Midsummer’s Music concludes its impressive 2024 summer concert series with three exhilarating programs consisting of eight thrilling concerts over nine days starting August 25. Highly regarded for mixing well-known composers with a diverse assortment of composers from various walks of life, Midsummer’s Artistic Director Jim Berkenstock promises an imaginative and… [Read More]

Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s oldest summer chamber music series, continues its 2024 concert season with a program featuring two string quintet masterpieces by composers Johannes Brahms and Max Bruch, alongside a string quartet by lesser-known composer Adalbert Gyrowetz, who was a highly regarded master of the Viennese style of the classical… [Read More]

This is a busy and exciting week for Midsummer’s Music. We are opening two different programs almost simultaneously. “Bach to the Future,” featuring Will Healy and his friend, George Meyer, plays July 18, 19, and 21. “Grieg Piano Concerto and Jeannie Yu” opens in the middle of that on July… [Read More]

Midsummer’s Music earns high praises for presenting works by lesser-known composers – especially composers of color and women composers – often alongside household names like Bach and Mozart. With its Grieg Piano Concerto program, audiences will hear a thrilling quartet by a relatively obscure female composer, backed up by sumptuous… [Read More]

We have just finished four wonderful programs (15 performances in all), and most of the music has been from the German/Austrian tradition. While we included a splendid work by the Englishwoman, Alice Verne Bredt, and an under-appreciated masterpiece by Dvořák, the meat of these programs was music by Haydn, Mozart,… [Read More]