A Night of Chopin and Brahms—Presenting Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Yekwon Sunwoo

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]