Maverick Concerts is the oldest ongoing summer chamber music festival in the U.S., attracting the best musicians in the world for 100 years. In addition to classical music, Maverick features jazz, contemporary, folk and world music.

Festival Schedule:

Sun, June 30, 2024

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Manhattan Chamber Players David Fung, Piano

Wind, Sun, and Water
Ravel: String Quartet in F Major
Harold Meltzer: AQUA, for string quartet (2011)

Debussy: Estampes
Jean Cras: Piano Quintet (1922)

The Manhattan Chamber Players are a chamber music collective of New York-based musicians who share the common aim of performing the greatest works in the chamber repertoire at the highest level. Formed in 2015 by Artistic Director and violist Luke Fleming, MCP is comprised of an impressive roster of musicians who all come from the tradition of great music making at the Marlboro Music Festival, Steans Institute at Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival and Perlman Music Program, and are former students of the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School, Colburn School, and the New England Conservatory.

Reserved Hall Seats: $50.00, $29.00, $25.00 (partial obstruction)
General Admission/Outdoors/Uncovered: $20.00, Students: $10

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Sun, July 7, 2024

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Escher String Quartet

Haydn: Quartet in D Major, Op.64 No.5, “The Lark”
Janacek: String Quartet No.2, “Intimate Letters”
Beethoven: String Quartet in E Minor, Op.59 No.2 (“Rasumovsky”)

Adam Barnett-Hart, violin
Brendan Speltz, violin
Pierre Lapointe, viola
Brook Speltz, cello

The Escher String Quartet has received acclaim for its profound musical insight and rare tonal beauty. A former BBC New Generation Artist and recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, the quartet has performed at the BBC Proms at Cadogan Hall and is a regular guest at Wigmore Hall. In its home town of New York, the ensemble serves as season artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

The 2023-2024 season finds the Escher Quartet embarking upon a major project-performances of the complete cycle of quartets by Bela Bartók, culminating in a single concert performance of all six at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The first-ever performance of all six Bartók quartets in chronological order was given by the Emerson String Quartet in March 1981, also at Alice Tully Hall, in honor of Bartók’s centenary year.

Beyond Bartók, the Escher’s will return to many of the illustrious music centers and organizations in America, such as the Kennedy Center, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Phoenix Chamber Music Society, Duke University, Coleman Chamber Music Association, and Savannah Music Festival, among others.

Reserved Hall Seats: $50.00, $29.00, $25.00 (partial obstruction)
General Admission/Outdoors/Uncovered: $20.00, Students: $10

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Sat, July 13, 2024

6:00 PM-8:00 PM: The Four Nations Ensemble

Bastille Day Weekend at the Maverick
From Salon to Scaffold: Paris in the 18th Century

Francois Couperin: Quatrieme Concert
Jean-Phillippe Rameau: Viens Hymen
Jean-Baptiste Bousset: Pourquoy deux rossignol
Francois Couperin: Le rossignol en amour
Jean-Phillippe Rameau: Rossignole amoureux
Jean-Marie Leclair: Deuxieme Recreation

Jean-Phillippe Rameau: Pieces de Clavecin, in E major
Various: Airs of the French Revolution
Francois Devienne: Flute Quartet in A Minor, Op.66 no.1

Andrew Appel, harpsichord, fortepiano and artistic director
Pascale Beaudin, soprano
Olivier Brault, violin
Charles Brink, traverso
Loretta O’Sullivan, cello

Founded in 1986, The Four Nations Ensemble brings together soloists, frontrunners from several generations, who are leading exponents of period instrument and vocal performance. With a core ensemble of soprano, harpsichord or fortepiano, 2 violin, flute, and cello, Four Nations’ repertory runs from the Renaissance through Viennese Classical masterpieces of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Reserved Hall Seats: $40.00, $25.00, $22.00 (partial obstruction)
General Admission/Outdoors/Uncovered: $20.00, Students: $10

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Sun, July 14, 2024

3:00 PM-6:00 PM: Windsync With Blair Mcmillen, Piano

Pre-Talk By Viet Cuong

Composer Portrait: Viet Cuong and Friends
Mozart: Serenade in C Minor, K.388
Viet Cuong: Six Canadian Scenes for solo oboe (2009)
Flora, for woodwind quintet  NEW YORK PREMIERE

Apparition, for solo clarinet (2018); Zanelle, for solo clarinet (2009)
Francis Poulenc: Sextet for Piano and Winds

Garrett Hudson, flute
Emily Tsai, oboe
Graeme Steele Johnson, clarinet
Kara LaMoure, bassoon
Anni Hochhalter, horn

Blair McMillen, piano
Viet Cuong, composer

Versatile and vibrant, the musicians of WindSync “play many idioms authoritatively, elegantly, with adroit technique, and with great fun” (All About the Arts). In the span of one performance, the quintet can cover vast musical ground from revitalized standard repertoire to freshly inked works to folk and American Songbook, the common thread telling a compelling story about music history and our human selves.

WindSync frequently eliminates the “fourth wall” between musicians and audience by performing from memory, creating an extraordinary connection. This personal performance style, combined with the ensemble’s three-pronged mission of artistry, education, and community-building, lends WindSync its reputation as ”a group of virtuosos who are also wonderful people, too” (Alison Young, Classical MPR).

3:00pm pre-concert talk
4:00pm performance

Reserved Hall Seats: $50.00, $29.00, $25.00 (partial obstruction)
General Admission/Outdoors/Uncovered: $20.00, Students: $10

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Sun, July 21, 2024

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Miro Quartet

Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor
Alberto Ginastera: String Quartet No. 1
Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131

Daniel Ching, violin
William Fedkenheuer, violin
John Largess, violin
Joshua Gindele, cello

The Miró Quartet is one of America’s most celebrated and dedicated string quartets, having been labeled by The New Yorker as “furiously committed” and noted by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for its “exceptional tonal focus and interpretive intensity.” For over twenty-five years the Quartet has performed throughout the world on the most prestigious concert stages, earning accolades from critics and audiences alike. Based in Austin, TX, and thriving on the area’s storied music scene, the Miró takes pride in finding new ways to communicate with audiences of all backgrounds while cultivating the longstanding tradition of chamber music. In their 2023-24 season, the Miró Quartet embarks on a new performance and recording project with pianist Lara Downes. Here on Earth features musical depictions of planet earth, its evolution, and the lives of its inhabitants, with works spanning a century of cultural shift that begins with Darius Milhaud’s La Création du Monde, performed in a new arrangement for piano and string quartet. Upcoming performances include the premiere of a new version of Kevin Puts’ Credo with the Naples Philharmonic, as well as performances for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, the Saratoga Perfoming Arts Center, and Premiere Performances in Hong Kong.

Reserved Hall Seats: $50.00, $29.00, $25.00 (partial obstruction)
General Admission/Outdoors/Uncovered: $20.00, Students: $10

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Sun, July 28, 2024

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Pacifica Quartet

George Walker: Lyric for Strings, from String Quartet No.1
Shostakovich: Quartet No.2 in A, Op.68
Beethoven: Quartet in A Minor, Op.132

Simin Ganatra, violin
Austin Hartman, violin
Mark Holloway, violin
Brandon Vamos, cello

With a career spanning nearly three decades, the multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet has achieved international recognition as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today. The Quartet is known for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and often-daring repertory choices. Having served as quartet-in-residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music for the past decade, the Quartet also leads the Center for Advanced Quartet Studies at the Aspen Music Festival and School, and was previously the quartet-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2021, the Pacifica Quartet received a second Grammy Award for Contemporary Voices, an exploration of music by three Pulitzer Prize-winning composers: Shulamit Ran, Jennifer Higdon, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

Reserved Hall Seats: $50.00, $29.00, $25.00 (partial obstruction)
General Admission/Outdoors/Uncovered: $20.00, Students: $10

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Sun, August 4, 2024

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Chelsea Guo, Piano & Voice

Gabriel Fauré and His World I: The World of Pauline Viardot
Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28 Nos. 1-12
Fauré: Ballade, Op. 19

Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben, Op.42
Liszt: Aux cypres de la Ville d’Este; Les Jeux d’eaux a la Ville d’Este
Schumann/Liszt: Widmung

Chelsea Guo stands out as a remarkable new musical artist, equally inspired as both a classical pianist and a soprano.

“Here is a rare talent,” exclaimed BBC Music Magazine upon the 2021 release of Chelsea’s debut recording, Chopin in My Voice, featuring interpretations of a range of Chopin’s piano compositions augmented by performances of several of the composer’s songs, plus an aria byRossini in which Chelsea accompanies herself. Leading the ensuing raves, Gramophone Magazine included the CD among its “Essential New Albums.”

Reserved Hall Seats: $50.00, $29.00, $25.00 (partial obstruction)
General Admission/Outdoors/Uncovered: $20.00, Students: $10

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Sun, August 11, 2024

4:00 PM-7:30 PM: Ariel Quartet

Postlude Anthony De Mare, Piano

Gabriel Fauré and His World II: Last Words
Fauré: String Quartet in E Minor (1924)
Tan Dun: Eight Colors (1986)
Schumann: Quartet in A Major, Op.41 No.3

Alexandra Kaxovsky, violin
Amit Even-Tov, cello
Gershon Gerchikov, violin
Jan Grüning , viola

POSTLUDE: ANTHONY DE MARE, PIANO

Gabriel Fauré and His World III: Faure and Copland
Fauré: Nine Preludes, op.109
Aaron Copland:
Three Moods (1921)
Four Piano Blues (1926)
Our Town Suite: “The Story of Our Town”

Distinguished by its virtuosity, probing musical insight, and impassioned, fiery performances, the Ariel Quartet has garnered critical praise worldwide for more than twenty years. Formed when the members were just teenagers studying at the Jerusalem Academy Middle School of Music and Dance in Israel, the Ariel was named a recipient of the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, granted by Chamber Music America in recognition of artistic achievement and career support. Celebrating their 25th anniversary in 2023, the Quartet serves as the Faculty Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where they direct the chamber music program and present a concert series in addition to maintaining a busy touring schedule in the United States and abroad.

Recent highlights include the Ariel Quartet’s sold-out Carnegie Hall debut, a series of performances at Lincoln Center together with pianist Inon Barnatan and the Mark Morris Dance Group, as well as the release of a Brahms and Bartók album for Avie Records. In 2020, the Ariel gave the U.S. premiere of the Quintet for Piano and Strings by Daniil Trifonov, with the composer as pianist for the Linton Chamber Music Series in Cincinnati.

Reserved Hall Seats: $50.00, $29.00, $25.00 (partial obstruction)
General Admission/Outdoors/Uncovered: $20.00, Students: $10.00

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Sun, August 18, 2024

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Isidore String Quartet

Mozart: Quartet in C, K.465, “Dissonant”
Henri Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit (1976)
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E flat major, Op.44 No.3

Adrian Steele, violin
Phoenix Avalon, violin
Devin Moore, violin
Joshua McClendon, cello

Gabriel Fauré and His World IV: Faure and Philip Glass
Fauré: Barcarolles Nos. 1 – 5
Philip Glass: Selections from the Etudes for piano

Winners of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022, the New York City-based Isidore String Quartet was formed in 2019 with a vision to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the repertory. The quartet is heavily influenced by the Juilliard String Quartet and the idea of ‘approaching the established as if it were brand new, and the new as if it were firmly established.’

Reserved Hall Seats: $50.00, $29.00, $25.00 (partial obstruction)
General Admission/Outdoors/Uncovered: $20.00, Students: $10.00

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Sat, August 24, 2024

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: Margaret Leng Tan, Toy Pianos

Where No Birds Sing: A Requiem for the Earth
To Stare Astonished at the Sea – Lois V Vierk
Paradise Lost – Erik Griswold
Nunataks – John Luther Adams
And no Birds Sing – Somei Satoh
Shattered Apparitions of the Western Wind – Annie Gosfield
Coney Island sous l’ Eau – Michael Wookey
0’00” – John Cage

Margaret Leng Tan has established herself as a major force within the American avant-garde; a highly visible, talented and visionary pianist whose work sidesteps perceived artificial boundaries within the usual concert experience and creates a new level of communication with listeners. Embracing aspects of theater, choreography, performance and even “props” such as the teapot she “plays” in Alvin Lucier’s Nothing is Real, Tan has brought to the avant-garde, a measure of good old-fashioned showmanship tempered with a disciplinary rigor inherited from her mentor John Cage. This has won Tan acceptance far beyond the norm for performers of avant-garde music, as she is regularly featured at international festivals, records often for adventurous labels such as Mode and New Albion and has appeared on American public television, at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.

Reserved Hall Seats: $40.00, $25.00, $22.00 (partial obstruction)
General Admission/Outdoors/Uncovered: $20.00, Students: $10.00

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Sun, August 25, 2024

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Reed Tetzloff, Piano

Gabriel Fauré and His World V: Fauré and the Romantic Age
Ravel: Menuet Antique
Fauré: The Six Impromptus (complete)

Phillip Lasser: The White Owls, Sonata for Piano (1996)
Schumann: Carnaval

Pianist Reed Tetzloff, “an artist of broad musical tastes and individuality,” (South Florida Classical Review) has been hailed for his “richly communicative” performances (The Cincinnati Enquirer). He came to international attention at the XV Tchaikovsky Competition, where he was dubbed “the lyric hero of the competition.” (???? Magazine). He has excited audiences worldwide, ever since making his Lincoln Center concerto debut at Alice Tully Hall in 2012.

Reserved Hall Seats: $40.00, $25.00, $22.00 (partial obstruction)
General Admission/Outdoors/Uncovered: $20.00, Students: $10.00

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Fri, August 30, 2024

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: Jenny Lin, Piano

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 1 in A minor, op. 26
Glass: Etude No. 2

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 2 in G major, op. 41
Glass: Etude No. 13

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 3 in G? major, op. 42
Glass: Etude No. 18

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 4 in A? major, Op. 44
Glass: Etude No. 16

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 6 in E? major, Op. 70
Glass: Etude No. 6

Jenny Lin, a Steinway Artist, has made a name for herself on the world stage thanks to her “remarkable technical command” and “gift for melodic flow” (New York Times). The Washington Post has extolled her “confident fingers” and “spectacular technique,” while Gramophone has hailed her as “an exceptionally sensitive pianist.”

Reserved Hall Seats: $40.00, $25.00, $22.00 (partial obstruction)
General Admission/Outdoors/Uncovered: $20.00, Students: $10.00

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Sun, September 1, 2024

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Borromeo String Quartet
Henry Kramer, Piano

Gabriel Faure and His World VI: A Forgotten Masterpiece
Vijay Iyer: Dig the Say (2012)
Beethoven: Quartet No.16 in F Major, Op.135
Bizet: Nocturne No.1
Faure: Piano Quintet No.2

Nicholas Kitchen, violin
Kristopher Tong, violin
Melissa reardon, viola
Yeesun Kim, cello

Henry Kramer, piano

Each visionary performance of the award-winning Borromeo String Quartet strengthens and deepens its reputation as one of the most important ensembles of our time. Admired and sought after for both its fresh interpretations of the classical music canon and its championing of works by 20th and 21st century composers, the ensemble has been hailed for its “edge-of-the- seat performances,” by the Boston Globe, which called it “simply the best.”

Reserved Hall Seats: $50.00, $29.00, $25.00 (partial obstruction)
General Admission/Outdoors/Uncovered: $20.00, Students: $10.00

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Sun, September 8, 2024

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Music from Copland House

Gabriel Fauré and His World VII: Copland and Faure
Mozart: “Kegelstatt” Trio in E-flat Major, K.498
Viet Cuong: Wax and Wire (2014)

Copland: Piano Quartet (1950)
Fauré: Piano Quartet No.1 in C Minor

Music From Copland House is the acclaimed resident ensemble at Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark home in New York, now restored as a unique creative center for American music. Since its trium­phant New York debut as the Opening Night of Merkin Hall’s 1999-2000 season, Music from Copland House (MCH) has come to occupy a special place on the U.S. musical scene as perhaps this country’s only wide-ranging American repertory ensemble. Provocatively uniting past and present, American and non-American, it journeys across 150 years of our nation’s rich musical legacy, reaching back deep into the 19th century and forward to just-completed compositions.

Reserved Hall Seats: $50.00, $29.00, $25.00 (partial obstruction)
General Admission/Outdoors/Uncovered: $20.00, Students: $10.00

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Fest Date: June 30, 2024 - September 8, 2024

Location: Maverick Concert Hall, 120 Maverick Road, Woodstock, NY 12498

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