Thursday, January 25, 2024
7:30 PM

One of our (and our audience’s!) favorite string quartets returns to the series, with two of the most revolutionary works for string quartet ever written (by Haydn and Beethoven) as well as a celebration of folk music from three-quarters of the quartet’s native Scotland.

October 29, 2023–April 30, 2024
7:30 PM

The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library is pleased to present the 2023–2024 season of the Barbara and William Karatz Chamber Concert Series, beginning October 29, 2023, at 6 p.m. The series, which continues until April 30, 2024, is set in the intimate Joan & Irwin Jacobs Music Room inside the Athenaeum. Enjoy chamber music as it was intended—in a warm, personal setting, where you are treated as a guest in our historic library. At each concert you’ll hear a mix of music rarely presented locally and cherished masterpieces, guaranteed to uplift and move you, performed by the finest chamber musicians we know. We welcome back a few favorite artists from past seasons along with some exciting new faces that are sure to inspire.

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

7:30 PM

This thoughtful British quartet sold out the Athenaeum in 2019 and 2020. They play with discipline, enthusiasm, and humor. As they’ve done at the previous shows, they’ll play their own arrangements of Scottish folk tunes.

January 18, February 2, 14, March 15, April 25 & May 23, 2022

7:30 PM

We are pleased to announce six in-person chamber concerts featuring Maxwell String Quartet playing Haydn and Dvorak, on January 18, Max Opferkuch, clarinet, and the Zelter Quartet playing Brahms and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Clarinet Quintets, on February 2, the Poulenc Trio, on February 14, the Neave Trio playing trios by Louise Farrenc, Germaine Tailleferre, and Ravel, on March 15, the Valencia Baryton Project, on April 25, and Cecil Lytle playing Liszt (late works) and Fats Waller, on May 23. The concerts will start in person at the Athenaeum’s Joan and Irwin Jacobs Music Room at 7:30 PM.