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"Ashkenasi performs all the astonishing acrobatics as if they were the easiest thing in the world. His performances put the music first and one can appreciate how remarkable (these musical works) were for their time. Any simple phrase is so beautifully and artistically expressed. You will have gathered that here is a really exceptional violinist and artist."

- The Gramophone, London

Peter Serkin is “an original musical thinker who, once he has an idea, finds a way to realize it on the piano.”

- Boston Globe

An artist who “demonstrated surgical precision and infinite subtlety.”

- The New York Times

In Memory of Anne R. & Richard W. Davidson

Season Underwriter

50th Season Opening Night
Thursday, July 1, 8:00 p.m.
Rockport Opera House
Special 50th Anniversary Event: Adults $50, $8 for youth ages 18 and under. Discounts available with subscription.
In Memory of Anne R. & Richard W. Davidson

Shmuel & Serkin

Two musical icons: Shmuel Ashkelansi, violin and Peter Serkin, piano return to Midcoast Maine to open Bay Chamber's 50th summer season with works by Dallapiccola, Busoni, and Beethoven (his Kreutzer Sonata)! **Special Event with pre-concert champagne toast to the season starting at 7:45 p.m.

Performers
Shmuel Ashkenasi, violin
Peter Serkin, piano

Program
Dallapiccola - Tartiniana Seconda
Busoni - 2nd Sonata
Beethoven - Kreutzer sonata

Please come to free pre-concert talks every Thursday night at 7 pm featuring the musicians and Artistic Director Thomas Wolf before each Rockport Opera House concert to be held in the downstairs meeting room at the Opera House.

Special pre-concert champagne toast will begin at 7:45 p.m. in the Rockport Opera House - immediately following the pre-concert talk.

There will be a post-concert reception at the Center For Maine Contemporary Art.