Opening Night: Baroque and A Famous Musical Quote

Southern Vermont Arts Center 860 Southern Vermont Arts Center Drive, Manchester, VT, United States

Emi Ferguson, Principal Flute of the distinguished Handel & Haydn Society and recipient of the 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, joins early music specialist Arthur Haas (harpsichord), Philip Setzer (violin) and the MMF Young Artists Strings to open the season with Bach’s lively Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Music inspired by Shakespeare, Dryden, and Milton shapes […]

The Kreutzer Sonata

Arkell Pavilion at Southern Vermont Arts Center 860 SVAC Drive, Manchester, VT

Beethoven’s complex ninth sonata reverberates to the present day. Originally written for his friend, George Bridgetower, the two fell out and the piece was rededicated to another notable violinist of the time, Rudolphe Kreutzer. Against this backdrop, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove conjured a narrative for the biracial Bridgetower in her poetry collection Sonata Mulattica: […]

Family Program: Ferdinand the Bull

Manchester Community Library

The ideal introduction to the beauty and enjoyment of the performing arts, Manchester Music Festival’s Family Programs invite young people and their grownups to discover the world of chamber music together. Inspired by American author Munro Leaf’s best-loved book, The Story of Ferdinand (1936), British composer Alan Ridout penned his musical adaptation for violin and […]

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Young Artists Concerts

Arkell Pavilion at Southern Vermont Arts Center 860 SVAC Drive, Manchester, VT

Each summer, ten exceptional young musicians participate in the Manchester Music Festival Young Artists Program. This immersive curriculum is a full-scholarship five-week professional training program for string players and pianists, ages 18 - 26. The primary focus of the Young Artists Program is to intensively study and perform chamber music at a high level and […]

The Wordless Voice of the Clarinet

Arkell Pavilion at Southern Vermont Arts Center 860 SVAC Drive, Manchester, VT

Few instruments evoke the human voice with such range and nuance as the clarinet, and even fewer performers achieve the distinction of Anthony McGill, Principal Clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic. Recipient of the 2020 Avery Fisher Prize and named 2024 Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America, McGill is a musician whose “trademark brilliance, […]

Recurring

Young Artists Concerts

Arkell Pavilion at Southern Vermont Arts Center 860 SVAC Drive, Manchester, VT

Each summer, ten exceptional young musicians participate in the Manchester Music Festival Young Artists Program. This immersive curriculum is a full-scholarship five-week professional training program for string players and pianists, ages 18 - 26. The primary focus of the Young Artists Program is to intensively study and perform chamber music at a high level and […]

“Birding by Ear”

Manchester Community Library

Manchester Music Festival’s Discovery programs bring knowledge and insight to the music on our stages through informal talks, demonstrations, interviews, book signings and other events in the community. Composer Perry Goldstein will talk about his collaboration with Richard Powers, author of The New York Times bestseller, The Overstory, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and […]

Music Inspired by Song and Birdsong

Arkell Pavilion at Southern Vermont Arts Center 860 SVAC Drive, Manchester, VT

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers’ sextet of poems from 2013 forms the basis of composer Perry Goldstein’s song cycle, “Birding by Ear.” Baritone Randall Scarlata, admired for his “compelling desire to bring texts to life” (The New York Times), will be joined by the musicians with whom he premiered the work in 2022—violinist Philip Setzer, […]

Family Program: The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant

Manchester Community Library

The ideal introduction to the beauty and enjoyment of the performing arts, Manchester Music Festival’s Family Programs invite young people and their grownups to discover the world of chamber music together. Francis Poulenc’s brilliant musical characterizations of Babar, his Mother, the Patroness, and cousins Arthur and Celeste embellish Jean de Brunhoff’s memorable “Story of Babar,” […]

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