Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA Jenny Ahn, violin Cathy Basrak, viola Christine Lee, cello REGER Trio No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77b BEETHOVEN Trio in D, Op. 9, No. 2
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 features great works performed by outstanding music faculty. Opening the concert is the Concerto Grosso op. 3 No. 3 by Handel, performed by Charles Huang, oboe; Ashley Kim ’26, violin concertino; Muneko Otani, Keiyu Mamiya ’28, violins Ray Wang ’25, viola; Julian Müller, cello; Tim Pyper, harpsichord. Next, Joanna Kurkowicz, violin, and Gregg August, bass […]
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 […]
Three organists concertize on the church's recently restored historic 1865 Johnson organ, following the completion of restoration funded through the church's capital campaign. Tim Pyper, Edwin Lawrence and Brian Hoffman are the guest organists. Free and open to the public; reception to follow. Freewill offering will be collected
This program features motets by the Portuguese composer Vicente Lusitano, one of the earliest known mixed-race composers of African descent, whose works were published in his lifetime. Lusitano’s style resembles Josquin des Prez’, and is highly complex and of extraordinary beauty. We still know very little about female composers of those times, as it was […]
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