FIVE PLAY is rooted in the jazz tradition and is fueled and inspired by the members’ collective, creative vision to swing through the twenty-first century. The quintet’s repertoire is comprised of innovative arrangements of classic and contemporary standards, as well as original music...

HAYDN String Quartet in G Major, Op. 54 #1
ESMAIL String Quartet (Ragamala)
BRAHMS: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34

The very best in New Orleans style Jazz, Gospel & Blues. A world touring band since 1971.

(Sun Quartets Concert #1/6)   

+ 1:30 PM: Pre-Concert Talk by Dr. Mark Ferraguto, from Penn State University and Haydn Society: Haydn “Sun” Quartets

HAYDN String Quartet in A Major, Op. 20 #6
PENDERECKI String Quartet #4
FRANCK Piano Quintet in F Minor

(Underwritten by an Anonymous Donor)

“Well paced and extremely entertaining” (Talk Entertainment)

+ 1:30 pm: Pre-Concert Talk with Tabea Debus

Works by MONTEVERDI, J.S. BACH, PURCELL, DOWLAND, and other composers from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, plus Diaries of the Early Worm by Gareth MOORCRAFT (b. 1990)

“Sunrise Serenade”

Inspired by Music Mountain’s season theme, Here Comes The Sun! this beloved 20-piece big band will perform solar lyrics from the Great American Songbook. 

(Sun Quartets Concert #2/6)   

HAYDN String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 20 #3
TOWER Wild Summer
ELGAR Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84

Featuring Eric Comstock, piano/voice
With Boots Maleson, Bass

“In the Still of the Night”
Award-winning pop/jazz vocalist Barbara Fasano returns to Music Mountain with her signature mashup of pop and jazz standards that unite the generations.  

The “Best Jazz Band in the State” (Connecticut Magazine) “gets your blood running“ (Jazzbeat). Hot Dixieland, New Orleans Jazz & more

Helen Sung and her band have performed at major festivals/venues including Newport, Monterey, SFJAZZ, Disney Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Internationally, her “NuGenerations” Project toured southern Africa as a U.S. State Department Jazz Ambassador, and recent engagements include debuts at the...

(Sun Quartets Concert #3/6)   

+ 1:30 pm: Pre-Concert Talk with Cramer Quartet and composer Alexandra Du Bois

HAYDN String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20 #2
DU BOIS String Quartet #6 (in response to Haydn’s Opus 20 quartets)
HAYDN String Quartet in G Major, Op. 76 #1

New Orleans Traditional Jazz, Dixieland, and Swing from the 20’s to the ‘recent’ 60’s.

(Sun Quartets Concert #4/6)   

HAYDN String Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 20 #1
BEACH String Quartet, Op. 89
CHAN Ignis Fatuus
DOHNANYI Piano Quintet in E Flat Minor, Op. 26

A Connecticut favorite returns! The sizzling dance music of the jazz age: from the Charleston to the Two-Step and the Fox Trot.

(Sun Quartets Concert #5/6)   

HAYDN String Quartet in D Major, Op. 20 #4
TAYLOR Chaconne/Labyrinth
TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet in D Major, Op. 11

“Ink Spills” album program, including readings and the performance of RAVEL’s iconic Piano Trio, together with works by Rameau, Boulanger and others.

+ 11 am: Family Concert with Merz Trio
+ 5 pm: Pre-Concert presentation by author Barbara V. Bechtolsheim and Poetry Reading by CT...

+ 1:30 pm: Pre-Concert Birdsong Walk with Fran Zygmont, Litchfield Hills Audubon Society

Merz Trio
Oskar Espina-Ruiz, Clarinet

MESSIAEN Quartet for the end of time
Together with works by Korngold, Britten, Shostakovich, and Ravel.

+ 1:30 pm: Pre-Concert Talk with composer Octavio Vázquez

VAZQUEZ Piano Quintet
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C Sharp Minor, Op. 131

(Sun Quartets Concert #6/6)   

HAYDN String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20 #5
GODFREY Guitar Quintet
TURINA The Bullfighter’s Prayer
BOCCHERINI Guitar Quintet in D Major, G.448, “Fandango”