It’s hard to believe, but in just over a week, our Midsummer’s Music season rekindles with a powerfully romantic program of French piano quintets featuring Jeannie Yu. (I wrote about these works last week—please check it out.) But, these works will quickly give way to a very colorful program titled… [Read More]

Two piano quintets by Louis Vierne and Charles-Marie Widor are exhilarating and passionate works full of the kind of color, virtuosity, and intensity for which their organ works are widely known. Midsummer’s Music is a leader among chamber music organizations in presenting works by lesser-known composers, often alongside household names… [Read More]

A little rest is good now and then. After 30 concerts since June 14, our band can use one. And it’s good to go out on a high note. Our Schubert/Klebanov concert was a huge success, but oddly enough, as beloved as Schubert’s E-flat Piano Trio is, the Trio by… [Read More]

The 2023 Labor Day Concert Series runs August 23 through September 4. Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s oldest summer chamber music series, continues its 33rd season of presenting exceptional chamber music in the vacation paradise of Door County, Wisconsin. Concerts hailed as “exciting, pulse-pounding, and riveting” are performed in cultural, historical, and… [Read More]

Violinist Alex Norris and Cellist Jesse Nummelin join the celebrated quartet. Following a lengthy and thorough process of interviewing and auditioning dozens of incredibly talented applicants, Midsummer’s Music’s resident string quartet, the Griffon String Quartet, recently selected violinist Alex Norris and cellist Jesse Nummelin to join the celebrated ensemble. Norris,… [Read More]