Monadnock Music is a 501(c)3 non-profit that has been making exceptional music accessible to all in intimate and informal settings in the towns and villages of the Monadnock region since 1966. Through a commitment to varied and imaginative performances and teaching, Monadnock Music keeps a sense of musical daring and discovery alive.

Schedule of Events:

Thursday, June 19, 2025

12:00 pm: Opening Concert - Listen and Lunch

Location: Depot Park - Peterborough, NH

Monadnock Music opens its 60th anniversary season with a sumptuous arrangement of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony for string sextet, crafted by a contemporary of the great master. Join us down by the banks of the Contoocook for an unforgettable performance of one of classical music's greatest tributes to the beauty and power of the natural world.

Program:
- Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony #6 in F major "Pastoral", arr. Michael Fischer
- Running time: approximately 50 minutes.
- Free and Open to the Public!

Sunday, June 22, 2025

3:00 pm: Jaffrey Village Concert

Location: Jaffrey Meetinghouse - Jaffrey, NH

The Monadnock Music String Sextet reprises Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony at the Jaffrey Meetinghouse, in the shadow of Mount Monadnock. Alongside this we present Dvorak's rich and soulful Sextet in A major; his first work performed outside Bohemia, its enthusiastic reception launched Dvorak's international career.

Program:
- Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony #6 in F major "Pastoral", arr. Michael Fischer
- Antonín Dvorak - String Sextet in A major, op. 48
 - Running time: approximately 90 minutes including intermission.
- Free and Open to the Public!

Saturday, June 28, 2025

1:00 pm: Family Concert - Instrument Petting Zoo

Location: The Friendly Farm - 716 Main Street, Route 101, Dublin, NH

Monadnock Music presents a thrilling afternoon of storytelling through music, with three playful stories set for violin and narrator in a program suitable for audiences of all ages. Following the performance, children will have the opportunity to try instruments in a "petting zoo" provided by Acoustic Strings of New England.

Program:
- Bruce Adolphe - The Nightingale
- Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate - Abitahanta': The Hunter Who Was Not So Great
- Alan Ridout - Ferdinand the Bull
- Running time: approximately 35 minutes of music, followed by the "instrument petting zoo".
- Concert free with paid admission into Friendly Farm

Sunday, July 6, 2025

3:00 pm: Dublin Village Concert

Location: Emmanuel Church - 924 Dublin Road, Dublin, NH

We are delighted to present John McKean, acclaimed harpsichordist and chair of the Historical Performance Department at Cambridge's Longy School of Music, in a solo recital. Dublin's Emmanuel Church, with its intimate acoustics and warm wooden walls, is a perfect space to bring the delicate plectra and singing wood of the harpsichord to magical life.

Running time: approximately 80 minutes including intermission.

Program:
- Matthias Weckmann - Toccata in d
- Johann Jakob Froberger - Partita XVII
- Dietrich Buxtehude - Suite in C Major, BuxWV 226
- Johann Kaspar Kerll - Ciaccona
- Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer - Suite V from Musicalisches Blumen-Büschlein
- Johann Sebastian Bach - Fantasia and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 904
- Running time: approximately 80 minutes including intermission.
- Free and Open to the Public!

Saturday, July 12, 2025

7:00 pm: Deering Village Concert

Location: Deering Community Church - 763 Deering Center Road, Deering, NH

In this eclectic recital for piano trio, we explore a kaleidoscope of emotional and psychological landscapes. Brian Nabors' "Jekyll and Hyde" trio examines the extremes of the human psyche; Jungyoon Wie's "In A Fog", written as an artistic response to a recent ADHD diagnosis, invites the listener to consider larger questions of identity and perception. Contrasting these: the effortless grace of Mozart's final piano trio, the lush intensity of Mary Howe's Elegy, and Shostakovich's youthful, darkly passionate early piano trio (his first published chamber music!)

Program:
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Trio in G major, K. 564
- Jungyoon Wie - In a Fog
- Mary Howe - Elegy for piano trio
- Brian Raphael Nabors - Piano Trio "Jekyll and Hyde"
- Shostakovich - Piano Trio #1 in c minor, op. 8
- Running time: approximately 85 minutes including intermission.
- Free and Open to the Public!

Sunday, July 13, 2025

3:00 pm: Rindge Village Concert

Location: Cheney Hall, Franklin Pierce University - Rindge, NH

The Monadnock Music Piano Trio reprises Saturday's concert.

Program:
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Trio in G major, K. 564
- Jungyoon Wie - In a Fog
- Mary Howe - Elegy for piano trio
- Brian Raphael Nabors - Piano Trio "Jekyll and Hyde"
- Shostakovich - Piano Trio #1 in c minor, op. 8
- Running time: approximately 85 minutes including intermission.
- Free and Open to the Public!

Thursday, July 17, 2025

7:00 pm: Westmoreland Village Concert

Location: Park Hill Meeting House - Park Hill Common, Westmoreland, NH

An evening of string quartet music inspired by poetry, literature, and folk song. Kian Ravei's glittering string quartet describes the natural world as seen through seven poems by Emily Dickinson. Zhou Long's "Old Fisherman" reflects on a Chinese poem from the 9th century; Libby Larsen's energetic Sorrow Song and Jubilee draws inspiration from the spiritual "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." We conclude with a rarely heard quartet by Venezuelan-French composer Reynaldo Hahn, whose two-year love affair and lifelong friendship with Marcel Proust shaped both artists profoundly.

Program:
- Kian Ravei - The Little Things
- Zhou Long - Old Fisherman, from "Poems from Tang"
- Libby Larsen - Sorrow Song and Jubilee
- Reynaldo Hahn - String Quartet #2 in F major
- Running time: approximately 80 minutes including intermission.
- Free and Open to the Public!

Sunday, July 20, 2025

3:00 pm: Light and Shadow - Bass Hall Concert

Location: Bass Hall, The Monadnock Center for History and Culture - 19 Grove Street, Peterborough, NH

A resplendent afternoon of Romantic music for mezzo-soprano, string quartet, and piano. Features the lushly evocative French songs of Jongen and Lekeu alongside Respighi's lyric poem Il Tramonto ("The Sunset") and Dvorak's sunny, ebullient piano quintet.

Program:
Joseph Jongen - Three Songs for mezzo, string quartet, and piano
Ottorino Respighi - Il tramonto
Antonin Dvorak - Piano Quintet in A major op. 81
Guillaume Lekeu - Nocturne from Trois Poèmes
Running time: approximately 95 minutes including intermission.

General - $30
Member - $25

Saturday, July 26, 2025

7:00 pm: Harrisville Village Concert

Location: Harrisville Community Church - 13 Canal Street, Harrisville, NH

Featuring three luxurious works for harp and string quartet: a transcendent Adagio by Tchaikovsky, a darkly exotic tone poem in miniature by Mikhael Gnessin, and Andre Caplet's dramatic setting of Edgar Allen Poe's Masque of the Red Death. These are bookended by two works for string quartet which feature harplike plucking: Jesse Montgomery's wildly popular Strum, and Beethoven's exuberant "Harp" Quartet.

Program:
- Jessie Montgomery - Strum
- Mikhail Gnessin - Song of the Knight Errant, op. 28
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Adagio molto
- Andre Caplet - Conte fantastique
- Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet in E-flat, op. 74 "Harp"
- Running time: approximately 88 minutes including intermission.
- Free and Open to the Public!

Friday, August 1, 2025

Candlelit Concert with Supper Club

Loaction: Spring Hill Studio - 358 Spring Hill Road, Sharon, NH

6:00 pm: Supper Club
Chocolate Buffet and Charcuterie with Festive Cocktails and Wine

Concert and Supper Club - $50

7:00 pm: Concert

Piano and Vocal Performance
Tommy Barth, piano
Liz Mongrello, vocals

7:00 pm: Doors open
7:15 pm: Concert
8:15 pm: Depart

Tommy Barth presents a heartfelt concert of love songs, ballads, and lullabies to celebrate the Valentine's Day season. Joined by the vocal stylings of Liz Mongrello, this performance will feature works by an array of iconic composers from Gershwin and Sondheim to Adele, Billy Joel, Sara Bareilles, and more - promising an evening of timeless romance and musical artistry.

Concert - General $25
Concert - Student-Child $15

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

7:00 pm: Nelson Village Concert

Loaction: Nelson Congregational Church - 830 Nelson Road, Nelson, NH

Closing our season back where it all started 60 years ago...
Our final village concert of the season is a celebration of love featuring some of the greatest composers of art song over the past two centuries. From the sultry to the chaste, from joyful innocence to deepest sorrow, our musicians will take you on a journey through the innermost recesses of the heart.

Program:
- Augusta Holmes - Three Songs
- Franz Schubert - Licht und Liebe, D. 352
- Johannes Brahms - So lass uns wandern, op. 75 #3
- Adolphus Hailstork - Four Romantic Love Songs
- Ernest Chausson - Four Melodies, op.13
- Ian Venables - Venetian Songs, op. 22 "Love's Voice"
- Robert Schumann - In der Nacht, op. 74 #4
- Running time: approximately 85 minutes including intermission.
- Free and Open to the Public!

Date:
June 19 - August 6, 2025

Location:
Various Venues in New Hampshire

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