Upcoming Concerts & Events with Apple Hill

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 via email 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.

Concert I – Tuesday, June 23, 2026
featuring the Summer Chamber Music Workshop faculty

Rebecca Clarke, Lullaby and Grotesque for Violin and Cello
Kian Ravaei, Caprice
Ralph Allen, violin; Iris Jortner, cello

Sergei Prokofiev, Quintet for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola & double bass, Op. 39
Rane Moore, clarinet; Sarah Williams, oboe; Teagan Faran, violin; Hannah Ross, viola;
Mary Javian, double bass

Felix Mendelssohn, Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49
Jesse MacDonald, violin; Jacob MacKay, cello; Marc Ryser, piano

This concert is dedicated to the memory of Charles Faucher and generously underwritten by his family and many friends

Concert II – Tuesday, June 30, 2026
featuring our summer fellowship ensemble, the Illuminos String Quartet

Joaquín Turina, La Oración del Torero (The Toreador’s Prayer), Op. 34

Caroline Shaw, Valencia for String Quartet
Caroline Shaw, Entr’acte for String Quartet

Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat Major, Op. 74 “Harp”
Yuanju Liu & Camden Stohl, violin; Brian Shoop, viola; David Agia, cello

This concert is generously underwritten by Judith & William Waterston

Concert III – Tuesday, July 7, 2026
featuring the Summer Chamber Music Workshop faculty

Ethel Smyth, String Trio in D major, Op. 6
Ivan Stefanović, violin; Sam Bergman, viola; Vivian Sun, cello

Paquito D’Rivera, Three Trios (2003)
Amer Hasan, clarinet; Leyla Zamora, bassoon; Mikael Darmanie, piano

Alexander Glazunov, String Quintet in A major, Op. 39
Elise Kuder & Jesse MacDonald, violin; Jesse Holstein, viola; Pei Lu & Greg Hesselink, cello

This concert is generously underwritten by Elisabeth & Peter Roos

Concert IV – Tuesday, July 14, 2026
featuring Salley Koo and the Dari Project

Texu Kim, Lots of As and a Bunch of Bs
Salley Koo & Jesse MacDonald, violin

Juri Seo, July Mountain
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Trio in B flat, Op. 97
Salley Koo, violin; Iris Jortner, cello; Yiheng Yang, piano

This concert is generously underwritten by Elisabeth & Peter Roos in memory of Elisabeth (Tibby) Tobey

Concert V – Tuesday, July 21, 2026
featuring the Summer Chamber Music Workshop faculty

Georg Philipp Telemann, Suite for Two Violins, “Gulliver’s Travels”
Maiani da Silva & Kiyoshi Hayashi, violin

Franz Schubert, Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (“The Shepherd on the Rock'”)
Zen Wu, soprano; Eric Thomas, clarinet; Myriam Avalos Teie, piano

Gabriella Smith, Carrot Revolution
Kiyoshi Hayashi & Maiani da Silva, violin; Sam Bergman, viola; Jacob MacKay, cello

Heitor Villa-Lobos, Assobio a jato (The Jet Whistle)
Vanessa Holroyd, flute; Jacob MacKay, cello

Mike Kelley, Triosonata for violin, viola and electronics, “QCD”
Salley Koo, violin; Mike Kelley, viola

This concert is generously underwritten by Nancy Roberts

Quartet Novalis

Concert VI – Tuesday, July 28, 2026
featuring Quartet Novalis

Hyacinthe Jadin, Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 2, No. 1(1795)
Antonín Dvořák, Two Waltzes, Op. 54, B.105
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K.421
Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn, Quartet in E-flat Major (1834)
Eliana Estrada, Annemarie Schubert, & Ela Kodžas, violin & viola; Luka Stefanović, cello

This concert is generously underwritten by Bob & Dita Englund

Concert VII – Tuesday, August 4, 2026
featuring the Summer Chamber Music Workshop faculty

Chen Yi, Three Bagatelles from China West
Jeiran Hasan, flute; Jean Schneider, piano

Dana Lyn, Duets for violin and fiddle (World Premiere)
Jesse MacDonald, violin; Dana Lyn, fiddle

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Souvenir de Florence in D major, Op. 70
Movses Pogossian & Joshua Addison, violin; Mike Kelley & Sam Bergman, viola;
Tony Rymer & Jennifer Morsches, cello

This concert is generously underwritten by Molly McCarthy & Tito Carvalho in memory of Molly’s mother, Maureen E. McCarthy

Concert VIII – Tuesday, August 11, 2026
The Summer Gala, presented by Wells Fargo Advisors

Help us celebrate and support Apple Hill with great food and beautiful music! This summer’s gala concert will feature the Apple Hill String Quartet and longtime summer workshop faculty member George Georgiou, performing Mozart’s beloved Quintet for Clarinet & Strings! Event begins at 6pm.

Tickets: $125

This concert is generously underwritten by Mark C. Gebhardt, Kristi L. Griffin, and Lenny Matczynski in honor of the Apple Hill String Quartet

Concert IX – Tuesday, August 18, 2026
featuring the Summer Chamber Music Workshop faculty

Antonín Dvořák, Terzetto in C Major, B. 148, Op. 74
Ealaín McMullin & Kenneth Trotter, violins; Santiago Vazquez-Loredo, viola

Paul Hindemith, “A Musical Flower Garden- Leipzig Assortment”
George Georgiou, clarinet; Maxwell Zeugner, double bass

Nadia Boulanger, 3 Pieces for cello and piano
Troy Stuart, cello; Rania Ejeilat, piano

Gabriel Fauré, Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120
Elise Kuder, violin; Jacob MacKay, cello; Yiheng Yang, piano

This concert is generously underwritten by Patricia & David Beffa-Negrini in honor of Amelia Perron & Keegan Brosseau

Concert X – Tuesday, August 25, 2026
featuring the Apple Hill String Quartet

Join us for a special evening celebrating Czech brothers Pavel & Hugo Haas, great artists whose lives took dramatic turns as the Bohemian Golden Age was devastated by Nazi occupation:  one would escape to the US and Hollywood, the other be incarcerated in Terezin and murdered in Auschwitz. The evening begins with a screening of Hugo Haas’s 1933 comedy film, Život je pes (It’s a Dog’s Life), in which a struggling composer disguises himself to find work and must then disguise his disguised self to find love! Following the movie, the Apple Hill String Quartet will perform Pavel Haas’s riveting third and final quartet, written as a stirring musical “call to arms” against fascism.

This concert is generously underwritten by The Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College