Chamber music a big part of Music Festival

Chamber music has been a fixture of the Cape May Music Festival for its first 19 years and this year will not be any different.
The Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts welcomes back the New York Chamber Ensemble and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players. Enjoy high quality chamber music at the Episcopal Church of the Advent, Washington and Franklin streets, during the 20th annual Cape May Music Festival, May 17-June 11.
The New York Chamber Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Alan R. Kay, returns to Cape May for its 20th consecutive year.
With a repertoire spanning classical to contemporary, chamber music to chamber orchestra, instrumental to chamber opera, “serious” to children’s concerts, the New York Chamber Ensemble has delighted audiences along the East Coast, in Morocco, and in broadcasts throughout the United States on National Public Radio.
The Ensemble was founded in 1987 by Stephen Rogers Radcliffe and is now directed by Clarinetist/conductor/founding member Alan R. Kay.
The New York Chamber Ensemble’s first performance at the Cape May Music Festival is on May 19. The ensemble presents its tenth “jazzical’ program, the Jazz Element: “Jazzing up the Classics” with jazz pianist Ted Rosenthal.
The second program on Tuesday, May 26 is “Sun and Clouds,” ranging from Haydn’s “Sun” Quartet to Brahms’ autumnal masterpiece.
On Tuesday, June 9, the New York Chamber Ensemble presents its final concert of the Music Festival, “Songs America Loves to Play.”
New Jersey’s premier chamber players from the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) return to the Cape May Music Festival with a program of classic chamber repertoire on Tuesday, June 2. The program features Copland’s Two Pieces for String Quartet, Mendelssohn’s String Quartet Opus 12 in Eb Major and Debussy’s String Quartet Opus 10 in G Minor.
The chamber quartet includes violinists Wendy Chen and Alexandra Gorokhovsky, Brett Deubner on viola and Stephen Fang on cello.
All concerts are at 8 p.m. General admission is $20, seniors $15, and $5 students.
To order tickets or for information about MAC’s year-round schedule of tours, festivals and special events, call 609-884-5404 or 800-275-4278, or visit MAC’s website at capemaymac