The West Stockbridge Chamber Players Winter Concert — Celebrated Musicians Performing Music to Warm Your Heart and Soul The West Stockbridge Chamber Players Winter Concert will take place on Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 4 PM in the Old Town Hall, 9 Main Street, West Stockbridge. Featuring the Chamber Players' artistic director Catherine Hudgins on […]
Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA Jenny Ahn and Ala Jojatu, violins Cathy Basrak, viola Jonah Ellsworth, cello KORNGOLD String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 26 BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 7 in F, Op. 59, No. 1, Razumovsky
Renée Anne Louprette plays The Best of Bach—The Great Organ Works on the historic Johnson organ. George Stauffer, PhD, provides commentary about Bach’s life and music. J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV 541 J.S. Bach: Transcriptions from Cantatas, BWV 106, 137, 140, 147, 208 J.S. Bach: Fugue in G minor (“Little”), BWV 578 […]
Composer-pianist Matthew Aucoin and pianist Conor Hanick team up for an inventive and dazzling two-piano recital, featuring a new work composed by Aucoin for Hanick. In addition to Aucoin's new piece, which is inspired by the luminous recent poetry of Ben Lerner, Hanick and Aucoin play a program divided into "introverted" and "extroverted" halves: in […]
The annual Berkshire Symphony Student Soloist Competition presents a program that includes music from various periods and genres. The competition is open to Williams College students who have completed required instrumental or vocal studies, are enrolled in qualifying courses, and have been recommended by their instrumental or vocal teachers. Each may choose a movement from […]
Williams Chamber Players opens the concert season with a concert featuring great works performed by outstanding music faculty. The Williams Chamber Players is a faculty chamber ensemble that presents concerts for the college and community throughout the academic year. Repertoire for concerts is drawn from the standard chamber music with special attention to music of […]
6 Unaccompanied Bach Suites for Cello features Colin Carr and Yehuda Hanani on Sunday, February 23 at 4pm. Two leading Bach interpreters embark on a journey while traversing his Six Suites, the apogee of the cello repertoire. Filled with mystery and beauty, blasted through with rapture, every note is a bold statement. Music that first […]
The Williams College Department of Music presents the Berkshire Symphony in concert. This exciting performance features the following works: Grace Hale – This Is Not a Dream Claude Debussy – Danses sacrée et profane Antonin Dvorak – Symphony No. 8 This event is free and open to the public. There are no reservations or ticketing. […]
Williams Chamber Players opens the concert season with a concert featuring great works performed by outstanding music faculty. The Williams Chamber Players is a faculty chamber ensemble that presents concerts for the college and community throughout the academic year. Repertoire for concerts is drawn from the standard chamber music with special attention to music of […]
Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA Bracha Malkin and Bonnie Bewick, violins Danny Kim, viola Mickey Katz, cello DOHNÁNYI Serenade in C, Op. 10 Oleg PONOMAREV (Arr. Bonnie BEWICK) Polonez, for string quartet TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11
Two monumental works, two Russian ex-pats of the same aristocratic background—and two divergent extremes. One, a master of nostalgia and a formidable pianist, follows in the footsteps of Chopin. The other, a trailblazer, scandalizer and collaborator of Picasso delights in breaking old molds—though harking back to traditional Russian folk material—and ushers in a new age […]
Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning Celebrating their 16th season as “a sonically daring ensemble who specializes in performing new works with charisma and integrity” (BBC Music Magazine), the Akropolis Reed Quintet comprises five reed players and entrepreneurs unbounded by limits or categorization. Described by The Wire as a “collective voice driven by […]
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