Master class - Vocalists - The Acting Singer with Jay Lesenger former General and Artistic Director of Chautauqua Opera Company. Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6f4MURc1SsOk2R5kjVLX9Q
Piano Master Class with Alexander Shtarkman of the Peabody Conservatory. Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1AJgbyBzQT2gxVcLFGgeYQ
Viola Master Class with Daniel Panner of the Mannes School of Music and Michael Strauss of the Dana School of Music. Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kDWjCnfkRKqLUcqWFtPOew
Improvisation and ornamentation Master Class with Jeffrey Grossman of Yale University. Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_u4-hJN4KSUS3icCyNGZMxA
World Music - Middle Eastern, Tango, Raga, Chinese - Irina Muresanu of the University of Maryland. Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UHPAAdbrT52Ma1B7Cqp4DA
Guitar Master Class with Eliot Fisk of the New England Conservatory and member of the faculty of the Universitaet Mozarteum in Salzburg. Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JHaNSkWKQLqRl5Uh3_jnIg
Hear our brilliant young current participants, international faculty and alumni on an array of instruments -- violin, viola, cello, guitar, voice and piano -- and with varied repertoire. Everything from Vivaldi to Villa-Lobos, Rossini and Puccini to Brahms and Boulanger. These performances are fresh and free! Close Encounters with Music's Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/CloseEncountersWithMusic
Cello Master Class with Colin Carr of Stony Brook and the Royal Academy of Music, London. Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Cn6g_roqS_OUVDHAaaHvJw
Hear our brilliant young current participants, international faculty and alumni on an array of instruments -- violin, viola, cello, guitar, voice and piano -- and with varied repertoire. Everything from Vivaldi to Villa-Lobos, Rossini and Puccini to Brahms and Boulanger. These performances are fresh and free! Close Encounters with Music's Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/CloseEncountersWithMusic
Hear our brilliant young current participants, international faculty and alumni on an array of instruments -- violin, viola, cello, guitar, voice and piano -- and with varied repertoire. Everything from Vivaldi to Villa-Lobos, Rossini and Puccini to Brahms and Boulanger. These performances are fresh and free! Close Encounters with Music's Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/CloseEncountersWithMusic
Please join us for an End-of-Summer Celebration and Auction, Saturday, September 18, 12:00pm - 4:00pm. (Scroll to the bottom to purchase tickets). You will enjoy beautiful vistas, a scrumptious lunch, and an exciting auction including: Experiences! Spa Day for Two at Canyon Ranch Enjoy the ultimate wellness day at world-renowned Canyon Ranch Lenox. Choose your […]
The PRISM Quartet’s popular program, Hit Parade, features a cross-section of traditional and contemporary music. New works reflect the enormous range of cultural and aesthetic influences on today’s composers. Praised by The Philadelphia Inquirer for its ability to “move effortlessly between styles,” the program includes two stunningly beautiful sets of adaptations: Schumann Bouquet, selections from […]
Paul Schoenfield’s runaway classical hit, Café Music for piano trio, sets the tone for a celebratory re-opening. Combining elements of classical, jazz, klezmer and whimsy, Café Music is caffeine-fueled and irresistible. Claude Bolling’s musings in the Suite for Cello and Jazz Trio offer up interpolations of boogie-woogie and ragtime with Baroque underpinnings. Gershwin is represented […]
The cabaret beckons as Close Encounters With Music ushers in the winter season in the Berkshires. In a performance that evokes the twenties of the last century — a time exemplified by Art Deco, Prohibition, the loosening of social restraints, Jazz, the Charleston and flappers — “Roaring Twenties” offers a panorama of composers and styles […]
From High Baroque to village dances, South American indigenous flavors and ethereal liturgical music, and from the jig to the tango—a program bridging worlds that grew out of common ground. Composers include Bach, Villa Lobos, Monteverdi, Handel, Couperin, Rameau and Vivaldi. With guitarist Eliot Fisk, contralto Emily Marvosh and cellist Yehuda Hanani. In person tickets […]
Some of the most astounding keyboard music ever written, Chopin’s Four Scherzi receive a masterful performance by the most recent Cliburn laureate (“superbly assured pianism” – BBC Music). He is joined by violinist Daniel Phillips, violist Daniel Panner and cellist Yehuda Hanani for Brahms’s epic Piano Quartet Opus 25 in G minor with its intoxicating […]
