This year’s festival will feature cellist Gary Hoffman who has been internationally recognized as one of the greatest musicians of our time. He won the Premier Grand Prix of the Rostropovich Competition in Paris in 1986 and made his debut at London’s Wigmore Hall at the age of fifteen. Currently he teaches at the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Music Chapel and some of the most prestigious American campuses and performs on the Nicolò Amati cello of 1662 which once belonged to the great cellist Leonard Rose. Other faculty guest artists will include Wesley Baldwin, Jennifer Kloetzel, Attila Pasztor, and Jonathan Ruck, representing many of the top music programs in the world.
Works for solo cello and small cello ensembles by Bartok, Crumb, Fitzenhagen, Giardini, Haydn, and Klengel, featuring the artist faculty of the Cello│Fresno Festival.
Tickets are $25 for general; $20 for employees, seniors, military/veterans,
$15 for non-Fresno State Students, and free for Fresno State students with ID.