by Kevin T McEneaney Saturday afternoon at Smithfield Church in Amenia Kent Tritle, organist of the New York Philharmonic and the Oratorio Society of New York City, and Music Director…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday night at The Stissing Center, the Verona Quartet, residing at Oberlin University, presented the first concert in the annual Clarion Concert series founded by…
Nicholas Kitchen, Kristopher Tong, Henry Kramer, Yeesun Kim, Melissa Reardon by Kevin T McEneaney It has been nearly a year since I heard the fabulous Borromeo quartet. Their quartet moniker…
Susan Rotholz, Margaret Kampmeier, Eliot Bailen, Peter Weitzner, Alan Kay, Sarah Adams by Kevin T McEneaney Friday night’s concert at St. Andrews Church in Kent opened with a composition by…
Daniel Khalikov, Pauline Kim, Michael Katz, Wendy Sutter William Hakim by Kevin T McEneaney Like Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) was born in Lucca, named after the Celtic god Lugh,…
by Kevin T McEneaney The Parker Quartet opened with String Quartet in B Flat Maor, Op. 18 # 6 (1800) by Ludwig van Beethoven completed in December (first performed on…
Jannina Norpoth, Curtis Stewart, Hamilton Berry, Nick Revel by Kevin T McEneaney When a concert is organized by improvisations, albeit rehearsed improvisations, it remains difficult to describe what is happening.…
William Hakim, Wendy Sutter, Deborah Buck, Stacey Shames, Beomjae Kim by Kevin T McEneaney As a New Yorker, I sometimes think that the best musicians blaze to prominence in New…
Angela Bae, Justin Defilippis, Simone Dinnerstein, Russel Huston, Benjamin Zannoni by Kevin T McEneaney The Balourdet Quartet, currently in residence at New England Conservatory, takes its name from Antoine Balourdet,…
Susan Rotholz, Elizabeth Perry, Eliot Bailen, Dori Na, Richard Wolfe by Kevin T McEneaney The marvelous aspect of the Sherman Chamber Ensemble remains the way they transform themselves into various…