Audrey Vardanega & Friends – Friday, April 12 at 8 pm
Pianist Audrey Vardanega returns to Old First Concerts with special guests Hannah Tarley and Monica Scott in a program of beloved chamber music by Beethoven, Schumann, and Janáček.
Scary Concert! – Sunday, October 28 at 4 pm
Inara Morgenstern & Victoria Neve, piano with special guest vocalist Ariela Morgenstern present a special Hallowe’en extravaganza, featuring George Crumb’s Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik along with a seasonal mix of scary pieces for four hands by Gounod, Reineke, Dukas, Schumann, Alfredo Casella, and Toby Twining—with a little extra eeriness from a toy piano!
Ives Collective – Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 4 pm
Receiving Mozart’s Spirit, featuring masterworks from the Classical period by Beethoven alongside Mozart’s E-flat major Piano Quartet.
Junior Bach Festival – Sunday, March 17 at 4 pm
image: Junior Bach Founder Tirzah Mailkoff and young performers in 1953
The Junior Bach Festival returns to Old First Concerts by popular demand, as we have every year since 2015, showcasing a new generation of superbly talented and virtuosic young soloists and ensembles who are uniquely capable of expressing the genius of Bach’s timeless music.
Francesca Khalifa – Friday, September 8 at 8 pm
The Italian-Egyptian pianist Francesca Khalifa performs an eclectic program of works by Debussy, Bartók, Brian T. Field, Gabriela Ortiz, and Miguel del Aguila.