Monadnock Music

Bon Appetit – Julia Child Supper Club

Saturday, June 22, 6pm

Multi-course dinner of Julia Child’s favorites in a private home, with solo cello performance. Come learn about Julia’s history with Monadnock Music and see a piece of artwork created in her honor with her signature on it!

7 Course Dinner – $125 Including wine, cocktails & gratuity

Rindge Village Concert – Piano Trio

Sunday, June 23, 3pm
Cheney Hall, Franklin Pierce University, Rindge NH

Karim Al-Zand – Six Bagatelles for violin, cello, and piano
Jessie Montgomery – Duo for violin and cello
Alexander Krein – Elegy op. 16
Antonín Dvořák – Piano Trio in e minor op. 90 “Dumky”

Free & Open to the Public

Member & Musician Potluck

Tuesday, June 25, 5:30pm
Sawmill Drive, Franklin Pierce University, Rindge NH

Members of all levels are invited to enjoy a casual potluck dinner with our musicians in residence. This intimate opportunity to get to know the force behind the music is a NEW experience for our members, paying homage to the early days of Monadnock Music where it was a regular occurrence. Members are invited to attend with their families; bring a dish to share.

 Library Concert – String Quartet

Wednesday, June 26, 7pm
Amherst Town Library – 14 Main St. Amherst NH

Joseph Bologne – String Quartet op. 1 #3 in g minor
Alexander Borodin – Nocturne
Kian Ravaei – Excerpts from The Little Things
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet in C major, K. 157
George Walker – Molto Adagio
Traditional arr. Danish String Quartet – Peat Dance

The Monadnock String Quartet presents an elegant and soulful mosaic of old and new classics, up close in the intimate setting of the Amherst Town Library. This 45-minute program is suitable for all ages.

Free & Open to the Public

Salon Concert  with Supper Club– Piano and narrator

Thursday, June 27^th
5pm Supper Club
7pm Concert
In the home of Tonya & Jonathan Marshall
24 Matchpoint Road, Jaffrey, NH

Richard Strauss – Enoch Arden, op. 38

Tennyson’s tragic poem of love and loss comes to life in this dramatic, poignant setting for piano and recitatant. Acclaimed opera singer Aaron Engebreth performs the narration. Join us for a private Seafood Dinner before the concert, or arrive in time for the music.

Tickets: concert and dinner tickets must be purchased separately

Concert – $35 General / $30 Members Only 30 Available

Dinner – $100 Only 24 Available

Westmoreland Village Concert – String Quartet and Baritone

Sunday, June 30, 3pm
Park Hill Meeting House – Park Hill Common, Westmoreland NH

Samuel Barber – Dover Beach, op. 3
Pēteris Vasks – String Quartet #5
Toshio Hosokawa – Blossoming
Gerald Finzi – By Footpath and Stile, op. 2

Free & Open to the Public

Peterborough Village Concert – Flute and Organ

Sunday, July 7, 3pm
All Saints Episcopal Church, 51 Concord St, Peterborough NH

Johann Wilhelm Hertel – Partita III
Jehan Alain – Trois mouvements
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Sonata in g minor, BWV 1020
Libby Larsen – Fantasy on “Slane”
Gustav Jensen – Arioso und Rondo patetico op 40
Lowell Lieberman Air op. 106
Anna Bon – Flute Sonata in g minor, op. 1 #5

Free & Open to the Public

Dublin Village Concert – Solo Violin recital featuring Miki Cloud

Thursday, July 11, 7pm
Emmanuel Church, 924 Dublin Rd, Dublin NH

Leilehua Lanzilotti – ko’u inoa
Johann Sebastian Bach – Chaconne for Violin Solo
Jessie Montgomery – Rhapsody No. 1
Johann Sebastian Bach – Suite for Solo Cello (Viola) in G Major
Carry Me Through: Traditional songs arr. Cloud

Free & Open to the Public

Francestown Village Concert – Harp, Violin, and Cello

Sunday, July 14, 4pm
Old Meeting House, 1 New Boston Rd, Francestown NH

Elizabeth Maconchy – Theme and variations for violin and cello
Luigi Maurizio Tedeschi – Elegia for violin and harp op. 22
Jacques Ibert – Trio
Ruggero Leoncavallo – Serenade for cello and harp
Henriette Renié – Trio

Free & Open to the Public

Family Concerts

Wednesday, July 17
12pm Keene Public Library – 60 Winter St, Keene NH
2pm Peterborough Town Library –  2 Concord St, Peterborough NH
4pm Nelson Town Hall – 7 Nelson Common Rd, Nelson NH

An enchanting afternoon of storytelling with music and narrator! In these 30-minute concerts, we present Gwyneth Walker’s humorous retelling of Little Red Riding Hood alongside a thrilling setting of the African folk tale Tunji and the Giant by David Mullikin.

Free & Open to the Public

Member & Musician Potluck

Wednesday, July 17, 5:30pm
Sawmill Drive, Franklin Pierce University, Rindge NH

Members of all levels are invited to enjoy a casual potluck dinner with our musicians in residence. This intimate opportunity to get to know the force behind the music is a NEW experience for our members, paying homage to the early days of Monadnock Music where it was a regular occurrence. Members are invited to attend with their families; bring a dish to share.

Progressive Garden Party

Saturday, July 13th, 12-4pm
Rain Date July 14^th, 11am-3pm
Throughout the Monadnock Region

Featuring Eat More Cake & Frisky Cow Gelato

Tickets:

$100 General

$85 Members

Hancock Village Concert – Soprano, Cello, and Piano

Sunday, July 21, 6pm
Hancock Congregational Church, 47 Main St, Hancock NH

Pauline Viardot – Sterne
Amy Beach – Chanson d’amour
Lotte Lehmann – Selected songs
Adolphus Hailstork – Elegy for cello and piano
Tania León – Atwood Songs
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Six Studies in English Folksong
Hugo Wolf – Mignon-Lieder
Andre Previn – Vocalise

Free & Open to the Public

Listen & Lunch – String Quartet

Thursday, July 25, 12pm
Depot Park, Peterborough, NH

Orlando Gibbons – In Nomine
Joseph Bologne – String Quartet op. 1 #1 in C major
George Gershwin – Lullaby
Kay Swift – Song for String Quartet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet in G major, K. 156
Traditional arr. Danish String Quartet – Peat Dance

Bring a chair or sit in the grass by the Contoocook River as you enjoy a lunchtime concert with the Monadnock String Quartet in beautiful Depot Square.  This 45-minute program is suitable for all ages.

Free & Open to the Public

Supper Club with Gil Rose

Friday, July 26, 6pm
In the home of Teresa Marchese & Jay Mercado
236 Main St, Jaffrey NH

Join us for an intimate dinner with Grammy Award Winning Conductor Gil Rose.

The evening will include an art tour of Jay’s work, as well as an up-close preview of the string quartet performance that weekend.

Buffet Dinner with String Quartet Performance – $100 including wine, cocktails & gratuity

 Harrisville Village Concert – String Quartet

Sunday, July 28, 3pm
Harrisville Community Church, 13 Canal St, Harrisville NH

Thomas Tallis – In Nomine
William Byrd – In Nomine
Orlando Gibbons – In Nomine
Frederick C. Tillis – Nobody Knows the Trouble I See from Spiritual Fantasy #12
Eleanor Alberga – String Quartet #2
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Allegro moderato from String Quartet #2
Claude Debussy – String quartet op. 10 in g minor

Free & Open to the Public

Members Event

Thursday, August 1, 6pm
An Evening with the Board
In the home of Tonya & Jonathan Marshall
24 Matchpoint Road, Jaffrey, NH

An intimate evening of nibbles and performances brought to you by the Board of Directors for Monadnock Music, including Michael Dell’Orto, Elisabeth Small, Carl Marsh, David Sturm, Christine Paryl and more!

Open to Members of all levels
RSVP: [email protected]

Town House Concert – Eight Seasons, featuring Omar Chen Guey, violin soloist

Sunday, August 4, 3pm
Peterborough Town House, 1 Grove Street, Peterborough

Join us in the Peterborough Town Hall for Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, one of the most famous and beloved works for violin soloist with string orchestra. Presented alongside Antonio Vivaldi is an intimate piano trio arrangement of Argentinian tango master Astor Piazzolla’s smoldering Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.

Tickets:

$25 General

$20 Members/Students/Seniors

Nelson Village Concert – Cello and Guitar

Wednesday, August 7, 7pm
Nelson Congregational Church, 830 Nelson Rd, Nelson NH

Ernesto Nazareth – Odeon (Tango brésilien op. 146)
Friedrich Dotzauer – Potpourri op. 21
Friedrich Burgmüller – Three Nocturnes
Dusan Bogdanovic – Quatre Pieces Intimes
José Manuel Lezcano – Tango-Fuga: A la tristeza de Buenos Aires
Enrique Granados – Spanish Dance op. 37 #5 “Andaluza”
Anne Cawrse – Grounded
Manuel de Falla – Siete canciones populares españolas

Free & Open to the Public

Monadnock Music Summer Gala

Sunday, August 18, 6pm
Stonewall Farm
242 Chesterfield Rd
Keene, NH

French fin-de-siècle

We are traveling back to 1878 – The Paris Worlds Fair. Enjoy French nibbles as well as sumptuously decadent vocal and instrumental music from the 1880s and 1890s. With a bit of flair from the Gilded Age, and Moulin Rouge… the evening will open with pop-up burlesque and champagne on the veranda!

$125/$100 members

Includes: One Hour Open Bar, Heavy Appetizers & Desserts, Musical Performances, Burlesque, One Raffle Ticket and an evening of Memories!

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Monadnock Music is devoted to promoting access to world-class live classical music performances in intimate and informal settings around the Monadnock region. Through a commitment to varied and imaginative performances and teaching, Monadnock Music keeps a sense of musical daring and discovery alive. Headquartered in beautiful and historic Peterborough, NH, we have the honor of presenting remarkable musical talent from all over the world.