The repertoire for Kneisel Hall’s 2020 Faculty Concerts is still being set. Please check back soon for more information.

The schedule will remain as it has in previous seasons, with Faculty Concerts in the Concert Hall on Friday evenings (7:30pm) and Sunday afternoons (4pm), as well as Open Rehearsals on Friday mornings (9am).

For ticket information, applications for Young Artists, and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

The repertoire for Kneisel Hall’s 2020 Faculty Concerts is still being set. Please check back soon for more information.

The schedule will remain as it has in previous seasons, with Faculty Concerts in the Concert Hall on Friday evenings (7:30pm) and Sunday afternoons (4pm), as well as Open Rehearsals on Friday mornings (9am).

For ticket information, applications for Young Artists, and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

Kneisel Hall’s open rehearsals of the weekend’s Faculty Concerts occur weekly, on Fridays at 9am. They are open to the public ($20; free for students) and take place in the Concert Hall.

The repertoire for Kneisel Hall’s 2020 Faculty Concerts is still being set. Please check back soon for more info!

The schedule will remain as it has in previous seasons, with Faculty Concerts in the Concert Hall on Friday evenings (7:30pm) and Sunday afternoons (4pm), as well as Open Rehearsals on Friday mornings (9am). For ticket information and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

The repertoire for Kneisel Hall’s 2020 Faculty Concerts is still being set. Please check back soon for more information.

The schedule will remain as it has in previous seasons, with Faculty Concerts in the Concert Hall on Friday evenings (7:30pm) and Sunday afternoons (4pm), as well as Open Rehearsals on Friday mornings (9am).

For ticket information, applications for Young Artists, and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

The repertoire for Kneisel Hall’s 2020 Faculty Concerts is still being set. Please check back soon for more information.

The schedule will remain as it has in previous seasons, with Faculty Concerts in the Concert Hall on Friday evenings (7:30pm) and Sunday afternoons (4pm), as well as Open Rehearsals on Friday mornings (9am).

For ticket information, applications for Young Artists, and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

Kneisel Hall’s open rehearsals of the weekend’s Faculty Concerts occur weekly, on Fridays at 9am. They are open to the public ($20; free for students) and take place in the Concert Hall.

The repertoire for Kneisel Hall’s 2020 Faculty Concerts is still being set. Please check back soon for more info!

The schedule will remain as it has in previous seasons, with Faculty Concerts in the Concert Hall on Friday evenings (7:30pm) and Sunday afternoons (4pm), as well as Open Rehearsals on Friday mornings (9am). For ticket information and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

The repertoire for Kneisel Hall’s 2020 Faculty Concerts is still being set. Please check back soon for more information.

The schedule will remain as it has in previous seasons, with Faculty Concerts in the Concert Hall on Friday evenings (7:30pm) and Sunday afternoons (4pm), as well as Open Rehearsals on Friday mornings (9am).

For ticket information, applications for Young Artists, and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

The repertoire for Kneisel Hall’s 2020 Faculty Concerts is still being set. Please check back soon for more information.

The schedule will remain as it has in previous seasons, with Faculty Concerts in the Concert Hall on Friday evenings (7:30pm) and Sunday afternoons (4pm), as well as Open Rehearsals on Friday mornings (9am).

For ticket information, applications for Young Artists, and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

Kneisel Hall’s open rehearsals of the weekend’s Faculty Concerts occur weekly, on Fridays at 9am. They are open to the public ($20; free for students) and take place in the Concert Hall.

The repertoire for Kneisel Hall’s 2020 Faculty Concerts is still being set. Please check back soon for more info!

The schedule will remain as it has in previous seasons, with Faculty Concerts in the Concert Hall on Friday evenings (7:30pm) and Sunday afternoons (4pm), as well as Open Rehearsals on Friday mornings (9am). For ticket information and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

The repertoire for Kneisel Hall’s 2020 Faculty Concerts is still being set. Please check back soon for more information.

The schedule will remain as it has in previous seasons, with Faculty Concerts in the Concert Hall on Friday evenings (7:30pm) and Sunday afternoons (4pm), as well as Open Rehearsals on Friday mornings (9am).

For ticket information, applications for Young Artists, and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

The repertoire for Kneisel Hall’s 2020 Faculty Concerts is still being set. Please check back soon for more information.

The schedule will remain as it has in previous seasons, with Faculty Concerts in the Concert Hall on Friday evenings (7:30pm) and Sunday afternoons (4pm), as well as Open Rehearsals on Friday mornings (9am).

For ticket information, applications for Young Artists, and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

Kneisel Hall’s open rehearsals of the weekend’s Faculty Concerts occur weekly, on Fridays at 9am. They are open to the public ($20; free for students) and take place in the Concert Hall.

The repertoire for Kneisel Hall’s 2020 Faculty Concerts is still being set. Please check back soon for more info!

The schedule will remain as it has in previous seasons, with Faculty Concerts in the Concert Hall on Friday evenings (7:30pm) and Sunday afternoons (4pm), as well as Open Rehearsals on Friday mornings (9am). For ticket information and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

Kneisel Hall’s Continuum concerts present distinguished KH alumni onstage alongside KH Faculty. I was very happy to perform in the Continuum concerts in 2017, and am honored to share them in 2020 in my new role on the KH Faculty. I am especially delighted to share these concerts with my longtime dear teacher, friend, and colleague, Laurie Smukler; with my amazing Dad, Joel Krosnick; and with two truly phenomenal colleagues and friends, the wonderful violinist Brian Hong and wonderful violist Rosemary Nelis.

Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703
Brian Hong, Laurie Smukler, Rosemary Nelis, Gwen Krosnick

Schoenberg: String Trio
Brian Hong, Rosemary Nelis, Gwen Krosnick

Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D. 956
Laurie Smukler, Brian Hong, Rosemary Nelis, Gwen Krosnick, Joel Krosnick

For ticket information and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

Kneisel Hall’s Continuum concerts present distinguished KH alumni onstage alongside KH Faculty. I was very happy to perform in the Continuum concerts in 2017, and am honored to share them in 2020 in my new role on the KH Faculty. I am especially delighted to share these concerts with my longtime dear teacher, friend, and colleague, Laurie Smukler; with my amazing Dad, Joel Krosnick; and with two truly phenomenal colleagues and friends, the wonderful violinist Brian Hong and wonderful violist Rosemary Nelis.

Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703
Brian Hong, Laurie Smukler, Rosemary Nelis, Gwen Krosnick

Schoenberg: String Trio
Brian Hong, Rosemary Nelis, Gwen Krosnick

Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D. 956
Laurie Smukler, Brian Hong, Rosemary Nelis, Gwen Krosnick, Joel Krosnick

For ticket information and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

Kneisel Hall’s open rehearsals of the weekend’s Faculty Concerts occur weekly, on Fridays at 9am. They are open to the public ($20; free for students) and take place in the Concert Hall.

Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703
Brian Hong, Laurie Smukler, Rosemary Nelis, Gwen Krosnick

Schoenberg: String Trio
Brian Hong, Rosemary Nelis, Gwen Krosnick

Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D. 956
Laurie Smukler, Brian Hong, Rosemary Nelis, Gwen Krosnick, Joel Krosnick

For ticket information and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

Delighted to share a recital at Gettysburg College with my dear friend Ari Isaacman-Beck, Visiting Assistant Professor of Violin at Gettysburg’s Sunderman Conservatory of Music.

Program Information:

Hubert Léonard/François Servais: Grands Variations Concertantes - Virtuoso Concertpiece Variations for violin and cello on the themes of God Save the Queen & London is Out of Sorrow

J.S. Bach: Two Canons from Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080

Maurice Ravel: Sonate for Violin and Cello

Free and open to the public.

Paul Recital Hall (2nd Floor, Schmucker Hall)
250 North Washington Street - Gettysburg, PA

My longtime colleague and closest friend Ari Isaacman-Beck are proud to share this special performance at our beloved Boston concert- home of the Pucker Gallery (and incredibly thankful for their support in sharing this special performance). This concert, featuring music of Schubert and Schoenberg, is a preview of Kneisel Hall’s 2020 Continuum Concerts. In addition to our dear friend Rosemary Nelis, the wonderful violist who regularly appears on our Pucker Gallery concerts, Ari and I are honored to be joined by our longtime teacher, friend, and colleague, the incredible violinist Laurie Smukler; and by my amazing Dad, the cellist Joel Krosnick.

This concert’s proceeds will go to benefit Kneisel Hall.

Gwen Krosnick & Ari Isaacman-Beck present:
Concerts at Pucker Gallery

Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703
Ari Isaacman-Beck, Laurie Smukler, Rosemary Nelis, Gwen Krosnick

Schoenberg: String Trio
Ari Isaacman-Beck, Rosemary Nelis, Gwen Krosnick

Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D. 956
Laurie Smukler, Ari Isaacman-Beck, Rosemary Nelis, Gwen Krosnick, Joel Krosnick

Tickets - donations of $30, $50, $100 or your choice of amount to Kneisel Hall - are available via EventBrite.

N.B. This recital (originally February 9th) is taking place on a postponed date due to illness. All other information below remains the same.

So looking forward to this duo concert with my longtime dearest colleague and friend, the violinist Ari Isaacman-Beck, featuring some of our favorite music for violin and cello.

Annual Candlelight Concert Fundraiser:
The Community Music School of the Piedmont

Heart Strings: A Valentine Celebration of Violin and Cello Music

Program Information:

Hubert Léonard/François Servais: Grands Variations Concertantes - Virtuoso Concertpiece Variations for violin and cello on the theme of God Save the Queen

J.S. Bach: Two Canons from Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080

Maurice Ravel: Sonate for Violin and Cello

The Ballroom at Barton Oaks:
2750 Landmark School Road - The Plains, VA 20198

Tickets for this concert, which benefit The Community Music School of the Piedmont, are $125; please visit CMSP’s website.

Very much looking forward to appearing with dear friends old and new in a new work by the Boston-based composer and my longtime friend Rodney Lister. Rodney’s NEC Prep faculty composition recital takes place in Jordan Hall and will feature premieres and performances of several of his new and most recent works.

Program to include:

Rodney Lister: Only Living for bassoon, string trio, vibraphone, and cymbals (premiere of newest revised version)
Christina Dioguardi, basson
Ari Isaacman-Beck, violin
Rosemary Nelis, viola
Gwen Krosnick, cello
Mike Zell, percussion

This event is free, but requires a ticket. To reserve a space, please visit the page for Rodney Lister’s Faculty Recital on NEC’s website.

New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall:
290 Gainsborough Street - Boston, MA, 02115

Delighted to join in with the Boston-based conductorless orchestra again this winter, this time for a pair of chamber music concerts in Boston and Jamaica Plain. Their description of the program, entitled “Berlin,” is below, along with more information for ticketing.

I’ll play in the Hindemith 8 Pieces for String Quintet and Kurt Weill’s B minor String Quartet, alongside lovely colleagues new and old: Annie Rabbat, Jae Cosmos Lee, Megumi Stohs Lewis, Tanner Menees, and Evan Premo. Also featured on this program are the terrific AFC musicians and guests Jason Fisher, Michael Unterman, and Tanya Gabrielian.

Program description and more info from AFC:

Chamber Music with the Criers

A Far Cry travels back in time to present a salon-style chamber music program that could have been heard in 1929 Berlin. Before WWII, Berlin was a lively cultural center—It would be impossible for these three composers to predict that their music would be considered as degenerate by the Nazis a few years later. Here, Criers perform rarely heard jewels from a pre-war era that evoke the humor and passion of these master composers.

Paul Hindemith: Overture to The Flying Dutchman Played Badly at 7AM

Paul Hindemith: 8 Pieces for String Quintet, Op. 44 No. 3

Kurt Weill: String Quartet in B Minor

Paul Juon: Piano Sextet, Op. 22

Tickets and more info at A Far Cry’s website.

Delighted to join in with the Boston-based conductorless orchestra again this winter, this time for a pair of chamber music concerts in Boston and Jamaica Plain. Their description of the program, entitled Berlin, is below.

I’ll play in the Hindemith 8 Pieces for String Quintet and Kurt Weill’s B minor String Quartet, alongside lovely colleagues new and old: Annie Rabbat, Jae Cosmos Lee, Megumi Stohs Lewis, Tanner Menees, and Evan Premo. Also featured on this program are the terrific AFC musicians Jason Fisher and Michael Unterman, and founder of Terezin Music Mark Ludwig, the evening’s co-presenter.

Program description and more info from AFC:

Chamber Music with the Criers

A Far Cry travels back in time to present a salon-style chamber music program that could have been heard in 1929 Berlin. Before WWII, Berlin was a lively cultural center—It would be impossible for these three composers to predict that their music would be considered as degenerate by the Nazis a few years later. Here, Criers perform rarely heard jewels from a pre-war era that evoke the humor and passion of these master composers.

Paul Hindemith: Overture to The Flying Dutchman Played Badly at 7AM

Paul Hindemith: 8 Pieces for String Quintet, Op. 44 No. 3

Kurt Weill: String Quartet in B Minor

For more information, please visit A Far Cry’s website.

Delighted to appear in an encore concert of the Boston Beethoven Cycle, this time in Haverford, PA. This evening's recital takes place at The Quadrangle, where my dear friend Ari and I have played for over a decade, and whose Saturday night concert series is co-presented by my dear longtime friend, the great composer Richard Wernick.

Ari and I are honored to share this evening’s concert with two wonderful colleagues and friends, the violinist Emily Daggett Smith and the violist Rosemary Nelis.

It happens, entirely by coincidence, that we’re sharing this last concert just as 2020 begins, just in time to celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday - we’re not unbiased, but it’s undoubtedly the most important holiday of all. We are looking forward to sharing this short hour-long recital of Webern’s astonishing miniatures, the Five Pieces for String Quartet, and Beethoven’s most expansive wonder, Op. 132.

Program:

Anton Webern: Five Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 5
Ari Isaacman-Beck & Emily Daggett Smith, violins
Rosemary Nelis, viola
Gwen Krosnick, cello

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132
Emily Daggett Smith & Ari Isaacman-Beck, violins
Rosemary Nelis, viola
Gwen Krosnick, cello

Free admission; open to the public.
The Quadrangle
3300 Darby Road - Haverford, PA, 19041

My longtime colleague and dear friend Ari Isaacman-Beck and I are honored beyond words to share with you the finale of our chronological journey through Beethoven’s String Quartets. Tonight’s program features his string quartets Nos. 15 and 16: the heart-stopping, sacred, expansive String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132; and his last quartet, Op. 135, diminutive in comparison and in turns puckish, awe-inspiring, and profound. We’re deeply lucky to be joined by our longtime Boston Beethoven Cycle colleague, Rosemary Nelis, the wonderful violist; and by the incredible violinist Emily Daggett Smith, who is also a Kneisel Hall alumna and whose playing we have adored for the better part of two decades (my first experience playing late Beethoven was with Emily at Greenwood Music Camp, nearly twenty years ago).

It happens, entirely by coincidence, that we’re sharing this last concert just as 2020 begins, just in time to celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday - we’re not unbiased, but it’s undoubtedly the most important holiday of all.

Gwen Krosnick & Ari Isaacman-Beck present:
The Boston Beethoven Cycle at Pucker Gallery
 

Finale: Opp. 132 and 135

Ari Isaacman-Beck & Emily Daggett Smith, violins
Rosemary Nelis, viola
Gwen Krosnick, cello

Program:

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132
Emily Daggett Smith & Ari Isaacman-Beck, violins
Rosemary Nelis, viola
Gwen Krosnick, cello

-Intermission-

Anton Webern: Five Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 5
Ari Isaacman-Beck & Emily Daggett Smith, violins
Rosemary Nelis, viola
Gwen Krosnick, cello

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
Ari Isaacman-Beck & Emily Daggett Smith, violins
Rosemary Nelis, viola
Gwen Krosnick, cello

Tickets for the Boston Beethoven Cycle Finale will be available via EventBrite; please check back soon.

Delighted to share a public cello and chamber music masterclass at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Students will share movements from the Prokofiev Cello Sonata, the Walton Cello Concerto, and Beethoven’s String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132.

Free admission; open to the public.
Oberlin Conservatory of Music - Kulas Recital Hall.

Mozart: Piano Trio in E Major, K. 542
Laurie Smukler, Barbara Stein Mallow, Ieva Jokubaviciute

Grażyna Bacewicz: 2nd Piano Quintet
Axel Strauss, Ronald Copes, Doris Lederer, Dmitry Kouzov, Jane Coop

Schumann: Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op 63
Ronald Copes, Gwen Krosnick, Ieva Jokubaviciute

For ticket information and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

Mozart: Piano Trio in E Major, K. 542
Laurie Smukler, Barbara Stein Mallow, Ieva Jokubaviciute

Grażyna Bacewicz: 2nd Piano Quintet
Axel Strauss, Ronald Copes, Doris Lederer, Dmitry Kouzov, Jane Coop

Schumann: Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op 63
Ronald Copes, Gwen Krosnick, Ieva Jokubaviciute

For ticket information and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.

Kneisel Hall’s open rehearsals of the weekend’s Faculty Concerts occur weekly, on Fridays at 9am. They are open to the public ($20; free for students) and take place in the Concert Hall.

Mozart: Piano Trio in E Major, K. 542
Laurie Smukler, Barbara Stein Mallow, Ieva Jokubaviciute

Grażyna Bacewicz: 2nd Piano Quintet
Axel Strauss, Ronald Copes, Doris Lederer, Dmitry Kouzov, Jane Coop

Schumann: Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op 63
Ronald Copes, Gwen Krosnick, Ieva Jokubaviciute

For ticket information and a full calendar, please visit Kneisel Hall’s website.