Rockport Chamber Music Festival

Sunday, July 12, 5:00 pm

A Beethoven Finale

Stewart Goodyear, piano | Yura Lee, violin

with the Rockport Festival Chorus 
and Soloists: Emily Wagner, soprano | Emily Marvosh, mezzo-soprano | Daniel McGrew, tenor | Joseph Parrish, baritone

The Festival closes with a dramatic program devoted to Beethoven, culminating in a powerful piano arrangement of the Ninth Symphony performed by Stewart Goodyear with the Rockport Festival Chorus. The evening also features violinist Yura Lee in Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, uniting intimacy and grandeur in a stirring Festival finale.

PROGRAM
BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata, No. 7 in C minor
Intermission
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 (arr. piano, soloists, & chorus)

STEWART GOODYEAR, piano
Proclaimed “a phenomenon” by the Los Angeles Times and “one of the best pianists of his generation” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Stewart Goodyear is an accomplished concert pianist, improviser and composer. Mr. Goodyear has performed with, and has been commissioned by, many of the major orchestras and chamber music organizations around the world.

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YURA LEE, violin
Violinist and violist Yura Lee is a multifaceted musician, renowned for her rare virtuosity on both instruments and for a career spanning three decades across the world’s major concert stages. She has performed as a soloist with leading orchestras including those of New York, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Baltimore, and has given recitals at venues such as Wigmore Hall, the Musikverein, the Mozarteum, the Palais des Beaux-Arts, and the Concertgebouw.

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