Friends of Music Concerts, which has presented professional chamber music since 1954, will highlight a variety of music ensembles, instrumentation, and soloists in its 2024-2025 season.
“After our 70th season celebrations, we’re moving ahead with renewed energy and a commitment to the future of chamber music while also presenting masters of the traditional repertoire. In addition to our concert series, we are passionately committed to our programs that encourage and mentor young musicians and audience members,” said FOMC President Susan Harris.
Performances are scheduled to take place at Sleepy Hollow High School auditorium, 210 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., with ample free parking and handicapped access.
The season begins on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024, 8 p.m. with superstars of the chamber music world: the Han, Setzer, Finckel piano trio. Pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel are co-artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Violinist Philip Setzer, formerly (along with Finckel) of the esteemed and recently retired Emerson String Quartet, is artistic director of the Cleveland Institute of Music’s String Chamber Music Program.
The rest of the 2024-25 season will take place on Sunday afternoons.
On Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024 at 3 p.m., the Dover String Quartet with Roberto Díaz, viola, arrives. The Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet is in residence at the Curtis Institute of Music, where Diaz, an internationally renowned violist, is president and CEO.
Friends of Music Concerts welcomes the WindSync woodwind quintet on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024, 3 p.m. The quintet has won the 2016 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, among other awards. They “play many idioms authoritatively, elegantly, with adroit technique and with great fun.” All About the Arts
Last spring, students at Hendrick Hudson High School received coaching under FOMC’s Partnerships in Education program from the Balourdet String Quartet, who will perform on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024 3 p.m. with flutist Adam W. Sadberry. The members of the Balourdet are graduate quartet artists in residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and are one of the recipients of a 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant. As a musician and educator, Sadberry is known for his virtuosity, creativity and vibrancy.
On Sunday, March 16, 2025, Benett Tsai, cello, was to have appeared with FOMC, but this concert will be rescheduled.
Megan Moore, mezzo-soprano, and Francesco Barfoed, piano, will join forces on Sunday, March 30, 2025, 3 p.m. Moore, a previous winner of our YCA Performance Award, has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, among prominent companies. Barfoed, with Moore, won first prize in the Copenhagen Lied-Duo Competition.
A regular and beloved presence on the world’s great concert stages for three decades, the Jerusalem String Quartet wraps up the season on Sunday, May 4, 2025, 3 p.m. This is their third appearance with us. BBC Music Magazine described one of their performances as “an absolute triumph. Their playing has everything you could possibly wish for.”
Subscriptions and tickets
Patrons may subscribe early and get a significant discount from the regular seven-concert subscription price. A subscription to all seven concerts purchased by April 28, 2024 is $175 ($25/ticket). After April 28, a full subscription is $210 ($30/ticket). A flexible mini-subscription of four or more admissions is $35 per admission, each usable once as a ticket to any concert. Single tickets at $40 each may be ordered after April 28. Those 18 years of age and under are admitted free of charge. Go to www.friendsofmusicconcerts.org.
