Winchendon Music Festival celebrates 10th anniversary

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Winchendon Music Festival, founded by alumnus Andrew Arceci (Magdalen, 2011), is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The programme once again features folk collective Floyds Row, an ensemble which was founded in Oxford and is named after the street which runs alongside the Faculty of Music. The festival takes place in Winchendon, MA, and is a non-profit organisation, relying on individuals, businesses, and grants to sustain the events, which are all free to the community. See below for a list of all events: 

 

Arpeggione Ensemble (classical)

Saturday, May 31 - 7pm

Murdock-Whitney House (151 Front St. Winchendon, MA 01475)

Ludwig van Beethoven's Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20, performed by Thomas Carroll (clarinet), Elisabeth Axtell (horn), Sally Merriman (bassoon), Rebecca Nelson (violin), Anna Griffis (viola), Cullen O'Neil (cello), and Andrew Arceci (bass). More information: https://www.arpeggione-ensemble.com

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John Arcaro & Band (jazz)

Monday, June 2 - 7pm

Murdock-Whitney House (151 Front St. Winchendon, MA 01475)

Berklee College of Music professor, John Arcaro, leads a program of works from the "Great American Songbook", complemented by contemporary jazz compositions.

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Duo Sorolla: Ismar Gomes, cello & Wan-Chi Su, piano (classical)

Tuesday, June 3 - 7pm

Murdock-Whitney House (151 Front St. Winchendon, MA 01475)

Works by Reynaldo Hahn de Echenagucia (1874-1947), Constantino Vicente Gaito (1878-1945), Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Gaspar Cassadó i Moreu (1897-1966), and Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (1921-1992). More information: https://www.duosorolla.com

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DOUBLE BILL: Chris Moyse, singer-songwriter & Floyds Row (folk/newgrass)

Friday, October 3 - 7pm

The Flower Shop (172 Central St. Winchendon, MA 01475)

Chris Moyse, singer-songwriter: https://chrismoysemusic.com

Folk collective, Floyds Row, explores the connections among early, classical, folk, newgrass, and world genres--works arranged and/or composed by Hailey Fuqua (soprano), Asako Takeuchi (violin), Jacques Lee Wood (violoncello & banjo), Andrew Arceci (bass & mandolin), George Lykogiannis (accordion & piano), and Mike Williams (percussion).

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Worcester Jazz Orchestra (jazz)

Saturday, October 4 - 2pm

Winchendon Amphitheater (86 Ingleside Dr. Winchendon, MA 01475) 

Ever popular, the big band plays works by Glenn Miller (1904-c.1944), Buddy Rich (1917-1987), and others.

Professor Naomi Waltham Smith

In concert: how shared wonder opens our minds

How can shared experiences of music, art and natural beauty expand our imagination and help us better understand each other? Professor Naomi Waltham-Smith explores how moments of shared aesthetic attention can amplify our sense of curiosity and wonder, bringing our imaginative lives into our relationships with others.
Professor Peter Asimov

Professor Peter Asimov awarded SMT Emerging Scholar Award

Professor Asimov's article 'The Melakartas and the ‘République Modale’: Naturalizing Indian Scales in French Musical Modernism' wins the Emerging Scholar Award at this year's Society for Music Theory annual meeting.
Professor Nomi Dave

Listening to the Law research network

Professor Nomi Dave is co-directing a new research network, with Professor Nicole Stremlau (Faculty of Law) and Dr Tareeq Jalloh (Faculty of Philosophy). The network, Listening to the Law, is funded through TORCH for three years. It brings together academics, students, legal practitioners, artists, and others working on questions of sound and the law. To join the network or attend events, please email listening.law@torch.ox.ac.uk