Events at Avaloch
“We are so very grateful for the chance to spend the week here without the distraction of everyday life to make some music together. How inspiring it has been to heart meet the other artists, experience magic at every meal, and explore the beautiful property. This place is incredibly important in the music community- we are so grateful it exists.”
IN-HOUSE EVENT: EAR INITIATIVE | Balourdet Quartet in Performance
Join us for a very special evening performance with our EAR Artists-in-Residence, the award-winning Balourdet String Quartet!
This concert is part of Avaloch’s Educational Artist Residency [EAR] Initiative, that include local community workshops, and an onsite weekend Chamber Music Workshop. To learn more about participating in the weekend chamber music workshop, please CLICK HERE
Concert: $25
Concert + Farm-to-Table Pre-Concert Dinner: $75
IN-HOUSE EVENT: EAR INITIATIVE | Balourdet Quartet in Performance
Join us for a very special evening performance with our EAR Artists-in-Residence, the award-winning Balourdet String Quartet!
This concert is part of Avaloch’s Educational Artist Residency [EAR] Initiative, that include local community workshops, and an onsite weekend Chamber Music Workshop. To learn more about participating in the weekend chamber music workshop, please CLICK HERE
Concert: $25
Concert + Farm-to-Table Pre-Concert Dinner: $75
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Sanhita Nandi and Friends
Join us for a very special evening with world-renowned Hindustani Classical Vocalist Sanhita Nandi.
For more information about the artist, please visit https://sanhitanandi.com.
Concert: $25
Concert + Farm-to-Table Pre-Concert Dinner: $75
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Sanhita Nandi and Friends
Join us for a very special interactive workshop with world-renowned Hindustani Classical Vocalist Sanhita Nandi.
For more information about the artist, please visit https://sanhitanandi.com.
This morning workshop is free and open to the public.
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Stay tuned for the featured artists!
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Stay tuned for the featured artists!
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Avaloch Chamber Music Festival CONCERT 1
Join us for Avaloch’s inaugural Chamber Music Festival, featuring internationally acclaimed artists!
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Avaloch Chamber Music Festival CONCERT 2
Join us for Avaloch’s inaugural Chamber Music Festival, featuring internationally acclaimed artists!
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Avaloch Chamber Music Festival CONCERT 3
Join us for Avaloch’s inaugural Chamber Music Festival, featuring internationally acclaimed artists!
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Conducting Workshop with Members of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble comes to Avaloch to provide an intense retreat designed for musicians seeking to improve their relationship with music through score study, interpretation, creative linking with other art forms, rehearsal planning and technique, leadership, and physical gesture. All interested musicians are all welcome to apply regardless of their principal instrument, voice type, or professional focus. More information about the application process is available here.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Concert with Members of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
Join us for a festival performance, featuring musicians from the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
Program TBA
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Independence Day Community Evening @ Avaloch
Join us for our first community night at Avaloch, featuring local talent.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference
The Composers Conference is a summer program that embraces collaborative music creation by musicians at the beginning of their careers, those that are well-established, and those for whom music is an important part of their lives.
Public concerts are offered multiple times a week during the festival. Click here to find out more.
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Stay tuned for the featured artists!
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Stay tuned for the featured artists!
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Scott Kirby, Gabriel Donohue and Friends
Join us for a special event with Scott Kirby and Gabriel Donohue!
Singer, songwriter, guitarist, storyteller, traveler and road warrior are all words that aptly describe Scott Kirby. Finishing songs while driving through the Italian countryside, performing 100 plus live shows throughout the US and Canada, touring Ireland with 50 fans in tow, and recording his tenth album in Nashville, all keep the barnacles off this modern-day troubadour. Visit scottkirby.com for more info.
Irish born Multi Instrumentalist, singer/songwriter Gabriel Donohue is based in Philadelphia. He performs mostly on guitar and piano but also plays many more instruments from bouzouki/mandolin to irish and exotic percussion. Gabriel performs throughout the USA, solo and along with a cadre of top flight musicians, including three years with the GRAMMY Award winning Chieftains. He has recorded with the Boston Pops, Eileen Ivers, Joanie Madden, James Keane, Sean Quinn, Brian Conway, John Whelan, Karen Mal, Aoife Clancy, Liam Clancy, to name a few.
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Scott Kirby, Gabriel Donohue and Friends
Join us for a special event with Scott Kirby and Gabriel Donohue!
Singer, songwriter, guitarist, storyteller, traveler and road warrior are all words that aptly describe Scott Kirby. Finishing songs while driving through the Italian countryside, performing 100 plus live shows throughout the US and Canada, touring Ireland with 50 fans in tow, and recording his tenth album in Nashville, all keep the barnacles off this modern-day troubadour. Visit scottkirby.com for more info.
Irish born Multi Instrumentalist, singer/songwriter Gabriel Donohue is based in Philadelphia. He performs mostly on guitar and piano but also plays many more instruments from bouzouki/mandolin to irish and exotic percussion. Gabriel performs throughout the USA, solo and along with a cadre of top flight musicians, including three years with the GRAMMY Award winning Chieftains. He has recorded with the Boston Pops, Eileen Ivers, Joanie Madden, James Keane, Sean Quinn, Brian Conway, John Whelan, Karen Mal, Aoife Clancy, Liam Clancy, to name a few.
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Stay tuned for the featured artists!
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Stay tuned for the featured artists!
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Stay tuned for the featured artists!
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Stay tuned for the featured artists!
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: EAR INITIATIVE | ACRONYM Ensemble
Join us for a week of activities with our EAR Artists-in-Residence, the award-winning ACRONYM ENSEMBLE.
This is part of Avaloch’s Educational Artist Residency [EAR] Initiative, that include local community workshops, and onsite activities.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Fall Foliage Retreat
The Avaloch x CMW Fall Foliage Retreat is joint event between the Chamber Music Workshop of the Composers Conference and Avaloch Farm Music Institute, to provide an opportunity for several days of social, informal chamber music sightreading over the course of a weekend. The goal is to help recharge the soul and rekindle the joy of music making together.
AVALOCH ANNUAL FALL GALA
Join us for our annual fall gala, featuring world class musicians, food and festivities.
AVALOCH EVENT: Fall Foliage Retreat
The Avaloch x CMW Fall Foliage Retreat is joint event between the Chamber Music Workshop of the Composers Conference and Avaloch Farm Music Institute, to provide an opportunity for several days of social, informal chamber music sightreading over the course of a weekend. The goal is to help recharge the soul and rekindle the joy of music making together.
Blackman, Murray, Russo: Once Upon a Prairie
Blackman, Murray, Russo comes to Avaloch Farm Music Institute to perform their latest project, “Once Upon a Prairie” , a multimedia exploration of the loss and renewal of the American grasslands told through projected images and a musical fusion of Americana and jazz.
Doors at 7PM
Show at 7:30PM
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
OneBeat in Concert
Join the OneBeat Fellows for a live performance at the Avaloch Concert Barn.
OneBeat is the leading multinational music exchange of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) that uses the power of creative collaboration as a gateway to civic discourse and cross-cultural understanding.
This concert will feature 25 OneBeat fellows (representing 20 different countries in total) who will be in residence for two weeks at Avaloch. Guest artists for the OneBeat 14 residency include renowned multi-instrumentalist and instrument builder Mark Stewart, composer and saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor, and composer and producer Emily Wells, each of whom will lead fellows in creative exercises and masterclasses leading up to their performance and subsequent tour.
Join us on Friday October 4th, 2024 @ 7pm for this free event!
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: OneBeat Workshop
Avaloch is thrilled to partner with world music festival OneBeat, to bring musicians from around the world to workshop and collaborate on campus.
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Artists Include:
Ariel Mo (piano) & KJ Mcdonald
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Artists Include:
Ayano Ninomiya (violin)
Sophie Delphis (voice) & Ari Livne (piano)
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Artists Include:
Trio Ondata (piano trio)
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Artists Include:
Sibyl (vocal duo)
Talla Rouge (viola duo)
Zoe Martin-Doike (viola) & Futaba Niekawa (piano)
PLOrk Sideband (Princeton Laptop Orchestra)
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Artists Include:
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
SPECIAL EVENT: Northeast Chamber Music Seminar
The Northeast Chamber Music Seminar, formerly the Lake Placid Chamber Music Seminar, offers adult string players and pianists of all levels the opportunity to play, study and perform great chamber music literature on the beautiful campus of Avaloch Farm Music Institute in Boscawen, NH.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference Gala
The Composers Conference celebrates eighty years of exceptional musicking with a full day celebration August 4, 2024! This event brings alive the Conference’s mission to nurture the creation, performance, and appreciation of music. New works created for our anniversary will be premiered by the Conference Ensemble, conducted by MD Vimbayi Kaziboni. Additional new works will be performed by our Chamber Music Workshop Participants, plus performances of new music created by young musicians through our New Music/New Communities Initiative. The day closes with an elegant dinner on the campus of the Avaloch Farm Music Institute; Space for the dinner is limited and reservations are required.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference-Fromm Composers Fellow and New Music/New Communities Premieres
The Composers Conference presents a series of premieres by Fromm Composer Fellows alongside carefully curated chamber works, featuring internationally acclaimed musicians from the Conference Ensemble led by Music Director Vimbayi Kaziboni.
Additionally, local young students from the New Music/New Communities mentorship program will have their new works premiered by Conference Ensemble members at this special concert, starting at 7PM.
Visit https://www.composersconference.org/ for more information.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: CMW Artist-in-Residence Chamber Music Concert
Join the CMW Artists-in-Residence, David Kaplan (piano), Ashley Bathgate (cello), and CMW Director Jessica Tong (violin) for a scintillating evening of chamber music.
Performance includes works by Schumann, Ponte, Sigler and Beethoven.
Visit www.composersconference.org for more information.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference-Fromm Composers Fellow Premieres
The Composers Conference presents a series of premieres by Fromm Composer Fellows alongside carefully curated chamber works, featuring internationally acclaimed musicians from the Conference Ensemble led by Music Director Vimbayi Kaziboni.
Visit https://www.composersconference.org/ for more information.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference-Fromm Composers Fellow Premieres
Join members of the Conference Ensemble, CPI ensemble-in-residence, CMW participants and the Conference Conducting Fellow as they premiere a new chamber work by 2023 Fromm Fellow, Zygmund de Somogyi. A short interactive lecture presentation by the composer will precede the performance.
Visit https://www.composersconference.org/ for more information.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Contemporary Performance Institute Ensemble Premieres
Join the members of Re:Duo, the 2024 CPI Ensemble-in-Residence, for a specially curated performance of works for viola and saxophone.
Visit www.composersconference.org for more information.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Susan Horvath CMW Commission Premiere
Join members of the Conference Ensemble, CPI ensemble-in-residence, CMW participants and the Conference Conducting Fellow as they premiere a new chamber work by 2023 Fromm Fellow, Zygmund de Somogyi. A short interactive lecture presentation by the composer will precede the performance.
Source: https://www.composersconference.org/
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: CMW Artist-in-Residence Chamber Music Concert
Join the CMW Artists-in-Residence, David Kaplan (piano), Ashley Bathgate (cello), and CMW Director Jessica Tong (violin) for a scintillating evening of chamber music.
Performance includes works by Xenakis, Schubert and Smetana.
Visit www.composersconference.org for more information.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference-Fromm Composers Fellow Premieres
The Composers Conference presents a series of premieres by Fromm Composer Fellows alongside carefully curated chamber works, featuring internationally acclaimed musicians from the Conference Ensemble led by Music Director Vimbayi Kaziboni.
Visit https://www.composersconference.org/ for more information.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: The Hop - This Is America: Part IV featuring Artist Johnny Gandelsman and a Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth commission ‘Flamenco Suite’
This is America comes as a response to the turbulent year of 2020 and celebrates America's rich cultural tapestry as seen through the perspectives of contemporary US-based composers.
Over the course of a year-long residency at the Hop, violinist and former member of Silkroad Ensemble Johnny Gandelsman performs the entire anthology for the first time and expands the project with four new Hop-commissioned pieces. Flamenco Suite composer Gonzalo Grau will be in attendance to shed light on his new work.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: CMW Artist-in-Residence Chamber Music Concert
Join the CMW Artists-in-Residence alongside members of the Conference Ensemble for a scintillating evening of chamber music!
Performance includes works by Couperin, Connesson and Arensky.
Visit www.composersconference.org for more information.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Contemporary Performance Institute Ensemble Concert
Join the members of Re:Duo, the 2024 CPI Ensemble-in-Residence, for a specially curated performance of works for viola and saxophone.
Visit www.composersconference.org for more information.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: CMW Artist-in-Residence Chamber Music Concert
Join the CMW Artists-in-Residence alongside members of the Conference Ensemble for a scintillating evening of chamber music!
Performance includes works by Bach, Beethoven and Faure
Visit www.composersconference.org for more information.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference
The Composers Conference is a summer program that embraces collaborative music creation by musicians at the beginning of their careers, those that are well-established, and those for whom music is an important part of their lives.
Public concerts are offered multiple times a week during the festival. Click here to find out more.
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Artists Include:
Sxip Shirey, Coco Karol & Friends
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Artists Include:
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Artists Include:
Arun Ramamurthy & Trina Basu's Nakshatra
Hannah De Priest (voice) & Shelby Yamin (violin)
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Concert with Members of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
Join us for a festival performance, featuring musicians from the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
Program TBA
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Conducting Workshop with Members of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble comes to Avaloch to provide an intense retreat designed for musicians seeking to improve their relationship with music through score study, interpretation, creative linking with other art forms, rehearsal planning and technique, leadership, and physical gesture. All interested musicians are all welcome to apply regardless of their principal instrument, voice type, or professional focus. More information about the application process is available here.
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Artists Include:
Ashley Bathgate(cello)
Yunwen Chen (cello) & Elias Dagher (piano)
JEK Trio (jazz)
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10