 Cactus Pear
Music Festival:
Decade two
By G.S. ALBRIGHT
Photography COURTESY OF:
CACTUS PEAR MUSIC FESTIVAL
LIZ GARZA WILLIAMS
STUART MURTLAND
In its second decade of sizzling
chamber music, Cactus Pear Music
Festival welcomes New Braunfels as a
new festival venue.
CPMF is proud to announce the kickoff
of a second Collaborative Art
Project with the Boerne Area Artists
Association — Musical Canvases —
inspired by the festival’s four program
titles. These
numerous works of art will be
on display and open for bidding at
Boerne’s finest art galleries and online
at the festival’s Web site: cpmf.us.A portion
of the proceeds will benefit CPMF’s
educational outreach programs.
 The festival begins its summer season
with Czech Mates. Cellist Anthony Ross
and pianist Wei-Yi Yang open with
Dvorak's Silent Woods. Smetana's gripping Piano Trio in G minor and Schulhoff's
rarely heard virtuosic duo for violin and
cello featuring Beth Rapier and
Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio follow. Dvorak's
exhilarating Viola Quintet in E-flat concludes
the program with newcomers
Gabriela Diaz and St. Louis Symphony
associate principal violist Kathleen Mattis.
In celebration of Bastille Day, French Kiss puckers up with Ibert's Entr'acte with
Stephanie Jutt, flute, and Rachel Ferris,
harp, and Debussy's Sacred and Profane Dances for harp and string quartet.
Milhaud's humorous suite for clarinet, violin
and piano stars Ilya Shterenberg and is followed
by Ravel's Introduction and Allegro for harp, winds and strings.The program climaxes
with Faure's most popular chamber
work, the Piano Quartet in C minor, with
the talented young
violinist Gabriela Diaz.
 Program III, Girls Night Out, is a sassy and
rich program of works by female composers
Rebecca Clarke, Grazyna Bacewicz, Lili
Boulanger and Fannie Mendelssohn. San
Antonio's own Elisenda Fabregas contributes
her captivating Voces de mi Tierra
for flute, cello and piano.
Sizzling Seasons: Piazzolla Meets Vivaldi,
Program IV, pairs Vivaldi's Four Seasons with
Piazzolla's The Four Seasons of Buenos
Aires. Composer/double bassist Evan
Premo is featured with soprano Mary
Bonhag in two of Premo’s own sizzling seasonal
works. This program showcases four
exceptional women as violin soloists:
Katarzyna Bryla, Nancy Dahn, Cleveland
Orchestra associate concertmaster Ellen
de Pasquale and artistic director
Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio.
CZECH MATES painting by Bill Scheidt
San Antonio – Thurs., July 12, 7:30 pm
New Braunfels – Fri., July 13, 7 pm
FRENCH KISS sculpture by Virgil B. Graves
San Antonio – Sat., July 14, 7:30 pm
Boerne – Sun., July 15, 2 pm
GIRLS NIGHT OUT painting by Jay Hester
Boerne – Wed., July 18, 7 pm
San Antonio – Thurs., July 19, 7:30 pm
SIZZLING SEASONS painting by Georgiana Ewing
Fredericksburg – Fri., July 20, 7 pm
San Antonio – Sat., July 21, 7:30 pm
Kerrville – Sun., July 22, 2 pm
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