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 programming, […]
From humble beginnings to stardom, Antonin Dvořák straddled two centuries, two continents, rural and urban sensibilities and folk styles inspired by Czech and Slavic traditional music as well as by an American sojourn. At home in different worlds, his sublime String Quartet No. 12 the "American” was composed in Spillville Iowa during a blissful vacation, […]
Western music at its apex—Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven in full symphonic glory with large-scale repertoire never before performed in South County! Beginning with Papa Haydn, the lively “Surprise” Symphony is his most beloved and most popular, providing the model for how a symphony should be composed. Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante has a lyricism to be […]
Jorge Martín, Tchaikovsky, Kenji Bunch, Grieg, Poulenc Loss, remembrance, joyous recollection, metamorphosis and love. These are universal themes and a progression of states of emotion that animate the music and texture of the program. A work of shattering intensity, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio was written in response to the composer’s grief at losing his beloved teacher, […]