This Berkshire High Peaks Festival “Moonlight Sonatas” faculty concert brings together an acclaimed roster of artists — pianists Alexander Shtarkman, Max Levinson, and Tatiana Lokhina; violinists Ari Isaacman-Beck and James Stern; violist Anthony Devroye; and cellists Kivie Cahn-Lipman and Yehuda Hanani, the festival's founder and artistic director — for a rare evening of chamber music […]
Come enjoy this Berkshire High Peaks Festival concert featuring students and faculty in works by Beethoven (Two Scottish Folk Songs, for voice and piano trio), Dvořák (String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 51, performed by the Dakiti String Quartet), Vaughan Williams ("Is My Team Ploughing" from On Wenlock Edge), and Zoltán Kodály, alongside additional […]
This Cello Master Class with Yehuda Hanani (Mannes College of Music) is free and open to the public at The Tannery at Darrow School, 110 Darrow Road, New Lebanon, NY on Monday, July 27 at 2:00pm. Throughout the festival, participants present outreach concerts and master classes across the Berkshires, Hudson Valley, and Catskills, including a […]
This Violin Master Class with James Stern (UMD School of Music) is free and open to the public at The Tannery at Darrow School, 110 Darrow Road, New Lebanon, NY on Tuesday, July 28 at 2:00pm. Throughout the festival, participants present outreach concerts and master classes across the Berkshires, Hudson Valley, and Catskills, including a […]
This talk brings the transformative art of the singing actor to the Hudson River's most storied creative retreat, the Catwalk Institute; an ideal setting for an afternoon of song and string quartets on Tuesday, July 28 at 3:00pm. "The Acting Singer" is the acclaimed acting masterclass led by veteran opera director Jay Lesenger. It teaches […]
Berkshire High Peaks Festival “Moonlight Sonatas” concerts showcase the festival's young artists and faculty across a diverse range of chamber music repertoire. "Moonlight Sonatas" concerts are free and open to the public as part of the larger festival, which includes masterclasses and other events. High Peaks residents and faculty perform on these dates: Saturday, July […]
This Piano Master Class with Alexander Shtarkman (Peabody Conservatory of Music) is free and open to the public at The Tannery at Darrow School, 110 Darrow Road, New Lebanon, NY on Wednesday, July 29 at 2:00pm. Throughout the festival, participants present outreach concerts and master classes across the Berkshires, Hudson Valley, and Catskills, including a […]
This Piano Master Class with Max Levinson (Boston Conservatory) is free and open to the public at The Tannery at Darrow School, 110 Darrow Road, New Lebanon, NY on Thursday, July 30 at 2:00pm. Throughout the festival, participants present outreach concerts and master classes across the Berkshires, Hudson Valley, and Catskills, including a performance and […]
Berkshire High Peaks Festival “Moonlight Sonatas” concerts showcase the festival’s young artists and faculty across a diverse range of chamber music repertoire. “Moonlight Sonatas” concerts are free and open to the public as part of the larger festival, which includes masterclasses and other events. High Peaks residents and faculty perform on these dates: Saturday, July […]
Berkshire High Peaks Festival “Moonlight Sonatas” concerts showcase the festival's young artists and faculty across a diverse range of chamber music repertoire. This concert showcases our voice students. "Moonlight Sonatas" concerts are free and open to the public as part of the larger festival, which includes masterclasses and other events. High Peaks residents and faculty […]
Berkshire High Peaks Festival “Moonlight Sonatas” concerts showcase the festival's young artists and faculty across a diverse range of chamber music repertoire. "Moonlight Sonatas" concerts are free and open to the public as part of the larger festival, which includes masterclasses and other events. High Peaks residents and faculty perform on these dates: Saturday, July […]
Berkshire High Peaks Festival “Moonlight Sonatas” concerts showcase the festival's young artists and faculty across a diverse range of chamber music repertoire. "Moonlight Sonatas" concerts are free and open to the public as part of the larger festival, which includes masterclasses and other events. High Peaks residents and faculty perform on these dates: Saturday, July […]
It can come on brash and it can come on sensuous. In the orchestra, it steps forward in “Peter and the Wolf” and “Rhapsody in Blue”; in opera it’s a near-protagonist in “The Magic Flute,” “La Traviata” and “The Barber of Seville” as composers delineate atmosphere and character motifs. It can sing and it can […]
With this extraordinary program, the internationally celebrated performer Yael Rasooly, known for her magnetic stage presence, powerful vocals, and virtuoso puppetry, makes her CEWM debut, masterfully weaving together the bold, satirical songs of the Weimar era and Edith Piaf’s Paris. In moving tributes to legendary artists Piaf and Marlene Dietrich, singer-actress-director Rasooly and pianist Daniel […]
Called “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation” (New York Times), pianist Simone Dinnerstein joins Yehuda Hanani in a program that addresses cultural twins of the Baroque, born less than one month and 125 kilometers apart—Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. While Bach was the great master of the polyphonic form, a […]
Britten’s radiant Flower Songs and Benedict Sheehan’s mellifluous Songbird Antiphons anchor a program of music inspired by gardens, birdsong, and the living world. Recognized as one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, four-time GRAMMY nominee Skylark blends some of America’s most virtuosic voices into an emotionally impactful and cohesive whole. Through innovative, imaginative, and interdisciplinary […]