Chamber music program runs the gamut – JH News&Guide

Chamber music nights at the Grand Teton Music Festival are all about festival friends presenting a wide variety of music in a close and intimate setting.

The July 23 concert checks all of those boxes with works from four centuries for trios to sextets and, as a bonus, next week’s guest soloist getting in on the fun.

South Korean classical guitarist Jiyeon Kim, or Jiji Guitar as she is professionally known, will join orchestra musicians for the thrilling “fandango” finale of Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini’s Guitar Quintet in D Major (1798), complete with castanets.

The Italian composer (1743-1805) was a cellist and a prolific composer of chamber music. His body of work includes more than three dozen cello sonatas, 30-plus violin sonatas, more than 70 string trios and hundreds of string quartets and quintets, as well as nine quintets for guitar.

JIJI, as she is widely known, began playing classical guitar at age 9, was accepted into the Korean National University of Arts at 14, and moved to the U.S. at 15 to attend the Cleveland Institute of Music before moving on to the Curtis Institute where she was one of just two classical guitarists to study at the famed Philadelphia school.

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