Missouri Chamber Music Festival
The Missouri Chamber Music Festival and PRO-AM was founded in 2010. The goal of the MOCM festival is to present the fine art of small ensemble music to a wide audience through an accessible, community-based festival. The PRO-AM workshop portion of the festival places adult amateur instrumentalists in chamber ensembles with festival artists.
History
The MOCM Festival and PRO-AM was incorporated by Scott Andrews and Nina Ferrigno in 2010 and presented its inaugural season in June 2011. MOCM Advisors include Gil Rose, Music Director, Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Opera Boston; David Robertson, Music Director, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Anna Reinersman, Director, Carolina Chamber Music Festival; Jennifer Lucht, Calyx Piano Trio; and Marc Thayer, Director of Education for American Voices.
Festival directors
Scott Andrews has been the Principal Clarinet of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra since 2005 and is a sought after collaborative musician and concert soloist. Scott was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 11 years before joining the STL Symphony and has also performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Saito Kinen Orchestra. Scott is the former Woodwind Department Chair at Boston Conservatory and a faculty member of the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts. He collaborates regularly with Seiji Ozawa in Japan at the Saito Kinen Festival as Solo Clarinet of the Mito Chamber Orchestra. Originally from Virginia, Scott studied with Edward Knakal and attended the Virginia Governor's School for the Arts and also studied at the Interlochen Music Center in Michigan. He graduated with distinction from the New England Conservatory of Music where he was a student of Harold Wright.
Festival Co-Chair Nina Ferrigno is a pianist who appears at major concert venues throughout North America. She has performed with the Saint Louis Symphony, Boston Symphony, Boston Pops and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Her chamber music recording of Lansing McLoskey's "Tinted" was released by Albany Records in 2008 and her recording of Elliot Schwarz's "Chamber Concerto IV" with BMOP was released the following year. Nina's festival appearances include those at Tanglewood, Banff, Norfolk, the Skaneateles Festival and the Coastal Carolina Chamber Music Festival. She is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music where she received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees with distinction. Her principal teachers were Wha Kyung Byun and Randall Hodgkinson. Ms. Ferrigno is a founding member of the Boston-based Calyx Piano Trio. She was the long-time member/director of the AUROS Group for New Music and is committed to bringing classical music to new audiences by performing and commissioning new works in a variety of settings.
Events
ThePRO-AM Intensive is a weekend workshop for adult amateur instrumentalists. The 2012 workshop takes place June 7–10 at the Community Music School of Webster University.
Three evening concerts highlight the 2012 Festival on Thursday through Saturday nights, June 21, 22 and 23 at the First Congregational Church of Webster Groves, Missouri.
Programs
June 21, 2012
- Francaix - String Trio
- Britten - Phantasy Quartet
- Weber - Clarinet Quintet
June 22, 2012
- Brahms - 2 songs, Op.91
- McLoskey - Tinted
- McLoskey - Glisten
- Beethoven - String Trio in C minor, Op. 9 No. 3
June 23, 2012
- McLoskey - Processione di lacrime
- Francaix - English Horn Quartet
- Dvorak - Piano Quintet
Festival Musicians
MOCM’s 2011 season musicians includes composer-in-residence Lansing McLoskey, English horn/oboist Robert Sheena, violinists Catherine French, Angie Smart and Maria Schleuning, violists Joanna Mendoza and Amadi Azikiwe, cellists Melissa Brooks and Jennifer Lucht, the Calyx Piano Trio and MOCM Festival Directors Scott Andrews, clarinet and Nina Ferrigno, piano.
Location
All festival events take place in Webster Groves, Missouri. All concerts are presented at the First Congregational Church of Webster Groves and the PRO-AM workshop will be hosted by the Community Music School.
References
Scott Andrews is right at home at SLSO
Derek Bermel performing on clarinet in Fang Man's "Resurrection," at Zankel Hall
Nina Ferrigno an "assertive part of the orchestra"
Lansing McLoskey Sixth Species. Tinted.
External links
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