The Roycroft Chamber Music Festival

Location

The Roycroft Chamber Music Festival was founded in 1994 and 2010 will be its seventeenth season. Held in June each year at St. Matthias Episcopal Church in East Aurora, New York, the festival is recognized for the excellence of its programming and performances, and has become a highlight of Western New York's musical landscape. For example, the year 2000 performance of the Ravel Piano Trio was met with a "spontaneous, full standing ovation punctuated with cheers and bravos." [Herman Trotter, The Buffalo News, June 18, 2000] This kind of enthusiastic reception has become almost routine.

The festival was founded by its artistic directors, Juilliard graduates Eugene Gaub and Nancy McFarland Gaub, former residents of East Aurora now on the faculty of Grinnell College, Iowa. The principal goals of the festival are to help promote chamber music and enhance the quality of life in Western New York, by presenting a series of world-class, but readily accessible and easily affordable concerts in an intimate and uplifting setting. Each year, world-class nationally and internationally renowned musicians travel from all over the United States to participate.

As in previous years, the venue is the sanctuary of St. Matthias Episcopal Church in East Aurora, which provides wonderful acoustics and architectural splendor while maintaining an intimate atmosphere consistent with the chamber music genre. We are thrilled with the program for the 2010 season and look forward to seeing you at the performances this June.

Program

Saturday concerts begin at 8 p.m. Sunday concerts begin at 7 p.m.
St. Matthias’ Episcopal Church, East Aurora, New York
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Saturday, June 5, 2010 - 8 p.m.

J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #6 in Bb Major
 
Lorenzo, Roggen, Herer, Baun, Schmude, Gnekow
Maurice Ravel
Sonate in G
 
D. Niwa, G. Niwa
Johannes Brahms
Trio in Eb Major for piano, violin, and horn, Op. 40
 
E. Gaub, N. Gaub, tba
Sunday, June 6, 2010 - 7 p.m.

Robert Schumann
Marchenbilder (Fairy Tales), Op. 113
 
Jennings, E. Gaub
Rebecca Clarke
Trio for piano, violin and cello (1921)
 
G. Niwa, N. Gaub, Mekinulov
W.A. Mozart
Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K. 580
 
Fullam, Jennings, D. Niwa, Lorenzo, Mekinulov
Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 8 p.m.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Trio in D for piano, violin and cello, Op. 70,“The Ghost”
 
E. Gaub, Johnson, Baun
Bela Bartok
String Quartet #3 (1927)
 
Hanford, N. Gaub, Roggen, Ballantyne
Antonin Dvorak
String Quartet in Ab, Op. 105
 
Johnson, Hanford, Lorenzo, Ballantyne
Sunday, June 13, 2010 - 7 p.m.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Trio in D, Op. 8, “The Serenade”
 
Falletta, Cross, Alemany
Darius Milhaud
Sonatina for two violins, Op. 221 (1940)
 
Glidden, Cone
J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D
 
E. Gaub, N. Gaub, Royal, Cone, Roggen, Hausmann, Gnekow
Last year's program:
Saturday, June 13, 2009 - 8 p.m.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quartet for Strings in C Major, K. 157
 
McFarland Gaub, Hanford, Roggen, Ballantyne
Maurice Ravel
Sonata for Violin and Cello
 
Niwa, Herer
Korngold
Suite for Two Violins, Cello and Piano Left Hand
 
Gaub, Johnson, Niwa, Ballantyne
Sunday, June 14, 2009 - 7 p.m.

Martinu
Madrigal Sonata for Flute, Violin and Piano
 
Gaub, McFarland Gaub, Bailey-Davis
Joseph Kreutzer
Grand Trio, Op. 16 for Flute, Clarinet and Guitar
 
Falletta, Cross, Alemany
Dvorak
Quintet for Strings in G Major, Op.77
 
Hanford, Johnson, Roggen, Mekinulov, Gnekow
Saturday, June 20, 2009 - 8 p.m.

Quadruple Anniversary Concert
 Purcell
“The Golden Sonata” for Two Violins and Continuo
 
TBA
Handel
Trio Sonata in F Major, Opus 2, No. 4
 
Wilkins, Glidden, Hausmann, Cornelius
Haydn
String Quartet, Op. 71, No. 3
 
Ansel, Wilkins, Roggen, Herer
Mendelssohn
Trio in C Minor, for Piano and Strings
 
Gaub, McFarland Gaub, Schube
Sunday, June 21, 2009 - 7 p.m.

Arnold Bax
Sonata in One Movement, for Clarinet, Violin and Piano
 
Fullam, Cone, Gaub
Beethoven
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1
 
Braun, Ansel, Kreutter, Hausmann
Brahms
Sextet in G Major, for Strings
 
Glidden, McFarland Gaub, Roggen, Kreutter, Baun, Schube