After a pandemic-induced hiatus of two years, Bridgehampton Chamber Music’s BCM Spring series returns in 2022 with three early-evening Saturday concerts on March 26th, April 23rd, and May 14th. With its four-week summer festival and the successful launch of BCM Autumn, a two-concert fall series, this past November, Long Island’s longest-running classical music festival now has close to a year-round presence in its East End home.
The Verona Quartet, which had been poised to make its BCM debut in March 2020, launches BCM Spring 2022 on March 26 with a program featuring perhaps Beethoven’s most magnificent string quartet, the C-sharp minor, Op. 131, as well as Gabriela Lena Frank’s Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, and Schubert’s Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703. “Baroque Spring” follows on April 23 with a lively program of short Renaissance and Baroque works for winds, strings, continuo, and percussion. The series concludes with “French Flourishes” on May 14, featuring Gaubert’s Mèdailles antiques for flute, violin, and piano; Ravel’s Duo for Violin and Cello; and Fauré’s Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 120. All concerts take place in the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church (See complete programs below.) Continuing with the success of the summer and fall concert format, all spring concerts will be performed without intermission.
“We had a fantastic summer festival and launched a new autumn series last year,” said BCM Artistic Director and flutist Marya Martin. “We know that we need to be alert for course corrections, but we are more determined than ever to be hopeful, and to make music, whatever the circumstances.”
Joining Marya Martin on the programs are returning Bridgehampton Chamber Music artists James Austin Smith, oboe; Paul Huang and Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, violins; Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord; Gloria Chien, piano; and Shane Shanahan, percussion. Cellists Inbal Segev and Brook Speltz are making their BCM debuts.
The Verona Quartet has firmly established itself amongst the most distinguished ensembles on the chamber music scene today. The group won Chamber Music America’s coveted 2020 Cleveland Quartet Award, and has earned a reputation as an “outstanding ensemble… cohesive yet full of temperament” (The New York Times). The Quartet serves on the faculty of the Oberlin College and Conservatory as the Quartet-in-Residence, in addition to holding residences at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance, Indiana University Summer String Academy and North Carolina’s Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle. www.veronaquartet.com
Saturday, March 26, 2022, at 5pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
The celebrated Verona Quartet makes their Bridgehampton Chamber Music debut in a program of beloved favorites by Schubert and Beethoven and an evocative quartet by Gabriela Lena Frank.
Saturday, April 23, 2022, at 5pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
BCM Artistic Director Marya Martin is joined by world-renowned artists to perform Renaissance and Baroque works of wonder and imagination.
Saturday, May 14, 2022, at 5pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
Gorgeous French works by Ravel, Gaubert, and Fauré bring the spring season to a colorful close.
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