Close Encounters With Music

Improvisation and Ornamentation Master Class
2021-07-29 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Click event title above for Zoom link
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

Viola Master Class
2021-07-29 11:00 - 12:30 | Click event title above for Zoom link
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

Piano Master Class
2021-07-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Click event title above for Zoom link
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

Vocalist Master Class
2021-07-27 17:00 - 18:30 | Click event title above for Zoom link
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

Violin Master Class
2021-07-27 10:00 - 11:30 | Click event title above for Zoom link
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

Talk: Crises, Cries and COVID
2021-07-26 14:00 - 15:00 | Click event title above for Zoom link
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

Master Class: Cello
2021-07-26 10:00 - 11:30 | Click event title above for Zoom link
With Yehuda Hanani of the Mannes School of Music. Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O-zYIn8PS-Cw601XRMBNUg

Concert: Moonlight Sonatas
2021-07-25 19:30 - 20:30, 2021-07-24 19:30 - 20:30, 2021-07-21 20:30 - 21:30 | 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

Talk: The Composer-Performer Relationship
2021-07-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Click event title above for Zoom link
The Composer-Performer Relationship: Making Successful New Music Together with Tamar Muskal. Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q7BcFOxWSTOmwrCgSMDL7g

Workshop: Using Social Media as Your Stage
2021-07-23 17:00 - 18:00 | Click event title above for Zoom link
Using Social Media as your stage, an untapped resource for classical musicians with Carolyn Regula aka “The Cello Doll.” Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ra09oUwwQqKlgG5bh7bqDA

Piano Master Class
2021-07-23 10:00 - 11:30 | Click event title above for Zoom link
Piano master class with Ieva Jokubaviciute from Duke University. Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wLWB1HuTR1urjlbBFklcrg

Master Class: Vocalists
2021-07-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Click event title above for Zoom link
Master class with Vocalists Danielle Talamantes of the Metropolitan Opera and Kerry Wilkerson of George Mason University. Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rHcMf-grQ_WRhHKL0UrXnA

Orchestral Workshop
2021-07-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Click event title above for Zoom link
Orchestral Excerpts and Tips for Auditions with Diego Fainguersch, 1st cello of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic. Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kLkJDtSjSzesNBLYPBfAuA

Talk: The Whole Pianist
2021-07-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Click event title above for Zoom link
The Whole Pianist – Technique, care for the body, and bettering one’s artistry outside of just practicing! Click this link to register for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-rAXEXPOSwKlUz9vr48Eqg

Talk: Language, Storytelling Traditions and Music
2021-07-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Click event title above for Zoom link
Language, storytelling traditions and music with Erik Anderson of Minot State University.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KqQlMJrUSJqKXd_WQPdCqg

Berkshire High Peaks Festival 2021 (virtual)
2021-07-20 - 2021-08-02 | Virtual
Two weeks of master classes, open classes, talks and performances with our international faculty and students. Strings, piano, vocal and new guitar department this year with renowned guitarist Eliot Fisk! Late night “Moonlight Sonatas” concerts showcase stars of tomorrow. CLICK HERE for the full list of Master Classes, Talks, and Moonlight Sonatas.

Wine and Song In The Garden: West Side 5
2021-06-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Edith Wharton’s The Mount, 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States
West Side 5, the award-winning New York-based vocal jazz ensemble, bring their innovative take on jazz standards to The Mount. WS5 has created its own unique sound, characterized by original arrangements, complex harmonies, and outstanding musicianship. The event will take place at the main house, with the musicians performing from the Terrace. We have a limited number of lawn chairs available to borrow. Please plan to bring lawn chairs or blankets if able.
Shows at 5PM and 7PM. CEWM patrons are admitted gratis.

Wine and Song In The Garden: West Side 5
2021-06-13 17:00 - 18:00 | Edith Wharton’s The Mount, 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States
5PM show is SOLD OUT. Please join us at 7PM. West Side 5, the award-winning New York-based vocal jazz ensemble, bring their innovative take on jazz standards to The Mount. WS5 has created its own unique sound, characterized by original arrangements, complex harmonies, and outstanding musicianship. The event will take place at the main house, with the musicians performing from the Terrace. We have a limited number of lawn chairs available to borrow. Please plan to bring lawn chairs or blankets if able.
Shows at 5PM and 7PM. CEWM patrons are admitted gratis.

Wine & Song: In The Garden
2021-05-23 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-05-23 16:00 - 17:00 | Edith Wharton’s The Mount, 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States
Soprano Sonja Tengblad, contralto Emily Marvosh and pianist Joseph Turbessi present songs of Nature, summer, flowers, meteorology and pollution (!) by composers ranging from Schumann, Handel, Vaughan Williams, and Delibes to Cole Porter, Hanns Eisler, Copland and Tom Lehrer.
Shows at 4PM and 6PM.

The Sebastians Baroque Ensemble
2021-04-03 15:30 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230, United States
The Sebastians connect with audiences through dynamic and vital performances of music of the baroque and classical eras. Known for their “energetic… youthful, vigorous performance style…” they have been called New York’s “leading young early-music ensemble” (The New York Times). This colorful, varied program will feature Telemann’s “Paris” Quartet, the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, and works by Vivaldi, CPE Bach, Handel and Porpora, with star roles for harpsichord and baroque flute (traverso).
Jeffrey Grossman, harpsichord; Daniel Lee and Nicholas DiEugenio, violin; Jessica Troy, viola; Ezra Seltzer, violoncello; Nathaniel Chase, violone; David Ross, traverso; Yehuda Hanani, cello

Forever Bach - The Celestial Suites for Unaccompanied Cello
2021-02-28 19:30 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230, United States
A composer beyond time and place, and a journey to transcendence! J. S. Bach’s Suites are blueprints for cellists of all generations for the construction of temples of sound in time. Though alone with one instrument, “Unaccompanied” is a bit of a misnomer, as they require the performer to be an acoustic illusionist: Each suite is more like a drama for three or four characters played by one actor, at times presenting a challenge akin to tightrope-walking on a bass line while performing a juggling act! Yehuda Hanani has juggled and wrestled with the suites for decades, and his recording of the six suites is one of the definitive renditions of this holy of holies for cellists.
“In this era of the cello, Hanani is among the best. His Bach was absorbing, imaginative, beautiful in all respects.” –San Francisco Examiner; “A consistently expressive artist” – The New York Times.
Yehuda Hanani, cello
