WEEK 3:RHYTHM

AUG. 188 p.m.: Chamber Music Concert, First Presbyterian Church, $18 to $24, free for children 12 and younger.

THE PROGRAM: Handel-Halvorsen, Passacaglia on a Theme from Handel for Violin and Viola; Arensky, Quartet No. 2 in A minor for Violin, Viola, and Two Cellos, Op. 35; Brahms, String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18.

THE MUSICIANS: Members of ECCO (the East Coast Chamber Orchestra).

AUG. 198 p.m.: Chamber Music Concert, First Presbyterian Church, $18 to $24, free for children 12 and younger.

THE PROGRAM: Luigi Boccherini, Introduction and Fandango; Peter Warlock, “Capriol Suite;” Wayne Siegel, “East L.A. Phase;” Bizet, Carmen Suite. Three Post-bop Classics: John Coltrane, “Giant Steps;” Miles Davis, “Blue in Green;” Miles Davis, “So What.” Debussy, La Soire dans Granade; de Falla, El Amor Brujo.

THE MUSICIANS: The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.

AUG. 20

7:30 p.m.: “ECCO at Brook Farm,” $20 and $26, free for children 12 and younger.

THE PROGRAM: Mozart, Divertimento in F Major K 138;

Elgar, Serenade for Strings in E Minor, Opus 20; Jennifer Higdon, String from Concerto for Orchestra; Bartk, Divertimento for String Orchestra; Corelli/Geminiani, La Follia Variations.

THE MUSICIANS: The East Coast Chamber Orchestra.

AUG. 2411 a.m.: FamilyFest, with So Percussion, Skaneateles High School, free.

5:30 p.m.: Musical Happy Hour, a community concert. Anyela’s Vineyards, 2433 W. Lake Road, Skaneateles. Free.

THE MUSICIANS: The Kataoka/ Nelson Duo (marimba and flute).

AUG. 258 p.m.: Chamber Music Concert: So Percussion, Skaneateles High School, $18 to $24, free for children 12 and younger.

THE PROGRAM: David Lang, “So-called Laws of Nature, Part 2;” So Percussion, selections from “Amid the Noise;” Steve Reich, “Drumming Part 1;” Paul Lansky, “Threads.”

THE MUSICIANS: So Percussion.

AUG. 26 8 p.m.: “Not Your Mother’s Chamber Music Concert,” First Presbyterian Church, $18 to $24, free for children 12 and younger.

THE PROGRAM: Bach, Selected works for solo marimba; Sebastian Currier, “Whispers for Flute,” Cello, Percussion,

and Piano; “Nightclub 1960” and “Concert d’aujord’hui” from L’Histoire du Tango; Michael Daugherty, Diamond in the Rough for Violin, Viola, and Percussion; Mozart, Selections from the Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478; Gershwin, “I Got Rhythm” and other selections for solo piano.

THE MUSICIANS: Marcus Roberts, piano; Ayano Kataoka, marimba; Conor Nelson, flute; David Ying, cello.

AUG. 27 7:30 p.m.: “Marcus Roberts Trio at Brook Farm,” $20 and $26, free for children 12 and younger.

THE PROGRAM: Jazz standards as well as Roberts’ composition, “From Rags to Rhythm.”

THE MUSICIANS: Featuring: Marcus Roberts, piano; Rodney Jordan, bass; Jason Marsalis, drums.

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Pianist Marcus Roberts juggles two cell phones while traveling in New Jersey on business. He’s that kind of busy — as a solo artist, founder of the Marcus Roberts Trio, composer and teacher at Florida State University.

The jazz musician says it’s fitting he and the trio will perform at a chamber music festival. Last year, he recalls the trio played at Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

“There tends to be a bit more interchange and collaboration between jazz and classical music because both musics need to rebuild their audiences. So therefore, I think that intelligent collaboration is one way to do it,” he says during a phone interview.

Roberts believes jazz and classical are integral to our culture.

On those occasions when the pianist plays a classical music solo or with his trio, he combines the two.

“Everything that we do is coming from a jazz point of view,” he says with the soft inflection of a Southern accent. The pianist, who lost his sight as a 5-year-old, was born in Jacksonville, Fla.

Roberts will perform a 15-minute solo, featuring Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm” and other selections, Aug. 26. The evening concert of four musicians is titled “Not Your Mother’s Chamber Music Concert.” The next night, Roberts’ trio will join him and perform his 2001 composi-tion, “From Rags to Rhythm.” Chamber Music America commissioned the piece, a 12-movement suite. Roberts, the composer, says his intention with the piece was to show how ragtime music or the feeling of it has influenced his trio and how it has informed the history of jazz.

“The improvisation is based on five different motifs that appear throughout the piece,” Roberts says. “It’s a pretty complicated conception, but hopefully nothing that the public has to worry about.

“Listen to it and like it, we hope.”

MARCUS ROBERTS:‘A JAZZ POINT OF VIEW’

8 p.m. Aug. 26 at First Presbyterian Church, 97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles.

Tickets: $18 to $24, free for children 12 years and younger

7:30 p.m. Aug. 27 at Brook Farm, 2870 W. Lake Road, Skaneateles.

Tickets: $20 and $26, free for children 12 years and younger.

PERFORMANCES

SO PERCUSSION

THE MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO IS (FROM LEFT) RODNEY JORDAN, MARCUS ROBERTS AND JASON MARSALIS.

Courtesy of the Skaneateles Festival

Courtesy of the Skaneateles Festival