The 2026-27 Concert Season
New Beginnings:
Featuring Palaver Strings Quartet, Jillian Reed, and Tyler Emerson
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Saturday, September 12, 7:30PM
Concert at Unitarian Church of Montpelier (map) After more than a quarter century of leadership, Capital City Concerts founder, Vermont Grammy‑nominated flutist Karen Kevra, passed the artistic leadership of the organization to husband-and-wife musicians Jillian Reed and Tyler Emerson at the conclusion of the 2025–2026 season. Read the full announcement here. This season's opening concert is a celebration of new beginnings and mentorship, featuring works dedicated to composers' friends and teachers. Capital City Concerts welcomes a string quartet from Grammy-nominated Palaver Strings (Maïthéna Girault & Maya French, violin; Brianna Fischler, viola; and Matt Smith, cello), and CCC's new artistic directors, flutist Jillian Reed and pianist Tyler Emerson, with a performance of treasured works and hidden gems from the French Romantic era. Filip Holacký - United States Premiere of Quartet for Flute, Violin, Cello, and Piano (2022) Maurice Ravel - String Quartet in F major (1903) dedicated to composer Gabriel Fauré. Germaine Tailleferre - String Quartet (1919) dedicated to pianist Artur Rubinstein Clémence De Grandval - Suite for Flute and Piano (1876) dedicated to composer Paul Taffanel |
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A Fall Feast of Music and Poetry
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Saturday, October 3rd at 7:30pm
Concert at Unitarian Church of Montpelier (map) Sunday, October 4th at 4:00pm Concert at Charlotte Congregational Church (map) Our second program of the season is a fall feast of music and poetry rejoicing in nature, interconnection, and unity. The first half of the concert features singer-songwriter Henry Jamison in special collaboration with the Skylark Quartet. The program culminates with renown soprano Mary Bonhag, the Skylark Quartet, and a chorus directed by Richard Riley performing composer Don Jamison's Raine Songs (2013). This set of 9 songs, an arrangement of poems by Kathleen Raine, forms a sequence in which consciousness moves from a sense of at-oneness with the world, through an experience of falling away, to a reconnection with the spiritual world. Antonio Vivaldi - Flute Concerto Op. 10 No. 4 in G major (1728) Henry Jamison - Selected songs performed with string quintet Don Jamison - Raine Songs (2013) |
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Daniel Gilbert, clarinet, and Donna Lee, piano
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Saturday, March 13th at 7:30pm
Concert at Unitarian Church of Montpelier (map) Sunday, March 14th at 2:00pm: Family Concert! Concert at Montpelier Performing Arts Hub (map) In a continuation of this season's theme of musical connection and partnership, husband-and-wife duo Daniel Gilbert, clarinet, and Donna Lee, piano, bring us beautiful, playful, and wild works from across the American classical music tradition. The concert on Sunday, March 14th at the Montpelier Performing Arts Hub welcomes entire families to join and expects kids to bring their youthful energy, move to the music, and make some noise with us! Full Program Details forthcoming |
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The Genius of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven
Michael Arnowitt, piano
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Saturday, April 24th at 7:30pm
Concert at Unitarian Church of Montpelier (map) Beloved Vermont pianist Michael Arnowitt returns to perform a program of music by three of the greatest classical music geniuses: Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Enjoyed around the world for over 200 years, these deep and emotionally moving compositions take us on a satisfying journey that reveals our innermost humaneness. Bach’s beautiful and absorbing Partita no. 6 in E minor Michael Arnowitt transcriptions for piano:
The centerpiece of the program, the "Hammerklavier" Sonata Op. 106, took Beethoven a full year to write and was a breakthrough piece ushering in the Ninth Symphony and the final years of Beethoven’s life. He surmounted an extended period of depression and writer’s block which accompanied his then nearly complete deafness. When Beethoven finished the "Hammerklavier" Sonata, he wrote, “Finally I know now how to compose.” |
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