32nd Season August 4th - 16th, 2025 Monday, August 4th, 2025 at 1:00 pm A Special Event - Concert for Violin, Cello and Piano with Basia Danilow, violin, Peter Sanders, cello, and Claire Black, piano Strode Independent Living at Morgan Orchards Admission: Free Thursday, August 7th, 2025 at 7:00 pm Open Rehearsal Chandler Center for the Arts Admission: Free Saturday, August 9th, 2025 at 7:30 pm Dalí String Quartet playing Eleanor Alberga's String Quartet No. 1 and Beethoven's Quartet #3 in D, Op. 18, #3 and the Schubert String Quintet in C Major, D, 956 Chandler Center for the Arts Sunday, August 10th, 2025 at 4:00 pm An Encore Performance Afternoon concert in Woodstock, VT Dalí String Quartet playing Eleanor Alberga's String Quartet No. 1 and Beethoven's Quartet #3 in D, Op. 18, #3 and the Schubert String Quintet in C Major, D, 956 Tickets & Info: 802.457.3981 www.pentanglearts.org Thursday, August 14th, 2025 at 7:00 pm Open Rehearsal Chandler Center for the Arts Admission: Free Saturday, August 16th, 2025 at 7:30 pm String Sextets A little known sextet in d minor, Op. Post. by Borodin, music by Nico Muhly for choir played by strings and the Op. 48 sextet by Dvořák Chandler Center for the Arts The Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival announces the release of its first highlight CD: Festival Harvest "The Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival has come a long way since it was founded in 1993 by Peter Sanders, a New York cellist who grew up spending his summers in the Randolph area. An indication of just how far is its excellent New CD, "Festival Harvest," a compilation of live performances of works by Mendelssohn, Schönberg and Frank Bridge at the Chandler Center for the Arts in 2000 and 2004. When I first heard the album, I had recently heard an excellent performance of Mendelssohn's A Major String Quintet at Vermont's justly revered Marlboro Music Festival. The same work opens this CD, and I actually preferred the Randolph performance. That's big praise." Read the review from the December 2, 2005 issue of Vermont's Times Argus Artists of the 32nd season: Basia Danilow, violin Arturo Delmoni, violin Michael Roth, violin Erica Gailing, viola William Hakim, viola Peter Sanders, cello Robert Burkhart, cello Claire Black, piano Dalí String Quartet Nico Mulhy, composer Repertoire and Artists from 1993 to present Violinist Basia Danilow enjoys a diverse musical life encompassing chamber music, recording, orchestral and solo performances in the U.S. and abroad. A winner of the Artists International Competition she has appeared in recital at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall and the Kosciuszko Foundation as well as in the former Yugoslavia and Russia. Ms Danilow was a member of the internationally acclaimed Lark Quartet, acknowledged for its distinguished contribution to the chamber music repertoire having commissioned over 30 new works from some of America's most notable composers. Lark appeared in many of the world's great cultural centers including, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Library Of Congress, The Freer Gallery in Washington DC and London's Wigmore Hall. As a member of Lark, Ms Danilow concertized regularly and with a focus on new music, released three CD's on Bridge records. An "All Jennifer Higdon" CD featuring Gary Graffman, "Composing America" featuring a commission by Paul Moravec and pianist Jeremy Denk; and "A Farewell Celebration" featuring all new commissions for Lark's 30th anniversary, by John Harbison, Kenji Bunch, Andrew Waggoner and Anna Weesner. Basia is concertmaster of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra often appearing as soloist, a member of the Orchestra of St. Luke's and an Associate member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra with whom she has performed since 1996. Radio and television broadcasts include WQXR, APM's (NPR's) "Performance Today", Vermont Public Radio, NJN and PBS. She regularly appears at numerous festivals such as Caramoor, Lincoln Center Festival, Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, Windham, Music Festival of the Hamptons, The Princeton Festival, The International Summer Institute at the Moscow Conservatory and can be heard on the Sony, Atlantic, RCA Victor Red Seal and Bridge Records labels. Ms. Danilow has also performed and recorded with many popular and varied artists such as,Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga, Barry White, Barbara Cook, Audra MacDonald, Michael Feinstein, Hugh Jackman, Bono, Reba McEntire, The Eagles, and Sting, among others. top Arturo Delmoni, violin, is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation. His remarkably distinctive playing embodies the romantic warmth that is the special province of the great virtuosi of the golden age of violin playing. Yo-Yo Ma describes Delmoni as "an enormously gifted musician and an impeccable violinist. His playing style is unique, and his gorgeous sound is reminiscent of that of great violinists from a bygone era." Glenn Dicterow, concertmaster of the NY Philharmonic, says, "Delmoni's playing always goes right to the heart, and his charisma is irresistible." Delmoni's stylish, elegant interpretations of classical masterpieces have earned him critical acclaim in the United States and abroad. Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe wrote "It's hard to imagine how the violin could be much better played than Delmoni did - he plays with astonishing speed, lightness, fluency and sweetness of tone." Alan Heatherington of the American Record Guide wrote "The growing discography of Arturo Delmoni testifies to a musician who must possess an artistic soul of exceptional beauty. Each new issue reveals additional aspects of a winsome musical personality and verifies an impression of great warmth and geniality." Delmoni made his debut at Carnegie Hall at age 14 playing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Little Orchestra Society under Thomas Scherman. Since then he has been a soloist with the St. Louis, Dallas, Spokane, Jupiter, El Paso, Glendale and Tucson Symphony Orchestras; the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston; the California Chamber Symphony; the New York City Ballet Orchestra; the Rhode Island, Brooklyn, Boston, Omaha and Kansas City Philharmonics; and the Boston Pops. He has appeared as a recitalist throughout the United States and in Europe, the Middle East, Japan and Hong Kong. As a chamber musician, Delmoni has performed with illustrious colleagues such as Pinchas Zukerman, Elmar Oliveira, Emanuel Ax, Nathaniel Rosen, Jon Kimura Parker, Jeffrey Kahane and Dudley Moore. Songs My Mother Taught Me, Delmoni's recording of romantic miniatures, received extraordinary reviews from prominent critics. Audiophiles and audio critics generally regard his recording of unaccompanied violin music of Ysaÿe, Kreisler and Bach as a reference for the sound of a solo violin. Delmoni's duo recital recording with cellist Nathaniel Rosen, entitled "Music for a Glass Bead Game" was nominated for an AFIM Indie Award, received a Golden Ear award, and was on Fanfare's "Best of the Year" list. Arturo Delmoni plays a JB Guadagnini, 1780, and a viola from the same period. top Michael Roth, violin, is a native of Scarsdale, NY and received his early musical training with Frances Magnes at the Hoff-Barthelson Music School. He attended Oberlin College and Conservatory, continuing his studies with Marilyn McDonald. At Oberlin, he won the Kaufman Prize for violin and First Prize in the Ohio String Teacher's Association Competition. He completed his Master of Music degree at the University of Massachusetts where he worked with the distinguished American violinist and pedagogue Charles Treger and was a recipient of the Julian Olevsky Award. Mr. Roth is currently associate concertmaster of the New York City Ballet Orchestra and has appeared in chamber music and as a soloist with the company, most recently in the debut of "Slice Too Sharp", a ballet of Biber and Vivaldi violin concerti, and "After the Rain", violin music of Arvo Part. In addition he is a member of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Principal 2nd violin of the Westchester Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra and the New York Pops. He was concertmaster of the Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestra for many years and often appeared as soloist there, as well as at the Caramoor and Bard Music Festivals. He has played and toured internationally with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the New York Chamber Soloists. As a chamber musician, Mr. Roth has collaborated on violin and viola with artists such as Eugene Drucker, Menahem Pressler, James Buswell, Steven Doane, Hamao Fujiwara and members of the Brentano, Manhattan and Ying Quartets, and recently presented a recital of contemporary Cuban solo violin and chamber music in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall under the auspices of the American Composers Orchestra. With Orpheus, the Eos Orchestra, Philharmonia Virtuosi, The New York Pops and the American Composers Orchestra and others, Mr. Roth has recorded for the Sony, Angel, Telarc, Decca, BMG, Point Music, ESSA.Y. and Arbors Music labels. top Violist Erica Gailing, a native New Yorker, began her musical studies at the age of five on the violin. Ms. Gailing was a member of the New World Symphony in Miami before returning to New York, where she held a one-year position with the New York City Ballet Orchestra. Prior to joining the Baltimore Symphony, Ms. Gailing also performed frequently with both the Pittsburgh Symphony and the New York Philharmonic. She has played in several music festivals across the United States including the Spoleto Festival USA, Sarasota Music Festival and at the Tanglewood Music Center, where she was a recipient of the KMD Foundation Fellowship. Ms. Gailing received a Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance as a Macaulay Honors Scholar from Queens College, and graduated from The Juilliard School with a Master of Music degree in Viola Performance. She has studied under the direction of Daniel Phillips, Toby Appel, Michael Klotz and Cynthia Phelps. Ms. Gailing joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2023. top William Hakim, viola, enjoys performing, composing, arranging music in a variety of genres, has performed throughout Japan as principal and soloist with the New York Symphonic Ensemble, and performs with the Iris Orchestra in Memphis, Hyperion String Quartet, Lenape Chamber Ensemble, Bedford Chamber Music Ensemble, Washington Friends of Chamber Music, Rockaway Chamber Music Festival, and the Grammy winning Experiential Orchestra. He plays with the New York City Ballet, was guest principal of the American Symphony Orchestra and American Ballet Theater Orchestra, and has played on Broadway shows including The Lion King, Moulin Rouge and Phantom of the Opera. He was principal violist of the Glens Falls Symphony. In a jazz setting he's played with Branford Marsalis, Gene Bertoncini, and with members of the Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. Will toured with Billy Joel, Josh Groban, Rostam Batmanglij among others, appeared on shows such as the Tonight Show, Good Morning America, the Today Show, as sideline actor for HBO, and has recorded several film scores and for Naxos, Decca, and Albany records. He studied with John Graham, Samuel Rhodes and with Paul Neubauer. Mr. Hakim has been on the faculty at Brevard Music Center, Seton Hall University, Skidmore College, and the Juilliard/Nord Anglia String Seminar in Shanghai. top Peter Sanders, cello, is a native New Yorker and a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Sanders has been a member of the New York City Ballet Orchestra since 1999 (for which he has served as Acting Principal), performs with the Riverside Symphony, the Stamford Symphony and has performed and recorded as a guest artist with the Perspectives Ensemble. He has toured Southeast Asia twice with the New York Symphonic Ensemble and as concerto soloist with the group performed in concerts in Taipei and Singapore. He is Artistic Director of the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, which had its inaugural season in 1993. Mr. Sanders was a winner of the 1998 Artists International award as a member of the Hollaender Ensemble and is currently a member of the Ariadne Trio. He has participated in many summer festivals including the Colorado Music Festival, Skaneateles Festival, Crested Butte Chamber Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival (faculty position), CVCMF, Lancaster Festival, Ohio (where he was principal cello from 1992-98), Windham Chamber Music Festival, the Sherman Chamber Ensemble, the Park City & SLC Autumn Classics Music Festival and the Moab Music Festival. As a studio musician Mr. Sanders has recorded for a variety of popular artists including Pat Metheny, Jewel, Kathie Lee Gifford, Andy Bey and Carlinhos Brown. He can be heard on the Delos, Muse, Bridge, RCA Victor-Red Seal, New World, On the Lamb and KOCH International Classics labels. Radio and television broadcasts include WQXR, APM's "Performance Today", PBS and Vermont Public. top Cellist Robert Burkhart is a sought-after performer across New York City's diverse musical landscape. With performance credits at Alice Tully Hall, Bargemusic, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and The Rose Studio at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Robert has also appeared as a soloist throughout Japan as a member of the New York Symphonic Ensemble, and been featured in recital on WQXR's "Young Artist Showcase." At the center of new music in New York, Robert has performed with the American Modern Ensemble, Argento New Music Project, counter)induction, DaCapo Chamber Players, Electric Earth Concerts, Newspeak, The Orchestra of the League of Composers, and SONYC. Recent composer collaborations include Uri Caine, Georg Friedrich Haas, Aaron Jay Kernis, Steve Mackey, Joan Tower, Charles Wourinen, and Chen Yi. He has performed the New York premiere of John Harbison's Abu Ghraib for cello and piano, and was the soloist in Augusta Read Thomas's Passion Prayers for cello and chamber ensemble at the New York Times Center. Since his first orchestral appointment with the Louisiana Philharmonic in New Orleans, Robert has performed with the American Symphony Orchestra, Eastern Music Festival Orchestra, and as guest principal of the Stamford Symphony. Robert's major teachers include Paul Tobias at The Mannes College of Music and Uri Vardi at University of Wisconsin Madison, and he has worked with Timothy Eddy, Aldo Parisot, and Janos Starker at festivals and masterclasses. He has taught at the Eastern Music Festival, Juilliard Pre- college, Mannes Prep, Syracuse University, and Music Conservatory of Westchester, and been artist-in-residence at Yale University and the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. His recent CD "20/21: Music for Cello and Piano from the 20th and 21st Centuries," features pianist Blair McMillen. Robert's recording of solo Bach on the American Express commercial "Don't Take Chances. Take Charge." has garnered national attention. top Noted as "a fine pianist with substantial, crystal-clear technique, plenty of power, yet with a sensitive musicality and a penchant for lyricism" (James Lowe, Times Argus), Claire Black is an active performer of classical music as both a collaborator and soloist. Her passion for chamber music synergizes with abundant experience, including many seasons of performance tours with the Stellaria Trio, Vermont Virtuosi, Cialde Quintet, and the Elegua Duo. Ms. Black's latest solo projects spotlight works by Clara Schumann. She won Second Prize in the 2022 International Clara Schumann Competition. Though 2019 found Ms. Black in Spokane, WA, where she served for a year on the faculty and as staff accompanist at Whitworth University, her musical life has been based in Burlington, VT, for the better part of a decade. Widely in demand for her work with vocal and instrumental soloists, choirs, and opera productions, Ms. Black traces her collaborative roots to Baldwin Wallace University (BWU), where she kept an extensive roster of clients as a staff accompanist and coach. While at BWU, she also worked closely with soprano Jane Eaglen, who selected Ms. Black as pianist for her Wagner Intensive summer institute. An avid educator, Ms. Black specializes in intermediate- and advanced-level instruction as she fosters many young pianists in her bustling private studio. Past teaching engagements include positions at Middlebury Community Music Center, Oberlin Conservatory Community Music School, and the piano festival Summer Sonata. Ms. Black trained with Dr. Robert Mayerovitch at BWU, and with Margarita Shevchenko at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees. Ms. Black is an alumna of the Tanglewood Institute, Eastern Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, and the Tuckamore Festival of St. John's, Newfoundland. top The Dalí Quartet is acclaimed for bringing Latin American quartet repertoire to an equal standing alongside the Classical and Romantic canon. Tours of its Classical Roots, Latin Soul programming have reached enthusiastic audiences across the U.S., Canada and South America. Its fresh approach has been sought out by distinguished series in New York, Toronto, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, Seattle, San Juan and countless communities beyond. The quartet has been called upon for return engagements at the National Gallery of Art, Friends of Chamber Music in Portland, Chamber Music at Beall, and the SA'OAXACA International Music Festival in México among others. Upcoming appearances include the Bravo!Vail Music Festival, Virginia Arts Festival, Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts and Maverick Concerts and the east coast premiere of Anna Clyne's Quarter Days, Concerto for String Quartet and Chamber Orchestra, co-commissioned by the Harrisburg Symphony. In addition to works of the masters from Haydn to Brahms and Amaya to Piazzolla, the group's adventurous and entertaining programming includes new works for quartet with percussionist Orlando Cotto, and quintets both Latin and Classical with the renowned clarinetist Ricardo Morales, principal clarinetist of The Philadelphia Orchestra, and with acclaimed pianist Vanessa Perez. The Dalí Quartet has an ongoing collaboration with the Van Cliburn Competition's gold-medal winning pianist Olga Kern, with whom they have toured from coast to coast and recorded the piano quintets of Brahms and Shostakovich released on the Delos label. The Dalí Quartet is Chamber Music America's 2024 Ensemble of the Year, recipient of the 2023 ACMP Foundation's Susan McIntosh Lloyd Award for Excellence and Diversity in Chamber Music, 2021 recipient of Chamber Music America's Guarneri String Quartet Residency, funded by the Sewell Family Foundation, and the 2021 Silver Medal at the inaugural Piazzolla Music Competition. The quartet is also the 2019 recipient of the Atlanta Symphony's esteemed Aspire Award for accomplished African American and Latino Musicians. The quartet's latest CD is Voces Latinas is now available on Centaur Records. The Dalí is devoted to audience development and to reaching communities of all kinds. The group's Latin Fiesta Workshops and Family Concerts in both traditional and innovative settings move listeners - literally! The Dalí Quartet is sought after for master classes and professional development workshops for students, (recently at the National Repertory Orchestra, Miami University, Michigan State, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Iowa) and has opened musical vistas for younger kids with its week-long Any Given Child programs (over three seasons for the Tulsa Public School System). In addition, the quartet's International Music Festival is an admired chamber music and orchestral program founded in 2004 which develops the performance skills of young musicians up through semi-professional level. The Dalí has also served as a guest resident ensemble at Lehigh University, and the 2023-24 Hartt School of Music's Composition Feldman/Geoffroy Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of Hartford. Trained by world-renowned artists, members of the Dalí Quartet are from Venezuela, Puerto Rico and the US, and have degrees from esteemed institutions including the New England Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, Juilliard, Indiana University Bloomington, and the Simón Bolivar Conservatory in Caracas, Venezuela. The quartet is based in Philadelphia, PA. Inspired by its namesake, the great Spanish artist Salvador Dalí, the quartet holds imagination and excellence at the heart of its music making. The quartet serves as faculty at West Chester University Wells School of Music as the Quartet in Residence, and is an Iris Collective Resident Ensemble. The Dalí Quartet proudly uses Pirastro Strings and Wmutes. Worldwide representation by Jonathan Wentworth Associates. top Nico Muhly, born in 1981, is an American composer who writes orchestral music, works for the stage, chamber music and sacred music. He's received commissions from The Metropolitan Opera: Two Boys, (2011) and Marnie (2018); Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Tallis Scholars, King's College and St John's College, Cambridge, Wigmore Hall, and The Philadelphia Orchestra, among others. He is an avid collaborator, and has worked with choreographers Benjamin Millepied at the Paris Opéra Ballet, Bobbi Jene Smith at the Juilliard School, Justin Peck and Kyle Abraham at New York City Ballet; artists Sufjan Stevens, The National, Teitur, Anohni, James Blake and Paul Simon; and has written film scores for The Reader (2008) and Kill Your Darlings (2013), and the BBC adaptation of Howards End (2017). Among his concerti are works for violin, (Shrink, for Pekka Kuusisto), organ (Register, for James McVinnie), viola (Nadia Sirota) He collaborates with the same artists as a composer and performer of chamber music. He has written vocal works for Iestyn Davies, Renée Fleming, and Nicholas Phan, has collaborated with artists Maira Kalman and Oliver Beer, and has created site-specific pieces for the National Gallery, London, and the Art Institute of Chicago, and written articles for the Guardian, the New York Times, and the London Review of Books. Recordings of his works have been released by Decca and Nonesuch, and he is part of the artist-run record label Bedroom Community, which released his first two albums, Speaks Volumes (2006) and Mothertongue (2008). top