At 2 p.m on June 7, 2008 in the Island Roxy Theater on Main Street on Chincoteague Island, CCA presented a  concert by the Attacca Quartet, Silver Medal winners of the Third International Chesapeake  Chamber Music Competition. 

This biennial competition, which carries a $10,000 prize, promotes emerging professional ensembles.  To enter, the average age of all members of an ensemble must be less than 31.  The 2008 competition drew fifty-six entries from the United States, Canada, Russia, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. 

Formed in 2003 at the Julliard School, Attacca Quartet was recently award the Grand Prize at the 2006 Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in Pasadena, California, and was on of three quartets chosen internationally to participate in the Pacific Music Festival’s 2006 String Quartette Course in Sapporo, Japan.  The Attacca Quartet has represented Julliard in the John F. Kennedy Center Conservatory Project concert series and the Guameri Quartet’s 40th anniversary celebration master class, and has distinguished itself in seminars and master classes with members of the Emerson, Guameri, Mendelssohn, Miami, Miro’, and St. Lawrence String quartets.  Currently studying at Julliard with Joel Smirnoff and Samuel Rhodes, the quartette has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall with the Julliard String Quartet, and participated in the 2005 Festival of Two Works in Spoleto, Italy, and the 2005 Music@Menlo Festival outside San Francisco.

Special thanks to the 1848 Island Manor House for sponsoring the reception after the concert! 


TICKET INFORMATION

Concert Ticket ADVANCE PURCHASE: $15
Concert TIcket AT THE DOOR:  $18

Concert & Reception ADVANCE PURCHASE ONLY:  $20

Student Tickets:  $5

Advance tickets can be purchased:

By mail (Send check to CCA, PO Box 257, Chincoteague Island, VA 23336)  Tickets will be held at the door.

Online through the CCA store.  Click Here. (tickets are available online NOW)

Or from these outlets (beginning two weeks before the concert and up to the day before)

Egret Moon Artworks
    4044 Main Street
    (757) 336-5775

H&H Pharmacy
    6300 Maddox Boulevard
    (757) 336-3115

Island Cottage Collection
    6361 & 6208 Maddox Blvd
    (757) 336-5636
    (757) 336-0041

Psychotronic Music and Movies
    4102 Main St.
    (757)-336-0048

Sundial Books
    4073 Main Street
    (757) 336-5825