$15.00 per adult.
Children and students are welcome without charge.
Series ticket subscriptions are now available.
House Concerts, formerly held at the Piano Study Center during the seasons between regular spring-and-fall concerts, are currently discontinued, due to the addition of two more grand pianos to the collection since summer, 2022. The present twenty-nine pianos in the building do not allow adequate floor space to seat even an audience of twenty-five or thirty people, as we could do in the past.
All donations to our 501(c)(3) organization, Historical Piano Concerts, Inc., are fully tax-deductible, and will be acknowledged in writing for your tax records. Donations of any size are most welcome. We can accept cash or personal checks, but are not equipped to process credit or debit card payments.
Our in-person concerts are held at the Ashburnham Community Church on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 pm. unless otherwise stated. Please note that the pending sale of the church building to the New Dawn Arts Center will not adversely affect the piano concerts, which will be a strong component of the Arts Center's activities.
| September 3, 2023 | Arcadia Players: Jacob Cooper, baritone; Emlyn Ngai, violin; Monica Jakuc Leverett, piano. Piano by Joseph Brodmann, Vienna, ca.1800-1805. Scottish songs, arranged by Haydn and Beethoven; Piano-violin sonata, “Spring” by Beethoven; Single movements from piano sonatas by Marianne von Martinez and Haydn; Songs by Haydn and by George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower. |
| September 10, 2023 | Daniel Kurganov, violin; Steven Gross, natural horn; Constantine Finehouse, piano. Piano by J.B. Streicher & Son, Vienna, 1871. Music by Brahms: Violin sonata No. 3 in d, Op. 108, and Horn Trio in Eb, Op. 40 |
| September 17, 2023 | Elaine Greenfield, Erard Piano, Paris, 1893. Music by Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte; Sonatine; “Ondine”, from Gaspard de la nuit; Valses nobles et sentimentales; and Miroirs. |
| September 24, 2023 | Asiya Korepanova, Blüthner piano, Leipzig, 1907. Music by Rachmaninoff: The Complete Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33 and Op.39. |
| October 1, 2023 | Daesik Cha, Bechstein piano, Berlin, 1886; Transcriptions for piano: Godowsky: Renaissance, Book 1: Transcriptions of four of Rameau's Masterpieces: Sarabande, Rigaudon, Elegie, and Tambourin: J. S. Bach /Busoni: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C; Rachmaninoff: Variations on a Theme by Corelli; and Stravinsky: Three Movements from the orchestral ballet score, Petrushka. |
| October 8, 2023 | Matthew Odell, piano by Erard, Paris, 1877. Music by French composers Gabriel Fauré: Two Barcarolles; Three Nocturnes; and Thème et onze variations in c#, Op. 73 Maurice Ravel: Menuet antique in f#; Sérénade grotesque; and two pieces commissioned by pianist Alfredo Cassella. Charles Kœchlin: Choral sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré |
| April 23, 2023 | Constantine Finehouse, piano, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Chopin, and Schumann. |
| April 30, 2023 | Ignacy Gaydamovich, violoncello, Mohamed Shams, piano. A Chopin concert. |
| May 7, 2023 | Chaojun Yang. Bach and Chopin. |
| May 14, 2023 | Thomas Meglioranza, baritone, Reiko Uchida, piano. Goethe-Lieder, Dances & an Impromptu (piano solos), Schubert. |
| May 21, 2023 | Eunmi Ko & Hwaen Ch'uqi, piano four-hands and piano solo. |
| May 28, 2023 | Jessica Gould, soprano, Thomas Carroll, clarinet, Gail Olszewski, piano. German Lieder & Fantasies |
| April 24, 2022 | Constantine Finehouse, Brahms program with 1868 Streicher piano of Vienna. |
| May 1, 2022 | Ivan Gusev |
| May 8, 2022 | Stanley Wilson, tenor with Hugh Keelan, piano. Erard piano, Paris, 1893.
Songs by Fauré, Debussy and Nadia Boulanger. Piano solos to be decided upon. |
| May 15, 2022 | Jerilyn Jorgensen, violin with Cullan Bryant, piano; Schubert program |
| May 22, 2022 | Ivan Gusev, Chopin program. |
| May 29, 2022 | Maksim Shtrykov, clarinet, Misuzu Tanaka, piano; music by Schumann and Brahms. |
| September 4, 2022 | Dmitry Rachmanov, a Beethoven concert. |
| September 11, 2022 | Clemens Teufel, Debussy and Poulenc. |
| September 18, 2022 | Olga Vinokur, Chopin and Rachmaninoff. |
| September 25, 2022 | Akiko Kobayashi, violin, Eric Siepkes, piano. Mozart and Beethoven. |
| October 2, 2022 | Sergio Gallo, music by Bach-Egon Petri, Scarlatti, Mendelssohn, and Chopin. |
| October 9, 2022 | Stephen Porter, Janacek and Beethoven. |
| September 5th, 2021 | Concert | Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello, with Jiayan Sun, piano - Music by Schumann, Zemlinsky and Brahms. Streicher piano, Vienna, 1871. |
| September 12th, 2021 | Concert | Ivan Gusev, piano - an all-Rachmaninoff program: Eight Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33; selected Préludes from Op. 32; Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39. Blüthner piano, Leipzig, 1907 |
| September 26th, 2021 | Concert | Rebecca Hartka, cello, with Barbara Lysakowski, piano - "Across the Channel"; Music by French and English composers of “La belle époque” Blüthner piano, Leipzig, 1907 |
| October 3rd, 2021 | Concert | Daesik Cha, piano - Sonata No. 2 in g#, Op. 19 by Scriabin; Chaconne in d by J.S. Bach, arr. by Busoni; Gaspard de la nuit by Ravel. The Blüthner piano, Leipzig, 1907 |
| October 10th, 2021 | Concert | Jerilyn Jorgensen, violin, with Cullan Bryant, piano - Works by Schubert and Schumann. Bösendorfer piano, Vienna, c. 1830 |
| April 28, 2019 | Concert | Matthew Odell, on the 1830 Bösendorfer piano, Franz Schubert's final two sonatas, in A Major and in B-flat Major. |
| May 5, 2019 | Concert | James Dargan, baritone, with Mark Whitlock, piano, songs by Gustav Mahler, on the 1877 Bösendorfer, Vienna. |
| May 12, 2019 | Concert | Chester Brezniak, clarinet, and Malcolm Halliday, piano, works by Reger, Guastavino, Piazzolla, Ponce, Busoni, Gaubert, Milhaud, and John Ireland, on the 1928 Érard piano. |
| May 19, 2019 | Concert | Jiayan Sun, playing on the 1871 Streicher piano the last three Beethoven piano sonatas, Op. 109, 110 and 111, as Brahms would have heard it on his own studio piano. |
| May 26, 2019 | Concert | Cobus du Toit, flute, with pianist Doreen Lee, on the 1893 Érard, a program of French music. |
| June 2. 2019 | Concert | Daniel Kurganov, violin, with pianist Constantine Finehouse, on the 1877 Érard piano, César Franck's Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano, with some shorter works, to be announced. |
| June 15, 2019 | House Concert |
Amber Yiu-Hsuan Liao playing Beethoven, Schumann, and Debussy pieces. |
| June 22, 2019 |
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Jessie Liu, playing selections by Chopin, two Mazurkas, six Préludes, and two Waltzes. |
| June 30, 2019 |
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Matthew Odell, playing Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit, and Liszt's b-minor sonata. |
| July 28, 2019 | Special Concert |
Yuan Sheng returns to present a benefit concert of "Music by Claude Debussy, Part Two". We thank the artist, Yuan Sheng, for his generosity in making these Special Fundraising Concerts possible and we thank you, the audience, for attending them. |
| August 11, 2019 |
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Constantine Finehouse will begin with Romantic pieces, first by Schumann and then by Chopin, and finish with two movements selected from Beethoven's Op. 2 Sonata in C. |
| August 18, 2019 |
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We are sorry to report that Daesik Cha will be unable to play his concert planned at this time. We wish him the best, and look forward to his return. Malcom Halliday, who was to have played a piano reduction of the Rachmaninoff orchestral score for Daesik, has agreed to come instead to present nearly 150 years of music in a program of pieces by Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Ravel, and Fragoso. |
| August 24, 2019 |
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To end the Summer season, a 4:00pm Saturday House Concert by David Hyun-su Kim, piano, and violinist Lauren Basney. On the pianos, David will play Schumann's Carnaval and together with Lauren, Beethoven's Sonata No. 9, the "Kreutzer". |
| September 1, 2019 | Concert | Junghwa Lee, piano. "Solo piano works of Clara Wieck Schumann" Piano by Streicher, Vienna, 1846. |
| September 8, 2019 | Concert | Eric Clark, piano. "A Russian Program" Aleksandr Scriabin, Mily Balakirev, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Piano by Blüthner, Leipzig, 1877. |
| September 15, 2019 | Concert | Zeynep Üçbaşaran, piano. "Liszt in Istanbul" Franz Liszt visited Istanbul in 1841; this program is compiled of pieces he played at that time, his own works and those of Frédéric Chopin, and Carl Maria von Weber. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1840. |
| September 22, 2019 | Concert | Yuan Sheng, piano. "The Solo Piano Works of Robert Schumann, Part 2." Piano by Streicher, Vienna, 1846. |
| September 29, 2019 | Concert | Olga Vinokur, piano. Frédéric Chopin, Aleksandr Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Franz Liszt. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1893. |
| October 6, 2019 | Concert | Dmitri Shteinberg, piano. Three pieces by Robert Schumann. Piano by Streicher, Vienna, 1846. |
| October 13, 2019 | Concert | Yuan Sheng, piano. "The Solo Piano Works of Claude Debussy, Part 3." Piano by Érard, Paris, 1877. |
| November 3, 2019 |
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Daesik Cha will return to play the concert that had to be postponed in August. The program details and piano selection have been posted; click on the date to the left. This concert will not be identical to the one previously planned for August, but it will include the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No, 2, Op. 18, and Malcom Halliday will play the piano transcription of the orchestral score as well as having provided a duo-piano arrangement of the opening J.S. Bach piece. |
| April 29, 2018 | Concert | Roman Rudnytsky, Works by Debussy, Albeniz and Falla, on the 1877 Érard piano. |
| May 6, 2018 | Concert | Daesik Cha, a program of Scriabin, Sonata-Fantasie No.2, Op 19; Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin; Lourié, Cinq préludes fragiles; Rachmaninoff, Cello Sonata, Op. 19, on the 1893 Érard piano. |
| May 13, 2018 | Concert | Olga Vinokur will bring us three Chopin selections followed by a Lied by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, a Schumann Sonata, and the Verdi/Liszt Paraphrase of Rigoletto, on the 1859 Érard piano. |
| May 20, 2018 | Concert | Jerilyn Jorgensen, violin and Cullan Bryant, piano, Beethoven's "Kreutzer" sonata and Schubert's Grand Duo in A, on the c.1830 Tröndlin piano. |
| May 27, 2018 | Concert | Elyane Laussade, a program titled "An American in Paris," works by French and American composers from 1900-1920s, on the 1928 Érard piano. |
| June 3, 2018 | Concert | Thomas Pandolfi, a program of "Music by Polish Pianist-Composers" including sixteen selections of Chopin, two pieces by Paderewski, Alt Wein from Godowsky's Triakontameron, and the 1941 Warsaw Concerto by Richard Addinsell, on the 1877 Érard piano. |
| June 16, 2018 | House Concert |
Gail Olszewski returns with yet another "Program of Finnish Music" featuring pieces by Selim Palmgren, Ilmari Hannikainen, Oskar Merikanto, Leevi Madetoja, Erkki Melartin, and Jean Sibelius. She has put together programs of Finnish music twice before, in 2017 and 2013, as parts of the regular Spring or Fall series, programs which have received strong positive response from our audiences. |
| June 17, 2018 | House Concert |
Rebecca Hartka, 'cello, and Barbara Lysakowski, piano, join us at the Piano Study Center for a 'Cello – Piano Sampler which will include selections by Rachmaninoff, Grieg, Fauré, Chopin, and Beethoven and feature the 1907 Blüthner, the 1877 Blüthner, the 1893 Érard, and the circa 1830 Tröndlin pianos. |
| June 24, 2018 | House Concert |
Flutist, Leslie Stroud, and pianist, Matthew Odell, join us for a performance of Chopin's Four Ballades, Schubert's Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen, and Romance from the Suite for Flute and Piano, Op. 34 (1877) by Charles-Marie Widor. The pianos chosen include the 1893 Érard, the 1840 Érard, and the ca. 1830 Tröndlin. |
| July 15, 2018 | House Concert |
Mark Alexander returns with "A Piano Sampler" which includes Debussy Préludes, selections from Visions fugitives by Prokofiev, from Four Piano Pieces, Op. 119, by Brahms, from Le Tombeau de Couperin by Ravel, and two pieces by Schubert, the Impromptu in Eb and Der Müller und der Bach from Die schöne Müllerin, as arranged for piano solo by Franz Liszt. |
| July 29, 2018 | Special Concert |
Yuan Sheng returns to present a benefit concert of "Music by Claude Debussy," to include Préludes, Book II, the Children's Corner suite, and several other selections. This Special Fundraising Concert will be at 4:00 pm, at the Community Church. Adult admission, as in the past, will be $25; children and student admission is $10. Any donation in excess of the Admission is tax deductible. A reception will follow the concert, to which the audience is invited. |
| August 5, 2018 | House Concert |
Cherry Kim, 'cello, and Jacob Hiser, piano, will present a program featuring the Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 and, transcribed for 'cello, the Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78, as well as several other Brahms selections. |
| August 11, 2018 | House Concert |
Pianist Eric Clark will perform this Saturday afternoon at the Historical Piano Study Center, a program that will primarily be made up of music by Chopin, played on the 1840 Érard. But there is more behind all that Chopin... and a reason for choosing that particular Érard. Check out the program by clicking on the date. |
| August 19, 2018 | House Concert |
Gary Capozziello, violin, Ignacy Gaydamovich, 'cello, and Cihan Yücel, piano, bring us two piano trios: from the late 19th century, Debussy's Piano Trio in G, and from the early 19th century, Schubert's Piano Trio in Eb. |
| August 26, 2018 | Concert | Artem Belogurov, pianist, and Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde, 'cello, will bring us a program of late 17th and 18th century selections for violoncello and piano on the Viennese-style piano, c. 1790, by an unknown maker, and on one piece Artem will use the church organ to play the Continuo. |
| September 9, 2018 | Lecture/ Recital |
Virginia Eskin's program title is Three Virtuoso Pianists and features the work of Franz Liszt, Edward MacDowell, and Amy Beach. Piano selections include Two Concert Etudes, S.145, by Liszt, pieces from Woodland sketches, Op. 51, and 12 Virtuoso Etudes, Op 46, by MacDowell, and Ballade, Op. 6, and pieces from 4 Sketches for piano, Op.15, by Beach. This Lecture/Recital will be at the Piano Study Center, at 4 pm, and is fundraising event for the Study Center. Admission is by freewill donation. |
| September 16, 2018 | Concert | Clemens Teufel, pianist, presents a program of Schumann works from the early, middle and late periods: Forest Scenes, Pieces for Piano, and Kreisleriana, on the 1846 Streicher piano, Vienna. |
| September 23, 2018 | Concert | Maksim Shtrykov, clarinet, and Misuzu Tanaka, pianist, on a piano to be chosen, will present a program of Russian music including pieces by Prokofiev, Gretchaninov, and Weinberg. |
| September 30, 2018 |
Concert | Richard Dowling, pianist, on the 1862 Chickering piano, Boston, will entertain us with American music by Scott Joplin and Louis Gottschalk. |
| October 7, 2018 | Concert | Jerilyn Jorgensen, violin, and Cullan Bryant, on the Katholnig piano, Vienna, c. 1805-1810, will perform the remaining three of the complete set of Beethoven Sonatas for Piano & Violin that they have been bringing to us during the last three years, Nos. 3, 5, and 6. |
| October 14, 2018 | Concert | Stephen Porter, on either the 1877 or the 1893 Érard, will perform a selection of religiously-inspired works by Franz Liszt. |
| October 28, 2018 | Concert | Returning from China late in October, Yuan Sheng will be playing for us a second time this year, this time performing three Schumann works, Kinderszenen (Op. 15), Davidsbündlertänze (Op. 6), and Carnaval (Op.9) on the 1846 Streicher. |
| April 23, 2017 | Concert | Shuann Chai and Artem Belogurov, piano four-hands, playing Schubert, Fantasie in f minor, D. 940, and Lebensstürme, D. 947; Moscheles, Grande Sonate à 4 mains in Eb; and Mendelessohn, Andante con 8 variazioni in Bb, Op. 83a, on the c. 1830 Tröndlin, Leipzig. |
| April 30, 2017 | Concert | Junghwa Lee, playing Debussy, Préludes, Book II; two Fauré Nocturnes; and Albeniz, El Polo, from Iberia, Book III, on the 1877 Érard, Paris. |
| May 7, 2017 | Concert | Cicilia Yudha,
playing Czerny, Chanson
Sans Paroles from 8
Morceaux de Salon, Op. 795, and a selection from the Art of Finger Dexterity, Op. 740; Beethoven, Sonata in d-minor, Op. 31, No. 2 "Tempest"; Clementi, Toccata in B-flat Major; and Beethoven, Sonata in A major, Op. 101, on the c.1830 Bösendorfer, Vienna. |
| May 14, 2017 | Concert | James Dargan, baritone, and Mark Whitlock, piano. Schubert's song cycle, Die Winterreise, on the c.1830 Bösendorfer, Vienna. |
| May 21, 2017 | Concert | Matthew Odell, playing Mendelssohn, f# Phantasie, Op.28, and Fugue No. 1 in e from Sechs Präludien & Fugen, Op. 35; Schumann, Fantasiestücke, Op. 12, and Humoreske, Op. 20, on the 1846 Streicher, Vienna. |
| May 28, 2017 | Concert | Reiko Uchida, piano, playing Schumann, Kinderszenen, Op. 15; Brahms, Variations on an Original Theme, Op.21, no.1; and a selection of Chopin pieces, including a Barcarolle, two Impromptus, and a Ballade, on the 1840 Érard, Paris. |
| July 22, 2017 | House Concert |
Amira Acre will play the same program as her upcoming concert on our regular Fall series on September 3rd. Beethoven Sonata No. 7 in D, Op. 10; Sonata No. 23 in f, Op. 57 "Appassionata"); and Schubert, Sonata No. 20 in A, D.959 (1828), on the c. 1805-1810 Katholnig piano, Vienna. Her September performance will be performed on the ca. 1830 Tröndlin piano, Leipzig – two very different flavors! |
| July 29, 2017 | House Concert |
Mark Alexander will play a varied program on a variety of pianos, suited to the periods of the music. Debussy Préludes, Book I, no. 8 (The girl with flaxen hair) and no. 10 (The sunken cathedral); Ravel, Pavane (for a dead princess); and Menuet, from Le Tombeau de Couperin; Brahms, Intermezzi, Op. 118, Nos. 1 & 2; Chopin, Nocturnes in D flat and F sharp; Schubert/arr. Liszt, Ständchen; and Schubert, Impromptu in A flat. |
| August 12, 2017 | House Concert |
Matthew Odell returns to present "A Sampling of Pianos," offering pieces by Messiaen, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Schubert, and Mozart, each on a piano appropriate to their times, a century of music on a century of pianos. |
| August 20, 2017 | House Concert |
Daesik Cha, joined by cellist Cherry Kim and flutist Elzbieta Brandys, will present works by Haydn, Schumann, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff on pianos ranging from the c.1805-1810 Katholnig to the 1907 Blüthner, another opportunity to hear a century of music on a century of pianos. |
| August 27, 2017 |
House Concert |
A piano duo, Julia Bady & Jamie Goodnow, will present a program of selections from Dvořák's Legends on the 1871 Streicher; Schubert's Fantasie in F-minor on the 1830 Tröndlin piano; and Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzer on the 1871 Streicher. |
| September 3, 2017 | Concert | Amira Acre, presenting two Beethoven Sonatas: Op. 10, No. 3 and Op. 57, the "Appassionata"; and Schubert, Sonata in A major (1828), on the c. 1830 Tröndlin. |
| September 10, 2017 | Concert | Elaine Greenfield, presenting works by Ravel, pieces written between 1899-1917, including Valses nobles et sentimentales, an hommage to Schubert's Valses nobles, D.969, and Valses sentimentales, D.779, both written ca. 1823. |
| September 17, 2017 | Concert | Gail Olszewski, presenting works by a number of Finnish composers. |
| September 24, 2017 | Concert | Duo Déjà Vu, Rebecca Hartka, 'cello, with Barbara Lysakowski, piano, presenting Felix Mendelssohn, (Concert Variations); Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Fantasia; Liszt: Liebestraum; and Chopin, Sonata for Cello and Piano. |
| October 1, 2017 | Concert | Jerilyn Jorgensen, violin, and Cullan Bryant, piano, presenting three Beethoven sonatas for Piano and Violin, No. 1, No.4, and No. 7. |
| October 8, 2017 | Concert | Ignacy
Gaydamovich, 'cello, with Jiayan Sun, piano, performing Franz Schubert,
Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in a, D.821 (1824); Robert Schumann, Fantasiestücke, Op.
73 (1849); and/or Fünf
Stücke im Volkston (5 pieces in the Folk Style), Op.102
(1849). |
| April 24, 2016 | Concert | Olga Vinokur, piano. Scriabin, Prelude for Left Hand Alone, Op. 9, Selected Preludes, Op. 11, three Etudes, Op. 8 and 42, and Sonata No. 5, Op.53; Prokofiev, "Sarcasms", Op. 17; and Rachmaninoff, Three Etudes Tableaux, Op. 33, and Moments Musicaux, Op. 16. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1893. |
| May 1, 2016 | Concert | Randall Love, piano. Preludes and fugues by J.S. Bach, Mozart and Clementi, a Capriccio by Clementi, a Nocturne by Field, and Beethoven's "Tempest" Sonata. Piano by Katholnig, Vienna, c.1805-1810. |
| May 8, 2016 | Concert | Chester Brezniak, clarinet, Malcolm Halliday, piano. Music by Leo Sowerby, Camille Saint-Saëns, Max d'Ollone, Manuel de Falla, Arthur Honegger, and Igor Stravinsky. Choice of piano to be announced. |
| May 15, 2016 | Concert | Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone, with Reiko Uchida, piano. Die schöne Müllerin, by Franz Schubert. Piano by Tröndlin, Leipzig, c.1830. |
| Concert | Yi-heng Yang, piano. Franz Schubert, Sonata in c minor, D. 958; Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Four Lieder for Piano, Op. 8; Robert Schumann, Sonata No. 1 in f#, Op. 11. Piano by Tröndlin, Leipzig, c. 1830. | |
| May 29, 2016 | Concert | Gail Olszewski, piano. Haydn, Andante with Variations in f-minor, XVII:6, and Sonata No. 62 in Eb Major, "London," XVI:52; CPE Bach, Sonata in g-minor, H 47, Wq 65:17; and works by Field, Dussek, and Clementi. Piano by Clementi, London, 1805. |
| July 20, 2016 | House Concert |
Janusz Grzelazka and Ignacy Gaydamovich, pianist and cellist respectively, will present a selection of works by Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Lukas Foss, and John Woods Duke, at the Piano Study Center. Click on the date for more information. |
| August 2, 2016 | Special Concert |
Yuan Sheng, playing our Joel Katzman harpsichord, and Mary Oleskiewicz, playing baroque flute, will perform Bach's flute sonatas. The requested donation for these two special fundraising concerts will be the same as last year, $25 for either concert alone, or $35 for admission to both; for students and children, $10 to either concert alone, or $15 for admission to both. |
| August 3, 2016 | Special Concert |
Yuan Sheng will play Bach's French Suites, alternating between our Joel Katzman harpsichord and the 1840 Erard, as a comparison between what Bach heard on a harpsichord, and what such Bach-inspired composers as Chopin, Mendelssohn and Schumann were hearing when they played Bach on their pianos. Please see the note above for donation information. |
| September 4, 2016 | Concert | Stephen Porter, introducing the recently-acquired 1859 Érard piano with a selection of Chopin pieces and Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6. |
| September 11, 2016 | Concert | Daesik Cha, piano. Schubert, Sonata in A, Op. 120 (the "Little Sonata"); Jan Václav Vořišek, Fantasia in C; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Variations sérieuses, Op.54; Schubert, Fantasy in C "Wanderer", Op. 15, D. 760 "Wanderer"; and joined by John Ferrillo, principal oboe in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Schumann's Adagio and Allegro in Ab, Op. 70. Piano by Bösendorfer, Vienna, c.1830. |
| September 18, 2016 | Concert | Hsia-Jung Chang, piano. Schubert, Impromptus, Op. 142, D.935; and Beethoven, the "Hammerklavier" Sonata in Bb, Op. 26. Piano by Tröndlin, Leipzig, ca. 1830. |
| September 25, 2016 | Concert | Cullan Bryant, piano, and Jerilyn Jorgensen, violin. Beethoven, Sonatas No. 2 in A, Op. 12; No. 8 in G, Op. 30; and No. 10 in G (The "Cockcrow"), Op. 96. Piano by Bösendorfer, Vienna, c.1830. |
| October 2, 2016 |
Concert | Misuzu Tanaka, piano, and Maksim Shtrykov, clarinet. will present a program of Spanish and French works by Antonio Romero y Andía, Jesús de Monasterio, Carlos Guastavino, Salvador Brotons i Soler, and Francis Poulenc. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1928, and clarinets by Buffet Crampon, Mantes-la-Ville, France. |
| October 9, 2016 | Concert | Vitlaus von Horn, piano. A Schubert program (preferably by candlelight), Sonata 16 in a, Op. 42, D.845, and Sonata 21 in Bb, Op. posthumous, D.960. Piano by Bösendorfer, Vienna, c.1830. |
| April 26, 2015 | Concert | Rebecca
Hartka, 'cello, with Alys Terrien-Queen. Blüthner piano,
Leipzig, 1877. Sonata for Cello and Piano in C by Sergei Prokofiev and Sonata for Cello and Piano in g by Sergei Rachmaninoff. |
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| May 3, 2015 | Concert | Stephen Porter, a familiar friend of the series, has agreed to play the May 3rd concert date. His program will include a selection of Grieg's Lyric Pieces as well as works by Debussy, played on the 1877 Blüthner. | |
| May 10, 2015 | Concert | Abigail Karr and Yi-heng Yang will perform all three of Felix Mendelssohn's sonatas for violin and piano, and a fragment of a fourth, presenting the composer's life in his violin sonatas. The piano will be the c. 1830 Tröndlin. | |
| May 17, 2015 | Concert | Vitlaus von Horn, pianist. American premiere performance of 360 Miniature Preludes in All Keys by Johann Wilhelm Hässler (1817). Bösendorfer piano, c.1830 | |
| May 24, 2015 | Concert | Monica Tessitore, pianist. A program of Latin Music by Albeniz, Villa-Lobos, and Ginastera. Érard piano, Paris, 1928. | |
| May 31, 2015 | Concert | Diana Fanning, pianist. Alban Berg: Piano Sonata in b, Op. 1, in one movement; Leoš Janáček: In the Mist; Johannes Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, and Debussy: Suite pour le piano. Blüthner piano, Leipzig, 1877 | |
| June 7, 2015 | Concert | Gwendolyn Mok, pianist. Music by Beethoven, Czerny and Liszt, on the 1840 Érard. | |
| August 4, 2015 | Special Concert |
In
this special two-part concert, Yuan Sheng will be playing the early
works of Frédéric Chopin in chronological order. This first evening
will include a dozen works composed between 1817 and 1826.
These two Special Fundraising Concerts will be at 7:30 pm, at the Community Church. Admission to either one of these Special Fundraising Concerts is $25 ($10 for children or students). Admission to both concerts is only $35 ($15 for children or students). Any donation in excess of the Admission is tax deductible. Donors of $100 or more at these concerts will receive CDs of both concerts. |
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| August 5, 2015 | Special Concert |
This second evening of early Chopin pieces
will include the fifteen works composed between 1826 and 1829. This Special Fundraising Concert will also be at 7:30 pm, at the Community Church. We thank the artist, Yuan Sheng, for his generosity in making these Special Fundraising Concerts possible and we thank you, the audience, for attending them. |
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| August 30, 2015 | Concert | Junghwa Lee, piano, will perform Debussy: Préudes, Book I, and Albéniz: Iberia, Books I & II, on a piano to be selected. | |
| September 5, 2015 | Concert | On the first day of the Chamber Music Festival, ensemble members will present a program titled New England Legacy: Sounds of our Heritage, to include a Violin Sonata by Amy Beach, a Piano Quartet by Arthur Foote, and arrangements and improvisations on Shaker hymn tunes and American folk songs. The ensemble includes Yi-heng Yang, piano, Tricia Park, violin, Sarah Darling, viola, Steuart Pincombe, 'cello, Maxwell Zeugner, double bass, and Michelle Pincombe, vocalist. This concert is sponsored in part by a grant from the Ashburnham Cultural Council under the auspices of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. | |
| September 6, 2015 | Concert | On the second day of the Festival, clarinetists Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima Neidich, accompanied by pianist Yi-heng Yang, will present a program titled Rare & Beautiful Music for the Historical Clarinet, played on a variety of historical clarinets from the Neidich Collection and the the ca. 1830 Tröndlin and the 1877 Blüthner pianos from the Frederick Collection. This concert is sponsored in part by a grant from the Ashburnham Cultural Council under the auspices of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. | |
| September 13, 2015 | Concert | Stephen Porter, playing the c. 1830 Bösendorfer, will present an all-Schubert Program including the Sonata in a-minor, D.537, Four Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899, and other works. | |
| September 20, 2015 | Concert | Amira Acre returns with a program illustrating how Liszt's music influenced Impressionists Debussy and Ravel, especially in works suggesting water or birds. She will be playing the 1877 Érard Extra-grand modèle de concert. | |
| October 4, 2015 | Concert | Misuzu Tanaka, will be playing the late Beethoven Sonata Op.109, the Rondo a capriccio Rage Over a Lost Penny, and the Polonaise in C-Major, Op.89, as well as Schumann's Sonata in f-minor, Op.14 on the c.1830 Bösendorfer piano. | |
| October 11, 2015 | Concert | Jeri Jorgensen, violin, and Cullan Bryant, piano, will present Beethoven Piano and Violin Sonatas Nos. 4, 5 and 8, and Variations WoO No. 40 on the c. 1805-1810 Katholnig piano. |
| April 27, 2014 | Concert | Matthew Odell, on the 1871 Streicher, music by Brahms, Seven Fantasien (Op. 116), Eight Klavierstücke (Op. 76), and Sonata No. 3 (Op. 5). |
| May 4, 2014 | Concert | Constantine Finehouse will present a selection of polonaises, ballades and fantasies by Chopin and Schumann on the 1846 Streicher. |
| May 11, 2014 | Concert | Artem Belogurov performs a program titled The New England Romantics, a selection of pieces by Arthur William Foote, Arthur Whiting, John Knowles Paine, George Whitefield Chadwick, and Margaret Ruthven Lang, on an 1862 Chickering piano built in the Tremont Street factory in Boston. |
| May 18, 2014 | Concert | Shiela Kibbe, playing the 1830 Tröndlin, and Heather Braun, violin, present the Grand Duo sonata by Franz Schubert and pieces by Robert Schumann. |
| May 25, 2014 | Concert | Beatrice Long in a solo recital featuring Chopin's Sonata No. 3 and a selection of Liszt transcriptions of Schubert Lieder, on the 1840 Érard. |
| June 1, 2014 | Concert | Dmitry Rachmanov, music by Scriabin, in recognition of the hundredth anniversary of the composer's death in April 1915, playing the 1877 Érard "Extra-grand modèle de concert". |
| June 26, 2014 | Study Center Concert | At 7:30pm in the Study Center (30 Main Street, Ashburnham), a program of music for flute and piano presented by Andrea Nolin, flute, and Colleen Katsuki, piano. Ms. Nolin will match historic flutes from her personal collection to pianos of similar vintage found in the Frederick Collection. |
| July 29, 2014 | Special Concert |
Yuan Sheng playing Late Piano Works by Ludwig van Beethoven on the circa 1830 Bösendorfer. This special fundraising concert will be at 7:30 pm, at the Community Church, and will include three late sonatas and the Bagatelles, all published between 1820 and 1825. |
| August 31, 2014 | Concert | Junghwa Lee, works by Robert and Clara Schumann on the c. 1830 Tröndlin. |
| September 7, 2014 | Concert | Misuzu Tanaka, piano, with Maksim Shtrykov, clarinet, presenting music for piano and clarinet by Schumann, Brahms, and von Weber on the 1871 Streicher piano. |
| September 21, 2014 | Concert | Geoffrey Burleson, works by Rameau, Saint-Saens, Liszt, and Ravel on the 1877 Érard "Extra-grand modèle de concert". |
| September 28, 2014 | Concert | Amira Acre, works by Liszt, on the 1846 Streicher piano. |
| October 5, 2014 | Concert | Yi-heng
Yang, piano, and Kate Haynes, 'cello, will present a program featuring
two Brahms 'cello sonatas, No. 1 in E minor and No. 2 in F.
The
piano chosen is the 1868 Streicher. n.b. The program originally planned has had to be changed. Violinist Abigail Karr, currently recovering from hand surgery, will perform on the series with pianist Yi-heng Yang at a future date. We wish her a speedy recovery. |
| October 12, 2014 | Concert | Sima Kustanovich, piano, with Darlene Ann Dobisch, soprano, the program to be announced, also on the c. 1830 Tröndlin. |
| October 19, 2014 | Special Encore Concert |
Amira Acre, works by Liszt, on the 1846
Streicher piano. n.b. Due to technical difficulties with the recording we are pleased to present an Encore Concert of the program originally performed on September 28. If you attended that performance you remember how electrifying it was and you may very well wish to hear it again. If you missed it, you have a very rare second chance! |
| October 26, 2014 |
Study Center Concert | Shuann Chai. 4:00 pm in the Study Center (30 Main Street, Ashburnham) |
| October 30, 2014 |
Study Center Concert | Constantine Finehouse. 7:00 pm in the Study Center (30 Main Street, Ashburnham). A potluck reception follows. |
| November 9, 2014 |
Study Center Concert | Victor Cayres de Mendonca. 4:00 pm in the Study Center (30 Main Street, Ashburnham) |
| May 5, 2013 | Concert | Geoffrey Burleson, presenting music by Saint-Saëns and Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit on the 1877 Érard piano. |
| May 12, 2013 | Concert | Chester Brezniak, clarinet, and Malcolm Halliday at the 1877 Bluthner piano, playing selections by Debussy, Fragoso, Berg, Milhaud, Granados, Arnold, and Brahms. |
| May 19, 2013 | Concert | Gail Olszewski, music by Finnish composers: Sibelius, Merikanto, Madetoja, Hannikainen, possibly others, presented on the 1877 Blüthner piano. |
| May 26, 2013 | Concert | Eric Stumacher, an all-Brahms program, including Variations on a Theme by Handel (Op.24, 1861) at the 1871 Streicher piano |
| June 2, 2013 | Concert | Rebecca Hartka, cello, and Gregory Hayes, piano, will present a program titled "Across the Channel" exploring French and English music from the early 20th century in works by Bridge, Debussy, Boulanger, and others, on the 1893 Érard. |
| August 4, 2013 | Special Concert |
Internationally recognized pianist Yuan Sheng has once again offered to present an special fund-raising concert to benefit the Historical Piano Study Center. He will perform four Beethoven sonatas, the Pathetique, Waldstein, Moonlight, and Appassionata, on the Katholnig piano, Vienna, c.1805-1810 By the time this piano was built Beethoven was already suffering significant hearing loss so the sound qualities of this instrument perhaps represent Beethoven's last memories of true piano sound. |
| September 1, 2013 | Concert | Junghwa Lee playing Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Bach, Chabrier, and Franck on the 1877 Erard. |
| September 8, 2013 | Concert | Ira Braus playing the 1805-10 Katholnig, joined by Mihai Tetel on the violoncello, performing Beethoven, Hayden, and Boccherini. |
| September 15, 2013 | Concert | Yi-heng Yang on the ca. 1830 Tröndlin, Kate Haynes on violoncello, and Sarah Darling on violin, playing Beethoven and Mendelssohn. |
| September 22, 2013 | Concert | Shuann Chai, again playing the Tröndlin, joined by Shunske Sato on violin, to present Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Beethoven. |
| September 29, 2013 | Concert | For something completely different, Thomas Pandolfi debuts a new addition to the collection, a 1928 Érard, with a program titled Gershwin and the French Muse, featuring music of George Gershwin, Debussy, Poulenc, DÉodat de SÉverac, and Ravel. |
| October 6, 2013 | Concert | And to close the season we are pleased to present the Finlandia Foundation Performer of the Year, pianist Marja Kaisla, playing Schumann, Chopin, and Liszt on the 1840 Érard. |
| April 22, 2012 |
Concert | Constantine Finehouse, piano. Schumann's Fantasie in C, Op. 17, along with selections by Chopin and an early Beethoven sonata, on the 1830 Tröndlin piano from The Frederick Collection. |
| May
6, 2012 |
Concert | Monica Jakuc Leverett and Tanya Blaich, piano four-hands, featuring music of Bizet, Jeux d'enfants, and Busoni, Finnländische Volksweisen, for four-hands, as well as Ravel, and contemporary composers, Welsh-born Hilary Tann and Boston-born Karen Tarlow, both of whom now live and work here in the northeast, on the 1877 Érard from The Frederick Collection. |
| May
13, 2012 |
Concert | Hsia-Jung Chang, piano, and Deborah Berioli, soprano, present a program titled Clair de lune - French works for solo piano and voice, including works by Debussy and Fauré, on the 1877 Érard from The Frederick Collection. |
| May
20, 2012 |
Concert | Shuann Chai & Yuan Sheng, piano and piano four-hands, present a program titled The Schumanns and Brahms, including Bilder aus Osten, Op. 66, by Robert Schumann, Variations in f# on a theme of R. Schumann, Op. 20, by Clara Schumann, 16 Variations on a theme of R. Schumann, Op. 54, in f# and a selection from the 21 Hungarian Dances by Brahms, on the 1868 Streicher from The Frederick Collection. |
| May
27, 2012 |
Concert | The Clementi Collective's violinist, Sarah Darling, has an injury which will prevent her from performing this date. Kate Bennett Haynes, cello, and Yi-heng Yang, piano, will carry on, but the program has been altered to include music for 'cello and piano by Beethoven, Schumann, and Mendelssohn, on the 1830 Tröndlin from The Frederick Collection. |
| June
3, 2012 |
Concert | Stephen Porter, piano, presents a program titled The Préludes of Claude Debussy, including Books I and II in their entirety, on the 1877 Érard from The Frederick Collection. |
| July
29, 2012 |
Special Concert |
Yuan Sheng will present an All French program in a special fund-raising concert to benefit the Historical Piano Study Center. Featuring works by Debussy and Ravel, he will be performing on the 1877 Érard Extra-grand modèle de concert from The Frederick Collection. |
| September
9, 2012 |
Concert | Maria Ferrante, soprano, Brett Maguire, piano. Ms. Ferrante will sing pieces by Berlioz, Bizet, Gottschalk, and Debussy, among others, and Mr. Maguire will share some works by Debussy. |
| September
16, 2012 |
Concert | A lecture-recital by Joseph Smith will present works by the Czech composers Václav Tomášek and Jan Václav Voříšekk, the Bohemian Ignaz Moscheles, the Irishman John Field, and the German Carl Maria von Weber, pieces composed between 1810 and 1832, in a program titled The Dawn of Romanticism on the 1840 Érard piano from The Frederick Collection. |
| September 30, 2012 | Concert | Melbourne, Australia-based pianist Elyane Laussade will present a program titled A Classical Affair featuring works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven on the c. 1800-1805 Joseph Brodmann piano, Vienna, from The Frederick Collection. |
| October
7, 2012 |
Concert | Ian Pomerantz, bass-baritone, and Lisle Kulbach, piano, will present a Schubertiad, including selections from the Schubert's early cycle, Die schöne Müllerin the "Little" A Major sonata D.664, and additional lieder by Zelter and Reichardt, on the c.1830 Tröndlin, Leipzig, from The Frederick Collection. |
| October
14, 2012 |
Concert | Naho Bessho, piano, playing Chopin & Liszt on the 1840 Érard, Paris, from The Frederick Collection. |
| October
21, 2012 |
Concert | Manabu Takasawa will present an unusually wide-ranging program, selections from Beethoven to Chopin to Liszt to Beach, on the seldom-heard 1862 Chickering, Boston, from The Frederick Collection. |
| November
2, 2012 |
Concert | Grand Harmonie will present for wind and brass instruments with piano. You will hear parlor ballads for trumpet and piano, along with music by Mozart (the Flute Sonata in A), by Georg Christoph Wagenseil (a very early trombone concerto), and by Louis-François Dauprat (a newly-discovered trio for two horns and piano). Our soloists will perform on copies of late 18th-century and early 19th century instruments - flute, trumpet, natural horn, and trombone, each accompanied by an original period piano from The Frederick Collection. |
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April 17,
2011 |
Concert | Simon Tedeschi, piano, with Mariia Gorkun, violin. Richard Strauss' Violin Sonata, Maurice Ravel's Tzigane, a yet to be selected work by Fritz Kreisler, and Prokofiev's Visions Fugitives. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1893, from The Frederick Collection. |
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April
30,
2011 and May 1, 2011 |
Concert | Shuann Chai, piano, with Steuart Pincombe, 'cello. The duo will present, spread over these two programs, the five sonatas and three sets of variations for piano and 'cello, by Beethoven. Because the content changes, each program is individually linked at the left. Please note that the times of the performances differ. Piano by Katholnig, Vienna, c.1805-1810, from The Frederick Collection. |
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May 8,
2011 |
Concert | Pianist Yuan Sheng, in an all-Chopin program: the complete Ballades, and selected Nocturnes. Piano by Pleyel, Paris, 1845, from The Frederick Collection. |
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May 15,
2011 |
Concert | Pianist Sharona Joshua will perform a reconstruction of Clara Schumann's piano recital of Wednesday February 1, 1871: Beethoven's Sonata in Eb, Op. 31, No. 3; Frühlingslied, Op. 62, No. 6, and Prelude in e from Six Preludes & Fugues, Op.35, No. 1 by Mendelssohn; Robert Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6; J. S. Bach's Italian Concerto, BWV.971; and Chopin's Nocturne in g, and Impromptu No. 4 in c#, Op. 66. Piano by Streicher, Vienna, 1871, from The Frederick Collection. |
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June 5,
2011 |
Concert | Pianist Stephen Porter, with mezzo soprano Krista River: The song cycle, Haugtussa, by Grieg (sung in the original Norwegian); songs from Berlioz' Nuits d'été, and solo piano works by Grieg and Debussy.(Piano to be announced at a later date.) |
| September
4, 2011 |
Concert | Pianist Yi-heng Yang. Beethoven, Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia, Op. 27; Mozart, C.P.E. Bach, and J. L. Dussek, on the piano by Joseph Brodmann, Vienna, c.1800-05, from The Frederick Collection. |
| September 11, 2011 |
Concert | Pianist Artem Belogurov. Five Mozart Piano Sonatas: in C, Köchel catalogue 279, in F, K. 280, in Bb, K. 281, in Eb, K. 282, and in G, K. 283, on the piano by Brodmann, Vienna, c.1800-1805, from The Frederick Collection. |
| September 18, 2011 |
Concert | Pianist Jennifer Morlock, with Arkady Beletsky, 'cello. A program titled "From Russia to France with Love..." featuring pieces by Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Rachmaninoff, Arutunian, Massenet, Debussy, Fauré, Ravel, and Saint-Saëns, on the piano by Érard, Paris, 1877, from The Frederick Collection. |
| October
2, 2011 |
Concert | Pianist Junghwa Lee. Liszt, Sonata in b; Ravel, Le tombeau de Couperin; and Fauré, on the piano by Érard, Paris, 1877, from The Frederick Collection. |
| October 9, 2011 |
Concert | Pianist Diana Fanning. Schumann, Carnaval, Op. 9; Chopin, a selection of short pieces; Schumann, Papillons, Op. 3, on the piano by Érard, Paris, 1840, from The Frederick Collection. |
| October
23, 2011 |
Concert | Pianist Thomas Pandolfi. A program of seven pieces by Liszt followed by seven more by Chopin, on the piano by Érard, Paris, 1877, from The Frederick Collection. |
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May 9,
2010 |
Concert | Emma Tahmizià n, piano. A program titled Dancing with Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, and Dvořák. Piano by Streicher, Vienna, 1846 from The Frederick Collection. |
| May 16,
2010 |
Concert | Stephen Porter, piano performing selections by Ravel, Debussy, and the Sonata in B Minor by Liszt. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1877, from The Frederick Collection. |
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May 23 ,
2010 |
Concert | Manabu Takasawa, piano. An All French Program with music by Fauré, Ravel, Franck, and Debussy. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1877, from The Frederick Collection. |
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May 30,
2010 |
Concert | Shuann Chai, piano. Nocturnes and Etudes by Chopin, Henselt, Moscheles, and Liszt, along with pieces by both Robert and Clara Schumann. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1840, from The Frederick Collection. |
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June 6,
2010 |
Concert | Yi-heng Yang, piano, performing Beethoven, Sonata No. 31, and Robert Schumann selections. Piano by Tröndlin, Leipzig c. 1830, from The Frederick Collection. |
| September
12,
2010 |
Concert | Constantine Finehouse, piano, playing music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert. Piano by Tröndlin, Leipzig, c.1830, from The Frederick Collection. |
| September
19,
2010 |
Concert | The Orfeo Duo, Ishmael Wallace, piano, and Vita Wallace, violin. Three Beethoven Sonatas: Op. 24, "Spring"; Op. 30, #1 in A; and Op. 47, "Kreutzer". Piano by Katholnig, Vienna, c.1805-1810, from The Frederick Collection. |
| September
26,
2010 |
Concert | Sima Kustanovich, piano, and Julian Milkis, clarinet, playing selections by Scriabin, Taneyev, Tchaikovsky, Chausson, and Saint-Saëns. Piano by Blüthner, Leipzig, 1877, from The Frederick Collection. |
| October
3,
2010 |
Concert | Malcolm Halliday, piano, and Stanley
Wilson,
tenor. A program of Frédéric
Chopin and Robert
Schumann. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1840, from The Frederick Collection. |
| October
10,
2010 |
Concert | Cicilia Yudha, piano. The Chopin/Schumann Year, including Schumann's Arabesque in C and Etudes en forme de variations in c#, and Chopin's Sonata No. 3 in b and selected short works. Piano by Bösendorfer, Vienna, c.1830, from The Frederick Collection. |
| May 3,
2009 |
Concert | Barbara Suhrstedt, piano, Chester Brezniak, clarinet. Music by Glière, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Martinu and Bartók. Piano by Blüthner, Leipzig, 1877 from The Frederick Collection. Clarinets by Buffet. |
| May 10,
2009 |
Concert |
The
Arcadia Chamber Players, Lisa Rautenberg,
violin, Alice Robbins, 'cello, Monica Jakuc
Leverett, piano, Peter W. Shea, tenor. Three piano trios composed in 1797 by Joseph Haydn, and selections from arrangements of Scottish folksongs for voice and piano trio. Piano by Clementi, London, 1805, from The Frederick Collection. |
| May 24,
2009 |
Concert | Shuann Chai, piano. Music by Schubert and Beethoven, and Mendelssohn in a program titled Biedermeier Vienna & Mendelssohn's Bicentenary. Piano by Bösendorfer, Vienna, c.1830, from The Frederick Collection. |
| May 31,
2009 |
Concert | Hayden DeWitt, mezzo-soprano, and Ishmael Wallace, piano. A program titled Vienna circa 1911: Ecstatic Visions, Intimations of Dissolution, with music by Alban Berg, Joseph Marx, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Ishmael Wallace, Alma Mahler, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Leopold Godowsky. Piano to be selected from The Frederick Collection. |
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June 7,
2009 |
Concert | The Transcontinental Duo, Elaine Greenfield and Janice Meyer Thompson, pianists. Music by Debussy, Ravel, Bizet and Fauré. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1877, from The Frederick Collection . |
| Saturday,
August 1, 2009 |
Concert | Siyue Wang, Yueting Lang, and world renowned Chinese Pianist, Yuan Sheng. A program of Liszt and Chopin presented on the 1840 Érard by Master Sheng and his pupils. This is a Fundraising Recital introducing the 25th season of concerts presented by The Frederick Collection of Historical Pianos. |
| Sept. 13,
2009 |
Concert | Diana Fanning, piano. Music by Grieg, Janáček, and Dvorák, played on the Blüthner piano, Leipzig, 1877, from The Frederick Collection. |
| Sept.
20,
2009 |
Concert | Robert Finley, piano. An Afternoon of Chopin, played on the Érard piano, Paris, 1840, from The Frederick Collection. |
| Sept. 27,
2009 |
Concert | Monica Jakuc, piano, Lisa Rautenberg, violin and R.J. Kelley, natural horn. Brahms's Horn Trio, and Brahms's Violin/Piano Sonata in d, played on the Streicher piano, Vienna, 1868, from The Frederick Collection. |
| October 4,
2009 |
Concert | Thomas Pandolfi, piano. Music by Chopin and Liszt, played on the Érard, Paris, 1877, from The Frederick Collection. |
| October 11,
2009 |
Concert | Gail Olszewski, piano. Music by Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, played on a piano to be chosen from The Frederick Collection |
| May
11, 2008 |
Concert | The Arcadia Players, Monica Jakuc Leverett, piano, Christopher Krueger, flute, Lisa Rautenberg, violin, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, 'cello, Peter W. Shea, tenor. Music by Haydn, Beethoven and Weber. Piano by Katholnig, Vienna, c. 1805-1810, from The Frederick Collection. |
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May
18,
2008 |
Concert | Dmitri Shteinberg, piano. Music by Brahms, Schumann and Chopin. Piano by Streicher, Vienna, 1846 , from The Frederick Collection . |
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Saturday,
May 24 at 7:30 PM, and Sunday, May 25 at 4:00 PM |
Concert | Due to a serious illness in the family, DMITRY RACHMANOV will not be able to perform his scheduled program of Schubert this weekend. The following programs will be presented instead. |
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Saturday,
May 24, 2008 at 7:30 PM |
Concert | The Prisma Trio: Ana-Maria LaPointe, violin, Ning Tien, 'cello, Silvia Bota, piano. Music by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1839, from The Frederick Collection . |
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May
25,
2008 |
Concert | Sarah Grunstein, piano. An All-Chopin Recital. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1839, from The Frederick Collection. |
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June
8,
2008 |
Concert | Simon Tedeschi, piano, and Jacob A. Cooper, lyric baritone, present a program of solo piano and songs by composers as disparate as Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy, Percy Grainger, Gabriel Fauré, and Fats Waller on the 1893 Érard. |
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August
31,
2008 |
Concert | Benita Meshulam: "Chopin and Spain". Three sonatas by Scarlatti; four pieces from Iberia by Albéniz; a Chopin Mazurka and an Impromptu; and Manuel de Falla's Fantasía Bética performed on the 1877 Érard, Paris, from The Frederick Collection . |
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September
14,
2008 |
Concert | Cullan Bryant and Dmitry Rachmanov: piano, four hand compositions by Beethoven, and Beethoven's three principal teachers: Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748-1798), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736-1809). (To be followed by a recording session Sept. 14-16.) |
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September
21,
2008 |
Concert | Constantine Finehouse: Brahms Sonata in f, Op.5, several intermezzi, and Chopin Polonaise- Fantaisie in Ab, Op.61 on the 1871 Streicher, Vienna, from The Frederick Collection . |
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October
12,
2008 |
Concert | The Orfeo Duo: Beethoven and Two Pupils . A set of variations by Archduke Rudolf, originally for piano with accompaniment of csakan (a combination recorder and walking stick!) and a sonata by Ferdinand Ries. By Beethoven, Eleven Bagatelles, op. 119, and Sonata No. 10 in G, op. 96, which he dedicated to Rudolf. |
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October
19,
2008 |
Concert | Sarah Grunstein: Beethoven's Sonata in E, Op.109 and Schumann's Fantasie in C, Op.17, and four Chopin Mazurkas, Op.17, on a piano to be selected from The Frederick Collection. |
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April
29,
2007 |
Concert | Stephen Porter, piano, Katherine Kayaian, 'cello. Works by Rachmaninoff, Debussy and Frank Bridge. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1877 (the "Extra-grand modèle de concert"). |
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May
13,
2007 |
Concert | The Smith Chamber Ensemble, Monica Jakuc, piano, Joel Pitchon and Elizabeth Chang, violins, Annie Garlid, viola, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, 'cello. Piano Quintets by Schumann and Brahms. Piano by Streicher, Vienna, 1846. |
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May
20,
2007 |
Concert | Cullan Bryant, piano. An All-Chopin program. Piano by Bösendorfer, Vienna, c.1830 (One of Bösendorfer's first pianos) |
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May
27,
2007 |
Concert | Shuann Chai, piano. Music by Brahms, Bach-Busoni, Berg, and Ravel. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1877 (the "Extra-grand modèle de concert"). |
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June
3,
2007 |
Concert | Hsia-Jung Chang, piano. The Chopin Etudes, Op.10 and Op.25 Piano by Érard, Paris, 1839. |
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September
2,
2007 |
Concert | Gail Olszewski, piano, with baritone Aaron Engebreth. Myrthenlieder, by Robert Schumann, solo piano works by Louise Farrenc and Frédéric Chopin. |
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September
16,
2007 |
Concert | Malcolm Halliday, piano, and Chester Brezniak, clarinet, performing Reger and Brahms sonatas for clarinet and piano, and a Liszt transcription of a Schubert Waltz. |
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October
7,
2007 |
Concert |
Sharona
Joshua, piano, performing works by Robert
Schumann, John Field, Chopin and
Mendelssohn. |
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October
14,
2007 |
Concert | Sarah Grunstein, piano, performing works by Chopin and Robert Schumann. |
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May 7,
2006 |
Concert | Shuann Chai, piano. Piano by Streicher, Vienna, 1846. |
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May 14,
2006 |
Concert |
The
Smith Chamber Ensemble, Joel Pitchon,
violin, Monica Jakuc, piano, with guest 'cellist,
Volcy Pelletier. Trios by Robert and Clara Schumann. Piano by Streicher, Vienna, 1846. |
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May 21,
2006 |
Concert |
The
Orfeo Duo, Vita Wallace, violin, Ishmael
Wallace, piano, with guest, Beth Anne Hatton,
soprano. Music by Brahms, Wagner, and others. Piano by Streicher, Vienna, 1868. |
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June 17-18,
2006 |
Concert |
A
Schubert Weekend: A Lively Talk on Schubert's
Music by Henrica Bordwin, President of the
American Schubert Institute, and two
recitals
by Dmitry Rachmanov, piano.
N.B. The Saturday lecture will be at 4 pm at the Piano Study Center, followed by pre-concert supper, then the firstConcert at 7 pm. The Sunday concert will be at 4 pm. |
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September 3,
2006 |
Concert |
Qi Liu,
piano with Shan Jiang, violin. Piano
by Érard, Paris, 1877. An Afternoon of French
Music including works by Debussy, Ravel, and Franck. |
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September 10,
2006 |
Concert |
The
Trio
Bella, Heather and Rebecca Fetrow, sopranos,
and Barbara Fetrow Suhrstedt, piano.
An Afternoon of Songs including works by Mozart and Beethoven. Piano by Katholnig, Vienna, c.1805-1810. |
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October 1,
2006 |
Concert |
Gayle
Martin Henry, piano. A program of Beethoven
Sonatas, including Nos. 13, 14, and 23.
Piano by Katholnig, Vienna, c.1805-1810. |
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October 8,
2006 |
Concert | Sharona Joshua, piano. A Beethoven Recital,
including Sonatas Nos. 1, 4, and 8.
Piano by Katholnig, Vienna, c.1805-1810. |
| October
15,
2006 |
Concert | Stephen Porter, piano. Piano to be chosen from The Frederick Collection. The program will include works by Schubert, Liszt and Schumann. n.b. Mr. Porter has agreed to perform the concert date originally scheduled to present Richard Shirk's program of The Romantic Piano. Mr. Shirk's concert was cancelled by the artist due to a health issue. We wish him and anticipate a complete recovery, and we are grateful to Mr. Porter for filling in on short notice. |
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May 22,
2005 |
Concert | Daniel Paul Horn, piano, with Stephen Balderston, 'cello. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1839. |
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May 29,
2005 |
Concert | Qi Liu, piano. An all-Chopin recital. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1839. |
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June 5,
2005 |
Concert | Gayle Martin Henry, piano. Piano by Muzio Clementi, London, 1805. |
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June 12,
2005 |
Concert | Richard Shirk, piano. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1839. |
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June 19,
2005 |
Concert |
Dmitri
Shteinberg, piano. A program titled The
End of Romanticism: France and Russia in the
late 1800s. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1877-78. |
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September 11,
2005 |
Concert | Gail Olszewski, piano. Works by Beethoven, Cecilia Barthelemon, Haydn, Clementi, John Field, and Jan Dussek. Piano by Clementi, London, 1805. |
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September 18,
2005 |
Concert | Kees Kooper, violin, with Emily White, piano. A Beethoven recital, with light commentary, featuring the "Spring" and "Kreutzer" sonatas. Piano by Bösendorfer, Vienna, built between 1828 and 1832. |
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September 25,
2005 |
Concert | Elaine Greenfield, piano, with Karen Kevra, flute. French Music for piano and flute, by Jules Mouquet, Michel Blavet, Francis Poulenc, Phillip Gaubert, Claude Debussy, Louis Moyse, Maurice Ravel, and Henri Dutilleux. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1893. (This program, originally to have taken place in June, 2005, was rescheduled due to an injury suffered by the pianist.) |
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October 2,
2005 |
Concert | Stephen Porter, piano. Sonata in b minor by Liszt, and works by Grieg and Ravel. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1877-78. |
| October
16,
2005 |
Concert | Susan Alexander-Max, piano. Works by Mozart, Hayden, Clementi, and Schubert. Piano to be selected from the Frederick Collection. |
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May 2,
2004 |
Concert | Pianist Richard Shirk: Music by Edvard Grieg |
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May 9,
2004 |
Concert |
Dmitri
Shteinberg, Music by Beethoven, Chopin
and Schumann. Piano by
Tröndlin, Leipzig, c.1830 (a new addition to The Frederick Collection. ). |
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May 16,
2004 |
Concert | Kees Kooper and Sara Bong; Music for Violin and Piano by Brahms, César Franck and Dvorak. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1877-'78, from the Frederick Collection.Violin by Giuseppi Guarneri of Cremona, not later than 1741. |
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May 23,
2004 |
Concert | Dmitry Rachmanov will present an all-Tchaikovsky program. Piano by Blüthner, Leipzig, 1878, from the Frederick Collection. |
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June 6,
2004 |
Concert | Pianist Benita Meshulam. Music by the Spanish composers DaFalla and Nin-Culmell. Piano to be selected from the Frederick Collection. |
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September
5,
2004 |
Concert | Sandra Carlock will play music by Chopin, Grieg and MacDowell . Piano by Érard, Paris, 1877-78, from the Frederick Collection. |
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September
19,
2004 |
Concert | Elaine Greenfield and Jan Meyer-Thompson will play a program of four-hand piano music by French composers. Piano by Érard, Paris, 1893, from the Frederick Collection. (Please see special program note.) |
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October
3,
2004 |
Concert | The Orfeo Duo will play music by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert. Piano by Katholnig, Vienna, 1805-10, from the Frederick Collection. |
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October 10,
2004 |
Concert | Stephen Porter will play music by Liszt, Chopin, and Schumann on the 1839 Érard, from the Frederick Collection. |
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October 16,
October 17, 2004 |
Concert | Susan Alexander-Max will play music by
Zipoli, Clementi, Hummel, and
Haydn. Piano
by Katholnig, Vienna, 1805-10, from
the
Frederick Collection.
(October 16 in Winchendon, October 17 in Ashburnham) |
| May 11, 2003 | Concert | Janice Nimetz |
| May 18, 2003 | Concert | Dmitri Shteinberg |
| May 25, 2003 | Concert | The Orfeo Duo, Ishmael and Vita Wallace |
| June 1, 2003 | Concert | Firestar, Maria Ferrante and Alys Terrien-Queen |
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August
2 - 11,
2003 |
Festival | The 2003 Ashburnham Chamber Music Festival at The Piano Museum. |
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August
31,
2003 |
Concert | Hsia-Jung Chang |
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September
28,
2003 |
Concert | Elaine Greenfield and Jill Hallett Levis |
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October
19,
2003 |
Concert | Stephen Porter |
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October
26,
2003 |
Concert | Susan Alexander-Max |
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May
12,
2002 |
Concert |
The
Brahms Trio, Emlyn Ngai,
Violin, Eva Marie Heater, Natural Horn, and Ira Braus,
piano. Piano by Streicher, Vienna, 1868. |
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May
26,
2002 |
Concert | Dmitry Rachmanov |
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June
2,
2002 |
Concert | Robert Osborne and Malcolm Halliday |
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June
9,
2002 |
Concert | Stephen Porter |
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August
21 - 25,
2002 |
Festival | The Ashburnham Chamber Music Festival at The Piano Museum. |
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September
15,
2002 |
Concert | The Kooper-Boehm Duo, Kees Kooper and Mary Louise Boehm |
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September
22,
2002 |
Concert | The Orfeo Duo, Ishmael and Vita Wallace |
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September
29,
2002 |
Concert | Dmitri Shteinberg |
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October
6,
2002 |
Concert | Susan Alexander-Max |
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May
4,
2001 |
Lecture | Study Center |
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May
5,
2001 |
Open
House |
Study Center |
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May
6,
2001 |
Concert | Sandra Carlock |
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June
10,
2001 |
Concert | Nancy Annis McDowell and Eda Mazo-Shlyam |
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July
1,
2001 |
Concert | The Kooper-Boehm Duo, Kees Kooper and Mary Louise Boehm |
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August
4,
2001 |
Open
House |
Study Center |
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October
7,
2001 |
Concert | Benita Meshulam |
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October
14,
2001 |
Concert | Maria Ferrante, Julian Milkis and Lincoln Mayorga |
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October
21,
2001 |
Concert | Susan Alexander-Max |
The concerts are centered around the internationally recognized Frederick Collection of Historical Grand Pianos built c.1795-1928 in Vienna, Paris, London, etc.
The Collection, begun in 1975, is located in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, USA.
The concert series has been presented since 1985. Each concert showcases one piano in music of that instrument's time and place, with professional musicians. Programs have included piano solo, Lieder, chamber ensemble, piano duo, French art songs, and more.
There are Concerts in the Spring & Fall, typically six concerts each, at the handicapped-accessible Ashburnham Community Church. The average attendance is 112 persons per event, from all over New England and nearby New York state. Admission $15.00; children/students, free.
The Frederick Piano Collection is located in the handsome c. 1890 former Stevens Library building, being leased to HPC by Town, for use as Historical Piano Study Center.
The Piano Study Center is equipped to host seminars, workshops, lecture-recitals, panel discussions, master classes, tours, and recording sessions.
The Piano Study Center has support of musicians, music scholars, and interested lay public from all over USA and from several other countries.
Historical Piano Concerts, Inc. has been a Non-Profit Organization under Section 501(c)(3) of IRS Code since August, 1988.
For further information: In addition to the concert schedule on this page, you will find a discography, details of the Collection and the Study Center right here on the web site. To inquire about tours, to add your name to our mailing list, or with other questions, please contact:
Edmund or Patricia Frederick
Historical Piano Concerts, Inc.
15 Water Street
Ashburnham, MA 01430-1258
USA
phone/fax: 1 (978) 827-6232