October 2018
Season Guest Concert Series with Sō Percussion Oct. 20
The Brattleboro Music Center’s new Season Guest Concert series continues Saturday, October 20, at 7:30pm in the BMC Auditorium with Sō Percussion, a group dedicated to promoting the power of music to unite people and forge deep social bonds. This groundbreaking Brooklyn-based quartet redefines the meaning of the term “percussion ensemble.” Though established in 1999 to play contemporary classical works, they have worked with a wide range of composers, musicians, and recording artists in everything from tea cups and walnut…
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Season Guest Concerts Continue with Compositions of Robert Merfeld
The Brattleboro Music Center’s Season Guest Concerts continue Saturday, Nov. 10, with “Compositions of Robert Merfeld 2008-2018.” Taking the stage with pianist Robert Merfeld will be soprano Jayne West, oboist Mary Cicconetti, violinists Bayla Keyes and Katie Lansdale, violist Anya Shemetyeva, and cellists Rhonda Rider and Paul Cohen. The performance begins with a string quartet Merfeld wrote at the age of 9 and ends with a quartet titled "Intervals,” which was performed earlier this year by the Muir Quartet at…
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2018-19 Chamber Series: Escher Quartet
Featuring Adam Barnett-Hart on the violin; Danbi Um, violin; Pierre Lapointe, viola; Brook Speltz, cello. A former BBC New Generation Artist, the Escher String Quartet has received acclaim for its expressive, nuanced performances. The quartet has performed at the BBC and is a regular guest at Wigmore Hall. In New York, the ensemble serves as Season Artists of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where it has presented the complete Zemlinsky Quartets Cycle as well as being one of five…
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2018-19 Chamber Series: Musicians from Marlboro
The artists include master musicians violist Kim Kashkashian and Christoph Richter, former cellist of the Cherubini Quartet, as well as three exceptional younger professionals: pianist Zoltan Fejevari, who won the Montreal Competition last year; and violinists Tessa Lark and Robin Scott, recently appointed first violinist of the Ying Quartet. The new program includes the commissioning a short work for violin and viola from Ken Ueno, winner of both the Rome and Berlin Prizes and a faculty member of the University of California,…
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2018-19 Chamber Series: A Celebration of Vermont Musicians
Featuring Soovin Kim on the violin; Jaime Laredo, viola; Sharon Robinson, cello; Gloria Chien, piano. In addition to engagement as BMC Artistic Advisors, Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson contribute powerfully to the broader Vermont music scene. Soovin Kim and Gloria Chien, another musical couple with deep connection to Vermont, are active in Vermont primarily through the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival. The two couples will join forces to present towering works from the Western canon. Program Mozart Piano Quartet in…
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2018-19 Chamber Series: Con Moto
Featuring William Amsel on clarinet; Natalya Rose Vrbsky, bassoon; Michelle Ross and Lucy Chapman, violins; Rebecca Albers and Maiya Papach, violas; Judith Serkin, cello. Judith Serkin has gathered friends to present a program of masterpieces composed by the formidable Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Con Moto artists are Marlboro Music Festival alumni and are current musical leaders in communities across the United States. Program Clarinet Quintet in A Major Bassoon Sonata Adagio and Fugue Viola quintet TBD
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The Brattleboro Music Center relies on volunteers in the community who give generously of their time. We are pleased to honor the following for their help in June, 2018: