MusicFest 2025 dates: June 26 – July 6
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MusicFest 2025
June 26th – July 6th
MusicFest is a long running and beloved local chamber music festival which became a partnership with Telluride Chamber Music in 2022. MusicFest offers the chance to enjoy world class performances curated by the Festival’s Artistic Directors Kathyrn Lockwood and Yousif Sheronick of duoJalal in the gorgeous home of Anne & Vincent Mai, a restored barn with unparalleled views of Mt. Sunshine.
MusicFest 2025 will showcase three major event concerts, a Frame Drum Workshop, and two free community events – a Family Concert at the Library and Local Artists Night. Join us for our opening performance at the Mai’s on Sunday June 29!
Letter from the Artistic Directors:
Dear Friends,
We are eagerly anticipating MusicFest 2025 this coming June and July! As Co-Artistic Directors, we were again overwhelmed and humbled by the audience response to the 2024 summer performances. We are proud to be presenting our “Summer Soirees” again in 2025, teaming up with Telluride Chamber Music Association. “Summer Soirees“ embodies a moment in time when a group of friends assembles for the purpose of listening to and enjoying music. Each program features traditional classical, modern and world influenced chamber music.
MusicFest 2025 brings back your favorite musicians from MusicFest 2024. Violinists Deborah Buck and Min-Young Kim, cellist Caroline Stinson and pianist Orion Weiss.
There could not be a more fitting place than 10,000 feet to raise our spirits with the joyful reunion of the Telluride community at the Mai’s house through the shared love of music.
Sincerely,
Kathryn Lockwood and Yousif Sheronick
Festival Artists
Kathryn Lockwood
Viola & Artistic Director
Kathryn Lockwood, Viola
Australian violist Kathryn Lockwood leads an active and varied career as performer, teacher, and artistic director. Kathryn’s career launched straight out of graduate school as founding member of the Pacifica Quartet where she traveled the world concertizing and recording. After moving to New York in 2001 Kathryn soon claimed the viola chair of the internationally renowned Lark Quartet. Always evolving and thinking out of the box, Kathryn formed the innovative group duoJalal with percussionist and husband Yousif Sheronick. Kathryn’s creative mind led her to be appointed Artistic Director for the Four Seasons in Music at the Sands Point Preserve Conservancy – a very special series presenting four magical concerts with unique themed programs of chamber music and poetry. Kathryn is also the Artistic Director for the “Music@MoMA” Series – an intimate salon style chamber music series and is newly appointed as co-artistic director of the Telluride MusicFest. She has recorded for Innova, Bridge, Cedille and Endeavor records. Kathryn is currently on faculty at University of Massachusetts/Amherst and at the John Cali School of Music at Montclair State University where she was recently appointed Curator of the Immersive Residency Program overseeing weeklong residency visits of internationally renowned artists and groups. www.kathrynlockwood.com
Yousif Sheronick
Percussion & Artistic Director
Yousif Sheronick, Percussion
Hailed by the New York Times for his “dazzling improvisations” and his “wizardry on a range of humble frame drums” Yousif Sheronick enjoys an active career as percussionist, composer, producer and educator. Having studied classical percussion through a Masters degree at Yale, Yousif went on to study music from Brazil, India, Africa and the Middle East which he seamlessly incorporates into his playing. Yousif’s unique skills in both World and Classical music have led him to perform with a diverse range of ensembles and musicians including Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma, Laurie Anderson, Ethos Percussion Group, Lark Quartet, Silk Road Ensemble, Branford Marsalis, Sonny Fortune, Cindy Blackman Santana, Glen Velez and Paul Winter. A feature article in Drum! Magazine highlighted Yousif’s versatility in an article titled “At The Corner Of The World”. His many musical influences are showcased in duoJalal, his venture with violist and wife Kathryn Lockwood. Kathryn and Yousif are the new co-directors of the Telluride MusicFest which is a yearly summer festival in the gorgeous mountains in CO. A firm believer in the power of education, Yousif recently established an online school FrameDrumSchool.org and now has over 900 enrolled students from 65 countries around the world. www.yousifsheronick.com
duoJalal
Ensemble in Residence
duoJalal
duoJalal “are fearless seekers and synthesizers of disparate instruments and cultures” raves the Toronto Star. Like the marriage between Kathryn Lockwood and Yousif Sheronick, their music represents an organic amalgam of cultural traditions and musical styles. Audiences are enthralled as an Australian violist ignites her instrument with passion – one minute embodying a medieval rebec, the next a contemporary violist playing Philip Glass. Yousif, of Lebanese descent, dazzles as he manipulates multiple sounds on an array of hand drums followed by intoxicating melodies on vibraphone. duoJalal moves from Classical to Klezmer, Middle Eastern to Jazz, with a skillful confluence that is natural, exploratory, and passionate. duoJalal has performed throughout the United States, Australia and Brazil regularly performing world premieres of works composed or arranged for the group by Philip Glass, Andrew Waggoner, Derek Bermel, Kenji Bunch, Evan Ziporyn, Eve Beglarian and John Patitucci.
As the ensemble in residence for the Four Seasons in Music concert series, the duo have the luxury of collaborating with an array of top tier artists including string players, vocalists, clarinets, dancers and more! Known for their outstanding teaching skills, duoJalal offers masterclasses and clinics for string soloists and ensembles as well as drumming workshops to both children and adults. Recent masterclasses were held at Manhattan School of Music, New York University and the Percussive Arts Society’s International Convention. Kathryn and Yousif are proud to announce a new position as co-artistic directors and ensemble in residence of the Telluride MusicFest. A festival housed in a gorgeous mountain home situated at 10,000 feet!
duojalal.org
Deborah Buck
Violin
Deborah Buck, Violin
Deborah Buck has built a rich and varied musical career as chamber musician, concertmaster, professor, soloist, and artistic leader. For seventeen years, Ms. Buck was a member of the Lark Quartet where she concertized, commissioned, and recorded works by many of America’s most celebrated composers. As an active recitalist, in 2020, Ms. Buck received two commissions: one for solo violin by John Harbison entitled DeBut, and another for violin and piano entitled Fantasia on Beethoven’s Spring Sonata by Bruce Adolphe. Subsequently, in October 2021, Ms. Buck recorded the Suite for Solo Violin by John Harbison. Most recent performances have been with pianist, Orli Shaham for the Kauffman Center’s Musical Storefront series (NYC) and at the Music for Food series (NYC). For the past five years, Ms. Buck has led the Stamford Symphony (CT) as its Acting Concertmaster and was the tenured Concertmaster of the Brooklyn Philharmonic from 2008-2013. Ms. Buck is Assistant Professor of Violin and Head of Strings and Chamber Music at SUNY Purchase. She is also Co-Director, and Faculty Concert series curator of the Kinhaven Music School in Vermont. She is a graduate of both the Juilliard School and the University of Southern California where she studied with Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki, and Robert Lipsett.
Min-Young Kim
Violin
Min-Young Kim
A founding member of the acclaimed Daedalus Quartet, violinist Min-Young Kim enjoys a career that highlights her versatility as a performing musician. As first violinist of the Daedalus Quartet, she performs regularly throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia, and has been presented by many of the world’s leading musical venues including Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Concertgebeouw in Amsterdam.
In addition, she has toured with Musicians from Marlboro, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and East Coast Chamber Orchestra and has performed in chamber music festivals across the US, France and Singapore. An advocate for the music of our time, Ms. Kim enjoys working closely with composers and has commissioned and premiered many new works including those of Fred Lerdahl, Anna Weesner, Huck Hodge, and Wolfgang Rihm. She can also be heard on historical violin on tour with Tempesta di Mare and Apollo’s Fire.
A dedicated teacher, Ms. Kim holds degrees from Harvard, Juilliard and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and currently teaches at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.
Caroline Stinson
Cello
Caroline Stinson
Canadian-born Caroline Stinson is cellist with the Ciompi String Quartet and Associate Professor at Duke University. Ms. Stinson performs widely as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, appearing at Zankel Hall (Carnegie), The Gardner Museum (Boston) and The Smithsonian (DC); the Koelner Philharmonie, Lucerne Festival and Cité de la Musique in Europe, and the Centennial Centre in Canada. She is Principal Cello of the Stamford Symphony in CT and performs regularly in Canada and Europe in recital. Ms. Stinson has premiered dozens of works for solo cello, concerti and chamber music, and her many recordings include the solo CD Lines on Albany Records. Ms. Stinson studied with Alan Harris, Maria Kliegel in Germany and Joel Krosnick at Juilliard, where she received the Artist Diploma. She taught at Juilliard from 2008-2018 and was a member of the Lark Quartet in NY before moving to Durham. With her husband, composer Andrew Waggoner, Caroline is Co-Artistic Director of Weekend Chamber Music in the Catskill Region of NY State.
Orion Weiss
Piano
Orion Weiss
One of the most sought-after soloists and chamber music collaborators of his generation, Orion Weiss is widely regarded as a “brilliant pianist” (The New York Times) with “powerful technique and exceptional insight” (The Washington Post). With a warmth to his playing that outwardly reflects his engaging personality, Weiss has dazzled audiences with his passionate, lush sound and performed with dozens of orchestras in North America including the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and New York Philharmonic.
Recent seasons have seen Weiss in performances for the Lucerne Festival, the Denver Friends of Chamber Music, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center’s Fortas Series, and the 92nd Street Y, and at the Aspen, Bard, Ravinia, and Grand Teton summer festivals among others. Highlights also include his third performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the release of his recording of Christopher Rouse’s Seeing, and recordings of Gershwin’s complete works for piano and orchestra with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and JoAnn Falletta.