The UBS Chamber Music Festival of Lexington presents its 2010 edition during the last week in August, with concerts planned for Friday and Saturday evenings, August 27 and 28, and a Sunday afternoon program on August 29 with an focus on Mozart this year. The performances will be held again this summer at the Fasig-Tipton Pavilion on Newtown Pike. Scheduled also this year in mid-week are master classes in piano, viola, cello, clarinet and violin and an open rehearsal. These events are free to the public. Lexington’s Nathan Cole, violin, will again serve as artistic director, joined by Akiko Tarumoto, violin; Burchard Tang, viola; Priscilla Lee, cello; and Alessio Bax, piano. This quintent of musicians has entertained Lexington audiences since the founding of the festival in 2007. Joining the group this year is one of the “world’s exceptional young clarinet players,” Alexander Fiterstein, who will play during each of the three concerts. An original work for the 2010 festival is being written by Roger Zare, who follows Daniel Thomas Davis and Clancy Newman in preparing a world premiere for the Lexington audience. Zare recently had an original piece performed by the American Composers’ Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, about which the New York Times wrote “he creates a strong impression of a young composer with an enviable grasp of orchestration.” Last year, Zare won the ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize, the top award given by that prestigious organization. The piece will have its world premiere during the Saturday evening concert. Marking the third successive festival to present original music, the event is gaining recognition throughout the nation’s musical communities for commissioning new music. This undertaking is made possible by a generous grant from Dr. Ronald Saykaly and his wife Teresa Garbulinska, who recently announced a pledge which will go toward making the composer-in-residence a permanent part of the festival. For more information about the festival, please visit other pages of this website.