Close Encounters With Music

06/05/2026

Enjoy this April 2025 concert featuring the Dali String Quartet performing Beethoven’s Quartet No. 1 Op. 18, Mendelssohn’s Op. 80 Quartet, Sonia Morales-Matos’ Divertimento Caribeño No. 3 and Astor Pizzolla’s Tango Ballet. Have a lovely weekend!

Alongside Beethoven’s Quartet No. 1 Op. 18 and Mendelssohn’s Op. 80...

06/05/2026

🎫 via the Mahaiwe
Balcony: $35
Orchestra/Mezzanine: $60
Ages 18 – 35: $25
Student tickets are available at the door: $15

Virtual tickets are $30 for each concert via cewm.org

Interested in attending our annual gala following the performance? Details via cewm.org.
Post-concert Gala tickets: $175
Premium Concert Seating + Gala: $225

06/04/2026

London-born Helena Baillie was hailed by The Strad magazine for her “brilliance and poignance,” and stands apart for a rare ease on both violin and viola. American Record Guide praised her “gorgeous singing tone” in an album that “from the opening flourish will be a special recital.” A prizewinner in international competitions including Munich ARD, Banff and Tertis, Helena has performed throughout Europe and the United States, with broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and “Performance Today” for American Public Radio. And so much more!

Baillie will perform at our season finale—Romance of the Romani!—on Sunday, June 14 at The Mahaiwe. Tickets available! https://cewm.org/event/romance-of-the-romani-ravel-bartok-liszt-haydn-and-brahms-piano-quartet/

06/03/2026

The superstars of tomorrow need our support. ✨ Help us raise scholarship funds for our Berkshire High Peaks Festival—matching gift available up to $20,000. 🎶 Donate today! https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/3GLXGMVG8KZBE
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Because of this generous matching gift, your donation will double scholarship funds that open doors for these budding artists, and make possible public concerts across the Berkshires, all free and accessible to everyone.
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Right now, your donation is twice as powerful! Every dollar given before July 10 is matched up to $20,000—a chance to turn your generosity into $40,000 for aspiring performers and our 17th season.
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What's Berkshire High Peaks Festival? And who attends?
Each summer our Berkshire High Peaks Festival brings about 40 extraordinary young musicians from around the world to study with master artists under the direction of cellist Yehuda Hanani—and to share that music with our community. Many of these students must seek scholarship support.

06/01/2026

The Boston Globe proclaimed: “The questioning, conviction, and feeling in [Max Levinson's] playing invariably remind us of the deep reasons why music is important to us, why we listen to it, why we care so much about it.”

We're thrilled to have pianist Max Levinson performing at our Romance of the Romani concert on June 14. Levinson’s career was launched when he won first prize at the Guardian Dublin International Piano Competition, the first American to achieve this distinction. He was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and in 2005, the Andrew Wolf Award for his chamber music playing.

Mr. Levinson is chair of the Piano department at the Boston Conservatory, and is also a faculty member at the New England Conservatory.

Tickets for Romance of the Romani! are available. We'd also love to have you attend our gala event post concert. Get the details! https://cewm.org/event/romance-of-the-romani-ravel-bartok-liszt-haydn-and-brahms-piano-quartet/

05/27/2026

Join us for this electrifying program alive with fire, longing, and rhythmic brilliance. The performance celebrates music shaped by Roma traditions that left an indelible mark on Europe’s greatest composers.

Romance of the Romani is our final concert of the 2025-2026 season. Don't miss it!

You can also attend our gala dinner featuring an amazing menu plus a

Tickets: https://cewm.org/event/romance-of-the-romani-ravel-bartok-liszt-haydn-and-brahms-piano-quartet/

05/25/2026

Enjoy last May's concert on YouTube! A Tale of Two Salons celebrates Winnaretta Singer's fabulous Parisian salons with works either commissioned by her, dedicated to her by Ravel, Stravinsky, Faure, and more!

Subscribe to our YouTube channel while you are there.

Close Encounters With Music: A Tale of Two Salons

05/20/2026

What a FABULOUS concert this was! Our subscribers have private access to our concert recordings about one week after each performance. Just one of the benefits of being a Close Encounters With Music season ticket holder. Learn more about supporting our adventures in chamber music.

https://cewm.org/upcoming-concerts/season-tickets/

PS We've already set our first concert of the 2026-2027 season. Stay tuned.

[L-R] Miranda Cuckson, violin; Yehuda Hanani, cello; Adam Golka, piano.

05/18/2026

The Berkshire High Peaks Festival runs July 22 - August 3 at the Darrow School in New Lebanon, NY. Distinguished faculty will instruct our students. We invite you to all performances. Stay tuned for season details.

Cello Faculty:

✨ Yehuda Hanani (Mannes School)
✨ Joel Noyes (Metropolitan Opera, Mannes School)
✨ Sae Rom Kwon (Kangnam University, Seoul, Korea)

Read their bios! https://cewm.org/high-peaks-festival/high-peaks-faculty/

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05/17/2026

Vivaldi’s iconic Four Seasons performed by the Vivace Baroque Orchestra 14 top tier soloists from NYC in rehearsals right now at the Mahaiwe.
Doors open 3:15pm today! Tickets at Mahaiwe.org