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Introduction & Welcome from the Artistic Directors:
Ashuelot Concerts promotes live, classical music as a powerful force for good in the community. Using concerts, school performances, talks & outreach, Ashuelot Concertsseekstoinspirelearning,achievement and well-being in our local community while growing an enthusiastic audience for classical music
Welcome to Ashuelot Concerts’ third International Concert Series. We are honored to have you with us to experience the magic of live chamber music together. If this is your first time at one of our events, you are especially welcome. We hope that after the performance, you will leave sharing our passion for the incredible music featured in this year’s program.
Since the beginning of time, human beings have gathered to share in the joy of live music. It is a “cultural universal”, a critically important part of what it means to be human. Music is one of very few customs that brings people together without any potential for controversy or conflict. Today, our world is increasingly dominated by synthetic digital products and information. In contrast, Ashuelot Concerts celebrates the analogue experience, the wonderful vibrations made by some of the finest instruments in the world. Live music offers the perfect antidote, reminding us that nothing synthetic or artificial can transcend the beauty, meaningful connections and shared experiences of real-life.
Each year, Ashuelot Concerts brings world-famous chamber musicians to our beautiful rural region. We select music that is guaranteed to move and excite and we constantly strive to reach more people. Over the next year, we will give 40 performances in schools, sharing the incredible experience of live chamber music with thousands of local children. They are always eager to know exactly how we do what we do with our instruments. In answer, we explain the power that determination, commitment and daily practice has in our own lives. These children have unlimited possibilities ahead of them. Each time we perform in a school, we give the performance extra energy and commitment, knowing that the music could inspire a child to try that little bit harder in class that day.
If you enjoy your experience at the concert today, please talk to your friends about our program. There are so many people who have yet to discover how incredibly positive a live classical music experience can be. We would love to meet them and welcome them into our growing community at a future concert.
Chamber Music from Paris
Friday, September 6 – 7:30 pm, Stonewall Farm, Keene
Sunday, September 8 – 3:00 pm, The Park Theatre, Jaffrey
Andantino Quietoso in E-flat, Op. 6 (1843)
Piano Quartet in B-flat, Op. 41 (1875)
I. Allegretto
II. Andante maestoso ma con moto
III. Poco allegro più tosto moderato
IV. Allegro ***INTERMISSION***
Franck (1822 - 1890)
Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
Elegy in C minor, Op. 24 (1883)
Piano Quartet No.1 in C minor, Op. 15 (1876-1883)
I. Allegro molto moderato
II. Scherzo,Allegro vivo
III. Adagio
IV. Allegro molto
Fauré (1845 - 1924)
Fauré (1845 - 1924)
Louisa Stonehill - Violin, Masumi Per Rostad – Viola, Thomas Mesa - Cello, Nicholas Burns – Piano
Solo Violin by Candlelight
Friday, December 6 – 7:30 pm, Stonewall Farm, Keene
Partita No.3 for Solo Violin in E major, BWV 1006
I. Preludio
II. Loure
III. Gavotte en Rondeau
IV. Menuett I
V. Menuett II
VI. Bourée
VII. Gigue
Passagalia in G minor, The Guardian Angel (ca 1674)
Sonata No.1 in G minor, BWV 1001 (1720)
I. Adagio
II. Fuga
III. Siciliana
IV. Presto
Bach (1685 - 1750)
Biber (1644 - 1704)
Bach (1685 - 1750)
Fantasia in A minor (ca 1720)
Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (1720)
I. Allemande
II. Courante
III. Sarabande
IV. Gigue
Matteis Jr. (ca 1650 – ca 1713)
J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750)
V. Chaconne Louisa Stonehill – Violin
J.S.
J.S.
Solo Piano Favorites by Mendelssohn, Beethoven & Tchaikovsky
Saturday, December 7 – 7:30 pm, Stonewall Farm, Keene
Songs without Words Book VI, Op.67 (1834 - 1835)
I. Andante
II. Allegro leggiero
III. Andante tranquillo
IV. Presto: Spinner’s Song
V. Moderato: The Shephard’s Complaint
VI. Allegro non troppo: Cradle Song
Piano Sonata in C# minor, Op.27 No.2, “Moonlight” (1802)
I. Adagio sostenuto
II. Allegretto
III. Presto agitato
***INTERMISSION***
Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
The Seasons, Op. 37a (1876) Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
I. January: At the Fireside
II. February: Carnival
III. March: Song of the Lark
IV. April: Snowdrop
V. May: Starlit Nights
VI. June: Barcarolle
VII. July: Song of the Reaper
VIII. August: The Harvest
IX. September: The Hunt
X. October: Autumn Song
XI. November: Troika
XII. December: Christmas
Nicholas Burns – Piano
Louisa Stonehill
Violin
Program & Artistic Director, Ashuelot Concerts
British-American violinist, Louisa Stonehill is a dedicated chamber musician and co-founder of Ashuelot Concerts. She has recorded four critically-acclaimed albums of violin sonatas and concerti for Nimbus and Lyrita. Louisa has performed all over the world, from London to New York and most recently, Beijing.
Louisa previously enjoyed a successful career in orchestral music with the City of London Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia and BBC Concert Orchestra. She has also worked with the Royal Philharmonia Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Symphony Orchestra and Opera Holland Park. She regularly performed at the BBC Proms in London (the largest classical music festival in the world) and often broadcast for BBC TV and radio.
A skilled and experienced educator, Louisa has always enjoyed teaching alongside her performing career. She has taught at the Royal College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London. She has coached young ensembles at The Royal College of Music, London, and from 2009-2016 ran a thriving private music studio in London.
Louisa began playing the violin just before her fourth birthday, inspired by her musical grandmother. At ten, she won a place at the prestigious Purcell School of Music in London. After completing her formal education at Birmingham and Trinity Laban Conservatoires, Louisa continued her studies at IMS Prussia Cove and took part in many of the inaugural ChamberStudio masterclasses at Kings Place. She studied with such eminent musicians as Leland Chen, Richard Ireland,Anthony Marwood, Krysia Osostowicz, Henk Guittart, Christoph Richter, William Howard and David Waterman.
Louisa plays on a wonderful English violin made in 2023 by Glen Collins which has been named after her. It is based on the Lord Wilton Guarneri del Jesu once owned by the late Yehudi Menuhin.
Since moving to New Hampshire in 2016, Louisa has been enjoying her new environment with her husband and two young boys. She is a keen hiker and skier, loves photography and rolling out her yoga mat for some down time!
Nicholas Burns
Piano
Artistic & Executive Director, Ashuelot Concerts
British Pianist Nicholas Burns has dedicated most of his career to chamber music after initially pursuing conducting. He now serves as full-time Artistic & Executive Director of Ashuelot Concerts, presenting concerts and school performances to thousands each year in the Monadnock Region in New Hampshire.
Nick has performed all over the world and recorded four critically acclaimed albums for Nimbus & Lyrita.
A committed educator, Nick has always found time to coach and teach alongside his performances. He has taught masterclasses at Dartmouth College & Trinity Laban Conservatoire. Before leaving London he ran a successful private teaching studio from 20052016. He was also an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music from 2010-17, adjudicating music exams all over the world.
Nick studied Music at Bristol University before completing a graduate degree in conducting at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London. He was Music Director of the New Orpheus Ensemble from 2003-2008 and conducted I Maestri, GravesendYouth Orchestra, Kent Schools Orchestra and New Sussex Opera before his passion for chamber music led him to devote almost all of his time to the piano. He attended the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove in 2010 and spent each January in residence at the Banff Centre in Canada from 2012-2014. From 2010-2012 he was a regular participant in the ChamberStudio masterclasses at Kings Place in London, and was fortunate to study with some of the world's leading chamber musicians.
Since making the move to New Hampshire, Nick has been enjoying exploring the beautiful Monadnock region he now calls home, especially the hiking, kayaking and skiing nearby. When not immersed in music, Nick loves taking photos and following Formula 1!
Edward Arron Cello
Cellist Edward Arron has garnered recognition worldwide for his elegant musicianship, impassioned performances, and creative programming. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Arron made his New York recital debut in 2000 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since that time, he has appeared in recital, as a soloist with major orchestras, and as a chamber musician, throughout NorthAmerica, Europe andAsia.
The 2023-24 season marks Mr. Arron’s 11th season as the co-artistic director with his wife, Jeewon Park, of the Performing Artists in Residence series at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Mr. Arron tours and records as a member of the renowned Ehnes String Quartet and he is a regular performer at the Boston and Seattle Chamber Music Societies, the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, Bargemusic, Caramoor, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival, Seoul Spring Festival in Korea, Music in the Vineyards Festival, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival, and the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland. He has appeared as a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has performed numerous times in Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel Halls, Lincoln Center’s Alice
Tully and David Geffen Halls, New York’s Town Hall and the 92nd Street Y. Other festival appearances include Salzburg, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart, PyeongChang, Bravo! Vail, Bridgehampton, Spoleto USA, Santa Fe, Evian, La Jolla Summerfest, Chamber Music Northwest, Chesapeake Chamber Music, and the Bard Music Festival. He has participated in Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project as well as Isaac Stern’s Jerusalem Chamber Music Encounters. Mr. Arron’s performances are frequently broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today. In 2021, Mr. Arron’s recording of Beethoven’s Complete Works for Cello and Piano with pianist Jeewon Park was released on the Aeolian Classics Record Label. The recording received the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artists Award from the Classical Recording Foundation.
In May of 2022, Mr.Arron stepped down after 15 years as the artistic director of the acclaimed Musical Masterworks concert series in Old Lyme, Connecticut. In 2013, he completed a tenyear residency as the artistic director of the Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, a chamber music series created in 2003 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Museum’s prestigious Concerts and Lectures series. Mr.Arron was also the artistic director of the USCB Chamber Music Series in Beaufort, South Carolina from 2009-2021, and the Chamber Music on Main concert series at the Columbia (SC) Museum ofArt from 2009-2018.
Edward Arron began playing the cello at age seven in Cincinnati and continued his studies in NewYork with Peter Wiley. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he was a student of Harvey Shapiro. In 2016, Mr.Arron joined the faculty at University of MassachusettsAmherst, after having served on the faculty of New York University from 2009 to 2016.
Nina Lee Cello
Through a public school program, Nina Lee began learning cello in Chesterfield, MO at the age of ten. Six years later, she left home to study with David Soyer at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, PA. She went on to complete her Bachelors and Masters of Music at the Juilliard School in New York City with Joel Krosnick, attended the Tanglewood Music Festival, and toured with the Marlboro Music Festival where she collaborated with Mitsuko Uchida,Andras Schiff, Felix Galimir and Samuel Rhodes.
In 1999, Ms. Lee joined the Brentano Quartet with whom she has been privileged to perform throughout North America, Australia, New Zealand, England, France, Germany, Spain, Japan, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. In addition, she has not only recorded the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven but has also championed new music represented in her quartet’s commissioned works of Stephen Hartke, Steve Mackey, Vijay Iyer, James MacMillan, Bruce Adolphe, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Shulamit Ran (to name a few).
Among the various projects the Brentano Quartet has undertaken, it was asked to record the soundtrack to the 2012 film, “A Late Quartet” which centered around Beethoven’s Op. 131. The film, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener also featured Ms. Lee playing herself in a cameo.
As important to her life as a musician, Ms. Lee has made a commitment to teaching chamber music. She has been on the faculty at Princeton and Columbia Universities and is currently coaching chamber music at the Yale School of Music where the Brentano Quartet is in residence. She has also participated as a guest faculty member at the St. Lawrence String Quartet Chamber Music Seminar and the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music. She also has made appearances at the Spoleto Festival USAand La Jolla SummerFest.
Ms. Lee makes her home in Brooklyn, New York where she lives with her husband and 2 children.When she isn’t playing the cello or teaching, she loves spending time with her family, cooking, entertaining, organizing chamber music salons and finding new ways to be creative!
Tommy Mesa
Cello
Cuban-American cellist Tommy Mesa has established himself as one of the most charismatic, innovative, and engaging performers of his generation.The recipient of the Sphinx Organization’s 2023 Medal of Excellence, its highest honor, Mesa has appeared as soloist at the Supreme Court of the United States on four occasions and with major orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Indianapolis, Madison, New Jersey, San Antonio, and Santa Barbara, among others. Mesa gave the world premiere and subsequent tour of Jessie Montgomery’s cello concerto in the 2022-23 season, with performances at major halls across the United States and Brazil including Miami’s New World Center and Carnegie Hall. His orchestral recording debut of the work was released in July 2023 on Deutsche Grammophon.
Orchestral highlights of the 2023-24 season include an extensive performance tour of Cuba and performance debuts with the Calgary and Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestras; the Ann Arbor, Bay Atlantic, Columbus, Greenwich, Gulf Coast, Knoxville, Quad City, Reading, Waterbury Symphony Orchestras; and Boston’s Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. Mesa returns to the Indianapolis Symphony as co-curator and featured performer for their chamber music series this season, premieres a new work by composerAndrea Casarrubios to kick off the new season at Bargemusic in New York, and will be featured in solo recitals with pianist Ilya Yakushev throughout the country including Jamestown (Rhode Island), Laguna Woods, and Sarasota. Past performance features include recitals at The Academy of Arts and Letters, Bay Chamber Concerts, University of Miami’s Signature Series, Columbia University, Flagler Museum, The Heifetz Institute, California Center for the Arts, Meadowmount School of 25
Music, Strad for Lunch Series, International Beethoven Project, Perlman Music Program Alumni Recital, and major universities across the United States. This season celebrates several new recording releases and subsequent tours, including albums with pianist Michelle Cann and with bandoneonist/composer JP Jofre. In the spring of 2023, Mesa was featured in an exclusive artist showcase on NYC’s classical station WQXR that included selections of his upcoming album of world-premiere recordings by Black and Latinx composers with Cann. He also has an album release scheduled with pianist Olga Kern in 2024 and with The Crossing Choir in 2025. Recently, Tommy was the featured cover story on Strings Magazine, September/October, 2020
Tommy performs on a Nicolò Gagliano cello made in 1767 and a bow by Andre Richaume, both generously loaned to him by CANIMEX INC in Drummondville, Canada. His performance clothing sponsor is Coregami.
Masumi Per Rostad Viola
Praised for his “burnished sound” (The NewYorkTimes) and described as an “electrifying, poetic, and sensitive musician,” the Grammy Award-winning, JapaneseNorwegian violist Masumi Per Rostad hails from the gritty East Village of 1980s New York. He was raised in an artist loft converted from a garage with a 1957 Chevy Belair as the remnant centerpiece in their living room. Masumi began his studies at the nearby Third Street Music School Settlement at age three and has gone on to become one of the most in demand soloists, chamber musicians, teachers. In addition to maintaining an active performance schedule, he serves on the faculty of the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.
Masumi regularly tours internationally and has performed at many of the most prominent festivals, including Marlboro, Spoleto USA, Music@Menlo, Caramoor, Music in the Vineyards, Bowdoin, and the Aspen Music Festival. His guest violist collaborations include programs with the St Lawrence,Ying, Pavel Haas, Miró,Verona, and Emerson String Quartets, as well as with the Horszowski Trio. He toured and recorded extensively as a former member of the International Sejong Soloists. He can be heard on the Cedille Records, Naxos, Hyperion, Musical Observations, Bridge, and Tzadik record labels.
As a member of the Pacifica Quartet for almost two decades (2001-2017), Masumi regularly performed in the world’s greatest halls including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Sydney’s City Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Munich’s Herkuleshaal, Paris’Louvre and Cité de la Musique, and Berlin’s Konzerthaus among many others. He was full professor of viola and chamber music as quartet-in-residence at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. In 2006, the ensemble was awarded the coveted Cleveland QuartetAward,AveryFisher
Career Grant, and they were also named MusicalAmerica’s 2009 Ensemble of the Year.
Masumi is an ardent advocate for the arts, and often sought after as a contributing writer to such publications as the Huffington Post, Strings and Gramophone magazines as well as The Guardian.
Passionate about breaking down barriers that prevent people from enjoying Classical music, Masumi was the founder of DoCha, a chamber music festival in Champaign, Illinois that produced innovative events with a focus on engaging new audiences through fun and inventive programming. DoCha-hosted events featured unique collaborations between members of the University and multi-genre presentations from Classical chamber music to contemporary dance, the spoken word, and much more.All programs were free of charge and took place at a beautiful former community Opera House. Other activities of DoCha, included ‘in-reach’ performances for elementary school students as well as master classes, competitions and performance opportunities for local music students.
Masumi has served on the faculties of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, The University of Chicago, Longy School of Music, and Northwestern University. He has given master classes at The Colburn School, Cleveland Institute of Music, The Aspen Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Interlochen and San Francisco Conservatory among many others.
He received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School. There, he studied with legendary violist and pedagogue Karen Tuttle from the age of 17 and was made her teaching assistant just three years later at the age of 20.At Juilliard, he was awarded the ‘Lillian FuchsAward’for the most outstanding graduating violist. He also won the Juilliard School Concerto Competition and performed the world premiere of Michael White's Viola Concerto in Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, with conductor James DePreist. That same year he gave the New York premiere of Paul Schoenfield's Viola Concerto with the Juilliard Symphony to critical acclaim. In 2008 he was awarded the ‘Rising Star Award’ by the Third Street Music School Settlement for his musical achievements
Masumi lives in Rochester, NY with his wife Sonia – a concert pianist – and their daughter, Ling. He is professor of viola and chamber music at the Eastman School of Music. He is a D’Addario Artist and has used their 27
strings since 1999. Celebrating a 400 year birthday in 2019, his Amati viola was crafted in Cremona, Italy in 1619.
Schumann Quartet
Eric Schumann, Ken Schumann - Violin
Veit Hertenstein - Viola, Mark Schumann - Cello
The Schumann Quartet has reached a stage where anything is possible, because it has dispensed with certainties. This also has consequences for audiences, which from one concert to the next have to be prepared for all eventualities: “A work really develops only in a live performance,” the quartet says. “That is 'the real thing', because we ourselves never know what will happen. On the stage, all imitation disappears, and you automatically become honest with yourself. Then you can create a bond with the audience – communicate with it in music.” Their live performance will be expanded in the near future with partners such as Andreas Ottensamer, Kit Armstrong, Anna-Lucia Richter, Sabine Meyer, Sharon Kam and Alexey Stadler.
Highlights of the 2024/2025 season include: the Beethoven string quartet cycle, performed at the renowned Suntory Hall in Tokyo in June 2025; an extensive quartet tour of NorthAmerica; and the resumption with Kit Armstrong of the "Expedition Mozart" project, which will make guest appearances at Flagey in Brussels, Alte Oper Frankfurt and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, among others. The quartet will also perform again at Wigmore Hall London, Gewandhaus Leipzig and ConcertgebouwAmsterdam, to name but a few.
Its album “Intermezzo” (2018 | Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Schumann und Reimann with AnnaLucia Richter) has been hailed enthusiastically both at home and abroad and received the award “Opus Klassik“ in the category quintet. In 2020 the quartet has expanded its discography with "Fragment" and his examination of one of the masters of the string quartet: Franz Schubert. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the radio, the quartet will dedicate itself to a very special project: An album of pieces around and from 1923. Together with the Bavarian Radio, they will record works byAlban Berg, Leos Janacek, Ernst Krenek andAaron Copland.
The three brothers Mark, Erik and Ken Schumann have been playing together since their earliest childhood – meanwhile violist Veit Hertenstein completes the quartet. The four musicians enjoy the way they communicate without words. Although the individual personalities clearly manifest themselves, a common space arises in every musical work in a process of spiritual metamorphosis. The quartet's openness and curiosity may be partly the result of the formative influence exerted on it by teachers such as Eberhard Feltz, the Alban Berg Quartet, or partners such as Menahem Pressler.
Awards, CD releases – it is always tempting to speculate on what factors have led to many
people viewing the Schumann Quartet as one of the best in the world. But the four musicians themselves regard these stages more as encounters, as a confirmation of the path they have taken. “We really want to take things to extremes, to see how far the excitement and our spontaneity as a group take us,” says Ken Schumann, the middle of the three Schumann brothers. They charmingly sidestep any attempt to categorise their sound, approach or style, and let the concerts speak for themselves.
And the critics approve: “Fire and energy. The Schumann Quartet plays staggeringly well [...] without doubt one of the very best formations among today’s abundance of quartets, [...] with sparkling virtuosity and a willingness to astonish” (Harald Eggebrecht in Suddeutsche Zeitung).*
Erik Schumann plays on a violin by Joseph Guarneri filius Andrea from 1690, kindly made available to him by the Guadagnini Foundation Stuttgart. Ken Schumann plays an old Italian violin from the mid-18th century, kindly made available to him privately. Veit Hertenstein plays a viola made by the Amati brothers in 1616. Mark Schumann plays a cello by Giovanni & Francesco Grancino from 1680, generously loaned to him by MERITO Sit Vienna.
Sitkovetsky Trio
Alexander Sitkovetsky - Violin
Isang Enders - Cello
Wu Qian - Piano
The Sitkovetsky Trio has established itself as an exceptional piano trio of today, with sensational performances in the foremost concert halls around the world. Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin) and Wu Qian (piano) were joined recently by GermanKorean cellist Isang Enders to continue their journey of successful appearances. Their thoughtful and committed approach have brought the ensemble critical acclaim and invitations to renowned concert halls around the world, such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Palais des Beaux Arts, Musee du Louvre, l’Auditori Barcelona, Wigmore Hall and Lincoln Center New York to name but a few.
The 2020/21 season will see the trio return to Lincoln Center New York, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Alte Oper Frankfurt and Frederiksvaerk Festival in Denmark, as well as making their debuts at TelAviv Museum of ModernArt and the chamber music series in Bern and Basel. The trio will also return to and extensively tour the UK for performances at Wigmore Hall, St George’s Bristol, Manchester Chamber Society and Cambridge Summer Music Festival amongst others. Further tours will take the trio to Spain and SouthAmerica.
Highlights of the past seasons have been a residency at Hong Kong City Hall to include performances of Beethoven’s triple concerto with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, as well as chamber music. They also toured Asia performing concerts throughout South Korea, Singapore and Japan. In May 2019 they performed the world premiere of a new triple 29
2024-25 Schools Program
Ashuelot Concerts offers every local school the chance to have the live experience you hear today performed in classrooms. Before each concert weekend, our international artists visit local schools to perform for children and share stories of their personal journeys to success. Often, the children are sitting only a few feet away from famous instruments made by Stradivari orAmati over 400 years ago.
Each school program lasts for approximately 45 minutes and includes three performances of selected repertoire from the concert program.Alongside the music, each presentation follows a theme. For example:
• How daily habits can change what we think we are capable of: Exploring how each of us is a product of our daily habits (both good and bad) and how small changes can lead to big gains over time.
• Is something difficult in class, or is it just new? Exploring how the brain reacts negatively to something unfamiliar and how after a few days it can feel so much easier with the right learning techniques.
• Talent does not exist! Exploring how there is no scientific evidence that explains extraordinary ability but there are many characteristics that high achievers of all disciplines have in common.
• What music tells us about how to communicate: Exploring how to utilize the four basic elements of music - pitch, rhythm, dynamics and articulation - to improve our speaking and listening skills and maybe even make the world a kinder place.
• Attention and Focus: Using the music as an example, we explore how our brains can only attend to one sense and one thing at any one time.
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Staff, Board Members & Volunteers
Staff
Artistic & Executive Director
Nicholas Burns
Artistic & Program Director
Louisa Stonehill
Administrator
Patti Smith
Board Members
President Steven Larmon
Directors
Alison Brule
Seth Clarke
John Paul Crisman
Christopher Freeman
Matthew Jobbins
Rick MacMillan
Andrew Shurman
Ulia Sokol
Front-of-House school-age volunteers
Nathaniel Burns
Maddy Carlson
Donovan Carlson
Francesca Crisman
Liam Crisman
James Crisman
Leah Frost
Bailey Hundley
Buddy Hundley
Rachel Kamphuis
Cate Kamphuis
Ryan Mark
Abigail Pinegar
Hyrum Pinegar
Artist Hosts
Sally & David Bulger
Steve & Jane Larmon
John & Connie
Schlegelmilch
Marcy & Chip
Southgate
Jane & David Stabler
Music is the Answer!
With your support, Ashuelot Concerts has grown to become a destination series with an international reputation in record time. Our program is now regularly attracting some of the world’s leading musicians to our beautiful region. These incredible performers will be sharing their gifts with thousands of local children through our schools program, as well as with our growing concert audience.
Each new season offers Ashuelot Concerts the opportunity to further our mission: Live music has a unique power to grab our collective attention away from negative digital distractions. Music brings us together and unites us around something viscerally beautiful. Thousands of people in our audience will have the opportunity to forge new connections and friendships around a shared love of live music.At a time when disagreements seem ready to tear our community apart, live music offers an important path to healing.
For children, our program demonstrates the value of real-life experiences in a unique way. Local children as young as five now have the opportunity to see, hear and feel live music, upclose, performed by some of the world’s leading concert musicians on a regular basis. After feeling the thrilling energy of a live performance and hearing famous musicians explain their own journey to success, there are many more reasons to dream big and try that little bit harder in class that day.
Ashuelot Concerts’ program is only made possible through the generous contributions of our donors and sponsors. Today, we are asking for your support as we work to secure the future of our young organization. As you experience the music, we respectfully ask that you consider donating generously to our program. We also encourage you to tell your friends about our program and bring them to a concert soon.
Our program can only succeed with your help, we remain a young organization in need of support. Please consider donating monthly or making a one-time gift by scanning the code, using the enclosed gift envelope or visiting our website at ashuelotconcerts.org/donate
Every donation dollar will be invested in using live classical chamber music as a force for good in this community.
THANK YOU!
2024-25 Objectives
1. To provide an affordable, live classical music experience that is usually reserved for major metropolitan areas, to our rural community.
2. To grow the numbers of people attending live classical concerts in Southwest New Hampshire.
3. To provide high-quality arts access to the economically & geographically disenfranchised people in our community.
4. To lower the average age of those attending by encouraging children and families to attend.
5. To enthuse our audience to such an extent, that they return with their friends at future concerts.
Ashuelot Concerts' goal is to provide joy, inspiration and unity through our program. Our aim is very simple: to uplift and inspire as many people as possible through the experience of live classical music. We bring together diverse audiences of young and old people from different backgrounds, with varied political beliefs and religions, we gather in beautiful venues and together we share the unique experience of beautiful music, performed live at the highest level.
After such an experience, there is suddenly more reason to be optimistic; where there is division, the concert-setting offers the perfect opportunity to talk only about the musical experience, leaving any differences at the door.
Live Classical Music has so much to offer, especially when it involves artists at the very top of the profession. In recent times division and political polarization has increased, mental health has deteriorated significantly, and social-media and screen usage has increased - degrading our collective ability to focus, make real connections and enjoy real-life experiences. Live music has a unique and scientifically proven ability to help mitigate these issues in our community as we gradually recover from the strains of the last few years.
Introducing Ashuelot Concerts’ Artist Circle
Ashuelot Concerts is looking for ways to secure our medium term future. As so many leading artists require contracts to be signed 12-24 months ahead of each concert date, we are looking to form a core group of supporters who will help us to secure leading artists for future seasons. For a small monthly contribution, you can help Ashuelot Concerts secure the participation of some of the world’s leading musicians to our beautiful region for years to come.
More Ways to Support Ashuelot Concerts this Season
Please consider supporting this year’s program, we welcome gifts of any size, but below are some examples of how larger or recurring gifts can help us bring more live music to our community.
One-time gifts:
Larger gifts allow our young organization to invest in future programs with confidence:
Sponsor a Concert - $5,000
Sponsor one of our world-class chamber music concerts in the Monadnock Region. Your name will appear in the concert program and on any livestream broadcast and our website.
Sponsor an Artist - $4,000
Help support bringing an International Artist to perform in two concerts & four schools in our series.
Enable a Schools Concert- $2,500
Sponsor one of our performances in a local school. Your name will appear prominently in our concert program and on our website. Your financial support will also be acknowledged in press releases in the week of the performance.
Sponsor a Piano Move - $2,000
Help safely move our concert Steinway between our three beautiful venues.
Support a Concert Venue- $1,000
Help with the production of our concerts by supporting the rental of one concert venue.
Recurring donations
A small, monthly donation can make a big difference to Ashuelot Concerts over the next 12 months:
$75 per month
Help us continue to provide free tickets for school age children at our concerts. Each concert sees a growing number of high school children attending.
$50 per month
Helps us provide live music to one class of children. Join some of our local teachers in supporting Ashuelot Concerts at this level.
$25 per month
Help us maintain our beautiful concert Steinway. Each concert requires at least two tunings and several hours of technical work to keep our piano in perfect condition.
$10 per month
Help with Ashuelot Concerts marketing efforts. Central to our mission is reaching people who would never usually attend a classical music concert.
Ashuelot Concerts’ Mission was made possible thanks to the generosity of these wonderful supporters: (gifts
2023-24 Corporate Advertisers and Supporters
Aloha Healthy Living
American Family Mutual
Insurance
The Barn & Thistle
Belletetes Inc.
C&S Wholesale Grocers
Covenant Living of Keene
Crisman Construction
Douglas Toys
Fenton Family Dealerships
Florentine Films
Granita Enoteca
Greater Monadnock Collaborative
Greenwald Associates
Hannah Grimes Marketplace
Hogancamp PC
Johnson & Johnson
Kapiloff Insurance
The Keene Sentinel
Liberty Mutual
Mascoma Bank
Meadow Cove Counselling
Monadnock Ford
Monadnock Broadcasting Group
NBT Bank
NH Trust
Perry Family Dental
Remax Real Estate
Savings Bank of Walpole
Sojourns Community Health
State Farm - Greg Carlson
St. Joseph’s Regional School
The Timken Company
The Toadstool Bookshop
Traditions Real Estate
Walmart
Whitney Brothers
Wondrous Roots
2023-24 Foundation, Trusts & Individual Donors
$25,000-$49,999
The Eppes-Jefferson Foundation, Inc.
Fidelity Charitable
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
received between July 1 2023 - June 30 2024)
$10,000-$24,999
Linda Guinane
Anne Havill
Hoffman Family Foundation
McKenzie Family Charitable Trust
Putnam Foundation
$5,000-$9,999
Jan & Rick Cohen
John A. & Carol A. Hubbard
Charitable Foundation
Bob & Gael Strong
Mark Tassinari
Vanguard Charitable
Frederick Smyth Institute of Music Anonymous
$1,000-$4,999
Whitney Aldrich
Kathryn Bowry
James & Nina Cunningham
The Rev. Caroline Edge
Sandra Furman
John & Jean Hoffman
Ruth Jacobs
Judy & Richard Kalich
Linda & Tad Lacey
Jane & Steve Larmon
Fred & Jean Leventhal
Jacqueline Lyon
Katrina Maloney
Bill & Joanne McGee
Susan & John H. McGinnis
Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust
The Arthur Getz Trust
Augusta H. Petrone
Savings Bank of Walpole
John & Constance Schlegelmilch
Jane & David Stabler
Ann & Roger Sweet
Kim & Maria Temple
Jessica & Joshua Tomey
Ed Tomey & Maich Gardner
Walter & Deborah Mess
The Windham Foundation
Johnson & Johnson
J. P. Morgan Charitable Giving
Fund
Northern Trust Charitable Giving Program
$500-$999
Nancy & David Belletete
Kenneth & Lynn Bergman
Ellen & Ed Bernard
Pierre Bonneau
Kiwanis Club of Keene
Mary F. Bull
Charles & Nancy Butterfield
Patricia I. Campbell
Emily & Robert Carr
Seth Clarke
Robert Cochran
Jane Crawford
Caroline & Tom Ewing
Animaterra
Helen Giacoma
Martin Greenman
Elm City Rotary
Susie Hunter
Elizabeth Jacques
Andrea Johnston
Douglas & Risa Keene
Joslin Kimball Frank
Frederick MacMillan
Christopher Mills
Ruth & Ted Parent
Jean Hoffman Prior
Elizabeth Regan
Martha Rullman & John Schuster
Mark Mees & Ann Shedd
Arthur & Lynn Simington
Ulia Sokol
Carol Spindler
C Augusta Stewart
Sue Sweeney
Olaf & Mette Tabur
Anthony & Barbara Tremblay
Nancy Vincent
Laurence White
Julie White
Rebecca Wilber
Dorothy Yanish
$251-$499
Susan & Seth Dmitrovsky
Cecile Goff
Bridget & Peter Hansel
Anita & Michael Haslam
Carol Jue
Mary King & Shirley Keech
Robert Lariviere
Louise Malcolm
Susan Murata
Mary Ann Noyer
Daniel & Barbara Peacock
Chip & Marcy Southgate
Thomas Stearns
Mary Sweet
Kathryn & Jon Thatcher
Laurie & Michael Trubnick
Ruth Ward
Up to $250
Allen Ansevin
Mary Armstrong
Phillip Bastedo
Jacob Benson
Beth & Joseph Bergman
Cathy Bernius
Kathleen & Steven Bill
Judith Bischoff
Greg Blair
Alexandra Bley-Vroman
Carey Bluhm
Mark & Madeline Bodin
Maria Bradshaw
Kathleen Brooks
Alison Brule
Richard Buchanan
Wendy Byrn
Richard Casella
Georgia Cassimatis
Stephanie Castor
Kathleen L & William W Clark
Teresa Clarkson
Margaret & Douglas Connor
Mary Covington
John Cressy
John Paul Crisman
Peter Crisman
Larry Dachowski
Julie Dickson
Susan Dinolfo
Jamie Doherty
Sarah Downing
Melissa Drury
Timothy Dziedzic
Gerald Eichner
Jessamyn Fiore
David Fitch
Margaret Foxweldon
Gil & Alice Fuld
Alice Funk
Julie Gargan
Vern Garrett
Rosemary Gianno
Sandra Goff
Daniel Goldstein
Willard Goodwin
Christine Greenspan
Erika & Mitchell Greenwald
Charlotte Guyer
Nora Hanke
Sally Hansel
Gordon Harper
Kathryn Hodgkins
Karen Hoover
Joachim & Lauren Hubele
Barbara Hudgik
Sandra Hunt
Paul & Marjorie Inderbitzen
Carolyn Isaak
Matt Jobbins
Karl Kaiser
Robert & Barbara Kaspar
Leslie & Robin Kenney
Steve Kim & Jinsook Song
Claus Knappe
Sara P. Knight
Christina LaBarre
Laurie LaBrecque
Louise LaChance
Gail Landy
Richard Langellotti
Jean Larmon
Marcia Legru
Donna & Gerry Leo
Christa Macbeth
Craig & Sylvia MacBeth
Sheila Magnuson
Justin Manning
Eileen Mariani
Susan Marsh & Larry Spang
Bonnie McCarthy
Gerard McIntyre
Miriam Michael
Dale & Rebecca Montrone
Ann & William Moyle
Eliza Murphy
Margaret Murtha
David Nelson
Elizabeth Newcombe
Thomas Osborne
Marcia Oster
Carl & Nancy Panza
Patricia Parent
Mary Pinegar
Wendy Redlinger
Karen Reixach
Susanne Riemer
Karl Roberts Cuts for Men
Katharina & Peter Rooney
Danielle & Anthony Ruffo
Robert & Tracy Shalit
Jane & Gary Shapiro
Susan Shaw-Sarles
Peter Shea
Janice Warren & Stephen Shriner
Andrew Thomas Shurman
Linda Singer
Rebecca Smith-Allen
John Staugaitis
Homer Stavely
Debra Stevens & Anthony Toepfler
David & Cynthia Stinson
Bridgette Sullivan
Betsy Taylor & Lindsay E. Freese
Jane Taylor
Jeffrey Taylor
Julie Teitelbaum
Doug Trump
Judy Vawter
Heidi Watts
Suzanne Welch
Kelli Wilson
Barbara Woodward
Nyia Yannatos
The keys on our beautiful Concert Steinway were sponsored by these generous donors in 2021:
Multiple Octave Sponsors (above $25,000)
Anonymous
Octave Sponsors ($10,000$24,499)
Hoffman Family Foundation
The Putnam Foundation
Half-Octave Sponsors
($5,000-$9,999)
Jan & Rick Cohen
InhonoroftheirGrandchildren:Emma, Neko,Isadora,Isaac,Junoand Benjamin
Multiple Key Sponsors
($1,251-$4,999)
Mascoma Bank
Savings Bank of Walpole
Mark Tassinari
Key Sponsors ($1,250)
Suzanne Coble
Inmemoryof:StellaP.Coble
Patricia & Richard Dugger
Tom & Caroline Ewing
Karen Friedman
Sandra Furman
Linda Guinane
Bridget & Peter Hansel
Eric & Dorothy Herr
Steven & Jane Larmon
Fred & Jean Leventhal
Jean Hoffman Prior
Savastano Family Foundation
Linda Singer
Jane & David Stabler
Linda Stavely
Wondrous Roots, Inc
Half-Key Sponsors ($625$1,249)
Larry Dachowski
Doug & Risa Keene
Carol & Henry Spindler
Contributing Sponsors (Up to $624)
Patricia I. Campbell
Robert Cochran
Glenn Galloway
Dan and Nancy Gillard
Kapiloff Insurance
Leslie & Robin Kenney
Joslin Kimball Frank
Richard MacNeil
Margaret and John McMahon
Karine Munk Finser
Susan Murata
Julia Pakradooni
Daniel & Barbara Peacock
Jean Rosenthal
John & Constance Schlegelmilch
Peter Shea
Patricia & Lawrence Smith
Debra Stevens
Betsy Taylor & Lindsay E. Freese
Hilary Thripp
Robert & Margaret Trebilcock
Anthony and Barbara Tremblay
Katherine Van Wely
Jamie Wheeler
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