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Thank you for a wonderful 8th Annual

White Lake Chamber Music Festival​

​As we move into our 8th annual White Lake Chamber Music Festival, the White Lake area has had the privilege of hosting and experiencing exceptional talent and great music. Our reach has expanded considerably and we are on our way to put the White Lake area on the national map of exceptional chamber music festivals!

​Performances by the legendary Avalon String Quartet will be among the many highlights of this year’s White Lake Chamber Music Festival to be held August 3-13, 2017. Now in its eighth year, the festival will present exceptional performances and events held throughout the White Lake area of Montague and Whitehall. Most events are free.

From August 3 -13, local, national, and international performers will come together in the White Lake area. The Chicago based Avalon String Quartet returns as our Resident String Quartet, but with a new and added surprise; a special performance with Chicago clarinetist Elizandro Garcia-Montoya performing the Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op.115! Grand Rapids performers, Andrew Le - piano, Jenny Walvoord - violin, Alicia Eppinga – cello, and much more will be presented.

Acclaimed trumpet artists and pedagogues, Barbara Butler and Charles Geyer, will join organist Thomas Wikman for a concert that has been performed by this trio world-wide!

Youth programming will be expanded this year to include four events;
  1. The popular educational concert at the White Lake Community Library featuring Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra’s Bill Vits, percussionist
  2. An opportunity for young musicians to perform
  3. A children’s concert at the Arts Council of White Lake’s Nuveen Center featuring educator and cellist, Erin Wang.
  4. A performance by the top three winners of the Young Artists College Solo Competition, giving the community a glimpse into Michigan’s top talent from the state’s universities and colleges.

A "Music with Friends" concert will be held on Friday, August 4 at the beautiful home of the Vander Haagens. Wine, cheese, and desserts will be served between musical sets. Performing will be William Watson, tenor: Tracy Watson, mezzo-soprano; Teresa Kang, piano. Tickets are $40.

Two performances will be presented by the Chicago-based Fifth House Ensemble, a versatile and dynamic group praised by the New York Times for its “conviction, authority, and finesse.” Defined by limitless imagination, the ensemble engages curiosity to create unexpected connections with artistic collaborators and audiences of all types, breathing life into repertoire both established and emerging. Over the last decade, the ensemble has engaged theater groups, visual artists, animators, living composers, astronomers, folk musicians and corporate innovators through transformative cross-media performance experiences for audiences of every type.

The traditional Baroque concert on Friday, August 11, will feature the Gaudete Brass Quintet from Chicago. "Per Amor, per Natura" is a program exploring the personification of love and nature in 16th and 17th century madrigals. In the music of the master madrigalists, nature becomes mythopoeic and love moves the world. Music from Thomas Morley, John Wilbye, Giaches de Wert and Francisco Guerrero is paired with two modern works, Stacy Garrop’s Legends of Olympus where each movement depicts a different aspect of the natural world through the stories of classical mythology, and Joan Tower’s Copperwave where the very elements of earth are given voice to sing through the brass instruments. This concert has become one of the festival’s favorites!

Free Salon Concerts are among the many highlights of the week. Great talent will be featured daily at 4:30 p.m. at the Book Nook and Java Shop. Guest artists include a cello duo – Avalon’s Cheng-Hou Lee and his wife, Anna Sanders Lee; 4 Hand Piano, Bryan Uecker and Steve Thielman; 5th House Ensemble, and much more.

We desire to present exceptional music, to educate, thrill, and delight a growing audience of all ages and reach more people with the timeless treasures of classical music!
Fifth House Ensemble
The Chicago-based Fifth House Ensemble is a versatile and dynamic group praised by the New York Times for its “conviction, authority, and finesse.” Defined by limitless imagination, the ensemble engages curiosity to create unexpected connections with artistic collaborators and audiences of all types, breathing life into repertoire both established and emerging.