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    Master Class: “The Acting Singer” with Jay Lesenger

    BHPF Master Class
    The Kellogg Center at Bard College Simon's Rock 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, United States

    Join us for a fascinating Master Class "The Acting Singer" with opera director/conductor Jay Lesenger. His Acting Masterclasses for Singers are transformative! Berkshire High Peaks talks are free and open to the public! All events are at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. No registration necessary. Jay Lesenger  is a Guest Stage […]

    Free
  • Moon rising over mountains with Moonlight Sonatas Concerts

    Moonlight Sonatas Concert

    Moonlight Sonatas
    The Kellogg Center at Bard College Simon's Rock 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, United States

    Come experience performances by talented young musicians and renowned faculty members! Berkshire High Peaks Festival "Moonlight Sonatas" concerts feature talented students and distinguished faculty and are held at The Kellogg Center at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, MA. These concerts are free and open to the public as part of the larger […]

    Free

  • Catskills NY

    Berkshire High Peaks Festival in Concert (PRIVATE EVENT)

    Tannersville, NY

    A vibrant afternoon of music featuring renowned faculty and outstanding young artists of the Berkshire High Peaks Festival. From Renaissance-inspired English dances to sweeping Romanticism and Argentinian soul, the program spans cultures and centuries. Highlights include Peter Warlock’s Capriol Suite, the emotionally charged Adagio from Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata, Mendelssohn’s dramatic Piano Trio in D minor […]

  • Moon rising over mountains with Moonlight Sonatas Concerts

    Moonlight Sonatas Concert

    Moonlight Sonatas
    The Kellogg Center at Bard College Simon's Rock 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, United States

    Come experience performances by talented young musicians and renowned faculty members! Berkshire High Peaks Festival "Moonlight Sonatas" concerts feature talented students and distinguished faculty and are held at The Kellogg Center at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, MA. These concerts are free and open to the public as part of the larger […]

    Free
  • Moon rising over mountains with Moonlight Sonatas Concerts

    Moonlight Sonatas Concert

    Moonlight Sonatas
    The Kellogg Center at Bard College Simon's Rock 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, United States

    Come experience performances by talented young musicians and renowned faculty members! Berkshire High Peaks Festival "Moonlight Sonatas" concerts feature talented students and distinguished faculty and are held at The Kellogg Center at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, MA. These concerts are free and open to the public as part of the larger […]

    Free
  • Moon rising over mountains with Moonlight Sonatas Concerts

    Moonlight Sonatas Concert

    Moonlight Sonatas
    The Kellogg Center at Bard College Simon's Rock 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, United States

    Come experience performances by talented young musicians and renowned faculty members! Berkshire High Peaks Festival "Moonlight Sonatas" concerts feature talented students and distinguished faculty and are held at The Kellogg Center at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, MA. These concerts are free and open to the public as part of the larger […]

    Free
  • Moon rising over mountains with Moonlight Sonatas Concerts

    Moonlight Sonatas Concert

    Moonlight Sonatas
    The Kellogg Center at Bard College Simon's Rock 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, United States

    Come experience performances by talented young musicians and renowned faculty members! Berkshire High Peaks Festival "Moonlight Sonatas" concerts feature talented students and distinguished faculty and are held at The Kellogg Center at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, MA. These concerts are free and open to the public as part of the larger […]

    Free

  • “The Golem” – A Vision in Sound and Cinema with the Avalon Quartet

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United States

    Monsters and magic spells! A masterwork of German expressionist cinema meets a live klezmer-infused score in a vibrant feast for the eyes and ears. Paul Wegener’s 1920 pioneering silent horror film, Der Golem, was so popular on its release that it sold out movie houses in both Germany and America for months, inspired Golem-themed operettas, and […]

  • Vivace Chamber Orchestra: Mozart, Mendelssohn, Britten, Bruch

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United States

    The Vivace players return! This chamber music collective of New York-based musicians share the common aim of performing the greatest works in the chamber repertoire at the highest level. The program is curated to showcase their extraordinary unanimity of rare musicianship.  Looking backwards, Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C minor employs Bach’s contrapuntal style but […]

  • “Endings” – Piano Trios by Shostakovich and Schubert

    Saint James Place 352 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA, United States

    How to end and exit a musical composition—with a bang or a whimper? Will there be the thunderous affirmation of a Beethoven symphony or a whispered adieu à la Mahler’s Song of the Earth, sailing into eternity? A cliffhanger ending leaves the audience on the edge of their seats while a full-circle ending bringing us […]

  • Mostly Amadeus—Meet the Mozarts!

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United States

    That the supernatural perfection of Mozart’s music was created by an imperfect child-like person has led many to believe he was a “quill in divine hands.” And the two of his sublime works scheduled (Piano Trio in B-flat KV 502 and Quartet in G minor KV 478) may bring you to the same conclusion. To […]

  • “On the Wings of Song”—Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Mendelssohn Piano Trio

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United States

    Robert Schumann’s setting of Heinrich Heine’s song cycle, Dichterlibe—A Poet’s Love—is, in a word, spellbinding.  The rendering of the age-old theme of love and betrayal is personal and intimate, with barriers between singer and listener removed.  It is Romanticism at its most exquisite.  Mendelssohn, too, was captivated by Heine’s lyrical genius and wrote music to […]

  • Annual Luncheon Musicale Benefit

    Lenox, MA

    This event is sold out. Celebrate the Salon in the Gilded Age elegance at a private Berkshires club. The scintillating atmosphere of the 19th century institution that helped promote artists, painters and musicians as the intelligentsia gathered to exchange ideas, enhanced by gaiety and ambience. Savor a superb lunch and support Close Encounters With Music. […]

  • Vivace Baroque Orchestra: The Four Seasons—Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United States

    Vivaldi’s iconic Four Seasons (for which he also wrote accompanying sonnets) and Piazzolla’s sultry Four Seasons of Buenos Aires share a program where time, place, and style intertwine. From the bright renewal of Vivaldi’s Spring to the tempestuous heat of his Summer, through Autumn and his musical depiction of slipping on the ice in Winter, nature is rendered in Baroque brilliance. One […]

  • Romance of the Romani!—Ravel, Bartok, Liszt, Haydn and Brahms Piano Quartet

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United States

    The season closes with the irresistible fire and passion of music shaped by Roma traditions, which left an indelible mark on European composers. The romance, longing, and sense of freedom in these melodies found their way into some of the most beloved works of the repertoire. Haydn’s Piano Trio No. 39, with its famous “Gypsy” […]

  • Performance and Opera Master Class with Paula Suozzi

    Auditorium at Darrow School 110 Darrow Road, New Lebanon, NY, United States

    "The Director's Eye" This Performance and Opera Master Class with Paula Suozzi of the Metropolitan Opera is free and open to the public in the Auditorium at Darrow School, 110 Darrow Road, New Lebanon, NY on Thursday, July 23 at 2:00pm. Throughout the festival, participants present outreach concerts and master classes across the Berkshires, Hudson […]