RCMS Season a Labor of Love, Begins With a Quartet June 17
The Rochester Chamber Music Society (RCMS) will begin its 13th season Sunday, June 17 with an exciting performance by the Johannes String Quartet. A pre-concert talk will begin at 3:30 p.m. and the concert will begin at 4 p.m. at the Rochester Federated Church on Main St. in Rochester village.

A group of inspired musicians led by an RCMS favorite, violinist Soovin Kim, the quartet also features violinist Jessica Lee, violist Choong-Jin Chang, and cellist Peter Stumpf.

On July 8, the RCMS will kick off the annual Green Mountain Suzuki Festival (GMSI) with a gala concert featuring not one, but two premieres. An RCMScommissioned song cycle by Vermont composer Erik Nielsen will be sung by baritone Simon Chausee, and a chamber work by young composer Devin Arrington, whom many may remember as the teacher of the RCMS Quintown String Program several years ago, will be performed.

The Suzuki Institute ends with a Friday, July 13 concert that will feature the premiere of a GMSIcommissioned pi ano trio by a young Vermont composer, Sara Doncaster. The following day, Saturday, July 14 will be the annual RCMS Bach Bash at the Hancock Town Hall.

During August, the RCMS will offer two outstanding concerts. On August 5, Montreal pianist Yuri Meyrowitz, familiar to RCMS concertgoers as the longtime accompanist of the late cellist Peter Schenkman, will offer a solo recital in his memory. On August 24, RCMS artistic director Cynthia Huard will be joined by Yumi Huang, concertmaster of the Denver Symphony, and her husband, Dan Williams, of the Philadelphia Orchestra's horn section, for a special Friday evening trio concert.

RCMS President Larry Hamberlin notes that preparing these concerts is a labor of love for the organization's board of directors. "We charge no admission for these events, with the goal of making this music acces sible to all, regardless of income," he says.

Admission to RCMS concerts is by donation. For more information call 767-9234.