The White Lake Chamber Music Festival recently announced new dates for its 2025 event, the 16th season of providing performances from celebrated performers to local residents. This year's festival will take place July 18-26. Recent festivals took place in early August.
In addition to the date changes, the popular salon concerts at the Book Nook & Java Shop will now take place at 11 a.m. and not 4 p.m. Classical guitar, marimba, duo pianists, viola-piano duo, and a violin duo will be part of those concerts.
New artistic director Marina Hoover has cultivated a festival lineup that will feature compositions from the big three B's of European classical music - Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. There will also be music from other composers with connections to those three, as well as "gems that should be shared with Festival listeners," said White Lake Music Society director Sondra Cross in a press release.
Evening concerts will feature Beethoven’s Piano Trio Op.1 No.1 and Quartet Op. 18 No.4, Brahms Horn Trio Op.40, Bach Double Violin Concerto, Schumann and Brahms Piano Quintets, Mendelssohn Quartet op.13, Brahms songs and more.
A Sunday, July 20 concert at The Playhouse at White Lake will be geared to children and adults alike, as Anne Marie Hoover and international pianists Andrea Swan and Kuang-Hao Huang share classic music to tell the story of Peter and the Wolf and The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Friday, July 25 will feature a special performance by the Windpaintner Woodwind Quintet at the White Lake Golf Club pavilion. The performance will include popular selections and arrangements from opera, musicals and more,
Support from individuals and businesses makes it possible to bring these performances to the White Lake area. For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Cross at 231-329-3056 for more information.
