BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Bargemusic - ECPv4.6.22.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Bargemusic X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.bargemusic.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Bargemusic BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261003T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261003T140000 DTSTAMP:20261020T170956 CREATED:20260325T184442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T200559Z UID:8040-1791036000-1791036000@www.bargemusic.org SUMMARY:RESILIENCE: "Lost and Reclaimed Voices from the Holocaust" with Desirée Ruhstrat\, Melissa Reardon\, and Wendy Sutter DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RESILIENCE\nLost and Reclaimed Voices from the Holocaust\nDesirée Ruhstrat\, violin\nMelissa Reardon\, viola\nWendy Sutter\, cello \nProgram: \nErwin Schulhoff Duo for Violin and Cello \nGideon Klein String Trio \nHans Gál Trio \nHans Krása Tanz \nResilience is an intimate and deeply moving concert project in which three acclaimed artists of\ninternational stature come together to restore music silenced by the Holocaust to the living repertoire.\nViolinist Desirée Ruhstrat\, violist Melissa Reardon\, and cellist Wendy Sutter—each a leader in the\nclassical music world—unite in a program devoted to extraordinary chamber works by composers\nwhose lives and careers were shaped\, interrupted\, or extinguished by Nazi persecution. Through\nsolo\, duo\, and string trio repertoire\, Resilience offers both remembrance and renewal\, allowing\nvoices nearly erased by history to speak again with urgency and clarity.\nThe program features music by composers such as Erwin Schulhoff\, Gideon Klein\, Schul\,\nHermann\, and Hans Gál\, including Gál’s String Trio in F-sharp minor\, Op. 104 and Serenade\, Op.\n41. Alongside these recognized works\, Resilience incorporates chamber pieces that have only\nrecently resurfaced—some drawn directly from archival sources and private holdings\, and in certain\ncases not performed publicly for decades\, if not since the period immediately following the Second\nWorld War.\nThese works are presented not as historical artifacts\, but as living music—expressive\, daring\, and\nprofoundly human. The program’s flexible structure alternates between solo\, duo\, and trio\nperformances\, creating contrast\, intimacy\, and narrative flow while highlighting the individuality of\neach composer’s voice. Designed for chamber-scale halls and series\, the concert can be adapted in\nlength and format to suit a wide range of venues.\nViolinist Desirée Ruhstrat brings to this project a long-standing commitment to rediscovering\nsuppressed repertoire. As founder of the Black Oak Ensemble\, her work on the acclaimed album\nSilenced Voices—recognized by the Chicago Tribune\, Fanfare\, and WQXR—has been instrumental\nin returning forgotten composers to the concert stage. Her scholarship and musical insight form a\ncentral pillar of Resilience.\nShe is joined by Grammy-nominated violist Melissa Reardon\, a member of the Borromeo String\nQuartet and Artistic Director of the Portland Chamber Music Festival. Praised for her “elegant” and\n“virtuosic” performances\, Reardon brings a wide-ranging artistic voice shaped by international\ntouring\, leadership in major chamber organizations\, and collaborations across classical and\ncontemporary traditions.\nCellist Wendy Sutter—hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “one of the great leading cellists of the\nclassical stage”—completes the trio. Renowned for her intensity and expressive range\, Sutter has\nperformed as a soloist on five continents with major orchestras and leading conductors\, while also\nshaping contemporary music through decades-long collaborations with composers including Philip\nGlass\, Tan Dun\, and Steve Reich. Her career bridges the classical canon and the modern\navant-garde\, bringing urgency and depth to music that demands remembrance.\nTogether\, Ruhstrat\, Reardon\, and Sutter form an ensemble of rare authority and sensitivity.\nResilience is more than a concert: it is an act of artistic restoration\, a testament to creative\nendurance\, and a powerful affirmation that music silenced by violence can—and must—be heard\nagain. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://www.bargemusic.org/concert/resilience-lost-and-reclaimed-voices-from-the-holocaust-with-desiree-ruhstrat-melissa-reardon-and-wendy-sutter/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261004T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261004T140000 DTSTAMP:20261020T170956 CREATED:20260325T153616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T153616Z UID:8017-1791122400-1791122400@www.bargemusic.org SUMMARY:Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas with Conversation\, Part 6: "Riding the Wave of Power and Fame" DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Complete Piano Sonatas of Beethoven\, Part 6\n\n“Riding the Wave of Power and Fame”\n\n\nSonata in F major\, Op. 54\n\nSonata in F minor\, Op. 57 (“Appassionata”)\n\nSonata in F# major\, Op. 78\n\nSonata in G major\, Op. 79\n\nSonata in Eb major\, Op. 81a (“Lebewohl”)\n\nwith Jeffrey Swann\, piano \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://www.bargemusic.org/concert/complete-beethoven-piano-sonatas-with-conversation-part-6-riding-the-wave-of-power-and-fame/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T140000 DTSTAMP:20261020T170956 CREATED:20260325T185838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261013T011426Z UID:8045-1791640800-1791640800@www.bargemusic.org SUMMARY:Beethoven sonatas with Mark Peskanov and Steven Beck DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Beethoven  Selected sonatas for violin and piano \nwith \nMark Peskanov\, violin \nSteven Beck\, piano \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://www.bargemusic.org/concert/a-happiness-of-influence-mozart-quintets-and-beethoven-opus-18-quartets/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261011T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261011T140000 DTSTAMP:20261020T170956 CREATED:20260324T192418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260410T212141Z UID:7938-1791727200-1791727200@www.bargemusic.org SUMMARY:2PM: Beethoven: Contrasting Trios\, with Mark Peskanov\, Samuel Magill\, and Beth Levin DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nBeethoven Selections from piano trios\n\nwith Mark Peskanov\, violin; Samuel Magill\, cello; Beth Levin\, piano \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://www.bargemusic.org/concert/beethoven-contrasting-trios-with-mark-peskanov-samuel-magill-and-beth-levin/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T140000 DTSTAMP:20261020T170956 CREATED:20260325T190656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260903T212754Z UID:8052-1792245600-1792245600@www.bargemusic.org SUMMARY:Harlem Chamber Players: Turina\, Dvořak\, D'Rivera DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Joaquín Turina La oración del torero (The Bullfighter’s Prayer)\, Op. 34\nAntonin Dvořák String Quartet No. 11 in C major\, Op. 61\, B 121\nPaquito D’Rivera Wapango\nwith the Harlem Chamber Players \nAshley Horne\, violin \nClaire Chan\, violin \nWilliam Frampton\, viola \nWayne Smith\,  cello \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://www.bargemusic.org/concert/harlem-chamber-players-montgomery-marsalis-and-more/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261018T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261018T140000 DTSTAMP:20261020T170956 CREATED:20260325T191739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260914T005041Z UID:8055-1792332000-1792332000@www.bargemusic.org SUMMARY:"From Paris to Vermont: A Musical Lineage 75 Years in the Making" with Deborah Buck and Orli Shaham DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nFrom Paris to Vermont — A Musical Lineage 75 Years in the Making\n \nThis program explores the rich compositional legacy connected to Kinhaven’s co-founder\, Dorothy Dushkin\, her brother-in-law—violinist and arranger Samuel Dushkin— and a circle of musicians who studied in Paris under the legendary Nadia Boulanger. This recital includes fun music by Stravinsky\, Copland\, Gershwin\, Caroline Shaw\, and a few other American composers that are closely connected to this legacy. \n\n\n\n\nAaron Copland Two Pieces for Violin and Piano (1926)\n\nI. Ukulele\nII. Nocturne\n\n\n\n\n\nLili Boulanger D-un Matin de printemps (on a spring morning) (1917-1918)\nDorothy Dushkin Berceuse for Nadia (1949)\nBruce Adolphe Fantasia on Beethoven’s Spring Sonata (commissioned by Deborah Buck in 2020)\nAllen Shawn Winter Sketchbook IV. Presto (1989)\n\nAlex Robertson Canzonetta (2025)\n\nMax Grafe Fire on the Mountain (commissioned by Deborah Buck in 2026)\nNicolas Scherzinger Rain for days and days (commissioned by Deborah Buck in 2026)\nGeorge Gershwin/Samuel Dushkin Short Story (1925)\nCaroline Shaw Broad and Free (2017)\nIgor Stravinsky/Samuel Dushkin Divertimento IV. b) Variation & c) Coda (1932)\n\n\n\n\nwith Deborah Buck\, violin\, and Orli Shaham\, piano \n\nBiographies\n\nViolinist Deborah Buck has been hailed by The Strad for her “surpassing degree of imagination and vibrant sound.” Equally at home in recital halls\, symphony stages\, recording studios\, opera houses\, and even on Saturday Night Live\, she maintains a versatile career as a chamber musician\, concertmaster\, recitalist\, educator\, and artistic leader. \nRecent performance highlights include recitals at BargeMusic (NYC) with pianists Orli Shaham and Orion Weiss\, performances on series such as GatherNYC\, Lyrica Chamber Music (NJ)\, Reflections in Music (NYC)\, Sands Point/Four Seasons of Music (NY)\, Small Spaces/Orchestra Lumos (CT)\, and annually at the Telluride Chamber Music Festival (CO). \nDedicated to broadening the expressive range of her violin playing\, Buck has premiered numerous works written for her\, including DeBut for solo violin by John Harbison and Fantasia on Beethoven’s Spring Sonata by Bruce Adolphe. In 2025\, she recorded September\, a newly commissioned work by Curtis Stewart from his 24 American Caprices\, as well as a new joint arrangement of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Louisiana Blues Strut with percussionist Yousif Sheronick. She was also featured\, to critical acclaim\, on a recent Avie Records release devoted to the music of Bruce Wolosoff. In 2026\, Buck will receive two new commissions by Nicolas Scherzinger and Max Grafe as part of an upcoming recording project celebrating the legacy of new music fostered at Kinhaven Music School. \nFrom 2002 to 2019\, Buck was a member of the acclaimed Lark Quartet\, whose boundary-expanding commissions helped redefine the contemporary string quartet repertoire. The ensemble collaborated with and commissioned numerous Pulitzer Prize–winning composers\, recording extensively for Endeavor\, Koch\, and Bridge Records\, and championing works by composers including Jennifer Higdon\, John Harbison\, Daniel Bernard Roumain\, and Paul Moravec. \nBuck is frequently invited to serve as guest Concertmaster and has recently held that role with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra which included performances with Yo-Yo Ma. As Concertmaster\, she has been engaged by the Phoenix Symphony\, the West Virginia Symphony\, and most recently by Palm Beach Opera. Appointed by Music Director Michael Stern in 2022\, she is currently the tenured Concertmaster of Orchestra Lumos. Previously\, she held the same position with the Brooklyn Philharmonic\, Los Angeles Opera Guild Orchestra\, and St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra in Los Angeles.\nAs a soloist\, Buck made her Lincoln Center concerto debut with the Little Orchestra Society and has since appeared with orchestras including the Princeton Symphony\, West Virginia Symphony\, Brooklyn Philharmonic\, and Orchestra Lumos. Buck’s recital appearances include The Phillips Collection (Washington\, D.C.)\, Dame Myra Hess Series (Chicago)\, and Bargemusic (NYC)\, with live broadcasts on Los Angeles radio stations WFMT and KKGO. Her versatility also extends to film and television\, including the violin solos for Turner Classic Movies’restored silent film The Scarlet Letter. \nA dedicated educator and musical leader\, Buck served for over a decade on the faculty of the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music as Head of Strings and Chamber Music. Since 2011\, she has been Co-Executive Director and Artistic Advisor of Kinhaven (VT) and currently serves on the faculty at Montclair State University. \nA consummate musician recognized for her grace\, subtlety\, and brilliance\, the pianist Orli Shaham is hailed by critics on four continents. The New York Times called her a “brilliant pianist\,” The Chicago Tribune referred to her as “a first-rate Mozartean\,” and London’s Guardian said Ms. Shaham’s playing at the Proms was “perfection.” \nOrli Shaham has performed with many of the major orchestras around the world\, and has appeared in recital internationally\, from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. She is Artistic Director of Pacific Symphony’s chamber series Café Ludwig in California since 2007 and was Artist in Residence at Vancouver Symphony (USA) in 2022-2024. \nHighlights of Ms. Shaham’s 2025-2026 concert season include Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto at the Classical Tahoe Festival\, performances of Light Forming by David Robertson with St. Louis and Nashville symphonies\, and the premiere of a concerto for violin and piano by Reena Esmail she commissioned with her brother\, the violinist Gil Shaham\, with the National and Virginia symphonies. \nIn 2026\, Orli Shaham releases an album of American chamber music with members of the Pacific Symphony\, including works by Margaret Brouwer\, Avner Dorman\, Reena Esmail and Viet Cuong. Her 2024 box set of the complete sonatas by Mozart received accolades worldwide. Ms. Shaham’s discography also includes her acclaimed solo album\, Brahms Inspired; John Adams’ Grand Pianola Music with the pianist Marc-André Hamelin and the San Francisco Symphony\, with the composer conducting; and American Grace\, featuring Steven Mackey’s Stumble to Grace\, written for her\, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. \nOrli Shaham is on the piano and chamber music faculty at The Juilliard School and is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Kaufman Music Center. She is a major presence on public radio as Co-Host and Creative for NPR’s From the Top and was host of Dial-a-Musician\, a radio feature series she created. She is regularly featured on the popular music education platform Tonebase\, including masterclasses on Mozart’s piano sonatas and a lecture-performance about Clara Schumann. \nOrli Shaham is a Steinway Artist. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://www.bargemusic.org/concert/from-paris-to-vermont-a-musical-lineage-75-years-in-the-making-with-deborah-buck-and-orli-shaham/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T140000 DTSTAMP:20261020T170956 CREATED:20260325T192259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261013T012918Z UID:8059-1792850400-1792850400@www.bargemusic.org SUMMARY:Bohemian Rhapsody\, Viennese Grace: Romantic Piano Trios DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brahms Trio #3 in C minor\, op. 101 \n\nAllegro energico\nPresto non assai\nAndante grazioso\nAllegro molto\n\nDvořak Trio #4 in E minor\, Op. 90 (“Dumky”) \n\nLento maestoso — Allegro quasi doppio movimento\nPoco Adagio — Vivace non troppo\nAndante — Vivace non troppo\nAndante moderato — Allegretto scherzando\nAllegro — Meno mosso\nLento maestoso — Vivace\n\nwith Mark Peskanov\, Nicholas Tzavaras\, and Doris Stevenson \n\nBiographies\n\nMark Peskanov\nA native of East Harlem in New York City\, cellist Nicholas Tzavaras has toured the globe as a chamber musician\, soloist\, and educator for more than two decades. He has performed more than 1600 concerts worldwide\, from Cartagena Columbia to the Tonhalle in Zurich to Nagasaki Japan.  Since 2000\, Tzavaras has been the cellist of the internationally renowned Shanghai Quartet. Recent festival engagements have included the Brevard\, La Jolla and Taos festivals\, the Casals festival in Prades France\, the Melbourne Music Festival in Australia and the Marlboro Festival.  Tzavaras has held the esteemed title of guest principal cellist of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra since 2009. He has recorded more than 25 albums for the Naxos\, Delos\, Bis\, Centaur\, Camerata\, and New Albion labels\, including the complete Beethoven string quartet cycle and Bright Sheng’s songs for pipa and cello with Wu Man.  Tzavaras can be seen in the Academy Award nominated documentary “Small Wonders\,” the motion picture “Music of the Heart” and with the Shanghai Quartet in “Melinda Melinda.”Tzavaras began the violin at age 2 with his mother\, Roberta Guaspari and moved to the cello when he was 7.  A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science\, he went on to receive degrees from the New England Conservatory and the State University of New York at Stony Brook working exclusively with Laurence Lesser and Timothy Eddy. From 2002 to 2021\, Tzavaras was the coordinator of the String Department and Artist-in-Residence at Montclair State University’s John J. Cali School of Music.  In addition\, he was on the cello and chamber music faculty at the Longy School of Music in Boston from 2015 to 2020.\nDoris Stevenson has won lavish praise from critics and public alike in performances around the world. She has soloed with the Boston Pops\, played at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York\, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.\, Salle Pleyel in Paris\, Sala de Musica Arango in Bogota\, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. Her acute sensitivity and musicianship have made her a sought-after partner with some of the leading lights in string playing. She has performed with Gregor Piatigorsky\, Ruggiero Ricci and Paul Tortelier\, great players of the past. Early in her career she was invited by Heifetz and Piatigorsky to perform with them in their chamber concerts. She was pianist for the cello master classes of Piatigorsky\, who described her as “an artist of the highest order.” The list of distinguished artists she has performed with includes cellists Andre Navarra\, Leslie Parnas and Gary Hoffman\, violinists Charles Castleman and Elmar Olivera\, violists Walter Trampler and Paul Neubauer and singers Kaaren Erickson and Catherine Malfitano. She is a founding member of the Sitka Summer Music Festival in Alaska and has toured throughout that state\, playing in many remote Native Alaskan communities. She has participated in many chamber music festivals and has performed in 48 of the 50 states.She  recently performed with cellist Zuill Bailey at the Phillips Gallery in Washington D.C.\, at Bargemusic in New York and at Smith College. She plays a score of outreach concerts each season for the Piatigorsky Foundation in schools\, libraries\, prisons\, and remote communities\, bringing live classical music with commentary to people who wouldn’t otherwise hear it.\nDoris Stevenson is deeply committed to performing new music. In the last three years she has played in concert the works of twenty living composers. She was the first woman to perform Frederick Rzewski’s masterpiece\, De Profundis  for speaking pianist\, which she brought to New York City to perform as a Williams in New York concert. Her many recordings include six major works by David Kechley and two by Ileana Velazquez-Perez\, the Saint Saens violin sonatas with Andres Cardenes\, the complete Mendelssohn cello works with Jeffrey Solow\, and the Brahms Sonatas with cellist Nathaniel Rosen. A CD of Stravinsky rarities with violinist Mark Peskanov received a Grammy nomination. Miss Stevenson taught for ten years at the University of Southern California and has been Lyell B. Clay Artist in Residence at Williams College since 1987.\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://www.bargemusic.org/concert/beethoven-and-brahms-trios-of-titans/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261025T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261025T140000 DTSTAMP:20261020T170956 CREATED:20260325T192835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261013T013335Z UID:8062-1792936800-1792936800@www.bargemusic.org SUMMARY:Bohemian Rhapsody\, Viennese Grace: Romantic Piano Trios DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brahms Trio #3 in C minor\, op. 101 \n\nAllegro energico\nPresto non assai\nAndante grazioso\nAllegro molto\n\nDvořak Trio #4 in E minor\, Op. 90 (“Dumky”) \n\nLento maestoso — Allegro quasi doppio movimento\nPoco Adagio — Vivace non troppo\nAndante — Vivace non troppo\nAndante moderato — Allegretto scherzando\nAllegro — Meno mosso\nLento maestoso — Vivace\n\nwith Mark Peskanov\, Nicholas Tzavaras\, and Doris Stevenson \n\nBiographies\n\nMark Peskanov\nA native of East Harlem in New York City\, cellist Nicholas Tzavaras has toured the globe as a chamber musician\, soloist\, and educator for more than two decades. He has performed more than 1600 concerts worldwide\, from Cartagena Columbia to the Tonhalle in Zurich to Nagasaki Japan.  Since 2000\, Tzavaras has been the cellist of the internationally renowned Shanghai Quartet. Recent festival engagements have included the Brevard\, La Jolla and Taos festivals\, the Casals festival in Prades France\, the Melbourne Music Festival in Australia and the Marlboro Festival.  Tzavaras has held the esteemed title of guest principal cellist of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra since 2009. He has recorded more than 25 albums for the Naxos\, Delos\, Bis\, Centaur\, Camerata\, and New Albion labels\, including the complete Beethoven string quartet cycle and Bright Sheng’s songs for pipa and cello with Wu Man.  Tzavaras can be seen in the Academy Award nominated documentary “Small Wonders\,” the motion picture “Music of the Heart” and with the Shanghai Quartet in “Melinda Melinda.”Tzavaras began the violin at age 2 with his mother\, Roberta Guaspari and moved to the cello when he was 7.  A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science\, he went on to receive degrees from the New England Conservatory and the State University of New York at Stony Brook working exclusively with Laurence Lesser and Timothy Eddy. From 2002 to 2021\, Tzavaras was the coordinator of the String Department and Artist-in-Residence at Montclair State University’s John J. Cali School of Music.  In addition\, he was on the cello and chamber music faculty at the Longy School of Music in Boston from 2015 to 2020.\nDoris Stevenson has won lavish praise from critics and public alike in performances around the world. She has soloed with the Boston Pops\, played at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York\, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.\, Salle Pleyel in Paris\, Sala de Musica Arango in Bogota\, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. Her acute sensitivity and musicianship have made her a sought-after partner with some of the leading lights in string playing. She has performed with Gregor Piatigorsky\, Ruggiero Ricci and Paul Tortelier\, great players of the past. Early in her career she was invited by Heifetz and Piatigorsky to perform with them in their chamber concerts. She was pianist for the cello master classes of Piatigorsky\, who described her as “an artist of the highest order.” The list of distinguished artists she has performed with includes cellists Andre Navarra\, Leslie Parnas and Gary Hoffman\, violinists Charles Castleman and Elmar Olivera\, violists Walter Trampler and Paul Neubauer and singers Kaaren Erickson and Catherine Malfitano. She is a founding member of the Sitka Summer Music Festival in Alaska and has toured throughout that state\, playing in many remote Native Alaskan communities. She has participated in many chamber music festivals and has performed in 48 of the 50 states.She  recently performed with cellist Zuill Bailey at the Phillips Gallery in Washington D.C.\, at Bargemusic in New York and at Smith College. She plays a score of outreach concerts each season for the Piatigorsky Foundation in schools\, libraries\, prisons\, and remote communities\, bringing live classical music with commentary to people who wouldn’t otherwise hear it.\nDoris Stevenson is deeply committed to performing new music. In the last three years she has played in concert the works of twenty living composers. She was the first woman to perform Frederick Rzewski’s masterpiece\, De Profundis  for speaking pianist\, which she brought to New York City to perform as a Williams in New York concert. Her many recordings include six major works by David Kechley and two by Ileana Velazquez-Perez\, the Saint Saens violin sonatas with Andres Cardenes\, the complete Mendelssohn cello works with Jeffrey Solow\, and the Brahms Sonatas with cellist Nathaniel Rosen. A CD of Stravinsky rarities with violinist Mark Peskanov received a Grammy nomination. Miss Stevenson taught for ten years at the University of Southern California and has been Lyell B. Clay Artist in Residence at Williams College since 1987.\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://www.bargemusic.org/concert/shadow-and-light-piano-trios-of-beethoven-and-brahms/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261031T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261031T140000 DTSTAMP:20261020T170956 CREATED:20260325T211328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260329T000931Z UID:8066-1793455200-1793455200@www.bargemusic.org SUMMARY:Special Solo Piano Concert for Halloween with Rob Schwimmer DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Special Halloween Concert \nRob Schwimmer is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who has performed and recorded throughout the world. Praised by The New York Times for his “Virtuosity\, magic\, and humor” Rob has just completed his long awaited 2nd solo CD “Heart Of Hearing” for theremin\, Haken Continuum and solo piano. \nSchwimmer has most recently performed (January 2026) with The New York Philharmonic playing theremin at Lincoln Center in the debut performance of Charles Ives’ “Orchestral Set No. 2” under the baton of maestro Thomas Ades. Rob  was also theremin soloist with the NY Phil’s in their debut performance of Lera Auerbach’s “Icarus” under conductor Stéphane Denève in November 2025. \nKnown for his work as a solo artist (and as a founding member of the highly acclaimed Polygraph Lounge duo with multi-instrumentalist Mark Stewart of Bang On A Can Allstars/Paul Simon) Rob’s piano playing on his first solo CD “Beyond The Sky” has been widely lauded in both classical and jazz publications: Hailed as “Extraordinary” in Gramophone and “Shaping up to be the finest solo piano CD of the year” in The NYC Jazz Record while The New York Times praised his “…machine-gun speed and clarity.” Recently Rob has been featured ondioline/keyboards/theremin soloist with Gotye’s Ondioline Orchestra which has played to acclaim from National Sawdust and Roulette in NYC to Moogfest (Durham\, NC) to Tasmania and The Sydney Festival (both in Jan 2018.) Rob also did arrangements for Gotye’s upcoming release. Rob is also a leading player of the Haken Continuum fingerboard. Schwimmer is the theremin soloist for Ethan Iverson’s (The Bad Plus) “Pepperland\,” a full length dance piece for The Mark Morris Dance Group which premiered in Liverpool in 2017 as part of Liverpool’s “Sgt. Pepper at 50” celebration. Recent recording sessions on Haken Continuum include Paul Simon\, Esperanza Spalding and Trey Anastasio. \nSchwimmer also recently completed 2 commissions from The Metropolitan Museum while Polygraph Lounge has received and performed 2 commissions from Carnegie Hall for full length concerts. Among the long list of artists Schwimmer has worked with are Simon and Garfunkel\, Wayne Shorter\, New York Philharmonic\, Antonio Carlos Jobim\, Stevie Wonder\, Bobby McFerrin\, Willie Nelson\, Paul Simon\, The Cleveland Orchestra\, Gotye\,The Orchestra of St. Luke’s\, Chaka Khan\, Laurie Anderson\, Bette Midler\, Queen Latifah\, producer Arif Mardin\, Adam Guettel\, Gotye’s Ondioline Orchestra\, Mark Morris Dance Group\, Kelsey Lu\, producer Peter Katis\, Paul Bley\, The Boston Pops\, Mary Cleere Haran\, T-Bone Walker\, Sam Rivers\, Ethan Iverson\, Marc Shaiman\, David Krakauer\, Christian Marclay\, Matthew Barney\, Lorin Sklamberg\, Värttinä\, Ang Lee\, Maria Schneider\, Michel Gondry\, Trey Anastasio\, The Klezmatics\, Bernie Worrell\, Sxip Shirey\, Nels Cline\, Annette Peacock\, Gwyneth Paltrow\, Marshall Brickman\, Karen Black\, Larry Campbell\, Teresa Williams\, Josh Groban\, Gamelan Son of Lion\, Mabou Mines\, Geoffrey Holder\, John Cale\, Steve Buscemi\, Iva Bittova\, Theo Bleckmann\, John Stubblefield\, Burt Bacharach\, The Roches\, Jack Quartet\, Scott Robinson\, Edie Brickell\, producer Teo Macero\, Hal Willner\, Vernon Reid\, The Everly Brothers\, Ethel\, James Emery\, Bela Fleck\, Lenny Kaye\, Kurt Vonnegut\, Tamar Muskal\, Anjani Thomas\, Odetta\, Drepung Loseling Tibetan Monks\, Sussan Deyhim\, producer John Simon\, Joseph Jarman\, Fred Anderson\, Alwin Nikolai/ Murray Louis Dance Company\, Marc Ribot\, Frank London\, C&C Music Factory and Sammy Davis Jr. among others. \nA founding member and former co-director of The NY Theremin Society\, Rob\, who sometimes goes under the pseudonym “Carlos Antenna” for his theremin work\, is one of the top theremin virtuosos in the world and has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning\, The NY Times\, Wall St Journal\, WNYC\, WQXR and the popular PBS series “History Detectives”. His appearances as theremin soloist include The Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Caramoor (which included Rob’s theremin arrangement of Bernard Herrmann’s “Scene d’Amour” from Vertigo\,) The Boston Pops in a world premier of “Nosferatu” at Symphony Hall\, The Moab Music Festival\, The Little Orchestra at Lincoln Center\, with Bobby McFerrin at Carnegie Hall and Simon & Garfunkel’s world tours (including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary show at Madison Square Garden) where he also played keyboards and sang. In addition to his CD Theremin Noir (with Uri Caine and Mark Feldman\,) Rob has performed as featured thereminist on Trey Anastasio’s CD Traveler\, Matthew Barney’s epic movie Cremaster 3\, the 2009 R.W. Goodwin feature Alien Trespass\, CBS television series Now and Again and A&E’s Breakfast With the Arts. He was chosen to perform in a sold out concert at the Disney Concert Hall (LA) as part of legendary The 10 Piece Theremin Orchestra. Rob was recently interviewed by Faith Salie (Wait\, Wait\, Don’t Tell Me) for CBS Sunday Morning and The NY Theremin Society concert was filmed as part of the same segment about the resurgence of the theremin. Schwimmer premiered a new silent movie soundtrack (The Fall of the House of Usher–1928) featuring live theremin at The NY Theremin Society’s recent residency at Bucknell University and given its NYC premiere at The Tribeca New Music Festival. \nHe composed the score for Cynthia Wade’s 2008 Academy Award winner “Freeheld” in the Documentary Short category as well as collaborating on David Frankel’s Oscar winner “Dear Diary” for Dreamworks (their first Oscar) in the Live Action Short in 1997. Rob’s compositions have been featured in theater\, television series and movies\, silent films\, documentaries and feature films as well as Rob’s continuing series of solo concerts. \nHe has performed at venues all over the world including Carnegie Hall\, the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam)\, Wiener Konzerthaus\, Tokyo Dome\, Madison Square Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, The Sydney Festival\, The Metropolitan Museum\, The Museum of Modern Art\, The Blue Note\, CBGB’s\, The Stone\, and the Colosseum (Rome). \nRob Schwimmer is exclusively represented by Bernstein Artists\, Inc. http://www.bernsarts.com. \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n URL:https://www.bargemusic.org/concert/special-halloween-concert-with-rob-schwimmer/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR