South Mountain Concert Series

Located in Pittsfield in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, South Mountain Concerts is a presenter of chamber music concerts each year during early fall. Founded in 1918 through the vision and generosity of the American patroness of music, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, South Mountain has presented over the years some of the world’s leading chamber music ensembles and soloists.

The Concert Hall built in 1918, now on the National Register of Historic Buildings, was specifically designed for chamber music and built in a colonial style using timber from an old textile mill. The hall seats 440 and enjoys particularly fine acoustics.

Artists such as Leonard Bernstein, Gary Graffman, Menahem Pressler, Leontyne Price, Rudolph Serkin, and Peter Serkin have appeared here. String quartets including the American, Borromeo, Brentano, Emerson, Guarneri, Juilliard, Orion, Saint Lawrence, and Tokyo, have been frequent visitors to our stage. Piano trios have included the Beaux Arts, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson, and Wu Han, David Finckel and Philip Setzer.

Programs for 2025 Series of Chamber Music Concerts

Sunday, September 7

Wu Han, piano; David Finckel, cello;

Stella Chen, Bella Hristova, violins;

Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola

Mozart – Duo for Violin & Viola in B-flat Major, K. 424

Mendelssohn – Quartet in F Minor, Op. 2, Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello

Dvorak – Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81

Sunday, September 14

Calidore String Quartet

With Matthew Lipman, viola

Haydn – String Quartet, in D Major Op. 76, No. 5

Mozart – String Quintet in C Major, K. 515

Mendelssohn – String Quintet in B-flat Major, Op. 87

Sunday, September 21

Dover String Quartet

                Haydn – String Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4

Dvorak – String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96

Mendelssohn – String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80

Sunday, September 28

Escher String Quartet

                Mozart – String Quartet in E-flat Major, K. 428

Zemlinsky – String Quartet No. 4, Op. 25

Dvorak – String Quartet in G Major, Op. 106

Sunday, October 5

String Sextet – CMS of Lincoln Center

                Strauss – Sextet for Strings, Capriccio, Op. 85

Brahms – Sextet in C Major, Op. 36

Dvorak – Sextet in A Major, Op. 48

Concerts at 3 P.M.

All programs Subject To Change Without Notice

The South Mountain Concert Hall is located off South Street (Rte. 7) in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, approximately two miles south of Park Square at the center of the downtown area. The driveway to the property, just south of the Guardian Insurance Company building, is marked by a white sign with brown lettering reading “South Mountain Western Region,” and a panel below it reading “South Mountain Concerts.” The dirt road leads up to the South Mountain parking areas and the Concert Hall.

For GPS navigation, please use this address:

730 South Street, Pittsfield.