Electric Earth Concerts
Great Music All Year Round for the Monadnock Region
Jonathan Bagg & Laura Gilbert, Artistic Directors
Indra is an accomplished, adventurous jazz trio that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark, featuring the supple and moving vocals of New York City native Indra Rios-Moore on soulfully arranged songs. From American jazz standards and contemporary arrangements of traditional folk songs to Mexican boleros and newly composed pieces, Indra’s style and voice has been described […]
The Boston based pianist brings his formidable powers to bear in Bach’s hour-long keyboard masterpiece, the Goldberg Variations. Hodgkinson begins with remarks that will bring the audience deeper into the work, one of Bach's most immediately engaging and popular pieces that has fascinating layers of complexity to be explored as one gets to know it better. This […]
Artistry, insight, and commitment are the gifts Tony Arnold brings to every musical encounter. Her return to the EEC stage includes Ravel's "Chansons Madecasses" for flute, cello, piano and voice, and Eric Moe's breathtaking "Lavish Sunlight, Frozen Hours." Two instrumental masterpieces, Prokofiev's Sonata for flute and Poulenc's Cello Sonata, complete the program. With Laura Gilbert, flute, […]
This season the world-renowned Borromeo Quartet traverses works by two great Russians. Once again they bring the fruit of their labor, and their genius for making the greatest quartet repertoire vivid and meaningful, to our New Hampshire audience and the EEC stage. The Program: Haydn Quartet Op. 77 #2 Shostakovich Quartet No. 12 Tchaikovsky Quartet No. 1 The […]
Treasured Places, Protected Spaces will showcase conservation lands of the Monadnock Region through the eyes of over forty regional artists. At the opening of this exhibit, Electric Earth musicians will provide nature-inspired works for flute, viola, and harp, performed by Laura Gilbert, Jonathan Bagg, and Jacqui Kerrod. The program includes Timo Andres "I found it in […]
ACRONYM has the uncanny ability to bring music from distant times roaring to life in front of an audience. This year's installment will consist of long-buried gems of the (mostly) German instrumental & cantata repertoire, aptly titled: "O redempta gens Mortalium" The program: Samuel Capricornus Sonata a8, A Minor Johann Rosenmuller "Aude Quid Times" (baritone, 5 […]
A world of color, light and shadow emerge in three strings and a flute: music of Mozart, Andrew Norman, Stephen Jaffe (World Premiere!), and Gunther Schuller, who will be the 2015 MacDowell Medal recipient. A concert of richness and depth set in one the region's premier venues. With violinist Gabriela Diaz, cellist Robert Burkhart, violist Jonathan […]
~ A Summer Serenade at LaBelle Winery ~ LaBelle Winery is New England’s premier destination winery and vineyard. Though formally opened in the fall of 2012, the journey began a decade earlier when owner Amy LaBelle experienced the "Aha" moment that set her on the path that would result in establishing the winery. In a […]
Ilana Davidson, soprano A stunning contemporary song cycle by Osvaldo Golijov for soprano and 11 players that weaves together Sephardic, Arabic, and Spanish traditions. Typical of Golijov's compositional approach, this piece is about breaking down walls, political, cultural, and stylistic: it's impossible to label Ayre as coming from any particular genre as it veers from classical to klezmer […]
A diverse and dynamic program built around the superb Horszowski Trio: Mendelssohn’s Trio in d minor, Shostakovich's 1940 Quintet for Piano and Strings, and Mozart's string quartet, in E-flat major, k. 428. Hoszowski members Rieko Aizawa, piano, Jesse Mills, violin & Raman Ramakrishnan, cello will be joined by Jonathan Ong, violin and Jonathan Bagg, viola. […]
Electric Earth Concerts presents its annual fall foliage concert with chamber music of Josef Haydn, Johannes Brahms, and featuring Mobius Percussion, a quartet that specializes in presenting fresh contemporary voices. The concert takes place on October 10 at 7:30 pm, at the First Church in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. The concert begins with masterpieces of classic […]
Electric Earth Concerts presents Metropolitan Opera rising star Jennifer Johnson Cano performing with pianist-husband Christopher Cano. Ms. Cano is currently appearing in the role of Emilia at the Met, which will air live in HD on October 17. She has also bowed at The Metropolitan Opera as Mercedes, Emilia, Hansel, Nicklausse, Wellgunde and Waltraute and […]
Electric Earth Concerts presents its season finale. Trio Cleonice will return to the EEC stage along with Artistic Director Jonathan Bagg, and Francestown native Jacob MacKay, in his first Electric Earth Concerts appearance. This is the last in a season of 13 concerts spread across the seasons and in different venues throughout the Monadnock region. The […]
Donate to Electric Earth A minimum donation of $50 per person is requested. Electric Earth Concerts is a 5013 not-for-profit organization. Your donation is tax-deductible. This special concert is our only fund raising event in 2015. We will also be celebrating a significant milestone at EEC: our 100th performance since our founding 4 years ago! On […]
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