Du Bois Orchestra Chamber Players: Holiday Concert, Brandenburg Concertos

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet in F minor

Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major

Analog By Choice:

Janáček String quartet No. 2, Intimate Letters

Thomas Cooper, Peter Paetkau, Corley Friesen-Johnson, Tyler James

In an evening of chamber music at the Causeway Club in Southwest Harbor on Mt. Desert Island, this one-time collaboration presents music by Franz Schubert and Ottorino Respighi.

Join us for a spectacular season finale, highlighted by the extraordinary talents of pianist Tony Cho and violinist David Bowlin in a captivating performance of Mendelssohn's double concerto for Violin and Piano. To set the stage for this musical journey, we open the program with Vivaldi's delightful and concise Concerto in B minor for Four Violins. Featuring the artistry of our beloved regulars, Cameron Alan-Lee, Greta Myatieva, Emma Burge, and Henry Jenkins, this charming piece will surely leave you wanting more.

Save the date and experience the grand finale of our season in all its splendor.

Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in B minor for Four Violins, Strings, & Continuo, Op. 3, No. 10, RV 580

Felix Mendelssohn - Double Concerto in D minor for Violin, Piano, and Strings

A journey from romanticism to impressionism, join Fermata Chamber Soloists for our third subscription concert of the season, this March 29.

Fritz Kreisler - Tempo di Minuetto

C. Debussy - Violin Sonata in G minor L. 140

Robert Schumann - Piano Quartet in E flat Major Op. 47

Du Bois Orchestra - Dominique Hoskin, Conductor

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Violin Concerto Op. 5 No. 2 in A major

Dina Vainshtein - Piano

Opening our sixth season, join us for a program exploring the two great Czech composers, Smetana, and Dvorak. Smetana's first quartet, From my Life, is an iconic work, well known, but rarely heard in its entirety. Though Dvorak's American quartet, perhaps the most famous string quartet ever written, overshadows the American quintet, this later work is no less the showstopper.

Bedřich Smetana - String Quartet No. 1 in E minor “From my Life”

Antonín Dvořák - String Quintet in E flat major Op. 97, B. 180 “American”

New England Repertory Orchestra - Cailin Marcel Manson, conductor

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Violin Concerto Op. 5 No. 2 in A major

Duo Recital with pianist Stephen Joven Lee- Works by Chausson, Debussy, and Bach

Duo Recital with Pianist Christina Spurling at the Somesville Meeting House.

Bar Harbor Music Festival

Brandenburg Concerto No. 4

Thomas Cooper, Allison Kiger, Catherine Bull

Credo Music - Faculty Concert

Thomas Cooper, Peter Slowik, Jonathan Ong, Anne Williams, Rebecca Shasberger, Kathryn Steely

Admission $10/$5

Please join us for our season finale, and five year celebration of Fermata Chamber Soloists, for a show-stopping program featuring FCS veteran violinist Yip Wai Chow. On the program is Max Richter’s minimalist recomposition of Vivaldi’s timeless Four Seasons, as well as the beautifully moving Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis, by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Max Richter - Four Seasons Recomposed

R. Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Approximate length 1:25

Artistic Partner Richard Egarr returns for his final appearance during the 2022.23 season to conduct two ebullient symphonies by Franz Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven and an SPCO co-commission, a cello concerto by Stephen Hartke for Principal Cellist Julie Albers. Both the Haydn and Beethoven symphonies bristle with propulsive energy and harmonic surprises. The new cello concerto provides a stark contrast, of which the title, Da Pacem, comes from a Latin hymn that begins, “Grant peace in our day.”

Approximate length 1:25

Artistic Partner Richard Egarr returns for his final appearance during the 2022.23 season to conduct two ebullient symphonies by Franz Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven and an SPCO co-commission, a cello concerto by Stephen Hartke for Principal Cellist Julie Albers. Both the Haydn and Beethoven symphonies bristle with propulsive energy and harmonic surprises. The new cello concerto provides a stark contrast, of which the title, Da Pacem, comes from a Latin hymn that begins, “Grant peace in our day.”

Approximate length 1:25

Artistic Partner Richard Egarr returns for his final appearance during the 2022.23 season to conduct two ebullient symphonies by Franz Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven and an SPCO co-commission, a cello concerto by Stephen Hartke for Principal Cellist Julie Albers. Both the Haydn and Beethoven symphonies bristle with propulsive energy and harmonic surprises. The new cello concerto provides a stark contrast, of which the title, Da Pacem, comes from a Latin hymn that begins, “Grant peace in our day.”

Approximate length 1:25

Artistic Partner Richard Egarr returns for his final appearance during the 2022.23 season to conduct two ebullient symphonies by Franz Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven and an SPCO co-commission, a cello concerto by Stephen Hartke for Principal Cellist Julie Albers. Both the Haydn and Beethoven symphonies bristle with propulsive energy and harmonic surprises. The new cello concerto provides a stark contrast, of which the title, Da Pacem, comes from a Latin hymn that begins, “Grant peace in our day.”

Join faculty members Thomas Cooper and cellist Tyler Michael James as they play alongside students of the Young Artist Chamber Music Intensive at the Longy School of Music.

About Young Artist Chamber Music Intensive:

The Young Artist Chamber Music Intensive brings the best, aspiring young artists in the Boston area together at the Longy School of Music of Bard College—one of the most forward thinking music schools in the country. Designed like Marlboro Music Festival, participants will rehearse and perform alongside professional chamber musicians on full scholarship. Each student will receive a masterclass from a world-class artist and will rehearse, perform, and produce a professional-grade recording in Boston Celebrity Series’ Pickman Hall. This Intensive is dedicated in memory of Kristin Mortimer, and is generously funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Klarman Family Foundation.

Please join us for a program featuring Brahms’ lush String Sextet in B flat, a piece that has rightfully earned a place deep in the heart of string players and audiences alike.

S. Colridge Taylor - Five Fantasiestucke, Op. 5

J. Brahms - String Sextet No. 1 in B flat Op. 18

Fermata Chamber Soloist veteran Alex Fowler presents Max Bruch’s haunting one movement work for cello and orchestra, Kol Nidrei or “All Vows.” This mysterious piece utilizes an Aramaic prayer sung at the beginning of Yom Kippur, the hallowed day of atonement.

O. Respighi - Il Tramonto

A. Pärt - Fratres

M. Bruch - Kol Nidre

Fermata Chamber Soloists is excited to open our 5th season, featuring music from the 20th and 21st centuries. Modern and contemporary music can sometimes be a turn-off for audiences, who often feel more alienated by the sounds they hear than anything else. Join us as we bravely dive into this unique language, and uncover the powerful meaning beneath.

Joaquin Turina, Piano Quartet in A Minor, op. 67

Olivier Messiaen, Thème and Variations for Violin and Piano

Andrew Norman, Sabina from the Companion Guide to Rome

Please join the Du Bois Orchestra for its 9th season opener.

Felix Mendelssohn: Overture to a Midsummer Night's Dream
William L. Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

-Thomas Cooper, Violin

Kareem Roustom | Dabke
Kinan Azmeh | Ibn Arabi Postlude
Dinuk Wijeratne | Clarinet Concerto
Mieczsław Weinberg | Symphony No. 10

Touching on themes of home and migration, AFC’s season opener “Homeland” showcases music interwoven across time and place. This concert features clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and pianist Dinuk Wijeratne, whose brilliant clarinet concerto is a poignant musical biography of Azmeh’s emigration from Syria to the United States.

Kareem Roustom | Dabke
Kinan Azmeh | Ibn Arabi Postlude
Dinuk Wijeratne | Clarinet Concerto
Mieczsław Weinberg | Symphony No. 10

Touching on themes of home and migration, AFC’s season opener “Homeland” showcases music interwoven across time and place. This concert features clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and pianist Dinuk Wijeratne, whose brilliant clarinet concerto is a poignant musical biography of Azmeh’s emigration from Syria to the United States.

Nagold Sommermusik: Vadim Gluzman Mastercourse

Please join me for the final concert of Nagold Sommermusik, featuring violinist Vadim Gluzman, and participants of his masterclass, alongside pianist Evgeny Sinaiski.

Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges Concert for Violin in A major, Op. 5 No. 2

Please join me, and members of the Credo Faculty for an evening of chamber music in Oberlin Conservatory’s Kulas Recital Hall.

Please join me, soprano Sarah Joyce Cooper, and Fermata Chamber Soloists for an event at the Wendell Gilley Museum in Southwest Harbor, ME for a program on Natures Influence on the Evolution of Programmatic Music.

Program to Include:

Debussy - Ariettes oubliées for soprano and piano

O. Respighi - Il Tramonto for string quartet and mezzo-soprano

F. Price - Washerwoman and Bewilderment for string quartet and mezzo-soprano

Wieniawski - Fantaisie brillante sur Faust for Violin and Piano

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