Upcoming Concerts & Events with Apple Hill

Apple Hill String Quartet performing in NH. Photo by Peter Roos.

Fall 2025

The Apple Hill String Quartet returns this fall with another exciting and thoughtfully curated mélange of music. F. J. Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 64 No. 4 in G Major charms and soothes with its bright, rustic, warm melodies. Soprano and new music specialist Zen Wu joins the quartet for arias from Bevin Kelley’s arresting new electroacoustic opera, The Call of Cthulhu, with a libretto by international bestselling author China Miéville (Keene State concert only). In a nod to Apple Hill’s inaugural trip to Havana this December, Cuban composer Leo Brouwer dares the audience not to stomp their feet and let loose with his riveting The Rhythm of the Night Changed. Fellow Cuban, Paquito D’Rivera, continues the artistic dance with his Wapango. The program closes with Czech composer Pavel Haas’s dramatic and intensely beautiful String Quartet No. 3. Written in 1938 and influenced by a premonition of impending world events, the piece builds to a final imploring and inspiring call to action.

These are concerts not to be missed this autumnal season! See you soon!

Keep an eye on this page, as we continue to add information about upcoming events.

Saturday, October 11, 6 pm
Orchard Chapel Series
Orchard Chapel, 143 Exeter Rd., Hampton Falls, NH

Sunday, October 12, 4 pm
Aloha Yoga Keene
83 Court St., Keene, NH

Join Josephine Russell and the Quartet for light stretching and music, focusing on the yoga of sound!

Friday, October 17, 7 pm
Keene State College, Alumni Recital Hall, Keene NH

Featuring the Apple Hill String Quartet and guest soprano, Zen Wu.

Friday, October 24, 7 pm
Westmoreland United Church
9 S Village Common, Westmoreland, NH

Saturday, November 8
Barbès Brooklyn
376 9th St., Brooklyn, NY

Join composer and fiddler, Dana Lyn, and the Quartet for an evening of music of Dana Lyn.

Sunday, November 16, 1 pm
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum
18 Highlawn Rd., Warner, NH

This program to include music of Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate and Ignacio Cervantes.

Sunday, November 23, 4 pm
The Drake Amherst
44 N. Pleasant St., Amherst, MA

December 15-20
Havana, Cuba

Learn more about our Cuba trip here.

Tuesday Summer Concert Series

The Tuesday Summer Concert Series features the Apple Hill String Quartet and Summer Chamber Music Workshop faculty artists performing in the Louise Shonk Kelley Concert Barn on the Apple Hill campus in Nelson, NH. All concerts start at 7:30pm and are preceded by a buffet dinner at 6pm on the lawn (advance reservations are required by 5pm the day before, or bring your own picnic) and listenUP!, a free pre-concert talk at 6:45pm. Outdoor concert seating is always FREE!

Concerts at Apple Hill are wheelchair accessible. Should you have any special needs, please contact us at 603-847-3371 or music@applehill.org prior to your visit and we will do our best to address your needs.

Day of concert, please call Gail at 603.847.3371 to ensure the availability of seats before making reservations.

Thanks for a great summer! Check back in the spring for our 2026 summer season.