Virtuoso guitarist and Door County favorite Eric Lewis teams up with Midsummer’s Composer-in-Residence Will Healy to present two incredible concerts with four world premieres.
Sister Bay, Wis. (July 3, 2023) – Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s oldest summer chamber music series, continues its 2023 concert season with an electrifying program starring Door County favorite Eric Lewis, a virtuoso guitarist and banjoist, and Will Healy, its own Composer-in-Residence and a classical/jazz/hip-hop maverick. Working with musicians from Midsummer’s Music’s ensemble and NYC-based composer George Meyer, the magical results include four world premieres.
The two Eric Lewis Meets Will Healy concerts are a delightful and unexpected twist to a season punctuated by such greats as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, and Beethoven—to name just a few. The concerts begin with Healy and Meyer performing movements from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonata No. 6 in G Major for violin and piano. Lewis follows up on guitar with Bourée from Bach’s Suite E Minor. He continues his set with at least three additional pieces, one of which, “For Rose Mary,” is the first of the program’s world premieres. Healy and Meyer return before intermission with three more original works, including “Let the Record Show,” the second world premiere.
Following intermission, Healy unveils the world premiere of his “Root Position” for piano, violin, viola, and cello – commissioned by Midsummer’s Music – and Meyer presents his “Trio” for two violins and cello. The program concludes with a selection of pieces chosen by the ensemble, including the unnamed fourth world premiere performed by Lewis, Healy, and Meyer.
In addition to Lewis, strings, Healy, piano, and Meyer, violin, the program musicians are Sahada Buckley, violin, Allyson Fleck, viola, Mara McClain, cello, and Drew Banzhaf, bass.
Performances are 7:00pm, July 13, at Egg Harbor’s Kress Pavilion, in memory of Tommy Burroughs and sponsored by Dick & Annie Egan, with supporting sponsors MMG Foundation and Sandy Zingler; and 7:00pm, July 14, at Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church in Ellison Bay, sponsored by Tim & Sue Stone, with supporting sponsor MMG Foundation.
A complete 2023 summer brochure can be downloaded at www.midsummersmusic.com.
Tickets are $38 for adults, $17 for students, and children 12 and under are free with an adult. Premium prices apply for special events. Flex-packs of six tickets for the price of five tickets are also available. Tickets can be ordered at www.midsummersmusic.com or by phone at 920-854-7088.
Midsummer’s Music was co-founded in 1990 by Jim and Jean Berkenstock, long-time Door County summer residents and principal orchestral players with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. What began as two concerts among friends has become one of the Midwest’s most anticipated chamber music series, bringing thousands of chamber music enthusiasts from around the globe to the magical Door County Peninsula.
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