History of Châteauville Foundation Presentations
"Maestro Janos Zalinka" from the program Simple Gifts
2009 Castleton Festival
- New Production of Britten's The Turn of the Screw (New Production)
- Revivals of Britten's Rape of Lucretia, Beggar's Opera, and Albert Herring
- Two symphonic concerts
2008-09 Season
- Castleton Residency: Albert Herring (Britten)
Lorin Maazel, Artistic Director and Conductor - Alexander Romanovsky, piano
- Claire Bloom & Eugenia Zukerman: "The Food of Love... Words and Music"
- The Virginia Gentleman
- Amstel Quartet
- An Evening of Words & Music Celebrating John Kiser's New Book, Commander of the Faithful
- Manderling Quartet
- Kinobe & Soul Beat Africa
- Dame Felicity Lott and Eugene Asti in Recital
- Giuseppe Albanese, piano
- Julian Bliss, clarinet
2007-08 Season
- Nancy Gustafson & Friends: An Afternoon of Vocal Favorites
- 10th Anniversary Gala: Encounter with Stradivarius
- Nathan Gunn, baritone & Julie Gunn, piano
- Brasil Guitar Duo
- Brooklyn Youth Chorus
- Christian Zacharias, piano
- Castleton Residency: The Beggar’s Opera (Britten/Gay)
Lorin Maazel, Artistic Director & Conductor - Attacca String Quartet
- Tomás Kubínek—“Certified Lunatic and Master of the Impossible”
- Theatre Workshop: Let Leaping Gods Fly starring Marlene Hodgdon
- Paul Reisler & A 1000 Questions
- Fitzwilliam String Quartet
2006-07 Season
- Ma Xiaohui, erhu (Traditional Chinese music)
- Zephyr with special guest Sir James Galway
(Lady Jeanne Galway, flute; Jonathan Feldman, piano; Darrett Adkins, cello) - Harolyn Blackwell, soprano and William Hicks, piano in “Give My Regards”
(Landmark songs of the American Musical Theatre) - American Chamber Players
- Wayfarers: Four One-Act Plays. A Crescent Theatre Company Production
- Colin Currie, percussion
- The Cashore Marionettes
- Castleton Residency: Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia
Lorin Maazel, Artistic Director and Conductor - Konstantin Scherbakov, piano
2005-06 Season
- Arabella Steinbacher, violin, with Robert Kulek, piano
- Brahms: Die schöne Magelone with tenor Roberto Saccà and pianist Aya Ishihara, performed with a new narration after Tieck’s novella recounted by actors Dietlinde Turban and Christopher Rothwell.
- eighth blackbird (New music ensemble)
- Leland Faulkner’s “World of Wonder”
- F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. The silent film classic with an original, extemporaneous score by Burnett Thompson.
- Brahms and Mozart Clarinet Quintets (Mark Nuccio, clarinet; Sheryl Staples & Yulia Ziskel, violins; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Elizabeth Dyson, cello)
- Jordi Savall, viola da gamba
- The New York Philharmonic Wind Quintet, with pianist Jonathan Feldman
- Eliot Fisk, guitar
- Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Lorin Maazel and Kynan Johns, conductors - Brecht: The Jewish Wife/Pinter: Ashes to Ashes
A Crescent Theatre Company production, directed by Christopher Rothwell
2004-05 Season
- The Kennedy Center Chamber Players
- The Cashore Marionettes
- Sérgio & Odair Assad, guitar duo
- The Fitzwilliam String Quartet and Christopher Rothwell, actor/narrator
- Avner “The Eccentric” Eisenberg and Mark Jaster: clowning/physical theatre performances and workshops
- Emanuel Ax, piano
- Jamie Walton, cello, and Daniel Grimwood, piano
2003-04 Season
- Rincones & Company Dance Theatre
- Tomás Kubínek—“Certified Lunatic and Master of the Impossible”
- Randy Weston, jazz pianist
- Wu Man, pipa (Traditional Chinese music)
- Joji Hattori, violin and Florian Uhlig, piano
- Early music specialist Benjamin Bagby: Beowulf
- Han-Na Chang, unaccompanied cello
- Sir James Galway, flute; Lady Jeanne Galway, flute; and Phillip Moll, piano
(Benefit concert for Hands for Hope, a Rappahannock organization for the elderly) - New York Philharmonic Ensemble
- World premiere of one-act Constantly Risking Absurdity, created and directed by Christopher Rothwell, performed by Dietlinde Turban-Maazel
2002-03 Season
- Pepe Romero, guitar
(Benefit concert for the American Friends of the Mozarteum Brasileiro) - Burhan Öçal and the Istanbul Oriental Ensemble (Traditional Turkish music)
- Claire Bloom: Shakespeare’s Women
- The Avalon String Quartet
- Avner “The Eccentric” Eisenberg
1997-2000 Seasons
- Lorin Maazel, violin, and Yefim Bronfman, piano: Brahms Violin Sonatas
- Sharon Wyrrick (dance artist from Rappahannock County)
- The Hearthstone School theater group in Emil and the Detectives
- Jazz in Castleton – Burnett Thompson Quintet with vocalist Debra Tidwell
- Kitty Carlisle Hart
- José Carreras with The Castleton Philharmonic Orchestra (Gala benefit under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness, the Queen of Spain)
- Han-Na Chang, cello, with Burnett Thompson, piano
- Dramatic reading of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, with actor Ted Griethuysen (Shakespeare Theatre, Washington)
- Lokvany Dance Group (From South India, with a new piece, Kanya)
- Chamber music recital with Itzhak Perlman, violin, Lorin Maazel, violin and Yefim Bronfman, piano
- Chamber music recital with Itzhak Perlman, violin, Lorin Maazel, violin, and Myung-Wha Chung, cello, with students of “The Perlman Music Program”
- Debut of 14-year old violinist Shunsuke Sato, with Sara Wolfensohn, piano and Lorin Maazel, violin
- Inaugural Benefit Gala with Mstislav Rostropovich, Yefim Bronfman and Lorin Maazel
- Chamber music recital with Lorin Maazel, violin, Yefim Bronfman, piano and David Finckel, cello
