Miraculous Mendelssohn: Season Opening Concert at the Anchorage Museum

Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM

We kick off our 2025 Summer Festival with the music of Felix Mendelssohn! Brilliantly precocious, Mendelssohn composed the two masterworks on this program in his mid-teens, ushering in an entirely new genre of chamber music in the process. As some of the first works written for larger chamber ensembles, the string octet has achieved legendary status among chamber musicians, while the piano sextet remains one of few attempts at this unique instrumental formation.

PROGRAM

Felix MENDELSSOHN: Piano Sextet in D major, Op. 110
Felix MENDELSSOHN: String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20


ARTISTS

David Fung (piano)
Minju Kim, Luri Lee, Christine Harada Li, Boson Mo and Zachary Spontak (violin)
Edwin Kaplan and Hezekiah Leung (viola)
Nathan Chan and Nathaniel Pierce (cello)
Paul Sharpe (bass)

All ACMF concerts are General Admission.