Concerts
Upcoming Events
Nicola's Trattoria
Saturday, April 14, 9:00pm - 1:00am
51 Railroad Street
Keene, NH 03431
Join us for "Roaring Twenties Speakeasy Night" at Nicola's Trattoria in Keene, NH. $35 admission includes hors d'oeuvres, live music, and a donation to Apple Hill.
Call 603-355-5242 for more information.
Monadnock Region Concert Series
The Monadnock Region Concert Series features the Apple Hill String Quartet and guest artists in historic New Hampshire churches.
Sunday, April 15 - 3:00 pm
High Mowing School
222 Isaac Frye Highway
Wilton, NH 03086
Featuring the Apple Hill String Quartet
Purcell, Three Fantasies
Borodin, String Quartet #2 in D Major
Beethoven, String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135
Summer Concert Series
For 40 years, the Summer Concert Series has nourished audience members from New Hampshire and beyond. Each Tuesday evening performance features the Apple Hill String Quartet and renowned summer workshop faculty--hosted in Apple Hill's Louise Shonk Kelly Barn in Nelson, New Hampshire.
All concerts are free and open to the public. To reserve a seat, the suggested donation is $25 or more. The season pass is $200 (includes 1 free concert and 1/2 off all pre-concert dinners).
NEW - PRE-CONCERT SESSIONS
listenUP! – Weekly on Tuesday summer concert nights: 6:45-7:15
Take your music-listening to the next level in this new pre-concert series by Director Lenny Matczynski and featured faculty.
2012 SUMMER SCHEDULE
JUNE 19 - 7:30 pm
Featuring the Session I Faculty
Jean Marie Leclair, Sonata in E minor for flute and piano
- Gretchen Pusch, flute
- Maura Glennon, piano
Franz Joseph Haydn, Trio for violin, cello, and piano in F# minor, Hob XV, 26
- Cornelia Schwartz, violin
- Brooks Whitehouse, cello
- Maura Glennon, piano
Paul Hindemith, Quintet for clarinet and strings, Op. 30 (1923)
- Eric Thomas, clarinet
- Salley Koo, violin
- Sarah Kim violin
- Lila Brown, viola
- Joshua Gordon, cello
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JUNE 26 - 7:30 pm
A recital by baritone Donald Wilkinson and pianist Rob Humphreville in works by Schubert and American classics by Stephen Foster, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin
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JULY 3 - 7:30 pm
Featuring the Session II Faculty
Maurice Ravel, Mother Goose Suite for piano, four-hands
- Yi-heng Yang and Daniel Sedgwick, piano
Henry Purcell, Trio Sonata in C minor, Z 798
- Pamela Epple, oboe
- Jay Young Cosmos Lee, violin
- Troy Stuart, cello
- Daniel Sedgwick, harpsichord
Felix Mendelssohn, Piano Sextet in D Major, Op. 110
- Ralph Morrison, violin
- Amadi Azikiwe, viola
- Rohan Gregory, viola
- Rupert Thompson, cello
- Max Zeugner, string bass
- Yi-heng Yang, piano
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JULY 10 - 7:30 pm
Young Artist Fellowship Program
Apple Hill's Young Artist Fellowship Program brings together advanced young instrumentalists for a rigorous and exciting 14-day chamber music and teaching experience. The program includes intensive study with the artist faculty at Apple Hill, teaching support and practice help for regular workshop participants, and one public performance.
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JULY 17 - 7:30 pm
Featuring the Session III Faculty
Franz Schubert, Songs, arranged for violin and viola
- Elise Kuder, violin
- Michael Kelley, viola
Paul Hindemith, Quartet for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (1938)
- John Laughton, clarinet
- Gabrielle Diaz, violin
- Gregory Hesselink, cello
- Jean Schneider, piano
Ralph Vaughan-Williams, On Wenlock Edge for tenor, string quartet, and piano
- Frank Kelley, tenor
- Jean Schneider, piano
- The Apple Hill String Quartet:
- Elise Kuder and Sarah Kim, violin
- Michael Kelley, viola
- Rupert Thompson, cello
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JULY 24 - Gala Benefit
A special evening to fund the building and rebuilding of our participant cabins
The Apple Hill String Quartet:
- Elise Kuder and Sarah Kim, violin
- Michael Kelley, viola
- Rupert Thompson, cello
The quartet will perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s innovative Lark String Quartet, Erwin Schulhoff’s imaginative Five Pieces for String Quartet, and Alexander Borodin’s String Quartet #2 known for its beautiful nocturne.
$50.00 per person
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JULY 31 - 7:30 pm
Featuring the Session IV Faculty
Claude Debussy, Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun for flute, clarinet, and piano (arr. by Michael Webster)
- Vanessa Holroyd, flute
- Kinan Azmeh, clarinet
- Sally Pinkas, piano
Astor Piazzolla, Four Seasons of Buenos Aries
- Elizabeth Larson, violin
- Matthias Naegele, cello
- Sally Pinkas, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven, Viola Quintet in C Major, Op. 29
- Elise Kuder, violin
- Jesse Holstein, violin
- Michael Kelley, viola
- Kate Holzemer, viola
- Matthias Naegele, cello
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AUGUST 7 - 7:30 pm
Complex Stories, Simple Sounds
A recital featuring Syrian clarinetist and summer faculty Kinan Azmeh with Dinuk Wijeratne, piano, in a program of original music composed by Kinan and Dinuk. Their modern improvised and original style merges the traditions of classical music, jazz techniques and sounds, and scents from Syria and Sri Lanka
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AUGUST 14 - 7:30 pm
Featuring the Session V Faculty
Robert Schumann, Three Romances, Op. 94
- Elah Grandel, bassoon
- Myriam Teie, piano
George Enesco, Octet for strings in C Major, Op. 7
- Movses Pogossian, violin
- Varty Manoulian, violin
- Elise Kuder, violin
- Sarah Kim, violin
- Michael Kelley, viola
- Mowry Pearson, viola
- Rupert Thompson, cello
- Paul Cohen, cello
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AUGUST 21 - 7:30 pm
Final Summer Concert
Featuring the Dirt Road Ensemble,
Leonard Matczynski, conductor
Henry Purcell, Chaconne in G minor, Z 730
Add a cello:
Astor Piazzolla, Oblivion for solo cello and string ensemble
- Rupert Thompson, cello
Vivaldi, Concert for 2 cellos and string ensemble
- Ross Beauchamp and Eddie Pogossian, cello
David Popper, Requiem, Op. 66, for three cellos and string ensemble
- Rupert Thompson, Chelsea Bernstein, Eddie Pogossian, cello
Dessert and Dance, Hoffman Auditorium