Selected musicians to perform work by top women composers celebrating women’s suffrage centennial Rensselaerville, N.Y.—The annual High Peaks Music Residency and Festival is accepting applications from outstanding violinists, violists, cellists, mandolinists and pianists for an intensive 10-day seminar beginning August 7 and concluding on August 17, 2017. Led by internationally renowned cellist Yehuda Hanani, the […]
Artist’s Statement: Patrick Milbourn’s work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Time magazine, the New Yorker, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Business Week, New York Magazine, Forbes and the like. His paintings have appeared as covers in over forty books published by Random House, Putnam, Ballantine and Doubleday. Patrick has received awards and accolades from the Pastel Society […]
7th annual festival takes place August 7–18 & features concerts open to the public RENSSELAERVILLE, N.Y.—More than fifty of the world’s most talented young classical musicians will gather in southern Albany County for the Seventh Annual Catskill High Peaks Festival this August 7 through 18. Led by internationally renowned cellist Yehuda Hanani, the High Peaks […]
Artist’s Statement: Virginia Cantarella resides in South Westerlo, NY. She attended Connecticut College for Women. Not happy with the her education there she left after two and a half years to spend five months in Italy, first in Florence and then with a family living near Genoa. On returning she attended the Boston Museum School graduating […]
This August, the Carey Institute will host the 7th annual Catskill High Peaks Music Residency. Fifty hand-picked emerging musicians from around the world will gather for immersive master classes, small group workshops and public performances between August 7 and August 18. Internationally renowned cellist Yehuda Hanani has assembled an outstanding faculty to immerse these musicians […]
Artist’s Statement: My passion as an artist is to express the many moods and emotions evoked by nature’s landscapes with soft pastels. I choose to work outside whenever possible so I can immerse myself in the sensual riches of nature. There are constantly new perspectives to be discovered. Nature is always in flux, as is […]
The Carey Institute is pleased to announce that Jeanne Crane Strausman will be showing her work in the Guggenheim Gallery during the month of April. Ms. Strausman has been living and working in the Hudson Valley for more than twenty years, observing and culling from nature. Residing now in Rensselaerville, she concentrates her attention on the […]
Renowned guitarist Eliot Fisk and Yehuda Hanani in guitar/cello recital “If there is another guitarist in the world who can match the technical accomplishment of the American Eliot Fisk, I should be surprised.” – The Times of London “In this era of the cello, Hanani is among the best. His Bach was absorbing, imaginative, beautiful […]
We were thrilled to host the 6th annual Catskill High Peaks Music Festival in August 2015. Fifty hand-picked emerging artists from around the world gathered on our campus for 10 days to learn from internationally renowned cellist Yehuda Hanani and his acclaimed colleagues. Master classes, moonlight sonatas and evening concerts were all open to the […]
Songwriting with Soldiers program at The Carey Institute for Global Good.