History of Châteauville Foundation Presentations

2007-08 Season

• Nancy Gustafson & Friends: An Afternoon of Vocal Favorites
• 10th Anniversary Gala: Encounter with Stradivarius
• Nathan Gunn, baritone & Julie Gunn, piano
• Brasil Guitar Duo
• Brooklyn Youth Chorus
• Christian Zacharias, piano
• Castleton Residency: The Beggar’s Opera (Britten/Gay)
  Lorin Maazel, Artistic Director & Conductor
• Attacca String Quartet
• Tomás Kubínek—“Certified Lunatic and Master of the Impossible”
• Theatre Workshop: Let Leaping Gods Fly starring Marlene Hodgdon
• Paul Reisler & A 1000 Questions
• Fitzwilliam String Quartet

 

2006-07 Season 

• Ma Xiaohui, erhu (Traditional Chinese music)
• Zephyr with special guest Sir James Galway
  (Lady Jeanne Galway, flute; Jonathan Feldman, piano; Darrett Adkins, cello)
• Harolyn Blackwell, soprano and William Hicks, piano in “Give My Regards”
  (Landmark songs of the American Musical Theatre)
• American Chamber Players
• Wayfarers: Four One-Act Plays. A Crescent Theatre Company Production
• Colin Currie, percussion
• The Cashore Marionettes
• Castleton Residency: Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia
  Lorin Maazel, Artistic Director and Conductor
• Konstantin Scherbakov, piano

 

2005-06 Season

 

• Arabella Steinbacher, violin, with Robert Kulek, piano
• Brahms: Die schöne Magelone with tenor Roberto Saccà and pianist Aya Ishihara, performed with a new narration after Tieck’s novella recounted by actors Dietlinde Turban and Christopher Rothwell.
• eighth blackbird (New music ensemble)
• Leland Faulkner’s “World of Wonder”
• F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. The silent film classic with an original, extemporaneous score by Burnett Thompson.
• Brahms and Mozart Clarinet Quintets (Mark Nuccio, clarinet; Sheryl Staples & Yulia Ziskel, violins; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Elizabeth Dyson, cello)
• Jordi Savall, viola da gamba
• The New York Philharmonic Wind Quintet, with pianist Jonathan Feldman
• Eliot Fisk, guitar
• Britten: The Turn of the Screw
  Lorin Maazel and Kynan Johns, conductors
• Brecht: The Jewish Wife/Pinter: Ashes to Ashes
  A Crescent Theatre Company production, directed by Christopher Rothwell

 

2004-05 Season

 

• The Kennedy Center Chamber Players
• The Cashore Marionettes
• Sérgio & Odair Assad, guitar duo
• The Fitzwilliam String Quartet and Christopher Rothwell, actor/narrator
• Avner “The Eccentric” Eisenberg and Mark Jaster: clowning/physical theatre performances and workshops
• Emanuel Ax, piano
• Jamie Walton, cello, and Daniel Grimwood, piano

 

2003-04 Season

 

• Rincones & Company Dance Theatre
• Tomás Kubínek—“Certified Lunatic and Master of the Impossible”
• Randy Weston, jazz pianist
• Wu Man, pipa (Traditional Chinese music)
• Joji Hattori, violin and Florian Uhlig, piano
• Early music specialist Benjamin Bagby: Beowulf
• Han-Na Chang, unaccompanied cello
• Sir James Galway, flute; Lady Jeanne Galway, flute; and Phillip Moll, piano
  (Benefit concert for Hands for Hope, a Rappahannock organization for the elderly)
• New York Philharmonic Ensemble
• World premiere of one-act Constantly Risking Absurdity, created and directed by Christopher Rothwell, performed by Dietlinde Turban-Maazel

 

2002-03 Season 

• Pepe Romero, guitar
  (Benefit concert for the American Friends of the Mozarteum Brasileiro)
• Burhan Öçal and the Istanbul Oriental Ensemble (Traditional Turkish music)
• Claire Bloom: Shakespeare’s Women
• The Avalon String Quartet
• Avner “The Eccentric” Eisenberg

 

1997-2000 Seasons 

• Lorin Maazel, violin, and Yefim Bronfman, piano: Brahms Violin Sonatas
• Sharon Wyrrick (dance artist from Rappahannock County)
• The Hearthstone School theater group in Emil and the Detectives
• Jazz in Castleton – Burnett Thompson Quintet with vocalist Debra Tidwell
• Kitty Carlisle Hart
• José Carreras with The Castleton Philharmonic Orchestra (Gala benefit under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness, the Queen of Spain)
• Han-Na Chang, cello, with Burnett Thompson, piano
• Dramatic reading of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, with actor Ted Griethuysen (Shakespeare Theatre, Washington)
• Lokvany Dance Group (From South India, with a new piece, Kanya)
• Chamber music recital with Itzhak Perlman, violin, Lorin Maazel, violin and Yefim Bronfman, piano
• Chamber music recital with Itzhak Perlman, violin, Lorin Maazel, violin, and Myung-Wha Chung, cello, with students of “The Perlman Music Program”
• Debut of 14-year old violinist Shunsuke Sato, with Sara Wolfensohn, piano and Lorin Maazel, violin
• Inaugural Benefit Gala with Mstislav Rostropovich, Yefim Bronfman and Lorin Maazel
• Chamber music recital with Lorin Maazel, violin, Yefim Bronfman, piano and David Finckel, cello