Violinist

To quote Will Rogers, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” This free event showcases the first string quartets of composers like Haydn, Mozart, and Richmond’s Riley Peters. Hear the great pieces that started it all!

Free Concert – FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Richmond Main Public Library

Each summer, musicians from around the world gather in the Green Mountains of Vermont to participate in a “fundamentally natural and unique” approach to music-making (New York Classical Review). In their second appearance this season, Musicians from Marlboro reintroduces Untitled—a 2023 PCMS commission by composer and MacArthur “Genius” Tyshawn Sorey—as well as a pair of works by Beethoven, including the vivacious Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20.

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Musicians from Marlboro II

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

This exceptional ensemble unites two longtime PCMS favorites—Grammy Award-winning violist Kim Kashkashian and former Mendelssohn Quartet cellist Marcy Rosen—with two fast-rising young artists: the “exquisite” (New York Classical Review) violinist Stephanie Zyzak and 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant winner Evren Ozel. Fauré’s lyrical G Minor Piano Quartet highlights a program that also includes Haydn’s charming C Major Piano Trio, a work that boasts some of Haydn’s most virtuosic piano writing.

Stephanie Zyzak, violin

 Benjamin Franklin Hall

Musicians From Marlboro

Carnegie Hall

One of today’s most insightful pianists, Mitsuko Uchida begins the final season of her Carnegie Hall Perspectives series with a concert that highlights her supreme sensitivity as a collaborator; dedication to developing extraordinary young talent; and thoughtful, varied programming. The performance comprises music by Beethoven, Robert Schumann, and György Kurtág, whose works Uchida is widely considered to be a master interpreter. It brings Uchida together with exceptional rising professionals from the renowned Marlboro Music Festival, which has introduced audiences to countless modern greats, and of which Uchida is an artistic director.

Mitsuko Uchida, Piano Musicians from Marlboro

Music of Haydn, Castillo (world premiere), Brown (“Rural Electrification”), Kurtág, Ravel

2024 Concert #5

Ever want to be a fly on the wall and see how a classical work is prepared for performance? Come see the festival artists assemble this summer’s repertoire. Central to NCMF, open rehearsals allow the audience to obtain an unvarnished look at the sometimes difficult and controversial process in which a piece is transformed from black marks on a page to a piece of music by individuals working together to make an artistic statement. This rehearsal will allow the musicians to interact closely with Composer-in-Residence Patrick Castillo.

2024 Open Rehearsal #5 with Composer

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center

This intimate concert with limited seating is held in the beautiful Brown Chapel at Oak Hill Cemetery. Come experience a concert unlike any other with the music played in complete darkness. Tickets sell out very quickly.

2024 Concert #3 Nachtmusik

Oak Hill Cemetery

2024 Concert #2

St. Paul's Episcopal Church

2024 Concert #1

Zach Field Drums and Music

Ever want to be a fly on the wall and see how a classical work is prepared for performance? Come see the festival artists assemble this summer’s repertoire. Central to NCMF, open rehearsals allow the audience to obtain an unvarnished look at the sometimes difficult and controversial process in which a piece is transformed from black marks on a page to a piece of music by individuals working together to make an artistic statement.

2024 Open Rehearsal #4

2024 Open Rehearsal #3

Jabberwocky Bookshop

2024 Open Rehearsal #2

First Religious Society Unitarian Universalist

Listen to the Festival Artists share selections they're rehearsing for the summer festival, discuss a wide range of topics, and take questions from the audience in a free panel led by NCMF Artistic Director, David Yang.

2024 Panel Discussion with Festival Artists

Newburyport Art Association

Indulge in the timeless melodies, rich harmonies, and profound depth of chamber music by Mendelssohn and Brahms, two composers who span the range of the Romantic era, performed by alumni of Caramoor’s Evnin Rising Stars mentoring program.

Chamber Feast

Venetian Theater at Caramoor

A unique collaboration between outstanding young musicians and an expert on the music of J.S. Bach, the Gamut Bach Ensemble prides itself on stylistically sensitive, earnest, and insightful performances. Returning for its 10th PCMS appearance, the Ensemble, directed by Koji Otsuki, embarks on its annual program of cantatas in the luminous Church of the Holy Trinity.

Gamut Bach Ensemble

Church of the Holy Trinity

“Caution – Musicians at Play” reads a large, hand-painted sign on the rural Vermont hilltop where, each summer, musicians from all over the world come together to study and rehearse beloved and less-known chamber works. The third Marlboro touring ensemble of this season offers a richly varied program that begins with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s harmonically beguiling Five Fantasiestücke and concludes with Arnold Schoenberg’s intense, enthralling Verklärte Nacht.

Musicians from Marlboro III

In collaboration with Music for Food, Musicians from Marlboro present a concert of Coleridge-Taylor, Dvořák, Webern, and Schoenberg in support of local hunger initiatives. General admission tickets are $30, available for purchase on Marlboro’s website, and additional donations will be accepted online and at the door. 100% of donated proceeds will go to Women’s Lunch Place. 

Marlboro Music School and Festival Presents: Musicians from Marlboro

New England Conservatory

We close the summer season with young stars from the renowned Marlboro Festival performing early and late Beethoven piano trios featuring the composer’s beloved ‘Archduke’ Trio.

Stephanie Zyzak, violin & Alexander Hersh, cello & Evren Ozel, piano

Darrow School

The talented musicians performing in Ensemble Connect form “one of the strongest ensembles in the city” (New York Classical Review). Over the course of this two-year fellowship program, extraordinary young professionals perform a series of concerts that smartly bridges the history and future of classical music, from timeless Baroque music to new works. This program includes a Philadelphia premiere by Michi Wiancko, commissioned by Carnegie Hall; brilliant quintets by Mozart and R. Schumann; and Dark Wood by Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon—a title that refers to the bassoon, used virtuosically throughout the piece.

Violinist

Stephanie Zyzak

Events

Past events

Feb 21, 2026

Free Concert – FIRST IMPRESSIONS · Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia

Feb 10, 2026

Musicians from Marlboro II · Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in Septet by Beethoven

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

Violin in String Quartet No. 8 by Beethoven

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

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