Launched in 2022 under the direction of Michael Palmer, a renowned orchestral conductor, the Hamptons Festival of Music has evolved from a three-day post-Labor Day event at LTV Studios in Wainscott to a year-round series of productions, including programs at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, LongHouse Reserve, the East Hampton Library, and other local schools and libraries.
This year’s 2024 Festival Concert Series, which will feature Maestro Palmer at the podium and the New American Sinfonietta orchestra, will take place at LTV with three performances.
The opening concert, set for tomorrow at 8 p.m., will include Beethoven’s “Fidelio” Overture; Mahler’s “Selected Lieder” from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Ruckert Lieder,” with Thomas Dreeze, baritone, and Brahms’s Serenade No. 1 in D Major.
Tuesday’s performance, at 6 p.m., will feature “Bridges,” a piece by Victoria Bond, an acclaimed composer and conductor and a part-time East Hampton resident; Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella”; Ginastera’s “Variaciones Concertantes,” and Ravel’s “Le Tombeau de Couperin.”
The festival will conclude on Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. with Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat for violin and viola, with Richard Roberts, concertmaster, and Richard Young, principal viola.
Tickets are $150 per concert, $400 for the series.
