New Hampshire Music Festival

The New Hampshire Music Festival began as a small chamber orchestra on an island in Lake Winnipesaukee in 1952.

The Festival makes its home at the Silver Center at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Top musicians from all over the United States come to New Hampshire, attracted by the recreational opportunities of the Lakes Region and the White Mountains as well as the chance to play with a group of colleagues they have come to know and love over many years. Several musicians have been a part of the Festival for over 40 years.

Donato Cabrera returns for his third summer as conductor and music director. Mr. Cabrera is the Resident Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and the Music Director of Las Vegas Philharmonic.

Full orchestral classical music concerts are held on Thursdays in the Hanaway Theater at the Silver Center. Chamber music concerts with members of the Festival orchestra are held in the intimate Smith Recital Hall on Tuesdays.

2015 program

Chamber Music Series

Intimate music experiences performed by musicians of the Festival Orchestra Tuesdays at 8 pm - July 7, 17, 21, 28 and August 4

Smith Recital Hall at the Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth State University

Orchestra Classics Series

The full grandeur of Classical Music Thursdays at 8pm - July 9, 16, 23, 30 and August 6

Words on Music - a free, pre-concert lecture at 7pm in the Recital Hall Hanaway Theatre at the Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth State University

Week 1: AMERICAN LANDSCAPES

Thursday, July 9, 8 PM Festival Orchestra

Dan Perkins, conductor

NATHANIEL STOOKEY Big Bang

GROFÉ Grand Canyon Suite

BARBER School for Scandal Overture

BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Week 2: DVOŘÁK IN AMERICA

Thursday, July 16, 8 PM

Festival Orchestra Donato Cabrera, conductor

HOROWITZ Dvořák in America with multimedia & narration by Joseph Horowitz Kevin Deas, bass-baritone

HERBERT Cello Concerto

Walter Gray, cello

DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”

Week 3: THE FOUR SEASONS

Thursday, July 23, 8 PM Festival Orchestra Donato Cabrera, conductor

PHILIP GLASS Company for String Orchestra

SCHUBERT Symphony No. 3 in D Major

VIVALDI The Four Seasons Charles Dimmick, violin

SPECIAL EVENT: Oz with Orchestra MONDAY, JULY 27 at 7 PM

Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook

Dan Perkins, conductor

Catch the original 1939 Wizard of Oz film on the big screen backed by the NHMF Orchestra. Fun for the whole family!

Week 4: COMPOSER PORTRAIT: NICO MUHLY

Thursday, July 30, 8 PM Festival Orchestra Donato Cabrera, conductor

NICO MUHLY So To Speak and Pleasure Ground Nathan Wyatt, baritone BRAHMS Symphony No. 2

Week 5: SEASON FINALE: DONA NOBIS PACEM

Thursday, August 6, 8 PM Festival Orchestra and Chorus Donato Cabrera, conductor Dan Perkins, director of choral activities

MASON BATES Devil’s Radio

TCHAIKOVSKY Meditation and Melodie from Souvenir d’un lieu cher

SARASATE Romanza andaluza and Zigeunerweisen

Yulia Iglinova Milstein, violin

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Dona nobis pacem

Tami Petty, soprano Paul Max Tipton, baritone

Program and artists subject to change.

External links

Website

Coordinates: 43°45′34″N 71°41′18″W / 43.75934°N 71.68826°W