Month: July 2022

The Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård has been named the 11th music director of the Minnesota Orchestra, succeeding Osmo Vänskä. Søndergård, currently music director the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, signed a five-year contract in Minnesota, beginning in the 2023-24 season.

Trained as a percussionist, onetime principal timpanist of the Royal Danish Orchestra, the 52-year-old Søndergård turned to conducting about 20 years ago. He is best-known for performances of Scandinavian music, from well-known composers such as Sibelius and Nielsen to contemporary figures.

In an interview with Jenna Ross of the Star-Tribune of Minneapolis, Søndergård said he intended to balance standard orchestral repertory with “works that have been neglected either because of gender or color. . . . We want to surprise and seduce our audience.”

http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-orchestra-names-danish-conductor-thomas-sondergard-its-new-music-director/600193833/

The Emerson String Quartet, the eminent US ensemble founded in 1976 and beginning its final year of concerts in the fall, will perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 23 in the 2022-23 season of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Mary Anne Rennolds Chamber Concerts series.

The series will open at 3 p.m. Sept. 11 with a performance by George Li, a Boston-based pianist who won the silver medal in the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition and has won widespread acclaim for his interpretations of Russian music.

In addition to Li and the Emerson, the series will feature double-bassist Xavier Foley at 7 p.m. Feb. 11 and the Neave Trio – violinist Anna Williams, cellist Mikhail Veselov and pianist Eri Nakamura – at 7 p.m. March 25.

All concerts will be staged in Vlahcevic Concert Hall of Singleton Arts Center, Park Avenue at Harrison Street.

Programs will be announced later.

Ticket subscriptions for the four concerts are $120. Single tickets, available online beginning Aug. 12, are $35.

For more information, call the VCU Music Department office at (804) 828-1166 or email music@vcu.edu

Writing for The Guardian, conductor Andrew Manze celebrates the 150th anniversary year of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the most English of composers.

Vaughan Williams was so deeply steeped in his country’s folk and sacred music, literature and landscape, Manze writes, that “he himself sometimes did not know whether he had composed a piece or merely remembered it. He likened the process to seeing Stonehenge, New York or Niagara Falls for the first time: [I]t was as if he already knew them. . . .

“For some, however, Vaughan Williams’s very Englishness can be a barrier to appreciation. I have been lucky enough to perform his music outside the UK and see how it touches and speaks to musicians and audiences who know nothing of its cultural roots. The most common reaction to hearing one of the symphonies is a sort of bemused appetite for more: how many of these are there?”

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/26/ralph-vaughan-williams-visionary-genius-lark-ascending

Jonathon Heyward, the 29-year-old chief conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Herford, Germany, has been named the new music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, beginning in the 2023-24 season.

Heyward, a cellist and graduate of the Boston Conservatory, will be the first conductor of color to lead the Baltimore Symphony, and one of few to have led a major US orchestra. He succeeds Marin Alsop, a pioneering female music director.

The New York Times’ Javier C. Hernández reports that Heyward “would work to make the orchestra more relatable by programming a wider variety of works, featuring a greater diversity of performers and moving some concerts away from traditional venues.”

“It’s simply a knack of being able to really understand what the community needs and listening to what the community needs and then being able to get them in the door,” Heyward told Hernández. “If a 10-year-old boy from Charleston, South Carolina, with no music education background, with no musicians in the family, can be enamored and amazed by this, by the best art form there is – classical music – then I think anyone can.”

After a two-year pandemic hiatus, pianist Alexander Paley’s Richmond music festival will return for three concerts in mid-September.

Paley and Peiwen Chen, his wife and duo and 4-hands piano partner, will be joined by violinist Amiram Ganz, a frequent participant in past festivals, for two all-Schubert programs and another of piano arrangements of works by Richard Strauss and Johann Strauss II.

The festival will be staged at St Luke Lutheran Church, 7757 Chippenham Parkway. Tickets are $20 per concert.

For more information, call (804) 665-9516 or visit http://paleymusicfestival.org

Dates, artists and programs for the 2022 Paley Music Festival:

Sept. 16 (7:30 p.m.)
Amiram Ganz, violin
Alexander Paley, piano
Schubert: Violin Sonata in D major, D. 384
Schubert: Violin Sonata in A minor, D. 385
Schubert: Violin Sonata in G minor, D. 408
Schubert: Rondo in B minor, D. 895 (“Rondo brillant”)
Schubert: 4 impromptus, D. 899
Schubert: suite of waltzes

Sept. 17 (7:30 p.m.)
Amiram Ganz, violin
Alexander Paley, piano
Schubert: Violin Sonata in A major, D. 574 (“Duo”)
Schubert: Piano Sonata in A minor, D. 537
Schubert: Piano Sonata in A major, D. 664
Schubert: Fantasy in C major, D. 934, for violin & piano

Sept. 18 (3 p.m.)
Alexander Paley & Peiwen Chen, piano
Richard Strauss: “Symphonia Domestica” for piano 4-hands (Otto Singer arrangement)
Johann Strauss II: “Die Fledermaus” (selections) for piano (Ernő Dohnányi arrangement)

The Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia has announced five concerts in its 2022-23 season, featuring works by Mozart, Brahms, baroque works from Germany and France and new music by Brian Nabors and Kevin Day.

Afternoon performances will be staged at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Second Presbyterian Church and First Unitarian Universalist Church, with two evening concerts at the Church of the Holy Comforter, Episcopal.

Artists and detailed programs will be announced later, as will four additional programs.

Season tickets are $120, student tickets are $20. For details, call (804) 304-6312 or visit http://cmscva.org

The Chamber Music Society’s coming season:

Sept. 25 (4 p.m.)
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 12291 River Road
artists TBA
Mozart: String Quintet in C major, K. 515
Mozart: String Quintet in G minor, K. 516

Oct. 30 (4 p.m.)
Second Presbyterian Church, 5 N. Fifth St.
Carsten Schmidt, harpsichord
works TBA by Dieterich Buxtehude, Johann Pachelbel, others

Dec. 19 (7 p.m.)
Church of the Holy Comforter, Episcopal, Monument Avenue at Staples Mill Road
artists TBA
works TBA by French baroque composers

Feb. 3 (7 p.m.)
Church of the Holy Comforter, Episcopal, Monument Avenue at Staples Mill Road
artists TBA
Brian Nabors: commissioned work TBA
string chamber works TBA from Spain & America

April 16 (4 p.m.)
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1000 Blanton Ave. at the Carillon
artists TBA
works TBA by Brahms, Johann Strauss II, Kevin Day

Adrian Pintea & Jeannette Jang, violins
Hyo Joo Uh, viola
Jason McComb, cello
Peter Spaar, double-bass
Ingrid Keller, piano
July 7, Dominion Energy Center

Louise Farrenc is one of the standout figures in the ongoing discovery of female composers of the past. Farrenc (1804-75), a French contemporary of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn and Robert and Clara Schumann, was a prominent pianist, a composer of instrumental works in an era when opera and ballet music dominated the French soundscape, and the only woman to be appointed to the faculty of the Paris Conservatoire in the 19th century.

In the opening concert of the Richmond Symphony’s Summer Chamberfest, an ensemble of piano and strings played the earliest of the chamber works for which Farrenc was most widely celebrated, her Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 30. Dating from 1839, the piece is scored for piano, violin, viola, cello and double-bass (the same instrumentation as that of Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet), and echoes many of the prevailing strains of European music of the time – especially the virtuosic, embellishment-rich piano writing of Johann Nepomuk Hummel (one of Farrenc’s teachers).

Pianist Ingrid Keller, appropriately, was the lead voice in this performance, but was a considerate leader, balancing her instrument’s often elaborate figurations with the rich, moody string parts in the big, rhapsodic opening and closing movements of the quintet. The five players realized echoes of Felix Mendelssohn’s quicksilver “fairy” music in the quintet’s scherzo, and of Beethoven in the anthem-like theme of the adagio.

Other echoes pervaded “Neo Soul,” the first string quartet of Damien Geter, a Chesterfield County-born singer (the bass-baritone soloist in the Richmond Symphony’s May performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony) and composer whose works blend European classical and African-American vernacular and popular musical traditions.

The three-movement “Neo Soul” is based thematically in Black popular song; expressively, though, the piece sounds like an American version of the folk-rooted but intensely personal writings of European “nationalist” romantics. I was reminded more than once of Bedrich Smetana’s First String Quartet (“In My Life”).

Violinists Adrian Pintea and Jeannette Jang, violist Hyo Joo Uh and cellist Jason McComb ably negotiated Geter’s contrasting grooves of romanticized, often eloquent melody over ostinato or cross-rhythmic bass lines, in an enticing introduction to Geter’s music.

There’s more to come: In 2025, Virginia Opera will introduce Geter’s and librettist Jessica Murphy Moo’s “Loving v. Virginia,” based on the lives of the couple whose 1967 Supreme Court case overturned prohibitions against interracial marriage, and Geter will serve as composer-in-residence with the Richmond Symphony (a co-commissioner of the opera).

Pintea, Jang, Uh and McComb rounded out this Chamberfest opener with the second movement of Maurice Ravel’s Quartet in F major, one of the best-known examples of pizzicato (plucked-string) writing in the quartet literature. While suitably animated in the pizzicato sections and moody in the central tune, the foursome’s collective sound was too heavy to qualify as idiomatically French-impressionist.

The Richmond Symphony’s Summer Chamberfest continues with violinist Alison Hall, flutist Shannon Vandzura, trumpeter Brian Strawley, trombonist Evan Williams and pianist Russell Wilson playing works by J.S. Bach, Missy Mazzoli and Eric Ewazen at 6:30 p.m. July 14 in Rhythm Hall of Dominion Energy Center, Sixth and Grace streets. Tickets: $25-$30. Details: (800) 514-3849 (ETIX); http://www.richmondsymphony.com

After a pandemic-driven hiatus of two summers, the Richmond Chamber Players will resume their Interlude series of August concerts.

The ensemble has scheduled three concerts, at 3 p.m. Aug. 7, 14 and 21 at Bon Air Presbyterian Church, 9201 W. Huguenot Road.

Programming includes sonatas and ensemble works by Mozart, Schumann, Janáček, Barber and Shostakovich; a baroque program, largely of works by J.S. Bach, featuring harpsichordist Joanne Kong as a guest artist; and what the ensemble is billing as the modern premiere of “Wedding Music,” a suite for string quartet by the mid-20th-century US composer Randall Thompson.

Admission to the concerts requires proof of Covid-19 vaccination, and masks must be worn during performances.

Tickets are $80 for a three-concert subscription or $30 per concert. For more information, visit http://richmondchamberplayers.org

Dates, artists and programs:

Aug. 7
Janáček: Viola Sonata
Susy Yim, violin
John Walter, piano
Randall Thompson: “Wedding Music” for string quartet
Susy Yim & Catherine Cary, violins
Stephen Schmidt, viola
Neal Cary, cello
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44
John Walter, piano
Catherine Cary & Susy Yim, violins
Stephen Schmidt, viola
Neal Cary, cello

Aug. 14
Telemann: Fantasia No. 1 (solo-cello arrangement)
Emma Cary, cello
J.S. Bach: Flute Sonata in E major, BWV 1035
Shannon Valdzura, flute
Joanne Kong, harpsichord
P.D.Q. Bach: Sonata for viola four-hands
Molly Sharp & Stephen Schmidt, viola
Joanne Kong, harpsichord
J.S. Bach: “The Well-Tempered Clavier” (4 excerpts)
Joanne Kong, harpsichord
J.S. Bach: “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051 (chamber arrangement)
Molly Sharp & Stephen Schmidt, violas
Neal Cary, cello
Joanne Kong, harpsichord

Aug. 21
Shostakovich: Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor, Op. 108
Susy Yim & Catherine Cary, violins
Stephen Schmidt, viola
Neal Cary, cello
Barber: Cello Sonata in C minor, Op. 6
Emma Cary, cello
Daniel Stipe, piano
Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478
Daniel Stipe, piano
Catherine Cary, violin
Stephen Schmidt, viola
Neal Cary, cello

Richard Taruskin, the eminent US musicologist known for his (literally) encyclopedic knowledge of European classical music and sharply phrased opinions, has died at 77.

Taruskin, a scholar of Russian music and viola da gamba player and chorusmaster in early music troupes in New York, spent most of his academic career at the University of California at Berkeley.

The author of a number of studies and essay collections, including the monumental “Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions” (1996), Taruskin was most widely known for writing the six-volume “Oxford History of Western Music,” a standard reference work since its publication in 2005. He also wrote for The New York Times, The New Republic and other mass media.

Known for his dust-ups with fellow musicologists, Taruskin was often characterized as a musical polemicist, with especially provocative views on the authenticity of historically informed performance practices and the sociopolitical role of composers, from Bach and Beethoven to Shostakovich and Prokofiev.

“Whether you judged him right or wrong, [Taruskin] made you feel that the art form truly mattered on the wider cultural stage,” Alex Ross, The New Yorker’s music critic, told William Robin in a Times obituary:

Classical performances in and around Richmond, with selected events elsewhere in Virginia and the Washington area. Program information, provided by presenters, is updated as details become available. Adult ticket prices are listed; senior, student/youth, military, group and other discounts may be offered.

Each listing includes primary Covid-19 safety protocols for the event. Contact presenters and venues for updated, modified requirements.

July 1 (7:30 p.m.)
Palace Green, Palace Green and Prince George streets, Colonial Williamsburg
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Eric Jacobsen conducting
“A Star-Spangled Symphony”
John Stafford Smith & Francis Scott Key: “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Morton Gould: “American Salute”
John Williams: “The Patriot”
trad.: “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” (Margaret Bonds arrangement)
trad.: “This Little Light of Mine” (Hale Smith arrangement)
Leonard Cohen: “Hallelujah” (David Kahne arrangement)
Simone Paulwell, soprano
Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Symphony No. 2 (“Romantique; “Montevideo”) – II: Presto – maestoso
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major – IV: Allegro con brio
Samuel A. Ward & Katharine Lee Bates: “America the Beautiful” (Carmen Dragon arrangement)
free
masks optional
(757) 892-6366
http://virginiasymphony.org

July 1 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra Pops
Henry Panion conducting
India.Arie, guest star
“BLACK GIRLS ROCK! FEST”
$49-$139
masks required
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

July 4 (7:30 p.m.)
Dogwood Dell Amphitheater, Byrd Park, Richmond
Richmond Concert Band
Mark Poland directing
Fourth of July Celebration
program TBA
free
masks optional
(804) 646-1437
http://richmondconcertband.org

July 4 (8 p.m.)
Meadow Farm Museum at Crump Park, 3400 Mountain Road, Glen Allen
Richmond Symphony
Chia-Hsuan Lin conducting
No BS! Brass Band
“Red, White and Lights 2022”
patriotic & pops program TBA
free
masks optional
(804) 652-1455
http://henrico.us/places/meadow-farm

July 7 (6:30 p.m.)
Rhythm Hall, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth and Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony Summer Series:
Adrian Pintea & Jeannette Jang, violins
HyoJoo Uh, viola
Jason McComb, cello
Peter Spaar, double-bass
Ingrid Keller, piano
Damien Geter: “Neo-Soul”
Louise Farrenc: Piano Quintet No. 1
Ravel: Quartet in F major – II: Assez vif – très rythmé
$25-$30
masks required
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://www.richmondsymphony.com

July 7 (7 p.m.)
July 8 (7 p.m.)
July 9 (7 p.m.)
July 10 (2 p.m.)
Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville
Charlottesville Opera
Michael Slon conducting
Rodgers & Hammerstein: “The Sound of Music”
Maria Valdes (Maria)
Branch Fields (Captain von Trapp)
Claudia Chapa (Mother Abbess)
other cast members TBA
Cara Consilvio, stage director
in English
$25-$75
masks optional
(434) 979-1333
http://charlottesvilleopera.org

July 8 (7:30 p.m.)
The Barns at Wolf Trap, 1635 Trap Road, Vienna
Kate Lindsey, mezzo-soprano
Justina Lee, piano
Schumann: “Frauenliebe und Leben”
Fauré: “La chanson d’Ève”
$42
masks required
(703) 255-1868
http://wolftrap.org

July 9 (7:30 p.m.)
July 10 (3 p.m.)
Dunlop Pavilion, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Wintergreen Festival Orchestra
Erin Freeman conducting
Jessie Montgomery: “Starburst”
Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat major (“Dumbarton Oaks”)
Wagner: “Siegfried Idyll”
Saint-Saëns: “Carnival of the Animals”
pianists TBA
$48
masks optional
(434) 361-0541
http://wintergreen-music.org/events

July 9 (5 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, 403 Garth Newel Lane, Hot Springs
Garth Newel Piano Quartet
Frank Bridge: “Phantasy” Quartet
Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47
$25 (concert); $92 (concert & dinner)
masks recommended
(540) 839-5018
http://garthnewel.org

July 10 (2 p.m.)
July 16 (5 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, 403 Garth Newel Lane, Hot Springs
Wanchi Huang & Teresa Ling, violins
Fitz Gary, viola
Isaac Melamed, cello
William Grant Still: “Lyric Quartet”
Astor Piazzolla: “Four for Tango”
Dvořák: Quartet in F major, Op. 96 (“American”)
$25 (concert); $92 (concert & dinner)
masks recommended
(540) 839-5018
http://garthnewel.org

July 13 (7:30 p.m.)
Dunlop Pavilion, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Wintergreen Festival Artists
Amy Beach: “Suite Founded upon Old Irish Melodies” for 2 pianos
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Fantasiestücke, Op. 5, for string quartet
Peter Hope: “Four Sketches” for oboe, bassoon & piano
Vaughan Williams: Quintet in D major for clarinet, horn, violin, cello & piano
$38
masks optional
(434) 361-0541
http://wintergreen-music.org/events

July 14 (6:30 p.m.)
Rhythm Hall, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth and Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony Summer Series:
Alison Hall, violin
Shannon Vandzura, flute
Brian Strawley, trumpet
Evan Williams, trombone
Russell Wilson, piano
J.S. Bach: Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004, for solo violin
Missy Mazzoli: work TBA
Eric Ewazen: Trumpet Trio
$25-$30
masks required
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://www.richmondsymphony.com

July 14 (7:30 p.m.)
Neptune’s Park, Atlantic Avenue at 31st Street, Vurginia Beach
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
conductor TBA
“Symphony by the Sea”
program TBA
free
masks optional
(757) 892-6366
http://virginiasymphony.org

July 15 (8 p.m.)
Dogwood Dell Amphitheater, Byrd Park, Richmond
Capitol Opera Richmond
Latin Ballet of Virginia
COR Singers
“A Grand Night for Singing”
Monteverdi: “The Coronation of Poppea” (excerpts)
other works TBA
free
masks optional
(804) 646-1437
http://capitoloperarichmond.com

July 15 (8 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna
Wolf Trap Opera
National Symphony Orchestra
Roberto Kalb conducting
Verdi: “La Traviata”
Chanáe Curtis (Violetta)
Richard Trey Smagur (Alfredo Germont)
Kidon Choi (Giorgio Germont)
Ruby Dibble (Flora Bervoix)
Saane Halaholo (Annina)
Matthew Goodheart (Gaston)
Jin Yung David Kahng (Baron Douphol)
Patrick Wilhelm (Marquis D’Obigny)
Dylan Gregg (Doctor Grenvil)
Hayden Smith (Joseph)
Thomas Petrushka (Messenger)
Emma Griffin, stage director
in Italian, English captions
$27-$77
masks recommended
(703) 255-1868
http://wolftrap.org

July 16 (3 p.m.)
Dunlop Pavilion, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Richmond Symphony Chamber Chorus
Wintergreen Sing with US! Chorus
Erin Freeman directing
Orff: “Carmina burana” (chamber version) (excerpts)
Duke Ellington: “Come Sunday”
Caroline Shaw: “And the Swallow”
Ken Burton: “Rest”
Jake Runestad: “A Silence Haunts Me”
trad.: “Deep River” (Moses Hogan arrangement)
trad.: “I’m Gonna Sing” (Moses Hogan arrangement)
trad.: “Heavenly Home” (Shawn Kirchner arrangement)
$38
masks optional
(434) 361-0541
http://wintergreen-music.org/events

July 16 (7:30 p.m.)
July 17 (3 p.m.)
Dunlop Pavilion, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Wintergreen Festival Orchestra
Andrew Grams conducting
Vivaldi: “The Four Seasons” – III: “Autumn”
Max Richter: “Recomposing ‘The Four Seasons’ ” – “Winter”
Astor Piazzolla: “Primavera Porteña” (“Buenos Aires Spring”)
Philip Glass: “The American Four Seasons” – Violin Concerto No. 2
violinists TBA
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D major
$48
masks optional
(434) 361-0541
http://wintergreen-music.org/events

July 17 (7 p.m.)
Gallery5, 200 W. Marshall St., Richmond
Classical Revolution RVA:
artists TBA
program TBA
donation requested
masks recommended
(804) 678-8863
http://classicalrevolutionrva.com/events

July 17 (2 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, 403 Garth Newel Lane, Hot Springs
Jeannette Fang, piano
“Folk Songs from Afar”
Bartók: Sonata, Sz. 80
Amy Beach: “Variations on Balkan Themes,” Op. 60
Karen Tanaka: “Techno Etudes II”
$25 (concert); $70 (dinner)
masks recommended
(540) 839-5018
http://garthnewel.org

July 20 (7:30 p.m.)
Dunlop Pavilion, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Heather Johnson, mezzo-soprano
Wintergreen Festival Artists
Kari Juusela: “Apollo & Daphne” for solo cello
Einojuhani Rautavaara: “Dithyrambos”
Daron Hagen: “Three Whitman Fragments”
Laura Valborg Aulin: Sonata in G minor for piano & violin
Grieg: “Haugtussa” (“The Mountain Voice”), Op. 67, for voice & string quartet
$38
masks optional
(434) 361-0541
http://wintergreen-music.org/events

July 21 (6:30 p.m.)
Rhythm Hall, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth and Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony Summer Series:
Richmond Symphony Woodwind Quintet:
Mary Boodell, flute
David Garcia, oboe
David Lemelin, clarinet
Thomas Schneider, bassoon
Dominic Rotella, French horn
program TBA
$25-$30
masks required
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://www.richmondsymphony.com

July 22 (7:30 p.m.)
July 24 (2 p.m.)
Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville
Charlottesville Opera
Lawrence Loh conducting
Léhar: “The Merry Widow”
Caroline Worra (Hanna Glawari)
Richard Troxell (Count Danilo)
David Kaverman (Njegus)
Joe Barron (Baron Zeta)
Katherine Henly (Valencienne)
Andrew Stenson (Camille)
Stephanie Harvey, stage director
in English
$25-$75
masks optional
(434) 979-1333
http://www.charlottesvilleopera.org

July 22 (7:30 p.m.)
Dunlop Pavilion, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Wintergreen Festival Artists
Shostakovich: Concertino, Op. 94, for 2 pianos
4 animated short films by the 2022 LEAD composers
Orson Welles’ “Too Much Johnson,” with score by Daron Hagen (premiere)
$48
masks optional
(434) 361-0541
http://wintergreen-music.org/events

July 22 (8 p.m.)
July 23 (8 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra Pops
Steven Reineke conducting
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” film with live orchestral accompaniment
$37-$67
masks recommended
(703) 255-1868
http://wolftrap.org

July 23 (7:30 p.m.)
July 24 (3 p.m.)
Dunlop Pavilion, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Wintergreen Festival Orchestra
Michelle Merrill conducting
Jessie Montgomery: “Strum”
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor
Sean Chen, piano
Dave Vonderheide, trumpet
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550
$48
masks optional
(434) 361-0541
http://wintergreen-music.org/events

July 23 (5 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, 403 Garth Newel Lane, Hot Springs
Garth Newel Piano Quartet
Emerging Artists Fellows
Moritz Moszkowski: Suite for 2 violins & piano
Brahms: String Sextet in B flat major, Op. 18
$25 (concert); $92 (dinner)
masks recommended
(540) 839-5018
http://garthnewel.org

July 24 (4 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
VCU Community Guitar Ensemble
program TBA
free
masks recommended
(804) 828-1169
http://arts.vcu.edu/events

July 24 (2 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, 403 Garth Newel Lane, Hot Springs
Garth Newel Piano Quartet
Emerging Artists Fellows
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
Dohnányi: Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 1
$25 (concert); $53 (picnic)
masks recommended
(540) 839-5018
http://garthnewel.org

July 24 (8 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna
Silk Road Ensemble
Rhiannon Giddens directing
“Phoenix Rising”
program TBA
$32-$127
masks recommended
(703) 255-1868
http://wolftrap.org

July 26 (7:30 p.m.)
Dunlop Pavilion, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Heather Johnson, mezzo-soprano
Nicole Joseph, soprano
Jeffrey Picón, tenor
Michael Dean, bass-baritone
Kathy Kelly, piano
4 songs by 2022 LEAD composers
Brahms: “Liebeslieder-Walzer,” Op. 52
Brahms: “Neues Liebeslieder,” Op. 65
$38
masks optional
(434) 361-0541
http://wintergreen-music.org/events

July 27 (7:30 p.m.)
Dunlop Pavilion, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Wintergreen Festival Artists
Albéniz: works TBA (brass quintet arrangements)
Pauline Viardot-Garcia: Sonatine in A minor for violin & piano
Eurico Carrapatoso: “Cinco Miniaturas” for woodwind quintet
Turina: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 67
$38
masks optional
(434) 361-0541
http://wintergreen-music.org/events

July 28 (6:30 p.m.)
Rhythm Hall, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth and Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony Summer Chamberfest:
Daisuke Yamamoto & Susy Yim, violins
HyoJoo Uh & Stephen Schmidt, violas
Ryan Lannan, cello
Mozart: String Quintet in C major, K. 515
Kenji Bunch: “String Circle”
$25-$30
masks required
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://www.richmondsymphony.com

July 28 (7:30 p.m.)
Neptune’s Park, Atlantic Avenue at 31st Street, Vurginia Beach
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
conductor TBA
“Symphony by the Sea”
program TBA
free
masks optional
(757) 892-6366
http://virginiasymphony.org

July 28 (7:30 p.m.)
Dunlop Pavilion, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Wintergreen Festival Artists
“The Great Big Concert”
pieces for solo clarinet & cello by 2022 LEAD composers
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major (Iain Farrington arrangement)
performances by 2022 LEAD vocalists with orchestra
orchestra professional & LEAD side-by-side performance TBA
$38
masks optional
(434) 361-0541
http://wintergreen-music.org/events

July 29 (8 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra
Emil de Cou conducting
“Star Wars: the Empire Strikes Back,” film with live orchestral accompaniment
$42-$87
masks recommended
(703) 255-1868
http://wolftrap.org

July 30 (8 p.m.)
Shrine Mont Pavilion, Orkney Springs
Shenandoah Valley Music Festival:
Richmond Symphony
conductor TBA
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor (“Choral”)
soloists TBA
Shenandoah Valley Choral Society
$63-$73
masks optional
(540) 459-3396
http://musicfest.org

July 30 (5 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, 403 Garth Newel Lane, Hot Springs
Garth Newel Piano Quartet
Bohdan Sinchenko: “Exsistentia” (premiere)
Dvořák: Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 87
$25 (concert); $92 (dinner)
masks recommended
(540) 839-5018http://garthnewel.org

July 31 (2 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, 403 Garth Newel Lane, Hot Springs
Emerging Artists Fellows
Prokofiev: Sonata in C major, Op. 56, for 2 violins
Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478
$25 (concert); $53 (picnic)
masks recommended
(540) 839-5018
http://garthnewel.org

Aug. 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville
Charlottesville Band
Steve Layman directing
100th Anniversary Concert
program TBA
free
masks optional
(434) 979-1333
http://cvilleband.org

Aug. 3 (7 p.m.)
Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1627 Monument Ave., Richmond
August Musicales:
Trio Niche
program TBA
donation requested
masks recommended
(804) 359-2463
http://www.grace-covenant.org

Aug. 5 ( 8 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra
Ruth Reinhardt conducting
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major
Gil Shaham, violin
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor (“From the New World”)
$27-$82
masks recommended
(703) 255-1868
http://wolftrap.org

Aug. 6 (5 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, 403 Garth Newel Lane, Hot Springs
Parker Quartet
Jeannette Fang, piano
Beethoven: Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1
Takemitsu: “A Way A Lone”
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
$25 (concert); $92 (concert & dinner)
masks recommended
(540) 839-5018
http://garthnewel.org