Cayman Arts Festival is celebrating two decades with a host of music events, from Sunday, 15 Feb. to Friday, 1 March.
“In February 2004, we launched Cayman Arts Festival as a biennial event,” Glen Inanga, festival artistic director and co-founder, told the Compass. “Twenty years later, we are now an annual event, and so much more.”
The milestone anniversary is the right time to commemorate “all we have achieved”, he said, noting that the ‘we’ includes himself, CAF co-founder Jennifer Micallef, executive director Marius Gaina, the advisory committee, sponsors, volunteers, local musicians, music teachers, the children and parents who have participated in the music education programme, and the many residents who come to the concerts.
Inanga added, “’We’ also includes [nine years of] invaluable and unwavering support from Johnson String Instruments, which provides musical instruments at cost – and sometimes even donates them… The Cayman Arts Festival simply would not be here 20 years later without ‘we’.”
Cayman Arts Festival’s official roster for its 20th event:
Asiya Korepanova – Organ recital – Sunday, 18 Feb. at 11:30am, St. George’s Anglican Church (67 Courts Road, George Town)
Asiya Korepanova with Glen Inanga – Piano recital – Monday, 19 Feb. at 7pm, Harquail Theatre
Classical Music Concert for children – Tuesday, 20 Feb. at 12:30pm, Harquail Theatre
CAF String Orchestra concert – Wednesday, 21 Feb. at 7pm, Harquail Theatre
Glen Inanga, Dequan Smith and John McLaughlin Williams – Piano, cello and violin recital – Thursday, 22 Feb. at 7pm, Harquail Theatre
Bach Aria Soloists with Rodney Marsalis – Saturday, 24 Feb. at 7pm, Cayman Islands Baptist Church (163 Pedro Castle Road, Savannah)
CAF Youth Camerata with Trio Balanas – Thursday, 29 Feb. at 7pm, John Gray High School Performance Hall
Trio Balanas recital – Friday, 1 March at 7pm, Camana Bay Cinema
For more information on the Cayman Arts Festival’s 20th anniversary celebration and to purchase tickets, visit the festival website or call 922-5550.
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