Watch the 8/16 Livestream and view previous concerts on Facebook : facebook.com/heliandconsortvt
Photo by Todd Quackenbush on Unsplash. Daylilies in Branbury State Park, Salisbury.
Heliand@Home continues with our 3rd Virtual Summer Concert
••• Sunday, August 16 at 4 pm ET •••
This short-form concert runs about 30 minutes and includes stories, solos, and drumming for the whole family. Enjoy from the muted comfort of your home!
RSVP by August 15 to attend via Zoom: info@heliandconsort.org
Or, watch the Livestream on Facebook at 4 pm ET: facebook.com/heliandconsortvt
••• Sunday, August 16 at 4 pm ET •••
This short-form concert runs about 30 minutes and includes stories, solos, and drumming for the whole family. Enjoy from the muted comfort of your home!
RSVP by August 15 to attend via Zoom: info@heliandconsort.org
Or, watch the Livestream on Facebook at 4 pm ET: facebook.com/heliandconsortvt
Artwork by Alexandra Williamson
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SPONSOR H E L I A N D
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WEDDINGS & EVENTS
Planning your Vermont Wedding? Visit our weddings page and let us help you find the perfect music for your wedding, family celebration, or corporate event!
Your celebration is a unique opportunity to honor your values and vision as you extend gracious hospitality to your guests. It is our pleasure to help you select a program of fine classical music to complement your celebration or corporate event, whether music for a ceremony, reception or background music.
Classical music within reach! We are committed to working with your budget to make exceptional quality, live classical music affordable for your family or company. Contact us today to receive a personalized quote.
• Now booking Summer 2021 Weddings
Planning your Vermont Wedding? Visit our weddings page and let us help you find the perfect music for your wedding, family celebration, or corporate event!
Your celebration is a unique opportunity to honor your values and vision as you extend gracious hospitality to your guests. It is our pleasure to help you select a program of fine classical music to complement your celebration or corporate event, whether music for a ceremony, reception or background music.
Classical music within reach! We are committed to working with your budget to make exceptional quality, live classical music affordable for your family or company. Contact us today to receive a personalized quote.
• Now booking Summer 2021 Weddings
KINDRED SPIRITS :: A LOVE TRIANGLE
Letters and Music of Brahms & the Schumanns
Friday, March 6 - Rochester, VT [CANCELED]
Saturday, March 7 - Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury, VT
Saturday, May 16 - Mountain Top Music, NH [CANCELED]
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer and pianist extraordinaire, Clara Schumann.
To mark the occasion, we present Kindred Spirits, our new program of chamber music by Clara and Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, along with letters detailing their deep love and friendship.
Join us for a glimpse into the tragic and beautiful story of love, friendship and art. The program includes Robert Schumann’s "Romances for Oboe and Piano," Brahms "Sonata for Piano and Clarinet," and songs by Clara Schumann.
> > Details on our Performances page
Letters and Music of Brahms & the Schumanns
Friday, March 6 - Rochester, VT [CANCELED]
Saturday, March 7 - Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury, VT
Saturday, May 16 - Mountain Top Music, NH [CANCELED]
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer and pianist extraordinaire, Clara Schumann.
To mark the occasion, we present Kindred Spirits, our new program of chamber music by Clara and Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, along with letters detailing their deep love and friendship.
Join us for a glimpse into the tragic and beautiful story of love, friendship and art. The program includes Robert Schumann’s "Romances for Oboe and Piano," Brahms "Sonata for Piano and Clarinet," and songs by Clara Schumann.
> > Details on our Performances page
RECENT NEWS
2020 SEASON UPDATE
As with performing artists across the world, our season came to an abrupt halt in early March. Since that time, we have been teachers, teaching our students and children with passion and urgency like never before, even in the imperfect world of online music lessons and classes.
Teaching is our spiritual action of the moment. It is our calling. It is what we must be doing, right now.
This summer we initiated our first Virtual Concert Series, which we're calling H E L I A N D @ H O M E. These casual, short-form concerts take place on Zoom and Facebook Live in June, July and August.
Planning continues for our two newest programs:
B I R D S O N G and F O R E S T M U S I C. Our aim is to celebrate Vermont's ecology with music, speakers, and collaborations with two amazing artists and friends of ours: composer Tawnie Olson (Birdsong) and artist Patty Hudak (Forest Music). We will premiere these programs in our 14th Season in 2020-2021.
We are designing two programs for each concert: one set list to be performed in traditional chamber music settings (ie, indoors, with our instruments), and a second for out-of-doors performances using our voices, melodicas, hand percussion, penny whistle, and the sounds of nature surrounding us. We're eager to expand our conception of live chamber music, with and for our community.
Thanks, as always, for your support!
~ the Heliands
As with performing artists across the world, our season came to an abrupt halt in early March. Since that time, we have been teachers, teaching our students and children with passion and urgency like never before, even in the imperfect world of online music lessons and classes.
Teaching is our spiritual action of the moment. It is our calling. It is what we must be doing, right now.
This summer we initiated our first Virtual Concert Series, which we're calling H E L I A N D @ H O M E. These casual, short-form concerts take place on Zoom and Facebook Live in June, July and August.
Planning continues for our two newest programs:
B I R D S O N G and F O R E S T M U S I C. Our aim is to celebrate Vermont's ecology with music, speakers, and collaborations with two amazing artists and friends of ours: composer Tawnie Olson (Birdsong) and artist Patty Hudak (Forest Music). We will premiere these programs in our 14th Season in 2020-2021.
We are designing two programs for each concert: one set list to be performed in traditional chamber music settings (ie, indoors, with our instruments), and a second for out-of-doors performances using our voices, melodicas, hand percussion, penny whistle, and the sounds of nature surrounding us. We're eager to expand our conception of live chamber music, with and for our community.
Thanks, as always, for your support!
~ the Heliands
Stars, by Mary Simpsonused by permission
WINTER GATHERING
February 21, 2020 :: Middlebury Community Music Center, Middlebury, VT
February 22, 2020 :: Ahaveth Gerim Synagogue, Burlington, VT
February 23, 2020 :: York Street Meeting House, Lyndon, VT
Heliand's Gathering Series is a 2-year project comprised of four distinct programs, one for each of the seasons in New England. Each program is thoughtfully curated to create a seamless flow of music and poetry that evokes the sights, sounds, and feel – the essence of each season.
Even as we tire of the winter rites of shoveling, slipping, and hauling wood, we recognize the unmatched beauty of snow-covered branches, a brilliant afternoon's sun glistening on the hills, and the crystalline chill of subzero winter's air.
Be inspired by music of this season – from the classics to Tin Pan Alley to modern masters composing today. You'll hear favorites by Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Gordon Jacob, Moondog, Irving Berlin, Don Jamison (Stars and Night Song), Padma Newsome (Suite II from '2 Moon Smile'), The Skater's Waltz by Waldteufel, and sleigh rides by Prokofiev, Leroy Anderson and Robert Smith.
Enjoy perspectives on winter from poets including Robert Frost, Mary Oliver, Linda Pastan and others.
A SEASONAL CELEBRATION
December 15, 2019 :: Two concerts! Join us in Johnson and Westford, Vermont
Our woodwind quartet, with special guest, oboist Kari Anderson, returns to NVU Johnson's Dibden Center for the Arts to perform on the Winter Choral Celebration, led by Bethany Plissey. We're performing "What Pan Was Doing" with the NVU Chamber Singers, by Vermont composer, Don Jamison.
Following the matinée performance in Johnson, our woodwind trio of Berta Frank, flute; Elisabeth LeBlanc, clarinet; and Rachael Elliott, bassoon head to Westford to perform once again on the Westford Music Series at the White Church on the Common. Our seasonal program includes music from across the ages to celebrate the magic of the season as we welcome Winter!
HELIAND AND THE BAND :: MUSIC OF NICO MUHLY & FRIENDS
Season 13 Opening Concerts in Vermont, October 26-27, 2019
Rachael Elliott, bassoon soloist
Anne Decker, conductor
Patrick Evans, narrator
Heliand Consort presents two eclectic shows of music untethered from the norms, with solos for piccolo and vibraphone, a narrated counting piece about cows, a musical illustration of popcorn popping, and a 30-piece wind ensemble performing the New England premiere of "Reliable Sources" by Vermont-born composer, Nico Muhly, a magnificent piece for solo bassoon and orchestral winds, full of shimmering textures. The program includes a mosaic of solos and chamber music by some of our favorite composers working today: Vermont composer Don Jamison, Padma Newsome, Belinda Reynolds, Tawnie Olson, and Valerie Coleman, among others.
Heliand's bassoonist, Rachael Elliott, is among the 19 bassoonists who commissioned this piece from Nico, and is privileged to perform the New England premiere in her (and Nico's) home state of Vermont together with a band of outstanding musicians from across the region.
Our concerts offer two of only a handful of opportunities across the U.S. to hear this piece by one of this generation's most esteemed composers performed live:
Saturday, October 26 at Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph, Vermont
Sunday, October 27 at Dibden Center for the Arts, Northern Vermont University in Johnson, Vermont
SUMMER GATHERING :: POETRY & MUSIC FOR MIDSUMMER
Vermont Tour, July 23 - 26, 2019
Concerts in Jericho, Underhill, Burlington, Bakersfield, Sheldon, and Lyndon, Vermont
“Summer Gathering” is an imaginative program of songs, instrumental music, and poetry by Robert Frost, Mary Oliver and others – all inspired by this season and its magic. It's the first in our series of four GATHERING programs, each honoring a season in New England with related music and poetry.
Flutist Berta Frank, oboist Katie Oprea and bassoonist Rachael Elliott perform trios from the Renaissance through the 21st century, including music by Telemann, Mozart and Mendelssohn. Be part of the joyful gathering of community, enchanting music and evocative readings as we approach the dog days.
DRAW THE CIRCLE WIDE :: ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY
Sunday, June 30, 2019 in Rochester, Vermont
We're thrilled to return to RCMS's beloved summer series, now in its 25th season, with a charming and wide-ranging program of favorites drawn from the European tradition (Boulanger, Poulenc, Schumann), Australia (Newsome) and the United States (Galbraith).
KINDRED SPIRITS :: MUSIC & LETTERS OF BRAHMS AND THE SCHUMANNS
Sunday, April 14, 2019 in Fairlee, Vermont
Thursday, April 25, 2019 on VPR Classical
Sunday, April 28, 2019 in Saint Albans, Vermont
Sunday, May 19, 2019 in Plainfield, Vermont
Our new program of German chamber music by Johannes Brahms, Robert & Clara Schumann delves into one of the most intriguing musical love triangles through letters and music.
Heliand Consort explores three of the greatest musical minds of the Romantic Era. Through the letters and music of Brahms and the Schumanns, you'll enjoy a glimpse into their tragic and beautiful story of love, friendship and art. The program includes Robert Schumann’s "Romances for Oboe and Piano," Brahms "Sonata for Piano and Clarinet," and songs by Clara Schumann.
Selected letters are read by Jim Stapleton, Diana Bigelow, and Patrick Evans.
We invite you to unearth your old love letters and bring them, or submit them in advance, for possible inclusion (anonymously, of course!) during the concert.
February 21, 2020 :: Middlebury Community Music Center, Middlebury, VT
February 22, 2020 :: Ahaveth Gerim Synagogue, Burlington, VT
February 23, 2020 :: York Street Meeting House, Lyndon, VT
Heliand's Gathering Series is a 2-year project comprised of four distinct programs, one for each of the seasons in New England. Each program is thoughtfully curated to create a seamless flow of music and poetry that evokes the sights, sounds, and feel – the essence of each season.
Even as we tire of the winter rites of shoveling, slipping, and hauling wood, we recognize the unmatched beauty of snow-covered branches, a brilliant afternoon's sun glistening on the hills, and the crystalline chill of subzero winter's air.
Be inspired by music of this season – from the classics to Tin Pan Alley to modern masters composing today. You'll hear favorites by Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Gordon Jacob, Moondog, Irving Berlin, Don Jamison (Stars and Night Song), Padma Newsome (Suite II from '2 Moon Smile'), The Skater's Waltz by Waldteufel, and sleigh rides by Prokofiev, Leroy Anderson and Robert Smith.
Enjoy perspectives on winter from poets including Robert Frost, Mary Oliver, Linda Pastan and others.
A SEASONAL CELEBRATION
December 15, 2019 :: Two concerts! Join us in Johnson and Westford, Vermont
Our woodwind quartet, with special guest, oboist Kari Anderson, returns to NVU Johnson's Dibden Center for the Arts to perform on the Winter Choral Celebration, led by Bethany Plissey. We're performing "What Pan Was Doing" with the NVU Chamber Singers, by Vermont composer, Don Jamison.
Following the matinée performance in Johnson, our woodwind trio of Berta Frank, flute; Elisabeth LeBlanc, clarinet; and Rachael Elliott, bassoon head to Westford to perform once again on the Westford Music Series at the White Church on the Common. Our seasonal program includes music from across the ages to celebrate the magic of the season as we welcome Winter!
HELIAND AND THE BAND :: MUSIC OF NICO MUHLY & FRIENDS
Season 13 Opening Concerts in Vermont, October 26-27, 2019
Rachael Elliott, bassoon soloist
Anne Decker, conductor
Patrick Evans, narrator
Heliand Consort presents two eclectic shows of music untethered from the norms, with solos for piccolo and vibraphone, a narrated counting piece about cows, a musical illustration of popcorn popping, and a 30-piece wind ensemble performing the New England premiere of "Reliable Sources" by Vermont-born composer, Nico Muhly, a magnificent piece for solo bassoon and orchestral winds, full of shimmering textures. The program includes a mosaic of solos and chamber music by some of our favorite composers working today: Vermont composer Don Jamison, Padma Newsome, Belinda Reynolds, Tawnie Olson, and Valerie Coleman, among others.
Heliand's bassoonist, Rachael Elliott, is among the 19 bassoonists who commissioned this piece from Nico, and is privileged to perform the New England premiere in her (and Nico's) home state of Vermont together with a band of outstanding musicians from across the region.
Our concerts offer two of only a handful of opportunities across the U.S. to hear this piece by one of this generation's most esteemed composers performed live:
Saturday, October 26 at Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph, Vermont
Sunday, October 27 at Dibden Center for the Arts, Northern Vermont University in Johnson, Vermont
SUMMER GATHERING :: POETRY & MUSIC FOR MIDSUMMER
Vermont Tour, July 23 - 26, 2019
Concerts in Jericho, Underhill, Burlington, Bakersfield, Sheldon, and Lyndon, Vermont
“Summer Gathering” is an imaginative program of songs, instrumental music, and poetry by Robert Frost, Mary Oliver and others – all inspired by this season and its magic. It's the first in our series of four GATHERING programs, each honoring a season in New England with related music and poetry.
Flutist Berta Frank, oboist Katie Oprea and bassoonist Rachael Elliott perform trios from the Renaissance through the 21st century, including music by Telemann, Mozart and Mendelssohn. Be part of the joyful gathering of community, enchanting music and evocative readings as we approach the dog days.
DRAW THE CIRCLE WIDE :: ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY
Sunday, June 30, 2019 in Rochester, Vermont
We're thrilled to return to RCMS's beloved summer series, now in its 25th season, with a charming and wide-ranging program of favorites drawn from the European tradition (Boulanger, Poulenc, Schumann), Australia (Newsome) and the United States (Galbraith).
KINDRED SPIRITS :: MUSIC & LETTERS OF BRAHMS AND THE SCHUMANNS
Sunday, April 14, 2019 in Fairlee, Vermont
Thursday, April 25, 2019 on VPR Classical
Sunday, April 28, 2019 in Saint Albans, Vermont
Sunday, May 19, 2019 in Plainfield, Vermont
Our new program of German chamber music by Johannes Brahms, Robert & Clara Schumann delves into one of the most intriguing musical love triangles through letters and music.
Heliand Consort explores three of the greatest musical minds of the Romantic Era. Through the letters and music of Brahms and the Schumanns, you'll enjoy a glimpse into their tragic and beautiful story of love, friendship and art. The program includes Robert Schumann’s "Romances for Oboe and Piano," Brahms "Sonata for Piano and Clarinet," and songs by Clara Schumann.
Selected letters are read by Jim Stapleton, Diana Bigelow, and Patrick Evans.
We invite you to unearth your old love letters and bring them, or submit them in advance, for possible inclusion (anonymously, of course!) during the concert.