Electric Earth Concerts
Great Music All Year Round for the Monadnock Region
Jonathan Bagg & Laura Gilbert, Artistic Directors
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 […]
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.
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
Taya König-Tarasevich, baroque flute & Daniel Swenberg, lute make an exciting period-instrument duo that brings sweet music for the month of May.
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.
Four women, two of them African American, cover a huge stylistic range despite all being born prior to 1920, when the 19th amendment gave the vote to women. Music of Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Undine Smith Moore, and Margaret Bonds. Part of a three-day commemoration of the suffrage centennial with events hosted by the Amos Fortune Forum, the Monadnock Lyceum, and Electric Earth Concerts. Featuring soprano Marlissa Hudson, and pianist Marvin Mills.
David Breitman, fortepiano, Jaap ter Linden, cello & Johanna Novom, violin. A constellation of period-instrument stars takes on Beethoven’s magnificent first published opus, a set of trios that were designed to astound the public with their revolutionary approach and virtuoso technique.
Florence B. Price and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson contributed beautifully crafted work to the twentieth century repertoire but have not been widely celebrated; the Catalyst’s own Jessie Montgomery and Mexican composer Javier Álvarez complete this dynamic and eye-opening program.
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