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.
Noël Wan – Les fleurs du mal – Sunday, September 20 at 4 pm
One of classical harp’s most distinctive emerging soloists, Noël Wan brings together her unique artistic voice and intellectual imagination in an all-new solo program, Les fleurs du mal. Pairing pieces by beloved late Romantic composers with exquisite twenty-first century works, she and her harp conjure a tangled, efflorescent world of decadence, perversion, and beauty.
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.