FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The sixth annual KUAF/Fulbright Summer Chamber Music Festival will conclude with The Quality of Luminescence. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. Friday, June 6, in the Great Hall at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in Bentonville as part of their “First Firday” series. Admission to this concert is free, but space is limited, and reservations are required.

The final performance will feature faculty members Stephen Gates and Er-Gene Kahng, and guest artists Ryan Cockerham, David Gerstein, Michael Maccaferri and Molly Sharp.

Music professors Gates and Kahng have been organizing the festival in collaboration with KUAF and the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences since 2009. Performances include a variety of chamber music using diverse instrumental groups from many musical eras.

Selections for The Quality of Luminescence include:

• Ravel: String Quartet in F major
• Cockerham: Clarity of Purpose (new work premiere)
• Brahms: Clarinet Quintet, op. 115

Currently based in Dallas, Texas, Cockerham is a composer/performer of contemporary art music and a designer of immersive sound and media installations.

Gerstein, a devoted performer of chamber and contemporary music has played concerts all over the world, from the stage of Carnegie Hall to the Great Wall of China.

Clarinetist and bass clarinetist Maccaferri is a member of the Grammy Award winning new music ensemble eighth blackbird. He plays clarinet and bass clarinet.

Sharp, principal violist of the Richmond Symphony, also teaches viola at Virginia Commonwealth University and is the violist of the Oberon String Quartet which is in residence at St. Christopher’s School.

The 2014 festival consisted of four concerts in May and June.  Previews for Friday’s concert and other performances from the festival are available on the KUAF/Fulbright Summer Chamber Music Festival website.

Performances are free and open to the public thanks to support from the University of Arkansas, Fulbright College and private donors. Contributions for the KUAF/ Fulbright Summer Chamber Music Festival may be made online or by contacting the Fulbright College development office at 479.575.3712 or Fulbright@uark.edu.