Classical Music at Woodmere
Classical Music at Woodmere
Enjoy a wide array of classical music surrounded by beautiful works of art.
Planning to attend a classical concert? Please review our music performance policy page here.
Curtis@Woodmere: An Evening of Mozart, Beethoven, and Britten
with The Erinys Quartet
Saturday, March 22 | 5 pm
$28 ($18 members)
Enjoy an evening with The Erinys Quartet, currently in residence at the Curtis Institute of Music. They will be performing a program of string quartet favorites, including Mozart’s Quartet in B-flat major, K. 589, which he wrote under financial stress in hopes of flattering and gaining a position in the court of Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II, an amateur cellist. The first half of their program will finish with Benjamin Britten’s second-string quartet, a tribute to the English composer Henry Purcell. The second half of the program will conclude the concert with Beethoven’s Op. 127, one of his legendary "late quartets" that comprise some of the composer's greatest musical achievements, written during the final years of his life when he was almost completely deaf.
Erinys Quartet appears by special arrangement with Curtis Artist Management at Curtis Institute of Music.
An Evening of Granados, Rachmaninoff, and Chopin
With pianist, Alyssa Gabrilovich
Saturday, April 5 | 5 pm
$28 ($18 members)
Enjoy an evening with pianist, Alyssa Gabrilovich, one of the most gifted young pianists of her generation. The program features the evocative fifth piece of Enrique Granados’s Goyescas, inspired by the paintings of the Spanish artist, Francisco Goya; followed by the beauty of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42. The evening concludes with Frederic Chopin’s elegant Waltz in A flat Major, Op. 34 No.1 and his deeply moving 24 preludes, Op. 28.
Pianist, Alyssa Gabrilovich made her stage debut at the age of 9 as a soloist with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she performed at the Kimmel Center and with the New Orleans Civic Symphony; in New York City at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and in the Kaufman Center for the Arts’ Merkin Hall and more. Alyssa was a recipient of the Chopin Foundation of the US scholarship in 2020-2022 and YoungArts winner in 2023. She performed twice live at the WRTI 90.1FM studio and was featured in NPR’s From the Top program. Alyssa has been a student of Dr. Igor Resnianski since 2014 and currently studies with him at the West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
Tempesta di Mare: Nelly's Songs
with: Julianne Baird, narration and concept; Sarah Fleiss, soprano, and Joyce Lindorff, harpsichord
Saturday, April 26 | 5 pm
$28 ($18 members)
Songs and instrumental selections from the music room of Eleanor "Nelly" Parke Custis Lewis, George Washington's step-granddaughter, including selections from the Francis Hopkins Collections of early American music. The concert includes narration about Nelly's music teacher, vocal exercises, and performances for her Grandfather-President's most valued guests in Philadelphia, just after the end of the Revolutionary War.
Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis, (1779–1852), known as “Nelly,” was the youngest of Martha Washington’s three granddaughters. When her father died prematurely in 1781, George and Martha Washington brought Nelly and her brother to be raised at Mount Vernon. As a young woman, Nelly lived with the Washingtons in New York and Philadelphia.
Music was very important in the Washington household. Nellie was an accomplished keyboard player who played both piano and harpsichord. She moved with the Washingtons to New York and was taught by Alexander Reinagle, one of the most prominent musicians to come to America. He also taught her in Philadelphia.
The Stephen Kerzner Fund for Classical Music
Woodmere has established the Stephen Kerzner Fund for Classical Music, recognizing Stephen’s passion for classical music. As a trained classical pianist, Stephen looked forward to and loved the classical concerts held at Woodmere.
This memorial fund will allow Woodmere to offer classical music programs and activities in Stephen’s memory.
Donations are accepted online by clicking here, or by check (please specify Stephen Kerzner Classical Music Fund in the memo of the check) and mail to:
Anne Standish, Woodmere, 9201 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118
