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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 2025 program of four concerts on the four Mondays of August features two string quartets, a brass quintet, and a medieval quartet of singers, harp, fiddle, and lute.
We are also offering a special concert in October, when world-renowned bassist Avery Sharpe with return to reprise his composition “I Am My Neighbor’s Keeper.”
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 4, 2025, 7 p.m. Music from the Middle Ages. The Boston-based vocal ensemble Blue Heron will present “A French Songbook, c. 1350–1470, from Machaut to Ockeghem,” with singers Sophie Michaux and Jason McStoots along with Charles Weaver on lute and Scott Metcalfe on harp and fiddle.
August 11, 2025, 7 p.m. The Ying Quartet: Robin Scott and Janet Ying, violins; Phillip Ying, viola; David Ying, cello. They will perform Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 2; Derek Bermel’s Songs of Nameless Ancestors; Antonín Dvořák’s String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, “American.”
August 18, 2025, 7 p.m. The Verona Quartet: Jonathan Ong and Dorothy Ro, violins; Abigail Rojansky, viola; Jonathan Dormand, cello. They will perform Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet in G Major; a suite of American jazz standards: Duke Ellington’s “Cotton Club Stomp,” Donald Heywood’s “I’m Coming Virginia,” Bix Beiderbecke’s “In the Dark,” Vincent Youmans’s “Tea for Two”; Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 9.
August 25, 2025, 7 p.m. The Hartford Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet: John Charles Thomas and Alison Marseglia, trumpets; Barbara Hill, horn; Brian Diehl, trombone; Jarrod Briley, tuba. Victor Ewald’s Quintet #3 and works of Reena Esmail, Gwyneth Walker, and Eric Ewaz
October 3, 2025, 7 p.m. Avery Sharpe Ensemble: Avery Sharpe will return with his double quartet (string quartet, double bass, piano, percussion, African drums) to reprise his composition “I Am My Neighbor’s Keeper.”
PLAINFIELD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
356 West Main Street (Rt. 116) • Plainfield, MA 01070
This program is supported in part by grants from local cultural councils, which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
