June 2024 Concert Series

HVCMC was founded over 70 years ago by three women devoted to the arts, especially music, and determined to bring chamber music of the highest quality to the region. They were also committed to involving young people and did so by organizing a number of concerts every year in local schools. This vision continues with family concerts open to the public and organized at the Bard College Conservatory of Music. In 2024, marking HVCMC’s 74th season, we are building on that tradition through a newly launched HVCMC Community Initiative that seeks to bring music, specifically chamber music, to expanded audiences and listeners of all ages. Our first event will be a Valentine’s Day concert for the Day One Early Learning Community in Poughkeepsie this February.

We are excited to share the line-up for HVCMC’s June 2024 Concert Series, which will feature three distinctive chamber music groups with three compelling programs as follows (all performances take place at 7 PM at Olin Hall on the Bard College campus):

Saturday, June 8: HVCMC Co-Artistic Directors Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson’s ensemble Espressivo! is joined by award-winning bassist Harold “Hal” Robinson in a program that features works by Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert (the much loved “Trout” quintet), and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Saturday, June 15: The highly acclaimed Isidore String Quartet returns to our series for the second consecutive year and in the spirit of their motto, “Revisit. Rediscover. Reinvigorate.,” has planned a program that includes In Memory, a string quartet by the Grammy Award-winning Hudson Valley based composer Joan Tower, alongside works by Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Saturday, June 22: Making their HVCMC debut, the prize-winning Balourdet Quartet, most recently the recipient of Chamber Music America’s 2024 Cleveland Quartet Award, will perform works from the chamber music canon by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven, along with Karim Al-Zand’s Strange Machines, a work they commissioned with a Chamber Music America grant in 2022 and premiered in London’s Wigmore Hall during the 2022-23 season.