Weekend of Chamber Music and Monticello High School Students Joint Concert to Honor Rovitz

Extending a joyous tradition, the eminent professionals of The Weekend of Chamber Music and talented students in Monticello High School's chamber music program whom they have coached will combine in a Spring Concert in the Monticello High School New Band Room at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 17th. The concert will honor the Music Director of Monticello Central Schools, Steven Rovitz, who is retiring after 33 years.

Adult performers in the concert will include, in addition to WCM's founder and Artistic Director, the flutist Judith Pearce, pianist Marija Stroke, oboist Matt Sullivan and bassist Kurt Muroki. The program will comprise works by Mozart, Telemann, Marcello, Saint-Saëns, Damase and Kurtág.

Although the distinguished WCM musicians have polished it with periodic coaching and demonstrations, the chamber music program in the schools is a diamond that Rovitz and his dedicated colleagues have mined. Students participate to an extent rarely equaled throughout the land. Thirty-nine of them have applied to take part in the program in the coming school year. Further evidence of the program's excellence is that the collaboration between WCM and the Monticello schools, now in its seventh year, is the only such in the nation to be funded (in part) by the Amateur Chamber Music Players Foundation. The concert itself is funded (in part) by the New York State Council on the Arts.

General admission tickets to the concert are $10. Accompanying parents, students and children under 18 will be admitted free of charge. Tickets may be obtained by calling (845) 932-8414.