Advanced string and piano students from the renowned Meadowmount School of Music will perform at the Saranac Methodist Church on Route 3 on Tuesday, August 9 at 7:00 pm. The young musicians, who are on professional career tracks, come from points throughout the United States and from many countries around the globe. They have undergone a rigorous selection process to win the honor of attending Meadowmount's seven-week training program, founded in 1944 by Ivan Galamian, the legendary Russian violinist and Juilliard pedagogue, in Lewis, NY.

Free and open to the public, the concert is sponsored by Hill and Hollow Music. Free-will donations will be accepted for the Meadowmount Scholarship Fund. Refreshments will be served during intermission. Current public health guidelines will be followed: masks are optional, but encouraged. For further info: telephone 518-293-7613, e-mail ambrown.hillholl@gmail.com or visit hillandhollowmusic.org

The August 9 program features three gorgeous masterpieces

in the classical chamber music canon: 

Trio No. 3 in c minor, Op. 9, (1797)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 27, No. 5 Pastorale (1923)

Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)

String Quartet No. 6 in f minor, Op. 80 (1847)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Alumni of Meadowmount have won every major competition worldwide, and are among the very best of international soloists and chamber musicians, concertmasters and principal players of the world’s leading orchestras, and distinguished artist-teachers in every major university and conservatory. 

Among hundreds of distinguished artists who attended the Meadowmount School in their youth are Martin Beaver, Joshua Bell, Glenn Dichterow, James Ehnes, Lynn Harrell, Soovin Kim, Nicholas Kitchen, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert McDuffie, Peter Oundjian, Itzhak Perlman, Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, Pinchas Zuckerman, Paul Zukofsky, and so on.

Illustrious early faculty members in addition to Ivan Galamian included Gregor Piatigorsky, Isaac Stern, Zino Francescotti, Leonard Rose, and Josef Gingold. Two of Galamian’s prized assistants, Sally Thomas and Dorothy DeLay, took on ever greater responsibility to become extraordinary sought-after "star" teachers in their own right. Recent and current teachers include Elmar Oliveira, Kikuei Ikeda, Ivan Ženatý, Patricia McCarty, Julia Lichten, Ann Setzer, and Janet Sung, while many more artist-teachers of highest reputation teach master classes.

Hill and Hollow Music

Weatherwatch Farm

550 #37 Road

Saranac, NY 12981

518-293-7613

ambrown.hillholl@gmail.com