Concert & Event Schedule
Music in the Time of Quarantine
Head over to the Music in the Time of Quarantine page to view replays of all of our free concerts so far.
Listen & Lunch
Monadnock Music in Depot Park
Thursdays, July-September, 12-1pm
Depot Park, Peterborough
Every Thursday, July through September, come enjoy an hour of music during lunch, 12-1pm, at Depot Park in Peterborough. Safe for social distancing, all ages welcome!
Performer Bios
Listen & Lunch
July 2, 12-1pm
Depot Park, Peterborough
Alison Hale - flute
Alison Hale
A member of the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra since 1985, Alison Hale is also principal of the OperaMaine and Portland Ballet orchestras, and a member of the Berkshire Bach Ensemble. She is on the faculties of Mount Holyoke and Bennington Colleges and has previously taught at Amherst, Bowdoin, and Bates Colleges. A distinguished alumna award winner of Mount Holyoke College and Fryeburg (ME) Academy, Ms. Hale also holds MM and DMA degrees from the Manhattan School of Music. Other honors include the Kandell Fellowship for participation in the Tanglewood Institute where she was awarded the C. D. Jackson Master prize. She made her Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1982 as winner of the Artists International competition and has toured the US, Europe, and South America as both a soloist and orchestral musician.
Listen & Lunch
July 9, 12-1pm
Depot Park, Peterborough
Mary Kay Robinson & Carol Wincenc - flute duo
Mary Kay Robinson
Flutist Mary Kay Robinson has risen to national prominence as a versatile musician who has performed, recorded and toured with the Symphony Orchestras in Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Kansas City, Toledo and Cleveland, among others. …“dazzling virtuosity...a hugely talented soloist” critics heralded of her New York solo debut. She has been a featured soloist with the Southern Tier Symphony (NY), Cleveland Pops at Severance Hall, and the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra. She is the founder of the award winning mixed chamber ensemble, Panorámicos whose 3 CDs have garnered international critical acclaim. Ms. Robinson has performed with some of the nations premiere chamber musicians including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Music from Angel Fire, ChamberFest Cleveland and the New Hampshire Music Festival musicians.“soulful, haunting and charismatic”...“expressive, compelling individual”. Read more...
Carol Wincenc
Hailed "Queen of the Flute" (New York Magazine) at the outset of her, now, brilliant 50 year career, flutist CAROL WINCENC was First Prize Winner of the (sole) Walter W. Naumburg Solo Flute Competition, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from the National Flute Association, the National Society of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Music, and Distinguished Alumni Awards from Manhattan School of Music and the Brevard Music Center. During the past two seasons she performed, recorded and gave masterclasses as an exclusive Burkart Flutes Artist in Beijing, Shenyang, Seoul, Warsaw, Prague, Venice, Nice, and Thessoloniki. In North America she performed as soloist and chamber musician from coast to coast, including Seattle, Phoenix, Dallas, Edmonton, Banff, Iowa City, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Tucson, Palm Beach, Sarasota, Philadelphia, Boston and her home city, New York. Recently she recorded an all Uebayashi album with the award winning Escher String Quartet, and video/audios in partnership with her collaborator/pianist Bryan Wagorn of the Metropolitan Opera. Most recently she and Mr. Wagorn performed to a sold out house at Weill Carnegie Hall for the "Naumburg Looks Back" series. Read more...
Listen & Lunch
July 16, 12-1pm
Depot Park, Peterborough
Jason Thomas Koerber - clarinet
Jason Koerber
Jason is Director of Elm City Music and teaches Clarinet, Saxophone & Flute. He is a active local performer and has performed with Keene Chamber Orchestra, Ben Carr Music Project, Half Diminished Swing Band, Nouveau Swing, Jacksonville Blues Band, Keene Jazz Orchestra, Tom Foolery Band, Nines Band, the Pink Floyd tribute band Liquid Floyd, Raylynmor Opera Company, and The Monadnock Chorus & Orchestra. Jason has taught saxophone and clarinet at Vermont Academy, Saxtons River VT; The Putney School, Putney, VT; The Open Music Collective, Brattleboro VT; Peterborough Music, Peterborough NH; and Cheshire Music, Keene, NH. Jason has studied saxophone with Scott Mullett, Harvey Kaiser, Mario Bernardo & Craig Sylvern. He has studied clarinet with Richard Sanders & Mario Bernardo and flute with Robin Matathias.
Listen & Lunch
July 23, 12-1pm
Depot Park, Peterborough
David William Ross - guitar
David William Ross
David William Ross has performed throughout the United States and in Europe. Trained in both classical and jazz, he works across genres and brings a unique musical sensibility to his approach to the guitar. David frequently works closely with composers and other artists as well as dancers and choreographers. He has written music extensively for dance and other performance arts, creating music that is organic and piece specific. He has premiered much of his own work with dancers in venues such as The Patterson Theatre in Baltimore and the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge. His most recent commercial release for PARMA was released in January, 2017, a collection of the solo guitar works of Swiss composer Georges Raillard. David has also taught music theory, ear training, guitar, improvisation, and general art aesthetics, serving on the faculties of Fitchburg State University, Keene State College, The Vermont Jazz Center, Elm City Music, and the Concord Community Music School. Read more...
Listen & Lunch
July 30, 12-1pm Cancelled
Due to injury, Tara will not be able to perform on this date, she will be performing September 10 instead.
Depot Park, Peterborough
Tara Novak - violin
Tara Novak
Multi-instrumentalist (violin, electric violin, Irish fiddle, viola, piano) and vocalist Tara Novak has been an active soloist and performer for more than two decades.
Trained classically with concert violinist Benny Kim at UMKC Conservatory (2001), she discovered in her early 20s when she moved to New York City that she wanted to focus on "music that made people dance" - folk music, pop music, rock music, improvisation, EDM, and musical theater. This led to fiddle camps with Darol Anger and Mark O'Connor, 5 years of study at Comhaltas Ceoltoiri in Dublin Ireland, and eventually a degree in contemporary orchestration and improvisation at Berklee College of Music (2013).
Read more...Listen & Lunch
August 6, 12-1pm
Depot Park, Peterborough
Alison Hale - flute
Alison Hale
A member of the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra since 1985, Alison Hale is also principal of the OperaMaine and Portland Ballet orchestras, and a member of the Berkshire Bach Ensemble. She is on the faculties of Mount Holyoke and Bennington Colleges and has previously taught at Amherst, Bowdoin, and Bates Colleges. A distinguished alumna award winner of Mount Holyoke College and Fryeburg (ME) Academy, Ms. Hale also holds MM and DMA degrees from the Manhattan School of Music. Other honors include the Kandell Fellowship for participation in the Tanglewood Institute where she was awarded the C. D. Jackson Master prize. She made her Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1982 as winner of the Artists International competition and has toured the US, Europe, and South America as both a soloist and orchestral musician.
Listen & Lunch
August 13, 12-1pm
Depot Park, Peterborough
Mary Kay Robinson - flute
Mary Kay Robinson
Flutist Mary Kay Robinson has risen to national prominence as a versatile musician who has performed, recorded and toured with the Symphony Orchestras in Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Kansas City, Toledo and Cleveland, among others. …“dazzling virtuosity...a hugely talented soloist” critics heralded of her New York solo debut. She has been a featured soloist with the Southern Tier Symphony (NY), Cleveland Pops at Severance Hall, and the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra. She is the founder of the award winning mixed chamber ensemble, Panorámicos whose 3 CDs have garnered international critical acclaim. Ms. Robinson has performed with some of the nations premiere chamber musicians including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Music from Angel Fire, ChamberFest Cleveland and the New Hampshire Music Festival musicians.“soulful, haunting and charismatic”...“expressive, compelling individual”. Read more...
Listen & Lunch
August 20, 12-1pm
Depot Park, Peterborough
David William Ross - guitar
David William Ross
David William Ross has performed throughout the United States and in Europe. Trained in both classical and jazz, he works across genres and brings a unique musical sensibility to his approach to the guitar. David frequently works closely with composers and other artists as well as dancers and choreographers. He has written music extensively for dance and other performance arts, creating music that is organic and piece specific. He has premiered much of his own work with dancers in venues such as The Patterson Theatre in Baltimore and the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge. His most recent commercial release for PARMA was released in January, 2017, a collection of the solo guitar works of Swiss composer Georges Raillard. David has also taught music theory, ear training, guitar, improvisation, and general art aesthetics, serving on the faculties of Fitchburg State University, Keene State College, The Vermont Jazz Center, Elm City Music, and the Concord Community Music School. Read more...
Listen & Lunch
August 27, 12-1pm
Depot Park, Peterborough
Jason Thomas Koerber - saxaphone
Jason Koerber
Jason is Director of Elm City Music and teaches Clarinet, Saxophone & Flute. He is a active local performer and has performed with Keene Chamber Orchestra, Ben Carr Music Project, Half Diminished Swing Band, Nouveau Swing, Jacksonville Blues Band, Keene Jazz Orchestra, Tom Foolery Band, Nines Band, the Pink Floyd tribute band Liquid Floyd, Raylynmor Opera Company, and The Monadnock Chorus & Orchestra. Jason has taught saxophone and clarinet at Vermont Academy, Saxtons River VT; The Putney School, Putney, VT; The Open Music Collective, Brattleboro VT; Peterborough Music, Peterborough NH; and Cheshire Music, Keene, NH. Jason has studied saxophone with Scott Mullett, Harvey Kaiser, Mario Bernardo & Craig Sylvern. He has studied clarinet with Richard Sanders & Mario Bernardo and flute with Robin Matathias.
Listen & Lunch
September 3, 12-1pm
Depot Park, Peterborough
Alison Hale - flute
Alison Hale
A member of the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra since 1985, Alison Hale is also principal of the OperaMaine and Portland Ballet orchestras, and a member of the Berkshire Bach Ensemble. She is on the faculties of Mount Holyoke and Bennington Colleges and has previously taught at Amherst, Bowdoin, and Bates Colleges. A distinguished alumna award winner of Mount Holyoke College and Fryeburg (ME) Academy, Ms. Hale also holds MM and DMA degrees from the Manhattan School of Music. Other honors include the Kandell Fellowship for participation in the Tanglewood Institute where she was awarded the C. D. Jackson Master prize. She made her Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1982 as winner of the Artists International competition and has toured the US, Europe, and South America as both a soloist and orchestral musician.
Listen & Lunch
September 10, 12-1pm
Depot Park, Peterborough
Tara Novak - violin
Tara Novak
Multi-instrumentalist (violin, electric violin, Irish fiddle, viola, piano) and vocalist Tara Novak has been an active soloist and performer for more than two decades.
Trained classically with concert violinist Benny Kim at UMKC Conservatory (2001), she discovered in her early 20s when she moved to New York City that she wanted to focus on "music that made people dance" - folk music, pop music, rock music, improvisation, EDM, and musical theater. This led to fiddle camps with Darol Anger and Mark O'Connor, 5 years of study at Comhaltas Ceoltoiri in Dublin Ireland, and eventually a degree in contemporary orchestration and improvisation at Berklee College of Music (2013).
Read more...
Listen & Lunch
September 17, 12-1pm
Depot Park, Peterborough
David William Ross - guitar
David William Ross
David William Ross has performed throughout the United States and in Europe. Trained in both classical and jazz, he works across genres and brings a unique musical sensibility to his approach to the guitar. David frequently works closely with composers and other artists as well as dancers and choreographers. He has written music extensively for dance and other performance arts, creating music that is organic and piece specific. He has premiered much of his own work with dancers in venues such as The Patterson Theatre in Baltimore and the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge. His most recent commercial release for PARMA was released in January, 2017, a collection of the solo guitar works of Swiss composer Georges Raillard. David has also taught music theory, ear training, guitar, improvisation, and general art aesthetics, serving on the faculties of Fitchburg State University, Keene State College, The Vermont Jazz Center, Elm City Music, and the Concord Community Music School. Read more...
Outdoor Lawn Concert
Sunday, September 20
Peterborough
Bring your own picnic lunch and a cool beverage, lawn chairs or a blanket and enjoy Tanglewood style!
Listen & Lunch
September 24, 12-1pm
Depot Park, Peterborough
Jason Thomas Koerber - clarinet
Jason Koerber
Jason is Director of Elm City Music and teaches Clarinet, Saxophone & Flute. He is a active local performer and has performed with Keene Chamber Orchestra, Ben Carr Music Project, Half Diminished Swing Band, Nouveau Swing, Jacksonville Blues Band, Keene Jazz Orchestra, Tom Foolery Band, Nines Band, the Pink Floyd tribute band Liquid Floyd, Raylynmor Opera Company, and The Monadnock Chorus & Orchestra. Jason has taught saxophone and clarinet at Vermont Academy, Saxtons River VT; The Putney School, Putney, VT; The Open Music Collective, Brattleboro VT; Peterborough Music, Peterborough NH; and Cheshire Music, Keene, NH. Jason has studied saxophone with Scott Mullett, Harvey Kaiser, Mario Bernardo & Craig Sylvern. He has studied clarinet with Richard Sanders & Mario Bernardo and flute with Robin Matathias.
Fundraising Gala
Cocktails, Fireworks, and Pop-up Performances
Wednesday, October 14, 6-8pm
Aldworth Manor ~ Harrisville, NH
Postponed to October 14 due to Covid.
A fundraiser and celebration of the 2020 Season. Don't miss this unique evening of fellowship, punctuated by pop-up musician performances, and topped off with a champagne toast on the veranda with a fireworks show by Atlas Fireworks!
Admission includes hearty appetizers, a champagne toast, complementary raffle tickets, live performances, and a fireworks display.
If you are not a Member, purchase of this ticket includes a 1 Year Friend-Level Membership.
Virtual Village Concerts
Although it will not be possible to present our season this summer as originally planned, Monadnock Music remains committed to preserving the joy and community spirit that is at the heart of our Village Concerts. To fully capture the sounds and sights of a Village Concert, this series will be produced with the highest quality film and audio recording to be streamed via YouTube and Facebook, and subsequently available throughout the summer here on our website.
For more details about the Virtual Village Concerts and Monadnock Music's plans for later in the season see the 2020 "Virtual Village Concert" Series Announcement.
Like our Village Concerts, our Virtual Village Concerts will be freely available to the public. Please note that it will most likely not be possible to rehearse and broadcast these performances on their original concert dates due to ongoing issues of health and safety; we will plan to announce an updated performance schedule as more information becomes available to us.
Virtual Village Concert 1
Woodwind Quartet
Date and Time TBA
Streaming on YouTube and Facebook
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Fantasia in f minor, K608 (arr. Munclinger)
Eugene Bozza – Contrasts III, for clarinet and bassoon
Frank Bridge – Divertimenti for woodwind quartet
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Sonata in e minor, F. 54
Karl Goepfart – Wind Quartet, op. 93
Arthur Berger – Quartet in C major for woodwinds
From Mozart’s grand Fantasia (originally written for a table clock with a miniature organ built in!) to Arthur Berger’s sunny, neoclassical quartet, our opening performance this summer explores the diverse sonorities of the four winds. I always adore Frank Bridge for his searing romanticism, but it’s fun to hear his lighter, more humorous side. And the quartet by Liszt pupil and noted conductor Karl Goepfart is lush, charming, and well worth getting to know.
Virtual Village Concert 2
Ari &Mia
Date and Time TBA
Streaming on YouTube and Facebook
Our second concert features the cross-genre folk/improv cello, fiddling, and vocal duo Ari and Mia. Billed as “New England’s Americana Sister Act,” Ariel and Mia Friedman are graduates of New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Improvisation program, and both highly acclaimed songwriters in their own right. I’ve been excited to present them at Monadnock Music since hearing their most recent album, “Sew the City” – their performances are always honest and compelling and deeply moving.
Virtual Village Concert 3
Music for Two Violins
Date and Time TBA
Streaming on YouTube and Facebook
Georg Philipp Telemann – Gulliver Suite
Grażyna Bacewicz – Suite for two violins
Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe – selection from Sonata for two violins
Angelica Negron – Tres insultos
Louis Spohr – Duo Concertante op. 67 #2
This program showcases the virtuosity and amiability of the violin in a setting of intimate duos. While the Ysaÿe and Bacewicz are well-known pillars of the duo repertoire - boldly passionate works by two brilliant virtuosi - much of the joy in creating this concert was discovering the lesser known pieces. Telemann’s Gulliver Suite is whimsical in the extreme, from the gallantry of the Lilliputian Chaconne to the gentle Loure of the Well-Mannered Hoyhnhnms (which is played at the same time as the Wild Frenzy of the Untamed Yahoos!) Angelica Negron writes music for “accordions, robotic instruments, toys and electronics as well as chamber ensembles and orchestras” and that encapsulates perfectly what I love about her music. Her Three Insults for two violins are a wonderfully imaginative way to contextualize the dialogue between two similar voices. I recently became acquainted with Spohr’s Duo Concertante through a historic performance by Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman, and completely fell in love with the piece (no less than the performance!) It utterly exudes charm and delight and I cannot wait to hear our brilliant musicians tackle it.
Virtual Village Concert 4
Clarinet and String Quartet
Date and Time TBA
Streaming on YouTube and Facebook
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet in B-flat major, K589
Nicola Lefanu – Invisible Places, for clarinet and string quartet
Bernard Herrmann – Souvenirs de Voyage, for clarinet and string quartet
There’s something incredibly special about the sound of clarinet and strings – although the sonorities are distinctly different, they complement each other so perfectly to create a sound that is both blended and stratified. In this concert, we explore two remarkable pieces for this combination. British composer Nicola LeFanu’s Invisible Places is a set of 16 miniatures inspired by Italo Calvino’s surreal novel Invisible Cities. (Concert attendees from last season may remember our performance of Elizabeth Maconchy’s third string quartet; I was fascinated to discover after selecting Invisible Places that LeFanu is Maconchy’s daughter!) Bernard Herrmann is of course best known for his film scores, particularly Hitchcock’s Psycho and Vertigo. His last concert piece, Souvenirs de Voyage, unfolds slowly and patiently over the course of three gorgeously contemplative and mysterious movements. And Mozart’s dazzling B-flat quartet opens the program with grace and wit.
Virtual Village Concert 5
Olav Chris Henriksen, Lute Master
Date and Time TBA
Streaming on YouTube and Facebook
We are excited to feature Olav Henriksen in an intimate program of Renaissance and Baroque solo music for the lute and its glorious cousins. A highly acclaimed specialist of the archlute, theorbo, and baroque guitar, Maestro Henriksen will be performing and demonstrating several pre-classical plucked string instruments in a very special evening.
Concert 6
Franz Josef Haydn – The Seven Last Words of Christ
Date and Time TBA
Streaming on YouTube and Facebook
I had planned to program the Seven Last Words this season long before the world shut down, and it feels now like an especially timely solace. In 1786, Haydn was commissioned to write instrumental music on the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, in the form of seven successive slow movements. Each movement corresponds not to a single word, but to an utterance; the first of these is Pater, dimitte illis, quia nesciunt, quid faciunt (Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do) and the last In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum (Into your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit.) Haydn prefaces these seven movements with a slow, magisterial introduction, and concludes with a musical depiction of the ensuing earthquake (Il terremoto), in which the fury and tumult that has been suppressed for the previous hour bursts forth violently. The following year, Haydn adapted this work for string quartet; it is this version that is most frequently performed today. Whatever your personal spiritual inclinations, it is a work of monumental power and beauty.
