MOUNT VERNON – Cornell College, the summer home of
Red Cedar Chamber Music, is hosting the Red Cedar Chamber Music Summer Festival for the third straight year as professional duos from across the country visit campus July 16-23 to study the finer points of musicianship and the business of music making with Jan Boland, flute, and John Dowdall, guitar, founders of Red Cedar.
Summer Festival concerts are:
A Parlor Concert: Spillville & Summer Snow
Sunday, July 16, 6-8:30 p.m.
Rexroat/Farooqi residence, 217 First Ave. NW, Mount Vernon
Tickets are $30, available in advance at the Perfect Blend or Fuel Coffee Shop in Mount Vernon.
Enjoy a concert for flute, viola and guitar by Red Cedar Trio members Boland, Dowdall and Michael Kimber. This unique house concert is an intimate evening of music, wine and refreshments. The program features “Spillville,” a new work by Harvey Sollberger, inspired by music Dvorak wrote when he lived in Spillville, Iowa, in 1893; “Winter-Night Canticles” for flute and guitar by Andrew Simpson, Red Cedar's composer-in-residence; and a piece for two flutes and two guitars with guests Bret and Annette Heim of the Heim Duo. Because of limited seating, tickets must be purchased in advance. Presented in partnership with the Mount Vernon Area Arts Council. Beverages and hors-d'oeuvres at 6 p.m. and Parlor Concert at 7 p.m.
Red Cedar Summer Festival Performance at Fuel Coffee Shop
Thursday, July 20, 6-7:30 p.m.
Fuel, 103 First St. E, Mount Vernon
Admission is free and reservations are not required. Hear flute and guitar duos from across the country.
