Vermont Public Community Calendar

⭐SAVE THE DATE⭐ Opera Company of Middlebury's after-school Youth Opera program presents ☀️Una Giornata🌑, an original production featuring all 24 Italian songs and arias!

Join our talented singers, ages 10-19, next month for three performances around Vermont!💐🤩👏

VT Symphony's Jukebox quartet honors the legacy of American folk traditions and the communal spirit that sustains them. Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Higdon’s exploration of her Southern roots, the Appalachian-infused stylings of fiddler and composer Mark O’Connor, brand new arrangements by bluegrass legend Matt Flinner, and more - this program celebrates the magical place where classical and folk traditions meet. Featuring Brooke Quiggins-Saulnier and Joana Genova, violin; Stefanie Taylor, viola; and John Dunlop, cello; hosted and curated by Matt LaRocca. The tour includes an interactive audio and visual display of Vermont folk heritage, steeped in song selections from the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College and accompanying displays from the Henry Sheldon Museum and Vermont Historical Society.

⭐SAVE THE DATE⭐ Opera Company of Middlebury's after-school Youth Opera program presents ☀️Una Giornata🌑, an original production featuring all 24 Italian songs and arias!

Join our talented singers, ages 10-19, next month for three performances around Vermont!💐🤩👏

Late works by Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms.

In this program, Pinkas explores the later fruits of three magnificent composers. Beethoven's Sonata Op. 110, Schumann's Gesänge der Frühe and Brahms Intermezzi Op. 118 are distillations of wisdom, experience, joy and perhaps sorrow: a celebration of a rich life lived in music.

Aristo Sham, age 29, of Hong Kong, is the 2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Gold Medalist, where he also took the Audience Award. A dapper, aristocratic figure on stage, Sham is an engaging presence with a drive to take on the great pieces of the piano repertoire and a natural, infectious spontaneity at the keyboard. You can’t really say he was catapulted to fame by the Cliburn win; Aristo was featured at the age of three in the 2009 documentary The World’s Greatest Musical Prodigies.

“Italian Madrigals” will feature five outstanding UVB singers, a lutenist on theorbo, and Artistic Director Filippo Ciabatti. The program includes intimate and moving works by Monteverdi, Marenzio, and Gesualdo, all masters of the madrigal form in their day.

Tickets (open seating) are $35 and available at www.uppervalleybaroque.org/concerts or by calling UVB at 203-240-1164.

The Brattleboro Camerata presents the music of Arvo Pärt and Johannes Ockeghem in a program titled “White Light Which Contains All Colors.”

The Camerata will perform Ockeghem’s Ave Maria and Salve Regina and Pärt’s Magnificat, Nunc dimittis, and Missa syllabica.

Music Director Jonathan Harvey explains, “Our featured composers are separated by centuries, and their work can sound otherworldly and distant from the sounds of modern music. That sense opens a space for a deeply mystical, awe-inspiring, and meditative listening experience.”

He adds, “Pärt once wrote, ‘I could compare my music to white light which contains all colors. Only a prism can divide the colors and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.’ The Camerata’s program takes that idea as its starting point, with music of striking starkness or severity that nonetheless has the power to unlock a profound kaleidoscope of feelings in listeners and performers.”

This performance is presented by Otter Creek Music Festival in Partnership with the Meeting House at Cornwall.

The Springfield Community Chorus Presents our 2026 Spring concert "Keep Moving Forward: Modern Voices, Timeless Themes," directed by Emma Erwin. The first of two concerts will be held on April 25th at 7pm at Immanuel Episcopal Church in Bellows Falls. The second will be at the First Congregational Church in Springfield, at 3pm on Sunday April 26th. Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted. See you there!

Violinist Laurie Smukler returns with New York City colleagues — violist Tal First, cellist Natasha Brofsky, and pianist Qing Jiang — for an all-Fauré evening. The program includes two chamber music masterpieces-both Piano Quartets, the radiant Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, and the brilliant Fantaisie for flute and piano with flutist Karen Kevra.

Applauded for his mastery of all styles of playing, Bowles, a Steinway Hall of Fame Artist, will treat us to a wide-ranging program.

Domenico Scarlatti — Three Sonatas
Franz Schubert — Impromptus, Op. posth. 142, D.935
Max Reger — Five Humoreskes for Piano, Op. 20
Franz Liszt — Venezia e Napoli, S.159

Renowned pianist David Feurzeig will perform his 98th Vermont concert on Sunday April 26, at 3:00pm in Waterbury at the Waterbury Congregational Church, 8 North Main Street, with local performers David Goodman, clarinet, Stefanie Weigand, voice, and Matt LaRocca, viola, continuing David’s exciting tour — a free show in all of Vermont’s 252 towns to spread the joy of music and promote environmentally sustainable performance.

In May of 2022, he embarked on his Play Every Town project: 252 free concerts in each of Vermont’s 252 towns to combat climate change through the power of community and music. With this project, David will become the first musician to perform in every Vermont municipality. He will travel in his solar-charged electric vehicle throughout the state, offering free concerts to bring attention to the interrelated issues of climate and community, while bringing the joy of music to his audiences.

All these little things: Settings of American Women Poets

Mary Hubbell, soprano | Jingjing Wan, piano | Alice Jones, flute

Compositions by: Ronald Perera, Alice Jones, Gregory W. Brown, and Sarah Rimkus

In challenging times, what does one hold on to? All These Little Things explores this existential question from a woman’s point of view, presenting art song on the poetry of women from the turn of the 20th century. These poets find solace in nature and in the details of everyday life, transcending their difficulties through the beauty of the moment.

The compositions are innovative though largely adhere to a lyrical tonality, supporting and underpinning the language of the poets. These wistful poems, often lamenting loss, are buoyed and transformed by hopeful and uplifting music. All These Little Things is a candid and consoling look at the human condition.

The Springfield Community Chorus Presents our 2026 Spring concert "Keep Moving Forward: Modern Voices, Timeless Themes," directed by Emma Erwin. The first of two concerts will be held on April 25th at 7pm at Immanuel Episcopal Church in Bellows Falls. The second will be at the First Congregational Church in Springfield, at 3pm on Sunday April 26th. Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted. See you there!

Samir Chatterjee, a world-renowned tabla maestro, will guide us through the hidden world of rhythmic cycles, known as tala. Through a dynamic mix of demonstration and discussion, he will break down complex rhythms, showing how they mirror natural patterns and storytelling. Whether you’re new to Indian classical music or a seasoned fan, you’ll leave with a deeper appreciation for the beauty and precision of tabla.

Celebrate America's 250th anniversary with an evening of powerful music.

To mark the occasion, the acclaimed Dover Quartet brings their signature blend of brilliance and heart to a program that reflects the complexity, spirit and evolving soundscape of America. Renowned for their glowing sound, the Dover Quartet has emerged as one of the most compelling chamber ensembles of their generation.

The evening features "Strum" by Jessie Montgomery and "Rattle Songs", an arrangement of traditional songs by Pura Fé, newly reimagined for string quartet by composer Jerod Tate. Tate's voice returns in a compelling new commission—music that speaks to Native identity, memory and continuity. The program culminates in Dvořák's "American" Quartet, written during the Czech composer's stay in the US in 1893. Infused with echoes of spirituals and folk songs, the program is a luminous reflection on the idea of America.

Don't miss a pre-show talk with the artists.

The two choirs join forces to present Mendelssohn's 'Elijah'—a sweeping oratorio that delves into faith, doubt and resilience through stirring choruses and deeply human storytelling.

Filippo Ciabatti, director

Baritone Igor Golovatenko stars as the title character opposite soprano Asmik Grigorian in Tchaikovsky's lyrical Pushkin adaptation.

Following her acclaimed 2024 Met debut in Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," soprano Asmik Grigorian stars as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic Pushkin adaptation. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late.

Stephanie Blythe sings the role of Tatiana's nurse, with mezzo-soprano Maria Barakova playing Tatiana's sister Olga and baritone Satnislas de Barbeyrac portraying the ill-fated poet Lenski. The Met's evocative production set in nineteenth-century Russia, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, "offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky's lyrical romance" ("The Telegraph"). Timur Zangiev conducts.

Join us for the world premiere of "Three Nature Songs" by composer Christopher McWilliams: "Garden of Love" is a musical setting of William Blake's poem. "A Bird Came Down the Walk" is based on an Emily Dickinson poem. "I Lay In the Grass" is based on a poem by Francis Gupta.

In addition, Singers will perform Brahms' "Rosemary," Benjamin Britten's "Evening Primrose" and John Rutter's arrangement of "For the Beauty of the Earth." The singers will be joined by the Chandler Children's Chorale in "For Good" from "Wicked" and "The Garden Song" (inch by inch and row by row...).

A solo piano recital that bridges centuries and sensibilities.

Francesco Libetta, the Italian pianist and composer hailed for his poetic virtuosity, presents a mesmerizing exploration of music across time. In this singular recital, he juxtaposes a selection of Leopold Godowsky's famously intricate reimaginings of Chopin's Études with the original pieces. He performs on both a French 19th-century piano and a modern Steinway, drawing out the shifting voices of the instrument through history. The result is a revelatory dialogue between past and present.

Relax at the Venetian Soda Lounge with VSO Music Director Andrew Crust and composer James Stewart as they take you through Carl Orff’s renowned score, providing historical background, musical analysis, and commentary on Carmina Burana, with visual and musical examples. While you don’t need to be familiar with Medieval Latin to enjoy Carmina Burana, impress your concert-going friends with added insight from this listening party (before the VSO at the Flynn: O Fortuna! concert at 7:30pm on May 9). Tickets to Carmina on the Rocks are available on a sliding scale. German-inspired bites will be served as part of your ticket; cash bar available.