Opening Night is four weeks away and sold out. Only a handful of seats remain for all Elevator Repair Service performances. The best bets to get tickets for the shows you want to see are the matinees and late night shows.
Thursday, October 8th is the day and night of premieres at the Ringling International Arts Festival. Be the first in the US to see any of these performances. Purchase your tickets online or call 1.800.660.4278.
Jennifer Frautschi (violin) is a winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant. She has appeared as soloist in recent seasons with Pierre Boulez and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival, and Peter Oundjian and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at the Caramoor International Festival. Selected by Carnegie Hall for its Distinctive Debuts series, she gave her first New York recital at Weill Hall in April 2004. She also gave debut recitals in ten of Europe’s foremost concert venues, including London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, La Cite de la Musique in Paris, and the Salzburg Mozarteum. As chamber musician, she regularly performs at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Caramoor, where she has performed annually since André Previn first invited her there in 1992. She has also performed at such festivals as La Musica (FL), Music@Menlo (CA), Santa Fe, Seattle, Spoleto (Italy), Summerfest La Jolla, and St. Barth’s.
Her discography includes three discs for the Artek label of the Prokofiev concerti with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony, music of Ravel and Stravinsky, and 20th century works for solo violin. She has also recorded several discs for Naxos: a Grammy-nominated recording of Schoenberg’s Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, and the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, both conducted by the legendary Robert Craft; and a forthcoming disc of the Schoenberg Third String Quartet.
Eric Ruske (horn) has established himself as an artist of international acclaim. Named Associate Principal Horn of The Cleveland Orchestra at the age of 20, he also toured and recorded extensively as hornist of the Empire Brass Quintet. His solo career began when he won the 1986 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, First Prize in the 1987 American Horn Competition, and in 1988, the highest prize at Concours International d’Interprétation Musicale.
Performances as soloist include appearances with the Baltimore Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Shanghai Radio Broadcast Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, European Camerata, San Diego Symphony, Boston Pops Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, and a tour with the Israel Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician, he has appeared with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Moab Music Festival, Newport Music Festival, Spoleto Festival, Festival de Musique in St. Barthlélemy, OK Mozart International Festival, Evian Festival, La Musica in Sarasota, Bargemusic in Brooklyn, Music from Angel Fire, Boston Chamber Music Society, and the Festival Pablo Casals.
His discography includes a recording of the Strauss and Glière Horn Concerti, two discs of virtuoso transcriptions for horn and piano, a disc of solo horn repertoire—all on the Albany Records label—and the complete Mozart Horn Concerti for Telarc.
A graduate of Northwestern University, Ruske is the Professor of Horn and member of the faculty of Boston University.
Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar (creator + director of The Snow Falls in the Winter) founded Big Dance Theater in 1991. The company and its directors have been honored with a New York Dance and Theater ‘Bessie’ Award, an OBIE, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Jacob’s Pillow Creativity Award for Choreography, and two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. They have created 15 pieces for the company, touring nationally and internationally to such venues as The Walker Art Center, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, The American Dance Festival, The Spoleto Festival USA, On the Boards, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Yerba Buena Arts Center, and UCLA, Live!, as well as international festivals and venues in the Netherlands, France, Italy, Tbilisi, Brazil and Germany. In New York City, their work has been presented at many venues, but most often at Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, Classic Stage Company, and the Guggenheim Works & Process Series.
OtherShore is a unique company led collaboratively by dancers that brings together choreographers, designers, composers, musicians, and veteran dancers to create original work.
OtherShore debuted in 2008 at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York, and is co-directed by Sonja Kostich, a former member of American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Zurich Ballet and the White Oak Dance Project, and Brandi Norton, a former dancer with the Trisha Brown Company for nine years. Collectively, the dancers of OtherShore have credits with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Patrick Corbin Dances, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, White Oak Dance Project, Limon Dance Company, San Francisco Ballet, Hamburg Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet. The mission of OtherShore is to create work that reflects the versatility of its collaborators, to focus on growth and creativity as artists, and to share with the public this desire to produce valuable and entertaining work.
Buzz about the Festival is beginning slowly but surely and Meow Meow is quickly becoming the talk of the town. Just last week local media expressed interest in seeing Meow Meow at the Festival and St. Petersburg Times, who featured the Festival in this weekend’s Sunday paper, devoted some quality ”air” time to Meow Meow. SX News, Australia’s famed LBGT publication, featured maestro Lance Horn who had this to say about Meow Meow: “The reason I drop everything to go around the world with her is the utter joy,” he tells SX. “Even in the midst of all the insanity and irreverence, there’s an intrinsic happiness that’s underneath all of it. Even if it’s manic on the surface, it’s just her love of what she’s doing that’s infectious. And she’s so proficient at working out exactly what the audience needs – and how to communicate by any means possible to get the point across. She also has a knack for picking the right/wrong person out of an audience – she’ll always pick the person with the medical problem. Or the critic!”
I suspect that she will sell out pretty fast and I suggest you get your tickets now.
Lynn Hobeck Bates, Public Relations Manager at the Ringling Museum
An article, Research points to a bias against female playwrights, in yesterday’s local paper caught my attention. It reminded me of a blog post dated June 19, in which I pointed to another article that highlighted female playwrights, in particular, Ella Hickson. Gender aside, two leading playwrights, one male and one female, one legendary and one emerging, were chosen to showcase their work at the Festival based on artistic merit and literary ingenuity. Legendary playwright Peter Brook will present his U.S. Premiere of Love is my sin and relatively new playwright Ella Hickson will present Eight. Check them out at the festival this year.
Lynn Hobeck Bates, Public Relations Manager at the Ringling Museum
Passion. The word evokes deeply rooted emotions in everyone of us. Passion means many things to many people. Webster’s dictionary provides several definitions for passion all of which have the same core meaning. Passion is an intense, driving and liking for some activity, object or concept. As I peruse reviews of the artists coming to the Festival, the concept of “passion” eminates from the screen. It solidfies itself as the common denominator that cuts across disciplines and binds the performers together as a formidable artistic force poised to take Sarasota, Florida and the world by storm. Imagine the energy, spirit and inspiration that will be unleashed during those five days in October. Ready yourself for the explosion that will captivate and motivate you by indulging your artistic passion this weekend.
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The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and New York’s Baryshnikov Arts Center invite you to be a part of history as artists from all over the world come together to present the Ringling International Arts Festival.
From October 13 - 17, 2010 celebrate the rich diversity of ideas and forms at play in the world today all on a beautiful, 66-acre waterfront estate on Sarasota Bay.
