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SUMMARY:TLI Presents: The Birch Festival—When Voices Meet
DESCRIPTION:Studio E\, Linde Center for Music and Learning\, Lenox/Stockbridge\, MA\nSat\, May 9\, 2026 3:00 pm \nGet Tickets\nLlewellyn Sánchez-Werner\, Piano\nYevgeny Kutik\, Violin\nBorromeo String Quartet\nRegie Gibson\, Narrator \nHow do distinct voices — each with its own history\, sound\, and perspective — learn to coexist\, collaborate\, and ultimately build something shared? Featuring the Borromeo Quartet\, pianist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner\, and violinist Yevgeny Kutik\, The Birch Festival offers an afternoon of music that celebrates difference not as division\, but as the raw material of community. \nThe Borromeo Quartet will perform Florence Price’s Five Folk Songs in Counterpoint\, where familiar tunes speak to a rich musical legacy — handed down\, reshaped\, and kept alive across generations. Louis Moreau Gottschalk\, a virtuoso pianist from New Orleans with a Creole mother and a Jewish father helped shape an early American concert voice; his The Banjo brings sparkle and rhythmic bite\, blending concert brilliance with vernacular energy. \nAlso featured is the Massachusetts premiere of a new work by Jonathan Leshnoff for violin and piano\, inspired by George Washington’s 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport — an affirmation of religious freedom as an aspiration we are still called to realize. The program culminates with all six musicians joining for Ernest Chausson’s monumental Concerto in D for violin\, piano\, and string quartet: a metaphor for community and musical conversation itself\, as individual voices — sometimes competing — learn to listen\, yield\, lead\, and join. \nRegie Gibson\, Narrator \nMassachusetts Poet Laureate Regie Gibson will offer introductory remarks and read George Washington’s 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport prior to the performance of Jonathan Leshnoff’s Scattered Light.
URL:https://thebirchfestival.org/event/tli-presents-the-birch-festival-when-voices-meet/
LOCATION:Tanglewood\, Studio E\, Linde Center for Music and Learning\, 3 W Hawthorne Rd\, lenox\, MA\, 01240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Simone Dinnerstein and Friends: Bach\, Mozart\, and More
DESCRIPTION:Program:\nSimone Dinnerstein\, piano; Alexis Pia Gerlach\, cello; Yevgeny Kutik\, violin \nJ.S. Bach – Sonatas for Viola da Gamba BWV 1027-1029\nW.A. Mozart – Violin Sonata No. 21\, E minor\, K. 304\nPhilip Glass – Mad Rush
URL:https://thebirchfestival.org/event/simone-dinnerstein-and-friends-bach-mozart-and-more/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church\, 4 Main St\, Stockbridge\, MA\, 01262\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Open Rehearsal: Bach and Mozart (This event is at capacity no further reservations can be made)
DESCRIPTION:This event is at capacity. No further reservations can be made. \n  \n 
URL:https://thebirchfestival.org/event/open-rehearsal-simone-dinnerstein-and-friends-bach-mozart-and-more/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church\, 4 Main St\, Stockbridge\, MA\, 01262\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Concert: Shostakovich and Bach
DESCRIPTION:violinist Francesca dePasquale\, \nviolinist Yevgeny Kutik\, \nviolist Margaret Dyer\, \ncellist Christine Lamprea.  \n\nSaturday\, May 17 at 3:00 PM\n2:15 PM – Pre-Concert Talk with Matthew Heck\nFirst Congregational Church\, Stockbridge \nA reception with the artists will follow the concert.  \nTickets: $20\nAll Berkshire County students and a guardian can attend our performances free of charge. \nProgram: \n\nJ.S. Bach – Contrapunctus 1\nDmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 8\nBach – Vor deinen Thron tret’ ich hiermit\, BWV 668\nBach – Contrapunctus 4\nShostakovich – String Quartet No. 9 \n  \n  \nThis program is funded in part by grants from the Lenox\, Stockbridge\, and Tyringham Cultural Councils\, local agencies which are]supported by the Mass Cultural Council\, a state agency. 
URL:https://thebirchfestival.org/event/echoes-of-defiance-shostakovich-quartets-8-and-9/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church\, 4 Main St\, Stockbridge\, MA\, 01262\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bold Beginnings - October 19
DESCRIPTION:Amit Peled\, cello\nRoman Rabinovich\, piano\nYevgeny Kutik\, violin \nL.V. Beethoven – Piano Trio Op. 1 No. 3\nGaspar Cassadò – Requiebros in D Major in D Major\nSergey Rachmaninov – Prelude Op. 23 No. 5\nJohannes Brahms – Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major\, Op. 8 \n  \nPre concert talk for all ticket holders at 3:30pm!
URL:https://thebirchfestival.org/event/bold-beginnings-october-19/
LOCATION:Church on the Hill\, 169 Main Street\, Lenox\, MA\, 01240\, United States
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