FINALE Concert of the Missouri Chamber Music Festival
FINALE CONCERT of the Missouri Chamber Music Festival
Finale features the return of grammy-nominated clarinetist, Derek Bermel to the MOCM stage in the St. Louis premiere of his own composition. Inspired by the sights and sounds of the American landscape, Dvorak wrote his American String Quartet while vacationing in the American Midwest. Rugged and tender throughout, it is a joyous conclusion to MOCM’s fifth anniversary season. The concert is approximately one hour and thirty minutes with one intermission.
ABOUT MOCM
The Missouri Chamber Music Festival has been generously sponsored by the Fox
Performing Arts Charitable Foundation, the Arts and Education Council, the Regional
Arts Commission, The Whitaker Foundation, Chamber Music America, ACMP, the Adult
Chamber Music Network, and the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency, and individual
donors.
The Missouri Chamber Music Festival (MOCM) was formed in June 2010 by Scott
Andrews, principal clarinetist of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and pianist Nina
Ferrigno, to educate, cultivate, promote, foster, sponsor, develop, and encourage
understanding of and public interest in classical chamber music. MOCM brings
nationally recognized professional musicians to St. Louis, MO to perform a series of
chamber music concerts in collaboration with local artists during an annual Festival
each June. Diverse programming including new and commissioned works are a defining
attribute of the Festival illuminating the fine art of the small ensemble genre.