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Featured Artist: Nora Logan
Artist’s Bio: Nora Humphrey Logan has always been interested in narrative. How does one thing turn into another? What is growth? What is time? What is essential and what is transitory? What do roads do? How do people live in these modern times? What does it look like? Nora was born and raised in and […]
Free Rachmaninoff Concert August 9th at the Guggenheim Pavilion
The Carey Institute for Global Good and Close Encounters with Music are thrilled to present a free concert celebrating the launch of the Catskill High Peaks Music Festival next Sunday, August 9th. Held at the Carey Institute’s Guggenheim Pavillion, the performance, entitled From Rags to Riches – Works of Sergei Rachmaninoff, will feature world renown cellist Yehuda […]
Catskills High Peaks Music Festival and CIGG Featured on WAMC’s The Roundtable
This morning Carey Institute for Global Good President and CEO Gareth Crawford joined board chair Carol Ash and Festival Director Yehuda Hanani to discuss the Catskill High Peaks Music Festival opening this Sunday at the Institute. Hosted by Joe Donahue, the show focused on the festival’s move to the Carey Institute, how the resident musicians […]
Featured Artist: Stanley Maltzman
Artist’s Statement Through the years students have asked what inspired me to paint a certain picture, or what kind of pencil I use for drawing. My answer is, “it is a thousand hour pencil”. In other words, the secret is not the pencil… it is the work, the devotion and the love of drawing. Art […]
Featured Artist: Sharon Costello
Artist’s Statement Sharon Costello started as a fiber artist in the mid 1980’s with a small flock of sheep and a love of creative experimentation. She has been a full time, professional feltmaker since 1995. She is well known for her prize winning needle felted art dolls and felted vessels. She has studied feltmaking in […]
Featured Artist: Bente Hirsch
Artist’s Statement For many years Bente Hirsch has been painting and drawing in various locations: in the streets and parks of New York City, the Caribbean, Europe, South America and Marrakech, Morocco. She always tries to catch the light, starting a painting indicating where the light hits. For her, capturing the light is most important. […]
2015 Catskill High Peaks Music Festival
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 […]
Featured Artist: Jeanne Crane Strausman
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 […]
Help Us Bring the World’s Best Emerging Classical Musicians to Rensselaerville
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 […]
Catskill High Peaks Festival Brings World’s Best Emerging Classical Musicians to Upstate NY
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 […]
High Peaks Music Residency Now Accepting Applications for Summer 2017 Festival
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 […]
Anonymous Donor Pledges $10,000 Match for Catskills High Peaks Music Festival
Carey Institute raising funds to sustain cultural opportunities in rural Hilltowns Rensselaerville, N.Y.— The Carey Institute for Global Good announced today that it received a pledge from an anonymous donor to match up to $10,000 in donations raised for the High Peaks Music Festival. The challenge takes place between now and Sunday, August 13. All […]