Concerts and Events

Upcoming Concerts & Events with Apple Hill

Apple Hill String Quartet, Jesse MacDonald, Elise Kuder, Mike Kelley, Jacob MacKay

2024-2025 Season

This fall, the Apple Hill String Quartet returns with another fantastic + multifaceted program (and new cellist, Jacob MacKay!), including music by a 12th-century woman, a Czech composer active in the early 20th century, and two living composers, one from India and another currently teaching at Berklee College of Music in Boston. A few musical surprises may also be sprinkled in — stay tuned!

Hildegard von Bingen, Three Antiphons, arranged for String Quartet by Marianne Pfau
Lavell Blackwell, On the Impulse to Move, co-commissioned by Apple Hill
Aruna Narayan, Mishra Pilu
Leoš Janáček, String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters”

Saturday, November 2, 6 pm
Barbès, Brooklyn, NY

Performing music of composer Dana Lyn

Tickets and Info

 

Sunday, November 10, 4 pm
Aloha Yoga of Keene, a concert and light stretching (!)
Keene, NH

Friday, November 15, 7 pm
St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH

Sunday, November 17, 2 pm
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum
Warner, NH

Tickets and Info

 

Wednesday, November 20, 7 pm
Rockport Music, Rockport, MA

Tickets Here

Saturday, January 18, 2025 7 pm
Collaboration with MoCo Arts “Time to Dance”
The Redfern Arts Center at Keene State College

Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet Op. 59 No. 3 in C Major

Saturday, January 25, 7 pm doors open/8 pm concert
Nova Arts, Keene, NH

Music of Germaine Tailleferre, Kareem Roustom, and L. van Beethoven

Tuesday, January 28 + Wednesday, January 29
Chamber Music Residency at Lakeside School, Seattle, WA

Saturday, February 1, 7:30 pm
Concert at Tricia Bell and Clive McCarthy’s Art Studio/Home
The Mission District, San Francisco, CA

Music of Germaine Tailleferre, Kareem Roustom, and L. van Beethoven

Sunday, February 2, 2-4 pm
String Quartet Class
PACO (Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra)

Tuesday, February 4
Concert in Palo Alto, CA

More details coming soon!

Sunday, March 30, 2:30 pm
St. Bart’s Church
325 Park Ave, New York City

With guest flutist, Gretchen Pusch

Saturday, April 5
Classes and Concert through Upper Valley Music Center
Lebanon, NH

More details coming soon!

Sunday, April 13, 4 pm
Colonial Theatre in Keene, NH
Co-presented by The Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock, NH

Music inspired by the natural world, including composers F. J. Haydn, Meredith Monk, and a world premiere by Miriam Sharrock, commissioned by Apple Hill

Sunday, April 27, 5 pm
Sundays at Five
Church of the Assumption, Ansonia, CT

 


Previous Events with Apple Hill

Sunday, October 20, 4 pm
The Orchard Concert Series
Orchard Chapel
143 Exeter Rd,
Hampton Falls, NH

 

Friday, October 25, 7 pm
Westmoreland United Church
Westmoreland, NH

Sunday, October 27, 4 pm
The Mariposa Museum
Peterborough, NH

 

 


Summer Concerts at Apple HillTuesday 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 Kelly 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 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.

We want to make sure everyone who wishes to attend ANY of our events is able to, regardless of your ability to pay. If it would help you, please email gail@applehill.org to request a free community ticket (subject to availability). If you are able to help others, you can donate a community ticket for someone in need by making a donation here.

To underwrite a concert, please contact Sam Bergman at sam@applehill.org.

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

To access our 2024 digital Program Book, click on the image below.

2024 Program Book Cover

Cover photo: Jeffrey Newcomer, www.partridgebrookreflections.com