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Garth Newel Music Center is a 501c3 not-for-profit educational institute located on a 114-acre mountainside property near Hot Springs in Bath County, Virginia. Recipient of the 2012 CMAcclaim Award from Chamber Music America for their contributions to the field of chamber music, Garth Newel Music Center celebrated its 40th anniversary in the summer of 2013. Garth Newel, a Welsh phrase meaning “new hearth” or “new home,” was the name given to the property in the 1920s by William Sergeant Kendall and Christine Herter Kendall, his bride. Home to the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, the Center offers over 60 concerts annually. The annual Summer Chamber Music Festival, which takes place on weekends between late June and Labor Day, features twenty performances by the quartet and their guests and performances by Fellowship (student) ensembles. Other annual performances include three three-day “Fall Foliage” concert weekends each October; Thanksgiving and New Year’s Holiday Weekends; wintertime “pub” concerts, and three concert weekends each May, as well as the annual Virginia Blues and Jazz Festival each June and an American Made concert series that features bluegrass, old time and other traditional American music forms. Recent Music Center musical guests have included: The Ensō, Dadealus and Borromeo String Quartets. ==Garth Newel Piano Quartet== As artists-in-residence at Garth Newel Music Center, the Garth Newel Piano Quartet performs over 50 concerts each year. The Quartet has performed throughout the United States and on five continents as a quartet and individually. Recent tours have included concerts at New York’s Carnegie Hall,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2013/11/9/0800/PM/Garth-Newel-Piano-Quartet/ )〕 the Corcoran Gallery, Strathmore Hall, Virginia Military Institute, The Lyceum in Alexandria, Williamsburg Chamber Music Society, Washington Conservatory of Music, the University of Memphis, and the San Diego Chamber Music Workshop. In 2012, the quartet traveled to Turkey where they gave a lengthy performance tour. In 2014, they traveled to Croatia where they spent over a week performing. The Garth Newel Piano Quartet serve as faculty for the Garth Newel Summer Fellowship Program for college-age musicians and work regularly with local public schools. They also coach adult and student ensembles and host the Garth Newel Amateur Chamber Music Workshop each March. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Garth Newel Music Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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