schedule
January 19, 2025
3pm
TENET Vocal Artists: Double Take
Jointly presented by Mallarmé Music and the UNC Chapel Hill Newman Series, TENET Vocal Artists visits North Carolina to share deeply expressive music from Claudio Monteverdi’s Italy and Henry Purcell’s England. Among the ensemble’s specialties, TENET explores the rich and fruitful way baroque composers crafted duets as a way to double the impact of a single idea through the use of two voices or instruments with powerful and dazzling results.
TENET Vocal Artists: Jolle Greenleaf and Clara Rottsalk, sopranos, Nicholas DiEugenio and Kako Boga, violins, Daniel Swenberg, theorbo, Jeffrey Grossman, harpsichord
January 24, 2025
7pm
Belvedere Series: Bach Solo Works + Original Art
Nicholas brings his "Inspired by Bach" project to The Belvedere Series. This 75-minute installment of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin is also accompanied by Nicholas' 31 original works of visual art inspired by each of the Bach movements.
January 26, 2025
4pm
Tchaikovsky Seasons at Longwood University
Nicholas joins cellist James Wilson and pianist Mimi Solomon in a 19th-century arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Seasons for Piano Trio by Alexander Goedicke. The performance features excerpts of interpolated poetry, narrative, and other writings.
March 1, 2025
7:30pm
Gut Instinct Chamber Project: Schubert Quintet
The Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project is a three-part, free concert series curated by Nicholas DiEugenio which brings UNC's historical instrument collection together with artists committed to presenting inspired, visceral, historically informed performances of the 19th-century chamber music repertoire.
Stylish. HIP. Inspired.
This season's programming features music of female composers and their artistic circles, and takes advantage of UNC Chapel Hill's collection of historic pianos such as its 1843 Pleyel and Graf replica built by Rodney Regier.
Along with Mimi Solomon and UNC's Graf fortepiano, Nicholas joins violinist Kako Boga, violist Jessica Troy, and cellists Keiran Campbell and James Wilson in historically informed, visceral performances of Schubert's awe-inspiring cello quintet as well as Fanny Mendelssohn's heart-stopping Piano Trio.
March 22, 2025
6pm
TENET: Confessions
Confessions revives a rarely heard gallant work for Soprano, Alto, and Bass with chamber orchestra titled Confitebor by Baldassare Galuppi. The show also features Vivaldi’s La Follia and sacred arias from Salve Regina and Nisi Dominus, as well as a trio sonata by Johann Adolph Hasse. All of these composers understood the healing power of music through their work at Italian Ospedale.
April 25-27, 2025
Staunton Music Festival BaroqueFest
BaroqueFest 2025 assembles 25 superlative musicians for a weekend devoted to J. S. Bach, his music, and the composers who inspired him. Featured works include the St. John Passion (complete), Orchestral Suites, selections from The Musical Offering and Art of the Fugue, concertos and cantatas, as well as two dozen pieces by composers who influenced Bach, including Vivaldi, Buxtehude, Biber, Pachelbel, Couperin, and others.
All concerts feature acclaimed period-instrument performers. Seven programs include music for voices, orchestra, and chamber ensembles and feature historical keyboards.
May 12-17, 2025
Luby Symposium at UNC Chapel Hill
The Luby Symposium at UNC Chapel Hill brings world-renowned faculty chamber musicians together with undergraduate, graduate, and young artist students from universities, schools of music, and conservatories across the country.
PAST SHOWS
December 15, 2024
4pm
Chamber Music Detroit with The Sebastians
Get in the holiday spirit with The Sebastians, the acclaimed New York early music ensemble with Michigan native harpsichordist Jeffrey Grossman, making their CM Detroit début with a spirited program of joyful Baroque works. Celebrate the season with Handel, Corelli, and others, and be swept away by Vivaldi’s infectious La Folia!
November 15, 2024
7:30pm
Gut Instinct Chamber Project: Pauline Viardot
The Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project is a three-part, free concert series curated by Nicholas DiEugenio which brings UNC's historical instrument collection together with artists committed to presenting inspired, visceral, historically informed performances of the 19th-century chamber music repertoire.
Stylish. HIP. Inspired.
This season's programming features music of female composers and their artistic circles, and takes advantage of UNC Chapel Hill's collection of historic pianos such as its 1843 Pleyel and Graf replica built by Rodney Regier. Nicholas joins pianist Mimi Solomon and UNC Chapel Hill's 1843 Pleyel to explore music of Pauline Viardot and her circle, including Gabriel Faure's iconic Violin Sonata in A Major, op. 13.
November 3, 2024
3pm
Complete Schumann Piano Trios
As part of the Fall 2024 Staunton Music Festival Recital Series, Nicholas joins cellist James Wilson and fortepianist Carsten Schmidt and the festival's 1830 Graf fortepiano built by Rodney Regier in a performance of the three Schumann Piano Trios.
October 13, 2024
3pm
Capital Region Classical with The Sebastians
Called a “fast-rising group of period-instrumentalists,” by the NY Times, The Sebastians’ 2022 series debut astounded all in attendance. Approaching early music with a fiery intensity, this thrilling group brings energy and elegance to baroque works featuring Bach’s Fourth Brandenburg Concerto.
Concerti by Bach, Pisendel, and Telemann
with the Brandenburg Fourth Concerto
August 30, 2024
7:30pm
Gut Instinct Chamber Project: Amanda Maier
The Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project is a three-part, free concert series curated by Nicholas DiEugenio which brings UNC's historical instrument collection together with artists committed to presenting inspired, visceral, historically informed performances of the 19th-century chamber music repertoire.
Stylish. HIP. Inspired.
This season's programming features music of female composers and their artistic circles, and takes advantage of UNC Chapel Hill's collection of historic pianos such as its 1843 Pleyel and Graf replica built by Rodney Regier. This concert features pianist Mimi Solomon and guest cellist Raman Ramakrishnan, and Nicholas joins them in the North Carolina premiere of Amanda Maier's Piano Trio.
August 14-25, 2024
Staunton Music Festival
Each August Staunton proudly hosts "Virginia's world-class music festival" (Travel + Leisure), which brings more than 90 world-class musicians from around the world to the Blue Ridge Mountains to perform for ten consecutive days and nights of eclectic chamber, vocal, and symphonic music. All performances are held entirely in historic downtown Staunton.
June 20, 2024
The Sebastians at The Princeton Festival
Acclaimed baroque ensemble The Sebastians returns for its third Princeton Festival appearance with an exciting program featuring three of J.S. Bach’s beloved “Brandenburg” concerti along with classic works by Telemann and Vivaldi.
June 10-16, 2024
MYCO Summer Workshop at UNC Chapel Hill
MYCO’s workshop provides college aged students (all attending music conservatories or majors in music at a university) the opportunity to receive private instruction from high caliber professional musicians, both international and local, and participate in chamber music groups with their peers from across the country.
February 17-18, 2024
Complete Sonatas and Partitas of J.S. Bach
This exquisite weekend features two intimate performances spanning the complete J.S. Bach for solo violin, performed by Nicholas DiEugenio. Daniel Lee and Jeffrey Grossman provide complementary works exploring the Italian and French sides of Bach's musical personality. 32 Original works of art by Nicholas DiEugenio, inspired by each movement of the Sonatas and Partitas, will be displayed in the concert programs.
