THE CONCERTS
It’s almost here! Our 29th season is on the horizon, with works by Composer in Residence Hannah Kendall, including her Glances; I Don’t Belong Here for string quartet; the early and mighty Piano Quintet in g minor of Sibelius; works for soprano and ensemble of Bach, Berio and Stravinsky; the G Major violin sonata of Brahms; the first string quartet of Benjamin Britten; improvisations; and much more!
JULY 16th at 5PM
It’s the return of Barn Raising! Our annual summer benefit is back, with music of Bach, Barber, Kendall, Schumann and more, and street food from around the world, with wines and beers to match!
July 21st at 7:30PM
Join WCM artists for an intimate chat about youthful imagination and how it evolves over the course of a composer’s life. Oh, Youth and Beauty explores The New Fantastic both when it’s young, and aged to perfection. With music of Bach; Brahms; Carter; and Composer in Residence Hannah Kendall. Featuring Andrew Waggoner & Mari Sato, violins; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Caroline Stinson, cello; and Composer in Residence Hannah Kendall
CAS Laundry King
65 Main St, Livingston Manor, NY
July 23rd at 8PM
Wonder Years
Brahms, Violin Sonata Op. 78
Füsun Köksal, Of Light and Shadows
Elliot Carter, Elegy
Hannah Kendall, Glances/I Don’t Belong Here
Sibelius, Piano Quintet in g minor
Nurit Pacht & Mari Sato, violins
Kathryn Lockwood, viola
Caroline Stinson, cello
Sarah Ho, piano
Jeffersonville Bake Shop,
4906 NY-52, Jeffersonville, NY
July 24th at 4PM
An intimate afternoon of solos and duos, with music of Bach and Composer in Residence Hannah Kendall
July 28 at 7:30PM
MusicTalks: Hannah Kendall, Tuxedo Required
An evening with Composer in Residence Hannah Kendall. Hannah talks about coming up as a composer in the U.K., her beautiful, visionary work, and her series of solo works called Tuxedo pieces.
CAS, Laundry King, 65 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY
July 30 at 8 PM
Bach, Early Cantata Arias
Luciano Berio, O, king
Stravinsky, Pastorale
Waggoner, Yoshiko in Light
Hannah Kendall, Tan-Tan
Britten, First String Quartet
Charlotte Mundy, soprano
Nurit Pacht & Mari Sato, violins
Kathryn Lockwood, viola
Caroline Stinson, cello
Orli Shaham, piano
TAK Ensemble
Jeffersonville Bake Shop
4906 NY-52, Jeffersonville, NY
As always, love: of chamber music, of our musical friends, and our Catskill community, is the thing that drives and sustains us, and that makes everything possible. We can’t wait to share that love with you all once again. -Andrew Waggoner & Caroline Stinson
NEWS
2022 Season Passes Available
Until July 15th our 2022 Season Passes are available for only $105! (Does not include admission to Barn Raising)
Barn Raising is Back! Tickets Now on Sale!
Barn Raising is back! While the barn is literally being raised our friends at the Jeffersonville Bake Shop are hosting us for a wonderful evening of food and music in support of WCM. With music of Bach, Barber, Hannah Kendall, Improvisations and more, and with street food from around the world and beer and wines to match, this promises to be the most memorable Barn Raising yet! Tickets: Basic Admission, $75; Patron Level (includes free video downloads of every concert in the 2022 season), $120 GET TICKETS!
VIDEO: Bach at the Tenri Institute
Here is a live video from our March 25, 2016 concert at the Tenri Institute in New York City.
VIDEO: Andrew Waggoner’s Down/Up
Here is a live video from our March 25, 2016 concert at the Tenri Institute in New York City.
Artist Q & A: Oboist Peggy Pearson
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ABOUT WCM
Artistic Directors’ Message
The New FANTASTIC!
There’s much talk now of a “new normal”. We all know what that means as we complete our crash course on the Greek alphabet. Well “normal” doesn’t interest us; what we need right now is the New FANTASTIC. And so we’re bringing it to you. Gorgeous, seminal works from Bach, Brahms, Britten, Stravinsky and Sibelius (his super-charged yet little-heard Piano Quintet in g minor), composed when they were all new: young, brash, ready to take on the world, and totally fantastic. And of course there’s the new new, with Füsun Köksal’s radiant string quartet Of Light and Shadows (the runaway hit of our concert at the Cooperage last November); 20th-century Italian master Luciano Berio’s haunting and moving O King; and works by this year’s Composer in Residence, British sensation Hannah Kendall. Bringing all of this music to life will be old friends Nurit Pacht, Mari Sato, Kathryn Lockwood, and Canadian pianist Sarah Ho, along with first-time appearances by pianists Andrew Zhou and Orli Shaham, and the innovative, always unexpected TAK Ensemble.
In spite of everything we’ve endured, no matter the challenges ahead, life is truly fantastic. Please come celebrate it with us this summer!
Love,
Andy & Carrie
Our Mission
We engage the public of the Catskills and the Upper Delaware region directly by bringing transformative performances of, and discussion around, chamber music to a wide variety of venues across the region. With events each season in a converted barn (our main concert home); a distillery; a country inn; a farmer’s market; a church lawn; a repurposed school; and an old mill-turned-gallery, we bring our work straight to the people wherever they are. Our commitment to what we see as an essential mix of standard repertoire, new music, encounters with living composers, and improvisation, ensures that our audiences come to see chamber music as a vital, contemporary, evolving art form, one that speaks directly to them, of their lives and their shared humanity.
Meet the Artists
WATCH + LISTEN
Highlights from our 2021 Season, Into the Light
Ludwig van Beethoven, Heiliger Dankgesang, from Quartet Op. 132
Nurit Pacht & Mari Sato, violins; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Caroline Stinson, cello
Kurt Rohde, 4 Remixes, for piano trio
Sunghae Anna Lim, violin; Caroline Stinson, cello; Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano
Rohde, Inside Voice, for string quartet
Nurit Pacht & Mari Sato, violins; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Caroline Stinson, cello
Andrew Waggoner, Now, the Fire (Movement for piano quartet after James Baldwin)
Mari Sato, violin; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Caroline Stinson, cello; Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano
PHOTO GALLERY
CONTACT US
GENERAL INFORMATION
Weekend of Chamber Music, Inc.
PO Box 147
Jeffersonville, N.Y. 12748
INFORMATION
(917) 664-5185
Homepage image: The Lotus Eaters, Mosaic work by Laurel True, New Orleans, www.truemosaics.com, @laureltrue3