The Champlain Trio at Wake Robin
We always love returning to the series at Wake Robin and look forward to performing our “Forgotten Voices” program.
We always love returning to the series at Wake Robin and look forward to performing our “Forgotten Voices” program.
We’re excited to perform in the beautiful Berkshires this summer! Please save the date and join us for this wonderful noon-time series in Williamstown, MA.
Program information coming soon / Free admission (donations to the series accepted).
We’re looking forward to our first performance at the Honest Brook Music Festival in Delhi, NY! Program and ticket information coming soon.
The Conservatory Audition Workshop gives string students a competitive edge at music school auditions. Participants work with teachers from top schools around the country; consult with admissions counselors; take daily mock auditions, and much more. Please visit the workshop website for more information!
We’re always delighted to return to the Kendal at Hanover and look forward to this performance!
Program and information coming soon.
We’re absolutely thrilled to be joining the fabulous students at the Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts for a day of masterclasses and panels focusing on chamber music by incredible female composers. Please save the date and join us for this weekend which includes a performance at the Brick Church Music Series on Sunday, April 28 as well as the masterclasses and panels at the Academy on Monday, April 29 which are open to the public.
We hope our Massachusetts friends will save the date and join us for this special concert! Our “Forgotten Voices” program revives exquisite works by the remarkable composers Alice Verne-Bredt, Hélène Liebmann, and Dora Pejačević – three unique women from more than a century ago with exceptional talents. Experience the timeless beauty of their compositions and immerse yourself in the alluring trios that once echoed through the halls of history.
Free admission / suggested donation $10-$20. Click here for more information!
Join us at this unique venue for an afternoon of wonderful spring music. The program will include works by Helene Liebmann, Walter Rabl, Mel Bonis and Claude Debussy.
We’re always thrilled to be back with our friends at Plainfield Arts so please save the date and join us for an afternoon performance in their charming opera house. Ticket information coming soon!
Nicholas Hersh, Conductor
Carl Nielsen Helios Overture
Wolfgang Mozart Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter)
Gustav Holst The Planets
Embark on a voyage through space and time with music that explores the vast expanse of our Solar System. Beginning at the heart of it all, Carl Nielsen’s Helios Overture portrays the light of our home star: a sublime sunrise over the ocean. The final symphony of one of history’s most enduring musicians, W.A. Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 is at once so elegant and powerful that it was compared to Jupiter, king of the heavens. Finally, while Gustav Holst took inspiration for his symphonic suite The Planets from astrological, not astronomical, sources, his vivid music transforms the orchestra into a spacecraft on a billions-mile journey from fleet Mercury to lonely Neptune at the very fringe of our place in space.
Please save the date and join us in this lovely hall for our “Fall Fantasy” program featuring works by Alice Verne-Bredt, Robert Schumann, Walter Rabl and Frank Bridge. Ticket and program information coming soon!
We always love performing in our home town and look forward to seeing a lot of familiar faces. Our “Fall Fantasy” program will include Phantasies by a wide range of composers including Alice Verne-Bredt, Walter Rabl, Robert Schumann and Frank Bridge. Ticket information coming soon!
What better way to open the Springfield Symphony Orchestra’s 80th season, and the honor of doing so, than with a program full of invigorating, energetic works? We begin with a celebratory gem—Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture,” an aural, upbeat revelry in sound with its exhilarating, flowing melodic lines. Following is Max Bruch’s beloved, popular “Violin Concerto,” a passionate masterpiece full of rich melodies, lush orchestral moments and violin virtuosity at its best. As the evening draws to a close, we send you home with the sounds of luxurious orchestral textures, full of emotion and magnificent energy, in Rachmaninoff’s “Symphony No. 2.” One of my favorites, this work reminds us not only of the magic of large-scale orchestral works, but of how each instrument connects lovingly with each other. Music is a part of every community and this concert not only shares the beauty and wonder of music but highlights the incredible talent that is Springfield Symphony Orchestra.
VSO’s 2023-2024 season opener begins with its first-ever performance of Coleridge-Taylor’s ravishing ballade, with Smetana and Brahms completing the Romantic concert theme. Cellist Joshua Roman and violinist Simone Porter make their Vermont debuts. This concert is conducted by VSO Music Director Andrew Crust.
PROGRAM
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Ballade in a minor
BEDRICH SMETANA “Ma Vlast” selections:
II. Vltava (The Moldau)
IV. Z českých luhů a hájů (From Bohemia’s Fields and Meadows)
Intermission
JOHANNES BRAHMS Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
Zoë Keating, Ray Vega, Champlain Trio, Matthew Evan Taylor and more join forces in aid of the Vermont Arts Council’s flood relief grants for Vermont Artists. This afternoon brings together classical and jazz musicians and visual artists in our community, sharing their exceptional talents to raise funds for Vermont’s cultural sector creatives affected by recent flooding. All proceeds benefit the Vermont Arts Council’s flood relief grants. After the concert, join the artists for a reception and more music with the All Night Boogie Band!
The Conservatory Audition Workshop gives string students a competitive edge at music school auditions. Participants work with teachers from top schools around the country; consult with admissions counselors; take daily mock auditions, and much more. Our goal is to help guide the students through every aspect of the audition process and to leave them feeling prepared, confident and inspired.
We’re very much looking forward to our first performance at the Otter Creek Music Festival! Please save the date and join us for a magical summer evening in a picturesque barn (the barn not only features a 9’ Steinway, but also has air conditioning!) The program will feature works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Alice Verne-Bredt and Rebecca Clarke. Ticket information coming soon!
More information coming soon!
252 Community Concerts for a Cooler Climate
featuring pianist David Feurzeig with Emily Taubl, cello and Paul Orgel, piano (concert #30).
FREE Admission | Donations will be accepted to benefit Third Act www.thirdact.org
Theodore Kuchar | Conductor
Matt Haimovitz | Cello
Antonín Dvořák Carnival Overture (Karneval)
Thomas de Hartmann Cello Concerto
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 2
Since shortly after the demise of the former Soviet Union through to the present day, Theodore Kuchar has served as the Principal Conductor of two of Ukraine’s most internationally recognized orchestras – the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine.
Embodied in the dramatic opening and first movement of the epic de Hartmann Cello Concerto, the rise of the 1930’s Nazi movement in Germany with its persecution of the Jews, triggers by contrast fond musical reminiscences from the composer’s youth in rural Ukraine of Jewish folklore and klezmer music, evoking the romance of times and cultures lost. The chanting of the synagogue cantor is voiced in the solo cello cadenzas, and the haunting prayers of the Jews are heard in the second movement. The Finale portrays a dance spiraling to its unfortunate conclusion. Inventive and colorful orchestrations abound throughout the work.
The political oppression and desperation imposed by Russia on the Finnish nation slightly over one century ago is not dissimilar to the national destruction and genocide being presently inflicted on Ukraine by the same Russian nation. Finnish conductor George Schnéevoight went further to assign a specific patriotic program to the Sibelius Second Symphony, in which the first movement depicted the Finns’ pastoral life, the second the brutality of foreign rule, the third a crushing of patriotic spirit, and the fourth the glorious hope for deliverance from tyranny.
We look forward to sharing our Brilliant Colors program with the lovely residents of Wake Robin!
We’re excited to be back at the beautiful Plainfield Opera House for our “Brilliant Colors” program. Last years’s sold out audience brought incredible energy to the hall and we hope to see everyone there in April!
We always look forward to performing for the lovely residents at the Kendal at Hanover!
Save the date and join us for our first performance at the Lyndon Campus of Northern Vermont University! Ticket information coming soon.
As spring arrives, it brings with it the brilliant colors of mother nature. Our Brilliant Colors program featuring works by Lili Boulanger, Erik Nielsen, Jennifer Higdon and Maurice Ravel creates a vibrant world for the imaginative listener, encompassing a rainbow of colors, textures and styles.
We look forward to playing our Brilliant Colors program on the MOSSO Chamber Music Series in Westfield, MA.
As spring arrives, it brings with it the brilliant colors of mother nature. This program featuring works by Lili Boulanger, Jennifer Higdon, Beethoven and Ravel creates a vibrant world for the imaginative listener, encompassing a rainbow of colors, textures and styles.
The University of Vermont Department of Music presents String Orchestra Festival for High School Students. Area high school string players (violin, viola, cello, or string bass) are invited to participate in this two-day event of rehearsals, a masterclass by UVM string professors, and a final concert. The Festival String Orchestra will be conducted by Dr. Yutaka Kono, the orchestra director of UVM.
Mark Russell Smith | Conductor
Wei Luo | Piano
Joan Tower Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
Florence Price The Mississippi River Suite (excerpt)
Louise Farrenc Symphony No. 3
Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2
Our celebration of women in music commences with Joan Tower’s bold and dramatic Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman. You’ll then be swept up by the nineteenth-century contrapuntal master Louise Farrenc’s beautiful and elegant Symphony No. 3 and an excerpt from Florence Price’s flowing yet turbulent Mississippi River Suite. Young and fearless piano virtuosa Wei Luo closes the program with Sergei Prokofiev’s powerful Piano Concerto No. 2.
Join us for a FREE concert at the beautiful South Burlington Library! The program will feature works by Glière, Bach, Beethoven and more. We look forward to seeing you there!
Tania Miller | Conductor
Elan Sicroff | Pianist
Valentin Silvestrov The Messenger
W. A. Mozart Symphony No. 36 (Linz)
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 3
This music starts as whispers from another place, of fragments of the music of Mozart coming to us through the grief of Ukrainian composer, Silvestrov, when his beloved wife died. Mozart’s voice whispered to Silvestrov and whispers to us, and points us to the place where memories, subconscious, and eternal life connect us to voices of the past.
Brahms’ beautiful Symphony No. 3 is unique as perhaps the only Symphony in the traditional canon that leaves us with a whispered gentle goodbye rather than a climactic hurtling coda, and concludes like a sunset warmly and contentedly taking leave of the day.
Due to Covid, our original performance at the BMC was unfortunately cancelled, so we are very excited to have found a date to return this fall. Join us for an afternoon performance of our “Transfigured Night” program featuring works by Schubert, Beethoven and Schoenberg.
Embrace the cool fall weather and moonlit nights and join us for our “Transfigured Night” program! The concert will feature Schubert's Notturno in E-flat, Beethoven's "Ghost" trio and Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht arranged for piano trio. Free admission, donations accepted.
We’re thrilled to be returning to the Dibden Center this fall to share our “Transfigured Night” program. The concert will feature Schubert's Notturno in E-flat, Beethoven's "Ghost" trio and Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht arranged for piano trio. Get your tickets today!