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 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.

Concert VI – Tuesday, July 22
Featuring Elise Kuder, violin & Sally Pinkas, piano
This concert is generously underwritten by Elisabeth & Peter Roos

Grażyna Bacewicz, Sonata No. 2 for violin & piano

Johannes Brahms, Sonata for violin & piano No. 2 in A Major, Op. 1oo

Béla Bartók, Sonata for violin & piano No. 2 in C Major, Sz. 76

Concert VII – Tuesday, July 29
Featuring the Session IV Faculty
This concert is generously underwritten by Elisabeth & Peter Roos in memory of Tibby (Elisabeth) Tobey

Robert Schumann, Phantasiestücke (3 Fantasy Pieces) for clarinet & piano, Op. 73
Eric Thomas, clarinet; Sally Pinkas Piano

Christian Wolff, Piano Quintet “In Winter” (world premiere)
Elise Kuder & Jesse MacDonald, violin; Mike Kelley, viola; Jacob MacKay, cello; Sally Pinkas, piano

Jean-Marie Leclair, Sonata No. 6 for 2 violins in B Flat Major, Op. 12
Beste Tiknaz Modiri & Yoni Gertner, viola

Dana Lyn, Tunes for Fiddler and String Quartet
Elise Kuder & Jesse MacDonald, violin; Mike Kelley, viola; Jacob MacKay, cello; Dana Lyn, fiddle

Concert VIII – Tuesday, August 5
The 2025 Summer Gala
This concert is generously underwritten by Mark C. Gebhardt & Kristi L. Griffin

Celebrate Apple Hill with great food and beautiful music, and help support our Playing for Peace mission! This concert features our beloved Apple Hill String Quartet, violist and Executive Director Sam Bergman, and longtime Apple Hill director, Eric Stumacher. Event begins at 6pm.

Germaine Tailleferre, String Quartet (1919)
Miriam Sharrock, Woodland Wanderlust
Elise Kuder & Jesse MacDonald, violin; Mike Kelley, viola; Jacob MacKay, cello

Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude No. 9 in E major (WTC II/9), BWV 878
George Gershwin, Blue Lullaby
Eric Stumacher, piano

Felix Mendelssohn, Intermezzo from String Quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 18
Elise Kuder & Jesse MacDonald, violin; Mike Kelley & Sam Bergman, viola; Jacob MacKay, cello

Aruna Narayan (arr. Reena Esmail), Mishra Pilu (2020)
Elise Kuder & Jesse MacDonald, violin; Mike Kelley, viola; Jacob MacKay, cello

Tickets: $125

Concert IX – Tuesday, August 12
Featuring the Session V Faculty
This concert is generously underwritten by Maryann Evans

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns, Violons dans le soir
Zen Wu, soprano; Joshua Addison, violin; Jingjing Wan, piano

Melissa Dunphy, Decomposition
Zen Wu, soprano; Maiani Da Silva & Joshua Addison, violin

Bohuslav Martinů, Sonata for Flute, Violin, and Piano H. 254
Gretchen Pusch, flute; Maiani da Silva, violin; Jingjing Wan, piano

Johannes Brahms, Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34a
Movses Pogossian & Jesse MacDonald, violin; Sam Bergman, viola; Tony Rymer, cello; Philip Solomonick, piano

Concert X – Tuesday August 19
Featuring Makia Matsumura, piano
This concert is generously underwritten by Patsy & David Beffa-Negrini

Celebrated pianist Makia Matsumura performs a live, fully improvised score for this special screening of Sessue Hayakawa’s acclaimed 1919 silent film, The Dragon Painter. Long considered lost, The Dragon Painter survives today in a 4K digital restoration by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Eye Filmmuseum, and the George Eastman Museum. The restoration features additional, recently discovered footage, and will be screened in full with Makia’s riveting live performance!

Previous Concerts

Concert I – Tuesday, June 17
Featuring the Session I Faculty
This concert is generously underwritten by Lenny Matczynski in honor of Richard J. Anderson

Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata in E-Flat Major, BWV 1031 for Flute and Piano (1730)
Jeiran Hasan, flute; Christina Wright-Ivanova, piano

Irene Britton Smith, Sonata for Violin and Piano (1947)
Salley Koo, violin; Christina Wright-Ivanova, piano

Antonin Dvořák, String Sextet in A Major, Op. 48 (1879)
Saúl Bitrán & Jesse MacDonald, violin; Jesse Holstein & Sam Bergman, viola; Edvard Pogossian & Chelsea Bernstein, cello

Concert II – Tuesday, June 24
Featuring The Havana Quartet
This concert is generously underwritten by Ann Shedd & Mark Meess

Alfonso de Elías, String Quartet No. 2

Bryce Dessner, Aheym

Franz Joseph Haydn, Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 33 No. 2 “Joke”

Hansel Pérez Carrero & Ana Caridad Frómeta Borrayo, violin; Amaya Fuéntes Sarría, viola; Denise Hernández Rabeiro, cello

Concert III – Tuesday, July 1
Featuring the Session II Faculty
This concert is generously underwritten by Nancy Roberts in honor of Gail Malitas

Luigi Boccherini, String Trio in F Major, Op. 14 No. 6 (1772)
Ivan Stefanović, violin; Chris Jenkins, viola; Jacob MacKay, cello

Alvin Eliot Singleton, Fifty Times Around The Sun, for clarinet & piano (1999)
Amer Hasan, clarinet; Marc Ryser, piano

Kareem Roustom, Oud Quintet (world premiere)
Kareem Roustom, oud; Elise Kuder & Ivan Stefanović, violin; Chris Jenkins, viola; Jacob MacKay, cello

Anton Arensky, Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32 (1894)
Elise Kuder, violin; Pei Lu, cello; Jean Schneider, piano

Concert IV – Tuesday, July 8
Featuring Rhonda Rider, cello & Judith Gordon, piano
This concert is generously underwritten by Alfrieda & Robert Englund

Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102, No. 1 (1815)

Arthur Berger, Duo (1951)

Reena Esmail, Jhula Jhule (2017)

Gabriel Fauré, Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 117 (1921)

Concert V – Tuesday, July 15
Featuring the Session III Faculty
This concert is generously underwritten by Judith & William Waterston

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Duet in E minor for Flute and Violin
Vanessa Holroyd, flute; Ealaín McMullin, violin

Fernand de La Tombelle, Suite for 3 Cellos (1921)
Jacob MacKay, Elizabeth Cook, & Greg Hesselink, cello

Mike Kelley, Univers de poche for clarinet, viola, and electronics (world premiere)
George Georgiou, clarinet; Mike Kelley, viola

Antonin Dvořák, Slavonic Dances, Op. 72
Melanie Bonis, Valses-Caprices, Op. 87
Astor Piazzolla, Libertango
Reynaldo Hahn, Piece en Forme D’Aria et Bergerie
Aram Kachtaturian, Dance Macabre
Myriam Avalos Teie & Mikael Darmanie, piano