Electric Earth Concerts
Great Music All Year Round for the Monadnock Region
Jonathan Bagg & Laura Gilbert, Artistic Directors
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 […]
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 […]
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