Doors at 7:00pm, Concert starts at 7:30

2024 is the centennial year of Gabriel Fauré’s death, and with this concert we celebrate the composer’s prolific chamber music output. Fauré was not only a composer, but also a beloved teacher, an organist, a music critic, and a talented administrator, serving as the Director of the Paris Conservatoire from 1905-1920. His music encompasses the lyrical style of the late nineteenth century to the introspective and complicated explorations of the early 20th century. The program will consist of his works for voice and piano, including the great song cycle Cinq mélodies de Venise.

Mary Hubbell

Mary Hubbell, described in the New York Times as “a soprano with a sweetly focused tone,” enjoys performing a wide variety of music, including art song, chamber music, and oratorio. She holds degrees from Boston College; the University of California, Santa Barbara; the Royal Conservatory in The Hague; and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. While living in the Netherlands, she was a frequent soloist with early music ensembles, and often appeared at the contemporary venues of the Young Composer’s Festival in Apeldoorn and the Gaudeamus Festival in Amsterdam. She enjoys teaching and performing in western Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband, composer Gregory W. Brown. 

Megan Roth

Renowned for her compelling characterizations and dynamic vocal range, mezzo-soprano Megan Roth captivates audiences across a diverse spectrum of musical genres, from opera and oratorio to art song and chamber music. With a repertoire spanning centuries, Megan is equally at home in both early and contemporary works. In her recent portrayal of Tisbe in La Cenerentola with Boston Midsummer Opera, Megan garnered praise for her captivating stage presence, described as "smoldering" and " bringing the angry coloratura across the footlights with comic menace," earning accolades for her nuanced performance. Her versatility was further showcased in her portrayal of Despina in excerpts of Cosi fan tutte, marking the company's triumphant return to live performances post pandemic.

Megan's concert engagements have seen her as a soloist in a wide array of masterpieces, including works by Copland, Handel, Bach, Gretchaninov, de Falla, Mozart, Vivaldi, and Duruflé. As a chamber musician, she collaborates with esteemed ensembles such as the GRAMMY® nominated Skylark Vocal Ensemble, Yale Choral Artists, and Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble, among others.

Beyond her vocal prowess, Megan is also a skilled violinist, highlighted by her featured solo on the 2021 GRAMMY® nominated album It’s a Long Way with Skylark Vocal Ensemble. Additionally, she is the visionary founder and artistic director of Calliope’s Call, a distinguished art song performance group based in New England, committed to presenting innovative programs showcasing both contemporary and traditional composers. For more information, visit www.meganroth.com

Jingjing Wan

Jingjing Wan is a Chinese Pianist who recently got her DMA in Piano Performance at the University of Michigan under the tutelage of Professor Christopher Harding. She holds a Master in Chamber Music degree from the University of Michigan, and Bachelor’s and Master’s in Piano Performance from the Royal College of Music in London (UK) under the tutelage of Gordon Fergus-Thompson and Dimitry Alexeev.

Praised as a ‘Rock-solid’ pianist by the Singapore Strait Times, Jingjing has won numerous international competitions including the “Young Chang Cup” National Competition in China, the Yamaha Music European Foundation Scholarship in UK, the National Violin and PianoCompetition in Singapore, “Ars Nova” International Piano Competition, and the Haeberle Memorial Piano Award. She has performed around the world, including with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, NAFA Orchestra and the Metropolitan Orchestra in Singapore, as well as at music festivals and recital halls in Spain, France, and Germany and the US.

Jingjing previously worked as a graduate student instructor at University of Michigan, and also worked as the assistant choir director at St. Augustine’s HEP in Ann Arbor and South Lyon, where she coaches weekly a choir of 90 children ages ten to eighteen. In Summer 2023, she served as Artist in Residence in All Seasons Community in 4 venues in Michigan and Tucson, Arizona and Naples, Florida. During then she gave 19 concerts of 5 different repertoire. Currently, she is working as the collaborative pianist and vocal coach at the Music School of University of Massachusetts.

2024

Sunday, July 21st, 2024
12pm–2pm

The Big Lunch brings neighbors and communities together to share friendship, food, and fun!

BRING A PICNIC • STROLL IN, ROLL IN • BRING YOUR NEIGHBORS

Open to the community. Rain or shine. No alcoholic beverages.

Art and Data Visualisation

4pm (BST UK) 11am (EDT USA)

It’s hard to believe it was two summers ago that we hosted our event in collaboration with Greg Brown and Musicians, and the Marine Biological Laboratory: "CELEBRATING THE CHALLENGER EXPEDITION: DEEP SEA TO DEEP LEARNING”.

On May 9th at 11am EDT we are hosting a free, live webinar in conversation with Nipam Patel, Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and a Professor at the University of Chicago. “Art and Data Visualisation” will further explore the relationship between imaging then and now. 

Dr.  Patel  is Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). He joined the MBL in 2018 from University of California, Berkeley, where he was Professor and Co-chair of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology. Patel is the 20th scientist to serve as MBL Director since its founding in 1888.

This webinar is part of the series: "CHALLENGER CONVERSATIONS: Ocean exploration  past, present & future” Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the HMS Challenger Expedition 1872-76 and building an inclusive community of global ocean stewards this FREE WEBINAR SERIES features experts in marine science, history and education discussing urgent and challenges of our time: It will be a 1 hour session. and you can register here.

Gary Borisy & Sally Casper
and
Catherine Cramer & Steve Uzzo

Invite you to a

Piano Concert by

Maxim Lando

Friday, August 18th

7:30PM
(doors open at 7:00 pm)

Catherine Cramer's House
50 Buzzards Bay Ave
Woods Hole

Please join us in Catherine's wonderful house for an evening of piano music. As space is limited, we ask that you RSVP by August 13th so that we may plan accordingly. Also, please keep in mind that street parking is limited. Looking forward to seeing you at the concert!

The Big Lunch 2023

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Sunday, July 30th
11am–2pm

The Big Lunch brings neighbors and communities together to share friendship, food, and fun!

BRING A PICNIC • STROLL IN, ROLL IN • BRING YOUR NEIGHBORS

Open to the community. Rain or shine. No alcoholic beverages.

Mary Hubbell, soprano

Alice Jones, flute

A program of 20th and 21st music for soprano and flute, including a world premiere by Gregory W. Brown.

This program features music by a wide variety of composers; however, they are connected by the unusual origins of their inspiration. Each piece is inspired by a far-off vision: an ancient poet, a foreign poetic form, or a distant culture. In the combination of flute and voice, the composers find opportunities for spare harmonies and clear tones to invoke an exotic or hazy horizon. The program includes music by André Caplet, Albert Roussel, John Corigliano, Inés Thiebaut, and Michael Head. Flutist Alice Jones will present her original work, and the ensemble will premiere a new piece by composer Gregory W. Brown.

Voice and flute duo conText consists of Mary Hubbell and Alice Jones, musicians known for their colorful, thoughtful, and sensitive performances. The ensemble was founded in 2011 at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and their repertoire emphasizes new music while celebrating the entire common practice era. They have performed at Boston College, Cornelia Street Café, The Firehouse Space, Elebash Recital Hall, Symphony Space, Westbeth Art Gallery, and the Composers’ Voice Series at Jan Hus Church in New York City.  

Gregory W. Brown

Composer Gregory W. Brown's music has been heard on American Public Media’s Performance Today, BBC Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, Kansas Public Radio, and Danish National Radio; his Missa Charles Darwin received its European debut in March 2013 at the Dinosaur Hall of Berlin’s Museum für Naturkunde. Brown's works have been performed across the United States and Europe — most notably at Cadogan Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Carnegie Hall in New York City. His latest major work — Fall & Decline — was released on Navona Records in 2021.

Alice Jones

Raised in Austin, TX, Alice Jones welcomes new listeners into the world of music through music creation, education, and collaboration. She was praised by Mario Davidovsky as “the flute player who could really play” and Fanfare Magazine called her 2017 album with Ensemble 365 “pretty music faultless... required listening.” Her composition projects include the #tinyefforts series, as well as recent commissions from Gaudete Brass, Decoda, Amity Trio, Millikin University, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, and the Phoenix Orchestra (Boston). In 2018 she was named to the inaugural CreateNYC Leadership Accelerator cohort by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. Alice teaches flute in Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program and Luzerne Music Center. In 2020, she became the Assistant Dean of Community Engagement and Career Services at The Juilliard School. Alice graduated from Yale University, SUNY Purchase, and the CUNY Graduate Center. She lives in New York City, where, when she's not musicking, she’s likely walking her dogs or making ice cream.

Mary Hubbell

Mary Hubbell, described in the New York Times as “a soprano with a sweetly focused tone,” enjoys performing a wide variety of music, including art song, chamber music, and oratorio. She holds degrees from Boston College; the University of California, Santa Barbara; the Royal Conservatory in The Hague; and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. While living in the Netherlands, she was a frequent soloist with early music ensembles, and often appeared at the contemporary venues of the Young Composer’s Festival in Apeldoorn and the Gaudeamus Festival in Amsterdam. She enjoys living and performing in western Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband, composer Gregory W. Brown and their dog Millie.

19 year old American pianist Maxim Lando has been described as a “dazzling fire-eater” (ARTS San Francisco), a “pianist who dares to do things not considered by others” (ConcertNet, The Classical Music Network)  and as “a total musical being” (The New Criterion).  He was lauded by Anthony Tommasini in the New York Times as displaying “brilliance and infectious exuberance in his New York debut” combined with “impressive delicacy” and a “wild-eyed danger.”

Join us August 18th for a solo performance by Maxim Lando.

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About The Event

A musical evening and special preview of an exhibit in collaboration with the Marine Biological Laboratory.

Join us for a live concert featuring work by composer Greg Brown, performed by Mary Hubbell, Kristine Gether, Yang Liu, and Jiayan Sun.

Plus an exhibit of images featuring the drawings of master illustrator Ernst Haeckel and cutting-edge digital microscopy images from MBL scientists.

The HMS Challenger expedition was a groundbreaking exploration of the world’s ocean and the first to systematically explore its deepest regions. It is recognized globally as the event that created oceanography as a discipline and gave a tremendous push to the advancement of marine biology. The expedition, funded by the Royal Society, left England on 21 December 1872 with both scientists and naval crew on board. It sailed the world for three and a half years, collecting data from remote places and conducting research on hundreds of samples and thousands of marine creatures retrieved from the deep ocean. The Challenger expedition resulted in an extraordinary and ambitious chronicling of its science research in the form of 50 volumes which include among the most extensive and important images of marine organisms ever created. They continue to provide research material and inspire artists and scientists alike. One hundred and fifty years hence, we have new extraordinary kinds of instrumentation and techniques for imaging marine organisms, including an array of specialized microscopes, sensors, and even artificial intelligence-driven image processing that enable remarkable new discoveries in the ocean. The proposed exhibit will highlight the extraordinary marine biological illustrations stemming from the Challenger expedition and provide opportunities for visitors to compare and contrast them to the cutting edge of biological visualization as practiced today at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, which is on the forefront of this method of inquiry.

Program

Mary Hubbell, soprano
Kristine Gether, alto
Yang Liu, piano
Jiayan Sun, piano  

L’invitation au voyage
Henri Duparc (1848-1933

Reflets
Le retour
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)

Beside the sea
Song to the Dark Virgin
Florence Price (1887-1953)

from Préludes
Ondine (Book 2, no. 8)
Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Ouest (Book 1, no. 7)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Wasserfahrt
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Wie Schnee
Laue Sommernacht
Bei dir ist es traut
Gregory W. Brown (b. 1974)
Alma Mahler (1879-1964)

Arabesken
über “An der schönen blauen Donau” von Johan Strauss
Adolf Schulz-Evler (1852-1905)

To the Bleak Shore
Time does not bring relief
Ebb
I Shall Go Back Again
Gregory W. Brown

Dazzling Light (premiere)
Gregory W. Brown