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Cooperstown
Chamber Music Festival, Cooperstown, N.Y.
(Source: Cooperstown
Chamber Music
Festival Web Site) The Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival was
started in 1999 by artistic director and flutist Linda Chesis. A
renowned flutist who has collaborated with Jessye Norman, James Levine,
and the late Jean-Pierre Rampal, Chesis made appearances each summer at
chamber music festivals throughout the United States. As a child,
Chesis' husband spent all his summers in Cooperstown, at a house his
family still owns at the north end of the lake. Chesis longed to spend
more time in Cooperstown, and realizing that the village had as much to
offer as other festival venues, set out to create the Cooperstown
Chamber Music Festival.
"Once
I saw the barn at
The Farmers' Museum, I knew that would be a fantastic place for the
festival," explains Chesis. After clapping her hands to test the
acoustics, Chesis contacted the Museum. The Farmers' Museum had faith
in the idea, and now what started in 1999 as a festival of two evening
concerts and one daytime concert for children has grown through
community support to 10 concerts offered throughout the Cooperstown
area in 2006.
Operating
under the
auspices of The Farmers' Museum through the 2005 season, the festival
begins its 2006 season as a separate non-profit organization. For more
information, call toll-free 877- MOOSIC1 (877-666-7421), visit
Festival's Web site, www.CooperstownMusicFest.org,or
email tickets@cooperstownmusicfest.org.
Cooperstown
Concert
Series shows through March 2008
The
Cooperstown Concert
Series features a seven-show season through March, bringing
cutting-edge, diverse musicians to
central New York . All concerts are community-driven and
community-supported endeavors, presented by the all-volunteer staff of
the Cooperstown Concert Series.
Other shows scheduled as part of the 2007-'08 Cooperstown Concert
Series include: singer-songwriter Steve Forbert on Friday, October 19th
at the Otesaga Hotel; Jazz piano fans will enjoy the John Stetch Trio
on Saturday, November 3rd, at the Sterling Auditorium; the Irish band
Grada presenting a Christmas program on Sunday, December 9th
at
the Sterling Auditorium; The Alexis P.Suter Blues Band on
Saturday, January 12th at the Otesaga Hotel; rising country star Diana
Jones at the Otesaga Hotel on Saturday, February 9th; and folk and
blues singer-songwriter Chris Smither at the Otesaga Hotel on Saturday,
March 29th.
More information on the 2008 Cooperstown Concert Series and
each performance is available at www.cooperstownconcertseries.org.
Cooperstown Concert Series programs are made possible through ticket
sales and private donations from the community, and with public funds
from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. The
Concert Series is a member of the Otsego County Arts Alliance. OCAA is
supported by Otsego County Occupancy Tax Revenues and the Wilber
National Bank. The Cooperstown Concert Series thanks The Scriven
Foundation for its generous support of the arts in the community.
Special thanks to Senator James Seward for his assistance in securing
state funding. Venue support is provided by Cooperstown Central School
and the Otesaga Resort Hotel.
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