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Chautauqua Institute Aug. 1- 6
Montague, Michigan Aug. 10 - 11
Atlanta, Georgia Oct. 6-8
Midland, Michigan Oct. 28
Philadelphia, Pensylvania Nov. 18
Richmond, Virginia Dec. 16-18
Houston, Texas Jan. 4
Huntington, LI Jan. 7
Ann Arbor, Michigan Jan. 13
Birmingham, Alabama Mar. 1-3
Ann Arbor, Michigan Mar. 29 - April 4
Catskills, NY July 24 - 29

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Philadelphia, PA Nov.
Dearborn, MI Nov. 16
Boston, MA Dec. 3
Andover, MA Dec. 4
Dobbs Ferry, NY Feb. 13
Brooklyn, NY Feb. 20
Birmingham, AL March 10
Manhattan, NY April 23
Columbia University, NY April 29
The Bronx, NY May 7
Pelham, NY June 5
Oakpark, MI June 10
Narrowsburg, NY June 17
Riverdale, NY June 25
Durham, NC July 7
Buchanan, Michigan June 25
Ann Arbor, MI July 8 - 10
Catskills, NY July 17 - 30

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September 15, Pittsburgh
Rodef Shalom Temple in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Sextet of musicians performing early Jewish-themed classical music
With cellist Aron Zelkowicz, clarinetist David Krakauer, violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violinist Melissa Reardon and pianist Kathleen Tagg

October 19, Bronx
Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition for small ensemble and works by Ravel and Debussy
The Sinfonietta of Riverdale
5040 Henry Hudson Parkway East,
The Bronx, NY

October 20, NYC
HVG Concerts at the Lounge presents
Music by Khachaturian, Clara Schumann and Ives with Contrasts Ensemble
5 PM.
116 Pinehurst Ave. at 183rd St.
New York, NY

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Presents on October 20, 2019
Performances at 11 AM, 1 PM and 3 PM at the Rose Studio
“Creative Creatures”, music for violin and piano including The Swan, Flight of the Bumblebee and an arrangement of “Trout” for CMS Kids

November 4, 2019 at 8 PM NYC
Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall
Nurit Pacht, violin
Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin
Melissa Reardon, viola
Aron Zelkowicz, cello
David Krakauer, clarinet
Kathy Tagg, piano
Presented by the Pittsburgh Jewish Festival

November 19, 2019 at 10 AM and 11:30 AM
Location: Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY
Program: Beethoven and Saint-Saens piano trios
Artists:
Rami Vamos as Wolfgang Amadeus Schutzinberry
Nurit Pacht, violin
Mihai Marica, cello
Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, piano

November 20, 2019 at 10 AM and 11:30
Location: Merkin Concert Hall, Manhattan, NY
Program: Beethoven and Saint-Saens piano trios
Artists:
Rami Vamos as Wolfgang Amadeus Schutzinberry
Nurit Pacht, violin
Mihai Marica, cello
Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, piano

November 30, 2019 at 7 PM
Location: Chicago Mosaic School in Chicago, IL
Program: Beethoven String Quartet Opus 18 No. 6 and Philip Glass “Bent” Suite
Artist: Bayberry String Quartet
(Nurit Pacht, Steffani Kitayama, Gabe Bolkosky and Laura Usiskin)

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December 9, 2019 at 7:30
Location: Bach@MOMA in New York City
Program: Mozart Divertimento in E flat Major for string trio and Henry Cowell “Paragraphs” for string trio
Performers:
Nurit Pacht, violin
Kathryn Lockwood, viola
Caroline Stinson, cello

December 14, 2019 at 3 PM
Location: St. Paul’s Church in Newburyport, MA
Newburyport Festival Baroque Orchestra
Nurit Pacht, concertmaster
Johann Sebastian Bach
Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor, BMV 903 for harpsichord
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, "Summer" from “The Four Seasons”
George Friderick Handel
Violin Sonata Op.1, No. 5
Francesco Saverio Geminiani
Cello Sonata in A Minor, Opus 5, Number 6
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in B Minor, K.87 for harpsichord
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto No.8 in G minor 'Fatto per la notte di Natale’
The concert will be a little over an hour.

PERFORMERS
WINTER BAROQUE ARTISTS
Newburyport Festival Baroque Orchestra
WINTER BAROQUE CONCERTMASTER
Nurit Pacht
Violin
WINTER BAROQUE SOLOIST
Michael Sponseller
Harpsichord Soloist

January 2, Bayberry String Quartet, Connecticut

January 15 - 19 Bayberry String Quartet, Alabama

February 19 - 23 Virginia

February 22, 2020
Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia presents America Now

February 23, 2020
Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia presents Legacies

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March 11, Bayberry String Quartet, Michigan

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July 6, 2019 at 4 PM
Chautauqua Chamber Music Resident Artist Series Lenna Hall
Debussy “Cortege” and “The Girl with the Flaxen Hair) arranged for violin and piano
Gabriel Faure Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, op. 45
Nurit Pacht, violin,
Kathryn Votapek, viola
Tobias Werner, cello
Brian Zeger, piano

JULY 26 and JULY 27 at 7 PM
EDDIE ADAMS FARM
247 Jeffersonville North Branch Rd, Jeffersonville, NY 12748
With cellist Caroline Stinson and pianist Sarah Ho
Program:
Meltzer, Sindbad
Webern, 3 Stucke for violin and piano
Brahms, Piano Trio in C Major

June 7, 2019 7:30 PM
The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
87 Eldridge Street
New York, NY 10002
Caroline Stinson, cello
Nurit Pacht, violin
Program:
Andrew Waggoner - Le Nom (Upperline) (2006)
Donald Martino - Parasonatina Al’Dodecaphonia (1964)
Louis Andriessen - La Voce (1981)
Einojuhani Rautaavara - Ugrian Dialogue (1973)
Peter Eötvös - Two Poems to Polly (1998)
György Ligeti - Sonata (1953)

June 19, 2019 at 7:30 PM
Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival presents at Temple Emanuel of South Hills Music of Stutschewsky and Mendelssohn
Nurit Pacht, violin
Aron Zelkowicz, cello
Rodrigo Ojeda, piano

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May 25, 2019 at 7:30
Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Beethoven, Prokofiev, Dvorak, Mendelssohn
With Marta Aznavoorian, Mari Sato, Derek Snyder, Steffani Kitayama, Gabe Bolkosky, Vera Parkin, Melissa Kraut,
Akemi Takayama, Stephanie Flack, Kirsten Docter, and the Cavani Quartet: Annie Fullard, Catherine Cosbey, Eric
Wong and Kyle Price

May 24 -26
Phoenix Phest
Masterclasses, music workshops
Eastern Michigan University

7:30 PM Thursday, May 2, 2019
The Trust Performing Arts Center
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Brahms Quartet for piano and strings no. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Artists: Chistopher Shih, piano; Nurit Pacht, violin; Marc Ramirez, viola; Sara Male, cello.
Dvorak Quintet for piano and strings no 2 in A major, Op. 81
Artists: Christopher Shih, piano; Nurit Pacht, violin; Maya Shih, violin; Marc Ramirez, viola; Sara Male, cello.

5:30 PM April 3, 2019
Masterclass, violin and viola
Roosevelt University
Chicago, Illinois

2 PM March 24, 2019
Music by Handel, Copland, Schubert
Riverdale Sinfonietta
Hebrew Institute of Riverdale
3700 Henry Hudson Pkwy, Bronx, NY

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7 PM, Friday, February 15
University of Alabama, Birmingham, Hansell/Hulsey Recital Hall
950 13th Street South, Birmingham, AL
Bayberry String Quartet
Nurit Pacht, Steffani Kitayama, Gabe Bolkosky, Laura Usiskin
Music of Haydn and Mendelssohn

12 PM, Thursday, February 14, 2019
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
Woodfield Dr., Auburn, Alabama
Music of Philip Glass, Cole Porter
Bayberry String Quartet
Nurit Pacht, Steffani Kitayama, Gabe Bolkosky, Laura Usiskin

DAWN AND TWILIGHT
Saturday, January 19th, 2019 at 8pm

Richard Wagner, Siegfried Idyll
David Conte, Sinfonietta

The centerpiece of the program is Richard Wagner’s “SIEGFRIED IDYLL.” This intimate and serene lullaby was written as a love-letter from Wagner to his wife after the birth of their son. Completing the program will be a delightful and sparkling Sinfonietta by American composer David Conte whose music has been described as “tuneful, evocative, deftly scored [and] the melodies are downright luscious.”[San Francisco Examiner] Also on the program will be music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Robert Schumann. The concert will be conducted by Sinfonietta Artistic Director, Mark Mandarano.

Thu Feb 7th 2019, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Bach@MoMA (in New York City)
Bach's Goldberg Variations for String Trio
Nurit Pacht, violin
Kathryn Lockwood, viola
Caroline Stinson, cello

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Dec. 5, 2018
Masterclass at Horace Mann in New York

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Weekend of Chamber Music’s 25th season is July 14 through 29, 2018 and will present 10 events at all its usual, and unusual venues in Sullivan and surrounding counties. The run-up to the festival starts with a free preview Informance, with music and discussion, on June 23rd, at 3:00 pm at the Catskill Art Society in Livingston Manor, NY. Centered on this year’s theme of Free Variations, the presentation will cover the various forms of musical variation that the festival will explore.
On July 14th, the festival kicks off with Barn Raising, our second annual benefit performance at the Eddie Adams Barn in Jeffersonville, at 5:00 pm. A magical program of music and poetry, for viola, cello and hand percussion featuring duoJalal, followed by a truly divine multi-course dinner with wine pairings, will make this a night to remember.
At the center of this season’s Saturday night concerts will be one of the towering masterworks of the chamber music repertoire: the Clarinet Quintet of Mozart. Expanding the context around those works will be music of 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer in residence Joan Tower. .

Known internationally for music that is wildly colorful and rhythmically propulsive, Ms. Tower, who celebrates her 80th birthday this year, is one of the most important and widely-performed composers of her generation. Joan’s music will form the core around which the rest of the program takes shape, with works that are constantly transforming, running through the ancient and archetypal process of variation, in conversation with music of Bach, Haydn, Marin Marais, Schumann, Steve Reich, as well as the Mozart Quintet. .

All of these themes will be taken up on the festival’s interactive mini series, MusicTalks on Thursday evenings. MusicTalks 1 will feature solo works for flute, clarinet and violin, centered around conversation and a Q&A with Tower, who celebrates her 80th birthday this year, at the Catskill Distilling Company in Bethel, NY.
MusicTalks 2 at the Catskill Art Society in Livingston Manor will focus on variation itself, through improvisation, and the monumental Goldberg Variations of J.S. Bach, in a version for string trio.
In addition to Joan Tower we’ll also welcome old friends and new, with violinists Nurit Pacht, Mari Sato and Susan Waterbury; violists Tawnya Popoff and Lois Martin; pianist Sarah Ho; and very special guests, flutist Carol Wincenc, who commissioned the works for flute from Tower; clarinetist Alex Fiterstein; and duoJalal, with violist Kathryn Lockwood and percussionist Yousif Sheronick.

Monday, June 4, 2018 at 7 PM
Piccolo Spoleto Festival
Charleston, South Carolina

Program of Joachim Stutschewsky and composers from the St. Petersburg society for Jewish folk music

Performers:
Nurit Pacht, violin
Aron Zelkowicz, cello
Taisiya Pushkar, Piano

Monday, June 25, 2018 at 7:30 PM
Durham, North Carolina
Ciompi Quartet presents At Doris Duke Center, Kirby Horton Hall
Works by Lutoslawski, Schullhoff, Andrew Waggoner and J.S Bach’s Goldberg variations arrange for string trio

Performers:
Nurit Pacht, violin
Kathryn Lockwood, viola
Caroline Stinson, cello

July 6 at 2 PM
Master Class at Chautauqua Institution, NY

Saturday, July 14 at 4 PM
Chautauqua Institution, New York
Chautauqua chamber music: resident artist series
Music by Fritz Kreisler, Debussy, Moszkowski and original compositions by the performers

Performers:
Almita Vamos and Nurit Pacht, violins
Rami Vamos, guitar
Eugenia Monacelli, Piano

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 7:30 PM
Saint Peters Church, New York New York
Music of Timothy Brown

Performers:
Nurit Pacht, violin
Max Mandel, viola
Caroline Stinson, cello
Isabelle O’Connell, Piano

May 6, 2018 at 2 PM
Rose Theater at Lincoln Center
Presented by the Chamber music Society of Lincoln Center

Program:
Caprice No.24 for solo violin by Paganini
Terzetto for violin, cello and guitar by Paganini
Moses fantasy (on the G string) for violin and guitar
Duo for violin and cello by Erwin Schulhoff

May 23, 2018, 7:30 PM
The Fair Lane music guild
University of Michigan – Dearborn

Program:
Quartet No. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich
Quartet No. 14 “ Death and the Maiden” by Franz Schubert

Performers:
Nurit Pacht, violin
Steffani Kitayama, violin
Gabe Bolkosky, viola
Laura Usiskin, cello

Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 7 PM
Eastern Michigan University

Program:
Piano trio in B flat K502 by Mozart
String Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 49 by Dimitri Shostakovich
Piano Quintet No. 2 in a, Op. 81 by Antonin Dvorak
Octet in E flat, Op. 20 by Felix Mendelssohn

Performers:
Nurit Pacht, Stephanie Kitayama, Gabe Bolkosky, Peter Salaff, violins Vera Parkin, Piano Laura Usiskin, Melissa Kraut, cellos The Cavani String Quartet (Annie Fullard, Mari Sato, Eric Wong, Si Yan Li)

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As concertmaster of Riverdale Sinfonietta...
DAWN AND TWILIGHT
Saturday, January 19th, 2019 at 8pm
Location: Christ Church Riverdale, 5030 Henry Hudson Parkway, Bronx, NY

Richard Wagner, Twilight of the Gods Fantasy (arr. Farrington)
David Conte, Sinfonietta
Götterdämmerung, the final opera of Richard Wagner’s “Ring Cycle” is know for its many orchestral highlights including Dawn, the Rhine Journey and Siegfried’s Funeral March. All of these moments are woven together into a lush instrumental suite that distills the musical highlights for a virtuosic chamber-sized ensemble. In contrast to this is the bright, energetic new music for Sinfonietta by American composer David Conte, whose finely-crafted music has been performed worldwide.
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Nurit Pacht performs music of Gustav Mahler and Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer, Aaron Jay Kernis with Sinfonietta of Riverdale conducted by Mark Mandarano.

January 20th at 8:00pm at:
Christ Church Riverdale
5030 Henry Hudson Parkway
(at 252nd Street)
Bronx, New York 10471

February 1 at 6:30 at Merkin Hall in New York City
Arensky Piano Trio with cellist Yari Bond and pianist Irina Nuzova

February 25 at 5 PM at the JCC in Tenafly, New Jersey
Original compositions for violin and guitar performed and composed with Rami Vamos

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The chamber music works of Maurice Ravel and Ludwig van Beethoven are among the best pieces of classical music. This event explores the contrast of sense and sensibility in music, and how the two aesthetics are equally necessary.

Date: Saturday February 24, 2:00pm
Venue: Richmond Main Public Library
Program:
Beethoven – Cello Sonata in C major
Ravel – Sonata for violin and cello
Performers:
Phillip Bush, piano
Khari Joyner, cello
Nurit Pacht, violin
James Wilson, cello

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BAROQUE AT THE WILTON HOUSE

DATE: DECEMBER 10, 2017
TIME: 7:30PM
LOCATION: 215 S. WILTON RD., RICHMOND VA 23226
VENUE: WILTON HOUSE MUSEUM
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An intimate concert of early Baroque chamber music from England – pieces by John Dowland, Henry Purcell and John Blow. This special event includes a post-concert reception with the performers.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, CMSCVA is relocating the venue for the December 10, 2017 performance, Baroque at the Branch Museum. This concert will now take place at the Wilton House Museum. An outstanding example of Georgian architecture, Wilton is a wonderful historic house dating back to 1753 and built by William Randolph III.

Tickets

Date: Sunday December 10
4:00pm Concert (3:30pm pre-concert chat) A Limited Amount of Tickets are Still Available
7:30pm Concert (7:00pm pre-concert chat) Sold Out

Venue: Wilton House Museum, 215 S. Wilton Road, Richmond.

Program: English Chamber Music by Purcell, Dowland and Avison

Performers:
Jacob Ashbury, violin
Adam Cockerham, lute
Maureen Murchie, viola
Nurit Pacht, violin
James Wilson cello

WATER MUSIC AND CONCERTI GROSSI

Tickets
DATE: DECEMBER 12, 2017
TIME: 7:30PM
LOCATION: 4819 MONUMENT AVE., RICHMOND, VA 23230
VENUE: HOLY COMFORTER EPISCOPAL CHURCH
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Performing on period instruments, Society artists present the most sophisticated and dramatic instrumental music of George Friderik Handel – his “Concerti Grossi” or “Grand Concertos,” and the third suite from “Water Music.”

This concert is introduced in a 15 minute pre-concert chat with CMSCVA Artistic Director, James Wilson, starting at 7:00pm.

Date: Tuesday December 12, 7:30pm
Venue: Holy Comforter Episcopal Church

Program:
Concerto Grosso in F Major, op. 6, no. 2, HWV 320
Concerto Grosso in G major, op. 3, no. 3, HWV 314
Handel Water Music Suite no. 3
Concerto Grosso in A minor, op. 6, no. 4, HWV 322
Concerto Grosso in D minor, op. 3, no. 5, HWV 316

Performers:
Mary Boodell, traverso flute
Chloe Fedor, violin
Sarah Heunsch, oboe
Erik Higgins, bass
Maureen Murchie, viola
Meg Owens, oboe
Nurit Pacht, violin
Kelsey Schiller, bassoon
Carsten Schmidt, harpsichord
James Wilson, cello

Nurit Pacht & Newburyport Festival Baroque Orchestra

When?
Start time: Sunday 4:00pm (17 December)
End time: Sunday 6:00pm (17 December)
Where?
Newburyport Chamber Music Festival
79 State St, Newburyport
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About
Winter Baroque Concert
Sunday, December 17, 2017
4:00pm Concert
Venue: St. Paul's Episcopal Church
166 High Street, Newbuyport, MA
The Newburyport Festival Baroque Orchestra led by Nurit Pacht, concertmaster, presents a special holiday baroque concert.