Sunday, July 24

Rorianne Schrade, pianist, performs an all-Liszt program in honor of the 200^th anniversary of Franz Liszt’s birth. Previewing her October 23^rd recital at N.Y.’s Carnegie’s Weill Hall (following a London recital at Wigmore Hall), she will include several of Liszt’s greatest virtuoso masterpieces. Praised for a “big virtuoso romantic approach” (American Record Guide), Ms. Schrade has been known for “Dazzling concertgoers with blazing technical kill and captivating them with vulnerable emotional depth... Schrade keeps alive and, in a sense reinvents a venerable tradition of heroic virtuoso performers born in the Liszt-Paganini era...” (Union-News, Springfield, MA).

Sunday, July 31

Robelyn Schrade, pianist, “has a secure technique, instinctive musicality, and above all, a burning commitment that transfers itself into performances of ardent intensity.” (The N.Y. Times)

Robelyn performed in November again, at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, featuring chamber music with her gifted family members, following a solo first half.

Her daughter, pianist Lynelle James, stellar doctoral candidate at University of Michigan, son Christopher James (cellist), Boston University student and alumnus of Tanglewood’s Youth Artists Orchestra and Bard’s String Quartet Institute, and husband David James, celebrated New Zealand concert pianist, will reunite to present solo and chamber music masterpieces. 

Sunday, August 7

Robert Schrade, pianist, has pioneered themed programs, in New York, and throughout the US, Europe, and Canada, bringing audiences a vast repertoire, including rarely heard masterpieces. As Harold Schonberg wrote, “Robert Schrade is entitled to a vote of thanks for his enterprise in casting off the shackles of the conventional repertoire.” Now, cited by the N.Y. Times as the “octogenarian patriarch” director of Sevenars, Schrade continues to share musical gems with “unusual intelligence and sensitivity” (N.Y. Times), in addition to his highly praised CD recordings, including the February 2011 release of “Robert Schrade: Live from Carnegie Hall, Vol. II.” 

Sunday, August 14

The Noble/Sparkman Jazz Duo, have collaborated in piano/clarinet jazz improvisations since 1995, developing an inimitable rapport as “Bob and Jerry.” Clarinetist Bob Sparkman has played with The Jazzmen, The Bourbon Street Six, the Gotham Jazz Band, and with Fats Waller’s trumpeter Herman Autry, among many others. Clifton "Jerry" Noble, Jr., composer and pianist, has had his works performed by the Boston Chamber Music Society, the Holyoke Civic Symphony Orchestra, the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, and throughout the United States. Noble serves as the Staff Accompanist for the Smith College Music Department and has played with Sparkman on five highly popular CD recordings.