Live chamber music and jazz concerts.

Schedule of Events:

Chamber Music Concerts:

16 consecutive Sundays at 3 PM and Labor-Day-Weekend Saturday at 7 PM

June 5, 2022:

93rd Season Opening Benefit Concert
Rolston String Quartet
Paul Neubauer, Viola

HAYDN String Quartet in G Major, Op. 33 #5
WIDMANN String Quartet #3, “Hunting Quartet”
BRAHMS String Quintet in G Major, Op. 111

+ German themed food trucks

June 12, 2022:

Misha & Cipa Dichter
Piano Four Hands and Piano Solo Program

BRAHMS 2 Ballades, Opus 10 # 1 and 2
BEETHOVEN Sonata in G Major, Opus 14 #2
BEETHOVEN Sonata in D Major, Opus 10 #3
SCHUBERT Fantasy in F Minor, D. 940 for piano four hands
DVORAK Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 for piano four hands (selections)

June 19, 2022:

Balourdet Quartet
Benjamin Hochman, Piano

HAYDN String Quartet in B Flat Major, Op. 76 #4, “Sunrise”
WOLF Italian Serenade
BERMEL Intonations
DVORAK Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81

June 26, 2022:

Cuarteto Latinoamericano
Thomas Gallant, Oboe

MOZART Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370
PIAZZOLLA Oblivion for oboe and string quartet
VILLA-LOBOS String Quartet # 1
REVUELTAS String Quartet #4, “Music of the Fair”
GARDEL Volver; Por una cabeza for string quartet
BROWER String Quartet #3

July 3, 2022:

Arianna String Quartet
Judith Gordon, Piano

HAYDN String Quartet in G Major, Op. 54 #1
ESMAIL String Quartet (Ragamala)
BRAHMS: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34

July 10, 2022:

+ 1:30 PM: Pre-Concert Talk by Dr. Mark Ferraguto, from Penn State University and Haydn Society: Haydn “Sun” Quartets
+ 3 PM: Concert

Penderecki String Quartet
Victoria Schwartzman, Piano

(Sun Quartets Concert #1/6)
HAYDN String Quartet in A Major, Op. 20 #6
PENDERECKI String Quartet #4
FRANCK Piano Quintet in F Minor

July 17, 2022:

+ 1:30 pm: Pre-Concert Talk with Tabea Debus

Tabea Debus, Recorder
Adam Cockerham, Lute

Works by MONTEVERDI, J.S. BACH, PURCELL, DOWLAND, and other composers from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, plus Diaries of the Early Worm by Gareth MOORCRAFT (b. 1990)

July 24, 2022:

Ulysses Quartet
Tanya Bannister, Piano

(Sun Quartets Concert #2/6)
HAYDN String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 20 #3
TOWER Wild Summer
ELGAR Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84

July 31, 2022:

Harlem Quartet
Fei-Fei, Piano

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata #18 in E Flat Major, Op. 31 #3
SCHUBERT Piano Trio in E Flat Major, D.897, “Notturno”
BRAHMS Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25

August 7, 2022:

Ariel Quartet
Soyeon Kate Lee, Piano

MOZART String Quartet in C Major, K. 465, “Dissonance”
PORAT Four Ladino Songs for string quartet
SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E Flat Major, Op. 44

August 14, 2022:

+ 1:30 pm: Pre-Concert Talk with the Cramer Quartet and composer Alexandra Du Bois
+ 3 PM: Concert

Cramer Quartet
(On period instruments and gut strings)

(Sun Quartets Concert #3/6)
HAYDN String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20 #2
DU BOIS String Quartet #6 (in response to Haydn’s Opus 20 quartets)
HAYDN String Quartet in G Major, Op. 76 #1

August 21, 2022:

Daedalus Quartet
Todd Crow, Piano

(Sun Quartets Concert #4/6)
HAYDN String Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 20 #1
BEACH String Quartet, Op. 89
CHAN Ignis Fatuus
DOHNANYI Piano Quintet in E Flat Minor, Op. 26

August 28, 2022:

Jupiter String Quartet

(Sun Quartets Concert #5/6)
HAYDN String Quartet in D Major, Op. 20 #4
TAYLOR Chaconne/Labyrinth
TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet in D Major, Op. 11

Labor Day Weekend Festival (Saturday & Sunday, including Food Trucks)

September 3, 2022:

+ 11 am: Family Concert with Merz Trio
+ 5 pm: Pre-Concert presentation by author Barbara V. Bechtolsheim and Poetry Reading by CT Poet Laureate, Margaret Gibson
+ 7 pm: Merz Trio Concert (ticketed): Merz Trio “Ink Spills” album program, including readings and the performance of RAVEL’s iconic Piano Trio, together with works by Rameau, Boulanger and others.
+ 8:30 pm: Stargazing Event

September 4, 2022:

+ 1:30 pm: Pre-Concert Birdsong Walk with Fran Zygmont, Litchfield Hills Audubon Society
+ 3 pm: Labor Day Benefit Concert (ticketed). Merz Trio & Oskar Espina-Ruiz, Clarinet. MESSIAEN Quartet for the end of time, together with works by Korngold, Britten, Shostakovich, and Ravel.

September 11, 2022:

+ 1:30 pm: Pre-Concert Talk with composer Octavio Vázquez
+ 3 pm: Concert

American String Quartet
Octavio Vázquez, Piano

VAZQUEZ Piano Quintet
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C Sharp Minor, Op. 131

September 18, 2022:

Cassatt String Quartet
Eliot Fisk, Guitar

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HAYDN String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20 #5
GODFREY Guitar Quintet
TURINA The Bullfighter's Prayer
BOCCHERINI Guitar Quintet in D Major, G.448, “Fandango”

Twilight Jazz and More Concerts:

10 consecutive Saturdays at 7 PM

June 18, 2022:

2 PM: Special Free Community Event. Cookout and Concert to Celebrate First Responders. Join Us!

June 25, 2022: Bill Charlap Trio

Twilight Jazz & More Opening Concert

Grammy Award winning pianist, BILL CHARLAP has performed and recorded with many leading artists of our time, ranging from jazz masters Phil Woods and Wynton Marsalis to singers Tony Bennett and Barbra Streisand. Since 1997, he has led the Bill Charlap Trio with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington, recognized as one of the leading groups in jazz. Charlap is the artistic director of New York City’s Jazz in July Festival at the 92nd Street Y, and he has produced concerts for Jazz at Lincoln Center, the JVC Jazz Festival and the Hollywood Bowl.

July 2, 2022: Five Play, the sister group of the world-renowned DIVA Jazz Orchestra

Five Play is rooted in the jazz tradition and is fueled and inspired by the members’ collective, creative vision to swing through the twenty-first century. The quintet’s repertoire is comprised of innovative arrangements of classic and contemporary standards, as well as original music composed and arranged by band members. Five Play has performed at many of the world's most prestigious concert halls, music festivals and jazz clubs. From Carnegie Hall to the Kennedy Center and major festivals in Israel, Japan, France, Germany, Spain, Ireland and Portugal, the quintet never fails swing their listeners into happiness.

July 9, 2022: New Black Eagle Jazz Band

The very best in New Orleans style Jazz, Gospel & Blues. A world touring band since 1971.

July 16, 2022: New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players

An Evening of Gilbert & Sullivan

(Underwritten by an Anonymous Donor)

“Well paced and extremely entertaining” (Talk Entertainment)

July 23, 2022: Swingtime Big Band

Big Band classics from the Great American Songbook. Master interpreters of music from the Swing Era. “Musicians who make the sounds of the pre-rock era rock” (The New York Times)

July 30, 2022: Barbara Fasano Trio

Featuring Eric Comstock, piano
With Boots Maleson, Bass

"A lyrically sensitive interpreter with a special affinity for Joni Mitchell” (The New York Times)

August 6, 2022: Galvanized Jazz Band

The “Best Jazz Band in the State” (Connecticut Magazine) “gets your blood running“ (Jazzbeat). Hot Dixieland, New Orleans Jazz & more

August 13, 2022: Helen Sung Quartet

Helen Sung and her band have performed at major festivals/venues including Newport, Monterey, SFJAZZ, Disney Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Internationally, her “NuGenerations” Project toured southern Africa as a U.S. State Department Jazz Ambassador, and recent engagements include debuts at the London Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai, Blue Note Beijing, and the Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival. In addition, Helen Sung currently performs with fine ensembles including the Mingus Big Band and McLorin Salvant’s Ogresse. She has served on the jazz faculties at the Berklee College of Music, the Juilliard School, and Columbia University, where she also was the inaugural jazz artist-in-residence at Columbia’s prestigious Zuckerman Institute in 2019. Helen Sung was named a Steinway Artist in 2020.

August 20, 2022: Riverboat Stompers Jazz Band

New Orleans Traditional Jazz, Dixieland, and Swing from the 20’s to the ‘recent’ 60’s.

August 27, 2022: Jive By Five

A Connecticut favorite returns! The sizzling dance music of the jazz age: from the Charleston to the Two-Step and the Fox Trot.

September 3, 2022:

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Dates: June 5, 2022 - September 18, 2022

Location:

Music Mountain - Gordon Hall,
225 Music Mountain Road,
Falls Village, CT 06031.

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