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Music Mountain’s 97th Summer Festival Opens June 7, 2026 - Save the Date!
Benjamin Hochman, performing at Music Mountain’s 97th Season Opening Benefit Concert & Reception on June 7, 2026.
Highly anticipated chamber music and jazz concerts, family concerts, pre-concert talks, Painting Music and Chamberfest open on June 7.
2026 Chamber Music Series:
(Stay Tuned for our Jazz Series Preview to Follow!)
Chamber Music Concerts on 15 Consecutive Sundays at 3 PM and one Saturday at 7 PM
*Sunday Pre-Concert Talks start at 2 PM in Gordon Hall
JUNE 7 at 3 PM
97TH SEASON OPENING BENEFIT CONCERT & RECEPTION
Benjamin Hochman & Friends from the Met Opera
Benjamin Hochman, Piano
Benjamin Bowman, Violin
Milan Milisavljević, Viola
Joel Noyes, Cello
Johann Sebastian BACH Keyboard Partita in C Minor, BWV 826
Johannes BRAHMS Viola Sonata in E Flat Major, Opus 120/2
Gabriel FAURÉ Piano Quartet in C Minor, Opus 15
JUNE 14
Simone Dinnerstein & Baroklyn
Simone Dinnerstein, Piano
Rebecca Fischer and Pauline Kim Harris, Violins
Oriana Hawley, Viola
Alexis Pia Gerlach, Cello
Maggie Cox, Bass
Johann Sebastian BACH Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf, BWV 617
Philip GLASS The Hours
Johann Sebastian BACH Der Leib zwar in der Erden, BWV 161
Johann Sebastian BACH Keyboard Concerto in E Major, BWV 1053
JUNE 21
Euclid Quartet
Florence PRICE String Quartet in G Major
Robert PATERSON String Quartet #1, “Love Boat”
Johannes BRAHMS String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 67
JUNE 28
Balourdet Quartet & Misha Dichter, Piano
Maurice RAVEL String Quartet in F Major
Nicky SOHN Galaxy Back to You
Johannes BRAHMS Piano Quartet in G Minor, Opus 25
JULY 5
Arianna String Quartet
Felix MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in F Minor, Opus 80
Gabriela LENA FRANK Kanto Kechua #4, “For Béla”
Pyotr TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet in D Major, Opus 11
JULY 12
American String Quartet & Nina Bernat, Double Bass
Franz Joseph HAYDN String Quartet in D Major, Opus 76/5
Claude DEBUSSY String Quartet in G Minor, Opus 10
Antonín DVOŘÁK String Quintet in G Major, Opus 77
JULY 19
Daedalus Quartet
Germaine TAILLEFERRE String Quartet
Andrew DAVIS Beyond the Break; Shifting Sands
Amy BEACH String Quartet, Opus 89
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A Minor, Opus 132
JULY 26
Verona Quartet
Alessandro SCARLATTI Sonata a Quattro in D Minor, #4
Augusta READ THOMAS Clara’s Ascent
Leoš JANÁČEK String Quartet #1, “Kreutzer Sonata”
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN String Quartet in String Quartet in E Flat Major, Opus 127
AUGUST 2
Erinys Quartet & Oskar Espina Ruiz, Clarinet
(Clarinet Quintet Project Part 1 of 3)
Franz SCHUBERT String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden"
Pēteris VASKS String Quartet #4
Alfonso FUENTES Clarinet Quintet (World Premiere)
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581
AUGUST 9
Harlem Quartet
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A Major, Opus 18/5
William GRANT STILL Lyric Quartette
Aldo LOPEZ-GAVILAN Frère Jacques
Caroline SHAW Entr'acte
Fanny MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E flat Major
AUGUST 16
Ulysses Quartet & Max Levinson, Piano
(Clarinet Quintet Project Part 2 of 3)
Seth GROSSHANDLER Suite for Clarinet Quintet (rev. 2026)
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART String Quartet in E Flat Major, K. 171
Traditional arr. ULYSSES QUARTET Songs of Ulysses Heritage
Robert SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E Flat Major, Opus 44
AUGUST 23
Lysander Piano Trio
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Piano Trio in E Major, K. 542
Edvard GRIEG Andante con moto
Jennifer HIGDON Color Through
Arnold SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht, Opus 4 (arr. Steuermann)
AUGUST 30
Cassatt String Quartet & Javier Montiel, Viola
(Clarinet Quintet Project Part 3 of 3)
Florence PRICE Folk Songs in Counterpoint
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Viola Quintet in G minor, K. 516
Carl Maria von WEBER Clarinet Quintet in B Flat Major, Opus 34
Javier MONTIEL Clarinet Quintet (World Premiere)
SEPTEMBER 5 (Saturday of Labor Day Weekend)
Borromeo String Quartet & Friends
Nicholas Kitchen, Violin
Melissa Reardon, Viola
Yeesun Kim, Cello
Raman Ramakrishnan, Cello
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Duet in E Flat Major for viola and cello, “Eyeglasses”
Iman HABIBI Relics for viola and cello
Zoltán KODÁLY Duo for Violin and Cello, Opus 7
Anton ARENSKY Quartet in A Minor for violin, viola and two cellos, Opus 35
SEPTEMBER 6
Penderecki String Quartet & Victoria Schwartzman, Piano
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E Minor, Opus 59/2, "Razumovsky"
Krzysztof PENDERECKI String Quartet #4
Antonín DVOŘÁK Piano Quintet in A Major, Opus 81
SEPTEMBER 13
97TH SEASON FINALE BENEFIT CONCERT
Juilliard String Quartet
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Opus 135
Béla BARTÓK String Quartet #4
Antonín DVOŘÁK String Quintet in E Flat Major, Opus 97, "American"
SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH SIMONE DINNERSTEIN:
Music Mountain board president, Barbara von Bechtolsheim, an author, translator and Yale scholar, had a conversation with Simone Dinnerstein on January 27, 2026, for Music Mountain
Simone Dinnerstein in concert. Photo by Blake Nelson.
Performing at Music Mountain's Winter Concert on February 15 (Sold Out), and returning with Baroklyn on June 14, 2026, to perform at Music Mountain's 97th Summer Festival, which opens on June 7.
The Washington Post has called Simone Dinnerstein “an artist of strikingly original ideas and irrefutable integrity.” She first came to wider public attention in 2007 through her recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, reflecting an aesthetic that was both deeply rooted in the score and profoundly idiosyncratic. She is, wrote The New York Times, “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation.”
Interview
Barbara von Bechtolsheim: Simone, we look forward to your concert on February 15th. Bach Inventions, Philip Glass Etudes, Schubert piano Sonata: how do you design or compose a concert program?
Simone Dinnerstein: This program plays with the differences between Bach and Schubert, using Philip Glass as a bridge between the two.
Glass is so contemporary. He has created a really distinct aesthetic that to me speaks of the past half century. It’s a really iconic sound world. But when I sit down to play Glass I’m struck immediately by all of the non-iconic elements, the contrapuntal and lyrical qualities of his music, the way that it hearkens back to a world before automation just as much as it evokes a modern soundscape. It’s a wonderful context in which to hear Bach’s inventions.
When we listen to Bach, in this case the inventions, we listen with ears which have heard all the music since Bach - and many sounds Bach could not have imagined too. I really want the program to provide a context that forces us (myself included) to listen without knowing where the music fits exactly. These juxtapositions are an attempt to do that, by providing the odd angle that brings a shock of surprised recognition.
This applies equally to the Schubert, like and unlike Glass, so contrapuntal, polyphonic and songful.
