Tickets: $18 General Admission, $15 Seniors, $12 Members of the Windham Chamber Music Festival, Catskill Mountain Foundation or WMHT/WRHV-FM, $5 Students

Hailed as one of America's outstanding young ensembles, the Manhattan-based Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East, with prestigious appearances at New York's Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Tanglewood Music Theater, the Kennedy Center, the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris and Maeda Hall in Tokyo. The group, which is comprised of Muneko Otani, violin, Jennifer Leshnower, violin, Tawnya Popoff, viola, and Nicole Johnson, cello, has frequently been heard on WGBH, WQXR and WNYC, and has also presented programs on CBC Radio and Radio France.

Formed in 1985 with the encouragement of the Juilliard Quartet, the Cassatt initiated and were the inaugural participants in Juilliard's Young Artists Quartet Program. Their numerous awards include a Tanglewood Chamber Music fellowship, the Wardwell Chamber Music Fellowship at Yale (where they served as teaching assistants to the Tokyo Quartet), First Prizes at the Fischoff and Coleman Chamber Music Competitions, two top prizes at the Banff International String Quartet Competition, the 1995 CMA/ASCAP First Prize Award for Adventurous Programming, and a 1996 recording grant from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. Additional information about the Cassatt is available on the Quartet's website at www.cassattquartet.com.

Yuri Funahashi, pianist, has received critical acclaim in Europe, Asia and North America. She is a member of the Festival Chamber Music Society of New York and the Pane-Funahashi Piano Duo. She has been a guest artist at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, Maine Music Society and the Royal Viking Music Festival at Sea. She has also been heard in chamber music concerts in many U.S. concert halls including the Kennedy Center, Music Center of Los Angeles, Jones Hall in Houston, and the 92nd Street Y and Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York. Yuri was honored at the 1990 Tchaikovsky Competition as an outstanding accompanist. She lives in Wilton, Maine with her family and is an adjunct professor at the University of Maine at Farmington, and an active private teacher.