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CONNECTICUT EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
New London, CT (map)
860.439.2787
http://www.ctearlymusic.org

Under the artistic direction of John Metz, the festival consists of concerts in various Southeastern Connecticut venues using antique original instruments and replicas. The festival this year runs from June 9 through 25. Shows begin at 8 pm, except as noted. Tickets $20, $26 for reserved seating.

JUNE 9 at St. John's Church in Niantic, organist Guy Whatley performs four fantasias from three centuries
JUNE 11 at 6 pm in Harkness Chapel at Connecticut College, a vocal program called Monteverdi's Mantua with a 5 pm pre-concert lecture in Blaustein Hall
JUNE 17 in Evans Hall at Connecticut College, music group Hesperus provides a live soundtrack to the 1922 silent film Robin Hood
JUNE 18 at 6 pm in Evans Hall at Connecticut College, New York Baroque Dance and Concert Royal Celebrate Mozart, with 5 pm pre-concert lecture
JUNE 23 at Mystic Arts Center in Mystic, Le Roi Soleil in Private
JUNE 24 in Evans Hall at Connecticut College, the Renaissance ensemble Piffaro performs Iberica Resplendens: Music from the Great Cathedral Collections of Spain and Portugal
JUNE 25 at 6 pm in Evans Hall at Connecticut College, the chorus Fuma Sacra conducted by Andrew Megill performs JS Bach's Cantatas and Brandenburg concerti No 1 & 6, with a 5 pm pre-concert lecture

MUSIC MOUNTAIN
Music Mountain Rd, Falls Village, CT (map)
860.824.7126
info@musicmountain.org
http://www.musicmountain.org

The oldest-continuing summer chamber music festival in the country is in its 77th season. Chamber-music concerts run through Sept 3. Sunday concerts are at 3 pm, with Saturday concerts at 6:30 pm. Choral concerts every Fri at 8 pm from June 16 through 28. Tickets $25, $22 in advance, $12 for students, except as noted.

JUNE 18 Amernet String Quartet andToby Appel, viola
JUNE 25 Amernet String Quartet and Humbert Lucarelli, oboe
JULY 2 Avalon String Quartet and Pamel Mia Laul, piano
JULY 9 Chiara String Quartet and Daniel Epstein, piano
JULY 16 Daedalus String Quartet and Melvin Chen, piano
JULY 23 St. Petersburg String Quartet with Alexander Mekinulov in an all-Shostakovich program
JULY 29 Wihan String Quartet and Simone Dinnerstein, piano
JULY 30 Wihan String Quartet and St. Petersburg String Quartet
AUG 5 Penderecki String Quartet and Melvin Chen, piano
AUG 6 Bard Festival String Quartet and Melvin Chen, viola
AUG 13 Bergonzi String Quartet and Tao Lin, piano
AUG 20 Arianna String Quartet and Aplin Hong, piano
AUG 27 Steinhardt, Artymiw, Eskin Trio
SEPT 2 Shanghai String Quartet, Michael Tree on viola, and Robert Martin, cello
SEPT 3 Shanghai String Quartet

NORFOLK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Rtes 44 and 272, Norfolk, CT (map)
860.542.3000
norfolk@yale.edu
http://www.yale.edu/norfolk

Concerts are on Fri and Sat at 8 pm. Tickets $15 to $45, $10 for ages 18 through 25, free for children.

JULY 7 Yale Brass Trio
JULY 8 Vermeer Quartet with Boris Berman
JULY 14 Russian Redux featuring works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Mussorgsky, and Glinka
JULY 15 Keller String Quartet from Budapest performs Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ
JULY 21 Keller String Quartet
JULY 22 all-Mozart program
JULY 28 Yale faculty artists and the Leschitizky Trio from Vienna perform Brahms and Strauss
AUG 4 Yale faculty artists and members of the Tokyo String Quartet perform Schubert and Mozart
AUG 5 Tokyo String Quartet
AUG 11 Yale faculty artists and members of the Tokyo String Quartet perform Haydn, Shostakovich, and Schubert
AUG 12 Tokyo String Quartet
AUG 19 Norfolk Choral Festival conducted by Simon Carrington performs Panetti's A gust inside the god, Handel's Concerto for Organ, Op 4, No 4, and a selection of choral music from the Renaissance

TRINITY COLLEGE SUMMER MUSIC SERIES
Trinity College Chapel, 300 Summit St, Hartford, CT (map)
860.987.6210
http://www.trincoll.edu/pub/

June 21 through Aug 16, chamber-music concerts are held on Wed at 6 pm at Trinity College Chapel. All concerts are followed by a carillon concert and picnic on the quad at 7 pm. Both are free.