Two performances: April 9th and 10th, 2022 starting at 4 p.m.Singer Jazimina MacNeil and pianist Gordon Peery team up for a concert of songs from the American Songbook. Beloved jazz standards and show tunes from the early to mid 1900’s represent a golden age of melody, and continue to be interpreted by a wide range […]

(Canceled due to illness.) Distinguished Boston-based violinist (and EEC favorite) Gabby Diaz curates a concert that is especially meaningful and close to her own artistic viewpoint.

“Beautiful to watch, like a family in lively conversation at the dinner table: anticipating, interrupting, changing subjects” – NY Times. The Catalyst Quartet presents Viennese music by Haydn and Webern, West Coast mavericks John Cage and Terry Riley, plus their “CQ Minute” birthday tributes commissioned from 10 of their favorite composers. A co-commission of Electric […]

Pianist Mimi Solomon, violinist Nicholas DiEugenio, and cellist Raman Ramakrishnan & EEC directors Laura Gilbert and Jonathan Bagg present the Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 60 by Brahms, plus a new work by Scott Lindroth for flute and strings, commissioned by EEC this year titled “Souvenirs”. David K. Garner’s “The Sky Was Good for […]

Midsummer begins with music that celebrates the natural world, including the classic Voice of the Whale by the late, great George Crumb (1929-2022); The Wind in High Places by John Luther Adams, who "brings the sense of wonder that we feel outdoors into the concert hall"; and a new piece by David Kirkland Garner, one […]

First Church in JaffreyBeethoven’s Septet, written in his early career, made him instantly famous in Vienna. Featuring six movements of symphonic string and wind sonorities, it will help us celebrate the arrival of high summer in grand fashion.Also on the program are a Trio for Flute, Bassoon and Piano by Gaetano Donizetti, composer of bel […]

DUE TO THE HEAT PREDICTED, THIS CONCERT IS MOVED TO BASS HALL AN AIR -CONDITIONED SPACE AT THE MONADNOCK CENTER FOR HISTORY & CULTURE, 19 GROVE STREET, PETERBOROUGH. A fresh take on early jazz with classical trimmings and soulful underpinnings. Mimi and the Podd Brothers (Carami Hillaire & Adam and Matt Podd) pride themselves on […]

Francestown Old MeetinghouseA 20th century masterpiece, Bartók’s 1943 Sonata comes vividly alive in the hands of David McCarroll. Two of JS Bach’s solo works complete an extraordinary evening of violin artistry.J.S. Bach - Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001       AdagioFuga: AllegroSicilianaPrestoBéla Bartók - Sonata for Solo Violin, Sz. 117Tempo di ciacconaFuga: […]

First Church in JaffreyDavid McCarroll, violin; Angela Park, cello; Emely Phelps, piano join EEC’s artistic directors to bring Ravel’s spectacular duo, a stunning but little-known work of American composer Marion Bauer, and the most expansive of the Brahms piano quartets, Op 26 in A major, Schubertian in its open-hearted lyricism.Out of Doors: for this concert, […]

First Church in JaffreyJewish, Hungarian, and American folk influences pervade this wide-ranging program that features harp, clarinet, flute, strings, and piano. Ravel’s voluptuous Introduction and Allegro, along with music of Prokofiev, William Grant Still, and the Piano Quartet in G minor Op. 25 of Brahms. In partnership with the Sebago-Long Lake Festival & musicians.PROKOFIEV: Overture […]

Peterborough Town HouseDavid Breitman, fortepiano, Jaap ter Linden, cello & Gabriel Richard, violin. A constellation of period-instrument stars takes on Beethoven’s first published opus, a set of trios that were designed to astound the public with their revolutionary approach and virtuoso technique: No. 1 in E-flat Major, No. 2 in G Major, No. 3 in […]

First Church in JaffreyThe Horszowski Trio have delivered the most exquisite performances every time they’ve appeared at EEC. This, their eleventh trip to New Hampshire, will be as eagerly awaited as ever. Program will includeLeonard Bernstein: TrioScott Lindroth: “T120” (2021)Robert Schumann: Trio #1 in d minorOut of Doors: for this concert, weather permitting, bring a chair […]

Park Theatre, JaffreyThe unique duo Fire & Grace explores the connective musical elements of classical, folk, and contemporary traditions from around the world. Fire & Grace’s repertoire is vast, ranging from Bach to Vivaldi, tango to Celtic tunes, traditional Bulgarian to American fiddle tunes and waltzes, all played with a sense of discovery and commitment […]

EEC’s season will culminate on the Park Theatre’s generous stage in a concert of baroque concerti and other masterworks by the greatest composers of their age, performed by the young virtuosi of RELIC, an ensemble specializing in performance on period instruments. Alessandro Scarlatti: Sinfonia from Cain, overo Il primo omicidio, Part IAntonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Violins […]

With “tautness, flair, and precision”, this New England-based group opens the season with two masterpieces: Brahms’ Opus 8 Trio in B major, and the E-flat piano quartet of Mozart, joined by Artistic Director Jonathan Bagg on viola.

Duke University’s Quartet in Residence brings Schubert’s Quartet in D minor, “Death and the Maiden” to EEC for the first time, and a seminal 20th century work by Béla Bartók, his 4th String Quartet. The program opens with Anthony Kelley’s Sidelines, a playful tribute to his more athletically inclined siblings.

A concert of unique music and instrumentation: Bartók’s Contrasts, written for jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman in 1938; George Crumb’s Eleven Echoes of Autumn (1966); Undine Smith Moore’s Afro-American Suite.