Electric Earth Concerts
Great Music All Year Round for the Monadnock Region
Jonathan Bagg & Laura Gilbert, Artistic Directors
This concert is sold out. Outdoor seating is still available for FREE!The Horszowski Trio, among our most popular artists, make their annual appearance with a program of great music for piano trio. Hailed by The New York Times as “impressive, lithe, persuasive,” The New Yorker calls them "the most compelling American group to come on the […]
As the sixth generation of his family to bear the title Araki Kodo, Hanz (short for Hanzaburo, his great-great-grandfather’s name) first worked to master the Japanese end-blown bamboo flute. A master of both traditional Japanese flute and Irish traditional, Araki brings virtuosity without borders to this July 4 homage to music’s power to transcend even the greatest […]
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 […]
"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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
EEC greets summer with a concert of grand chamber music. Jennifer Elowitch, violin will join the Horszowski Trio and EEC Artistic Director Jonathan Bagg in Brahms’ Piano Quintet in f minor, op.34. Horszowski violinist Jesse Mills and pianist Reiko Aizawa will perform Franz Schubert's monumental Fantasie in C, D. 934. The concert begins as Artistic Director […]
The cello is the beating heart of classical chamber music, and these superb artists bring us some of its best solo music. Keith Robinson & Mihae Lee have spent their careers mastering the subtleties of the cello-piano repertoire. Their mature artistry and subtle collaborative skills will be on full display and should provide a riveting […]
Pianist Molly Morkoski joins EEC's Artistic Directors, Laura Gilbert & Jonathan Bagg in a concert that brings together classic romantic gems, French post-impressionism and Jazz-inspired works from present moment: the trio will perform "Peacock Fantasia" by Jonathan Elliott, a new piece inspired by the Jimmie Rowles tune that jazz pianist Bill Evans made famous. Morkoski will play Chopin and Gershwin works for solo […]
A quartet the New York Times calls “…cohesive yet full of temperament... vibrant, intelligent...”, Verona starts the season in high gear with three quartet masterworks: Léos Janacek, Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters”; Brahms: Quartet No. 2 in A minor; and Mozart, Quartet in F major, K 590.
Electric Earth Concerts celebrates autumn with a concert by the Aureole Trio and mezzo-soprano Jazimina MacNeill. Artistic Director Laura Gilbert is a founding member of Aureole, whose distinguished career has brought them to such places as the Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and the chamber music societies of Chicago and St. Louis. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
The program features the return of Trio Cleonice, the brilliant young ensemble from Boston, joined by Ellen de Pasquale and Benjamin Hoffman, violins; Jered Egan, bass, and the young flutist Jane Carpenter. Electric Earths co-directors Laura Gilbert, flute and Jonathan Bagg, viola will also perform. The concert starts on a passionate note, with a trio […]
The celebrated Borromeo Quartet returns to Electric Earth Concerts in April and May to present one of the artistic milestones of the twentieth century: the cycle of six string quartets by Béla Bartók, in a two concert sequence. Sunday, April 13, 4 p.m. First Church, Jaffrey: Bartok Quartets nos 1, 2 and 4 Sunday, May […]
Music from the Heart Ilana Davidson Oren Fader On Tuesday, February 18th, Electric Earth Concerts presents “Music from the Heart”, a broad and breathtaking view of the classical music realm, heard up-close in a chamber music setting. Electric Earth’s Artistic Directors Laura Gilbert, flute, and Jonathan Bagg, viola, share the program with two frequent […]
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