2026 Artists on YouTube
Delirium Musicum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJp9o0NHZdE
Kouzov Duo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soVh25KoPo4
Terra String Quartet: https://youtu.be/sv_5t4My1sU?list=RDsv_5t4My1sU
Stella Chen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9BckLLYIjA
Sophia Liu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjvAJKPLXXY&list=RDgi9rwI76ZG8&index=3
Hermitage Piano Trio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ0mQBUcxRw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRd3O6prX3c
2025
We started the season with a bang! An Evening of Dixieland Jazz with The Boilermaker Jazz Band was very crowded in both venues. The band has been performing swing and hot jazz worldwide for over 30 years. Their enthusiastic performances from the Great American Songbook made our audience to clap, tap and sing. We all wanted to dance in the aisles. At the second concert we witnessed extraordinary performances of Chelea Guo, Soprano and José Luis Maldonado, baritone with Bénédicte Jourdois, pianist in Concert of Famous Opera Highlights. The spine-tingling music performed by these amazing artists included famous arias and duets from La Traviata, The Barber of Seville, Carmen, and musicals Carousel and Oklahoma. For the third week of the season one of our favorite musicians – pianist Frederick Moyer was back. The program included Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 (with recorded orchestra), Debussy’s Claire de Lune, and works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Liszt. The third concert featured an inimitable ensemble Trio Zimbalist. The members are distinguished alumni of the Curtis Institute of Music, sought-after soloists, performing around the world. The trio played the Arensky Piano Trio No. 1, the Ravel Piano Trio in A minor and more.
2024
The opening concert was Delirium Musicum, an exciting chamber music orchestra known for their out-of-the-box approach to performance. Their program included Baroque music: Francisco Giamini (1687-1762), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741); a Romantic classical: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897); a 20th century classical: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), and a contemporary classical: Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1972). The second concert was Zlatomir Fung, the youngest cellist ever to win First Prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition, played with acclaimed pianist and conductor Benjamin Hochman. Their program included music of Robert Schumann, a 19th century German Romantic; Marshall Estrin, a 21th century New York based modern classic music; Benjamin Britten, a 20th century British classic, and Sulkhan Tsintsadze, a 20th century Georgian classic. The husband-and-wife team of Anna and Dmitri Shelest performed an inventive mix of solo and four hand music at the third concert. They played music of various Ukrainian composers and finished the exciting performances with Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin. The energetic young pries-winning Balourdet String Quartet continued the season with concert of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert. The delightful Trio Con Brio Copenhagen, recognized as one of the world’s finest piano ensembles, performed at the fifth concert. They played piano trios of Haydn, Beethoven and Shostakovitch. Our 2024 Rising Start- pianist Eric Lu closed the season with a perfect program of Bach, Schubert, Handel, Mendelssohn and Prokofiev.
2023
We opened the 2023 Season with the world-famous Glenn Miller Orchestra
. One of the greatest big bands took us back in time with its unique jazz and swing sound!
The second concert was Fred Moyer Jazz Trio. This incredible trio played transcriptions of some of the greatest jazz ever written as well as their own arrangements.
The third concert was The Escher String Quartet. The quarter played Ludwig van Beethoven’s quartets with profound musical insight and rare tonal beauty.
The fourth week was our Rising Star concert. With the “pure poetry” of his playing (Seen and Heard International), pianist and communicator Derek Wang treated us to Haydn, Brahms, Liszt and Chopin music.
The fifth week musicians were members of SPANISH BRASS – one of the most dynamic and sought-after brass groups on the international musical stage. They played music from different eras, countries and styles.
We closed the Season with concert of violinist William Hagen and pianist Albert Cano Smit. William and Albert wowed us will playing a wonderful program of Stravinsky, Grieg, Brahms, Bach and Schubert. Many patrons agreed that it was one of the best classical music concerts they have ever been to. A perfect concert to close the Season with!
2022
January 17th & 18st, 2022 AN EVENING OF OPERA HIGHLIGHTS
Tavernier, Upper Keys, January 18, 2022-
On that day, The concert was sponsored by the Schmitt family in memory of Alan G. Schmitt.
The residents and their visiting guests had an opportunity to spend the night enjoying beautiful sounds of music. As every year, An Evening of Opera Highlights was a hit. Four talented opera singers charmed the audience with their voices and execution.
The evening started with Samantha Hankey, mezzo soprano, and Amy Owens, soprano, singing a duet from Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. After two women’s solo performances, Weston Hurt, baritone, and Angel Romero, tenor, captured audience’s attention with their amazingly performed duet from Bizet’s The Pearlfishers, which is about two friends swearing allegiance to one another. The concert culminated with arias and ensembles from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto”. Richard Fu, was the pianist for the concert.
Sally Bauer, a season ticket holder and a big fan of operas said: “I thought it was fantastic. An incredible range of voices and everyone played their role well. A nice venue. Norman Werbner (program director) does a fantastic job selecting a program. This season’s production is awesome”.
January 24 and 25, 2022 FREDERICK MOYER
Always popular with concert audiences in the Keys, Frederick Moyer returned for another stunning performance. Fred played the magnificent Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto along with compositions by Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Schumann. Barbara Koch, a season ticket holder said: “I love Fred Moyer. He always teaches me something about the music that I didn’t know.”
January 31 and February 1, 2022 LYSANDER PIANO TRIO
This incredible young New York-based trio of violin, piano and cello is a winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition. They are lauded for their passionate playing and imaginative ideas. The trio played compositions by Schubert, Haydn and others .
February 14 & 15, 2022 RASTRELLI CELLO QUARTET
This concert literally brought Americans and Russians together. Four Russian virtuoso cellists from Rastrelli Cello Quartet performed Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain”, selections from Porgy and Bess, Russian folk songs, plus music by Grieg, Puccini, Rachmaninoff and Brahms. For an encore, the cellists played the songs of the Beatles, and the entire audience sang along.
“I loved every concert this season. I love to listen to classic and jazz. Like familiar tunes. It comforts me, like a comfort food. My mother is a Russian. The Quartet performers are passionate about what they are doing. Have good sense of humor. Their music has very complex emotions. It’s inspiring. Would like to do a painting of them,” says Marlisa Gerrett of Marathon, a five-year season ticket holder.
February 21 & 22, 2022 JUPITER STRING QUARTET
The Jupiter String Quartet is a particularly intimate group, consisting of violinists Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel (Meg’s older sister), and cellist Daniel McDonough (Meg’s husband, Liz’s brother-in-law). Now enjoying their 20th year together, this tight-knit ensemble is firmly established as an important voice in the world of chamber music. The New Yorker claims, “The Jupiter String Quartet, an ensemble of eloquent intensity, has matured into one of the mainstays of the American chamber-music scene.” The quartet played Haydn, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn.
February 28th & March 1st, 2022 VOYAGE THROUGH THE AMERICAS
2022 final concert was dedicated in memory of Bill Key, a great philanthropist and a major benefactor of the Association. Four outstanding and most talented in their musical field musicians played South America’s tunes mixed with the northern music classic compositions. Michael Brown and Orion Weiss, both piano, Nicholas Canellakis, cello, and Ian David Rosenbaum, percussion, created a unique quartet to play American classical music infused with jazz and folk tunes. The Voyage was a concert through the continents, mixed music genres, and complexity of human’s feelings.
“They seem so talented and focused. You can see on their faces. You can hear his (Canellakis, cello) breathing when he would get to a hard or an important part. You can hear a sharpened take of breath”, Jim Kylis, one of the concert goers said.
2020
January 20th & 21st, 2020 GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA
With its unique jazz sound, the Glenn Miller Orchestra is considered to be one of the greatest big bands of all time. With songs like “Moonlight Serenade”, “Tuxedo Junction” and “Chattanooga Choo-‐Choo”, they are as American as apple pie.
January 27th & 28th, 2020 YOULAN JI
Pianist Youlan Ji, born in Beijing in 1999, was our 2020 “Rising Star”. At the age of four, she began studying the piano with her mother, and between the ages of nine and twelve, continued her piano studies with Professor Yuan Ling at the Affiliated Middle School of Central Conservatory of Music at Beijing. In 2012, Youlan moved to New York to attend the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division, where she continues to study with Yoheved Kaplinsky.
February 3 & 4th, 2020 Mary E. Bowden and David Dash with the Kassia Ensemble
Founded in 2010, the Dash Duo has delighted audiences across the United States with their virtuoso performances. Husband and wife trumpeters Mary Elizabeth Bowden and David Dash teach at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts; Dash as the Assistant Professor of Trumpet and Bowden as a Resident Artist.
February 10th & 11th, 2020 CANNEILLAKIS/BROWN DUO
Cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist/composer Michael Brown combine masterpieces from the standard repertoire with original compositions and arrangements. Hailed as “a pair of adventurous young talents” (Time Out New York), These artists with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center have been captivating audiences with their superb musicianship and thrilling performances.
February 24th & 25th, 2020 LINCOLN TRIO
GRAMMY nominated Chicago-based Lincoln Trio—made up of Desirée Ruhstrat, violin, David Cunliffe, cello, and Marta Aznavoorian, piano—takes its name from their home, the heartland of the United States, the land of Lincoln. Lincoln Trio was chosen to celebrate the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial celebration with President Barack Obama. They delight sophisticated music lovers, young admirers of contemporary programs and students discovering chamber music for the first time.
March 2nd & 3rd, 2020 EVENING OF OPERA HIGHLIGHTS
Randall Bills, tenor, has been praised by Opera News for his “consummate mastery of Rossini’s style, range and vocal bravura” and by Opernglas for his “vocally powerful, technically impressive, dominant heroic tenor”. The Wall Street Journal raved that he possesses a voice of “lyrical beauty and intensity”. Mr. Bills has sung throughout the United States as well as Europe and Asia at such venues as the Rosssini Opera Festival, Santa Fe Opera, Moscow Philharmonic Society, Seattle Opera, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. New York City Opera, and Bayrische Staatsoper.
Juyeon Yoo, soprano, is a native of South Korea. She is currently based in NYC and pursuing her Professional Studies Diploma at the Mannes School of Music. She most recently participated in Aspen Music Festival covering the role of Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. She has performed as Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, Sophie in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier and Marzelline in Beethoven’s Fidelio. During the summer of 2018, Ms. Yoo was a Young Artist at Prague Summer Nights where she won the 1st place and the Audience Favorite Award at the Prague Summer Nights Vocal Competition. Ms. Yoo earned her Master of Music degree at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Seoul National University.
Xiaomeng Zhang, baritone, is from Wenzhow, China and recently completed his Artists Diploma at Juilliard. This past summer Mr. Zhang sang the role of Count Almaviva at the Aspen Music Festival’s production of La Nozze di Figaro to great acclaim. The 2019-2020 season will see him as Figaro in Opera Columbus’ new production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia and the title role in Don Giovanni at Juilliard Opera. Mr. Zhang was a 2018 national semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Audidtions. He received his bachelor’s degree at Shanghai Conservatory of Music and his master’s degree from Manhattan School of Music.
2019
Jan. 14 & 15, 2019 FRED MOYER TRIO