2026-2027 Season

Upcoming

September 11-13, 2026
Five College New Music Festival: Music without Royalties
Bezanson Recital Hall, Amherst, MA

Friday, September 11, 2026, 7:30 PM
Five College New Music Festival: A Moment of Clarity
Sawyer: Impulse (premiere)
with Hiromi Fukuda, piano
Sanford: Missa Brevis
with Kate deLugan, mezzo-soprano, Chris Gross, cello, Philip Solomonick, piano

Saturday, September 12, 2026, 7:30 PM
Five College New Music Festival: Wild and Tame
Carter: Double Trio
with Ayano Kataoka, percussion, Greg Spiridopolous, trombone, Thomas Bergeron, trumpet, Chris Gross, cello, Steven Beck, piano, Eduardo Leandro, conductor
Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King
with Liam Shannon, baritone, Cobus du Toit, flute, Jonathan Maginnis, clarinet, Maggie Dethloff, percussion, Steven Beck, piano, Chris Gross, cello, Eduardo Leandro, conductor

Sunday, September 13, 2026, 3 PM
Five College New Music Festival: O King
Schoenberg: Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41
with William Hite, narrator, Thea Weinbeck, violin, Hyobi Sim, viola, Chris Gross, cello, Steven Beck, piano

Sunday, September 20, 2026, 3 PM
Lathrop House, Easthampton, MA
Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in B-Flat Major, K. 454
Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3
Schubert: Fantasy
with Jiayan Sun, piano

Sunday, September 27, 2026, 3 PM
Lighthouse Chamber Players, Orleans Historical Society
same program as 9/20
with Jiayan Sun, piano

Sunday, October 4, 2026, 5:30 PM
Rutenberg Chamber Music Series, Tampa, FL
Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3
Macchia: Fantasy Variations
Schubert: Fantasy
wtih Jiayan Sun, piano

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 7:30 PM
UMass Faculty Chamber Music Concert, Bezanson Recital Hall, Amherst, MA
Kay Rhie: Minyo Fragments
with Kemp Jernigan, oboe, Hyobi Sim, viola, Chris Gross, cello
Amy Beach: Theme and Variations, Op. 80
with Cobus Du Toit, flute, Ingrid Husemoller, violin, Hyobi Sim, viola, Chris Gross, cello

Thursday, October 15, 2026,12 PM
Recital, Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, VT
Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in B-Flat Major, K. 454
Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3
Schubert: Fantasy
with Jiayan Sun, piano

Sunday, November 1, 2026, 3 PM
Lighthouse Chamber Players
Orleans Historical Society, Orleans, MA
Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing Suite
Summer: Laudatores Temporis Acti
Schumann: Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63
with Chris Gross, cello and Jiayan Sun, piano

Thursday, November 5, 7:30 PM
Opus One Chamber Orchestra, faculty-student collaboration
Bezanson Recital Hall, Amherst, MA

Tuesday, November 17, 7:30 PM
UMass Faculty Chamber Music Concert, Bezanson Recital Hall, Amherst, MA
Copland: Vitebsk: Study on a Jewish Theme
with Chris Gross, cello, Steve Beck, Cello
Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet
with Thea Weinbeck, violin, Hyobi Sim, viola, Chris Gross, cello
Jennifer Higdon: Dark Wood
with Remy Taghavi, bassoon, Chris Gross, cello, Steve Beck, piano