THE CONCERTS
The Great Tradition! Music of Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Schumann, Ginastera, Tippett, Rosenzweig, and Composer in Residence Augusta Read Thomas. All this plus salon music new and old, composed and improvised. It’s a multi-generational, three-hundred year musical conversation. Check back soon for full concert details!
July 17th at 730 PM
MusicTalks I: An Evening With Augusta Read Thomas
Featuring:
Emma Frucht, violin
Yuchen Lu, viola
Caroline Stinson, cello
Catskill Art Space
48 Main Street
Livingston Manor, NY
$25
July 18th at 7PM
Join WCM artists for rehearsal and discussion on works from our July 19th program, Traditions Intersecting
Friday, July 18th, 7 PM
The Arnold House
839 Shandelee Rd, Livingston Manor, NY 12758
FREE!
July 19th at 730PM
Traditions from Europe and the Americas intersecting and colliding in crazy, unexpected ways! With music of Ginastera, Chavez, Copland, Augusta Read Thomas, and Haydn.
Saturday, July 19th at 7:30 PM
Catskill Art Space
48 Main Street
Livingston Manor, NY
$30
July 20th at 11AM
Music for kids, parents, grandparents, pets (wait, we’re in a gallery. No pets!), from the summer repertoire and made up on the spot.
Saturday, July 20th, 11 AM
Catskill Art Space
48 Main Street
Livingston Manor, NY
FREE!
July 24 at 730PM
Salon pieces, showpieces, trios, improvisations. Get cozy for an evening of chamber music in its original setting: the living room!
Thursday, July 24th, 7:30 PM
Eddie Adams Barn
Jeffersonville-North Branch road
Jeffersonville, NY
$25
July 25th at 7PM
Our second open rehearsal of the season! Come for a preview and discussion of works from our July 26th concert, Traditions Expanding.
Catskill Art Space
48 Main Street
Livingston Manor, NY
FREE!
July 26 at 7:30 PM
The whole tradition from A to Z (well, at least T), with music of Beethoven, Schumann, Tippett, and Composer in Residence Augusta Read Thomas.
Saturday, July 26th, 7:30 PM
Catskill Art Space
48 Main Street
Livingston Manor, NY
$30
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
Here Come the Danes!
The Rudersdal Chamber Players, in Concert In New York and at the Cooperage!
April 11th & 18th, 2025
The Danes are back, armed with visas this time and ready to take New York City and the Catskills by storm! With a beautiful program of new and old American and Danish music, the group that BBC Magazine has praised as one of the most exciting on the scene will perform as WCM’s guests this April.
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
Two big pillars of your Artistical life are Winsor Music and Emmanuel Music…
ABOUT WCM
Artistic Directors’ Message
The Great Tradition! Wow, that rings with all kinds of portent: a canon, a shared history, a legacy, the masterpieces of common practice. We’re interested in all of that, but even more in looking forward and seeing that tradition extended, re-heard, reimagined and remade. This summer’s program is anchored by the cornerstone presences of Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, and Schumann. The conversation then broadens to include twentieth-century masters Duke Ellington, Alberto Ginastera and Michael Tippett, each of whom looks back to their forebears while also anticipating the contemporary voices of Morris Rosenzweig, and this year’s composer in residence Augusta Read Thomas. Running parallel to all this is salon music both old and new, composed and improvised. It’s a multi-generational colloquy, a three-hundred year family reunion. We love tradition, especially ours of 32 years: hearing the old in the new, the new in the old, and the wondrous in everything.
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
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CONTACT US
GENERAL INFORMATION
Weekend of Chamber Music, Inc.
PO Box 147
Jeffersonville, N.Y. 12748
INFORMATION
(917) 664-5185