The Sembrich Presents the Innovative Scrag Mountain Duo in “The Living Earth”

BOLTON LANDING – The Sembrich presents the innovative Scrag Mountain Duo in “The Living Earth,” an eclectic program that evokes the beauty and grandeur of the natural world, on Saturday July 24 at 6:00 PM. The Vermont-based soprano and string bass duo will present an evening specially curated for The Sembrich’s idyllic lakeside grounds. In addition to prepared music, audience members will experience a "Duet with Lake George" come to life in real time as the duo’s bassist Evan Premo uses a loop pedal on his string bass to improvise on and transform the natural sounds of the lake environment into a new composition.

Evan Premo

“We're delighted to welcome the Scrag Mountain Duo to our lakeside series to share their artistry with us. Sembrich audiences may know composer Evan Premo through his brilliant chamber opera, The Diaries of Adam and Eve which we produced at The Sembrich in 2018. This year’s NATURE & MUSIC summer festival provides an ideal backdrop for Evan’s return to The Sembrich,” says Artistic Director Richard Wargo.   

Double bassist and composer Evan Premo has performed at summer chamber music festivals throughout the country and has been featured as a soloist and chamber musician on National Public Radio’s Performance Today. With the Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Evan premiered his own double concerto for violin and bass, Simple Mysteries inspired by the nature poetry of Mary Oliver.

Mary Bonhag

Soprano Mary Bonhag captivates audiences around the country with her “marvelous versatility” and “supple, expressive” voice. A consummate collaborator, Mary has performed as part of numerous chamber music festivals and was a SongFest Stearns Fellow and a Tanglewood Fellow in 2017 and 2018. She has been featured on the NPR shows Performance Today and From the Top and appears on Albany Records.

Tickets are $40 and are available at TheSembrich.org/festival. The evening concert will be held outdoors on the lakeshore under The Sembrich’s performance tent.

This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council.