“The Kingston Chamber Music Festival will return with live performances at the University of Rhode Island’s Fine Arts Center on Saturday after a year’s hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” reads an unsigned article in Friday’s (7/16) Providence Journal (RI). “This summer, the festival marks its 33rd season with five concerts over nine days, beginning with a concert featuring the works of Debussy, Rota, Schubert and Korngold on July 24…. The entire festival will be available free online between Sept. 6 and Oct. 6 at kingstonchambermusic.org. The festival’s lineup will include … violinists Ayano Ninomiya, Zach DePue and Noah Geller; cellists Clancy Newman and Raman Ramakrishnan; and pianists Stewart Goodyear and Natalie Zhu, the festival’s artistic director…. The festival’s second concert, on July 25, will [showcase] works of Amy Beach … Florence B. Price … and contemporary composer Tina Davidson. On July 28, ’The Nightingale’s Sonata,’ a narrated concert of music, words and photographs based on the book by Thomas Wolf, will take the stage, with Zhu on piano and Ninomiya on violin…. On Aug. 1, the series wraps up with … Bartok’s ‘Romanian Folk Dances for Violin and Piano’ and compositions by Kodaly and Brahms.”
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