The Wordless Voice of the Clarinet - Manchester Music Festival

Start: Thursday, July 24, 2025 7:30PM
End: Thursday, July 24, 2025 9:30PM

Few instruments evoke the human voice with such range and nuance as the clarinet, and even fewer performers achieve the distinction of Anthony McGill, Principal Clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic. Recipient of the 2020 Avery Fisher Prize and named 2024 Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America, McGill is a musician whose “trademark brilliance, penetrating sound and rich character” (The New York Times) burnish everything he plays. McGill will be joined by violinist Philip Setzer, the MMF Young Artists Strings and MMF returning favorites Edward Arron (cello) and Jeewon Park (piano) for Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes and Brahms’ Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano. The program concludes with Mozart’s exquisite Clarinet Quintet, a late work considered by many to be his greatest chamber music piece.