Yellow Barn Music Festival Presents Public Master Classes

Yellow Barn Music School and Festival in Putney is offering a series of public master classes during its ongoing 40th anniversary season, offering a unique inside look at the preparation of chamber music for public performance. All classes will take place at the festival’s air-conditioned, handicapped-accessible Putney performance barn, and all will involve renowned artists in public coaching sessions with selected festival musicians.

On Saturday, July 18, internationally respected violinist and educator Donald Weilerstein, former longtime first violinist of the Cleveland Quartet, and current faculty at the Juilliard School and the New England Conservatory, will lead the class, beginning at 10:30 a.m., with observations of participants performing works by Beethoven, Brahms and Debussy.

Cellist Steven Doane of the Eastman School of Music will lead the class on Saturday, July 25 at 10:30 a.m. and former Takács Quartet violist and Grammy Award-winner Roger Tapping will offer a class on August 1 at the same time. On Monday, August 3, cellist Paul Katz, longtime former member of the Cleveland Quartet and faculty at the New England Conservatory, will offer a class at 8 p.m. For tickets and information, call 802-387-6637 or visit www.yellowbarn.org.