Past Artist Faculty Concerts

Port Milford Chamber Players, “It Might as Well be Spring”

with soprano Rebecca Kenneally, pianist Madeline Hildebrand, and the MPM Chorus

August 5, 2023

  • Tindley - The Storm is Passing Over

  • Jean Francaix Trio a cordes

  • Songs by Faure, Lori Laitman, and Rogers & Hamerstein

  • Vítězslava Kaprálová April Preludes

  • Andante Moderato from Florence Price’s Unfinished String Quartet

  • Lili Boulanger - D’un matin de printemps for piano trio

  • Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1

Penderecki String Quartet & Pianist Mikael Darmanie, “Romance and Imagination”

with Roberta Janzen & Carolyn Blackwell

July 29, 2023

  • Schubert Impromptu in G Flat

  • Improvisations on Duke Ellington (Kaplanek & Darmanie)

  • Allegro moderato from Clara Schumann Piano Trio

  • Jessie Montgomery - “Smoke” for String Quartet

  • Romanze and Finale from Brahms String Quartet No. 1

  • Andante from Bartok Piano Quintet (1904)

  • Tchaikovsky “Souvenir de Florence”

Quatuor de l’Agora & Pianist Allison Gagnon, “A Break in the Clouds”

July 22, 2023

  • Mozart Piano Trio in B Flat

  • Frank Bridge Novelletten

  • William Grant Still - Summerland

  • Marcus Goddard - Allaqi (2009)

  • Faure Piano Quartet No. 1

Catherine Cosbey, Dorothy Ro, Eric Wong, Felix Umansky & Angela Park, “Opening Night”

July 15, 2023

  • Darren Sigesmund - “Regeneration” (World Premiere)

  • Clara Schumann Scherzo No. 2 in C minor

  • Martinu - Poco Adagio from Madrigals for Violin and VIola

  • Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson - Fuguing Tune and Song Form from Lamentations

  • Mendelssohn String Quartet Op. 44 No. 3

  • Amy Beach Piano Quintet

Port Milford Chamber Players

with Todd Yaniw (piano)

August 13, 2022

  • Gershwin/Heifetz - “Summertime”

  • Margaret Bonds - Troubled Water

  • Debussy String Quartet

  • Schumann Piano Quintet

Tokai String Quartet

with Min-Jeong Koh (violin) & Bo-Yon Koh (piano)

August 6, 2022

  • Florence Price - Elfentanz

  • Dowland, arr. Attacca Quartet - Flow My Tears

  • Andrew Norman - Peculiar Strokes

  • George Walker - Lyric for Strings

  • Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson String Quartet

  • Ernő Dohnányi Piano Quintet

Quatuor de l’Agora

with Allison Gagnon (piano), Anthony Elliott (cello), & Rebecca Kenneally (soprano)

July 30, 2022

  • Franck Cello Sonata: Recitativo-Fantasia, Allegretto poco mosso

  • Gwyneth Walker: Circling the Sun, A Waterbird

  • John Adams: Toot Nipple

  • Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Piano Quintet

Catherine Cosbey, Jeremy Bell, Eric Wong, Katie Schlaikjer & Angela Park

July 23, 2022

  • Ravel Sonatine

  • Mozart K. 387 Quartet in G Major

  • Dvorak Piano Trio Op. 65 No. 3: Poco Adagio

  • Florence Price Piano Quintet

min-jeong koh & curtis stewart, “Shook”

August 8, 2020

  • Charlie Parker, “Scrapple from the Apple”

  • Jessie Montgomery, “Rhapsody for Solo Violin”

  • Curtis Stewart, “Shook” 

  • Ysaye/Stewart, “Obsessed”

  • Eugene Ysaye, Sonata Op 27 No. 2 "Obsession"

  • Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, “Louisiana Blues Strut”

 

marie berard & angela park, “Live from home”

August 1, 2020

  • Georg Philipp Telemann, Fantasia No. 2 in G major, TWV 40

  • Edmund Rubbra, Variations on a Phrygian Theme for solo violin

  • Sergei Prokofiev,  Sonata for Solo Violin in D major, Opus 115

  • Kevin Lau, The Dreamer (2017) 

  • Beethoven, Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein'

Tokai String Quartet, “Phenomenal Woman”

with Angela Park (piano), Rebecca Kenneally (voice), & Joan McBride (spoken word)

July 21st, 2018

  • “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou

  • Germaine Tailleferre, String Quartet

  • “The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver

  • Caroline Shaw, By and By, for voice and strings

  • “I Dwell in Possibility” by Emily Dickinson

  • Jennifer Higdon, Scenes from the Poet’s Dream

  • Excerpts from “The Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn” 

  •  “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou

  • Fanny Mendelssohn, “Nacht Leight auf den fremden Wegen” 



QUATOUR SAGUENAY, “Form, Balance, Motion”

with Allison Gagnon (piano)

July 28th, 2018

This performance was dedicated to the memory of Bill and Sheila Gribble

  • Bach, Art of the Fugue

  • Marcus Goddard, Allaqi

  • Ernest MacMillan, Two Sketches on French Canadian Airs

  • Miguel del Aguila, Presto II

  • Franck, Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34



Harlem String Quartet, “Franz Meets Dizzy”

August 4th, 2018

  • Anton Webern, Langsamer Satz

  • Dizzy Gillespie, A Night in Tunisia

  • Richard Rodgers, My Funny Valentine

  • Guido Gavilan, Cuarteto en Guaguanco (2005)

  • Schubert, String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, “Rosamunde”

Port Milford Faculty Ensemble, “Folk Connection”

August 11th, 2018

  • Hungarian Folk Songs, Dana Wilson Dudatánc

  • Amy Beach, Quartet for Strings

  • Bartók Quartet No. 4 in C Major

  • Folk Music Set with the Frere Brothers

  • Dvořák Viola Quintet in E Flat Major, Op. 97








Tokai String Quartet

August 12th, 2017

  • Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello

  • Lament in the Trampled Garden by Marjan Mozetich

  • Dvorak String Quartet in A flat Major, Op. 105

  • Haydn String Quartet Op. 20 no. 6

Port Milford Artists

August 5th, 2017

  • Rhapsody for solo violin, by Jessie Montgomery

  • Rowson String Sextet

  • Haydn String Quartet Op. 64 no. 6 in E flat Major

  • Zemlinsky Quartet no. 1


Afiara Collective

July 29th, 2017

  • Shostakovich Piano Quintet

  • Brahms Piano Quintet


CECILIA INSPIRED ENSEMBLE

July 22nd, 2017

  • Purcell Chacony in G (arr. Britten)

  • Beethoven, String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3

  • Katarina Ćurčin String Quartet No. 3 (2016)

  • Mendelssohn String Quartet in D Major, Op. 44 No. 1


Port Milford Artists

August 6th, 2016

  • Beethoven String Quintet “Storm” in C Major, Op. 29

  • D’Rivera “Wapango” (1987)

  • Brahms String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 111


Tokai String Quartet

July 30th, 2016

  • Haydn String Quartet in D Major, Op. 71, No. 2

  • Burge String Quartet No. 1 (2011)

  • Debussy String Quartet in g minor, Op. 10


Ensemble Made In Canada

July 23rd, 2016

  • Mozart Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 493

  • Murphy “Four Degrees of Freedom” (1995)

  • Faure Piano Quartet No. 2 in g minor, Op. 45


Afiara String Quartet

July 16th, 2016

  • Haydn String Quartet in C Major, Op. 50, No. 2

  • Teehan Infinite Streams II (2014)

  • Lau String Quartet No. 3 (2014)

  • Silberberg Transcendence (2013)

  • Wijeratne Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems (2014)

  • Wijeratne/Skratch Bastid “Through the Invisible” (2015)


Port Milford Artists

August 8th, 2015

  • Telemann Fantasia for Solo Violin No. 1 in B Flat Major

  • Mai Chhori Sundari, Traditional Nepalese Lullaby

  • Britten Can You Sew Cushions

  • All the Pretty Little Horses, Traditional African American Lullaby

  • Schubert Wiegenlied- Austrian

  • Schubert String Quartet in c minor, D. 703, 'Quartettsatz'

  • Grieg String Quartet No. 1 in g minor, Op. 27


Tokai String Quartet

August 1st, 2015

  • Bach Three Part Inventions, BMV 787-801

  • Schubert String Quartet No. 14 in d minor "Death and the Maiden”

  • Glazunov Cello Quintet in A Major Op. 39


Piali Quartet

July 25th, 2015

  • Mendelssohn String Quartet Op. 44, No. 1 in D Major

  • Briseño El Sinaloense

  • Schubert String Quartet Op. 125, No. 1 in E flat Major

  • Schubert String Quintet in C Major


Afiara String Quartet

July 18th, 2015

  • Haydn String Quartet Op. 64, No. 2 in b minor

  • Lau String Quartet No. 3

  • Nielsen String Quartet No. 1, Opus 13 in g minor


Port Milford Artists

August 9th, 2014

  • Prokofiev Sonata for Two Violins in C, Op. 56

  • Mozart String Quartet K.589

  • Beach Piano Quintet in F sharp minor, Op. 67

  • Schubert Songs


Tokai String Quartet

August 2nd, 2014

  • Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68

  • Korngold String Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 26

  • Haydn String Quartet No. 63 in B flat major, Op. 76, No. 4


Linden String Quartet

July 26th, 2014

  • Mendelssohn String Quartet in F minor, op. 80

  • Haydn String Quartet in G, Op. 76 no. 1

  • Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546

  • Murphy Dark Energy


Port Milford Artists

August 9th, 2013

  • Schubert String Trio in B-flat major, D. 471

  • Martinu Madrigals for Violin and Viola, H 313

  • Dvorak Quintet for Piano and Strings no 2 in A major, Op. 81/ B 155


Ensemble Made in Canada

August 2nd, 2013

  • Schumann Quartet for Piano and Strings in E flat major, Op. 47

  • Turina Quartet for Piano and Strings in A minor, Op. 67

  • Burge Piano Quartet


Tokai String Quartet

July 26th, 2013

  • Dvorak String Quartet in E flat, Op. 51

  • Britten Quartet for Strings No. 2 in C major, Op. 36


Linden String Quartet

July 19th, 2013

  • Beethoven Quartet for Strings, No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132

  • Haydn String Quartet Number 64 in D Major, Op. 76, No. 5

  • Corigliano, Black November Turkey

  • Corigliano, Snapshot "Circa 1909"


Port Milford Artists

August 10th, 2012

  • Haydn String Quartet Op. 20, No. 5 in F minor

  • Dvorak Terzetto Op.74 in C major

  • Beethoven Sonata No. 6 in A Major

  • Schumann Piano Quintet Op. 44 in E-Flat major


Tokai String Quartet

August 3rd, 2012

  • Wolf Italian Serenade

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Dohnayi Piano Quartet in C Minor

  • Chausson Chason Perpetuelle


Tokai String Quartet

July 27th, 2012

  • Gershwin They Can't Take that Away from Me

  • Ravel Quartet in F Major

  • Beethoven String Quartet Op. 59, No.1

  • Gershwin Summertime

  • Porter Too Darn Hot

  • Gershwin Embraceable You


Linden String Quartet

July 20th, 2012

  • Shostakovich Polka, from Two Pieces for String Quartet op.11

  • Schubert "Quartattsatz" in C minor

  • Edith Piaf/ Louise Guglielmi La Vie en Rose

  • Bolcom Three Rags for String Quartet

  • Beethoven Quartet op. 18 no. 3

  • Bartok String Quartet no. 5


Port Milford Artists

August 12th, 2011

  • Rosseter Elizabethan Lute-Songs

  • Haydn String Quartet Op. 54 in G Major

  • Tchaikovsky String Sextet Op. 70 in d minor, "Souvenir de Florence"

Tokai String Quartet

July 29th, 2011

  • Shepherd Selections from Triptych

  • Mozart String Quartet in F major, K. 590

  • Mendelssohn String Quartet in F minor, op. 80

  • Shostakovich Quartet, No. 7 Op. 108


Linden Sting Quartet

July 22nd, 2011

  • Ravel Quartet in F Major

  • Mozart String Quartet in E Flat, K. 428

  • Mendelssohn String Quartet in A Minor opus 13


Port Milford Artists

August 13th, 2010

  • Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D Major

  • Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending

  • Elgar String Quartet Op. 83 in e minor


Tokai String Quartet

August 6th, 2010

  • Ginastera String Quartet No. 2 Op. 26

  • Golijov Tenebrae

  • Turina Oracion del Torero "Bullfighter's Prayer"

  • Piazzolla Four for Tango


Tokai String Quartet

July 30th, 2010

  • Schumann Quartet, Op. 41 #1

  • Haydn String Quartet Op. 50 No. 6 in D Major

  • Beach "The Visit"

  • Beach "Afternoon on a Hill"

  • Barber String Quartet Op. 11

  • Barber "Sure on this shining night"


Linden String Quartet

July 23th, 2010

  • Beethoven String Quartet Op. 59 No. 2 in e minor

  • Bridge Three Idylls

  • Walton String Quartet in a minor