New York, N.Y. — The first annual New York International Mandolin Festival will take place July 15-17, 2016, at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, located in the Upper East Side of Manhattan at 331 East 70th Street in New York.
The festival will feature some of the finest instrumentalists and ensembles in the world performing in concert and offering a variety of workshops over the course of the three-day event. The festival is particularly proud to announce that Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg will be performing on all three days of the festival and offering workshops.
New York City has historically been a hot bed of mandolin activity going back to the beginning of the 20th Century, when numerous mandolin and balalaika orchestras performed regularly, appearing throughout the city at venues and events that ranged from major concert halls to weddings held on the rooftops and courtyards throughout the city. The emergence of bluegrass and the folk revival in the 50's and 60's reintroduced the instrument to a new generation of mandolin enthusiasts and became common at jam sessions held in Washington Square, in small Greenwich Village clubs and bluegrass festivals.
The members of the New York Mandolin Ensemble revere this history and are proud to be part of the tradition. They are excited to bring the American mandolin community together with other mandolinists and plectrum ensembles worldwide, by hosting the first New York International Mandolin Festival in July 2016. The goal in presenting this festival is to provide musicians an exceptional environment in which to express themselves, to share new compositions and arrangements for mandolin and plectrum groups, and to offer music lovers three days of amazing concerts, thrilling musical discovery, workshops and conversation.
Participating Ensembles
Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg - USA/Germany
Snehasish Mozumder - India
Improvviso Quartet - Italy
Natalia Marashova and Denis Ianov - Russia
Jonathan Belanger and Mandolin Montreal - Canada
Tamara Volskaya - Russia
Davis Duo - USA
The New York Mandolin Ensemble (hosts) - USA
MANdolinMan - Brussels
An additional highlight of the festival will be the a mass concert of participants on the closing day performing In C by Terry Riley. The final concert and workshop schedule will be posted in late January 2016.
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