Summer in Cooperstown, New York means enjoying the outdoors with views of Otsego Lake, touring local breweries and seeing works of art at the Fenimore Art Museum. It also brings the sounds of music across the rolling hills.
This year’s Cooperstown Summer Music Festival features one of the most celebrated string quartets in the country, The Miro Quartet. Formed in 1995, The Miro Quartet has been recognized with the top prize at many national and international string quartet competitions.
The quartet will be performing works by contemporary composers and those from the years past.
“We've got a fun program,” said violinist William Fedkenheuer. “it will actually end with a composer that most people will know, Franz Joseph Haydn. And the first part of the program brings three American Pulitzer Prize winning composers together. We'll start with the composer Caroline Shaw, and move into George Walker and then end the first half with Kevin Puts.”
George Walker was the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for music. Caroline Shaw is known for transcending genres and mediums to create a world of sound never before imagined and won her Pulitzer Prize for an a capella piece she wrote called “Partita for 8 Voices.” And Kevin Puts is a composer best known for his opera The Hours and won his Pulitzer Prize for his first opera, Silent Night.
The Miro Quartet’s performance at the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival is on July 18th at the Farmers’ Museum. The performance begins at 7pm. The festival continues through August 20th.
Watch Bill Snyder’s interview with William Fedkenheuer below.
Miró Quartet: Voices of HomeThursday, July 18, 2024
- 7:00 PM 9:00 PM
- The Farmers' Museum
Microfictions [volume 1] by Caroline Shaw
Lyric by George Walker
Home by Kevin Puts
String Quartet, op. 77, No. 1 by Joseph Haydn