Master Class: “The Acting Singer II” with Jay Lesenger

Berkshire School 245 N Undermountain Rd, Sheffield, MA, United States

This Berkshire High Peaks Festival opera master class, "The Acting Singer" is on Thursday, July 27 at 4pm is presented by Jay Lesenger, former artistic director of the Chautauqua Opera […]

Moonlight Sonatas Concert V

Berkshire School 245 N Undermountain Rd, Sheffield, MA, United States

This Berkshire High Peaks Festival Moonlight Sonatas concert on Friday, July 28 at 7:30pm is at Berkshire School in Sheffield, Massachusetts. The concert features performances by BHPF students. Berkshire High […]

Event Series BHPF Master Class

Violin Master Class with Peter Zazofsky

Berkshire School 245 N Undermountain Rd, Sheffield, MA, United States

This Berkshire High Peaks Festival Violin Master Class on Saturday, July 29 at 2:00pm is presented by Peter Zazofsky of Boston University. Read full biography here. Berkshire High Peaks Festival […]

Moonlight Sonatas Farewell Concert

Berkshire School 245 N Undermountain Rd, Sheffield, MA, United States

Our last Berkshire High Peaks Festival Moonlight Sonatas concert! Come celebrate our students and faculty. Join us on Sunday, July 30 at 7:30pm is at Berkshire School in Sheffield, Massachusetts […]

Virtue and Virtuosity

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

The words are intricately related but diverge. Virtuosity: music that glorifies the possibilities of the instrument and the prowess of the performer—that titillates and stuns the audience in the Romantic […]

Nocturne — Night and Dreams

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

Nuances of the night are explored in this multi-faceted program. Release from the brightness of daylight, from consciousness into sleep and dreaminess, the night’s seductive, mysterious potion-like allure has fascinated […]

The Art of the String Quartet — The Avalon

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

The notable Avalon String Quartet returns with another Berkshire premiere, “For Such a Time as This,” a retelling of the biblical Esther story for string quartet and vocalist, from a […]

A Bach Family Concert — Celtic Baroque Band Makaris

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

In his dance suites, J. S. Bach ventures into Spanish sarabandes, French bourrées and British gigues. He and family members delighted in arranging Celtic and Scottish folk music. They will […]

Something Borrowed, Something Blue — Cross-Cultural Synergy

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

The Romans appropriated the entirety of classical Greek culture, and the Renaissance rediscovered and revitalized it.  Then came Rodin and Greek Revival in American architectural style. An Egyptomania craze gripped […]

Piano Duo, Four Hands Annual Luncheon Musicale Benefit

Experience the elegance of the Gilded Age Salon at a private Berkshires club! Our Annual Luncheon Musicale Benefit, "Piano Duo, Four Hands," features pianists Anthony Zerpa-Falcon and Jong-Gyung Park performing […]

Café Vienna — Nervous Splendor

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

The imperial “City of Song” has played an essential role as a leading European cultural center, hosting major personalities in the development of music, as well as literature, painting, psychiatry […]

Great Quintets — Dvořák and Brahms

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

Dvořák’s sublime Piano Quintet in A Major occupies a lofty place in the chamber music canon, at the same elevation as Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34.  Simply […]

Event Series BHPF Master Class

Master Class with Gila Goldstein, Pianist

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

Berkshire High Peaks master classes are free and open to the public! All master classes are at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. _____ Gila Goldstein A […]

Event Series BHPF Talk

Opera Talk with Jay Lesenger

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

Join us for a fascinating Opera Talk with opera director/conductor Jay Lesenger. Berkshire High Peaks talks are free and open to the public! All events are at Bard College at […]

Event Series BHPF Master Class

Master Class with Ida Bieler

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

Berkshire High Peaks master classes are free and open to the public! All master classes are at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. _____ Ida Bieler Described […]