Performance Upstate https://www.wxxiclassical.org/tags/performance-upstate Performance Upstate en-US Copyright 2021 WXXI Public Broadcasting Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:06:46 GMT The Society for Chamber Music Rochester plays a sassy suite by Darius Milhaud 11/7 @8pm https://www.wxxiclassical.org/2025-11-12/the-society-for-chamber-music-rochester-plays-a-sassy-suite-by-darius-milhaud-1-19-8pm Performance Upstate is your tour of concert halls, sacred spaces, and summer music festivals across Western and Central New York.
(Marco Borggreve / University of Rochester)

Support for Performance Upstate is made possible in part by Dawn F. Lipson, investing in the future of Classical Music.

Hour 1

Andy Clausen: The 5:10 to Ronkonkoma
Skaneateles Festival | The Westerlies: Riley Mulherkar and Chloe Rowlands, trumpet | Andy Clausen and Addison Maye-Saxon, trombone | George Meyer, violin | First Presbyterian Church, Skaneateles, NY | August 22, 2024 | Jim LaRonde, engineer

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major
Cooperstown Summer Music Festival  | Richard Goode, piano | July 30, 2024 | The Otesaga Resort Hotel | Jim LaRonde, sound engineer

Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet in D major, Op. 44, No. 1
Geneva Music Festival | Bretano String Quartet: Mark Steinberg and Serena Canin, violin | Mish Amory, viola | Nina Lee, cello | May 30, 2024 | Gearan Center, Geneva, New York | Jim LaRonde, sound engineer

Hour 2

Randy Newman: When She Loved Me
Traditional, arranged by George Meyer: St. Anne’s Reel
Traditional, arranged by Nico Muhly and Sam Amidon: Saro
Andy Clausen: New Berlin, New York
Skaneateles Festival | The Westerlies: Riley Mulherkar and Chloe Rowlands, trumpet | Andy Clausen and Addison Maye-Saxon, trombone | George Meyer, violin | First Presbyterian Church, Skaneateles, NY | August 22, 2024 | Jim LaRonde, engineer

Darius Milhaud: Suite for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano, Op. 157b
Society for Chamber Music in Rochester | Michael Wayne, clarinet | Juliana Athayde, violin | Chiao-Wen Cheng, piano | October 13, 2024 | Glazer Music Performance Center at Nazareth University, Rochester, NY | John Truebger, sound engineer

Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 77
Harold Arlen: Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Encore)
Cooperstown Summer Music Festival | The Miró Quartet | Daniel Ching, violin | William Fedkenheur, violin | John Largess, viola | Joshua Gindele, cello | July 18, 2024 | The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown, NY | Jim LaRonde, sound engineer

]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:06:46 GMT https://www.wxxiclassical.org/2025-11-12/the-society-for-chamber-music-rochester-plays-a-sassy-suite-by-darius-milhaud-1-19-8pm The Society for Chamber Music in Rochester paints the sunrise 11/14 @8pm https://www.wxxiclassical.org/2025-10-28/the-society-for-chamber-music-in-rochester-paints-the-sunrise-12-29-8pm Performance Upstate is your access to concerts you might have missed across Western and Central New York and the Finger Lakes. Juliana Athayde and Erik Behr are co-Artistic Directors of The Society for Chamber Music in Rochester. SCMR presents Chamber Music concerts featuring musicians of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Eastman School of Music as well as selected local and visiting artists.
Juliana Athayde and Erik Behr are co-Artistic Directors of The Society for Chamber Music in Rochester. SCMR presents Chamber Music concerts featuring musicians of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Eastman School of Music as well as selected local and visiting artists.<br/>(SCMR)

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Support for Performance Upstate is made possible in part by Dawn F. Lipson, investing in the future of Classical Music.

Hour 1

Clarice Assad: Synchronous for oboe and string quartet
Society for Chamber Music in Rochester | Erik Behr, oboe | David Bowlin, violin | Jeanelle Thompson, violin | Phillip Ying, viola | Joseph Johnson, cello | April 6, 2025 | Nazareth University, Rochester, NY | John Truebger, recording engineer

Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat major, “Sunrise”
Geneva Music Festival | Clara Lyon, violin | Geoffrey Herd, violin | Jimmy Thompson, viola | Clive Greensmith, cello | June 6, 2024 | Gearan Center, Geneva, New York | Jim LaRonde, sound engineer

Johann Joachim Quantz: Concerto in G for flute and strings
Pegasus Early Music | Steven Zohn, flute | Evan Few, Boel Gidholm, Lydia Becker, violins | Amy Leonard, viola | Colleen McGary-Smith, cello | Heather Miller Lardin, violone | Leon Schelhase, harpsichord | Downtown United Presbyterian Church, Rochester, NY | October 27, 2024 | Carl Pultz, sound engineer

Greg Jasperse: Voice Dance
Madrigalia | Cary Ratcliff, conductor | Asbury First United Methodist Church, Rochester, NY | April 12, 2025 | Dave Sluberski, West Rush Media

Hour 2

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata, Op. 19
Society for Chamber Music in Rochester | Joseph Johnson, cello | Chiao-Wen Cheng, piano | April 6, 2025 | Nazareth University, Rochester, NY | John Truebger, recording engineer

John Corigliano: Voyage

Caroga Arts Ensemble | Linda Chesis, flute | The Farmers' Museum | Cooperstown Summer Music Festival | July 25, 2024 | Jim LaRonde, engineer

VIDA Quartet/Culloton, arr.: Famine Song
DerrollAdams/Ratcliff, arr: Portland Town
Traditional/Ratcliff, arr: The Ballad of John Henry
Brian Holmes: Roger Bobo Plays the Tuba

Madrigalia | Ben Proctor, banjo | Jeremy Stoner, tuba | Cary Ratcliff, conductor | Asbury First United Methodist Church, Rochester, NY | April 12, 2025 | Dave Sluberski, West Rush Media

]]> Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:15:00 GMT https://www.wxxiclassical.org/2025-10-28/the-society-for-chamber-music-in-rochester-paints-the-sunrise-12-29-8pm ChamberFest Canandaigua presents Schumann’s colorful Piano Quintet 11/21 @8pm https://www.wxxiclassical.org/2025-10-03/chamberfest-canandaigua-offers-schumanns-colorful-piano-quintet-12-15-8pm Enjoy concert highlights captured live in theaters, museums, and in university halls across Upstate New York.
(Bob Ward - bward@nsms.com)

PERFORMANCE UPSTATE Program 2603

Support for Performance Upstate is made possible in part by Dawn F. Lipson, investing in the future of Classical Music.

Hour 1

Elizabeth Raum: Romance for Horn and Piano
Society for Chamber Music in Rochester | Michael Stevens, horn | Chiao-Wen Cheng, piano | October 2024 | Nazareth University, Rochester, NY | John Truebger, recording engineer

Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44
ChamberFest Canandaigua | Kevin Kumar, violin | Min-Young Kim, violin | Jessica Thompson, viola | Amy Sue Barston, cello | Jessica Choe, piano | July 19, 2024 | Fort Hill Performing Arts Center, Canandaigua, NY | David Stern, recording engineer

Carlos Simon: Breathe (2022)
Cordancia Chamber Orchestra | Evan Meccarello, conductor | March 30, 2025 | Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester, NY | Carl Pultz, Alembic Productions

Ludwig van Beethoven: Cavatina from Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Major
Skaneateles Festival | Ivalas Quartet | Reuben Kebede, violin | Tiani Butts, violin | Marcus Stevenson, viola | Pedro Sánchez, cello | First Presbyterian Church, Skaneateles, NY | August 23, 2024 | Jim LaRonde, engineer

Hour 2

Max Bruch: Piano Quintet
Society for Chamber Music in Rochester | David Bowlin, violin| Jeanelle Thompson, violin | Phillip Ying, viola | Joseph Johnson, cello | Chiao-Wen Cheng, piano | April 6, 2025 | Beston Hall at Glazer Music Performance Center at Nazareth University, Rochester, NY | John Truebger, sound engineer

Caroline Shaw: Microfictions [volume 1]
Cooperstown Summer Music Festival | The Miró Quartet | July 18, 2024 | The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown, NY | Jim LaRonde, sound engineer

Barbara Strozzi: “Che si puo fare”
Pegasus Early Music | Clara Rottsolk, soprano; Christa Patton, harp; Deborah Fox, theorbo | Downtown United Presbyterian Church | September 29, 2024 | Carl Pultz, sound engineer

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