Featuring pianist Yi-Wen Chang.

Until the 20th century, pianists were often performers, composers, improvisers, and transcribers. However, pianists today are mostly dedicated to playing only other people’s works. In this concert, Chang resumes these roles by transforming Mozart’s tunes with improvisatory styles from pianists of different periods. Works include music/transcriptions by Mozart, Czerny, Stephen Hough, Dibyte, and Yi-Wen Chang.

A well-established concert pianist, Yi-Wen Chang has been praised for her impeccable technique and creative communicative ideas. She has appeared as a soloist and collaborative pianist in the United States, Canada, Russia, and Taiwan. In 2015, she launched the “Then and Now” concert series combining traditional and contemporary music and presenting their evolution from the past to present. Chang is on the piano faculty of The Hochstein School and Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

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.

Voices of Autumn features Hochstein Youth Singers and Hochstein Singers, directed by Maryellen Giese and Jonathan Thomas Madden, along with soloists from Hochstein’s voice studios and special guest performers.

Come celebrate the joy of singing in a free concert that includes music by Handel, Gershwin, Bach, and Mozart; selections from “Les Misérables” and “Sweeney Todd;” “The Declaration,” an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence as sung by The Fifth Dimension; “El Vito,” a traditional Spanish folk song; and much more!

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.

An evening with comedian Paula Poundstone.

Paula Poundstone is known for her smart, observational humor and a spontaneous wit that has become the stuff of legend. Time magazine, in the March 2020 “Best of” issue, listed Paula’s HBO special, Cats, Cops and Stuff as one of The 5 Funniest Stand-Up Specials Ever. Paula can be heard weekly as the host of the comedy podcast, Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone, and as a regular panelist on NPR’s comedy news quiz, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!

Also an author, Poundstone’s second book, The Totally Unscientific Study Of The Search For Human Happiness (Algonquin 2017) was one of eight semi-finalists for The Thurber Prize for American Humor, the highest recognition of the art of humor writing in the United States. The audiobook was one of five finalists for the Audio Book of the Year AUDIE award.

Paula was the first female comic, in its then 73rd year, to perform at the White House Correspondents dinner.  She was the first female standup, in its then 5th year, to win the ACE award for Best Comedy Special on Cable television. She is included in innumerable lists, documentaries and literary compendiums noting influential standup comedians of our time.

Ticket Price(s):         $39-$49 plus service fees

Tickets Available at https://martinmediaworldwide.ticketspice.com/11422-paula-poundstone-rochester-ny

COVID-19 policies will mirror Hochstein’s policy, found here.

A concert of music from the Nordic countries.

The program includes music by Danish composer Niels W. Gade, Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, Norwegian composer Edward Grieg, and Icelandic composer Haukur Tómasson. 

Violin soloist: Hildigunnur Halldórsdóttir
Rachel Lauber, conductor

Ticket Price(s): $20 regular
$15 senior (65+)/student (ID required)

General Admission

Tickets Available online at https://www.cordancia.org/tickets (please print your ticket) 
Available for purchase at the door 30 minutes before each concert (cash or check, please)

Featuring Thomas Rodgers, violin; Molly Werts McDonald, violin; Aika Ito, viola; and Benjamin Krug, cello.

The Salaff Quartet performs a concert showcasing pieces that give us the impression of lights. Sunlight breaking through the dark clouds, stars and moon shining in the night. The program includes selections by Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, Dvořák, and Sjölin.

The Salaff String Quartet was founded in 2014 by four members of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra who all attended the Cleveland Institute of Music at different times but all studied chamber music with the same beloved teacher, Peter Salaff, for whom the quartet is named. As friends and young members in the orchestra, they enjoy performing together throughout the Rochester area.

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.

Featuring the Greece Performing Arts Society Choral Society, Orchestra, and Band, with special guests.

Honoring our Veterans, this gala program will feature patriotic music and Americana favorites performed by the Greece Choral Society directed by Dr. Rollo Fisher, Greece Community Orchestra directed by Jonathan Allentoff, and the Greece Concert Band directed by BJ Comer.

Special guests include Emcee Brenda Tremblay from WXXI Classical 91.5, New York State Senator Samra Brouk, Color Guard, Prime Time Brass, and vocal artist Mary Wojciechowski.

Tickets are $10 general admission, Veterans free. A post-concert reception is included.

For additional information, please visit www.greeceperformingarts.org/group-events.

Members of Hochstein’s Concertino Strings – violin, viola, cello, and bass students in grades 1-5 – perform their fall concert, directed by Marcos Kreutzer.

The concert is free.

The program includes Rondo and March by Johann Kaspar Fischer and “The Dreidel” and “Coronation March” arranged by Elliot del Borgo.

Read the program notes online.

This concert will be livestreamed, on Hochstein’s YouTube channel, for those not able to attend the concert in person. Click here: https://youtu.be/cn4hhVhRaVY.

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.

The Hochstein Youth Symphony Orchestra (HYSO), directed by Casey Springstead, performs its fall concert.

The program includes Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, Sibelius’ Romance in C, Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, Berceuse and Finale from Stravinsky’s The Firebird, and Márquez’s Danzon No. 2. Read more in the press release.

The HYSO is an advanced youth orchestra comprised of grade 7-12 students from across the Rochester region.

$5 general admission at the door.

This concert will be livestreamed, on Hochstein’s YouTube channel, for those not able to attend the concert in person. Click here: https://youtu.be/zopYs5kuPsQ.

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 the Semplice Duo: Cristina Ballatori, flute, and Kevin T. Chance, piano.

Night Surrendering to Dawn features an engaging and eclectic program of works for flute and piano by 21st Century composers Valerie Coleman, Christian Ellenwood, Amanda Harberg, and Samuel Zyman. This will be the Rochester/New York premiere of Ellenwood’s Sonata for Flute and Piano, written for Cristina Ballatori in 2022 in memory of her mother. As we move through unprecedented and challenging times, the pieces on this program serve to remind us that light and hope will return after the dark.

Described by critics as “delightful performers” whose “music making was effortless and sparkling,” the Semplice Duo was formed with the goal of introducing audiences to the less frequently performed chamber music for flute and piano. Winners of the Notes at 9,000 Emerging Artist Series Competition in Colorado, the Semplice Duo has performed recitals and educational outreach concerts throughout the United States and abroad, including performances in Mexico and France.

A Hochstein alumna and former student of Diane Smith, Cristina Ballatori is on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Kevin Chance is on the piano faculty of the University of Alabama and holds a doctorate in piano performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music.

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 Gossamer Edge: Allyn Van Dusen, mezzo-soprano; Rita George Simmons, flute; and Paula Rodney Bobb, piano.

“Songs We Forgot to Remember – Hidden Gems of Love and Life” features music of fields and flowers, birds and rain showers. The program includes works by Arvo Pärt, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Thurlow Lieurance, and more.

The voice-flute-piano trio Gossamer Edge was formed in 2012 to explore the vibrant repertory for this trio combination, as well as solo literature and duos combining the instruments in different ways that make for intriguing and varied programs.

Admission at the door is $10 per person, with a $20 family maximum. Concerts are free to Hochstein students/families, faculty, and staff. The concert lasts about an hour, and is followed by a “meet the artists” reception.

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.

The HochStrings Adult Chamber Orchestra, directed by Pia Liptak, performs their fall concert.

HochStrings celebrates its 10th season with “Knock, Knock,” a program of music by Haydn, Lyadov, Jeanrenaud, and Holst. The concert includes a new piece using the instruments in unusual ways such as knocking, as well as instrumental versions of “Here Comes the Sun,” “As Time Goes By,” and more.

The concert is free.

 

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.

The Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra performs music by Brahms and Shostakovich.

Johannes Brahms: Double Concerto in A minor, Op 102
     RPYO alumni soloists, Annie Jacobs-Perkins, cellist & Dylan Kennedy, violin
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, op. 47

 

Ticket Price(s):     $10 
$5 child tickets (age 17 and under)

General Admission 

Tickets Available:
    By phone: 454-2100 
    Online: https://rpyo.org/performances/2022/11/20/golden-jubilee-begins

There are no regularly scheduled lessons or classes from Tuesday, November 22, 2022 through Saturday, November 26, 2022.

Tuesday, November 22, 2022 from 9:00 am-9:00 pm is a lesson make-up day. Please speak with your instructor if you need to make-up a lesson.

Featuring Michael Ortiz, clarinet; Elizabeth Norris, cello; and Maxwell Sun, piano. Pre-recorded – no live concert this week.

This performance features the winners of the 2022 David Hochstein Recital Competition and was recorded in concert in Hochstein Performance Hall on May 11, 2022. The program includes music by Bach, Dvořák, Debussy, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and more.

Since 1991, The Hochstein School has commemorated the life of David Hochstein – Rochester native and gifted violinist and composer – with a yearly competition open to advanced students in grades 10-12 in the nine-county region surrounding Rochester.

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.wxxiclassical.org. Listen to an encore broadcast on WXXI Classical 91.5 FM at 10:00 pm the day of the concert.

* 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 the Eastman Horn Choir.

Heralding the holidays with the Eastman Horn Choir – W. Peter Kurau, director – featuring hornists from the Eastman School of Music. The program includes music by Handel, Mendelssohn, and Gabrieli as well as arrangements of "White Christmas," "Jingle Bell Rock," and more.

Read the program notes online.

The Eastman Horn Choir was founded in 1968 by Verne Reynolds and from its inception the Choir’s mission has been to provide an expanded ensemble experience for horn students, to acquaint them with the breadth of quality repertoire within our musical culture, and to encourage contemporary composers to create original works for multiple horns.

In addition to performing an annual holiday concert at Hochstein, the Choir has been featured on the Eastman at Washington Square series, in a biennial tribute to St. Hubert (patron saint of the hunt, from which the horn derives much of its repertoire), in a formal concert in the Eastman Theatre, and on the Music at St. Andrew’s and Music at St. John’s series.

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.wxxiclassical.org. Listen to an encore broadcast on WXXI Classical 91.5 FM at 10:00 pm the day of the concert.

* 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.