Upcoming Events with Apple Hill

2019-2020 Season

More information about concert times, programs, and tickets will be available here as the season progresses.

Called “a joy to listen to” and “deeply moving” in a concert review by The Journal of Music (click here to read the full review online), the Apple Hill String Quartet is back from their tour of Ireland and Northern Ireland! Along with performances at the Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival in Dublin, the quartet gave a master class for students of the Donegal Music Education Partnership at the Regional Culture Centre in Letterkenny, performed at secondary and primary schools throughout the Donegal countryside, many of them Irish speaking schools, worked with string students at Magee College, University of Ulster in Derry, Northern Ireland, and performed in a collaboration concert with the University of Ulster Choir and Apple Hill alumnus pianist, Evan McGarrigle, in Ballyshannon. Special thanks to the Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival, Martin and Dot Meehan, Evan McGarrigle, Michael McMullin, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and all others who made this trip possible. We are so thankful!

This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Friday, January 24, 8 p.m.
The Colonial Theatre, Keene, NH

Program: Charles Koechlin String Quartet No. 1 Op. 51, Jessie Montgomery “Strum”, Pyotr Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 in D Major.

Featuring Apple Hill resident musicians Elise Kuder, violin; Mike Kelley, viola; and Rupert Thompson, cello, with guest Apple Hill alumna and summer faculty Ealain McMullin, violin.

Sunday, January 26, 2pm
Community Music School of Springfield, Springfield, MA
CANCELLED

This concert has been cancelled by the venue. Please contact the Community Music School of Springfield at (413) 732-8428 with any questions or concerns with ticketing. 

Saturday, February 8
Northern Massachusetts Youth Orchestras, Inc.
Boxford, MA

Chamber Music Workshop

Sunday, February 23
Machina Kitchen and ArtBar, Keene, NH

Apple Hill will perform as part of Machina Kitchen and ArtBar’s Prix Fixe Sunday Evening Meal. Featuring Apple Hill resident musicians Elise Kuder, violin; Mike Kelley, viola; and Rupert Thompson, cello, with guest Apple Hill alumna and summer faculty Ealain McMullin, violin. Program and more information TBA.

Sunday, March 8, 2:30 p.m.
St. Bart’s Cathedral, NYC

Program: Mozart String Quartet in A Major, K.464, Kinan Azmeh Clarinet Quintet, Chausson Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet.

Featuring Apple Hill resident musicians Elise Kuder, violin; Mike Kelley, viola; and Rupert Thompson, cello, with guests Apple Hill alumnus Jesse MacDonald and Apple Hill summer faculty Rebecca Fischer, violins, alumnus and summer faculty Kinan Azmeh, clarinet, and summer faculty Yi-heng Yang, piano.

Check in soon for more concert dates and information! See you at the concerts!

Summer Concert Series

The Summer Concert Series features the Apple Hill String Quartet and Summer Chamber Music Workshop guest faculty artists. Each Tuesday night concert is preceded by a buffet dinner and listenUP, a pre-concert lecture series by Director Leonard Matczynski.

We look forward to seeing you at Apple Hill concerts and events around the Monadnock Region and around the world this fall and winter. The 2020 summer season will be announced here in spring 2020.

In the meantime, click here to peruse the archives of past summer concert series.