Events at Avaloch
“We are so very grateful for the chance to spend the week here without the distraction of everyday life to make some music together. How inspiring it has been to heart meet the other artists, experience magic at every meal, and explore the beautiful property. This place is incredibly important in the music community- we are so grateful it exists.”
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference
The Composers Conference is a summer program that embraces collaborative music creation by musicians at the beginning of their careers, those that are well-established, and those for whom music is an important part of their lives.
Public concerts are offered multiple times a week during the festival. Click here to find out more.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference Ensemble Concert
Join the internationally acclaimed musicians of the Composers Conference Ensemble led by our Conference Guest Conductor Matilda Hofman and New Music Conductor Fellow Luka Venter.
Heirich Isaac - Palle Palle
Heirich Isaac - Benedictus
Heirich Isaac - Der Seiden Schwanz
Shulamit Ran - Secret Garden
Sarah Hennies - Growing Block
Johannes Brahms - Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano
Felipe Lara - Ventos Uivantes
G. P. Telemann - Viola Concerto in G Major
Suggested Donation: $10
Public concerts are offered multiple times a week during the festival. Click here to find out more.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference-Chamber Music Concert
Join the Composers Conference’s CMW Artists-in-Residence for an evening of chamber music.
Kurt Rohde - Remixes for Violin and Cello
Charles Ives- Piano Trio
Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Trio op. 70 no. 1 in D
David Kaplan, piano || Jessica Tong, violin || Ashley Bathgate, cello
Suggested Donation: $10
Public concerts are offered multiple times a week during the festival. Click here to find out more.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference New Music New Communities Concert
The Composers Conference's New Music/New Communities Initiative(NM/NC) is a project that utilizes the Conference’s role as an arts education organization to inspire and engage young musicians from underserved communities. Through collaborations with local music education organizations in the greater New England area, the Composers Conference provides students with the tools to become composers and creators within a supportive environment, unleashing their personal artistry while fostering enduring creative relationships. The Composers Conference is thrilled to be partnering with the Concord Community Music School and the Walnut Hill School for the Arts for the 2025 season. Join us in celebrating the premieres of four young, promising composers who are currently students at CCMS in Concord, NH and Walnut Hill in MA.
This event is FREE.
Public concerts are offered multiple times a week during the festival. Click here to find out more.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference Ensemble Concert
oin the internationally acclaimed musicians of the Composers Conference Ensemble led by our Conference Guest Conductor Matilda Hofman.
Featuring Four World Premieres by 2025 Composer Fromm Fellows Artur Akshelyan, Ty Bloomfield, Yan Ee Toh, Arshia Samsaminia
Suggested Donation: $10
Public concerts are offered multiple times a week during the festival. Click here to find out more.
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Featuring:
Clippinger-Dodson Duo
Holland Andrews and Yuniya Edi Kwon
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Featuring:
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
Tanjo & Crow EP Release Concert
Join us for a very special EP Release concert with Tanjo & Crow: Tanner Bingaman (guitar, banjo, vocals) and Allan Combs II (guitar, vocals). They’ll be performing songs they wrote and recorded at Avaloch Farm Music Institute during their 2024 residency. We are so proud to present them in concert to celebrate the record’s release!
7:30PM Concert
Tickets: $20 (Student/Educator Discount: $10)
This concert's proceeds will be directed entirely towards funding the costs of recording and producing Tanjo & Crow’s EP Recording:
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Scott Kirby, Gabriel Donohue and Friends
Join us for a special event with Scott Kirby and Gabriel Donohue!
Singer, songwriter, guitarist, storyteller, traveler and road warrior are all words that aptly describe Scott Kirby. Finishing songs while driving through the Italian countryside, performing 100 plus live shows throughout the US and Canada, touring Ireland with 50 fans in tow, and recording his tenth album in Nashville, all keep the barnacles off this modern-day troubadour. Visit scottkirby.com for more info.
Irish born Multi Instrumentalist, singer/songwriter Gabriel Donohue is based in Philadelphia. He performs mostly on guitar and piano but also plays many more instruments from bouzouki/mandolin to Irish and exotic percussion. Gabriel performs throughout the USA, solo and along with a cadre of top flight musicians, including three years with the GRAMMY Award winning Chieftains. He has recorded with the Boston Pops, Eileen Ivers, Joanie Madden, James Keane, Sean Quinn, Brian Conway, John Whelan, Karen Mal, Aoife Clancy, Liam Clancy, to name a few.
Concert, Concert+Dinner, and VIP Residential and Commuter Passes available.
6PM Dinner with Musicians
7:30PM Concert
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Ashley Bathgate, cello
Join us for a special Brunch & Bubbles followed by a late morning concert featuring Avaloch’s Executive and Artistic Director, cellist Ashley Bathgate, performing new works for solo cello and electronics. Apple picking afterward if the weather is nice!
9:30AM Brunch & Bubbles
11AM Concert
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Featuring:
Niloufar Nourbakhsh with Mahsa Vahdat
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Featuring:
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Featuring:
Mike Truesdell and Elizabeth Ogonek
Archambeau-Dastoor Duo
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Featuring:
Ariel Mo and Annie Hyung
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: EAR INITIATIVE | ACRONYM Ensemble
Join us for a performance by EAR Artists-in-Residence, the award-winning ACRONYM ENSEMBLE.
This is part of Avaloch’s Educational Artist Residency [EAR] Initiative, that include local community workshops, and onsite activities.
5PM - Pre-Concert Talk with Acronym & Loren Ludwig
6PM Concert
7:30PM Dinner
Pre-Concert Talk & Concert: $25
Pre-Concert Talk, Concert + Farm-to-Table Pre-Concert Dinner: $75
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Fall Foliage Retreat
The Avaloch x CMW Fall Foliage Retreat is joint event between the Chamber Music Workshop of the Composers Conference and Avaloch Farm Music Institute, to provide an opportunity for several days of social, informal chamber music sightreading over the course of a weekend. The goal is to help recharge the soul and rekindle the joy of music making together.
AVALOCH ANNUAL FALL GALA
Join us for our annual fall gala, featuring world class musicians, food and festivities.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference Ensemble Concert
Join the internationally acclaimed musicians of the Composers Conference Ensemble led by our Conference Guest Conductor Tian Hui Ng.
Featuring Four World Premieres by 2025 Composer Fromm Fellows Anak Baiharn, Cem Güven, Arin Shahjahanian, Ihlara McIndoe.
Suggested Donation: $10
Public concerts are offered multiple times a week during the festival. Click here to find out more.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference-CPI Concert
Our 2025 CPI Fromm Fellow Ensemble, Duo Nessi (Chatori Shimizu, Sho player; Niloufar Shiri, Kamancheh player) will perform the world premieres of four collaborative new works written especially for them by the 2025 Fromm Foundation Composer Fellows.
Suggested Donation: $10
Public concerts are offered multiple times a week during the festival. Click here to find out more.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference-Chamber Music Concert
Join the Composers Conference’s CMW Artists-in-Residence for an evening of chamber music.
Franz Schubert- Impromptu op. 90 no 1 in C Minor
Philip Glass Piano Etudes nos 15 and 16
Johannes Brahms - Violin Sonatas nos. 1 and 2
David Kaplan, piano || Jessica Tong, violin || Sharon Harms, soprano
Public concerts are offered multiple times a week during the festival. Click here to find out more.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference Ensemble Concert
Join the internationally acclaimed musicians of the Composers Conference Ensemble led by our Conference Guest Conductor Tian Hui Ng and New Music Conductor Fellow Luka Venter.
Giovanni Gabrieli - Canzon per sonar septimi toni à 8
Melinda Wagner - Cricket Passagio
Erin Gee - Mouthpiece 28
Melinda Wagner - Elegy Flywheel
Daniel Schnyder - Brass Trio
W.A. Mozart - Quartet for Oboe and Strings
Suggested Donation: $10
Public concerts are offered multiple times a week during the festival. Click here to find out more.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference-Chamber Music Concert
Join the Composers Conference’s CMW Artists-in-Residence and Conference Ensemble Members for an evening of chamber music.
Ludwig Senfl - Selected Pieces
Edward Elgar - Piano Quintet in A Minor, op. 84
Christopher Oldfather, piano || Jennifer Elowitch and Jessica Tong, violins || Ashley Bathgate, cello || Leander Starr, horn || Louise Schulman, viola || Michelle Farah, oboe
Suggested Donation: $10
Public concerts are offered multiple times a week during the festival. Click here to find out more.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference-CPI Concert
Our 2025 CPI Fromm Fellow Ensemble is Duo Nessi, which is made up of Sho player Chatori Shimizu and Kamancheh player Niloufar Shiri. They will perform program of new works written for and by them, alongside a conversation about their instruments.
Suggested Donation: $10
Public concerts are offered multiple times a week during the festival. Click here to find out more.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Composers Conference-Chamber Music Concert
Join the Composers Conference’s CMW Artists-in-Residence for an evening of chamber music.
Johann Fasch - Sonata for Violin Oboe, Horn and Continuo, FaWV N:F3
Adolphe Blanc - Romance for Oboe and Horn
Johannes Brahms - Piano Quartet in G Minor, op. 25
David Kaplan and Christopher Oldfather, pianos || Jennifer Elowitch and Jessica Tong, violin || Louise Schulman, viola || Ashley Bathgate, cello || Michelle Farah, oboe || Leander Starr, horn
Suggested Donation: $10
Public concerts are offered multiple times a week during the festival. Click here to find out more.
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: VMAC Concert
Vermont Music and Arts Center is a workshop for serious amateur musicians seeking an informal and congenial atmosphere in which to play chamber music – to take a vacation with music.
Join VMAC faculty for an evening of chamber music!
Bar Opens at 6:30PM
Concert at 7:30PM
suggested donation: $10
PROGRAM:
Claude Debussy: Piano Trio in G Major
Joaquín Turina: La oración del torero, op. 34
Johannes Brahms : Quartet for Piano and Strings in c minor,
Joaquín Turina: Trio no. 2, op. 76
Arturo Márquez: Danza de Mediodía
David Rimelis: Air to an Orange Moon
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Independence Day Community Evening @ Avaloch
Join us for a 4th of July celebratory cookout!
Enjoy live music, good food and a fireworks show after sunset!
EVENT STARTS AT 6PM (Music starts at 6:30pm)
SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST: Good Grief Jugband
Adults - $15
Kids under 10 - $10
(cash bar)
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: VMAC
Vermont Music and Arts Center is a workshop for serious amateur musicians seeking an informal and congenial atmosphere in which to play chamber music – to take a vacation with music.
Join VMAC faculty for an evening of chamber music!
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Concert with Members of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
Join us for a festival performance, featuring musicians from the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
Program TBA
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: Conducting Workshop with Members of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble comes to Avaloch to provide an intense retreat designed for musicians seeking to improve their relationship with music through score study, interpretation, creative linking with other art forms, rehearsal planning and technique, leadership, and physical gesture. All interested musicians are all welcome to apply regardless of their principal instrument, voice type, or professional focus. More information about the application process is available here.
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Avaloch Chamber Music Festival CONCERT 3
Join us for Avaloch’s inaugural Chamber Music Festival!
PROGRAM #3
Claude Debussy || Children’s Corner for Solo Piano, L. 113
Ludwig van Beethoven || String Trio in C Minor, op. 9 no. 3
Ernest Bloch || Piano Quintet no. 1, B. 43
2025 FESTIVAL ARTISTS: Sunmi Chang, Julia Glenn, Jessica Tong, Nicholas Cords, Caeli Smith, Nina Lee, Ashley Bathgate, Gregg August, Andrius Žlabys, with Susana Matos-Puente
Learn more about the festival and its artists HERE
Concert, Concert+Dinner, and VIP Residential and Commuter Passes available.
6PM Concert
7:30PM Dinner with the musicians
Pre-Concert Talk & Concert: $25 ($15 Student/Educator Admission with valid ID)
Pre-Concert Talk, Concert + Farm-to-Table Pre-Concert Dinner: $75
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Avaloch Chamber Music Festival CONCERT 2
Join us for Avaloch’s inaugural Chamber Music Festival!
PROGRAM #2
John Adams || Shaker Loops
Michael Gordon || Weather One
2025 FESTIVAL ARTISTS: Sunmi Chang, Julia Glenn, Jessica Tong, Nicholas Cords, Caeli Smith, Nina Lee, Ashley Bathgate, Gregg August, Andrius Žlabys, with Susana Matos-Puente
Learn more about the festival and its artists HERE
Concert, Concert+Dinner, and VIP Residential and Commuter Passes available.
5PM - Pre-Concert Talk with resident Art Historian, Susana Puente-Matos
6PM Concert
7:30PM Dinner with the musicians
Pre-Concert Talk & Concert: $25 ($15 Student/Educator Admission with valid ID)
Pre-Concert Talk, Concert + Farm-to-Table Pre-Concert Dinner: $75
Lunchtime Concert with Pianist Andrius Žlabys
A special set of music for solo piano, including original works, featuring Grammy-nominated Lithuanian pianist and composer, Andrius Žlabys. Music by Chopin, Weinberg, Bach and Zlabys.
Tickets $25 (Student/Educator : $15)
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Avaloch Chamber Music Festival CONCERT 1
Join us for Avaloch’s inaugural Chamber Music Festival!
PROGRAM #1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart || Sinfonia Concertante Grande Sestetto
Richard Strauss || Metamorphosen for String Septet
2025 FESTIVAL ARTISTS: Sunmi Chang, Julia Glenn, Jessica Tong, Nicholas Cords, Caeli Smith, Nina Lee, Ashley Bathgate, Gregg August, Andrius Žlabys, with Susana Matos-Puente
Learn more about the festival and its artists HERE
Concert, Concert+Dinner, and VIP Residential and Commuter Passes available.
5PM - Pre-Concert Talk with Art Historian Susana Puente-Matos
6PM Concert
7:30PM Dinner with the musicians
Pre-Concert Talk & Concert: $25 ($15 Student/Educator Admission with valid ID)
Pre-Concert Talk, Concert + Farm-to-Table Pre-Concert Dinner: $75
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Featuring:
Stier-Hartmann Duo
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Featuring:
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Sanhita Nandi and Friends
Join us for a very special evening with world-renowned Hindustani Classical Vocalist Sanhita Nandi, an acclaimed classical vocalist of Kirana Gharana. Her style is characterized by her rich mellifluous voice that elegantly expresses sonority and lyricism with heart wrenching emotive appeal and delightful tranquility. She continues the rich Kirana tradition of painting music on the large canvass of Vilambit Laya with extremely fine and detailed melodic improvisations. Expression of subtle nuances of musical emotions through moving intonations of lyrics, woven in fresh and original melodic ideas is her forte. Her sargams and swift tanas in faster tempo are as much adorable as her vilambit development of Ragas.
Sanhita will be joined by Partha Karmakar(Tabla) and Keval Kavle(Harmonium).
For more information about the artist, please visit https://sanhitanandi.com.
4PM - 5PM - FREE Workshop (open to the public)
6PM Concert: $25 ($15 Student/Educator Admission w/valid ID)
Concert + Farm-to-Table Post-Concert Dinner: $75
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Sanhita Nandi and Friends
Join us for a very special interactive workshop with world-renowned Hindustani Classical Vocalist Sanhita Nandi. Sanhita will elaborate on the melody and emotion of the raga in a slower tempo, while expressing the subtle nuances and shades of a raga, grace notes, and solfege through various ornamentations. She will demonstrate how one can develop rich improvisations and fast melodic passages while also exploring myriad emotions that are woven into this precise and virtuosic musical practice.
Sanhita will be joined by Partha Karmakar(Tabla) and Keval Kavle (Harmonium).
For more information about the artist, please visit https://sanhitanandi.com.
This morning workshop is free and open to the public.
IN-HOUSE EVENT: EAR INITIATIVE | Balourdet Quartet in Performance
Join us for a very special evening performance with our EAR Artists-in-Residence, the award-winning Balourdet String Quartet!
This concert is part of Avaloch’s Educational Artist Residency [EAR] Initiative, that include local community workshops, and an onsite weekend Chamber Music Workshop. To learn more about participating in the weekend chamber music workshop, please CLICK HERE
5PM - Pre-Concert Talk with Balourdet Quartet & Ruth Ochs
6PM Concert
7:30PM Dinner
Pre-Concert Talk & Concert: $25 ($15 Student/Educator Admission with valid ID)
Pre-Concert Talk, Concert + Farm-to-Table Pre-Concert Dinner: $75
IN-HOUSE EVENT: EAR INITIATIVE | Balourdet Quartet in Performance
Join us for a very special evening performance with our EAR Artists-in-Residence, the award-winning Balourdet String Quartet!
This concert is part of Avaloch’s Educational Artist Residency [EAR] Initiative, that include local community workshops, and an onsite weekend Chamber Music Workshop. To learn more about participating in the weekend chamber music workshop, please CLICK HERE
5PM - Pre-Concert Talk with Balourdet Quartet & Ruth Ochs
6PM Concert
7:30PM Dinner
Pre-Concert Talk & Concert: $25 ($15 Student/Educator Admission with valid ID)
Pre-Concert Talk, Concert + Farm-to-Table Pre-Concert Dinner: $75
AVALOCH EVENT: Fall Foliage Retreat
The Avaloch x CMW Fall Foliage Retreat is joint event between the Chamber Music Workshop of the Composers Conference and Avaloch Farm Music Institute, to provide an opportunity for several days of social, informal chamber music sightreading over the course of a weekend. The goal is to help recharge the soul and rekindle the joy of music making together.
Blackman, Murray, Russo: Once Upon a Prairie
Blackman, Murray, Russo comes to Avaloch Farm Music Institute to perform their latest project, “Once Upon a Prairie” , a multimedia exploration of the loss and renewal of the American grasslands told through projected images and a musical fusion of Americana and jazz.
Doors at 7PM
Show at 7:30PM
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
OneBeat in Concert
Join the OneBeat Fellows for a live performance at the Avaloch Concert Barn.
OneBeat is the leading multinational music exchange of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) that uses the power of creative collaboration as a gateway to civic discourse and cross-cultural understanding.
This concert will feature 25 OneBeat fellows (representing 20 different countries in total) who will be in residence for two weeks at Avaloch. Guest artists for the OneBeat 14 residency include renowned multi-instrumentalist and instrument builder Mark Stewart, composer and saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor, and composer and producer Emily Wells, each of whom will lead fellows in creative exercises and masterclasses leading up to their performance and subsequent tour.
Join us on Friday October 4th, 2024 @ 7pm for this free event!
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
AVALOCH ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP: OneBeat Workshop
Avaloch is thrilled to partner with world music festival OneBeat, to bring musicians from around the world to workshop and collaborate on campus.
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Artists Include:
Ariel Mo (piano) & KJ Mcdonald
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Artists Include:
Ayano Ninomiya (violin)
Sophie Delphis (voice) & Ari Livne (piano)
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Artists Include:
Trio Ondata (piano trio)
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10
IN-HOUSE EVENT: Evenings at Avaloch
Join us for a multifaceted evening of music making in our concert barn space! Our summer Community Concert Series features visiting artists and ensembles of different genres from around the world, who are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Artists Include:
Sibyl (vocal duo)
Talla Rouge (viola duo)
Zoe Martin-Doike (viola) & Futaba Niekawa (piano)
PLOrk Sideband (Princeton Laptop Orchestra)
Outdoor seating is available depending on the weather || Suggested Donation: $10