Musicians in Hochstein’s Sinfonia (grades 4-9, John Fetter, director), and Concertino Strings (grades 1-5, Marcos Kreutzer, director) orchestral ensembles give a free joint afternoon concert.

This concert is free and open to the public.

GVOC teams up with the Children’s Choir and Youth Chamber Singers of the Eastman Community Music School to present a concert of music inspired by color.

Both the young and not-so-young will enjoy classics such as the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine,” Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors,” Kermit’s “Rainbow Connection,” along with the timeless, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” In addition to celebrating songs for families, the Eastman singers, along with the children and grandchildren of GVOC members, will display their own artwork inspired by the theme of color!

Tickets: Adults $18, Seniors 65+ $15, Students $8.

For more information visit https://gvoc.org/subscriptions-tickets.

Hochstein is delighted to invite families to our annual winter open house! Enjoy an afternoon filled with fun at our Musical Mystery Tour.

Highlights include:

• an instrument petting zoo, where kids can try out individual instruments with guidance from Hochstein's expert faculty;
• interactive music and dance sessions;
• crafts and Music and Art Therapy activities;
• face painting;
• performances by Hochstein ensembles;
• and a huge drum circle!

The Musical Mystery Tour sends children on a scavenger hunt for dance and music clues scattered throughout the historic Hochstein building, while the exceptional Hochstein faculty guide young gumshoes through the music, dance, and craft activities. Families can explore our offerings, learn more about the school, and even register for individual lessons and winter class sessions.

Tickets: Pricing for the Musical Mystery tour is $3 per child, $5 per adult, and a maximum of $10 per family. Children 2 and under are admitted free of charge.

Musical Mystery Tour is sponsored by LaBella Associates.

PLEASE NOTE - Thursday's concert with Ronan Tynan has been cancelled. Here is a statement from Catholic Charities:

In response to guidance from the Monroe County Commission of Public Health this morning, Catholic Charities Community Services made the decision to cancel both of our 40th Anniversary fundraising events, An Evening of Irish Music & Dance and Breakfast with Friends scheduled for Thursday and Friday, March 12 and 13. It is with deep concern for the health and welfare of our community members that we make this decision. Please be patient with us as we determine next steps.  Information will be available on our website cccsrochester.org as soon as possible.

 

Ronan Tynan has performed at several Presidential events including Ronald Reagan’s state funeral, and has sung "God Bless America" for Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League. In 1998, he joined Anthony Kearns and John McDermott as The Irish Tenors, an instant worldwide sensation.

The concert will begin with performances by two special groups of area young people: Rochester Academy of Irish Dance and Róisín Dubh (pronunciation: Ro-sheen dove, translation: “The Black Rose”), an East Rochester High School music program. The concert event will be emceed by beloved Rochester radio personality, Terry Clifford.

General admission tickets for the pre-St. Patrick’s Day event are $50 – with a limited number of $75 VIP concert tickets that include premium seating and a pre-concert reception with Tynan – and are available via the CCCS website at cccsrochester.org/news-events/breakfast-with-friends.

Concert tickets are also available in person at Northfield Music Studios (50 State Street, Pittsford, NY), Bop Shop Records (1460 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY) and Record Archive (33⅓ Rockwood Street, Rochester, NY).

The winter concert of the HochStrings Adult Chamber Orchestra, directed by Pia Liptak, is all about the concerto.

The focus on the concerto includes concertos for the orchestra as a group, concertos with soloist, and arrangements of famous concerto themes. 

The concert includes famous, beloved themes by Mozart and Mendelssohn, a meditative reflection by Khan, and a concerto by Vivaldi. The program concludes with the theme from Sibelius' Finlandia.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Musicians from the 86-member Hochstein Youth Symphony Orchestra, directed by Casey Springstead, perform a special concert for The Hochstein School’s free Live from Hochstein concert series, featuring music by Mendelssohn, Enescu, Gwyneth Walker, and John Williams. Part of Hochstein’s Centennial Celebration!

Please Note: Because of concerns with COVID-19 exposure, this event has been cancelled. 

 

The program includes Open the Door, a short orchestral overture by American composer Gwyneth Walker, written in 1990 for The Women's Orchestra; Felix Mendelssohn’s stormy Hebrides Overture, also known as “Fingal’s Cave,” inspired by a trip to Scotland; George Enescu’s exciting Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major; and a suite of John Williams’ music for the 1972 western The Cowboys, which starred John Wayne in one of his last roles. 

The HYSO is a full orchestra for advanced strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion students in grades 7–12 from the greater Rochester region. The HYSO presents three concerts per year along with periodic international tours including a 2016 tour of Austria and Germany, a 2018 tour of Portugal and Spain, and the April 2020 tour of Germany and the Czech Republic.

The Hochstein School’s free lunchtime “brown bag” Live from Hochstein concert series takes place in the Hochstein Performance Hall and is broadcast live on WXXI Classical 91.5/ 90.3 FM, hosted by Classical 91.5’s Mona Seghatoleslami.

Listen to an encore broadcast on WXXI Classical 91.5 FM at 9:00 pm the day of the concert.

Sidney and Barbara Sobel have provided continuous underwriting of the Live from Hochstein Broadcast & Concert Series since 1993.

Live from Hochstein is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

This free concert features young singers in Hochstein’s choral program and soloists from the Hochstein’s voice studios.

The concert is free and open to the public.

 

Featuring: Joanna Bassett, flute; Yi-Wen Chang, piano; Joseph Werner, piano; Richard Felice, percussion; Pia Liptak, violin; Kathleen Murphy Kemp, cello; and Michael Griffin, bass, performing works by Bolling, Shostakovich, Pärt, and Schnittke. Part of Hochstein’s Centennial Celebration!

In music, we explore various possibilities: we blend strings and winds, sticks and hammers, fuse tranquility with chaos, jest with seriousness, and walk through old and new, then and now. At Hochstein, we work together and perform all kinds of music, be it classical, jazz, folk song, or newly created music by living composers.

This concert features diverse styles of chamber music pieces by four composers. The program includes the classical/jazz musician Claude Bolling’s swinging and playful Jazz Suites, Jewish klezmer music introduced in Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 finale, Arvo Pärt’s serene and solemn Mozart-Adagio for Piano Trio, and Alfred Schnittke’s quirky and boisterous Gogol Suite for Two Pianos.   

Since 1991, Spotlight on Faculty has highlighted the prestigious Hochstein faculty in a variety of ensembles and musical genres from chamber music and dance to jazz, contemporary, and classical. A key feature of the Spotlight on Faculty concerts is that Hochstein faculty members work together to create their own program and submit proposals to perform on the series.

Each concert begins at 7:00 pm, lasts about an hour, and is followed by a “meet the artists” reception.

Admission is $10 per person, with a $20 family maximum. Concerts are free to Hochstein students/families, faculty, and staff.

The Spotlight on Faculty concert series is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Thank you to Wegmans Food Markets for their support of our community events.

Grammy Award-winning guitarist Jason Vieaux returns to Hochstein Performance Hall with a solo concert that pays homage to the traditions of the guitar from its roots in Andalucia to its contemporary voice.

Grammy-winner Jason Vieaux, “among the elite of today's classical guitarists” (Gramophone), is a guitarist who goes beyond the classical. NPR describes Vieaux as, “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation.” Among his extensive discography is the 2015 Grammy Award-winning album for Best Classical Instrumental Solo, Play.

Vieaux has earned a reputation for putting his expressiveness and virtuosity at the service of a remarkably wide range of music, and his schedule of performing, and studio recording commitments is distinguished throughout the U.S. and abroad. His solo recitals have been a feature at every major guitar series in North America and at many of the important guitar festivals in Asia, Australia, Europe, and Mexico.

At age 19, Vieaux became the youngest winner of the most prestigious awards: Guitar Foundation of America Guitar Competition.  He was the first classical guitarist featured on NPR’s “Tiny Desk” series. He has earned a reputation for putting his expressiveness and virtuosity at the service of a remarkably wide range of music. He co-founded the guitar programs at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Eastern Music Festival, and has taught guitar at the Cleveland Institute of Music since 1997.

Tickets are $15 - $150.

For more information, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jason-vieaux-an-evening-in-granada-the-guitar-music-of-spain-tickets-59842559707.

Presented by Bird of Paradise Productions.

Under the direction of Gregory Kane, the Finger Lakes Concert Band brings together instrumentalists from around the Finger Lakes region to perform a wide variety of exciting music.

This concert by the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester features Debussy's Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp along with music by Lucia, Ibert, and Jolivet

COVID-19 UPDATE FROM SCMR: (updated on 3/20/20)

We are sorry to inform you that La Harpe Francaise Concert and live stream on March 22 have been canceled due to coronavirus concerns. We plan to reschedule the concert for a future date.

If you already have a ticket for this concert, we will gladly honor it at a future concert this season or next season. Since we are canceling attendance at the concert, please note we will not be exchanging March 22 tickets for Flex Tickets, as we initially planned. Please keep your March 22 ticket and use it for entry to a future concert. If you are a series subscriber, we encourage you to use your March 22 ticket for a guest.  

We appreciate your patience, support and understanding! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. More info at https://www.chambermusicrochester.org.

 

Concert information:

Matthew Lucia Bird Songs for Flute, Viola and Harp (2019 SCMR Composition Competition Winner)
Ibert Trio for Violin, Cello and Harp (1943-44)
Debussy Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp (1915)
A. Jolivet Chant de Linos for Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello and Harp (1944)

Rebecca Gilbert, flute
Thomas Rodgers, violin
Grace Browning, harp
Aaron Mossburg, viola
Kathleen Kemp, cello

Pre-Concert Talk with the Artistic Directors and musicians begins 30 minutes before scheduled concert time.

For tickets and more information, visit https://www.chambermusicrochester.org/concerts/2020/3/22/la-harpe-francaise

Featuring the Ekstasis Duo – Natasha Farny, cello, and Eliran Avni, piano – performing music by women composers.

Please Note: Because of concerns with COVID-19 exposure, this event has been cancelled. Tune in to WXXI Classical 91.5 during the lunch hour to hear selections from previous Live from Hochstein seasons.  Tune in at 9:00 pm to hear a full broadcast from a previous season.

 

As the nation celebrates the centennial of a woman’s right to vote, Ekstasis celebrates women’s creativity with a program called “Women’s Voices: Fierce women composers from the 19th and 20th Centuries.” The concert includes works by Louise Farrenc, Clara Schumann, and Ethel Smyth, and song transcriptions of Nina Simone.

The American cellist and Israeli pianist first met as students at Juilliard. As a duo, they celebrate masterpieces alongside the secret jewels of lesser-known works. https://www.ekstasisduo.com/

The Hochstein School’s free lunchtime “brown bag” Live from Hochstein concert series takes place in the Hochstein Performance Hall and is broadcast live on WXXI Classical 91.5/ 90.3 FM, hosted by Classical 91.5’s Mona Seghatoleslami.

Listen to an encore broadcast on WXXI Classical 91.5 FM at 9:00 pm the day of the concert.

Sidney and Barbara Sobel have provided continuous underwriting of the Live from Hochstein Broadcast & Concert Series since 1993.

Live from Hochstein is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

A special evening of music by the Rocket Man! This event has been postponed.

Reginald Kenneth Dwight’s music will be filling the concert hall of Hochstein this March. What? You are not familiar with his work? How about by this name, Sir Elton Hercules John? Yes, the Rocket Man! Elton John’s music has been popular and played on radios since 1969.

The RGMC will be rocking our audiences to hits like Daniel, Rocket Man, Honky Cat, Crocodile Rock, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Your Song, Bennie and the Jets, and Candle in the Wind, to name a few. This concert will not only be epic and hugely popular with many generations but it will be a concert you will never forget! Wear your bizarre glasses and most outlandish outfit and participate in this amazing concert.

For tickets and more information, visit the RGMC website at https://thergmc.org/concert-%26-events.

A special evening of music by the Rocket Man! This event has been postponed.

Reginald Kenneth Dwight’s music will be filling the concert hall of Hochstein this March. What? You are not familiar with his work? How about by this name, Sir Elton Hercules John? Yes, the Rocket Man! Elton John’s music has been popular and played on radios since 1969.

The RGMC will be rocking our audiences to hits like Daniel, Rocket Man, Honky Cat, Crocodile Rock, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Your Song, Bennie and the Jets, and Candle in the Wind, to name a few. This concert will not only be epic and hugely popular with many generations but it will be a concert you will never forget! Wear your bizarre glasses and most outlandish outfit and participate in this amazing concert.

For tickets and more information, visit the RGMC website at https://thergmc.org/concert-%26-events.