(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Cellist Edward Arron leads a string quintet performing works by Mozart, Brahms, Arvo Pärt, and Giya Kancheli.at The Clarkon Sunday, November 17, 2013, at 2 pm. Arron will be joined by world-renowned violinists Jennifer Frautschi and Tessa Lark and violists Che-Hung Chen and Max Mandel, all performing artists in residence at The…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) — The American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) kicks off its 2013–14 season this weekend with back-to-back concerts featuring works by Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, and Dorman on Friday and Saturday, October 25-26, 2013, at 8 p.m., in the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. The program features Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka; Avner…
(NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – The Apollo Trio will play piano trios by Mozart, Rachmaninoff and Schubert at New Marlborough’s historic Meeting House on Saturday, September 21, 2013, at 4:30 p.m., as part of the Music and More series. A reception follows the concert in the Meeting House Art Gallery. The trio, comprised of violinist Curtis…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – Pianist Vincent Adragna will join duo parnas – violinist Madalyn Parnas and cellist Cicely Parnas – to play works by Prokofiev, Brahms, and Schubert, as part of the Tannery Pond Concerts series in the barn at the Darrow School, on Saturday, September 7, 2013, at 8pm. The Parnas sisters grew up…
(NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – The distinctly American musical works of Connecticut Yankee composer Charles Ives will be presented at the Meeting House on Saturday, August 31, 2013, at 4:30 p.m., as part of the Music & More series. Performers include mezzo-soprano Deborah Rentz-Moore, pianist Donald Berman, and violinist Daniel Stepner. Ives, whose music was largely…
(NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – The Daedalus Quartet returns to the Music and More Festival at the Meeting House on Saturday, August 24, 2013, at 4:30 p.m., with a performance of Schubert, Beethoven, Smetana and Schulhoff. A reception follows at the Meeting House Gallery. The quartet musicians are Min-Young Kim and Matilda Kaul, violins; Jessica Thompson,…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – Pianists Vassily Primakov and Natalia Lavrova will perform works by Chopin and Rachmaninov in the Tannery on the grounds of the Darrow School as part of the Tannery Pond Concerts chamber music series on Saturday, August 17, 2013, at 8pm. The program features Primakov playing a selection of Chopin, followed by…
(HUNTER, N.Y.) – Celebrating “White Nights” of the Russian tradition, two charismatic international performers — pianist Vassily Primakov and cellist Yehuda Hanani — join forces to present a program of Russian masters Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Tchaikovsky, in the opening concert of the Catskill High Peaks Festival, a collaboration between Close Encounters With Music and the…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Pianist Yefim Bronfman and violinist Gil Shaham are back-to-back guest soloists this weekend, performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Christoph von Dohnányi at Tanglewood. Shaham tackles Sibelius’s Violin Concerto on Friday, August 9, 2013, at 8:30 p.m., and Bronfman performs Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto on Saturday, August 10,…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Concertante Chamber Players kick off a four-week series of chamber music concerts at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Tuesday, August 6, 2013, at 8 pm. Upcoming concerts feature the Gryphon Trio (August 13), the Dover Quartet (August 20), and the Dorian Wind Quintet with pianist Spencer Myer (August…
