Plainfield Concerts at 7

**Concerts at 7** announces a new season of its celebrated summer series of chamber music at the classically beautiful and acoustically magnificent Congregational Church in Plainfield, Massachusetts. Our 2026 program of four concerts on **the last four Mondays of August (10, 17, 24, 31)** features a piano quintet, a piano trio, a string quartet, and an ensemble of thirteen winds!

Our concerts are offered free of charge: we rely entirely on donations, which are gratefully accepted at the door or through our website. The church is located at **356 West Main Street (Route 116) in the center of Plainfield**. For further information, please visit our website at www.plainfieldconcertsat7.org or call artistic director David Kramer at (413) 464-2755.

**​August 10, 2026, 7 p.m.** **Quartetto Mosso**: Ronald Gorevic, violin; Beth Welty, violin; Delores Thayer, viola; Yoonhee Ko, cello; with Manon Hutton De-Wys, piano. They will perform Caroline Shaw’s *Blueprint* (2016); Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet no. 4 in D major, op. 83 (1949); and Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat major, op. 44 (1842).

**August 17, 2026, 7 p.m.**  **The Lysander Piano Trio**: Itamar Zorman, violin; Liza Stepanova, piano; James Kim, cello. They will perform Enrique Granados’s Intermezzo from the opera *Goyescas*, arranged by Gaspar Cassadó; Franz Josef Haydn’s Piano Trio in G Major, Hob. XV:25; Jennifer Higdon’s *Color Through* (2016); and Arnold Schoenberg’s *Verklärte Nacht*, op. 4 (1899), in an arrangement by Eduard Steuermann.

**August 24, 2026, 7 p.m. Members of The Borromeo Quartet**: Nicholas Kitchen, violin; Melissa Reardon, viola; Yeesun Kim, cello; with Raman Ramakrishnan, cello. They will perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Duet “for two obbligato eyeglasses” for viola and cello, WoO 32; Iman Habibi’s *Relics* for viola and cello (2019); Zoltán Kodály’s Duo for violin and cello, op. 7; and Anton Arensky’s String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, op. 35 (1894), scored for violin, viola, and two cellos.

**August 31, 2026, 7 p.m. Winds from the Northeast:** wind players from the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the Coast Guard Band, and elsewhere in the Northeast will perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s *Serenade* for thirteen winds in B♭ major, K. 361/370a. This seldom heard masterpiece is scored for  2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 basset horns, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, and  contrabassoon.