Upcoming Events
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
7:30 pm • Women and the Vote for Saxophone
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
100TH ANNIVERSARY MEMORIAL CONCERT - ELISE HALL (1853-1924)
Featuring the NEC Saxophone Ensemble directed by Ken Radnofsky
Works by: Francine Trester, Florence Price, Charles Martin Loeffler, Julia Perry, Fernande Decruck, Joan Tower and Stacy Garrop
Pre-Concert Lecture on the Legacy of Elise Hall with Dr. Kurt Bertels, Keller Room, 6:30 pm
Sunday, November 24, 2024
7:30 pm • Kenneth Radnofsky, Saxophone
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory Faculty Recital
"A QUESTION OF IDENTITY"
World Premieres of Works by Francine Trester and David Amram
Premiere of Trester's "Neshot Hayil" with Carrie Cheron, voice,
Francine Trester, violin, Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone, Ziang Yin, piano
Program to also include Erwin Schulhoff ‘Hot-Sonate,’ Ravel
‘Kaddish,’ Scott Joplin ‘Bethena Waltz,’
Stravinsky ‘Three Pieces’ for Clarinet Solo and Eric Dolphy
‘Improvisations’ on Billie Holiday/Arthur Herzog ‘God
Bless the Child’(transcribed Roger Jannotta)
Free and Open to the Public
Sunday, November 2, 2024
6 - 9 pm • 12th annual Benefit Concert:
An evening of classical music with world renowned musicians
With the Eleuthera Trio - all proceeds benefit the Vietnam Vascular Anomalies Center
Francine Trester, violin, Julie Reimann, cello, Lois Shapiro, piano
Maliotis Cultural Center, 50 Goddard Avenue, Brookline, MA 02445
Sunday, November 2, 2024
2 pm • In the Spirit of Brahms
Pianist Lois Shapiro and Violinist Francine Trester at Lasell
Brahms Sonatas plus Trester's "Treasury Notes"
Margaret Ward, reader
House Concert to benefit FUSN - visit fusn.org for details
Sunday, October 6, 2024
2:30 pm • Providence Mandolin Orchestra
Works by Trester, Kellaris, Bach, Piazzolla and Netsky
Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay State Rd, Rehoboth, MA
General: $25/ Children: $10
Saturday, October 5, 2024
3 pm • Poulenc, Kegelstatt & Dvorak: A PKD Foundation Benefit Concert
Eleuthera Trio: Francine Trester, violin, Juile Reimann, cello, Lois Shapiro, piano
First Unitarian Universalist Society, 1326 Washington Street, Newton, MA
Monday, September 23, 2024
7:30 pm • Berklee Composition Department Faculty Recital; David Friend Recital Hall
Erin Merceruio Nelson, soprano, Eileen Huang, piano
"Three Maybes..." words and music by Francine Trester
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
7:30 pm • NEC Saxophone Ensemble
Couper, Trester, Higdon, Wallace, Barber, Bernstein, Ellington, Garland
Francine Trester - three movements from "Red Sox Blue Sax" (2005)
https://necmusic.edu/events/nec-saxophone-ensemble-couper-trester-higdon-wallace-barber-bernstein-ellington-garland
Monday, March 25, 2024
7:30 pm • Kenneth Radnofsky, Saxophone
New England Conservatory Faculty Recital
Premiere of Trester's "All Points" for Saxophone and Piano Quintet
Words and Music by Francine Trester
https://necmusic.edu/events/faculty-recital-kenneth-radnofsky-saxophone
Friday, March 8, 2024
7:30 pm • Kendall Square Orchestra premieres Trester's "In Her Element"
Words and Music by Francine Trester
Kristo Kondakçi, conductor
With soloists Carrie Cheron, mezzo-soprano, and Erin Merceruio Nelson, soprano
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Saturday, December 2, 2023
6 - 9:30 pm • The Martin Mihm Memorial Concert:
An evening of classical music with world renowned musicians
With the Eleuthera Trio - all proceeds benefit the Vietnam Vascular Anomalies Center
Francine Trester, violin, Julie Reimann, cello, Lois Shapiro, piano
The Maliotis Cultural Center, Hellenic College Holy Cross at 50 Goddard Avenue, Brookline, MA 02445.
Sunday, October 1, 2023
2:00 pm • Fran, Franck, Fiesta!
Francine Trester joins the Kalliope Reed Quintet in a performance of
the complete Franck Sonata (arranged by Raaf Hekkema from the Calefax
Quintet). Plus Kalliope performs Latin American favorites.
Newton Free Library
330 Homer Street Newton, Massachusetts 02459
Free Admission
Friday, September 29, 2023
6:00 pm • Kalliope in Blue
This program is part of the Somerville Museum’s
seasonal exhibit BLUE: the exploration of a color by Martha Friend.
Francine Trester joins the Kalliope Reed Quintet and Mezzo Soprano
Carrie Cheron for a program of works inspired by the color blue.
Includes the world premiere of Trester’s reed quintet version of
her new song cycle "Azure World," a setting of poetry by Alfred
Tennyson.
Additional works by Diedre McKay, Daniel Cueto, Luis Calvo, Joni
Mitchell, and George Gershwin. Admission is $10 and includes museum
admission to the exhibit. Made possible with support from the Somerville Arts Council
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
7:00 pm • Songs of Life
Premiere of Trester’s “Tiger Eye,” commissioned by
Shelter Music Boston for the 2023 Julie Leven Artistic Project; program
also includes "Inside A Haiku" - words by Laurel Lee Lambert, with
Carrie Cheron, mezzo-soprano
Saint Cecilia Parish, 18 Belvidere Street, Boston
Pre-concert interview on GBH's Boston Public Radio, Friday, Sept. 22, 11:30 am -Boston Public Library
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
7:30 pm • Fran and Franck
Selections from Trester's "Azure World" arranged for reed quintet; Carrie Cheron, Mezzo Soprano, Kalliope Reed Quintet,
Trester's "This" for reed quintet,
plus Francine Trester performs the complete Franck Sonata (arranged by Raaf Hekkema from the Calefax Quintet) with Kalliope.
Admission free
Berklee School of Music – David Friend Recital Hall
Saturday, September 16, 2023
7:30 pm • ¡Viva México!
Francine Trester joins the Kalliope Reed quintet in a celebration of
Mexican Independence Day and Hispanic Heritage month. Works by five
different living Mexican composers - plus Francine Trester performs the
complete Franck Sonata (arranged by Raaf Hekkema from the Calefax
Quintet) with Kalliope.
Admission free
In-person/online First Baptist Church Medford
Friday, June 2, 2023
7:30 pm • In the Spirit of Brahms: Part I
Pianist Lois Shapiro and Violinist Francine Trester at Lasell
Brahms Sonatas plus Trester's "Treasury Notes"
Margaret Ward, reader
Free admission
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
7:30 p.m. • Providence Mandolin Orchestra
Works by Trester, Pearl, Kellaris, Almeida, Calace and Wolki
Studio One Rhode Island Dance Complex
$10 - https://www.providencemandolin.org/
Thursday, May 25, 2023
7:30 pm • In the Spirit of Brahms: Part II
Pianist Lois Shapiro and Violinist Francine Trester at Lasell
Brahms Sonatas plus Trester's "Treasury Notes"
Margaret Ward, reader
Free admission
Sunday, May 21, 2023
6:30 p.m. • CST Ellie Lutterman, violin
Trester's 2nd Partita for Solo Violin
Lawrence University
Warch Campus Center
Thursday, April 27, 2023
2:00 pm • Eleuthera Trio at the Newton Free Library
Babajanian Trio in f sharp minor
Bruch Romanian Melody No. 5
Brahms Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8
330 Homer Street Newton, Massachusetts 02459
Free admission
Monday, April 3, 2023
6:30 pm • Providence Mandolin Orchestra
Works by Trester, Pearl (premiere), Almeida (arr. by Armstrong-premiere). Calace, Kellaris and Wolki
Weaver Library, East Providence Public Library
Free and open to all
Sunday, April 2, 2023
3:00 pm • Cherry Street Players
Classical with a Twist - "Women in Time"
Allison - Yoshie Eldredge, cello and Yoshie Akimoto, piano perform Trester's "Song Without Words"
Markus Placci,violin performs selections from Trester's "Partita No. 2" for unaccompanied violin
Tickets: $25, Students (under 18): $5
Newton Cultural Alliance/The Allen Center
35 Webster Street, West Newton
https://newtonculture.org/cherry-street-players/
Sunday, April 2, 2023
2:00 pm • Eleuthera Trio at First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton
Babajanian Trio in f sharp minor
Bruch Romanian Melody No. 5
Brahms Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8
TICKETS: $50 (Contact Pat Rohan: jprohan@verizon.net)
*All proceeds donated to First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
7:30 pm • Eleuthera Trio at Brookhaven
Babajanian Trio in f sharp minor
Bruch Romanian Melody No. 5
Brahms Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
11:00 am and 7:00 pm • Shelter Music Boston
Voices of Hope - Public Concerts
Trester's "In A Haiku" - a setting of Laurel Lee Lambert's poetry
Featuring SMB musicians and collaborators, and the Black Seed Writers Group
The 2022 Julie Leven Artistic Project
Cathedral Church of St. Paul
138 Tremont St., Boston
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
12:00 pm • Philadelphia Viola Society
Women's Day Virtual concert
Selections from Trester's "The Violists In My Life"
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB8mT0P7IuXqHqoGgsAuFtQ
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
7:30 pm • The Azure World
Works by Dr. Francine Trester
David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music
With: Carrie Cheron, Lois Shaprio, David Wallace, Consuelo Sherba,
Scott Woolweaver, Francine Trester (violin/viola), Kristen Watson and
Eric Sawyer
Saturday, March 4, 2023
9:45 am • Crescent Arts Center, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Anselm McDonnell, guitar
Program includes Trester's "My Darling's Slumber"
Thursday, November 17, 2022
5:30 pm • Catching Dreams
Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar
Upham’s Corner Branch of the Boston Public Library
Music by: Laurie Spiegel, Anthony Green, Jim Dalton, Michael Veloso, John Johnstone, and Francine Trester
Saturday, October 22nd, 2022
6 - 9:30 pm • The Martin Mihm Memorial Concert:
An evening of classical music with world renowned musicians
With the Eleuthera Trio - all proceeds benefit the Vietnam Vascular Anomalies Center
Francine Trester, violin, Julie Reimann, cello, Lois Shapiro, piano
First Church 66 Marlborough St, Boston, MA 02116
Saturday, October 1, 2022
3 pm • Boston Classical Guitar Society Presents:
The Providence Mandolin Orchestra
Includes Trester's "Three Movements for Mandolin Orchestra"
Multipurpose Room, 138 Tufts Library - 46 Broad Street
Weymouth, MA 02188
Sunday, September 25, 2022
3 pm • The New York Chamber Music Festival
Christ & St. Stephen's Church 120 W. 69th St., New York City
MUSIC FROM SIX CENTURIES (16th - 21st C.)
Artists: HOWARD WALL, horn (formerly with The New York Philharmonic and
The Philadelphia Orchestra), ELMIRA DARVAROVA, violin (Grammy-nominated
concert violinist; former Concertmaster, The Metropolitan Opera),
With the participation of composer and poet FRANCINE TRESTER, Professor
of Composition at Berklee College (world-premiere of Trester’s
duo for violin & horn “Prohodna”). For tickets:
info@newyorkchambermusicfestival.org
Saturday, September 24, 2022
8 pm • Performance of Trester’s Chamber Opera “Florence Comes Home”
"I Hear America Singing" - Aurea Ensemble; St. Paul's, Pawtucket
With: Aurea Ensemble and vocalists Carrie Cheron, Brianna Robinson and RaShaun Campbell
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
7:30 pm • Berklee Composition Department Faculty Recital; David Friend Recital Hall
Carrie Cheron, voice, Francine Trester, violin, Eileen Huang, piano
Selections from Trester’s “Universal Orlando"
Sunday, September 18, 2022
3 pm • Eleuthera Trio performs at First Unitarian Society of Newton
Francine Trester, violin, Julie Reimann, piano, Lois Shapiro, piano
$25 adults, $15 students, $65 discounted family of 4
Proceeds to benefit Doctors Without Borders
Thursday, September 15, 2022
7:30 pm • Eleuthera Trio performs at Lasell
Francine Trester, violin, Julie Reimann, piano, Lois Shapiro, piano
Free admission
September 10, 2022
2 pm • Amherst College: Five College New Music Festival
Premiere of Trester’s “Parentheticals” for two violins
Presented by Amherst College Composition and String Department
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
6:00 pm Reception; 6:30 Program • Annual Music and Meaning Concert Celebration
Shelter Music Boston
Selections from SMB’s 2022 Julie Leven Artistic Project, “Voices of Hope”
The Garden at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA
Sunday, August 14, 2022
4 pm • Boston Conservatory Room T401
Animals Like Us - an afternoon of premieres:
"The Violists in My Life" and "Companion Tales" by Francine Trester; "Animal Songs" and "Day by Dawn" by Eric Sawyer
Francine Trester, violin/viola, Eric Sawyer, piano, Kristen Watson, soprano
Texts by the composers; visual art by Trester
Friday, July 8, 2022
7:30 pm • Boston Summer Singers - "Songs of Peace and Love"
Luca Antonucci, Director
With guests Dave McLellan, guitar and Lois Shapiro, piano
Includes Trester's "Dreamcatcher"
Church of the Covenant - 67 Newbury St Boston
Suggested donation $20 to benefit the Women's Lunch Place
Sunday, June 26, 2022
7:00 pm • Providence Mandolin Orchestra
"For Plucked Strings and Recorders"
Includes Trester's "Three Movements for Mandolin Orchestra"
$10 - https://www.providencemandolin.org/
Friday, May 27, 2022
4:30 pm • Nights Transfigured - Music of the New Lullaby Project
Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar; includes Trester's "My Darling's Slumber"
Kirkland Art Center - Community Residency Concert
https://www.kacny.org/residencies
Saturday, May 7, 2022
8 pm • In the Spirit of Brahms
The Lilypad, Inman Square
https://www.lilypadinman.com
Pianist Lois Shapiro and Violinist Francine Trester
All three Brahms Sonatas plus the premiere of Trester's "Treasury Notes"
$15
All proceeds benefit Birthday Wishes - https://birthdaywishes.org/
Sunday, May 1, 2022
3 pm • Of Beasts and Brutes
Mirror Visions Ensemble
Syrinx Concerts Toronto
Music by Franicine Trester, Scott Wheeler, Christopher Berg and more
syrinxconcerts.ca/tickets-and-subscriptions/
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
7:30 pm • New England Conservatory: Jordan Hall
Premiere of Trester's "Her Lines"
Saxophone Ensemble Concert
Sunday, April 3, 2022
8 pm • Merkin Hall, NYC
Mirror Visions Ensemble premieres Trester’s “A Fable for Tomorrow"
Friday, April 1, 2022
7:30 pm • First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, Arlington, MA
Kalliope Reed Quintet performs "This"
Words and music by Francine Trester; commissioned by
the Boston Woodwind Society
Works by Jenni Brandon, Miguel del Aguila, Daniel Cueto, Bach
Sunday, March 20, 2022
2:30 pm • Forest Park Public Library, Forest Park, IL
"More Than Muses"
Sapphire Woodwind Quintet showcases music composed by women throughout
history - featured are living composers such as Alexandra
Molnar-Suhajda, Francine Trester, and Amy Riebs Mills.
Saturday, March 19, 2022
7:30 pm • Cape Cod Cultural Center, Yarmouth MA
Kalliope Reed Quintet performs "This"
Words and music by Francine Trester; commissioned by
the Boston Woodwind Society
Works by Becky Turro and Jenni Brandon
Monday, February 21, 2022
7 pm • Boston Landmarks Orchestra
Streaming of Trester's "A Walk In Her Shoes"
With Carrie Cheron and Brianna Robinson, vocal soloists
https://www.youtube.com/user/LandmarksOrchestra
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
8 pm • Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Sharan Leventhal annual studio recital
Trester's "Dualities" for two violins; words and music by the composer
Friday, October 22, 2021
8 pm • The 42nd Annual Bowling Green New Music Festival Bowling Green State University – Kobacker Hall
Michael Hall, viola and Marianne Parker, piano
Francine Trester's "The Daniel Burnham Suite;" program also includes
music by Pierce Gradone, Augusta Read Thomas, Sharon Hartanto, Stacy
Garrop and Michelle McQuade Dewhirst
https://www.bgsu.edu/musical-arts/maccm/new-music-festival.html
Concerts will be streamed live:
youtube.com/bgsumusic
Sunday, October 3, 2021
11 am • Chicago Ear Taxi Festival
City Beautiful: featuring Laurel Black, Michael Hall, Megan Ihnen, and Marianne Parker
Premiere of Francine Trester's "The Daniel Burnham Suite"
https://www.eartaxifestival.com/mainstage
Sunday, October 3, 2021
4 pm • Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University
Mirror Visions: This Land Is Ours
https://chapel.syracuse.edu/programs/events/music-message/
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
7:30 pm • Berklee Composition Department Faculty Concert
Cellist Mickey Katz plays miniatures by Francine Trester, Marti Epstein
and Andrew List; works by Larry Thomas Bell, Beth Denisch, Ann
Goldberg-Baldwin, Margaret Mcallister, and Orlando Cela performs music
by Robert Dick
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
7 pm • Boston Landmarks Orchestra premieres "A Walk In Her Shoes"
Words and music by Francine Trester; commissioned by
BLO; recipient of a Berklee Faculty Fellowship
With Carrie Cheron and Brianna Robinson, vocal soloists
DCR's Hatch Memorial Shell
https://www.landmarksorchestra.org/concerts/rhapsody-american/
Saturday, July 10,2021
7 pm • Kalliope Reed Quintet premieres "This"
Words and music by Francine Trester; commissioned by
the Boston Woodwind Society
New City Church, Newton
Admission free
https://kalliopereedquintet.com/events/?fbclid=IwAR3E7uLk66HGTqnUZ4G_LM_knSXaMrUEhKSpYz5Wx5bl38ZoaU7sp0Qwyrg
Saturday, May 29, 2021
4 pm • David McLellan, guitar
"An Exquisite Sandwich - Lush Beauty and Exhilaration"
Groupmuse $3 registration
http://grpm.us/2BmtZg
Friday, May 21, 2021
8 pm • Recital: Pauline Tan
Bard College Conservatory
Sections from Trester's "Nahant Calling"
Thursday, May 13, 2021
6:30 pm • Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar
Jacob Edwards Library of Southbridge, MA
Admission free
Register: https://umassboston.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlf-ugqjstE924BYBgAqcskx-f5dhV6wHP
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/184161286755996
Sunday, May 9, 2021
3 pm • "Music She Wrote: Songs By and About Women"
Vocal selections with Grace Allendorf, Carrie Cheron, Brianna Robinson
Featuring pianist Timothy Steele and additional vocalists from the Boston Area
A one-hour benefit concert to raise money for Rosie's Place, a women's shelter in Boston
Livestream - one per device, $10
https://www.sparrowlive.com/event-details/music-she-wrote-songs-by-and-about-wome
Monday, May 3, 2021
4 pm • Recital: David Smyth
Longy School of Music
Selections from Trester's "Bus 66"
https://vimeo.com/538209606
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
8:30 pm • Boston Neighborhood Network airs "Around Town"
Featuring Trester's "Voices from the Boston Women's Memorial"
With singers Carrie Cheron, Brianna Robinson and violinist Francine Trester
Sponsored by BNN and the Boston Women's Heritage Trail
WATCH Around Town
BNN News & Information | Xfinity Channel 9 | RCN Channel 15 | Fios Channel 2161 | Streamed live on bnnmedia.org
Sunday, April 25, 2021
1 pm • Graduate Recital: Nathalie Mejia
Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College
Trester's "Patricia's Aria" for trumpet and piano
http://events.ithaca.edu/event/graduate_recital_nathalie_mejia_trumpet
Concert/Recital
Sunday, March 21, 2021
10 am • Boston Women's Memorial
Singers Carrie Cheron and Brianna Robison, and violinist Francine Trester premiere Trester's "Voices from the Women's Memorial"
Presentation from the Mayor's Office of Women's Advancement
In collaboration with Michelle Jenney and the Boston Women's Heritage Trail
https://bwht.org/
Sunday, February 14, 2021
7 pm • Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez
Jorge Hoyo, saxophone and Sergio Solis perform Trester's "Reminiscence" (México premiere)
Link to performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2swjbOYAJzQ&feature=youtu.be
Sunday, December 5, 2020
7 pm • Solidarity Salon: Virtual Version!
Music, stories and poetry
With Elizabeth Anker, Contralto
Trester's "Thaw" and improvisation
https://www.facebook.com/events/404040077299164
Sunday, November 22, 2020
7:30 pm • Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music
NEC Saxophone Ensemble and Quartet: Schuller, Trester, & Pierné
Trester's "Red Sox Blue Sax"
https://necmusic.edu/events/nec-saxophone-ensemble-quartet-schuller-trester-pierne
Sunday, November 15, 2020
1 pm • Boston New Music Festival
Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar performs compositions from his forthcoming
albums and anthology "Nights Transfigured;" includes Trester's "Lullaby
For Our Time"
https://umassboston.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pcOmoqT4uG9Q5K5XbjtJQvI1gWOdAYEFq
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
8 pm • Boston New Music Festival
Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar performs compositions from his forthcoming
albums and anthology "Nights Transfigured;" includes Trester's "Lullaby
For Our Time"
https://umassboston.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuc-usqzkjEtdNUXI_PIPBCX8sncdMka6p
Sunday, October 4, 2020 POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
7:30 pm • Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Elmira Darvarova, "From Bach to Blues"
Violin recital includes works by Trester; Presented by the New York Chamber Music Festival
Saturday, August 22, 2020
8:00 pm • "In the Spirit of Brahms:” a
recital of all three Brahms Sonatas and the premiere of “Treasury
Notes” by Trester; Francine Trester, Violin, Lois Shapiro, Piano
$15 - proceeds benefit BirthdayWishes https://birthdaywishes.org/
The Lilypad, Cambridge https://www.lilypadinman.com/
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
7:00 pm • Boston
Landmarks Orchestra Hatch Shell/Esplanade premiere of Trester's “A
Walk In Her Shoes,” words and music by Francine Trester; the piece
commemorates the centennial of the passing of the 19th Amendment and is
sponsored by a Berklee Faculty Fellowship; with Carrie Cheron and
Brianna Robinson, vocal soloists
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
6:30 • BU Tanglewood Institute
Trinity Church, 88 Walker Street, Lenox, MA
Kenneth Radnofsky, Saxophone BUTI Faculty Recital
Trester's "Street Views" and "Reminiscences"
With Yoshiko Kline and Thomas Weaver, piano, Francine Trester, violin
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
9:00 pm • New Music Gathering
Facebook Livestream/Broadcast
https://www.facebook.com/newmusicgathering/live_videos/
Trester's
"Lullaby for Our Time;” written for and premiered by Guitarist Aaron
Larget- Caplan; with visual artist Laura Sofia Perez;
works by Scott Wheeler, Ken Ueno, Stefanie Lubkowski, and Jacob Masha
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
7 pm * Providence Arts Festival, Providence Public Library
Aurea Ensemble presents Trester's "Florence Comes Home"
a chamber opera about legendary composer Florence Price
Performed by Aurea Ensemble with Brianna Robinson, Carrie Cheron, and Shaun Campbell
Commissioned by Shelter Music Boston
Sunday, May 24, 2020
7:30 pm • “Night Transfigured:” afternoon and
evening Groupmuse premiere performances of “Lullaby for Our Time;”
written for and premiered by Guitarist Aaron Larget- Caplan; with
visual artist Laura Sofia Perez
Sunday, May 17, 2020
3 pm • Free Sunday Series at the Rivers School Conservatory
Artist-in-Residence Lois Shapiro, piano
Gabriela Diaz, violin
Kristen Wilson, soprano
Kindred Spirits: Music of Ravel, Faure, Sawyer and Trester
Monday, April 13, 2020
7:30 pm • Fran and Marti's Violin and Piano Extravaganza
Marti Epstein, piano, Francine Trester, violin
Mozart: e minor sonata, K. 304
Trester: "Universal Orlando" - words and music by the composer - with Carrie Cheron, mezzo
Cage: "Six Melodies"
Epstein: "The Road to Vermillion"
David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music
Monday, March 23, 2020
6:30 • The Music Mansion, 88 Meeting Street Providence, RI 02906
Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan and violist Michael Hall
features duos by Francine Trester, John Anthony Lennon, Darleen
Mitchell, Antonio Celso Ribeiro, and Thomas L. Read, and 'Steps &
Leaps' by Tom Flaherty for guitar & computer.
Information & Tickets: https://nowmusiqueprovidence.bpt.me
Reserved seating: $20
General seating: $20 Suggested donation.
No one will be turned away (unless full).
Sunday, March 22, 2020
7: 30 pm • Arlington Street Church, Chapel, 351 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Trester's "Borrowed Blue" for guitar and viola
Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan and violist Michael Hall
Concert also features viola solos by Alice Shields, David Froom, Mattew
Delacey Davidson, guitar solos by David Liptak and Barabar Jazwinski,
duos by John Anthony Lennon, Darleen Mitchell, Antonio Celso Ribeiro,
and Thomas L. Read, and the world premiere of 'Steps & Leaps' by
Tom Flaherty for guitar & computer.
VIP Tickets are available and include a CD or album download of choice.
Saturday, March 21, 2020
7 pm • Solidarity Salon
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston Street, Boston MA (Copley Square)
Featuring:
Liz Anker, Jennifer Barber, Toni Bee, Judah Leblang, Lauren Leja,
Lee Okan, In Paik, Renuka Raghavan, Francine Trester, Anna Warrock
Saturday, March 21, 2020
7:30 pm • OPERA America's National Opera Center, 330 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001
The American Composers Alliance sponsors two concerts in New York
City. Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan performs with violist Michael
Hall for concerts of living composers.
Music by Barbara Jazwinsi, Thomas Flaherty*, Thomas L. Read*, Francine
Trester, David Liptak, John Anthony Lennon, Darleen Mitchel and more.
*premiere
operaamerica.org • (212) 796-8630
Sunday, February 23, 2020
3:00 pm • Grant Recital Hall, Brown University
1 Young Orchard Avenue, Providence, United States
Trester's "Florence Comes Home"
a chamber opera about legendary composer Florence Price
Performed by Aurea Ensemble with Brianna Robinson, Carrie Cheron, and Shaun Campbell
Commissioned by Shelter Music Boston
Monday, February 3, 2020
7:30 pm • Berklee Composition Department Faculty Concert
Trester's "Street Views" - words and music by the composer
Francine Trester, violin, Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone, Thomas Weaver, piano
Sunday, February 2, 2020
8:00 pm • Kenneth Radnofsky Faculty Recital
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone, Yoshiko Kline, piano
Trester's "Reminiscence" for saxophone and piano; words and music by the composer
www.necmusic.edu
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
7 pm • Hurd Hall at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Mirror Visions: This Land Is Ours
600 N Wolfe St Baltimore, MD
Sunday, January 19, 2020
2 pm • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Hartford, CT
Mirror Visions: This Land Is Ours
Concert preceded by a 1:15 tour of Afrocosmologies: American Reflections
https://www.thewadsworth.org/afrocosmologies-american-reflections/
Tickets $20-$25
Sunday, November 24th, 2019
3 pm • Faneuil Hall, 1 Faneuil Hall Square
"Nights, Streets and Serious Things"
Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Society performs
Trester's "Street Views"
Steven Lipsitt, conductor
Elmira Darvarova, violin, Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone
https://bbbsociety.org/event/nights-streets-and-serious-strings/
Thursday, October 17, 2019
6 pm • Pine Manor College, 400 Heath St., Chestnut Hill, MA
"Florence Comes Home"
a chamber opera about legendary composer Florence Price
Libretto and music by Francine Trester
Commissioned and Premiered by Shelter Music Boston
https://www.sheltermusicboston.org/special-project-florence-price.html
Performed as part of SMB's Annual Gala
Additional Performance Schedule:
Monday, October 14, 2019
7:30 pm • Berklee Composition Department Faculty Concert
Trester's "Street Views" - words and music by the composer
Francine Trester, violin, Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone, Thomas Weaver, piano
Sunday, October 6th, 2019
8:00 pm • Kenneth Radnofsky Faculty Recital
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone, Yoshiko Kline, piano
Trester's "Reminiscence" for saxophone and piano; words and music by the composer
https://necmusic.edu/events/kenneth-radnofsky-faculty-recital-0
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
7:30 pm • Guest Artist Concert
Bezanson Hall, UMass Amherst
Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone, Yoshiko Kline, piano
Trester's "Reminiscence" for saxophone and piano; words and music by the composer
works by Creston, Grofe, and Schuller
https://www.umass.edu/music/event/guest-artist-concert-kenneth-radnofsky-saxophone
Saturday, September 21, 2019
7 pm • French Cultural Center of Boston
53 Marlborough St.
https://frenchculturalcenter.org/
Members: $14; Non-Members: $24
Chants de l’amour et de la nature
American artists baritone Matthew Hoch and guitarist Aaron
Larget-Caplan present an Art Song recital by French and American
composers, including the world premiere of Trester's "Mineral Spirits,"
words and music by the composer.
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Begins a series of 50 world-wide premieres of "Reminiscence,"
for alto sax and piano. In memory of Darryl Malone and commissioned by
World-Wide Concurrent Premieres and Commissioning Fund, Inc.
Participating Performers: Phil Barham, Kenny Baik, Jorge Hoyo, Ed
Orgill, Kenneth Tse, Preston Duncan, Julia Nolan, Wallace Halladay,
Chien-Kwan Lin, Marie-Chantal Leclair, Jan Berry Baker, Matthew
Sintchak, Pei-Yen Huang, Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, Bob Jones, Carrie
Koffman, Jennifer Bill, Geoff Landman, Randall Hall, Jon Amon, Amy
McGlothlin, Kangyi Liu, Greg Ridlington, John Rabinowitz, Jeremy Brown,
George Weremchuk, Lannah Fitzgerald, Samuel Lorber, Scott Plugge, Clint
Schmitt, Claude Delangle, David Stambler, Dennis Shafer, Kristine Gray,
Andy Wilds, Bennett Parsons, Michael Ethier, Gail Levinsky, David
Demsey, Clifford Leaman, Michael Couper, David Henderson, Nate
Jorgensen, Dave Wozniak, Mark Kraszewski, Benjamin Sorrell, Sean Mix,
Emily Cox, Merryl Goldberg, Ken Radnofsky
Kenneth Radnofsky performs "Reminiscence:"
Sept. 19 Shanghai conservatory. 2nd Asian Saxophone Congress
Sept. 21 Vermont International Academy, Guangzhou, China
Saturday, September 7, 2019
7:30 pm • Five College New Music Festival 2019
Bezanson Hall, UMass Amherst
Selections from Trester's "An Oman Odyssey"'
Junko Watanabe, soprano, William Hite, tenor, Hiromi Fukuda, piano
http://www.5cnmf.org/
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
6:30 • BU Tanglewood Institute
Trinity Church, 88 Walker Street, Lenox, MA
Kenneth Radnofsky, Saxophone BUTI Faculty Recital
Trester's "Street Views"
With Francine Trester, violin and Thomas Weaver, piano
tanglewd@bu.edu
Saturday, June 15, 2019
7 pm • Nahant Town Hall
Premiere of Trester's chamber opera, "Keepers of the Light"
Libretto and Music by Francine Trester
Stage directed by Joshua Major
Music directed by Timothy Steele
Featuring the 2019 Donald R. Wilkinson Vocal Apprentices
Nahant Music Festival Chorus directed by Eric Christopher Perry
https://www.nahantmusicfestival.org/
Sunday, April 28, 2019
3 pm • First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton
Premiere of Trester's "Sekelela" for Choir and Piano Trio
With the Triple Helix Piano Trio
Communities Without Borders Concert
1326 Washington Street, Newton MA
Saturday, April 27, 2019
2:30 pm • Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Louvre)
Mirror Visions Ensemble: This Land is Ours
107 rue de Rivoli
Paris, France
www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/en/
Saturday, April 13, 2019
7 pm • Arlington Street Church, Chapel, 351 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Premiere of Trester's "Borrowed Blue"
Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan debuts his curated series "Now Musique"
Guest artist Michael Hall, viola
New works written for the duo by Antonio Celoso Ribeiro (Brazil), Samuel Adler, plus solos for guitar and viola
Admission: TBA
Saturday, April 13, 2019
5 pm • Roeliff Jansen Community Library in Hillsdale, NY
Mirror Visions Ensemble: This Land is Ours
Sunday, March 31, 2019
5 pm • Sheen Center in New York, NY
Mirror Visions Ensemble: This Land is Ours
A sung celebration of urban, suburban, and rural life - its moods,
landscapes and sounds. Featured is music by immigrants (Kurt
Weill, Paul Hindemith, Hanns Eisler, and rich Korngold), women (Ruth
Crawford Seeger, Francine Trester), and African Americans (Adolphus
Hailstork, Brittney Boykin, Florence Price and Leslie Adams), as well
as by classic American composers (Charles Ives, Leonard Bernstein,
Samuel Barber, and Pete Seeger).
Abigail Levis, mezzo-soprano
Scott Murphree, tenor
Mischa Bouvier, baritone
Grant Wenaus, piano
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
8 pm • Samantha Stiner, contralto, Gregory DiBona, piano
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Dublin, Ohio
Selections from Trester's "Domestic Affairs"
Thursday, January 24, 2019
7:00 pm • Berklee Composition Department Faculty Concert (note time change from 7:30 pm to 7:00 pm)
Trester: An Oman Odyssey (cycle of original words and music; inspired
by the etchings of reclusive artist Sheridan Oman of the American
Southwest)
Performed by the Mirror Visions Ensemble
Justine Aronson, soprano
Scott Murphree, tenor
Mischa Bouvier, baritone
Sara Kohane, piano
Sunday, January 20, 2019
5:30 pm • House for an Art Lover
10 Dumbreck Rd
Glasgow, G41 5BW
Scotland, UK
Mirror Visions Ensemble: Of Beasts and Brutes
Mireille Asselin/soprano, Scott Murphree/tenor, Mischa Bouvier/baritone, Margaret Kampmeier/pianist
Selections from Trester's "An Oman Odyssey" (words and music by the composer)
http://www.phas.org.uk/concerts-2018-19/mirror-visions-ensemble/
Thursday, January 17, 2019
7:30 pm • Welshpool Music Club
Mirror Visions Ensemble: Of Beasts and Brutes
Welshpool Music Club in Welshpool, Wales
Sunday, January 13, 2019
5 pm • American Church in Paris
Mirror Visions Ensemble: Of Beasts and Brutes
65 Quai d'OrsayParis, Île-de-France, 75007 France
Saturday, January 12, 2019
7:30 pm • The Lilypad
Trester's "Israfel" for violin and piano and "Artsonia" for voice, violin and piano (words and music by the composer)
Artwork by Chloe Carrano
Francine Trester, violin, Eric Sawyer, piano, Kristen Watson, soprano
www.lilypadinman.com
Sunday, September 30, 2018
8:00 pm • Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
Amram Ensemble premieres Trester's "Street Views"
Accompanying poetry by the composer
Elmira Darvarova, violin, Ken Radnofsky, saxophone, Thomas Weaver, piano
Premiere of Joan Tower's "Second Flight;" David Amram's "Greenwich
Village Portraits;" video by Conrad Kline; with pianist Yoshiko Kline
https://necmusic.edu/events/kenneth-radnofsky-faculty-recital
Sunday, August 26, 2018
3:00 pm • Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst, MA
Premieres: Trester's "Israfel" for violin and piano and "Artsonia" for voice, violin and piano (words and music by the composer)
Artwork by Chloe Carrano
Francine Trester, violin, Eric Sawyer, piano, Kristen Watson, soprano
Friday, August 24, 2018
7:30 pm • Boston Conservatory Room T401
Premieres: Trester's "Israfel" for violin and piano and "Artsonia" for voice, violin and piano (words and music by the composer)
Artwork by Chloe Carrano
Francine Trester, violin, Eric Sawyer, piano, Kristen Watson, soprano
Shelter Music Boston collaborative project: "Water for My Soul"
Trester's "In Our Own Words"
Text by SMB audience members
Julie Leven, violin
Jennie Dorris, marimba
Project also includes works by Yu-Hui Chang and Danielle Williams
Performance Schedule
| Sunday, August 19, 2018 |
Lifebridge, Salem |
8:00 PM |
| Monday, August 20, 2018 |
PSI Women's, Boston |
7:00 PM |
| Tuesday, August 21, 2018 |
Caspar Shelter, Cambridge |
6:00 PM |
| Wednesday, August 22, 2018 |
Shattuck Stabilization Center |
3:00 PM |
| Wednesday, August 22, 2018 |
PSI Shattuck, Jamaica Plain |
7:00 PM |
| Thursday, August 23, 2018 |
Dimock Women's Center, Roxbury |
7:00 PM |
| Friday, August 24, 2018 |
Dimock Men's Center, Roxbury |
7:00 PM |
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
6:30 pm • Music and Poetry at the Fletch'
Guitar duo Mark and Beverly Davis perform Trester's "Cold Mountain Songs"
Fletcher Memorial Library
257 Main St., Hampton, CT 06247
Thursday, June 14, 2018
1:15 pm • International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, CT.
Guitartist Aaron Larget-Caplan presents "Night Songs of the World"
Music by: Koji Nakano, Milad Yousufi, Stephanie Ann Boyd, Ken Ueno,
Scott Wheeler, Francine Trester, Jim Dalton, Thomas Schuttenhelm,
Thomas L. Read, Ricardo Odriozola, Barnaby Oliver
Friday, May 18, 2018
7:30 pm • Middlebury SongFest
"Wild and Wonderful..." all things natural, seasonal, and romantic
Elizabeth Anker, contralto, Peter Cirka, piano
select songs by Francine Trester
Middlebury Community Music Center
6 Main Street, Middlebury, VT
http://www.middleburysongfest.org/
Thursday, May 10, 2018
6:00 pm • Celebrate Richard Pittman's 20th Year as Music Director of the New England Philharmonic
Sarah Pelletier, soprano and Lois Shapiro, piano perform Trester's "Elemental Emily," a song cycle of poems by Emily Dickinson
An evening of mingling, wine, beer, hors d'oeuvres...and music!
www.eventbrite.com/e/new-england-philharmonic-celebrates-tickets-44836659656
Saturday, April 7, 2018
3:30 pm • Mirror Visions Ensemble: Le bestiaire de monsieur Lalli
Musée des art décoratifs (Louvre)
107 rue de Rivoli
Paris France
Selections from Trester's "An Oman Odyssey"(words and music by the composer)
http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/en/
Saturday, April 7, 2018
7:30 pm • Music at Colby Series - Dawn
Eric Christopher Perry, conductor; Colby College Chorale and Colby Kennebec Choral Society
Trester's
"Walkers with the Dawn" - text by Langton Hughes. Works by Ingari,
Mobley, Thompson, Diemer, Chilcott, Bantock, and Samuel Barber.
Throughout the concert, please peruse original poetic works by students
of Colby College’s Creative Writing Department, found in the foyer of
Lorimer Chapel. Lorimer Chapel / Chapel, Rose and Lounge
http://www.colby.edu
Friday, March 23, 2018
11:00 pm • All Newton Music School
Con Brio Lunch Club
321 Chestnut St., W. Newton
Mockingbird Trio:
Elizabeth Anker, contralto
Scott Woolweaver, viola
John McDonald, piano
Perform:
Howard Frazin: “A Wren” and “Lullaby”
John McDonald: “Equinox,” “The Mockingbird of Mockingbirds,” “From the Fall of the Sparrow”
Francine Trester: “A Field Guide to Backyard Birds”
$30 – Single Tickets
https://allnewtonmusicschool.com/events/conbrio-subscription/
Monday, March 12, 2018
8:00 pm • Mirror Visions Ensemble: Of Beasts and Brutes
Sheen Center's Loreto Theater
18 Bleecker Street
New York NY
Selections from Trester's "An Oman Odyssey"(words and music by the composer)
http://www.mirrorvisions.org/
Sunday, March 11, 2018
3:00 pm • All Newton Music School
Scott’s 60th Birthday
30th Year at All Newton Music School
All Newton Music School
321 Chestnut St., W. Newton
Scott Woolweaver, viola
Guests:
Deborah Boldin, flute
Peter Janson, guitar
Karen Kaderavek, cello
Elizabeth Anker, contralto
John McDonald, piano
Perform:
Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792): Duo in D Major for Flute and Viola
Peter Janson: New Work
John McDonald: New Work
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979): Lullaby for Viola and Cello
Francine Trester: Domestic Affairs
Howard Frazin: Sonata for Viola and Piano
Free Admission
Gala Reception
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
8 pm • Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Sharan Leventhal annual studio concert of new works
Premiere of Trester's "Dualities" for two violins; words and music by the composer
Saturday, February 17, 2018
3:30 pm • Mirror Visions Ensemble: Of Beasts and Brutes
House Concert in Hamden, CT
Selections from Trester's "An Oman Odyssey"(words and music by the composer)
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
12:30 pm * University of Massachusetts
Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan performs solos from his New Lullaby Project
Program includes Trester's "Dreamcatcher"
Saturday, February 3, 2018
2:30 pm • Mirror Visions Ensemble: Of Beasts and Brutes
New York Library for the Performing Arts
Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center
111 Amsterdam Avenue
New York NY
Premiere of selections from Trester's "An Oman Odyssey"(words and music by the composer)
http://www.mirrorvisions.org/
Sunday, November 5, 2017
4:00 pm • Aurea: A Mortal Melody – Music, Poetry & Song Entwined
St. Martin’s Episcopal Church
50 Orchard Av Providence, RI
Admission: $30 / $25 Senior / $8 Student
program includes Trester's “Elemental Emily," a song cycle of poems by Emily Dickinson
Sarah Pelletier, soprano and Lois Shapiro, piano
Works by Loeffler, Debussy and Clarke
With Cheryl Bishkoff, oboe, Katherine Winterstein, violin and Aurea artistic diretor, Consuelo Sherba, viola
Featuring Tina Cane, Rhode Island Poet Laureate
www.aureaensemble.org
Saturday, September 9th, 2017
7:30 pm • Hot off the Press: Samantha Stiner, contralto, Gregory DiBona, piano
Immmaculata University, Pennsylvania on Saturday
Selections from Trester's "Domestic Affairs"
https://www.facebook.com/events/473032169732246/
Saturday, June 3, 2017
7:30 pm • World Premiere Song Cycles:
"Nahant Calling" words and music by Francine Trester
"Audubon's Birds" music by Eddy, Pesci, Sawyer, Spratlin, Torrey,
Trester, and Ying
Donald Wilkinson, baritone, Peggy Pearson, oboe, Martha Moor, harp,
Sheila Kibbe and Tim Steele, piano. Featuring vocal apprentices from
the Nahant Music Festival.
http://www.nahantmusicfestival.org/
St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 248 Nahant Rd, Nahant, MA 01908
Sunday, May 14, 2017
7:00 pm • Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
“Walkers with the Dawn," a Celebration of Langston Hughes for
baritone solo, choir, and orchestra
Robert Honeysucker,
soloist
Commissioned by The Rivers School
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
6:00 pm • Merger Music: a Berklee and Boston Conservatory Collaborative Concert
"Mergings" for violin and viola by Francine Trester
Brahms G major String Sextet No.2, Op. 36
selections from "String Circle" by Kenji Bunch
Berklee & Boston Conservatory faculty performers: Jeremiah-Everard
Barcus, cello, Sara Caswell, violin, Melissa Howe, viola, Rhonda Rider,
cello, Francine Trester, violin, and David Wallace, viola
Boston Conservatory Studio 401, 31 Hemenway Street, 4th Floor, Boston, MA
Saturday, February 25, 2017
1:30 pm • New Lulabies at the ICA
Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan performs solos from his New Lullaby Project
Institute of Contemporary Art, 25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston, 02210
Kids free, Parents free with accompanying child.
www.icaboston.org/ • (617) 478-3100
Pajamas are welcome!!
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
7:30 pm • Merger Music: a Berklee and Boston Conservatory
Collaborative Concert
"Mergings" for violin and viola by Francine Trester (world premiere)
Brahms F major viola quintet
selections from "String Circle" by Kenji Bunch
accompanying choreography by Boston Conservatory dancers
Berklee & Boston Conservatory faculty performers: Sara Caswell,
violin, Melissa Howe, viola, Rhonda Rider, cello, Francine Trester,
violin, and David Wallace, viola
Sunday, May 1, 2016
3:00 pm • The Rivers School
Conservatory
“The Emerging Self Series"
Sarah Pelletier, Soprano
Lois Shapiro, Piano
Pre-Concert Talk at 2 p.m.
“My Business is to Sing: Giving Voice to Poetry of Emily
Dickinson”
Song Cycles by Francine Trester, Bauer, Copland, and Sawyer
Saturday, April 9, 2016
8:00 pm • Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music
“A Robert Lowry Reader," a song cycle on texts by Robert Lowry
Commissioned by Jayne West
Leanne Estabrook, soprano
Monday, April 4, 2016
6:30 pm • Berk Recital Hall at Berklee College of Music
“Elemental Emily," a song cycle of poems by Emily Dickinson
Commissioned by Lois Shapiro and Sarah Pelletier
Sarah Pelletier, soprano and Lois Shapiro, piano
Presented as part of Berklee College of Music’s Composition
Department’s second annual Words and Music Festival
Saturday, March 26, 2016
7:00 pm • Spectrum
121 Ludlow St. 2nd floor
New York, New York 10011
The Zodiac Trio performs "Zodiac: Across the Universe"
12 Movements - 12 Different Composers
Francine Trester: Fire Sign – ARIES
Sunday, September 27, 2015
7:30
pm • Scottish Clarinet Quartet
The
players of the Scottish Clarinet Quartet are joined by actor Crawford
Logan to
present an evening centred on the world of Scottish Romanticism, which
produced
Burns, Scott and Hogg, and where rural beliefs in the supernatural were
increasingly challenged by a growing urban culture. James Hogg was
split
between his sheep-farming origins and life in literary Edinburgh: music
and
text pick up on his friendship and rivalry with Sir Walter Scott and
explore
the debt that Scotland’s cultural identity owes to its folklore.
With original
works by composers Tom David Wilson, Judith Weir, Francine Trester, Becky
Milne and Richard Ingham.
Swallow
Theatre
Moss
Park, Ravenstone, Whithorn,
Scotland,
DG8 8DR,
United
Kingdom
Tickets:
£10
http://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/programme/2972/4119
Friday, September 25, 2015
7:00
pm • Scottish Clarinet Quartet
A programme of music commissioned by the
Scottish Clarinet Quartet and directly
inspired by the writings of Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg, performed
in the
beautiful setting of the Abbotsford Library. The concert will
feature the first performance of Tom David Wilson's Wringhim his deamons and the UK
première of Francine Trester's
Many Miles Away,
accompanied by works inspired by Scottish history and folk traditions.
Abbotsford
Melrose
TD6 9BQ
United Kingdom
Tickets:
£12
http://www.scottsabbotsford.com/event-registration/?ee=63
Wednesday,
July 15, 2015
7:00 pm • Boston Landmarks Orchestra premiere
Trester’s “At the River,” with Jayne West, soprano
soloist
DCR Hatch Memorial Shell, Boston, MA
http://landmarksorchestra.org/
Friday,
June 12, 2015
7:30 pm • World Premiere Opera "Sleeping Beauty"
Music and Libretto by Francine Trester
Tickets $20
Nahant Music Festival
http://www.nahantmusicfestival.org/
Thursday, April 23, 2015
8:00 pm • Words and Music Festival at the Berklee
Performance Center
Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” with soloist Shinobu
Takagi
Francine Trester, violin, Melissa Howe, viola, Arnold Friedman, cello
Wendy Rolfe, flute, Peter Cokkinias, clarinet
Larry Bell, piano
Admission:
$8 in advance / $12 day of show
https://www.berklee.edu/events/words-music-festival
Monday, February 23, 2015
7:30 pm • Till Eulenspiegel- einmal anders! (R. Strauss)
Francine Trester, violin, Peter Cokkinias, clarinet, Michael Weinstein,
french horn,
Dominick Ferrara, bassoon, Michael Hartt, double bass
Berklee College of Music, David Friend Recital Hall
Monday,
September 16, 2014
7:30 pm • Berklee String Department Concert
Felice Pomeranz, harp and Francine Trester, violin perform
Trester’s “Juno”
Berklee College of Music, David Friend Recital Hall
Sunday,
July 27, 2014
2:00 pm • Aliso Valejo Branch Library, 1 Journey, Orange County
Seats: Free
Information: http://ocpl.org/libloc/aliso/calendar
Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan performs 'Virtuoso Music of the East
& West' (includes Trester's "My Darling's Slumber")
Saturday, July 26, 2014
3:00 pm • The Coffee Gallery Backstage, Altadena
Seats: $15, $10 kids
Reservations: (626) 798-6236
Information: http://coffeegallery.com/showsat.htm
Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan performs 'Virtuoso Music of the East
& West' (includes California premiere of Trester's "My Darling's
Slumber")
Sunday, June 8, 2014
2:00 pm • Central Lutheran Concert Series
Love/Hate: A really
passionate recital
Ann Benson, Mezzo
Soprano and Eric Moe, Trumpet
Trester: Four
Thoreau Songs
512 S. Bernard,
Spokane, WA
Free-will offering
to benefit the "Music at Central" series.
Tuesday, May 22, 2014
5:00 pm • St. Petersburg Conservatory
St. Petersburg, Russia
Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan performs Russian premieres of New
Lullabies
'My Darling's Slumber' by Francine Trester and 'Ed è Subito
Sera' by Ken Ueno
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
7:00 pm • Oval Hall, Russian Foreign Library
Moscow, Russia
Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan performs Russian premieres by
Francine Trester, Kevin Siegfried, Ken Ueno
Saturday, May 10, 2014
8:00 pm • Saco River Theatre presents Music of the East and West
Location:
29 Salmon Falls Rd,
Buxton, ME
Information: 207-929-6472 • http://www.sacorivertheatre.org
Sunday, May 4, 2014
4:00 pm • Oysterville House Concerts presents Music of the East and West
Virtuoso Music of the East
& West, includes new works by Nolan Stolz and Francine Trester; Information and
Reservations: 360-665-4716 or sydney@willapabay.org
Oysterville, WA
Thursday, April 10, 2014
6:00 pm • Harvard Business School Concert
Series*
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115
Peter Cokkinias, clarinet
Francine Trester, violin I
Mimi Rabson, violin II
Melissa Howe, viola
Patrice Jackson-Tilghman, cello
Trester: A View From Heartbreak Hill (cycle of original words and music)
With Elizabeth Anker, contralto, Melissa Howe, viola, Lois Shapiro,
piano
*Private concert, limited availability for guests;
please RSVP the composer.
Sunday, April 6, 2014
7:30 pm • SubCulture •
arts underground
Mirror Visions Ensemble, Poetry in Music: The
Poetry Linda Pastan and
Jeffrey Greene
Works by Francine Trester, Richard Lalli, Russell Platt, Richard Pearson Thomas,
Christopher Berg, Tom Cipullo, Deborah Fischer Teason
SubCulture
45 Bleecker St.
Downstairs
New York, NY, 10012
http://www.subculturenewyork.com
Thursday,
March 27, 2014
7:00 pm • The American University of Paris
Grand Salon, 31 Av. Bosquet
75007 Paris, France
Mirror Visions Ensemble, Poetry in Music: The Poetry Linda Pastan and
Jeffrey Greene
Works by Francine Trester, Richard Lalli, Russell Platt, Richard
Pearson Thomas, Christopher Berg, Tom Cipullo, Deborah Fischer Teason
Sunday, March 2, 2014
2:00 pm • Newton Free Library ANMS Faculty Recital
Trester: A View From Heartbreak Hill (cycle of original words and music)
With Elizabeth Anker, contralto, Scott Woolweaver, viola, John
McDonald, piano
http://newtonfreelibrary.net/events/
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
7:30 pm • Composers and Friends
Brahms Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115
With Peter Cokkinias, clarinet
Francine Trester, violin I
Mimi Rabson, violin II
Melissa Howe, viola
Patrice Jackson-Tilghman, cello
David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music
Thursday, February 20, 2014
7:30 pm • Berklee Composition Department Faculty Concert
Trester: A View From Heartbreak Hill (cycle of original words and music)
With Elizabeth Anker, contralto, Scott Woolweaver, viola, Lois Shapiro,
piano
David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music
Thursday, November 7 -
Sunday, November 17,
2013
The Zodiac Trio performs "Zodiac: Across the Universe"
12 Movements - 12 Different Composers -12-City Tour of China
Francine Trester: Fire Sign – ARIES
November 7th - Dalian People's Culture Club
November 9th - Fuling Grand Theater
November 10th - Chongqing Grand Theater
November 11th - Hefei Grand Theater
November 12th – Performing Arts Center of Beijing
November 13th - Changzhou Grand Theater
November 14th - Taicang Grand Theater
November 15th - Yantai Grand Theater
November 16th - Qingdao Grand Theater
November 17th - Henan Art Center
Sunday, November 3, 2013
3:00 pm • ALCYON CHAMBER ENSEMBLE and Parish Center for the
Arts
present:
Music for String Quartet
With Berklee Chamber Players & Alcyon Ensemble members Francine
Trester, Shufang Du, Mimi Rabson, violins, Melissa Howe, viola, and
Shanon Snapp, cello
Music by Sallinen, Pärt, Williams, Holland, and Adams
Sunday, September 22, 2013
8:00 pm • Glasgow, Scotland
The Newtown Ensemble performs Trester’s “5 Summer
Haiku”
www.glasgowconcerthalls.com
Monday,
September 16, 2013
7:30 pm • Berklee String Department Concert
Felice Pomeranz, harp and Francine Trester, violin perform
Trester’s “Temple of Concordia”
Berklee College of Music, David Friend Recital Hall
Wednesday,
August 21, 2013
7:30 pm • Edinburgh Fringe Festival:
The Newtown Ensemble performs Trester’s “5 Summer
Haiku”
St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
Friday,
July 26, 2013
3:30 pm • Scottish Clarinet Quartet
Premiere of Trester’s “Many Miles
Away…Five
Quotations from Sir Walter Scott”
Commissioned by the Scottish Clarinet Quartet
ClarinetFest 2013
Sala delle Volte
Assisi, Perugia, Italy
Wednesday,
March 11, 2013
7:30
pm • Berklee Chamber Players Concert,
Berklee College of Music
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8
Francine Trester, violin I
Mariana Green-Hill, violin II
Melissa Howe, viola
Patrice Jackson-Tilghman, cello
David Friend Recital Hall
Monday,
March 4, 2013
7: 30 pm • 20th- and
21st-Century Music
New compositions by faculty composers, as well as music by outstanding
20th-century composers.
The music will be performed by vocal and instrumental ensembles.
David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music
Monday, February 25, 2013
7: 30 pm • Jerry
Gates: All Sides
Professor Jerry Gates presents a concert featuring a wide variety of
music composed and performed by both himself and other faculty.
Trester: Five Spring Haiku (cycle of original words and music)
With Peter Cokkinias, clarinet, Francine Trester, violin, Louis
Stewart, piano, Kathryn Wright, narrator
David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music
Monday, February 11, 2013
7: 30 pm •
Composition Department Faculty Concert
Trester: Five Spring Haiku (cycle of original words and music)
With Peter Cokkinias, clarinet, Francine Trester, violin, Louis
Stewart, piano, Kathryn Wright, narrator
David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music
Sunday,
October 21, 2012
4 pm • The Mockingbird Trio, Donald Wilkinson and Francine
Trester
present “334
Bunnies,” a one-act chamber opera by Francine Trester
Ellingwood Chapel Concert Series, Nahant, MA
http://www.nahanthistory.org/ellingwood.html
Sunday,
October 14, 2012
Time
TBA (Afternoon)
Berklee
Chamber Players: Trester, String Quartet
No. 3
Westford
Parish Center for the Arts
(http://westford.com/pca/)
Tuesday,
October 9, 2012
7: 30
pm •
Composition Department Faculty Concert
Trester: Three
Summeresques (cycle of
original words and music)
With Elizabeth Anker, contralto and Francine Trester, piano/violin
David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music
Saturday,
September
22, 2012
6 pm •
The
Mockingbird Trio, Donald Wilkinson and Francine Trester present
“334 Bunnies,” a one-act chamber opera by
Francine
Trester
Crowell Chapel, Manchester, MA
www.crowellchapel.com
Monday,
August 20, 2012
6 pm
•
Zodiac
Trio
performs Trester’s “5 Summer Haiku”
Works
by Bell, Hair, List, McAllister, McGuire
City
Halls, Recital Hall, Candelriggs, Glasgow,
Scotland
Sunday,
August 19, 2012
7:30
pm • Edinburgh Fringe Festival:
Zodiac
Trio performs Trester’s “5
Summer Haiku”
Works
by Bell, Hair, List, McAllister, McGuire
Canongate
Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland
Saturday,
June 2, 2012
2 pm
• Caltech Clarinet Choir
From
Trester’s “Six Portraits for
Clarinet Choir”
La
Canada Flintridge Library, CA
Saturday,
May 19, 2012
8 pm
• The Mockingbird Trio, Donald Wilkinson
and Francine
Trester present “334
Bunnies,”
a one-act
chamber opera by Francine Trester
The
Shirley Meeting House
www.shirleymeetinghouse.org
Tuesday,
May 1, 2012
8 pm
• Tufts Composers Concert
Granoff
Music Center at Tufts University
Monday,
February 27, 2012
7:30
pm • Clarinet and Friends
David
Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music
Wednesday,
February 22, 2012
7:30
pm • Berklee Chamber Players Concert,
Berklee College of
Music
Trester:
String Quartet No. 3
David
Friend Recital Hall
Friday,
February 17, 2012
12 pm
• Berklee Chamber Players Concert
Trester:
String Quartet No. 3
Cambridge
School of Weston
Monday,
February 6, 2012
7:30
pm • Composition Department Faculty
Concert
Trester:
String Quartet No. 3
David
Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music
Saturday,
February 4, 2012
4 pm
• the Mockingbird Trio , Donald
Wilkinson and Francine
Trester present “334
Bunnies,”
a one-act
chamber opera by Francine Trester
St.
John’s, Jamaica Plain, MA
Saturday,
February 4, 2012
7:30
pm • University of Alaska Anchorage
From
Trester’s “Six Portraits for
Clarinet Choir”
afmew@uaa.alaska.edu
Friday,
February 3, 2012
6
pm • The Zodiac Trio presents the
Boston New Music Project
Music
by Margaret McAllister, Andrew List,
Francine Trester,
Larry Bell, John McDonald, and Berklee students
Berk
Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music
Wednesday,
February 1, 2012
5
pm • The Zodiac Trio performs
Trester’s “5 Summer Haiku”
Boston
Conservatory, Boston, MA
Friday,
January 27, 2012
7
pm • The Zodiac Trio performs
Trester’s “5 Summer Haiku”
The
Firehouse Space, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Thursday,
January 26, 2012
8
pm • Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Faculty
Artist Recital
The
Mockingbird Trio, Donald Wilkinson and
Francine Trester
present “334 Bunnies,” a one-act chamber opera by
Francine
Trester
Admission
free; no ticket required
Saturday,
December 10, 2011
8
pm • A New Lullaby Project Premiere
Concert
Aaron-Larget
Caplan, guitar
New
School of Music, 25 Lowell St, Cambridge
Admission:
$15, $12 students
Tickets:
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/212596
www.NewLullabyProject.com
Monday,
October 3, 2011
7:30
pm • Composition Department Faculty
Concert
Barbara
LaFitte oboe and Francine Trester, violin
perform
Trester’s “Dialogues”
Berklee
College of Music, David Friend Recital Hall
Wednesday,
September 21, 2011
7:30
pm • Berklee String Department Concert
Barbara
LaFitte oboe and Francine Trester, violin
perform
Trester’s “Dialogues”
Berklee
College of Music, David Friend Recital Hall
Wednesday,
August 17, 2011
1
pm • Berklee Recital Hall 1A
“Keys
and Strings”
Francine
Trester, violin and Marti Epstein, piano
perform
works by Handel, Brahms and Prokofiev
Friday,
July 1, 2011
7
pm • Berklee Performance Center
Mark
O’Connor String Fest Faculty Concert
Melissa
Howe and Francine Trester perform
Trester’s
“Echoes…Of the Past….Return”
Admission
$10
Monday,
February 14, 2011
7:30
pm • Composition Department Faculty
Concert, Berklee College of
Music
David
Friend Recital Hall
Thursday,
February 10, 2011
7:00
pm • Domestic Affairs in Jamaica Plain
Mockingbird
Trio in Jamaica Plain
www.jpconcerts.org
Music
by Francine Trester, premieres by John
McDonald and
Elizabeth Anker, French songs of last century by Charles Martin
Loeffler
(friend of Isabel Stewart Gardner) and others.
The
Trio: Elizabeth Anker, contralto (and piano)
Scott
Woolweaver, viola
John
McDonald, piano
Thursday,
February 10, 2011
7:30
pm • Berklee Chamber Players
Concert, Berklee College of Music
David
Friend Recital Hall
http://www.jpconcerts.org
Saturday,
December 4, 2010
3 pm
• Los Angeles Clarinet Choir
From
Trester’s “Six Portraits for
Clarinet Choir”
Martin
Luther King Jr. Auditorium, 601 Santa
Monica
Boulevard
Santa
Monica Public Library, CA
Saturday,
November 20, 2010
4:00
pm • the Mockingbird Trio presents
Trester’s song cycle
"A Field Guide to Backyard Birds" along with other bird-themed music.
St.John’s,
Jamaica Plain, MA
www.jpconcerts.org
Tuesday,
November 9, 2010
7:00
pm • The University of Rhode Island
From
Trester’s “Six Portraits for
Clarinet Choir”
www.uri.edu/artsci/mus
Monday,
September 27, 2010
7:30
pm • Composition Department Faculty
Concert
Several
faculty from the Composition Department
will present
recent compositions.
Berklee
College of Music, David Friend Recital Hall
Tuesday,
September 14, 2010
7:30
pm • Berklee String Department Faculty
Concert
Join
the String Department faculty for our annual
welcome-back concert. This sixth-annual concert highlights the immense
musical
diversity of the faculty and the department.
Berklee
College of Music, David Friend Recital
Hall
Saturday,
August 7, 2010
7:30
pm • A mixed recital of great(er) new
music.
Guitarist
Aaron Larget-Caplan
Lily
Pad, Inman Square, MA
Wednesday,
May 19, 2010
7 pm
• Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan performs
My Darling's
Slumber at the New School of Music in Cambridge, MA.
Performed
as part of the monthly music series "New
School
- New Music."
Friday,
April 9, 2010
4 pm
• Peter Cokkinias and the Berklee
Clarinet Choir
perform Six Portraits for Clarinet Choir.
Berklee
College of Music, Recital Hall 1W.
Monday,
March 29, 2010
5:15
pm • Luther College “Art Song
Jamboree”
Featuring
music by Francine Trester
Center
for Faith and Life Recital Hall
www.luther.edu
Sunday,
February 28, 2010
3:15
pm • Shasta Symphony performs MYTHOS by
Francine
Trester.
Peter
Cokkinias, conductor.
Monday,
February 8, 2010
7:30
pm • Composition Department Faculty
Concert
A
concert of contemporary chamber music, written
by
Berklee's own Composition Department faculty and performed by Berklee
faculty
performers and guest artists.
Location,
David Friend Recital Hall
Sunday,
October 25, 2009
2:00
pm • Mockingbird Trio
Elizabeth
Anker, contralto, Scott Woolweaver,
viola and John
McDonald, composer, piano are the Mockingbird Trio. Join them for the
first in
this year’s All Newton Music School series on Sunday, October
25
at 2:00 pm.
They will perform works of Francine Trester, John McDonald, works by
Janice
Giteck and Elizabeth Anker, and the premiere of a new work by Boston
composer
Rebecca Sacks.
Newton
Free Library, 330 Homer Street in Newton
Center, MA
Thursday,
June 18, 2009
6:30
pm • Guitar performance by Aaron
Larget-Caplan • Fête de
la Musique
The
Ligue Francophone of Boston & Fête
de la Musique
present
World
Dances & New Lullabies
Solos
by Albert Roussel, Roland Dyens, Antonio
Lauro, Isaac
Albéniz, Esteban Delgado, and New Lullabies by Francine
Trester
& Jonathan
Feist from the New Lullaby Project.
Admission:
FREE
Location:
Boston Public Library, Boston Room,
Copley Square,
700 Boylston St., Boston MA 02116
Info:
www.BPL.org
Sunday,
May 10, 2009
4 pm
• Guitar performance by Aaron
Larget-Caplan • Mother's
Day Concert
First
Parish of Cohasset presents
Dance
Love Sleep - a Mother's Day Concert
Program:
Dances from Spain, Latin America &
the US,
Romances by Paganini, Schubert, Albéniz, & New
Lullabies by
Gershwin and
composers from the New Lullaby Project.
Location:
First Parish Cohasset, 23 N Main St,
Cohasset
Admission:
$15, 1/2 price for Mothers
For
info: www.firstparishcohasset.org or call
(781) 383-1100
Friday,
May 1, 2009
7:30
pm • Guitar solo • New Lullaby
Project
New
Lullaby Project Premiere Concert 5 - click
here for
Boston Globe article about this
premiere
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/04/30/waking_up_to_charms_of_bedtime_songs/?page=1
Dance
Love Sleep
New
Lullaby Project = Guitar + Composers +
Lullabies + Love
Program:
Dances from Spain, Latin America &
the US,
Romances by Paganini, Schubert, Albéniz, & New
Lullabies
Premieres
commissioned by Aaron Larget-Caplan for the New Lullaby Project.
World
Premieres include
My
Darling's Slumber by Francine Trester
Descent
into a Dream by Mark Small
Unfolding
the Gates of Dawn by Carson Cooman
Leaky
Roof & No Time Lullabies by Jonathan
Feist
Admission:
$15, free to enrolled NSM students
Reserve
tickets by calling 617-947-1330 or
emailing
aaron@aaronLc.com
Location:
New School of Music, 25 Lowell St,
Cambridge
02138, 617-492-8105
Information
or questions: Email Aaron@AaronLC.com
or call
617-947-1330
February
26, 2009
8 pm
• Granoff Music Center and Tufts
Department of Music
Concert
by the Mockingbird Trio
More
info TBA
Distler
Performance Hall
Saturday,
February 21, 2009
8:30
pm • Concert at AS220 with Mark and
Beverly Davis,
Michael Nicolella and the Wheeler Guitar Ensemble
115
Empire Street
Providence,
RI 02903 401-831-9327
January
25, 2008
3 pm
• Berklee Composers Concert
Brighton
Congregational Church
Brighton,
MA
with
Elizabeth Anker, contralto and
John McDonald,
piano
works
by Francine Trester, Ramon Castillo,
Jonathan Holland,
Kari
Juusela, Ivana Lisak, John McDonald, Margaret
McAllister
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