Continuing its momentum from a successful summer festival of in-person performances, Bridgehampton Chamber Music inaugurates its first fall series, BCM Autumn, that continues the 37-year-old organization’s expansion beyond its summer festival (a BCM Spring mini-series began in 2015). Two Saturday early-evening concerts in November will – belatedly – celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday as a Beethoven “mini-fest.”
On November 6, acclaimed Swiss-born American pianist and Bridgehampton Chamber Music favorite Gilles Vonsattel performs two towering Beethoven piano sonatas, the “Waldstein” and “Appassionata.” On November 13, a “Beethoven Winds” program features the composer’s Trio for Flute, Bassoon, and Piano in G Major, and his Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major as well as Valerie Coleman’s Umoja for Wind Quintet (“umoja” means “unity” in Swahili). BCM Artistic Director and flutist Marya Martin is joined on this program by returning Bridgehampton Chamber Music musicians James Austin Smith, oboe; Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Eric Reed, horn; and Orion Weiss, piano.
“This summer’s festival was exhilarating to plan, perform, and to pull off,” said Marya Martin, “and it also whetted our appetites for more. An autumn series was in the planning stages before the pandemic, but it is particularly sweet to inaugurate it now, as a kind of talisman for better days ahead.”
BCM Autumn 2021
Saturday, November 6, 2021, at 5pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
BCM Autumn: Gilles Vonsattel Plays Beethoven
Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Saturday, November 13, 2021, at 5pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
BCM Autumn: Beethoven Winds
Marya Martin, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon;
Eric Reed, horn; Orion Weiss, piano
For more info, visit www.bcmf.org
