hamelin’s lush Piano Quintet, heard in its recently completed version for the first time, and we end with Dvo?ák’s Piano Trio in F Minor, perhaps the composer’s most romantic outpouring and one that owes much to his mentor, Johannes Brahms.

SCHUBERT
Quartettsatz, D.703

MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN
Piano Quintet
World Première

DVO?ÁK
Piano Trio in F Minor, Op. 65

featuring Inon Barnatan, the Dover Quartet, Clive Greensmith, Marc-André Hamelin, and Stefan Jackiw

Sunday, August 14, 2022
3:00pm: The Wagner Effect

STRAUSS
Sextet from Capriccio

BERG
Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (arr. Müller)

WAGNER
Isolde’s Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
(arr. Liszt)

LISZT
At the Grave of Richard Wagner (arr. Barnatan)

DOHNÁNYI
Sextet in C Major, Op. 37

featuring Clive Greensmith, Marc-André Hamelin, Stefan Jackiw, Bryan Lee, Nina Lee, Teng Li, Joel Link, David Byrd-Marrow, Milena Pajaro-Van De Stadt, Camden Shaw, and John Bruce Yeh

Wednesday, August 17, 2022
7:00pm: Synergy Under the Influence: Cécile McLorin Salvant

This special event transforms The Conrad for the spellbinding, once-in-a-generation vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, a multi-GRAMMY-winner and MacArthur Fellow. Salvant has a captivating passion for storytelling and weaves together jazz, blues, Baroque, and folk traditions from the world over. You’ll leave the concert entranced, but don’t float away too soon. Stick around after the show for the best of San Diego’s culinary scene, craft cocktails, and more live music.

Salvant has a captivating passion for storytelling and weaves together jazz, blues, Baroque, and folk traditions from the world over. You’ll leave the concert entranced, but don’t float away too soon. Stick around after the concert for the best of San Diego’s culinary scene, craft cocktails, and more live music.

featuring Sullivan Fortner, Yasushi Nakamura, Keita Ogawa, Cécile McLorin Salvant, and Marvin Sewell

Thursday, August 18, 2022
7:30pm: Synergy: An Evening of Kurt Weill

Join us for an evening with Cécile McLorin Salvant and Anthony Roth Costanzo, two of the greatest vocalists alive today, featuring and inspired by the music of Kurt Weill. Costanzo, who became an international sensation and won a GRAMMY for his portrayal of the pharaoh Akhnaten in the Philip Glass opera of the same name, makes his SummerFest debut. He is joined by multiple GRAMMY Award-winner Salvant, one of the most daring and brilliant performers of our time, for an incomparable evening you will not want to miss.

featuring Anthony Roth Costanzo, Sullivan Fortner, Eric Jacobsen, Cécile McLorin Salvant, and the SummerFest Chamber Orchestra

Lighting Design by John Torres
Directed by Zack Winokur

Saturday, August 20, 2022
6:00 & 8:00pm: Synergy: The Planets
The Knights with Dance Heginbotham

The Planets is a lightly-immersive music, dance, and theater event in which audience members and performers are all equally present and interwoven throughout the playing space. The Knights and Dance Heginbotham guide the audience through our local celestial environment. Focusing on each planet, Gustav Holst’s masterpiece propels us from the fiery worlds at the core of our solar system to the icy bodies slowly orbiting in the far distance. The culmination of this tour brings our eyes and ears to rest on the one planet Holst excluded from his composition: the pale blue dot.

featuring Inon Barnatan, Dance Heginbotham, Eric Jacobsen, and The Knights

Sunday, August 21, 2022
3:00 & 5:00pm: Synergy: The Planets
The Knights with Dance Heginbotham

The Planets is a lightly-immersive music, dance, and theater event in which audience members and performers are all equally present and interwoven throughout the playing space. The Knights and Dance Heginbotham guide the audience through our local celestial environment. Focusing on each planet, Gustav Holst’s masterpiece propels us from the fiery worlds at the core of our solar system to the icy bodies slowly orbiting in the far distance. The culmination of this tour brings our eyes and ears to rest on the one planet Holst excluded from his composition: the pale blue dot.

featuring Inon Barnatan, Dance Heginbotham, Eric Jacobsen, and The Knights

Wednesday, August 24, 2022
7:00pm: Under the Influence: Miró Quartet

SummerFest welcomes back the fan-favorite Miró Quartet. For more than 25 years, the Miró Quartet has balanced a loyalty to the legacy of the string quartet and a devotion to the future of the form, regularly commissioning new works and collaborating with the finest artists of our time. For this special Wednesday evening event at The Conrad, the Miró partners with the sensational GRAMMY-winning composer and performer Caroline Shaw, presenting the West Coast première of Microfictions, a new work co-commissioned by La Jolla Music Society for SummerFest, as well as performing Mendelssohn’s energetic and dramatic String Quintet No. 2 with Shaw on viola.

CAROLINE SHAW
Microfictions
West Coast Première

MENDELSSOHN
String Quintet No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 87

featuring the Miró Quartet and Caroline Shaw

Wednesday, August 24, 2022
8:30pm: Takeover at The JAI with Caroline Shaw
As the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in music, GRAMMY Award-winning composer Caroline Shaw strives to create intricate soundscapes that have never been heard before but have always existed. For this season’s Takeover at The JAI, Shaw will curate a cabaret-style concert of music she composed and music she loves, with the Miró Quartet and other friends, accompanied by cocktails and conversation.

featuring Inon Barnatan and the Miró Quartet

Thursday, August 25, 2022
7:30pm: New Wine, Old Bottles

FRANÇAIX
Octet

CHRIS ROGERSON
‘Til it was dark
World Première

BRAHMS
Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 115

featuring Julie Albers, Brad Balliett, Benjamin Beilman, Carter Brey, Timothy Cobb, James Ehnes, Clive Greensmith, Sung Jin Lee, Anthony Manzo, David Byrd-Marrow, Anthony McGill, Cynthia Phelps, Sophia Stoyanovich, Jonathan Vinocour, Andrew Wan, and Winona Yinuo Wang

Friday, August 26, 2022
7:30pm: Finale: Metamorphosis

Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders!

STRAUSS
Metamorphosen

SCHUBERT
String Quartet in D Minor, D.810 “Death and the Maiden”
(arr. Mahler)

featuring Julie Albers, Brad Balliett, Benjamin Beilman, Carter Brey, Timothy Cobb, James Ehnes, Anthony Manzo, David Byrd-Marrow, Anthony McGill, Cynthia Phelps, Jonathan Vinocour, Andrew Wan, and the SummerFest Chamber Orchestra

Date: July 29 - August 26, 2022

Location: The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center - 7600 Fay Ave San Diego, CA 92037

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