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Music from Mozart to Ellington set for summer fest Wednesday
The Greencastle Summer Music Festival continues on Wednesday, June 21 at Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church with a 7:30 p.m. performance featuring violinist Allison Edberg Nyquist, her father, clarinetist and nuclear physicist Gareth Guest, and pianist Claude Cymerman.
The program includes a string quartet by Mozart, a work for clarinet, string quartet and piano by Prokofiev, and pieces for clarinet and piano by Duke Ellington and George Gershwin.
Also performing are Philip Palermo, the associate concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony, and DePauw music professors Nicole Brockmann (viola) and Eric Edberg (cello).
These concerts are free and open to the public thanks to the generous support of individuals and businesses, including the Inn at DePauw, and an endowment at the Putnam County Community Foundation.
“We are delighted to have Gareth back to perform with us. He’s 84 and playing better than ever,” says the festival’s founding Artistic Director, Eric Edberg. “Gareth, Allison and I have been making music together since the early 1980s. We love playing with Claude, of course, and I’m thrilled we’ll have Phil and Nicole joining us.”
Violinist Allison Nyquist is one of the preeminent performers of baroque and modern violin. She has performed throughout North America, collaborating with many of the top baroque ensembles, including Chatham Baroque, Olde Friends, and Apollo’s Fire. She is concertmaster of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, and a member of Ensemble Voltaire, Baroque Band (Chicago), The Vivaldi Project, the Washington Bach Consort, and the newly appointed music director of Music City Baroque (Nashville).
Her discography includes recordings for the Eclectra, Delos and Centaur CD labels. Nyquist has been praised by The Chicago Sun Times as “impeccable, with unerring intonation and an austere beauty.” Equally at home as an orchestral and chamber musician, she also performs regularly as a violist.
Gareth Guest, who has had a dual career as a clarinetist and nuclear physicist, has played clarinet and saxophone since childhood. He worked his way through Vanderbilt University playing in jazz groups and big bands in the Nashville Area, going on to earn a doctorate in nuclear physics from the University of Wisconsin. Guest also has authored a book on the subject of nuclear physics.
While working for the federal government in Oak Ridge, Tenn., he was principal clarinet of the Oak Ridge Symphony and continued daily practice as well as regular classical and jazz performances. “It’s the best therapy,” Guest said. “Life wouldn’t be the same without making music.”