KATONAH, N.Y. -- Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts will conclude its summer festival with a performance by its Artist-in-Residence Alisa Weilerstein and Orchestra of St. Luke’s led by conductor Pablo Heras-Casado, on Sunday, Aug. 3 at 4:30 p.m.  The Summer Festival Finale will be held in the Venetian Theater.  Orchestra of St. Luke's will open the program with Wagner's "Prelude ...

KATONAH, N.Y. -- For its 21st year, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts features some of the greatest jazz musicians in the world at its Jazz Festival on Sunday, July 27.  Festivities will begin at noon and continue through the entire day. Festival artists include Emily Bear, John Beasley, Steve Turre, Renee Rosnes and Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. A rundown ...

KATONAH, N.Y -- Experience an expert tour of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts' latest exhibition, "In the Garden of Sonic Delights," by experts Thom Holmes and Suzanne Thorpe. The writer's tour with Holmes will be held on Saturday, July 26 at noon. The artist's tour with Thorpe will be held Saturday, Aug. 9 at noon. Each tour is designed to focus on the guest expert’s area of ...

KATONAH, N.Y. -- Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts will host a performance by the David Grisman Sextet in its Spanish Courtyard on Friday, July 25, at 8 p.m. The current lineup of the David Grisman Sextet includes bassist Jim Kerwin, flutist Matt Eakle, percussionist George Marsh, guitarist George Cole and violinist Chad Manning. For nearly half a century, mandolinist, composer, ...

KATONAH, N.Y. -- Guitar virtuoso Jason Vieaux will return to Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts to perform in the Sunken Garden on Thursday, July 24 at 6 p.m.  His concert – which celebrates music from a vast array of genres including jazz, classical and Latin American – includes Fernando Sor’s "Variations on a Theme of Mozart," Isaac Albéniz’s "Caprichio Catalan and Torre ...

KATONAH, N.Y. -- Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts' Director of Opera Will Crutchfield has a well-deserved reputation as an expert and a scholar when it comes to music.  Crutchfield spent his teens as a vocal coach and rehearsal pianist and made his name as a writer and musicologist in the mid-1980′s, becoming the youngest music critic in the history of The New York Times. He ...

KATONAH, N.Y. -- Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts will be presenting two new sound art pieces at its Sonic Delights Festival, a day of events celebrating its sound art exhibition "In the Garden of Sonic Delights," on Sunday, July 20, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The festival will feature a one-day-only showing of David Tudor’s "Rainforest IV" and The Nerve Tank’s "Sisyphus 2.0," in ...

KATONAH, N.Y. -- Will Crutchfield, conductor and opera director at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, illustrates the exciting relationship between the two upcoming Bel Canto operas at Caramoor, Lucrezia Borgia by Donizetti and Rigoletto by Verdi.  The first performance of Lucrezia Borgia will take place at 8 p.m., Saturday, July 12, with an encore presentation featuring an ...

KATONAH, N.Y. -- Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo are two classical musicians who have taken the world by storm with their unique and hilarious theatrical shows, which combine comedy with classical music and popular culture. Their clips on YouTube have gathered more than 35 million hits, and the duo has appeared on television in numerous countries. Their collective dream is to make ...

KATONAH, N.Y. -- Caramoor Center For Music and the Arts will be hosting a performance with Jeffrey Kahane and Orchestra of St. Luke's in the Venetian Theater on Sunday, July 6 at 4:30 p.m.  Guests can purchase tickets to sit in the Venetian Theater or experience the concert al fresco, where attendees will not see the concert, but will be able to picnic and listen to the performance as ...