Suncoast Composer Festival 2024
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE TODAY!
Season 2024/25 for the Listen Hear Salon Concerts will be announced during the festival at the beginning of October. Stay tuned!
More details about festival events are available below.
SCF 2024: Composer Fellows Concert
Presented in partnership with ensembleNEWSRQ, this concert features works by the six SCFP 2024 fellows: Treya Nash, David Acevedo, Max Gibson, Daniel Gostelow, Joshua Muetzel, and Sean Quinn.
Tickets are available via the ensembleNEWSRQ website.
SCF 2024: Chamber Music Salon—Nothing is Forever
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!
SCF 2024: Chamber Music Salon—Shades of Romance
Join us for a 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. Tickets are $65.
Suggested dress code: dressy summer or semi-casual attire!
SCF 2024: Seminars at Selby Library
Presented in partnership with the Sarasota Music Archive, two seminars will be presented by artistic director Max Tan and composer mentor-in-residence Marc Migó. Audiences will get a special peek into how classical musicians deal with important and somewhat existential questions of our time. The seminar presentations will also preview concert programming during the festival, featuring 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. Tickets are FREE!
Listen Hear: Max Tan and Marisa Gupta: Carnegie Hall Recital Preview
Max Tan presents a concert previewing his Carnegie Hall recital debut on April 3, 2024. The program features Clara Schumann’s “Three Romances,” Thomas Ades’ “Märchentänze,” Igor Stravinsky’s “Divertimento,” Eugène Ysaÿe’s “Ballad” Sonata No. 3 for solo violin, and Richard Strauss’s Violin Sonata.
Listen Hear: Ned Rorem's Centenary: Celebrating His Life in Music and Words
Curated by pianist Marisa Gupta and baritone Tom Meglioranza, this program honoring the centenary of the late American composer Ned Rorem centers on his masterpiece “Aftermath,” written in the wake of 9/11. Through 10 heart-wrenching songs for baritone and piano trio, Rorem’s “Aftermath” focuses on the universal experience of grief and loss and invites us to contemplate what it means to be human and at peace.
Listen Hear: Preludes with Marisa Gupta
American pianist Marisa Gupta will present the world premiere of “12 Preludes for Solo Piano” by the Catalonian composer Marc Migó. Max Tan will host a conversation with Migó and Gupta about the process of composing new works and the relationships between composers and performers. The program will end with Stravinsky's Divertimento, performed by Marisa Gupta with Soundbox Artistic Director Max Tan.
Max Tan and Friends: trioJEM presents Beethoven and Brahms
Violinist Max Tan, cellist Julia Lee, and pianist Elliot Wuu are Artist Fellows at La Jolla Summerfest's 2023 season, forming trioJEM. This program is a preview of performances to come between July 24 and August 27.
Details for the online broadcast and Zoom will be shared with ticket-holders 2 hours before the performance!
The program is:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 1 No. 1 in E flat Major
i. Allegro
ii. Adagio cantabile
iii. Scherzo: Allegro assai
iv. Finale: Presto
Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major
i. Allegro con brio — Tranquillo — In tempo ma sempre sostenuto
ii. Scherzo: Allegro molto — Meno allegro — Tempo primo
iii. Adagio
iv. Finale: Allegro
There is no intermission in this broadcast.
Celebrating Larry and Roxane Solowey: A Chamber Music Benefit Concert
Performers: Joshua Horne, horn; Max Tan, violin; Marisa Gupta, piano
This program, centered on Brahms’ Horn Trio, is a tribute to Larry and Roxane Solowey, two beloved musicians in Sarasota. Larry Solowey, co-principal horn of Sarasota Orchestra, was diagnosed with ALS. All proceeds collected at this concert will be donated to a GoFundMe campaign to address medical and care expenses. Our program will celebrate Larry and Roxane’s impact on the Sarasota arts community, and shine a light on ALS.
Program:
William Grant Still: Suite for Violin and Piano – II. Mother and Child
Myroslav Skoryk: Melody from “The High Pass”
Marc Migo Cortes: Three Romances for Violin and Piano – II: Romança melòdica
Richard Strauss (arr. Jeno Hubay): Morgen
Sergei Rachmaninoff (arr. Jascha Heifetz): Zdes’ Khorosho
Johannes Brahms: Horn Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 40
This performance is a benefit concert and is presented to the public free of charge. Audiences are kindly asked to RSVP.
To learn more about ALS, we encourage visiting the following pages:
ALS Association: https://www.als.org/
National Institutes of Health: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis-als
Harvard Stem Cell Institute: https://hsci.harvard.edu/als-0
Listen Hear Salon Concert: Textures and Timbres
Performers: Max Tan, viola; Sam Boutris, clarinet; Chelsea Wang, piano
Tan, Boutris, and Wang will perform works by Mozart and Bruch, gems of the chamber music repertoire revolving around the viola and clarinet. Elements of the instruments’ singing, breathing, and speaking characteristics will be compared as the artists discuss their interplay—and exchangeability—in classical music.