Program includes music by Beethoven, Heng Yang, Jessie Montgomery, Florent Schmitt, and Clara Schumann.

“Inspired by Mozart’s Quintet of the same instrumentation, Beethoven’s Quintet for Piano and Winds anchors this concert. Three other works by Jessie Montgomery, Florent Schmitt and Clara Schumann are sure to surprise you with their inventiveness and beauty.” -Juliana Athayde and Erik Behr, Artistic Directors

Heng Yang: Pandora - Woodwind Quintet (Composition Competition Winner)
Jessie Montgomery (pictured): ‘Peace’ for Clarinet and Piano
Florent Schmitt: A Tour d'Aches, Op. 97 
Clara Schumann: Three Fugues on Themes of JS Bach
Beethoven: Quintet for Piano and Winds, Op.16     

Erik Behr, Oboe
Michael Wayne, Clarinet
George Sakakeeny, Bassoon
W. Peter Kurau, Horn
Chiao-Wen Cheng, Piano

Pre-Concert Talk with the Artistic Directors and musicians at 3:30

Ticket Price(s): $35 (Students thru college age admitted free with current school ID)
General Admission

Tickets Available Online:     https://www.chambermusicrochester.org/tickets 
If you purchase tickets within 7 days of the concert, your tickets will be held at the door. If you purchase tickets more than 7 days before the concert, your tickets will be mailed to you.

Masks encouraged
 

Featuring Shannon Nance, violin; Liana Koteva Kirvan, violin; Marc Anderson, viola; and Lars Kirvan, cello.

The program includes Maurice Ravel’s beautiful String Quartet in F along with the sweet Minuet and Trio from String Quartet No. 1 by Ralph Vaughan Williams (who studied briefly with Ravel).

The Hochstein School’s free noontime Live from Hochstein concert series will be hosted by WXXI Classical’s Mona Seghatoleslami and broadcast live on WXXI Classical. Listen to the concert at WXXI-FM 91.5, WXXY 90.3, or online at https://www.classical915.org.

Read the online program notes.

* Masks and vaccination are encouraged but not required. Please note that only bottled water is allowed in the newly renovated hall.

Sidney and Barbara Sobel have generously 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 Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

The Rochester Oratorio Society presents “The Ordering of Moses,” a classic American oratorio by R. Nathaniel Dett.

The ROS Chorus and Orchestra are joined by the Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Canada’s first professional choral group dedicated to Afrocentric music of all styles, and their director, Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, along with featured artists: Sarah Cooper, Alexis Peart, Holden Turner, and Emmett Tross.

COVID-19 Protocols: masks/vaccination NOT required

Ticket Price(s):   $25

$15 senior/student tickets available

General Admission

Tickets Available Online: https://rossings.org/dett/

Come together with other adult musicians from the Rochester community to learn about chamber music opportunities at Hochstein.

Attendees will enjoy a short performance, an introduction to Hochstein’s Chamber Music Connection Program, and a meet-and-greet session. Whether new to chamber music or an experienced ensemble player, all are welcome!

For more information, contact the Hochstein School at 585-454-4596 or Doleen Hood, Chamber Music Connection Coordinator at doleen.hood@hochstein.org.

 

Friday, October 14, 2022; 6:30-7:30 pm; Hochstein Performance Hall Stage; free

The Hochstein Junior Wind Symphony, directed by John Rolland, presents its concert of wind band music.

The program includes “March of the Trolls” by Edvard Grieg and a March by Gustav Holst, as well as more inspiring music for wind ensemble by Brian Balmages and James Swearingen. Steven Reineke’s “Fate of the Gods” portrays the story of Ragnarök from Nordic mythology, a great struggle between good and evil.

The concert will begin with a performance by the Hochstein Scholarship Brass Quintet, coached by Ben Jorge.

Hochstein’s Junior Wind Symphony features wind, percussion, and brass players in grades 7 and 8. The ensemble meets for six weeks in September and October to prepare music for this free concert.

Read the online program for this concert.

This concert will be livestreamed, on Hochstein’s YouTube channel, for those not able to attend the concert in person. Click here for the link: https://youtu.be/svWmvkWTCms

To receive livestreaming alerts, subscribe to our YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/hochsteinschool.

 

Hochstein programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

Featuring guitarists Shiuen-Huang Suen and Kenneth Kam.

The duo plays music from the 17th to 20th centuries for two guitars. The program includes selections from Enrique Granados’ Danza Española, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin, Fernando Sor’s L’Encouragement, Franz Schubert’s Ständchen, and Stanley Myers’ “Cavatina” from the film The Deer Hunter.

A dedicated teacher and active performer, Taiwan-born guitarist Shiuen-Huang Suen is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and teaches guitar at The Hochstein School.

Kenneth Kam is a Hong Kong guitarist and lutenist who is based in Rochester, New York. He is an adjunct lecturer at SUNY Brockport and on the guitar faculty at the Eastman Community Music School. He is a doctoral candidate at the Eastman School of Music under the guidance of Paul O’Dette and Nicholas Goluses.

Read the online program notes.

The Hochstein School’s free noontime Live from Hochstein concert series will be hosted by WXXI Classical’s Mona Seghatoleslami and broadcast live on WXXI Classical. Listen to the concert at WXXI-FM 91.5, WXXY 90.3, or online at https://www.classical915.org.

* Masks and vaccination are encouraged but not required. Please note that only bottled water is allowed in the newly renovated hall.

Sidney and Barbara Sobel have generously 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 Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

Featuring Jennifer Phillips, soprano; Monica Ramich, soprano; Jessica James, soprano; Riki Connaughton, mezzo-soprano; Sandra Boysen Sluberski, mezzo-soprano; Maryellen Giese, alto; and Doleen Hood, piano.

This program celebrates bold, forward-thinking female composers and features songs of faith, friendship, fortitude, love, loss, and life. The program includes music by Amy Beach, Clara Schumann, Alma Mahler, Florence Price, and more, performed by members of Hochstein’s voice faculty.

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

Audience will be asked to follow Hochstein’s COVID safety plan in place at the time of the concert: https://hochstein.org/About/Hochstein-COVID-Safety-Information

 

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

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

Musicians in the Hochstein Philharmonia Orchestra (grades 6-11) and Hochstein Sinfonia Strings (grades 4-9) orchestral ensembles give a joint fall concert.

This free concert is led by Director John Fetter with HPO Assistant Director Matt Osika and HSS Assistant Director Terry Smith.

The HSS opens the concert with the driving rhythms of Gauntlet by Doug Spata; the fourth movement of Haydn’s Symphony No. 32; and Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) by Richard Meyer, which mixes traditional Mexican themes with the Dies Irae.

The HPO’s half of the concert includes Johann Strauss’s Overture to Die Fledermaus, “Austrian Peasant Dance” from Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony, and the fourth movement of Jean Sibelius’s Second Symphony.

Read the online program for this concert.

This concert will be livestreamed, on Hochstein’s YouTube channel, for those not able to attend the concert in person. Click here for the link: https://youtu.be/myeNHQKYUXQ

To receive livestreaming alerts, subscribe to our YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/hochsteinschool.

 

The Hochstein Orchestra and Chamber Music Programs are supported in part by the Louise Alfreda Hill Memorial Fund.

Hochstein programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

 

 

Featuring Maria Schleuning, violin, and Jolyon Pegis, cello.

The main work on the program is the Duo for Violin and Cello by Zoltan Kodaly.  This is one of the greatest works for this combination of instruments, virtuosic and very dramatic. In contrast, the selections from Huit Morceaux by Reinhold Glière are much lighter in character and very charming. 

Originally from Rochester, cellist Jolyon Pegis is Associate Principal Cellist with the Dallas Symphony as well as Principal Cello of the Chautauqua Symphony and a member of the contemporary ensemble Voices of Change.

Violinist Maria Schleuning has been a member of the Voices of Change Modern Music Ensemble since 1996 and Artistic Director since 2009. An advocate of new music, she has worked with many of the leading composers of our day. She is also a member of the Dallas Symphony and has been a featured soloist on multiple occasions.

Read the program notes online.

The Hochstein School’s free noontime Live from Hochstein concert series will be hosted by WXXI Classical’s Mona Seghatoleslami and broadcast live on WXXI Classical. Listen to the concert at WXXI-FM 91.5, WXXY 90.3, or online at https://www.classical915.org.

* Masks and vaccination are encouraged but not required. Please note that only bottled water is allowed in the newly renovated hall.

Sidney and Barbara Sobel have generously 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 Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

This concert is part of Public Radio Music Day, a nationwide celebration that recognizes public radio’s essential community service and its unique role in music discovery. WXXI Classical, WRUR-FM 88.5, WITH-FM 90.1 (Ithaca), and WEOS-FM 89.7 (Finger Lakes region) are proud to be part of a network of stations dedicated to helping listeners discover new artists and music. To learn more about the local celebration, which includes a special performance by Hanna PK at The Little Café, visit WXXI.org/events.

Bring your little ghouls and goblins for a philhar-monster mash with your RPO!

There will be plenty of surprise musical treats in store, so join us for a spine-tingling and hauntingly fun time. Costumes are strongly encouraged!

COVID-19 Policies - Masks and proof of vaccination are no longer required.  

Pre-concert kids’ activities in Chapel beginning at 1:00 pm

Tickets: 
Adults $20
Kids $10

Tickets and more information at https://my.rpo.org/967/971.