Concert Sponsorship sheet

The Parker Quartet
Hilary Hahn & FriendsJazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with
Wynton Marsalis
Skaneateles Festival – 2016 Concert Sponsorships
WEEK 1
WEEK 2
Opening Night
A very special Summer Suite featuring
Hilary Hahn & Friends
$4,000
Thursday, August 11
The season kicks off with the Grammy-winning Parker
Quartet, harpist Bridget Kibbey, violinist Ian Swensen,
and a diverse range of moving and surprising music,
by Saint-Saëns, Dvořák, Janáček, and the Academy
Award-winning American composer John Corigliano.
Plus, Aaron and Julie host “Backstage Pass: A New
Season, A New Venue” at 7 p.m. to preview the entire
season.
SPONSORED
Paris, 1900
$3,000
Friday, August 12
Spend an evening immersed in the glamorous and
imaginative world of turn-of-the-century Paris. The
Parker Quartet performs Ravel’s String Quartet;
harpist Bridget Kibbey joins them for André Caplet’s
entrancing Conte Fantastique, and the evening
concludes with Ernest Chausson’s romantic Concerto
for String Quartet, Violin, and Piano, featuring violinist
Ian Swensen.
First Night at Anyela’s
$15,000
Saturday, August 13
Don’t miss the historic opening of the Robinson Pavilion
– at Anyela’s Vineyards. We christen this beautiful new
venue with Mozart’s melodious Violin Concerto No. 4,
Philip Piano Concerto No. 2, and Beethoven’s timeless
Seventh Symphony. Performers include the Skaneateles
Festival Orchestra under the baton of Tito Muñoz,
award-winning violinist Ian Swensen and pianist
Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner.
SPONSORED
$10,000
Wednesday, August 17
This intimate evening begins with Hilary Hahn’s return to the
Festival for a special One-Night-Only concert alongside two of her
favorite colleagues, pianist Natalie Zhu, and cellist Robert deMaine.
Then, in the tradition of our popular “Summer Suite” event, the
evening continues with an elegant post-concert dessert & wine
reception at a beautiful home nearby.
The Good Song
$3,000
Thursday, August 18
Tonight’s program offers 3 ways to sing your heart out… Fauré’s
cycle of love songs, The Good Song, with Met Opera baritone John
Moore; the folk songs of Khachaturian’s Trio featuring for KyuYoung Kim (violin), Todd Palmer (clarinet), and Aaron Wunsch
(piano); and opera great Richard Strauss’s fiery Piano Quartet in
C Minor.
SPONSORED
Is it Jazz?
$4,000
Friday, August 19
On the 100th anniversary of the word “jazz,” we consider: “What
IS jazz?” This diverse program looks at the many ways jazz has
crossed paths with traditional concert music, in works ranging from
Gershwin to Bernstein to Coltrane to Wynton Marsalis’ String
Quartet (At the Octoroon Balls) to Francis Poulenc’s raucous music
hall entertainment for nine players The Masked Ball.
SPONSORED
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with
Wynton Marsalis
$25,000
Saturday, August 20
A legend comes to Skaneateles: world-famous trumpeter Wynton
Marsalis, the nine-time Grammy winner and international star,
brings the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to the new stage at
Anyela’s. More than a back-up band, this 15-piece ensemble brings
together the top soloists and arrangers on the scene. Don’t miss this
opportunity to hear the finest performers in jazz today.
SPONSORED
The Borromeo Quartet
Time For Three
The Knights
2016 Concert Sponsorships
WEEK 3
WEEK 4
In Motion
Passion, Past and Present
“Night” with the Borromeo Quartet
The Knights: Tango Tour
$4,000
Thursday, August 25
Four diverse selections show music’s ability to embody
physical movement: the balletic arabesques of Debussy’s
Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano; Nico Muhly’s
infectious buildup of momentum, Motion, for string
quartet, clarinet, and piano; Prokofiev’s jet-propelled
Cello Sonata; and Shostakovich’s masterpiece in
neo-Baroque dance rhythms, the Piano Quintet.
$3,500
Friday, August 26
Tonight the Boston-based Borromeo Quartet brings
its “searching musical insight” (Chicago Tribune) to
Haydn’s Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1, featuring
a proto-Nocturne slow movement; modern master
György Ligeti’s virtuosic Night Metamorphoses; and
Brahms’ lush and romantic serenade, the great Sextet
in B-flat Major, Op. 18.
Time for Three: Dance!
$7,000
Saturday, August 27
Time for Three returns to Skaneateles for another
exciting concert! This time, experience them like never
before, on stage at the new amphitheater at Anyela’s
Vineyards. It will be two time three when dancers from
the trendsetting Company XIV join tf3. Sparks are sure
to fly when these two charismatic trios join together
for the first time.
$3,500
Thursday, September 1
In a program perfectly suited to the church stage, we pair the
music of J. S. Bach with modern master David Lang, a 2016
Academy Award nominee for best film score. The Knights
chamber orchestra will join vocal ensemble Ekmeles for a program
of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, his Cantata, BWV 40
(with organ), and Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Little Match Girl
Passion, based on the tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
$4,000
Friday, September 2
It takes two to tango, but imagine what nine can do, in a program
that culminates with Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov’s high
octane nonet, Last Round. The Knights will lead us on a tango
tour, which follows the world’s most romantic dance around the
globe, as it inspires composers from Ravel to Stravinsky to the
great tango nuevo master Astor Piazzolla.
Season Finale: The Knights
$6,000
Saturday, September 3
The season closes with an exciting evening of music featuring
The Knights. Known for their hip and innovative programs,
this Brooklyn-based chamber orchestra brings their passion to a
wide range of music, from Vivaldi (Concerto for Two Cellos) and
Mozart (Symphony No. 29) to Brazilian bossa nova legend Joao
Gilberto and Brooklyn’s own singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens.
For more information, please contact Susan Mark at 315-685-7418 or music@skanfest.org
Skaneateles Festival l 97 East Genesee Street l Skaneateles, NY 13152