Announcing Our 2024 Season

Through The Looking-Glass

Music of Transfiguration and Transformation

2024 Season Highlights include several Rossini Club firsts— from a new Meet and Greet where we discuss the season’s music in an intimate and welcoming setting; to our first ever staged production, of Schubert’s Winterreise, or Winter’s Journey. We’re also excited to bring you some toe-tapping fun with our 2024 Gala, A Handful of Keys!

Upcoming Events


Season Summary

  • 6:30 PM. Free Admission.

    Our annual community concert at the Nantucket Atheneum will feature highlights from the season’s repertoire, including Nantucket soprano Greta Feeney. Next to this, we pair several works of the late baroque era by François Couperin and C.P.E. Bach with Thomas Adès’ satirical and naïve Sonata da caccia in homage to Couperin. This concert will be performed on a beautiful recreation of a French double manual harpsichord from Rehoboth, Massachusetts.

  • 6:30 PM. Tickets $30.

    This program features music written 500 years apart, echoing each other respectively both in their prescience and their simplicity. Works of the early and late Renaissance by Johannes Ockeghem and Girolamo Frescobaldi performed by Nantucket artists Nick Davies and Isaiah Williams are contrasted through a convex mirror in Judith Shatin’s Ockeghem Variations and György Ligeti’s wildly imaginative Ten Pieces for woodwind quintet.

  • 6:30 PM. Tickets $30.

    Music of Eastern Europe, particularly music of Hungary, has long inspired composers from Haydn to Brahms and beyond to stretch and adapt their musical language to the idiosyncrasies of this region. Two of the most important composers of the 20th century, Béla Bartók and György Ligeti, were Hungarian, the former reinventing the definition of folk music, and the latter taking us to worlds hereto unimagined. Brahms’ famous Hungarian Dances also make an appearance in this diverse program paying homage to a rich musical tradition.

  • 6:30 PM on 8/29; 2:00 PM on 9/1.

    Tickets $30.

    In an exciting new collaboration with the Nantucket Dreamland, the Rossini Club is revealing its first staged performance of Schubert’s late masterpiece, the song cycle Winterreise, or Winter’s Journey. In a new orchestration of the original version for piano a voice by oboist Normand Forget, this transformation of Schubert’s work is both orchestral and intimate in its originality. Greta Feeney will be debuting as director of this special project, transporting the eponymous journey to Nantucket in the 1800s.

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