Images from Yellow Barn's 2015 summer festival
Performing Donatoni's "Chloches III" in the Big Barn (Daniel Anastasio, Mei Rui, pianos; Eduardo Leandro, Terry Sweeney, percussion)
Performing Mozart's Clarinet Quintet (Jörg Widmann, clarinet; Jennifer Liu, Zenas Hsu, violins; Tegen Davidge, viola; Michael Kannen, cello)
Composer in Residence Jörg Widmann and Artistic Director Seth Knopp at the annual Composer Portrait
Battle Trance performing Travis LaPlante's "Palace of Wind" (Travis LaPlante, Matthew Nelson, Jeremy Viner, and Patrick Breiner)
Musicians from the Young Artists Program performing in the Big Barn
Lunch on campus at the Greenwood School
Rehearsing James Woods's "Crying bird, echoing star" (Curtis Macomber, violin; Madeline Fayette, cello; Conor Nelson, flute; Alan Kay, clarinet; Daniel Anastasio, piano)
Rehearsing Jörg Widmann's "Jagdquartett" (Zenas Hsu, YuEun Kim, violins; Tegen Davidge, viola; Rainer Crosett, cello)
Rehearsing Philippe Manoury's "Duo de marimbaphones" (Terry Sweeney, Eduardo Leandro, percussion)
Rehearsing Alban Berg's String Quartet, Op.3 (Jennifer Liu, Johnna Wu, violins; Roger Tapping, viola; Madeline Fayette, cello)
In the musicians' loft at the Big Barn
Celebrating three 80th birthdays with a performance of Ravel's "Bolero" (Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Coleman Itzkoff, Madeline Fayette, Bonnie Hampton, cellos)
Performing Jonathan Harvey's "You" (Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano; Alan Kay, clarinet; Hyobi Sim, viola; Michael Kaufman, cello; Lizzie Burns, double bass)
Performing Fred Lerdahl's "Waltzes" at the annual Children's Concert on campus at the Greenwood School (Luke Hsu, violin; Born Lau, viola; Coleman Itzkoff, cello; Lizzie Burns, double bass)
Yellow Barn marching in Brattleboro's famed "Strolling of the Heifers" parade
Discussing George Crumb's "Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965" at the Putney Library (Magdalena Filipczak, violin; Conor Nelson, alto flute; Ran Kampel, clarinet; Gilbert Kalish, piano)
LUMEN art installation at Brooks House, in conjunction with the performance of Eric Nathan's work
Performing Jörg Widmann's "Air for horn solo" (Stephen Stirling, French horn)
Performing Thomas Adès' "Sonata da Caccia" (Mark Hill, oboe; Stephen Stirling, French horn; Emely Phelps, harpsichord)
Performing Mozart's String Quartet in B-Flat Major (Anthony Marwood, Stella Chen, violins; Wenhong Luo, viola; Sasha Scolnik-Brower, cello)
Summer day lilies at the Big Barn
Awaiting a performance at the Big Barn
Season Finale wall program by resident artist Bill Kelly
Facing the audience during a performance of Jörg Widmann's "Skelett" (Eduardo Leandro, percussion)
Yellow Barn invites you to listen to selections from its 46th summer season at The Big Barn in Putney, VT. Click on the link following each selection to find out more about each program, including artist biographies.