Manchester Music Festival - Vittorio Giannini: Piano Quintet, Piano Trio (2021)

What is now known as the Manchester Music Festival (MMF) began in 1974. Violinist Carroll Glenn and her husband, pianist Eugene List (both deceased) were the founders of a summer chamber music study program for college:age string players and pianists. Cellist Michael M. Rudiakov, along with his wife Judith, took over the organization in 1985, bringing it back from the brink of collapse and transforming it over the next 15 years into a year:round performing and teaching organization. Today, the MMF has its own headquarters, a robust music education program and a full slate of summer
and fall/winter concerts. The Festival’s mission prioritizes equally between teaching and performing, and its ongoing activities have led it well beyond the boundaries of most organizations similar to it. It is likely that, in the future, MMF will be renamed the Manchester Music Centre, to more accurately reflect its standing in the community, while better communicating the truth of its institutional gravitas. The five musicians performing on this recording are faculty or guest artists of the MMF