Electric Earth Concerts
Great Music All Year Round for the Monadnock Region
Jonathan Bagg & Laura Gilbert, Artistic Directors
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 & […]
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 […]
Pulitzer winner Paul Moravec’s A New Country (2018) celebrates the aspirations of immigrants to America, using poetry by Walt Whitman and Emma Lazarus, among others. Young Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano […]
Melding song and storytelling, Danika the Rose weaves together Dvorak's sublime Moravian Duets with an original fable written and narrated by Odds Bodkin, to create a musical fairytale for our […]
"Powerful music. An incredible story. Haunting images..." The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Bosnian-Dutch accordionist–composer Merima Ključo and pianist Seth Knopp perform The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book, Ključo’s riveting musical […]
Electric Earth Concerts is delighted to announce its annual fundraising concert, celebrating the end of its 8th season and looking ahead to season 9! The Horszowski Trio, perpetually an EEC […]
Electric Earth Concerts kicks off its 9th season with the first of our Videocast performances—“Lume—Love Songs from Around the World,” with Bosnian-Dutch accordionist–composer Merima Ključo and singer Jelena Milušić.
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 in many different styes by a wide range of musicians.
The brilliant quartet returns to EEC with a perfectly balanced program: Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op. 18 No.1; Donnacha Dennehy: “The Weather Of It”; Dvorak: String Quartet in G, Op. 106
Violinist Gabriela Diaz performs a short recital of works by Bartok and Berio.
Taya König-Tarasevich, baroque flute & Daniel Swenberg, lute make an exciting period-instrument duo that brings sweet music for the month of May.
The remarkable DUO PRISM made a video in their Manhattan Apartment just for our EEC viewers. In addition to sonatas by Mozart & Brahms, there is a brand new piece, heard here for the first time, by composer Tim Kiah.
EEC directors Laura Gilbert and Jonathan Bagg bring together an unusual instrumental alchemy in a nature-inspired program, with music by Bohuslav Martinu, Lior Navok, Toru Takemitsu, and Ethel Smyth. With guest pianist Mimi Solomon.
This summer’s NH-Maine collaboration celebrates Beethoven’s anniversary with the piece that made him a star, his glorious Septet, Op. 20. Also: Charles Koechlin: Quatre Pièces for Horn Trio; Prokofiev Sonata Op. 94 with Laura Gilbert, flute & Mihae Lee, piano.
Olly Wilson’s “A City Called Heaven” for large ensemble, Ben Johnston’s classic “Amazing Grace” quartet, a setting of spirituals by Mark Kuss, and a work by Anthony Kelly touch on the underlying theme of Changing the Conversation: how the interplay of gender, race, politics, and aesthetics has helped to shape the language of American music.
American Mavericks—New Morse Code + Thomas Kotcheff, in a Videocast of contemporary works by Philip Glass, Frederic Rzewski, David Lang, Tonia Ko and Thomas Kotcheff.
Virtuoso violinist of the Vienna Piano Trio devotes an evening to some of the greatest music in the repertoire. (This concert has been canceled.)
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