Cactus Pear Music Festival kicks off Wednesday, July 6, 2023, in Wimberley Texas at the Chapel in the Hills at 7pm and continues to San Antonio at Trinity Baptist Church on July 7th and runs through Saturday, July 15. Over the two-week festival, you'll hear 6 programs and 14 phenomenal musicians with an arc of programming that will be world-class from start to finish.

Concert Program:
Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)
Leidenschaftlich schnell from 3 Romances, op. 22, for violin and piano (1853)
Sant’Ambrogio, Sykes

Gian Carlo Menotti (1911 - 2007)
Suite for two cellos and piano (1973)
Ross, Rapier, Sykes

SAN ANTONIO PREMIERE
John Wineglass (b. 1973)
“And the summer was over” for piano quintet (2023)
De Pasquale, Sant’Ambrogio, Cook, Rapier, Sykes

Johannes Brahms(1833 - 1897)
String Sextet in B-flat Major, op. 18 (1860)
De Pasquale, Sant’Ambrogio, Cook, Bryla, Ross, Rapier

WEEK TWO ARTISTS:
Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio, violin
Ellen de Pasquale, violin
Kaya Bryla, viola
Carol Cook, viola
Tony Ross, cello
Beth Rapier, cello
Jeffrey Sykes, piano
John Wineglass, composer

*Reception following the concert in the Fanning Foyer of the Trinity Baptist Church, generously sponsored by Jefferson Bank*