FARMINGTON — Maine Mountain Chamber Music will celebrate its 10th anniversary with works harkening back to its inaugural season and music sung by the host of Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Classical Music with Suzanne Nance.”
The Saturday, June 16, concert at Nordica Auditorium at the University of Maine at Farmington will also feature special guests cellist Jennifer Lucht and violinist Jaroslaw Lis.
A program highlight is Beethoven’s String Trio in D Major, Op. 9 No. 2. MMCM previously performed the first and third of Beethoven (Opus 9) three trios for violin, viola and cello. These high-spirited trios, written in 1797 when Beethoven was a young man, are the forerunners to Beethoven’s famed string quartets.
The concert will also include a work from MMCM’s inaugural season, Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major. A work of considerable charm and romantic melody, it was composed in 1842, Schumann’s “year of chamber music,” for his wife, Clara, to perform on tour.
Nance will sing three songs by American composer Amy Marcy Beach. Written for soprano, violin and piano, they are “Ecstasy,” “Rendezvous” and “Ah, love but a day.” The addition of violin to the traditional combination of voice and piano gives these songs an unusual richness and complexity.
Nance will also present a set of French songs with pianist Yuri Funahashi, who co-directs MMCM with violist Laurie Kennedy. The songs are Satie’s “Je Te Veux,” Poulenc’s “Le Chemin d’amour” and Debussy’s “Beau Soir” and “Elegie.”
Nance has performed in Prague, London, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York. Music director for MPBN, she produces and hosts the weekday “Classical Music with Suzanne Nance” from 9 a.m. to noon.
Lucht is a member of the Calyx Piano Trio and performs with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra in concerts throughout the United States, Canada and Japan. She is co-director and a founder of the Carolina Chamber Music Festival in New Bern, N.C., and can be heard in recordings on New World, Albany and Archetype record labels.
Lis, who has worked with Yehudi Menuhin and Krzysztof Penderecki, is assistant principal second violin and a personnel manager of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.
Kennedy has been principal violist and frequent concerto soloist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra since 1981. She has performed at the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival for 30 years, and, for the last decade or so, has been director of that festival.
Funahashi has been a guest artist at numerous chamber music festivals and has performed in Japan, Australia, Canada and Europe. She performs regularly at Weill Carnegie Hall in New York City.
The concert, put on by the Arts Institute of Western Maine, will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 for adults, free for anyone under 16. Call 645-2157.

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