Electric Earth Concerts
Great Music All Year Round for the Monadnock Region
Jonathan Bagg & Laura Gilbert, Artistic Directors
Join award-winning vocalist Jennifer Sheehan and her fabulous musicians as they return to Electric Earth Concerts for an evening of the group’s favorite songs from Broadway, Hollywood and the Great American Songbook. Stephen Holden of the New York Times has praised Ms. Sheehan for her “exquisite taste in songs” and “a voice that glows with […]
David Breitman, fortepiano & Beth Wenstrom violin Sonata in A major, K. 305 (1778) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata in A minor, op. 137 no. 2 (1816) Franz Schubert Sonata in C major, K. 303 (1778) Mozart Sonata in G minor, op. 137 no. 3 (1816) Schubert About this concert of music by the two […]
Novelist Richard Powers presides over a collaborative effort involving four composers, four writers, and an ensemble of instrumentalists and singers. This large-scale commission by EEC will be performed by Tony Arnold, soprano and Alex Hurd, baritone, with pianist Molly Morkoski, violinist Ari Isaacman-Beck, clarinetist Todd Palmer, cellist Robert Burkhart, harpist Stacey Shames, flutist Laura Gilbert, and […]
We warmly invite you to attend this special afternoon concert and yoga class. It begins with Indian classical music performed by George Ruckert on sarod and Jerry Leake on tabla, followed by a group meditation and gentle chair yoga class led by Tanja Short. (Chair Yoga is gentle stretches—no mats required.) George Ruckert Yoga has […]
Please join us at the Fry Gallery, 36 Grove Street, Peterborough, for a post concert reception. The masterful ensemble brings its magic to EEC: Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue, K. 546, Ned Rorem’s Quartet No. 3 & Mendelssohn's String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13 This concert marks the seventh year the Quartet appears at Electric […]
The Last Rose of Summer A Celtic music craze that gripped Europe in the time of Haydn, Beethoven & Weber produced wondrous Scottish and Irish inspired songs in a chamber setting, performed here by Fiona Gillespie, soprano with Emi Ferguson, flute & soprano and members of ACRONYM, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, Edwin Huizinga, and Elliot Figg. Enjoy a […]
Weather Vest, direct from New York, is a mixed ensemble of winds & brass that mingles the common elements of classical chamber music, small group jazz, and folk music, for a concert liberated from traditional boundaries.
Praised for their “superb capacity to find the inner heart of everything they play, regardless of era, style or technical demand” (The International Review of Music), the Tesla Quartet brings refinement and prowess to both new and established repertoire. Dubbed “technically superb” by The Strad, the Tesla Quartet recently took Second Prize as well as the Haydn […]
Please join us for our annual Gala fundraising afternoon, celebrating the end of our 7th season and looking ahead to season 8! Pianist, Emely Phelps (Trio Cleonice) will play an hour long recital curated for our EEC audience, with a special performance by mezzo-soprano Jazimina MacNeil. Holiday snacks and our yearly Prosecco toast will follow. […]
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 […]
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 is joined by the dynamic Longleash Piano Trio, Laura Gilbert, flute & Jonathan Bagg, viola in a program that includes American works for voice and […]
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 tumultuous time. Featuring Jazimina MacNeil, mezzo-soprano; Sarah Shafer, soprano; pianist Emely Phelps, and renowned storyteller Odds Bodkin. This concert is generously sponsored by People's United […]
"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 depiction of Jewish heroism through the ages in the face of violence. Performed with visual accompaniment, The Sarajevo Haggadah features original paintings digitally animated by […]
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 favorite, will be playing as only they can. Their program includes Haydn's "Gypsy Trio" in G, Hob. XV:25; Babajanian's Piano Trio; and Shostakovich's Piano Trio […]
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