About the rossini Club

Our Mission

The Rossini Club creates unique concert experiences that bring together chamber music with food, art, theater, and storytelling. We are committed to offering welcoming and interactive performances while showcasing artists of the highest caliber. Drawing from the rich arts tradition of Nantucket, we present music that is rarely heard alongside beloved masterpieces. Through thoughtful and evocative programming, we strive to create experiences that inspire, challenge, and celebrate the vitality of the arts within our community.

What We Do

The Rossini Club originally was conceived as an organization to fundraise for a one-time chamber music concert. The founding concert in 2012 was hosted at the home of co-director Nicholas Davies, where food was paired with music. Since then, the Club has expanded its scope to present a two to three week concert season every summer in Nantucket, Massachusetts. We produce a wide range of multi-disciplinary collaborations featuring chamber music in tandem with the culinary, written, visual and theatrical arts, in addition to a regular chamber music concert series. Through our collaborations with local Nantucket businesses such as the Nantucket Culinary Center in addition to collaborations with other cultural institutions including the the Nantucket Community Music Center, the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, the Artists Association of Nantucket and the Nantucket Interfaith Council, The Rossini Club hopes to recreate and re-imagine concert experiences for our audience. 

In addition to our regular concert season, about one third of our performances are educational outreach opportunities. We are proud to share our music with retirement homes throughout Nantucket. We additionally present programs for the Nantucket Community Music Center where we educate children about classical music, orchestral instruments, and how to get involved in music themselves.

About Rossini (the composer)

The composer for whom the Club is named, Giaochino Rossini, was famous in his day for retiring at the strikingly early age of thirty, and dedicating the rest of his life to perfecting his culinary techniques with friends, who would likely have played music as part of the evening's entertainment. With his spirit in mind, we hope you'll join us for a summer of music making and thoughtful experiences.