![]() The ensemble will be part of a concert program that also includes more traditional festival music, such as the Haas Wind Quintet and Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, which Kahane will play with violinist Frank Almond, violist Barbara Wesphal and cellist Brinton Smith. They represent a new paradigm in the world of music and that’s something that will be quite new in terms of this festival,” Kahane said. He describes Y Music as “one of the cutting edge ensembles in the music world today, all highly trained classical musicians who perform seriously in that genre, but they’re also performing music composed for them. That’s what distinguishes this from other festivals.”Īudiences will see some initial changes in the programming this season, which for the first time will feature an outside ensemble, the sextet Y Music, performing during a closing weekend Friday concert, when more traditional chamber concerts are generally presented. I wasn’t surprised, but was impressed nonetheless, and also by the interaction between faculty and students and the accessibility of the faculty. I was enormously impressed by the level of the students. He discovered a program where the students “get a level of attention and caring and nurturing which is quite unusual. ![]() He first came to the Sarasota festival two years ago, when Levin asked him to fill in at the last minute for a faculty member who had to withdraw.
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