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 and voice by oboist Normand Forget, this reimagining of Schubert’s work is both orchestral and intimate in its originality. Greta Feeney will be debuting as director of this special project, setting the eponymous journey in a 1950’s noir Nantucket.

Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911, Op. 89
Greta Feeney, director
Benjamin Boskoff, tenor
Arrangement for woodwind quintet, accordion and tenor by Normand Forget

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 and voice by oboist Normand Forget, this reimagining of Schubert’s work is both orchestral and intimate in its originality. Greta Feeney will be debuting as director of this special project, setting the eponymous journey in a 1950’s noir Nantucket.

Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911, Op. 89
Greta Feeney, director
Benjamin Boskoff, tenor
Arrangement for woodwind quintet, accordion and tenor by Normand Forget

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.

Tickets $30

Join us for an evening of cocktails, charcuterie and toe-tapping fun with jazz of the 1920's, featuring pianist Wesley Ducote and soprano Greta Feeney. Proceeds will benefit the programs and functions of The Rossini Club, Nantucket's Own Chamber Music Festival. This concert is generously hosted by Father Max and Olly Wolf.

Featuring music written 500 years apart, the Rossini Club presents an eclectic array of startling works, echoing each other respectively both in their prescience and their sumptuous complexity. 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.

Tickets $30

Welcome to our 2024 season! This is a free and informal musician meet and greet featuring selections by Ockeghem, Sciarrino and Ligeti. For more info please visit the Nantucket Atheneum’s website.

A collaboration with Nantucket Dance Festival. Live concert followed by a cocktail reception.

A look at the collaboration between dance, live music, and the different styles that will be presented in the final Festival performance. This presentation will explore how ballet, tap, ballroom, jookin’, modern & Irish step dancers respond to rhythm.

Featuring Karim Al-Zand’s Cabinet of Curiosities.

Nick Davies, clarinet
Wesley Ducote, piano

Nick Davies, clarinet
Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon
Valerie Sly, horn
Giancarlo Latta, violin
Ethan Philbrick, cello
Wesley Ducote, piano

Free Admission. For more information please go to the Nantucket Atheneum’s site here.

In a performance celebrating classical music of the last 40 years, the Rossini Club returns to the Atheneum to honor the centennials of two legendary composers: Hungarian composer György Ligeti, and honorary Nantucket composer Ned Rorem, who passed away late last year. Ligeti’s Horn Trio from 1982 is a turning point in the composer’s career, an inventive and bizarre work dedicated to Brahms’ work of the same instrumentation that evokes the whimsy and absurdism Ligeti was best known for. Rorem’s Winter Pages takes the form of a musical journal, cataloging various aspects of the composer’s life in the winter of 1981 in manners both lyrical and mercurial.

Isang Yun: Trio for Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon
Ned Rorem: Winter Pages
Ligeti: Horn Trio

Giancarlo Latta, violin
Valerie Sly, horn
Wesley Ducote, piano

Tickets $30.

“I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.” So said György Ligeti during a creative crisis that spanned almost a half decade of his later life. The result of such a crisis was his profound Horn Trio, a mature work that synthesized both the avant-garde and the traditional during a time of deep musical and political polarization. Inspired by both Beethoven and Brahms, who also feature in this unique concert, Ligeti’s alluring Trio remains one of the most influential and important chamber works post-1950. 

Brahms: Horn Trio, Op. 40
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #26 in E-flat, Op. 81a “Les adieux”
Ligeti: Horn Trio

Greta Feeney, soprano 
Nick Davies, clarinet
Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon
Giancarlo Latta, violin
Ethan Philbrick, cello
Wesley Ducote, piano

Tickets $20.

The Rossini Club pays tribute to honorary Nantucket composer, Ned Rorem, who passed away in late 2022. The composer, known for both his art songs and lurid diaries, lived on the island for many decades and wrote music about or dedicated to the island. Two of his works, the lush Nantucket Songs and the diary-like Winter Pages, will be performed by Nantucket artists including soprano Greta Feeney, cellist Ethan Philbrick and clarinetist Nick Davies. To complement these works, two pieces by Hungarian composers György Ligeti and Béla Bartók fill out the program.

Bartók: Contrasts
Ned Rorem: Nantucket Songs
Ligeti: Sonata for Cello Solo
Ned Rorem: Winter Pages

Wesley Ducote, piano and Isaiah Williams, organ

Presented by the Nantucket Interfaith Council in benefit for Nantucket Food, Fuel and Rental Assistance. Tickets $30.

Veteran Rossini Club pianist Wesley Ducote presents a diabolically curated recital featuring György Ligeti’s infamously challenging piano Études paired with complementary works ranging from Chopin’s own Études to Debussy’s Préludes. Nantucket organist Isaiah Williams will open the concert with Ligeti’s experimental organ work Volumnia, presented on the beautiful organ at the First Congregational Church.

Ligeti: Volumnia
Ligeti: Excerpts from Études Books 1, 2 and 3
Selections by Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin, Duke Ellington and others

Join the Rossini Club for a delightful Sunday afternoon concert featuring works by Carl Maria von Weber, Jörg Widmann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and more. Generously hosted by the Nantucket Atheneum and Nantucket Community Music Center.

FREE ADMISSION.

Nantucket Dreamland presents the Rossini Club performing works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Maria von Weber, Camille Saint-Saëns and Francis Poulenc.

The Rossini Club is generously hosted by Nantucket Dreamland for this special concert. For more concert information, please visit their website.

Tickets $30 General Public/$25 Nantucket Dreamland Members. Please purchase tickets online here. Tickets will also be available at the door.

Join the Rossini Club for their first annual Gala! Celebrating the music of Johann Strauss Jr., enjoy an evening of light classical music featuring Nantucket’s own Greta Feeney with pianist Wesley Ducote and the Del Sol String Quartet. Open bar and hors d’oeuvres included in ticket price.

Tickets $100, open bar and hors d’oeuvres included. Advance RSVP and purchase required due to limited event capacity.

The Rossini Club performs works by Derek David, Jungyoon Wie, and Ruth Crawford-Seeger on this special parlor concert generously hosted by the Nantucket Community Music Center.

Tickets $15. Please purchase tickets online via the NCMC website or at the door.

Music by Derek David and Morton Feldman to benefit Nantucket Food Fuel Rental Assistance, a service of the Nantucket Interfaith Council. The Rossini Club is generously hosted by Congregation Shirat Hayam and sponsored by the Hochwald family in memory of music aficianado Ronald Hochwald MD.

Benefactor admission includes priority seating to the concert, listing in the concert program, as well as admission to a garden reception at St. Paul’s Church following the concert. In order to be listed as a Benefactor, tickets must be purchased prior to July 28th.

General Admission $30, Benefactor Admission $75; all ages welcome. Please purchase tickets online here. Tickets will also be available at the door.

Music by Morton Feldman paired with LIVE art by Artists Association of Nantucket Artist Member Michael Rich. There will be non-alcoholic beverages and snacks at this event. The Rossini Club is generously hosted by the Artists Association of Nantucket. All tickets can be purchased at the door via cash, check or Venmo. To reserve a ticket in advance, please fill out this Google Form.

More about Michael here.

Tickets $30, FREE for AAN Artist Members.