As part of the Placitas Artists Series – Willy Sucre & friends will be playing chamber music for strings and horns. Their program will include AMY BEACH’s String Quartet in One Movement, Op. 89, as well as works by Beethoven and Gunter Schuller.
The concert will take place on May 15 at 3 p.m. at Las Placitas Presbyterian Church, 7 Paseo De San Antonio Rd, Placitas, NM 87043. Tickets are $20 for the general public in advance or at the door. Advance tickets available at placitasarts.org, at The Merc, Homestead Village Shopping Plaza, Placitas and at Under Charlie’s Covers bookstore, 160 S. Camino del Pueblo, Bernalillo. At the door $15 for students with valid ID and music students through high school free with paying adult.
The Bangor Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Lucas Richman, will be performing a program dedicated to women entitled Masterworks VI – Celebrating Women. The program will include AMY BEACH’s monumental “Gaelic” Symphony, Op. 32 as well as Fanny Mendelssohn’s Overture in C and a world premiere paying tribute to women of the “greatest generation” by conductor/composer Lucas Richman.
The concert will take place in just over a year on May 7, 2017 at 3pm at the Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine in Orono, Maine. More information and tickets are available through the Bangor Symphony Orchestra website by clicking here.
Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra conductor and pianist Stuart Malina will be joined by HSO Concertmaster Peter Sirotin, Principal Violist Julius Wirth, Principal Second Violinist Nicole Sharlow and Principal Cellist Fiona Thompson in a pair of concerts featuring American composer AMY BEACH’s Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata No. 5 for Violin & Piano, “Spring” and Cesar Franck’s Piano Quintet.
The concerts will take place on (1) Tuesday, May 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the new Gamut Theatre, 15 N. Fourth St., Harrisburg (tickets are $22 & $11 for students, available at harrisburgsymphony.org) AND (2) Wednesday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. inside the gallery at the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art in Millersburg (tickets are $20, available through www.nedsmithcenter.org).
Berkshire Opera Festival recital, Breaking Down Barriers, will be performed at Ventfort Hall in Lenox, MA on Wednesday, August 10 at 7:30pm. Featuring songs by Boston’s own AMY BEACH, Cécile Chaminade, Ethel Smyth, and others, the recital highlights works by female composers of Giacomo Puccini’s time whose music was largely overlooked during their lifetimes.
General admission tickets are priced at $30. They can be ordered through the Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) website,www.berkshireoperafestival.org, or by calling BOF at (413) 213-6622.
The University of Toledo Department of Music will present a concert from “A Woman’s Point of View,” featuring guest soprano, Dr. Carol Dusdieker and UT pianist and senior lecturer, Robert Ballinger. The program will include the music of AMY BEACH, Clara Schumann, Handel and Poulenc.
The concert will be held Friday, April 29, 2016 at 8 p.m. in the UT Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall, 620 Art Museum Dr, Toledo, OH 43620. Free admission!
The Oxford May Music Festival will include AMY BEACH’s Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67 as well as chamber works by Haydn and Dvořák. The concert entitled “Piano Central” will take place on Thursday, April 28 at 20:00 (8pm) in the Holywell Music Room at Holywell Street Oxford, OX1 3SA United Kingdom.
Oxford May Music is a music, science and arts festival that celebrates culture and human achievements. The festival is from April 27 – May 2. Evening concert tickets are £20 (senior citizens & concessions £15).
The festival will also include Rebecca Clarke‘s Viola Sonata on April 29 at the same time and place!
Jemma Brown (mezzo-soprano) and Maryam Sherhan (piano) perform a programme inspired by the exhibitions of women illustrators and artists including music by AMY BEACH, Fanny Hensel and Claire Liddell.
The event will take place on Thursday, 14th April 2016, 6-6.30pm at the Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL, United Kingdom. No booking required: free, unticketed.
In their upcoming concerts entitled “That’s What She Said…,” The Mill City String Quartet will play the string quartets by AMY BEACH, Fanny Mendelssohn and Germaine Tailleferre.
The concerts will be this Saturday, April 9 (7pm) at the James J. Hill House Art Gallery in Saint Paul, Minnesota AND again on Sunday, April 10 (3pm) at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Admission is free!
The Orion Ensemble, winner of the prestigious Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, concludes its 2015-16 season with “Musical Enchantments,” welcoming back guest violinist Mathias Tacke, former second violinist of the Vermeer Quartet, and violist Stephen Boe.
Performances take place Sunday, May 29 at 7 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Geneva, 2300 South Street in Geneva, IL; Wednesday, June 1 at 7:30 p.m. (with the CYSO’s Millennium Winds) at the Pianoforte Studios, 1335 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago; and Sunday, June 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Music Institute of Chicago’s Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue in Evanston.
Single tickets are $26, $23 for seniors and $10 for students; admission is free for children 12 and younger. A four-ticket flexible subscription provides a 10 percent savings on full-priced tickets. For tickets or more information, call 630-628-9591 or visit orionensemble.org. You may also find more information here.
The Williamsburg Women’s Chorus, under the direction of Rob Keene, will perform Amy Beach’s Dusk in June, Op. 82 as part of their concert titled “Nocturnes and Lullabies” on Friday, May 6, 2016 at Walnut Hills Baptist Church, 1014 Jamestown Rd, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185. The event will also feature music by Samuel Barber, William Averitt, Zoltan Kodály, Robert Schumann, Eric Whitacre, and Billy Joel, among others.
For more information please visit their website here.
Musicians of Ma’alwyck presents a very special collaborative concert with the Siena College Chorus and Chamber Singers under the direction of Dr. Timothy Reno celebrating the Suffragettes and the bicentennial of the birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Entitled a “Declaration of Sentiments,” the concert will feature works of American female composers Marion Bauer (Songs for Soprano and String Quartet, and Pieces for solo flute perhaps world premiere performances) and AMY BEACH (Theme & Variations for Flute and String Quartet–an incredible piece of chamber music) and Daybreak of English composer Rebecca Clarke (who spent the final decade of her life in America). Soprano Jean Leonard will be the soloist. We are also delighted to present the world premiere of “Are women people?” by Kathleen Ballantyne, a work based on Suffragette texts. Commissioned by Siena College for this concert, the work is scored for chorus, vocal soloists and string quartet.
The concert will also include a reading by newscaster and documentary maker Elaine Houston of the seminal Suffrage movement document “Declaration of Sentiments,” whose principal author was Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The events will take place at Druthers Brewery, 1053 Broadway, Albany, New York on Sunday, March 20 – (1) A Pre-Concert Lecture will be at 2:00 p.m. (FREE with ticket), (2) the concert begins at 3:00 p.m. and (3) Dinner will follow the concert at 5:00 p.m. Concert ticket only: $15 for adults, $5 for students (regular seating, no special beer tasting). Additional VIP concert tickets and amenities are available – please click here for more information.
The 74th Season of Concerts 2015–2016 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. includes a performance by the Fry Street Quartet on March 13 at 3:30 in the West Building, West Garden Court. The program, consisting of women composers and presented in honor of Women’s History Month, includes works by AMY BEACH, Laura Kaminsky, Libby Larsen, and Joan Tower.
Soprano Corrina Dolso will be performing along with her new Equinox Voices pop-up choir, joined by Guest Soprano Naomi Scott de Moncloa and pianist Thérèse Miller in a concert celebrating women composers, including pieces by Amy Beach, Clara Shumann, Judith Weir, Charlotte Bray, Cheryl Frances Hoad, Anna Boyd, and others.
The event will take place on 12th March 2016, at Castle Methodist Church, Maidenburgh Street, Colchester CO1 1TT, UK. The concert runs from 3-4pm; tickets (£5 or free for students) will be available on the door, or can be reserved by e-mailing equinoxvoices@gmail.com.
The event will take place this Saturday, March 12 at 7:30 PM at The Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre, 1611 N. Kent Street (off Wilson Boulevard), Arlington, VA 22209. The ensemble will perform works by AMY BEACH, Aaron Copland, Lowell Liebermann and Andreas Makris.
This concert will feature NCE members: Leo Sushansky (artistic director/violin), Frank Conlon (piano) and Lukasz Szyrner (cello).
Doors Open for seating at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $33 Adult and $17 Student and FREE garage parking will be available in the Spectrum Garage.
NCE proudly also celebrates International Women’s Day all week long and salutes great American music by putting the spotlight on the music of great American composer Amy Beach (1867-1944).
“How do you celebrate Women’s History Month in classical music, when the genre’s history names few women composers? At NWPR over the past year, one answer has been: find what music you can, and play it. Inspired by Women’s History Month 2015, we took on a challenge to program at least one piece by a woman composer each day. Yes, it’s a token, but this month, we trade in those tokens for a reward.”
Celebrated today are composers AMY BEACH (United States), Cecile Chaminade (France) and Clara Wieck Schumann (Germany).
The NWPR women composer information and media may be found here.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, this concert is of 19th, 20th and 21st-century chamber and vocal music by the following female composers: May Aufderheide (USA), AMY BEACH (USA), Lili Boulanger (France), Cécile Chaminade (France), Rebecca Clarke (England), Emily Daymond (England), Louise Farrenc (France), Sheila Forrester (Canada), Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (Germany), Margaret Ruthven Lang (USA), Alma Mahler (Germany), Clara Schumann (Germany), Jan Wade-Littrup (USA) and Ruth Zechlin (Germany).
The event will take place on Saturday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. at UF School of Music, Room 101. Admission is free.
The Elysian Trio of Halifax – Jennifer Jones (violin), Hilary Brown (cello) and Susan Archibald (piano) – will offer a program rooted in the romantic repertoire for the Sunday Music in the Garden Room of Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada on Sunday, March 6.
Their program will include AMY BEACH’s Piano Trio, Op. 150 as well as works by Brahms, Arthur Foote and John Ireland.
The event on Sunday, March 6 will begin at 2:30 p.m., not the usual 2 p.m. start time for this series, and admission is free.
National Chamber Ensemble – Concert 4 “American Landscape” will feature AMY BEACH’s Piano Trio, Op. 150 & 3 Compositions for Violin and Piano, Op. 40, and works by Aaron Copland, Lowell Liebermann and Andreas Makris will also be performed.
The event will take place on Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in the Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre, 1611 N. Kent Street (off Wilson Blvd.), Arlington, VA 22209.
Tickets are $33 Adult and $17 Student and may be purchased at:www.NationalChamberEnsemble.org or at box office one hour before show.
The event will take place on February 23, 2016 from 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM at the Jenks Center located at 109 Skillings Road Winchester, MA 01890. Doors will open at 10:00 AM Coffee and cookies are available. The event is free admission, but donations are welcome.
The Orion Ensemble will perform Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67 as well as works by Dvořák and Brahms. The ensemble’s fourth and final program entitled “Musical Enchantments” will take place at three Chicago-area venues:
First Baptist Church of Geneva, 2300 South Street in Geneva, IL on Sunday, May 29, 2016 at 7 p.m.
PianoForte Studios, 1335 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.
Music Institute of Chicago’s Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue in Evanston, IL on Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.
Single tickets are $26, $23 for seniors and $10 for students; children 12 and younger are free. A four-ticket flexible subscription provides a 10 percent savings on full-priced tickets. For more information and to buy tickets, click here.
Lara Downes will continue her Artist Sessions with violinist Rachel Barton Pine almost half a year after its predecessor at the end of this past August. At this next event Downes will engage in both conversation and music-making with violinist Rachel Barton Pine.
The topic will celebrate rarities of the duo repertoire for violin and piano by significant women from the Romantic period, AMY BEACH and Clara Schumann as well as African-American composers, William Grant Still, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Daniel Roumain.
This installment of The Artist Sessions will take place on Tuesday, February 23, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Salon Room of the Hotel Rex located at 562 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA. General admission will be $50; and it will include hors d’oeuvres and a drink ticket as well as admission to the event. Tickets may be purchased in advance through a Brown Paper Tickets event page. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.
Daniela Bonfiglioli (violin), Marie Macleod (cello) and Karin Haglund (piano) will perform the Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 150 by Amy Beach (1867-1944), My Fleeting Angel by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor “Dumky,” Op. 90 by Antonin Dvořák.
The concert will take place in the Stockholm Concert Hall (Konserthuset): Grünewaldsalen located at Hötorget 8, Stockholm, 103 87, Sweden on Sunday 21 February 2016 at 15:00. Tickets are 190 SEK.
Flautist, Mimi Stillman, will present “Women Pioneers of American Music,” a program put on by Dolce Suono Ensemble, for which she serves as artistic and executive director.
The program, on Jan. 24 at 3 p.m. at Field Concert Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, PA, will give those in attendance an opportunity to explore early American concert music by focusing on three female composers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries — Amy Beach, Marion Bauer and Ruth Crawford Seeger — who were considered pioneers of American music.
It will also feature works by contemporary composers Jennifer Higdon and Andrea Clearfield, including a world premiere.
On Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m., also in Karl Geiringer Hall of the University of California, Santa Barbara, the music department will host the Ciompi Quartet, Duke University’s resident string quartet, in a concert featuring flutist and UCSB Music Department Chair Jill Felber, on Amy Beach’s “Theme and Variations for Flute and String Quartet, Op. 80,” and a performance of Professor Emeritus Joel Feigin’s “Mosaic in Two Panels” for string quartet.
Said Felber of the piece she will be performing, “Amy Beach, one of America’s first truly successful female composers of art music, used her own song, ‘An Indian Lullaby,’ for the theme of the quintet. This rarely played work is a gem for the flute and string quartet literature.”
Tickets are $10 general admission, $5 non-UCSB students with ID and free for UCSB students with ID and for children under 12.
It will be “All Girl Power, All the Time” times three when a trio of women takes to the stage to perform three trios written by three female composers across three centuries.
Pia Liptak (violin), Kathleen Murphy Kemp (cello) and Doleen Hood (piano) will perform their concert, “TRIO… she wrote,” as part of Brockport State College’s Fine Arts Series at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5 in the Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage, 180 Holley St., Brockport, NY.
The program will including Jennifer Higdon’s “Piano Trio,” composed in 2003; Amy Beach’s “Piano Trio (in A Minor),” composed in 1938; and Elfrida Andrée’s “Piano Trio No. 2 (in G Minor),” composed in 1884.
Tickets range from $8.50 to $16 and are available online at fineartstix.brockport.edu, by phone at (585) 395-2787, or at the Tower Fine Arts Center box office.
Our interactive timeline includes various significant events from Amy Beach’s life, such as major performances, new compositions, premieres of new works, etc. Each slide includes a related photo to make the experience more engaging!
You may access our new timeline directly by clicking here.
Unfortunately, very few – close to zero – living classical music fans have heard of many wonderful 19th Century, American orchestral works, because they were rarely performed by orchestras of the time, who preferred to play it safe with Brahms, Beethoven and other European masters. The works, including the “Gaelic” Symphony by Amy Beach, were nearly forgotten until a Vanderbilt University musicologist became determined to rescue them.
The Orion Ensemble will perform Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67 as well as works by Dvořák and Brahms. The ensemble’s fourth and final program entitled “Musical Enchantments” will take place at three Chicago-area venues:
First Baptist Church of Geneva, 2300 South Street in Geneva, IL on Sunday, May 29, 2016 at 7 p.m.
PianoForte Studios, 1335 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.
Music Institute of Chicago’s Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue in Evanston, IL on Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.
Single tickets are $26, $23 for seniors and $10 for students; children 12 and younger are free. A four-ticket flexible subscription provides a 10 percent savings on full-priced tickets. For more information and to buy tickets, click here.
Li Lidan of China will perform Monday, Nov. 30 at 5 p.m. in the Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts recital hall at Indiana State University.
Her program includes “Susser Blumen Ambra Flocken” (Handel), “Ave Maria” (Caccini), “Long Time Ago” (Aaron Copland), “Take O Take Those Lips Away” (Amy Beach), “Rompe Sprezza” (A. Scarlatti), “Soldier’s Wife” (Rachmaninoff), “Clair de Lune” (Faure) and “Meine Liebe Ist Grun” (Johannes Brahms).
The Augusta Symphony Orchestra will be performing the Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 45 by Amy Beach with piano soloist, Virginia Eskin, and the “New World Symphony” by Antonín Dvořák.
The Augusta Symphony Orchestra Fall 2015 Concert will take place on Saturday, November 14, 2015, 7:00pm at Hope Baptist Church, Manchester, ME.
Tickets are available for purchase at the door. Adults $10.00. Students and children free.
