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Music at Kohl Mansion Sets 42nd Annual Chamber Music Season
by Michael Major - Oct 4, 2024

Hailed by The Boston Globe as “simply the best,” the Quartet will perform an outstanding program of musical works by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Sibelius, and the local premier of a work by Jamaican-born composer, Eleanor Alberga.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Reveals Autumn Concert Lineup
by Stephi Wild - Sep 17, 2024

Two gem-like programs of classical masterworks and a festive concert of Baroque music that celebrate the holidays comprise BCM Autumn, Bridgehampton Chamber Music’s fall series.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival 2024 Returns This July
by A.A. Cristi - May 20, 2024

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival 2024 features 12 concerts from July 14 to August 11.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music To Present Spring Concert Series Featuring Pre-Eminent Chamber Musicians
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 24, 2024

BCM Spring, the annual series from Bridgehampton Chamber Music, Long Island’s longest-running classical music festival, welcomes spring in 2024 with three concerts including a harp program, delectable French repertoire, and Mozart gems featuring some of the finest chamber musicians performing today.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Hosts Third Year of BCM Autumn
by Stephi Wild - Sep 13, 2023

Bridgehampton Chamber Music presents the third year of BCM Autumn, its fall mini-series, with Saturday evening programs October 21, November 11, and December 9, a holiday program. Learn more about the upcoming concerts and how to get tickets here!

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival 2023 40th Season To Feature Eleven Concerts, July 16 - August 13
by A.A. Cristi - May 20, 2023

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival marks its 40th summer season in 2023. Long Island's longest-running classical music festival celebrates this milestone with 11 concerts, July 16 – August 13, that showcase a theme of “Beethoven as Innovator” alongside six of the festival's favorite works from four decades of commissioning new music: pieces by Elizabeth Brown, Kenji Bunch, Eric Ewazen, Bruce MacCombie, Kevin Puts, and Ned Rorem.

BSO and Celebrity Series Of Boston Present Osvaldo Golijov's FALLING OUT OF TIME At Symphony Hall
by Stephi Wild - Apr 6, 2023

A special concert on Sunday, April 30 at 2 p.m. presents Argentine-born American composer Osvaldo Golijov's Falling Out of Time (2019), composed for a multicultural, multistylistic instrumental ensemble and presented in a semi-staged performance at Symphony Hall, in association with Celebrity Series of Boston.

Music Academy Celebrates LOWENTHAL'S LEGEND, March 9
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 15, 2023

The internationally acclaimed American pianists Ursula Oppens and Jerome Lowenthal will perform in an Music Academy concert on Thursday evening, March 9, 2023, at 7 PM, PST, at Music Academy of the West's Hahn Hall (1070 Fairway Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108). This concert, entitled 'Lowenthal's Legend,' honors and celebrates the extraordinary pianist and preeminent pedagogue Jerome Lowenthal, who has served as a Music Academy teaching artist for half a century.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music's BCM Spring Three-Concert Series: April 1, April 29, May 20, 2023
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 10, 2023

BCM Spring, the spring installment of Bridgehampton Chamber Music's concert season, presents three programs of stellar guest artists and BCM musicians in 2023.

Orion String Quartet Announces Retirement at the End of 2023-24 Season
by Stephi Wild - Dec 14, 2022

The Orion String Quartet, one of today's leading chamber music ensembles, will retire at the end of the 2023-24 season, concluding an illustrious 36-year partnership.

BCM AUTUMN, Bridgehampton Chamber Music's Fall Series, Expands to Three Events in 2022
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 26, 2022

BCM Autumn, Bridgehampton Chamber Music's fall mini-series launched in 2021, expands from two concerts to three in 2022, with Saturday evening programs October 29, November 12, and December 10, BCM's first-ever holiday program.

South Bend Symphony Orchestra to Perform With Yo-Yo Ma As Part Of Their 2022-23 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 23, 2022

The South Bend Symphony Orchestra will welcome the return of world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, at Morris Performing Arts Center. For one night only, witness the ultimate artistic mastery of Yo-Yo Ma, one of classical music's prominent artists and ambassadors, perform with the full Symphony for the first time since 1979.

11 Programs Announced for Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival 2022
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 13, 2022

This summer’s Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival will presents 11 concerts from July 24 to August 21 – approaching its pre-pandemic scope. The 11 distinct programs in the 39th season of Long Island’s longest-running classical music festival highlight interconnections in music.

Out Tomorrow: The Claremont Trio Releases QUEEN OF HEARTS
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 25, 2022

The Claremont Trio (Emily Bruskin, violin; Julia Bruskin, cello; and Andrea Lam, piano) will release its next album, Queen of Hearts, on its Tria Records label on February 25, 2022 in celebration of its 20th anniversary.

Telegraph Quartet Will Perform a Virtual Concert as Part of Noontime Concerts
by Stephi Wild - Feb 16, 2022

The quartet's performance from Old St. Mary's Cathedral, (660 California Street) will include Florence Price's Five Folksongs in Counterpoint and Beethoven's String Quartet, Op. 132.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Announced Spring Series
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 2, 2022

After a pandemic-induced hiatus of two years, Bridgehampton Chamber Music’s BCM Spring series returns in 2022 with three early-evening Saturday concerts in March, April, and May. With its four-week summer festival and the successful launch of BCM Autumn, a two-concert fall series, this past November, Long Island’s longest-running classical music festival now has close to a year-round presence in its East End home.

Telegraph Quartet Performs With Cellist Bonnie Hampton On Free Livestream Concert
by Stephi Wild - Nov 19, 2021

On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 7:30pm PT, the Telegraph Quartet (Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violins; Pei-Ling Lin, viola; Jeremiah Shaw, cello) is presented on the new Chamber Music Tuesdays series by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where the ensemble is quartet-in-residence.

Telegraph Quartet Performs In A Musical Call For Climate Action
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 29, 2021

On Friday, November 12, 2021, at 11am PT the Telegraph Quartet, winner of the 2016 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, will perform on Live from Vienna and San Francisco: A Musical Call for Climate Action, presented by The ClimateMusic Project and Friday Nights with Yury Revich.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Inaugurates Fall Series BCM AUTUMN
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 8, 2021

Continuing its momentum from a successful summer festival of in-person performances, Bridgehampton Chamber Music inaugurates its first fall series, BCM Autumn, that continues the 37-year-old organization's expansion beyond its summer festival (a BCM Spring mini-series began in 2015).  Two Saturday early-evening concerts in November will – belatedly – celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven's 250th birthday as a Beethoven “mini-fest.”

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival 2021 Returns Live August 4 - 22
by A.A. Cristi - May 27, 2021

The 38th annual festival presents 13 concerts August 4-22 at its regular venues – the festival's home, the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, as well as the Parrish Art Museum and Channing Sculpture Garden.