We would love to have you join us for our evening concerts! Individual concert tickets are available for purchase.

Discounted tickets are offered for all students and educators.

Come join us for a delectable farm-to-table meal alongside festival musicians, along with tickets for the concert.

Individual concert+dinner tickets will include a single meal and concert.

Come live, mix and mingle with world class musicians for three days!

The VIP residential pass option includes lodging in Avaloch’s hotel-level suites from Thursday June 12-Sunday June 15, 2025, as well as farm-to-table meals prepared by our resident chef Lacey Tokash. In addition to tickets to all three concerts, there will be daily interactive lectures led by our resident Art Historian, optional trips to local NH sights, and an exclusive mini recital by our festival artist, pianist Andrius Zlabys. The VIP commuter pass option includes everything listed above, except the lodging.

As the laureate of both the 2007 International Markneukirchen and Sion-Valais International Violin Competitions, Korean born violinist Sunmi Chang has performed widely to much acclaim throughout North America and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician. At the age of 17, she toured with the Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra playing Bach Double Concerto for 2 violins, conducted by Lord Menuhin in UNESCO Headquarters and Guildford Cathedral in England.

An active chamber musician, she was invited to take part in various chamber music festivals such as the Rising Stars Series at Caramoor, Vivace Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Music in the Vineyards, and Chamber Music Northwest. Sunmi is also the Founder and Artistic Director of Summit Chamber Music Series committed to bringing world-class chamber music to West Virginia.

Sunmi received her Bachelor’s degree at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin, Master’s and Artist Diploma degrees at Yale School of Music, and the Doctoral degree from the University of Michigan. Her principal teachers have included Eberhard Feltz, Peter Oundjian, Soovin Kim, and Ani Kavafian. She recently joined as the violin faculty at the School of Music at the University of Oregon.

With a deep love for music new and old, Chinese culture and music, and exploring crossroads between music and language, Boston native Julia Glenn savors finding and contributing to unique artistic voices as an international performer of modern and baroque violins. Called “remarkable,” “gripping,” and “a brilliant soloist” by the New York Times, she recently joined the Naumburg-winning Lydian String Quartet and the faculty of Brandeis University after teaching for three years at the Tianjin Juilliard School. She has appeared on stages including Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, Sanders Theatre, Jordan Hall, the Beijing Recital Hall, Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts, and Shanghai Concert Hall. 

     In January of 2016 she gave the world premiere of Milton Babbitt’s violin concerto to critical acclaim; her article on the work was published in 2022 in Contemporary Music Review. Glenn is a 2018 graduate of Juilliard’s C.V. Starr doctoral program, where she worked with Joseph Lin and Cynthia Roberts. She obtained her master’s from New England Conservatory in 2013 with James Buswell and her bachelor’s in linguistics magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2012. Her solo album “The Road” featuring new and recent works by Chinese-speaking composers was released on Navona Records in October 2024.

Canadian violinist Jessica Tong has garnered international acclaim as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, having been described as an "outstanding talent" (Performing Arts in Canada) with "keen sensitivity and receptivity" (Bloomington Herald Times), who "allow[s] us to savour her sense of ardour and intensity, but never at the detriment of her tonal beauty." (ClassiqueInfo France).

She has been a top prizewinner at the Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition, the Toronto Symphony, Canadian Music and Yellow Springs International Chamber Music Competitions and has served as first violinist of both the Vinca and Larchmere String Quartets, during which time she was Artist-in-Residence for the Perlman Music Program in Florida, the ProQuartet Odyssée Program in France and at the University of Evansville in Indiana.

A pupil of Pamela Frank, Jessica has also studied with Kathleen Winkler, Donald Weilerstein, and Zhang yun Zhang, and has been mentored as a chamber musician by members of the Alban Berg, Vogler, Artemis and Brentano Quartets.

She is currently the Violin Professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia, Chamber Music Director of the Composers Conference, and Co-Artistic Director of Avaloch Farm Music Institute. For more information, visit www.jessicatong.com

For more three decades, omnivorous violist Nicholas Cords has been on the front line of a unique constellation of projects as performer, educator, and cultural advocate, with a signature passion for the cross-section between the long tradition of classical music and the wide range of music being created today.

Nicholas served for twenty years as violist of the Silkroad Ensemble, a musical collective founded by Yo-Yo Ma in 2000 with the belief that cross-cultural collaboration leads to a more hopeful world. This mission was poignantly explored by the recent Oscar-nominated documentary by Morgan Neville, The Music Of Strangers, which makes a case for why culture matters. In addition, Nicholas served from 2017-2020 as a Co-Artistic Director for Silkroad, and previously as Silkroad’s Programming Chair. He appears on all of the Silkroad Ensemble’s albums including Sing Me Home (Sony Music), which received a 2017 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.

Another key aspect of Nicholas’ musical life is as founding member of Brooklyn Rider, an intrepid group which NPR credits with "recreating the 300-year-old form of the string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.” Highly committed to collaborative ventures, the group has worked with Irish fiddler Martin Hayes, jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman, ballerina Wendy Whelan, Persian kemancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor, Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, Mexican singer Magos Herrera, and banjoist Béla Fleck, to name a few. Their most recent recording Healing Modes was lauded by the New York Times and received a 2021 Grammy Nomination.

His acclaimed 2020 solo recording Touch Harmonious (In a Circle Records) is a reflection on the arc of tradition spanning from the baroque to today, featuring multiple premieres. A dedicated teacher, Nicholas currently serves on the viola and chamber music faculty of New England Conservatory.

Called “intense, precise, and full of personality,” Caeli Smith is a chamber musician and educator in high demand across New York City and beyond. She is a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Sybarite5, and has performed with them across the U.S., Europe, and Asia; as well as with the New York Philharmonic, The Knights, Sejong Soloists, and the Verbier Chamber Orchestra. She is principal viola of Baroklyn, directed by Simone Dinnerstein.

Known among students and colleagues for her exuberance and curiosity, Caeli (pronounced “Chay-lee”) is on the faculty of the Heifetz International Music Institute and Kinhaven Music School. She works regularly with pre-college, college, and graduate students at The Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music as a teaching assistant/adjunct professor.

Caeli is the former interim viola professor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She is an alum of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, the post-graduate performance, education, and leadership program of Carnegie Hall and The Juilliard School.

Caeli holds a bachelor’s degree in violin performance and a master’s degree in viola performance from Juilliard. Upon graduating, she received the William Schuman Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music. In 2022, Caeli graduated from Harvard with a master’s degree in Education, Leadership, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship; with a concentration in Arts and Learning.

As a teenager, Caeli was a reporter and cast member on NPR’s “From The Top.” Caeli has written for radio, TV, and print, and her articles have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as Strings, Teen Strings, and Symphony magazines.

Through a public school program, Nina Lee began learning cello in Chesterfield, MO at the age of ten. Six years later, she left home to study with David Soyer at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, PA. She went on to complete her Bachelors and Masters of Music at the Juilliard School in New York City with Joel Krosnick, attended the Tanglewood Music Festival, and toured with the Marlboro Music Festival where she collaborated with Mitsuko Uchida, Andras Schiff, Felix Galimir and Samuel Rhodes.

In 1999, Ms. Lee joined the Brentano Quartet with whom she has been privileged to perform throughout North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan. In addition, she has not only recorded the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven but has also championed new music represented in her quartet’s commissioned works of Stephen Hartke, Steve Mackey, Vijay Iyer, James MacMillan, Bruce Adolphe, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Shulamit Ran (to name a few). Ms. Lee has recorded for the Azica, Naxos, Mode, Cantaloupe, Albany and Tzadik labels.

As important to her life as a musician, Ms. Lee has made a commitment to teaching chamber music. She has been on the faculty at Princeton and Columbia Universities and is currently coaching chamber music at the Yale School of Music where the Brentano Quartet has been in residence since 2014. Regular summer appearances in performing and teaching include the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Taos School of Music. Ms. Lee has also participated as a guest faculty member at the St. Lawrence String Quartet Chamber Music Seminar and the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music and this summer she will join the faculty of Kneisel Hall. She also has made numerous appearances at the Spoleto Festival USA and the La Jolla SummerFest.

Ms. Lee makes her home in Brooklyn, New York where she lives with her husband and 2 children. When she isn’t playing the cello or teaching, she loves spending time with her family, cooking, entertaining, organizing chamber music salons and finding new ways to be creative!

American cellist Ashley Bathgate has been described as an “eloquent new music interpreter” (New York Times) and “a glorious cellist”(The Washington Post) who combines “bittersweet lyricism along with ferocious chops”(New York Magazine). Her “impish ferocity”, “rich tone” and “imaginative phrasing” (New York Times) have made her one of the most sought after performers of her time. The desire to create a dynamic energy exchange with her audience and build upon the ensuing chemistry is a pillar of Bathgate's philosophy as a performer. Dynamism drives her to venture into previously uncharted areas of ground-breaking sounds and techniques, breaking the mold of a cello's traditionally perceived voice.

For ten years Bathgate was a member of the acclaimed sextet Bang on a Can All-Stars. She also served as the cellist of the GRAMMY winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird for several years, and is currently a member of the chamber ensemble HOWL; TwoSense with pianist Lisa Moore; Bonjour, a low-strung, percussive quintet.; and the Anzu Quartet. She serves as the Artistic and Executive Director of Avaloch Farm Music Institute.

For more information about Ashley, please visit www.ashleybathgate.com.

Bassist and composer Gregg August spans the classical, avant-garde, jazz and Latin jazz worlds making him one of the most versatile musicians on the scene today. He is an Associate member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra as well as the former Principal Bass of La Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona. As a jazz bassist Gregg is a member of the JD Allen Trio and Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra.

In 2020 he released his album Dialogues on Race and received a GRAMMY nomination in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble category. An extended suite for 22 musicians and narrator, the work integrates poems to create musical conversations intended to foster awareness and understanding on the issues surrounding race relations in the United States.

Gregg was awarded two Grand Prizes by the International Society of Bassists for the 2020 David Walter Composers Competition. He has also composed many full length concert works, including “Variations on a Theme by Pérotin” which was commissioned and premiered by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in 2021. He has performed and/or recorded with Ornette Coleman, Branford Marsalis, Joyce DiDonato, Ray Barretto, Steve Reich, Chick Corea and the Bang on a Can All-Stars,.

Gregg is on faculty at New York University, Manhattan School of Music and Williams College.

Andrius Žlabys — born in Lithuania and trained at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia — was 18 years old when the Chicago Tribune wrote: “Pianist-composer Andrius Žlabys is one of the most gifted young keyboard artists to emerge in years.” Žlabys was also heralded by The New York Sun in a review titled “A Shining Hope of Pianists” after his recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Andrius’ concerts have included appearances on many of the world’s leading stages, such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Musikverein, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, Phillips Collection, Teatro Colón, and Suntory Hall.

He has also appeared at numerous festivals, including the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Lockenhaus Festival, Caramoor Music Festival, and The Gilmore International Piano Festival. Žlabys made his Carnegie Hall debut at the Isaac Stern Auditorium with the New York Youth Symphony conducted by Misha Santora in 2001 in a performance of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto.

A winner of the 2000 Astral Artists Andrius began piano studies at the age of six in his native Lithuania with Laima Jakniuniene at the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art, and continued his studies in the U.S. with Victoria Mushkatkol (Interlochen Arts Academy), Seymour Lipkin (Curtis Institute of Music), Sergei Babayan (Cleveland Institute of Music), and Claude Frank (Yale School of Music).

Susana Puente Matos is an American art historian and writer based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Currently completing her PhD at the University of Amsterdam on the Dutch Magical Realist Pyke Koch (1901-1991), Susana has contributed to scholarship on a range of artists, from Peter Paul Rubens to the French conceptual artist Thierry Geoffroy. Her approach to art history is interdisciplinary, often combining it with biography, the history of ideas, and cultural-political history. 

Born in New York and raised in China and Japan, Susana studied Chinese and French at Wellesley College before attending graduate school in Europe, receiving a Master of Science in Arts Markets and Cultural Heritage Management from Bocconi University in Milan, then a Research Master’s in Art History of the Low Countries from Utrecht University. 

In addition to being an art historian Susana is also an amateur, classically trained soprano. Her experience with music, as well as acting, has fueled an interest in the performative nature of the visual arts.  “All the world’s a stage,” as the saying goes, and the painter directs his own world – of people, emotions, and ideas –  on canvas.