The annual White Lake Chamber Music Festival, now in its 15th year of presenting an impressive array of exceptional performances and live chamber music performances, will run from Aug. 2–10. Excellent programming, world-class artists, and inspiring classical music performances will take place in the White Lake area. What once was mostly found only in metropolitan cities, is now a yearly experience in the White Lake area.
This year, a core group of musicians were engaged that will perform throughout the entirety of the nine days. Two mainstays of the Festival are returning musicians Marina Hoover, cello, and Richard Young, viola.
Hoover has double duty this year. Being the new Artistic Director, she has created the programming and secured the 18 musicians, plus being a trusted source for Director Sondra Cross for “all things musical.” Hoover is a two-time Grammy nominee and the founding cellist of the St. Lawrence String Quartet, which rocketed to international prominence. In her 13 years with the St. Lawrence, Hoover performed at The White House, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 92nd Street “Y,” The Kennedy Center (for the Emperor of Japan), Wigmore Hall (London), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), and Theatre De Ville (Paris). Following her time with the SLSQ, Hoover held the position of Visiting Professor of Cello at the University of Toronto, Artist-in-residence at the Banff School of Fine Arts, and Distinguished Artist at the University of Alberta. As the Festival’s new Artistic Director, Hoover will take the festival to new heights with her exceptional background, experience, and passion for great chamber music.
Young was invited to perform for Queen Elisabeth of Belgium at the Royal Palace in Brussels at the age of only 13. He has been a soloist with various orchestras and has given solo and chamber music recitals throughout North and South America, Europe, the Far East, Africa, and Australia. A special award winner in the Rockefeller Foundation American Music Competition, he was a member of the New Hungarian Quartet as well as the renowned Vermeer String Quartet. Recording artist, producer, and author, Young has performed at many prestigious festivals throughout the world, received three Grammy nominations, taught at Northern Illinois University, the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, Colombia), Wichita State University, North Park University, and Oberlin Conservatory.
