Sarasota Music Festival has announced its concert programs for the 2019 festival season, the third under Music Director Jeffrey Kahane. The four-weekend festival runs from June 1 through June 22 and features a wide range of classical music concerts, master classes, coaching sessions and open rehearsals.    

The 2019 Sarasota Music Festival highlights include: a concert featuring Brahms’ three Sonatas for Violin and Piano, performed by Angelo Xiang Yu, Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition winner, and Kahane; two renowned ensembles consisting of SMF faculty—The Montrose Trio and The Pacifica Quartet—will join the festival as guest artists and masterclass mentors, performing Mendelssohn’s energetic Piano Trio No. 2 and Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F minor; and five new faculty artists, includng Romie de Guise-Langlois, renowned soloist and chamber musician; Martin Beaver, former first violinist of the Tokyo Quartet; Nathan Hughes, principal oboe with the Metropolitan Opera; and Aloysia Friedmann, founder and artistic director of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival.

Sarasota Music Festival 2019 Programming