Beginning with the world premiere of Fanfare for Flute Choir by local composer Stanley M Hoffman, and featuring soprano soloist Lauren Sprague in pieces by J.S. Bach and Michael Davis, conductor Eileen Yarrison will lead the ensemble in music appropriate to the season (Dancing Among Colored Leaves, by Brandon J. Nelson) and favorites from the ensemble’s rich history, including Blue […]
Bill Frisell will with Kenny Wollesen & Thomas Morgan on Nov. 19 at Groton Hill Music Center. Bill Frisell’s career as a guitarist and composer has spanned more than forty years and dozens of celebrated recordings, hailed by Downbeat as “the best recorded output of the decade.” Called “an unlikely guitar hero for our genre-blurring […]
Friday, Dec. 2, 8 pm. Seamus Egan performs at Groton Hill Music Center, 36 King St., Littleton. Egan is one of the leading composers and interpreters of traditional Irish music. With Special Guest: Moira Smiley, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Egan has inspired multiple generations of musicians and helped define the sound of Irish music today. He has put […]
Grammy winner and bluegrass vocalist/guitarist/mandolin player Dan Tyminski features award-winner banjo and dobro player Gaven Largent Dec. 8 at Groton Hill Music Center. Throughout his 30+ year career, Dan Tyminski has left his mark in every corner of modern music. Tyminski’s voice famously accompanies George Clooney’s performance of the Stanley Brother’s classic song, “I’m A Man of […]
American folk and country music singer-songwriter Lori McKenna performs Nov. 9 at Groton Hill Music Center. McKenna got her start singing at local open-mic nights back in 1996 and writing lullabies to her children. Her career took off in 2005 when Faith Hill recorded four of her songs for “Fireflies,” and then brought her on […]
Saturday, Dec. 10, 8 pm. Miguel Zenon Quartet performs at Groton Hill Music Center, 36 King St., Littleton. Miguel, a Puerto Rico native, is widely considered as one of the most groundbreaking and influential saxophonists of his generation, and is a multiple Grammy nominee. For details and tickets, visit grotonhill.org. Widely considered as one of […]
The Vista Philharmonic Orchestra Opening Night is Saturday, Jan. 21 at the Groton Hill Music Center. With one of the most popular repertoire beginnings and one of the most thrilling endings in all of classical music, this concert will show off our grand Concert Hall in interesting and creative ways. Strauss, R.: Don Juan Mozart: Divertimento in […]
Celtic harpist Maeve Gilchrist and crossover bluegrass Kittel & Co. perform in a double bill Feb. 10 at Groton Hill Music Center. The two trad luminaries traverse the spheres of Scottish and Irish folk, Americana, and bluegrass. Gilchrist has taken the Celtic (lever) harp to new levels of performance and visibility with five critically-acclaimed albums […]
R&B/jazz artist Matthew Whitaker and his Quintet bring soulful stylings with a robust band and Hammond B3 organ to Groton Hill Music Center on Feb. 11. Blind since birth and hailed as a prodigy, he opened for Stevie Wonder’s induction into the Apollo Theater’s Hall of Fame in 2011, performs at world-renowned venues, and has […]
Could there be a more perfect collection of concertos than the Brandenburgs? Bach’s treasury of instrumental music, played on period instruments, promises an unparalleled immersion into the great master’s music. Led by Concertmaster Aisslinn Nosky and principal keyboard Ian Watson, H+H will bring us Brandenburg Concertos 2, 3, 4 and 5 as well as the popular Concerto […]
World-renowned concert pianist Misha Dichter performs a beloved Rachmaninoff work Feb. 25 at the Groton Hill Music Center's Vista Philharmonic Orchestra: Winter Rhapsody concert. Dichter will perform on a new 9-foot Steinway concert grand piano that he helped Groton Hill Music Center choose. The winter theme is well-represented by one of Tchaikovsky’s earliest compositions. Glinka: […]