Electric Earth Concerts
Great Music All Year Round for the Monadnock Region
Jonathan Bagg & Laura Gilbert, Artistic Directors
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 […]
We are delighted to announce the return of Indra to open our 2016 in Bass Hall. Electric Earth Concerts is delighted to present Indra, the jazz-folk-traditional trio that showcases the stellar vocal talent of singer Indra Rios-Moore. After winning the Danish Music Award, the highest national recognition in Denmark, Indra relocated to the U.S. a […]
Hailed as “thoughtful, impressive musicians” (Cleveland Classical), the Verona Quartet - Jonathan Ong, violin, Dorothy Ro, violin, Abigail Rojansky, viola and Warren Hagerty, cello - is winner of the 2015 Concert Artists Guild Competition, along with several other international prizes. The Verona has performed across four continents in venues such as Wigmore Hall in London, Izumi […]
7:30 pm First Church, Jaffrey 14 Laban Ainsworth Way Jaffrey, NH 03452 Renowned pianist Mihae Lee and her husband, distinguished horn player William Purvis, are joined by violinist Jessica Lee in a concert of trios featuring the noblest brass instrument, including Brahms Trio Op. 40, and “Twilight” by American master John Harbison. A rare […]
The charismatic piano trio from Boston plays its final concerts this summer. Hear them performing some of their favorite repertoire, and wish them well in their future endeavors! Program: Mozart trio in G, K. 496; Donald Martino, Piano Trio; Mendelssohn, Trio in C minor, Op. 66. Trio Cleonice, the dynamic Boston-based piano trio, is one […]
EEC ushers in summer with a program for flute and strings that spans a century of music and four countries, including a new piece by award-winning young composer David Garner. Performers are: Laura Gilbert, flute; Gabriela Diaz, violin Jonathan Bagg, viola; Caroline Stinson, cello Program: Erno von Dohnanyi: Serenade Op. 10 for string trio (1904) Paul Ben […]
TRIO 1816 brings to life the period two hundred years ago when music's urbane classicism gave way to the grand passions of the romantic period. No two composers dramatize this shift more than Franz Schubert the songwriter and Ludwig van Beethoven the innovator. Trio members Jesse Blumberg, baritone, David Breitman, fortepiano, and Johanna Novom, violin—each one a masterful […]
The Borromeo Quartet makes its appearance at Electric Earth for the fifth year in a row, offering masterpieces of the baroque, classical, and modern eras, including several preludes and fugues by J. S. Bach transcribed by violinist Nicholas Kitchen. The Borromeo is known for unconventional programs that are both satisfying and stimulating; in this case, Mr. […]
Electric Earth Concerts will present a mixed–media concert at the Jaffrey Meetinghouse on Sunday, August 7 at 4pm. Renaissance scholar Claire Preston and the musicians of LeStrange Viols will draw upon rich connections between literature and music to conjure a fascinating view of the 17th century English cultural landscape. Preston will place music of composers […]
Electric Earth Concerts' ensemble-in-residence since 2012, the Horszowski Trio brings their powerful music making back to the Electric Earth stage this summer. The program will present three of the most important and compelling works in the repertoire: Beethoven’s Trio Op 11, Shostakovich’s Trio No. 2, Op. 7, and Schumann’s Trio #3 in g minor. The […]
A concert that combines readings by Novelist Richard Powers with the music of Olivier Messiaen and composer Scott Lindroth, inspired by Powers’ 2014 novel “Orfeo”. Richard Powers (“The Time of our Singing” and “The Echomaker”) joins composer Scott Lindroth, the Horzsowski Piano Trio, clarinetist Benjamin Fingland, Artistic Directors Laura Gilbert , flute and Jonathan Bagg, viola, […]
Electric Earth Concerts celebrates autumn with a concert by the Aureole Trio and mezzo-soprano Jazimina MacNeill. Artistic Director Laura Gilbert is a founding member of Aureole, whose distinguished career has brought them to such places as the Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and the chamber music societies of Chicago and St. Louis. The […]
Renowned Swiss-Italian pianist returns to EEC for its season finale, in a concert that features Mr. Cavé in Mozart's piano concerto in C-major, K 415, along with solo works by Haydn and Scarlatti. The concert begins with Mozart's late masterpiece, the Divertimento for String Trio in E-flat K 563. Performers include Gabriela Diaz and Jennifer Elowitch, […]
Hailed by the New York Times at their Carnegie Hall debut as “invariably energetic and finely burnished…playing with earthy vigor,” Catalyst Quartet is comprised of top Laureates and alumni of the internationally acclaimed Sphinx Competition. Known for “rhythmic energy, polyphonic clarity and tight ensemble-playing,” the quartet has toured throughout the United States and abroad, including […]
A versatile a cappella trio that combines medieval chant and polyphony with music from later eras, including new works written for the ensemble. “... an evening of gloriously clear voices singing exquisitely wrought music spanning centuries.” (Steven Pisano, Feast of Music) This program, titled Words of Love and Wisdom, features some of Hildegard of Bingen’s […]
Fire & Grace is an eclectic collaboration between guitarist William Coulter and violinist Edwin Huizinga. Appalachian traditional, jazz, Celtic fiddling, and virtuoso Bach are just a few corners of the musical world that this massively talented group explores in their programs. Their repertoire is vast, ranging from Bach to Vivaldi, tango to Celtic tunes, traditional […]
EEC has commissioned composer Eric Moe and visual artist Barbara Weissberger to create a mixed-media piece for strings, flute, and piano, to be presented and with a succession of video tableaux that are synchronized with the performance. The premiere is complemented by Faure’s Piano Quartet, Op. 45, and Mario Davidovsky’s Quartetto for flute and strings. […]
EEC collaborates with pianist Mihae Lee and musicians from Maine’s Sebago-Long Lake Festival to present Antonin Dvořák's Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 87; Theme and Variations for Flute and Strings, Op. 80 by Amy Beach; and Igor Stravinsky’s iconic L’Histoire du Soldat (Soldier’s Tale) in his version for piano trio. Performers: Mihae Lee, piano […]
Schubert’s profound and tragic late song cycle is a concert-length setting of 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller. Baritone Thomas Meglioranza joins EEC favorite David Breitman, fortepianist in the acoustically & aesthetically gorgeous meetinghouse in Francestown. Thomas Meglioranza graduated from Grinnell College and the Eastman School of Music. He was a winner of the Walter W. […]
This year the Borromeo presents a classic quartet program. Josef Haydn: Quartet Op. 20, No. 2, Charles Ives: String Quartet No. 2, and Beethoven: Quartet Op. 130. Each visionary performance of the award-winning Borromeo String Quartet strengthens and deepens its reputation as one of the most important ensembles of our time. Admired and sought after […]
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