Bargemusic Ltd

FOR 45 YEARS BARGEMUSIC CONTINUES TO BE DEDICATED TO ENHANCING THE CULTURAL LIFE OF NEW YORK CITY BY PRESENTING CONCERTS,GIVING PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES TO A DIVERSE GROUP OF MUSICIANS AND SERVING THE COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING MANY ADMISSION FREE CONCERTS MAKING THE ENTIRE CANON OF CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC AVAILABLE AND ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE IN A UNIQUE FLOATING CONCERT HALL.

THE MASTERWORKS SERIES, FEATURING THE CANON OF CHAMBER MUSIC, INCLUDED THE COMPLETE BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS AND CONVERSATION WITH JEFFREY SWANN; PIANISTS MARIKA BOURNAKI, GERALD ROBBINS, JEROME LOWENTHAL, DORIS STEVENSON, OLGA VINOKUR, JOHN NOVACEK, AND MISHA DICHTER IN SOLO PIANO RECITALS PLAYING WORKS OF COMPOSERS INCLUDING SCHUBERT, MOZART, PROKOFIEFF, TCHAIKOWSKY, MEDTNER, KREISLER, BEETHOVEN, CHOPIN, STRAVINSKY; DUO RECITALS FEATURING FOUR HANDS PIANO, VIOLIN AND PIANO, AND CELLO AND PIANO COMBINATIONS, WITH JULIAN SCHWARZ AND MARIKA BOURNAKI, JESSE MILLS AND RIEKO AIZAWA, MISHA AND CIPA DICHTER, TATIANA PIKAYZEN AND IGOR PIKAYZEN; AND FEATURED MUSIC BY SCHUMANN, BRAHMS, POULENC, WEISER, KORNGOLD, BEETHOVEN, BACH, DVORAK, MOZART, DEBUSSY, CHOPIN/SAINT-SAENS, SCHUBERT, AND GRIEG; PIANO TRIOS CONCERTS WITH MARK PESKANOV, LAURA GOLDBERG, EDWARD ARRON, EVAN DRACHMAN, JEEWON PARK, WENDY SUTTER, DORIS STEVENSON, AND WILLIAM WOLFRAM, FEATURING MUSIC OF BACH, MENDELSSOHN, BRAHMS, HAYDN, BEETHOVEN, HANDEL-HALVORSEN,DVORAK, AND TCHAIKOVSKY; A DUO VIOLINS AND PIANO PERFORMANCE WITH MARK PESKANOV, DANIEL KOGAN, AND NINA KOGAN PLAYING VIVALDI, TELEMANN, LECLAIR, MOZART, BARTOK, AND SHOSTAKOVICH; AND BACHS COMPLETE CELLO SUITES PERFORMED WITH COMMENTARY BY JEFFREY SOLOW.

THE HERE & NOW SERIES COMPRISED OF CONTEMPORARY WORKS AND WORLD, US, AND NEW YORK PREMIERES, FEATURED VIOLIN SOLO AND PIANO SOLO RECITALS; A DUO VIOLIN AND PIANO CONCERT; A FOUR HANDS PIANO RECITAL FEATURING A WORLD PREMIERE BY MICHAEL BROWN; TOKYO TO NEW YORK MOMENTS IN THIS TIME (LIVE WORLD PREMIERE); CELEBRATING GEORGE CRUMBS 90TH BIRTHDAY (NEW YORK PREMIERE OF METAMORPHOSES BOOK 2); A SEASON-LONG CELEBRATION OF ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK, THREE HERE & NOW FESTIVALS OF NEW MUSIC: THE LABOR DAY FESTIVAL AND THE (NEW) WINTER FESTIVAL, AND THE NEW YEAR FESTIVAL FEATURING WORLD, US, AND NEW YORK PREMIERES. HERE & NOW COMPOSERS INCLUDE BACEWICZ, MICHAEL BROWN, PENDERECKI, PIAZZOLLA, WALKER, LEON, LJOVA, MUMFORD, DOROTHY RUDD MOORE, SUPOVE, BAIOCCHI, HARRIS, GREEN, HEALY, BALCH, WALKER, NOARESCHI, MORTON FELDMAN, GEORGE MEYER, STANLEY WALDEN, DAVID TAYLOR, JEAN-PATRICK BESINGRAND, SETH BOUSTEAD, DAVID FETHEROLD, REIKO FUETING, LYUDMILA GERMAN, JINHEE HAN, ZHIHUA HU, PAUL MORIN, ALON NECHUSHTAN, MICHAEL SCHELLE, NINA SINIAKOVA, DORIAN TABB, EMILIO TEUBAL, DALIT WARSHAW, CHEN YIHAN, DAI FUJIKURA, MIGAKU KITSUKAWA, YU KUWABARA, MIHO SASKI, SHOICHIRO TANAKA, IPPO TSUBOI, YURI UMEMOTO, GEORGE CRUMB, BILLY CHILDS, ANGELICA NEGRON, KATHLEEN SUPOVE, ERIN ROGERS, ROGER STUBBLEFIELD, LEWIS SPRATLAN, ILEANA PEREZ VELAZQUEZ, WHEELER, AMANDA HARBERG, HIRAYAMA, EVE BEGLARIAN, ARVO PART, JEN BAKER, RZEWSKI, DEL TREDICI. PERFORMERS INCLUDE: PIANISTS KATHLEEN SUPOVE, STEVEN BECK, RIEKO AIZAWA, DANIEL SCHLOSBERG, MARC PELOQUIN, INNA FALIKS, MARINA IWAO, JEROME LOWENTHAL, AND URSULA OPPENS: VIOLINISTS KINGA AUGUSTYN, LJOVA (VIOLIN/FADOLIN), JESSE MILLS, KATIE HYUN, EMMA FRUCHT, GEORGE MEYER (VIOLIN/VIOLA); CELLIST MICHAEL NICOLAS, BASS TROMBONIST DAVID TAYLOR, MEZZO-SOPRANO LINDA COLLAZO, BASSOONIST FRANCISCA (KIKA) WRIGHT, AND CLARINETIST/HICHIRIKI PLAYER THOMAS PIERCY.

THE NEW ECLECTIC SERIES, JUXTAPOSING BETTER KNOWN COMPOSERS WITH UNDERREPRESENTED COMPOSERS OF DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS FEATURED: SOLO PIANO RECITALS BY MARC PELOQUIN, BETH LEVIN, RIEKO AIZAWA, FAINA LUSHTAK, AND ASIYA KOREPANOVA; A SOLO VIOLIN RECITAL BY DANIEL KOGAN; VIOLIN/PIANO RECITALS BY MARK PESKANOV AND DORIS STEVENSON; THE AMERNET STRING QUARTET IN TWO PERFORMANCES; THE CASSATT QUARTET WITH DORIS STEVENSON; THE WILLIAMS CHAMBER PLAYERS IN TWO PERFORMANCES; PIANO QUINTET CONCERTS WITH DAN TEPFER AND SEMPLICE PLAYERS; THE DORIAN WIND QUINTET. COMPOSERS FEATURED INCLUDE BRAHMS, SHOSTAKOVICH, DEL TREDICI, MATSUI, BACH AND BEETHOVEN.