Bridgehampton Chamber Music welcomes spring with an inventive trio of concerts for its annual BCM Spring Series: the Galvin Cello Quartet, Rhapsody in Blue: A Gershwin Evening, and Heavenly Trios. The 5pm Saturday concerts take place at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, home of Long Island’s longest-running classical music festival.
On Saturday, March 28th at 5pm, the award-winning young Galvin Cello Quartet (Sydney Lee, Haddon Kay, Luiz Fernando Venturelli, and James Baik) presents a program highlighted by four-cello arrangements of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Schumann’s Kinderszenen, and Gershwin’s Three Preludes, as well as a work written for four cellos, Andre Mehmari’s Forrobodó.
On Saturday, April 18th at 5pm, Pianists Michael Stephen Brown and Albert Cano Smit and clarinetist Todd Palmer headline “Rhapsody in Blue: A Gershwin Evening,” a program featuring piano four-hand arrangements of An American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue, Three Preludes arranged for clarinet and piano, and the world premiere of a new work by Michael Stephen Brown commissioned by BCM specifically for this program.
On Saturday, May 9th at 5pm, “Heavenly Trios” features piano trios by Brahms and Haydn, as well as Robert Kahn’s Serenade in F minor for Flute, Cello, and Piano, performed by Marya Martin, flute; Shai Wosner, piano; Stella Chen, violin; and Clive Greensmith, cello.
For more info, visit bcmf.org
