Chamber Music Series 2022-23 Season

Each year, the Brattleboro Music Center’s Chamber Music Series features artists and ensembles with international reputations, as well as gifted emerging young artists, performing chamber music of the highest quality.

Chamber Series: Musicians from Marlboro
October 31 @ 7 p.m.

The Brattleboro Music Center’s Chamber Series features Musicians from Marlboro Monday, October 31.The concert is set for 7 p.m. Tickets are $30 general admission, and are available on the Brattleboro Music Center website – bmcvt.org – or by calling 802-257-4523.This is the first of the group’s three tour programs this season, and features nine outstanding musicians performing works from three centuries. They include Lauren Pearl, soprano; Abigail Fayette, Alina Kobialka, Anna Lee, and Scott St. John, violins; Kei Tojo and Sharon Wei, viola; and Tony Rymer and Judith Serkin, cello.The program includes Respighi’s Il Tramonto; Brahms’ Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 67; Orth’s “You Shattered My Deafness;” and Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20.

Chamber Series: Musicians from Marlboro II
February 11 @ 7 p.m.

The Chamber Series continues Saturday, February 11, with a visit from the Musicians from Marlboro Group II.The 7 p.m. concert at the BMC will include a work titled Moon Songs by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran, who was in residence at Marlboro in 2018 and worked extensively on her music with these artists in Vermont.Also on the program is Haydn’s String Trio in G Major, Op. 53, No. 1 and Mozart’s Divertimento in E-flat Major, K. 563.Performers are Kristina Bachrach, soprano; Giorgio Consolati, flute; Joseph Lin, violin; En-Chi Cheng, viola; Brannon Cho and Matt Zalkind, cello; and Lydia Brown, piano.

Chamber Series: Roderick Williams & Yi-Heng Yang
February 16 @ 7 p.m.

The Brattleboro Music Center’s Chamber Music Series features “Celebrating Valentine’s with Love Songs Old & New” with British baritone Roderick Williams, accompanied by pianist Yi-Heng Yang, Thursday, February 16.The 7 p.m. concert at the BMC will include memorable works by Robert Schumann, Roger Quilter, Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Josephine Lang, Caroline Shaw, and more.Roderick Williams is one of the United Kingdom’s most sought-after baritones and is constantly in demand on the concert platform and in recital, encompassing a repertoire from the baroque to world premieres. In 2016, he won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer of the year award.Opera engagements have included major roles at leading opera houses worldwide, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, Dutch National Opera, Dallas Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Florida Grand Opera, the Bregenz Festival and Oper Köln. He has been involved in many world premieres including, Lord Byron in the world premiere of Sally Beamish’s Monster, Alexander Knaifel’s Alice in Wonderland and Michel van der Aa’s After Life, and the title role in Robert Saxton’s The Wandering Jew with the BBC Symphony.Pianist Yi-Heng Yang’s work includes collaborations on period instruments with visionary artists such as the Grammy award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman, in their acclaimed and timely album, “Where Only Stars Can Hear Us (Avie Records). She is also known for groundbreaking and provocative explorations into Romantic and Classical performance practice. She is on the faculty at The Juilliard School Preparatory and College Divisions, where she teaches piano, fortepiano, chamber music, keyboard skills and improvisation.

Chamber Series: Musicians from Marlboro III
April 8 @ 7 p.m.

Details to come!
Chamber Series: ESPRESSIVO!
June 2 @ 7: p.m.

A new piano quartet – details to come!