Close Encounters With Music

Close Encounters With Music We connect chamber-music loving listeners to performers and composers; foster the excitement and sens

Throwback Thursday! First oboist of the New York Philharmonic Liang Wang played Mozart’s Oboe Quartet to Cimarosa’s Oboe...
10/22/2025

Throwback Thursday! First oboist of the New York Philharmonic Liang Wang played Mozart’s Oboe Quartet to Cimarosa’s Oboe Concerto and Britten’s Metamorphosis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FJGkCCBb9I&t=2330s

In this performance at The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, first oboist of the New York Philharmonic Liang Wang leads the ...

27-year-old pianist from Massachusetts beat out 180 competitors to win the International Chopin Piano Competition in War...
10/22/2025

27-year-old pianist from Massachusetts beat out 180 competitors to win the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.

In Warsaw, a 27-year-old pianist from Massachusetts beat out 180 competitors to win what some call the Olympics of the piano world.

Silent movie + live original music 🎶 This concert features a score for clarinet and strings that is colorful, ominous, a...
10/21/2025

Silent movie + live original music 🎶 This concert features a score for clarinet and strings that is colorful, ominous, and exciting—and the experience of hearing live musicians accompany the action on the big screen promises to be unforgettable.

➤ Tickets available NOW for this concert and the rest of our 34th season performances. https://cewm.org/upcoming-concerts/

🎻 The Avalon String Quartet: Blaise Magnière, violin; Marie Wang, violin; Anthony Devroye, viola; Cheng-Hou Lee, cello. Saerom Kim, clarinet; Jonathan Yates, conductor

Comprised of fourteen top-tier soloists who gather for periodic tours, the Vivace Chamber Orchestra performers are the c...
10/17/2025

Comprised of fourteen top-tier soloists who gather for periodic tours, the Vivace Chamber Orchestra performers are the crème de la crème of chamber music players. Buy tickets now for Mozart, Mendelssohn, Britten & Bruch on Sunday, December 7, 4pm at The Mahaiwe.
https://cewm.org/upcoming-concerts/

PS Check out our entire season of concerts paired with commentary by artistic director, Yehuda Hanani.

We're thrilled to once again bring the internationally-renowned Avalon String Quartet to our chamber music series! The Q...
10/16/2025

We're thrilled to once again bring the internationally-renowned Avalon String Quartet to our chamber music series! The Quartet, along with Saerom Kim on clarinet, will perform live during the silent movie masterwork of German expressionist Paul Wegener: "Der Golem." The klezmer-infused score will be a vibrant feast for the eyes and ears. Conducted by Jonathan Yates.

Tickets available now. https://cewm.org/event/the-golem-a-vision-in-sound-and-cinema-with-the-avalon-quartet/

Learn more about our artists: https://cewm.org/upcoming-concerts/music-artists-bios-great-barrington/

Get the details on our season subscriptions: https://cewm.org/upcoming-concerts/season-tickets/

10/15/2025

Be part of our music-loving community! ➤ After each Close Encounters With Music performance, audiences are invited to an “Afterglow” reception to meet the artists and mingle with fellow music lovers (and enjoy beverages and bites). Buy tickets now to enjoy world-class chamber music and get to know other music lovers.
https://cewm.org/upcoming-concerts/

10/14/2025

Tickets and season subscriptions at cewm.org.

🎶 This concert features a score for clarinet and strings that is colorful, ominous, and exciting—and the experience of h...
10/12/2025

🎶 This concert features a score for clarinet and strings that is colorful, ominous, and exciting—and the experience of hearing live musicians accompany the action on the big screen promises to be unforgettable.

➤ Tickets available NOW: https://cewm.org/event/the-golem-a-vision-in-sound-and-cinema-with-the-avalon-quartet/

🎻 The Avalon String Quartet: Blaise Magnière, violin; Marie Wang, violin; Anthony Devroye, viola; Cheng-Hou Lee, cello. Saerom Kim, clarinet; Jonathan Yates, conductor

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Twenty-seven years ago, Close Encounters' artistic director and cellist Yehuda Hanani began presenting thematic concerts of chamber music with commentary—at the time a novel and innovative format that has since become ubiquitous in the concert hall. In addition to tours that have taken the series to cities such as Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Omaha, Calgary, and Kansas City, Scottsdale, Fort Lauderdale and Miami, Close Encounters presents concerts each season in the Berkshires--most often at The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. To date, over 100 themes have been explored in the series' programs. Click here to see our 2018/2019 schedule.

Close Encounters With Music also produces the Berkshire High Peaks Festival: an international group of violinists, violists, cellists and pianists who converge for intensive instrumental study and chamber music coaching with distinguished faculty. At the base of Mount Everett, The Berkshire School’s 400-acre campus in Sheffield, Massachusetts offers a breathtaking setting and a destination for world renowned arts and culture in the heart of the Berkshire Hills. The Berkshire High Peaks Residency (formerly Catskill High Peaks Festival) has evolved into a training program designed to imbue players with new ideas and approaches, inspiration, and tools for technical advancement.

Learn more about us--and how we bring chamber music and dynamic classical music education to The Berkshires and beyond.

Website: www.cewm.org Instagram: @closeencounterswithmusic Tickets: More Information Here and through The Mahaiwe