Concerts of the Friends of Music, The orchestra presents professional chamber music at its finest and will focus on a variety of musical ensembles, instrumentations and soloists in its 2024-2025 season.
“After our 70th “With the celebration of the season, we move forward with renewed energy and a commitment to the future of chamber music while presenting masters of the traditional repertoire. In addition to our concert series, we are passionately committed to our programs that encourage and mentor young musicians and audiences,” said FOMC President Susan Harris.
The venue of the first concert on September 14th is Ossining High School, 29 S. Highland Ave., Ossining, NY The remaining performances of the season will take place at Sleepy Hollow High School Auditorium, 210 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY, with ample free parking and handicap access.
The season starts on Saturday, September 14, 2024, 7:30 p.m. with renowned virtuosos of the chamber music world: the Han, Setzer, Finckel Piano trio. Pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel are joint artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Violinist Philip Setzer, formerly (with Finckel) of the esteemed and recently retired Emerson String Quartet, is artistic director of the Cleveland Institute of Music’s String Chamber Music Program. This concert is sponsored in part by White and Williams LLP.
The remainder of the 2024–25 season will take place on Sunday afternoons.
To Sunday, October 6, 2024, 3 p.m., The Dover String Quartet with Roberto Diazviola, is coming. The Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet is based at the Curtis Institute of Music, where Díaz, an internationally renowned violist, is president and CEO.
Friends of Music Concerts welcomes the WindSync Wind quintet on Sunday, October 20, 2024, 3 p.m. The quintet has won, among other things, the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition 2016. They “play many idioms confidently, elegantly, with skillful technique and with a lot of fun.” All about the arts
Last spring, high school students received coaching from the Balourdet String Quartet, Who will perform at Sunday, November 3, 2024, 3 p.m. with flutist Adam W. Sadberry. The members of the Balourdet are artists in residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2024. As a musician and educator, Sadberry is known for his virtuosity, creativity, and vibrancy.
Melanie MooreMezzo-soprano and Francesco BarfoedPiano, will join forces at Sunday, March 30, 2025, 3 p.m. A previous winner of our YCA Performance Award, Moore has performed alongside renowned ensembles at the Metropolitan Opera. Barfoed won first prize with Moore in the Copenhagen Lied Duo Competition. This concert is sponsored in part by the Raymond Han and Paul Kellogg Foundation.
To Sunday, April 6, 2025, 3 p.m., FOMC welcomes the winner of the Young Concert Arts 2021 Susan Wadsworth International Auditions and our YCA Performance Award — Harmony Zhu. The young Canadian pianist has already performed as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic.
For three decades, the orchestra has been a regular guest on the world’s major concert stages and Jerusalem String Quartet ends the season on Sunday, May 4, 2025, 3 p.m. This is their third time with us. BBC Music Magazine described one of their performances as “an absolute triumph. Their playing is everything you could wish for.”
Subscriptions and tickets
Subscribers Enjoy a significant discount from the individual ticket price. A subscription for all seven concerts is $210 ($30/ticket). A FlexSub subscription for four or more tickets is $35 per ticket, each of which can be used once as a ticket to any concert. Individual tickets are $40 each. Admission is free for those under 18. Visit www.friendsofmusicconcerts.org.
