Sevenars presents the 2nd concert of its 55th season
Violist Ronald Gorevic in Bach Cello Suites
Event: Second Concert of Sevenars Music Festival 55th anniversary season - Bach Cello Suites 1-4, performed by violist Ronald Gorevic. Date: Sunday, July 16, at 4PM
Location: Sevenars Academy, 15 Ireland Street just off Rte. 112 at Ireland Street, South Worthington, Massachusetts, “Acoustic gem, idyllic setting.” - Berkshire Eagle
Phone number: 413-238-5854 (please leave a message for return call)
Admission: No tickets or charge, as ever, but donations welcomed at the door (suggested $20). Refreshments free.
Photo of Ronald Gorevic: courtesy of the artist
Sunday, July 16, at 4 PM
Sevenars 55th Anniversary Second Concert
Sevenars is delighted to present outstanding violist Ronald Gorevic in a concert of Bach Cello Suites I-IV played on the viola. Mr. Gorevic has recently recorded all of the Bach Suites for Centaur Records, but this is a chance to hear these masterpieces live in a hall that has been likened acoustically to the inside of a Stradivarius.
Mr. Gorevic has had a long and distinguished career as a performer and teacher on both the violin and viola. As a violist, he has been a member of several well known string quartets spanning over twenty years and covering most of the quartet repertoire. He has toured throughout the US, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Australia and has been broadcast on radio stations across the US, South and Southwest German radio, and the Australian Broadcast network. He has performed recitals in major US cities, including New York, Cleveland, Chicago, and Atlanta. He has also performed in London, where he gave the British premieres of pieces by Donald Erb and Ned Rorem. As a member of the Prometheus Piano Quartet, he has recorded piano quartets of Saint-Saens and D’Indy for Centaur Records. As a member of the Chester string quartet, he has recorded string quartets by Barber, Quincy Porter, and Walter Piston for Koch International. For Centaur, he has also recorded the Brahms clarinet quintet and trio in Brahms’s own arrangement for viola instead of clarinet. He is currently on the faculties of Smith College, The Prep department of New England Conservatory of Music, and UMass Amherst. In the past, he has held teaching positions at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University of Akron, Indiana University at South Bend, and the Greenwood summer music camp. In addition to his teaching duties, he has an arrangement of the Mendelssohn violin concerto in E minor for viola and piano, which is available in the US through Sharmusic.com.
Mr. Gorevic has been called "a musician first and foremost" by N. Y. Times critic Allen Hughes, and his performance of these Bach masterpieces promises to be a memorable musical event.
This 2023 season in particular is made possible in part by the LCC's (Local Cultural Councils) of the following towns: Agawam, Buckland, Chester, Concord, Cummington, Everett, Gardner, Goshen, Huntington, Lee, Montgomery, Northern Berkshire, Otis, Russell, Springfield, West Springfield, Westford, Westhampton, Wilmington, and Worthington. These LCC's are local agencies which are funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
For FY 23 Sevenars was also grateful to be one of just three organizations in Western Massachusetts to be awarded a Cultural Facilities Fund grant from MassDevelopment to help fortify the foundation of the Sevenars concert hall. Their expression of confidence in our mission means so much.
