Music
FSMAC & QuarryWorks Theater presents
The Anne Wasily and Vira Kolisch Music Experience
Our concerts take place at the Frank Suchomel Memorial Arts Center
Admission is FREE and
no booking is required
Arrive early and enjoy a self-packed picnic on our scenic grounds, complete with a sculpture garden and waterside views
FSMAC & QuarryWorks Theater
Your 2025 Music Experience
About
“The three connect seamlessly almost as one...” (Times Argus). Since forming in 2020, the Champlain Trio have been sharing compelling performances, delighting audiences with their artistry, connection and dedication to chamber music. Violinist Letitia Quante, cellist Emily Taubl, and pianist Hiromi Fukuda earned degrees from The Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, Peabody Conservatory, and New England Conservatory collectively, and hold teaching positions at Amherst College and the University of Vermont.
The trio’s commitment to meaningful projects has led to significant achievements, including their documentary Empty Stages, which premiered on Vermont PBS in 2021. In 2022, they were awarded a Vermont Arts Council Grant in recognition of their innovative programming and artistic excellence. Their debut album, released the same year, featured Croatian composer Dora Pejačević’s Piano Trio, Op. 29. Their upcoming second album, Forgotten Voices, slated for release in spring 2025, further reflects their passion for bringing underrepresented works to the forefront.
Over the past several seasons, the trio has toured throughout New England including performances at the Brattleboro Music Center, Honest Brook Music Festival, Otter Creek Music Festival, University of Vermont, Music in the Berkshires, Brick Church Series, and the Deerfield Academy, among many others. They will continue to tour throughout 2025, with engagements in Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. In addition to performing, the trio is passionate about teaching and fostering a lifelong love of music by creating chamber music programs for students across Vermont.
For more information about upcoming concerts and projects, please visit www.champlaintrio.com.
Date
June 14 at 6:00pm
Bookings
No booking required
Admission FREE
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About
Pianist Paul Orgel has concertized throughout the United States, Europe, and China as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra and chamber musician. Critics have praised his playing for its “subtlety and attention to nuance” (Philadelphia Inquirer), “rare pathos” (New York Times), “brilliant technique, sense of humor and fantasy” (Bridgeport Post), “warmth and beauty of sound” (Barre-Montpelier Times Argus), and “power and grace” (Vermont Times).
An artist with a large, varied repertoire, Orgel has specialized in Czech music, performing programs of the complete piano music of Janáček, and music from Terezin, and as a scholar of classical performance practice, he has given recitals of Beethoven and Haydn on the Viennese fortepiano. He can be heard on recordings on CRI, (the Grammy nominated “Music of Louis Moyse”, with flutist Karen Kevra), Capstone, (Fantasias by Curt Cacioppo), Phoenix USA (“Music from the Holocaust”: Berman, Haas, Klein, and Ullmann) and MSR (Suk, Chausson, and Reger). A recent project (“Alchemy of Genius”) paired Bach Preludes and Fugues with Chopin Nocturnes in recordings available online at Vermont Public Radio. His complete Chopin Nocturnes are found on his YouTube channel along with over 100 other recordings.
Date
June 28 at 6:00pm
Bookings
No booking required
Admission FREE
About
Pianist Michael Arnowitt lived full-time in Montpelier from 1985 to 2017 and immigrated to Canada. He now lives primarily in Toronto, Ontario but also part-time in Marshfield, Vermont not too far from Adamant. His imaginative musical landscapes, extraordinary sense of touch at the piano, and warm onstage personality have delighted audiences in concert halls around the world. He has given piano performances in France, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Russia, and Korea. His past creative projects have included “If Music Be the Food of Love,” a performance of classical and jazz music about food with the simultaneous serving to the audience of the food tastes that inspired the composers, and a collaboration combining his piano improvisations with the live creation of paintings on stage by visual artists. In 2013, his composition “Haiku Textures” for three cello soloists and orchestra was premiered, the three cellos symbolizing the three lines of a Japanese haiku poem. He has also performed with the photographer Marjorie Ryerson a special multi-media program “Water Music” where piano music about water is combined with the projection of water photographs and readings on the subject of water written by leading musicians of today. The Washington Post said of a concert Michael Arnowitt performed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., “he played with an exquisite sense of touch, color and musical imagination.”
His life and music is the subject of a documentary film, “Beyond 88 Keys,” filmed in both the USA and Europe. The documentary has been broadcast on public television, shown at a variety of film festivals and venues including the Rode Pomp, an arts center in Gent, Belgium and the Anthology, a theater in New York City’s East Village, and is now available online on Vimeo. Michael Arnowitt is currently working on a book of essays about music, “What Makes Great Music Great,” to be published later in 2025 by Fomite Press.
Date
July 19 at 6:00pm
Bookings
No booking required
Admission FREE
About
Praised for his "adventurousness and muscular skill" (The New York Times), Grammy-nominated artist Adam Tendler is "currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), “relentlessly adventurous” (Washington Post), a "remarkable and insightful musician" (LA Times), an "intrepid... maverick pianist" (The New Yorker), and "one of contemporary classical music's most intentional and daring pianists" (Seven Days). A pioneer of DIY culture in classical music, at age 23 Tendler performed solo recitals in all fifty United States as part of a grassroots tour called America 88x50, the subject of his acclaimed coming-out memoir, 88x50. He has gone on to become one of today’s most recognized and celebrated performers in classical-contemporary music, receiving Lincoln Center's Emerging Artist Award and the Yvar Mikhashoff Prize, and appearing as soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra, as well as on the main-stages of Carnegie Hall, the Barbican Centre, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, BAM, Roy Thomson Hall, Milan Fashion Week, and leading series and stages worldwide.
Tendler's recordings include his much-anticipated Inheritances, featuring 16 new works commissioned using the entire inheritance left to him by his father after his unexpected death, from composers including Laurie Anderson, Nico Muhly, Devonté Hynes and Missy Mazzoli. Inheritances was a New York Times Critic Pick, which wrote, "You will be moved, profoundly and intensely," describing the project as "not only a display of contemporary compositional force... but a true show...emotionally involving...with a sense of true dramatic stakes."
Tendler was also featured as soloist on Wild Up's Grammy-nominated album of works by Julius Eastman, If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?, and has released solo albums of music by Robert Palmer, Franz Liszt, and his own music. Tendler recently published his second book, tidepools, and as Green-wood Cemetery's Artist-In-Residence created a site-specific installation, Exit Strategy in 2024. Adam Tendler is a Yamaha Artist, and serves on the piano faculty of NYU.
Date
August 9 at 6:00pm
Bookings
No booking required
Admission FREE
About
TURNmusic supports innovative, living music creators and celebrates their craft. From chamber music and improvisation to jazz, electronics and more, our concerts are built with a commitment to representation, diversity and originality.
Our mission is to serve as a hub for new music while supporting equity among music creators, fostering inclusive audiences, and contributing to the cultural vibrancy of Central Vermont. Presenting eclectic and original performing arts experiences in Vermont since 2014, we prioritize sound art that invites listeners to be open and engaged in the experience. We are looking to be inspired, to be surprised, to learn from artists. We are delivering the highest level of performance in our new home, The Phoenix Gallery & Music Hall, in downtown Waterbury, Vermont.
Mary Jane Austin, Dan Liptak, Mary Rowell, Nicola Cannizzaro will perform at FMSAC on August 30th.
Date
August 30 at 6:00pm
Bookings