Phenomenal chamber musicians from San Francisco Conservatory of Music perform the music of Debussy, Yost, Clarke, and Mozart to benefit the Starcross Foundation.

Music incudes:

Debussy trio for flute, viola and harp
Zoe Yost String Quartet
Rebecca Clarke Two pieces for viola and cello
Mozart G major duo for violin and viola K. 423

Performers: 

Po-Yu Lee, Shintaro Taneda, Wonhee Bae, violin
Isabel Tannenbaum, Zoe Yost, Dimitri Murrath, viola 
Calvin Kung, cello
Lyric Rivera, flute
Julia Gruenbaum, harp

The fabulous Waring School students perform their annual soiree to benefit Beverly Bootstraps!

PROGRAM
Bach Prelude from the E Major Partita

Ysaye from Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 27, No. 2 
Prelude: Obsession 
Lun Li, violin

Brett Dean (b.1961) I Starred Last Night, I Shone (2023)
Rebecca Printz, mezzo-soprano; Rosemary Nelis, viola.

Beethoven Quartet op 132
Laurie Smukler, violin
Lun Li, violin
Rosemary Nelis, viola
Natasha Brofsky, cello 

Violist Brenton Caldwell, pianist Benjamin Loeb, and flutist Ebonee Thomas present works by Hindemith and Devienne, and a little surprise...in a concert to benefit the Maverick Pantry at UT Arlington. Admission by donation; 100% of proceeds will go directly to the pantry. Food, cash, and online donations accepted. If donating online, click the link below and indicate “Music for Food, 4/8” in the gift instructions.

Our 14th season in Boston —Parlando — weaves together three threads that all have to do with the stories we tell…in music.

Our season finale, curated by 11-time Grammy nominee Marc-André Hamelin, features Richard Strauss’ melodrama Enoch Arden. Marc-André will be joined by world-renowned actor, playwright, and pianist Hershey Felder for this once-in-a-lifetime performance.

As with all MFF concerts, admission is free with a suggested donation ($40/adult, $15/student), not tickets or RSVPs are necessary, and ALL proceeds will go to a local food pantry. The Boston core concerts this year support Women’s Lunch Place.

In partnership with Music for Food, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents the “genuinely exciting” (New York Times) Aizuri Quartet, violist Kim Kashkashian, and cellist Marcy Rosen in a program that explores the idea of community in a multi-faceted way. It features works by four female composers, including Indian American composer Reena Esmail, whose raag-influenced Fantasie layers the voices of the string quartet to create a beautiful, swirling world that invites players and audience into the concert experience.

PROGRAM
Esmail: Fantasie (Bihag) from Ragamala
Fe. Mendelssohn: Capriccio from Quartet, Op. 81
Ran: Lyre of Orpheus
Strauss: Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85
C. Schumann: Die stille Lotosblume from Sechs Lieder, Op. 13, No. 6
Fa. Mendelssohn: Quartet in E-flat Major

MFF Pittsburgh rounds out their season at Chatham Univeristy with a warm concert featuring pianists Tina Faigen, Walter Morales, Yeeha Chiu, Mark Carver, and flautist Edward Schultz. All donations (cash and checks made out to Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank) will go directly to the pantry .

The Mimosa Chamber Ensemble—an artist-led ensemble of non-professional musicians from all walks of life—performs their annual spring Music for Food concert on March 16th with a program of Mendelssohn, Hindemith, Suk, and Telemann. All concert proceeds benefit the Broadway Community, which has served NYC’s most vulnerable community members since 1982 with a four-star soup kitchen, a food pantry, on-site medical services, showers, shelter, and more.

PROGRAM

Mendelssohn String Symphony #10 in B Minor
Hindemith Trauermusik for viola and orchestra, Soloist Kim Kashkashian
Telemann Concerto for two violas in G Major, Soloists Kim Kashkashian and Zhanbo Zheng
Suk Serenade for strings in E-flat Major, Op. 6

Join musicians from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Cleveland Orchestra for an unforgettable concert featuring the Cleveland premiere of Shawn Okpebholo’s Wind Quintet RISE along with several other works from the beloved Classical repertoire.

Every musician and artist donates their time and artistry to the cause of helping to alleviate hunger in NE Ohio. There are no administrative costs associated with this concert! 100% of donations will go to the University Settlement which serves thousands of individuals and families through their Hunger Center.

In addition to the concert, there will once again be an auction of artwork donated by the students at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

PROGRAM

Tower Scene Duet from “Il Troviatore” Giuseppe Verdi 
Kiana Lilly, soprano 
Trey Floyd, tenor
François Germain, piano 

“Inconvenient Wounds” (2021) for solo harp Reena Esmail 
Yolanda Kondonassis, harp 

Wind Quintet (2023) [Cleveland Premiere] Shawn Okpebholo 
Jessica Sindell, flute 
Frank Rosenwein, oboe 
Afendi Yusuf, clarinet
Brittney Delpey, bassoon 
Richard King, horn 

Quintet for Piano and Strings Robert Schumann 
Kathryn Brown, piano 
Jaime Laredo, violin 
Karisa Chiu, violin 
Lola Pinney, viola 
Sharon Robinson, cello

A brilliant and eclectic program performed by world-class artists to benefit Hoosier Hills Food Bank. Admission is free with suggested donation, and all proceeds benefit Hoosier Hills.

PROGRAM:

Improvisational solo piece in the performance lineage of Master Kim Byông-Ho
Eunsun Sunny Jung, 12-string gayageum

June-Hee Lim: Dancing Sanjo for Violin, Gayageum and Piano
Yeonglee Kim, violin
Eunsun Sunny Jung, gayageum
Seungkyu Oh, piano

Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937)
Introduction et Variations sur une Ronde Populaire (1934)

Joel Love (b. 1982)
In Memoriam (2014)
II. Adieu 

Thierry Escaich (b. 1965)
Tango Virtuoso (1991)

Blitz Saxophone Quartet
Jake Simons, soprano
Johann Koh, alto
Wes Taylor, tenor
Kevin Chiang, baritone

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904): Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81
Allegro ma non tanto
Dumka: Andante con moto
Scherzo: Molto vivace
Finale: Allegro

Sung-Mi Im, piano
Balourdet Quartet
Angela Bae, violin
Justin DeFilippis, violin
Benjamin Zannoni, viola
Russell Houston, cello

Join violinist Ida Bieler, hornist Maria Serkin, and pianist Dmitri Vorobiev at Temple Emanuel this March for a concert to benefit Crisis Control Ministry. All monetary and non-perishable food donations will go directly to Crisis Control Ministry.

Join us at Chatham University for an afternoon of Romantic Piano Masterpieces by Robert Schumann, featuring pianist David Allen Wehr. This program presents three of Schumann’s most beloved works, exuberant, virtuosic, and tuneful, all written in his twenties. “Papillons” was inspired by the writings of the French author Jean Paul, the “David’s-League Dances” are consumed with the composer’s new-found passion for Clara Wieck, and the Symphonic Etudes are a monument to his obsession with developing piano technique to the highest possible levels of difficulty. 

David Allen Wehr is Dean of the Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where he holds the Jack W. Geltz Distinguished Piano Chair.

Admission is by donation. Cash and checks (made out to the food bank) will be welcomed at the concert. All proceeds will benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.

In collaboration with Music for Food, Musicians from Marlboro present a concert of Coleridge-Taylor, Dvořák, Webern, and Schoenberg in support of local hunger initiatives. General admission tickets are $30 and will be available for purchase on Marlboro’s website, and additional donations will be accepted online and at the door; 100% of donated proceeds will go to Women’s Lunch Place.

Artists:
Anna Göckel & Stephanie Zyzak, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang & Jordan Bak, viola; Chase Park & Christoph Richter, cello; Evren Ozel, piano

Program:
Coleridge-Taylor: Five Fantasiestücke, Op. 5 [Sel.]
Dvořák: Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 90
Webern: Six Bagatelles, Op. 9
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

A program of Walker, Handel, Eccles, Telemann, Carlson, Toch, and Vivaldi, performed by faculty and students in the chamber music department at UCLA. All donations to this concert benefit the Downtown-Ketchum YMCA. For more information, including the program and artist bios, please click here.

Join MFF NYC for a gorgeous and lively concert of Villa-Lobos, Brahms, Debussy, and Simon—all to benefit the Broadway Community!

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) - Il Bove (The Bull)

Lucy Shelton, soprano
Natasha Brofsky, cello
Marija Stroke, piano

J. Brahms (1833-1897) - Sonata in e minor for cello and piano  opus 38

Allegro non troppo
Allegretto quasi menuetto
Allegro

Natasha Brofsky, cello
Marija Stroke, piano

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Suite for Violin and Voice

1.A menina e a canção 
2.Quéro sel alegre: vagoroso e calmo
3.Sertaneja: animado e espiritoso

Lucy Shelton, Soprano
Kobe Malkin, violin

Intermission

Carlos Simon - The Warmth of Other Suns (2019)

Light
Flight 
Settle 

Ivalas Quartet
Reuben Kebede, violin
Tiani Butts, vioin
Marcus Stevenson, viola
Pedro Sanchez, cello

Claude Debussy (1862-1917) - Sonata in g minor for violin and piano

Allegro vivo
Intermède: Fantasque et léger
Finale: Très animé

Kobi Malkin, vioin
Marija Stroke, piano

The wonderful music students at the Atrium School continue their annual tradition of performing in support of Watertown Food Pantry!

Join bass-baritone Evan Luca Gray, violinist Stephanie Zyzak, cellist Julia Yang, and pianist Cynthia Raim for a program of Beethoven, Britten, Finzi, and Keel, to benefit the incredible Sunday Love Project. A light reception will follow the concert.

PROGRAM

Britten:  Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, "British Isles
Gerald Finzi:  Let Us Garlands Bring
Frederick Keel:   Three Salt-Water Ballads
Beethoven:  Piano Trio in E flat Major, Op. 1 no. 1

Ensemble Skopos—violinists Haerim Oh and Hudson Chung, violist Martine Thomas, cellists Macintyre Taback and Sameer Apte, and pianist Jonathan Senik—performs a lovely concert of Mozart, Ravel, and Schubert in support of Women’s Lunch Place.

Program features: W.A. Mozart Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor K.478, M. Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello M.73, F. Schubert String Quintet in C Major D. 956 

Flatirons Chamber Music Festival cellist Jamie Clark and violinist Patrick Yim perform a program of Kodály, Liang, Ravel, and Piazzolla to benefit the Neighborhood Center which distributed 290,304 meals to Floridians in need last year.

Program:
Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 - Zoltán Kodály
Gobi Canticle - Lei Liang
Sonata for Violin and Cello - Maurice Ravel
Chau Paris - Astor Piazzola

Our 14th season in Boston —Parlando — weaves together three threads that all have to do with the stories we tell…in music. Each concert:

• has been curated by one of MFF’s beloved friends

• features a world premiere for viola, composed and performed by NEC students

• centers a work that integrates spoken word

We start 2024 with Haydn’s colossal The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, his late string quartet in d minor, Op. 103, and the world premiere of Echoes of Loss by Da-Yu Liu! This concert was curated by Miriam Fried, and artists on the program include Miriam Fried, Paul Biss, Nicholas Cordes, Yeesun Kim Kitchen, Njord Fossnes, and Da-Yu Liu. Don’t miss a word or a note this season!

As with all MFF concerts, admission is free with a suggested donation ($40/adult, $15/student), not tickets or RSVPs are necessary, and ALL proceeds will go to a local food pantry. The Boston core concerts this year support Women’s Lunch Place.

MFF Pittsburgh kicks off a wonderful season by celebrating Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on his birthday, featuring guest artists Yeeha Chiu, piano, Lilly Abreu, soprano, Daphne Alderson, contralto, Chatham faculty Stacey Davern, soprano, Paula Tuttle, cello, Pauline Rovkah, piano and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra member, violinist Alison Fujito. All donations (cash and checks made out to Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank) will go directly to the pantry .

Join BB&N for their inaugural Music for Food concert to support Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee Food Pantry. This concert features student 7 Upper School chamber ensembles performing works by Beethoven, Svendsen, Dvorak, Chaminade, Schubert, Mozart, Shen, and Handel.

No monetary donations will be accepted. Instead, non-perishable food donations are requested to benefit CEOC.

Join the Wellesley Symphony Orchestra and six outstanding contestants from the 2023 Michael H. Welles Young Soloist Competition for a wonderful evening of music and community. All donations (cash and checks made out to Wellesley Food Pantry) will benefit the Wellesley Food Pantry.

Program: Sarasate Zigeunerweisen, Elgar Cello Concerto (1st movement), Dvorak Cello Concerto (1st movement) Barber Violin Concerto (1st movement), Pierne Solo de Concert for Bassoon, Prokofiev Violin Concerto (1st movement).

The extraordinary music students at the Walnut Hill School of the Arts perform a chamber music concert in support of their local food pantry.

This fall, sopranos Kristina Bachrach and Laura Strickling will be joined by pianists Daniel Schlosberg and Scott Wheeler on a program of contemporary American vocal music, including a world premiere by Scott Wheeler, at Chicago's Guarneri Hall. Based on Suzanne Cleary’s poem “A Piece of Bread,” the text of Wheeler’s work is a meditation on food and hunger. All proceeds from this concert will go to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Admission is free with suggested donation, and RSVPs will be required.

Artists:
Kristina Bachrach and Laura Strickling, Soprano
Daniel Schlosberg, piano
Scott Wheeler, composer and piano