2025/26 Season

Group One: November 14-23, 2025

For 60 years, the Musicians from Marlboro touring program has brought memorable performances from Vermont’s legendary chamber music school and festival to national audiences. The first of three Marlboro touring ensembles this season is led by senior violinist Itamar Zorman, of the Lysander Trio. The program features Britten’s Phantasy for string trio and oboe, his first work to gain major international recognition, as well as Shostakovich’s introspective, sardonic, and elegiac String Quartet No. 8, a work dedicated to the victims of war and fascism. The program concludes with the youthful brilliance of the 16-year-old Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quintet in A Major.

Group Two: February 7-15, 2026

Each summer, musicians from around the world gather in the Green Mountains of Vermont to participate in a “fundamentally natural and unique” approach to music-making (New York Classical Review). This second tour program of the season features eight Marlboro artists performing string quartets by Beethoven and MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Tyshawn Sorey, as well as Beethoven’s vivacious Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20.

Group Three: April 11-19, 2026

“Caution – Musicians at Play” reads a large, hand-painted sign on the rural Vermont hilltop where, each summer, musicians from all over the world come together to explore beloved and less-known chamber works. This season’s third touring ensemble from “the classical world’s most coveted retreat” (The New Yorker) showcases four outstanding emerging singers performing vocal quartets by Schubert and Brahms, alongside a pair of Haydn’s most inviting piano trios.