• Talk: Crises, Cries and COVID

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    Crises, Cries and Covid: Music in Times of Urgency with cellist and author Marc Moskovitz. Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ophTmFF4RPi2JXuQot7Dzw

  • Violin Master Class

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    Violin master class with Peter Zazofsky of Boston University. Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_okxvTewGTWi8oTYmdXoxCQ

  • Vocalist Master Class

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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 Workshop

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    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

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    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

  • Moonlight Sonatas Concert

    Virtual

    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

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    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

  • Moonlight Sonatas Concert

    Virtual

    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

  • Moonlight Sonatas Concert

    Virtual

    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

  • Sold Out! End of Summer Celebration and Auction

    Private Hilltop Home in Copake, NY MA, United States

    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 […]

  • Sold Out! PRISM Quartet (Saxophones)

    TurnPark Art Space 2 Moscow Road, West Stockbridge, MA, United States

    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 […]

  • Café Music—Jazz, Rap and Grand Reopening!

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

    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 Roaring Twenties – Berlin, Paris, New York

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

    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 […]