The Shin Creek Music Festival brings beautiful, energizing classical and contemporary chamber music to the Beaverkill Valley. For most of his life, co-artistic director Nicky Swett has spent summers and played music at the Lew Beach home that once belonged to his great-grandfather Irving Berlin. He is thrilled to team up with his wife, internationally renowned cellist Geirþrúður Guðmundsdottir, to present three concerts of favorite solo and small ensemble works in the newly renovated Lew Beach Community House.

Shin Creek Music Festival Concert 2: Bach, Beethoven, and Barrière

Wednesday, August 5, 6:00pm

Lew Beach Community House

Join festival musicians for a program of works by three of music history’s great Bs. Quartet Amí reuites for a performance of Beethoven’s very first published string quartet! It happens to be one of his best, with a tearjerker of a slow movement and a playful, toe-tapping finale. The concert begins with Bach’s bubbly Third Violin Partita in a new arrangement for solo cello, as well as a showstopping, playful duet by the 18 th -century virtuoso cellist Jean-Baptiste Barrière.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Partita No. 3, BWV 1006

Jean-Baptiste Barrière: Sonata for Two Cellos in G major, Book 4, No. 4

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1

Adults: $25.00 Children: Free

Pass for all three festival concerts: $60.00

Miki Nagahara, violin

Natalie Lee, violin

Gabe Napoli, viola

Geirþrúður Guðmundsdottir, cello

Nicky Swett, cello