Ringwood
Friends of Music
40th Anniversary Season of
Classical Music Concerts
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"Pianist Orion Weiss, baritone John Moore, violinist Ryan Meehan, and oboist Gonzalo Ruiz is a short list of the high caliber artists presented by the Ringwood Friends of Music (RFM) that I have thoroughly enjoyed hearing over the past few years. RFM, which is celebrating its 40th year, is an absolute gem!" - Richard Foley DMA, West Caldwell NJ
Upcoming Events
Saturday, February 8, 2025 - 3pm ET
Michael Stephen Brown, Piano
❄️snow date: Saturday, June 21, 7pm ❄️
Program:
♪ Carl Maria von Weber: Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65
♪ Michael Stephen Brown: Four Lakes for Children (2024)
♪ Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne no. 6 in D-flat Major, Op. 63
♪ Sergei Rachmaninoff: “Scherzo” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, after Mendelssohn (arr. 1933)
♪ Franz Liszt: “Wedding March and Dance of the Fairies” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, after Mendelssohn (arr. 1850, arr. Brown 2023)
♪ Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"
Sunday, March 23, 2025 - 3pm ET
Young Concert Artists Touring
Program:
♪ Mozart – Flute Quartet in D major, K. 285
♪ Weber – Trio in G minor, Op. 63
♪ Bloch – Concertino
♪ Ravel – Piano Trio
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 7pm ET
Ziggy and Miles, Guitar Duo
Program:
♪ TBD
Past Events
Saturday, December 7, 2024 -Brillante Trio
Giorgio Consolati - flute, Natalia Vilchis - cello, Hui-Chuan Chen - piano
Program:
♪ Haydn – Flute Trio No. 16 in D Major, Hob.XV:16
♪ Fanny Mendelssohn – Piano Trio in D minor, Opus 11
♪ Carl Maria von Weber – Trio for Piano, Flute and Cello in G minor, Op. 63
♪ Astor Piazzolla – Oblivion
Sunday, November 3, 2024 - A Gabriel Faure Celebration
Artists include: Julia Bruskin (Cello), Deborah Buck (Violin), Vincent Carr (Organ), Shavon Lloyd (Baritone), Erin Schwab (Soprano), Lauren Swain (Harp), Aaron Wunsch (Piano), and the 30-member NJ Chamber Singers under the direction of Matthew Zabiegala.
Program:
♪ Music for chorus, harp, violin, cello, baritone, organ
Saturday, September 14, 2024 - Frisson Ensemble
Program:
♪ An Italian in Algiers Overture - Gioachino Rossini
♪ Nonet - Bohuslav Martinu
♪ Preludes for clarinet and strings - George Gershwin
♪ Nonet for strings and winds, Opus 7 - August Walter
♪ Bolero - Maurice Ravel
Saturday, April 13, 2024 - Jasper Quartet
J Freivogel - violin, Karen Kim - violin, Andrew Gonzalez - viola, Rachel Henderson Freivogel - cello
Program:
♪ William Grant Still - Lyric String Quartet
♪ Grażyna Bacewicz - String Quartet No.4
♪ Robert Schumann - String Quartet in A Minor
Saturday, March 9, 2024 - An Afternoon of Songs, Arias and Duets with Shavon Lloyd, baritone and Jazmine Saunders, soprano accompanied by Brian Wong, piano
♪ Program includes works by Mozart, Gounod, Korngold, Rossini, Flaherty, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Verdi.
Sunday, January 28, 2024 - Umi Garrett, piano
Program:
♪ J.S. Bach - Partita No. 6
♪ Clara Schumann - Variations on the theme of Robert Schumann
♪ Florence Price - Fantasie No. 2
♪ Franz Schubert - Sonata in A Major, D.959
Sunday, December 3, 2023 - Manhattan Chamber Players
Siwoo Kim - Violin, Robin Scott - Violin, Caeli Smith - Viola, Michael Katz - Cello, Yoonah Kim - Clarinet
Program:
♪ Mozart –Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581
♪ Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Opus 115
Sunday, October 1, 2023 - Aeolus Quartet
Nicholas Tavani - violin, Rachel Shapiro - violin, Caitlin Lynch - viola, Jia Kim - cello
♪ Franz Joseph Haydn - String Quartet in C Major, Opus 54, No. 2
♪ Andrea Casarrubios - Overture and Chorale
♪ Franz Schubert - String Quartet in G Major, No. 15, D. 887
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - Kenari Saxophone Quartet
Bob Eason - soprano sax, Kyle Baldwin - alto sax, Coree Dundee - tenor sax, Steven Banks - baritone sax
♪ A Schumann Bouquet - Robert Schumann
♪ Short Stories - Jennifer Higdon
♪ In Memoriam - Joel Love
♪ Italian Concerto, BWV 971 - J.S. Bach
♪ Ciudades - Guillermo Lago
Saturday, April 15, 2023
John Moore, baritone
Adam Golka, piano
♪ Schubert – Winterreise
Saturday, March 4, 2023 - Aaron Wunsch, piano
♪ Schubert - Four Impromptus, D. 935
WATER MUSIC:
♪ Liszt - Au lac de Wallenstadt (The Lake at Wallenstadt)
♪ Chopin - Barcarolle, op. 60
♪ Ravel - Jeux d'eau (Playing with Water)
♪ Debussy - L'isle joyeuse (The Isle of Joy)
♪ Bonds - Troubled Water
Saturday, January 28, 2023 - GIL String Trio: Andrew Gonzalez, viola · Coleman Itzkoff, cello Ravenna Lipchik, violin
♪ Mozart - Duo in G major K. 423 for Violin and Viola: Allegro
♪ Bach - Cello Suite No. 1 in G major BWV 1007, Violoncello da Spalla
♪ Wiancko - American Haiku for Viola and Cello
♪ Beethoven - Trio in C minor Op. 9, No. 3
Sunday, December 4, 2022 - Orion Weiss, piano
♪ Grieg - Lyric Pieces (Selections)
♪ Beethoven - Sonata in A major, Op. 101
♪ Debussy - 6 Etudes from Book 2
Sunday, November 13, 2022 - William Socolof, bass-baritone & Shawn Chang, piano
♪ Claude Debussy: Trois mélodies de Verlaine
♪ Shawn Chang: Something There for the Future
♪ Ralph Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel
Sunday, October 30, 2022 - Family Halloween Concert
♪ Danse Macabre – Camille Saint-Saëns
♪ Dance of the Furies (Orfeo) – Christoph W. Gluck
♪ The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
♪ Funeral March of a Marionette – Charles Gounod
♪ Toccata in D minor, BWV 565 – Johann S. Bach
♪ Baba Yaga, the Witch – Modest Mussorgsky
♪ Too Much Candy – Shreya Sharma
♪ Fossils (Carnival of the Animals) – Camille Saint-Saëns
♪ In the Hall of the Mountain King – Edvard Grieg
Sunday, October 2, 2022 - Argus Quartet and Blanca Ugelli, piano
♪ Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983) – String Quartet
♪ Dorothy Rudd Moore (1940-2022) - Modes for String Quartet
♪ Robert Schumann (1810-1856) - Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44
July 10, 2022 - Susan Heerema, violin - Lanny Paykin, cello
Duos for Violin and Violoncello
♪ Reinhold Glière - Huit Morceaux Op. 39
♪ Bohuslav Martinů –Duo No. 1, H. 157
♪ Handel/Halvorsen –Passacaglia in G Minor
♪ Joseph Haydn- Duo in D Major, Hob. VI:D1
June 5, 2022 - The 2022 Twenty-Fourth Annual Youth Performance Festival
April 10, 2022 - Ryan Meehan, violin - Estelle Choi, cello - Gabriela Fahnenstiel, piano
In Celebration of Zola Shaulis Kollock’s Life 1942-2021
♪ Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30 No. 2
♪ Béla Bartók - Rhapsody No. 1, Sz. 87
♪ Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49
March 20, 2022 - House of Time
Tatiana Daubek, violin – Gonzalo X. Ruiz, oboe – Matt Zucker, cello – Elliot Figg, harpsichord
1685: The Year of Genius – Bach, Handel, Scarlatti on Period Instruments
♪ Handel: Il Pastor Fido HWV 8
♪ Scarlatti: Sonata K 27 in B minor, Sonata K 33 in D major
♪ Bach: Trio in G minor after BWV 1029, Cello Suite in C Major BWV 1009, Trio in G Major, BWV 1039
February 19, 2022 - Brandenburg - Kennedy - Chang Trio
Emily Brandenburg, viola – Bixby Kennedy, clarinet – Shawn Chang, piano
♪ Max Bruch: Acht Stücke, Op 83
♪ Robert Schumann: Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales) Op 132
♪ Astor Piazzolla – Histoire du Tango
December 5, 2021 - Adam Golka, Piano
♪ Beethoven: Sonata No. 26 in E-flat Major, op. 81a "Les Adieux"
♪ Liszt: Sonata in B Minor, S. 178
October 17, 2021 - Erlendis Guitar Quartet
Anna Krupa – Adrian Furmankiewicz – Karol Mruk – Wojciech Jurkiewicz
♪ J. S. Bach - Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor BWV 849
♪ Mozart - Divertimento in D major, KV 136
♪ Piazzolla - Fuga y Misterio
♪ Paderewski - Nocturne in B-flat major op. 16 no. 4
♪ Lecuona - Suite Andalucía - Malagueña
September 19, 2021 - Samuel Hasselhorn, Baritone and Ammiel Bushakevitz, Piano
♪ Art songs by Schubert & Schumann
August 29, 2021 - "The French Connection"
Amir Farsi - Flute, Matthew Cohen - Viola, Parker Ramsay - Harp
♪ Debussy – Sonata
♪ Ravel – Sonatine Arr. Carlos Salzedo
♪ Ibert - Deux interludes
♪ Devienne - Duo
July 11, 2021 - Makoto Nakura, Marimbist
♪ J.S. Bach - Solo Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV1006
♪ J.S. Bach - Three Chorales
♪ Philip Lasser (1963- ) - Bach Echoes for marimba
June 27, 2021 - Trio Dreieck
Adelya Nartadjieva - violin, Maren Rothfritz - viola, Madeline Fayette - cello
♪ Jean Françaix - String Trio in C Major
♪ Jessica Meyer - String Trio "I only speak of the sun"
♪ Ludwig van Beethoven - String Trio in C Minor Op. 9, No. 3
June 6, 2021 - The 2021 Twenty-Third Annual Youth Performance Festival
May 1, 2021 - Jasper & Jupiter Quartets
♪ Florence Price (1887-1953) – String Quartet in G Major (1929)
♪ George Walker (1922-2018) – "Lyric" for String Quartet (1946)
♪ Mendelssohn – Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20
March 13, 2021 - ECCO - East Coast Chamber Orchestra
♪ Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings
♪ Osvaldo Golijov – Last Round
♪ Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings Op. 48
January 30, 2021 - Drew Petersen, Piano
♪ Frédéric Chopin – Preludes, Op 28 (Selections)
♪ Maurice Ravel – Gaspard de la nuit
December 18, 2020 - Inna Faliks, Piano
♪ Ludwig van Beethoven - Fantasie Op. 77
♪ Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata in F Minor Op. 57 “Appassionata”
November 22, 2020 - Classic V Winds
Kristin Bacchiocchi-Stewart, flute · Richard Foley, oboe · Richard Summers, clarinet · Carolyn Kirby, horn · Robert Gray, bassoon
♪ Ludwig van Beethoven - Wind Quintets Op 4 & Op 71
November 1, 2020 - Claremont Trio
Emily Bruskin, violin · Julia Bruskin, cello · Andrea Lam, piano
♪ Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Trio Op.1 No. 1
♪ Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Trio Op. 97 “Archduke”
October 18, 2020 - The Aeolus Quartet
Nicholas Tavani, violin; Rachel Shapiro, violin; Caitlin Lynch, viola; Alan Richardson, cello
♪ Ludwig van Beethoven - Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3
♪ Joseph Haydn - Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1
