Friction: Roomful of Teeth and the Takács Quartet perform versions of ‘chamber’ music

Roomful of Teeth and the Takács Quartet offer varied experiences of ‘chamber’ music

A new season of stellar shows is headed our way… Tickets for the 2025-26 Middlebury Performing Arts Series are live now.

The New York-based ensemble Choral Chameleon brings their rich harmonies and adventurous programming back to the Mahaney Arts Center this month for two very different choral experiences this January.

Celebrating its 30th season, the Jerusalem Quartet embodies the pinnacle of chamber music excellence, renowned worldwide for its passionate performances and impeccable precision.

BALA BILA brings together two African master musicians — Balla Kouyaté (balafon, calabash, bass guitar, and voice) and Matchume Zango (timbila, mbira, percussion, and voice) — in an intimate, living-room style concert and intercultural musical conversatio … (read more)

Middlebury College’s Mahaney Arts Center and the Vergennes Opera House both have recently released their performance line-ups for fall 2024 into spring 2025… so, open up that calendar and get ready to save some dates!

“This month’s live Heath Quartet concert will be their 11th at Middlebury, with the addition of three streamed encore performances during the pandemic,” said Performing Arts Series Director Allison Coyne Carroll.

Applauded by the New York Times for her “eloquent, powerful” interpretations, world-renowned cellist Sophie Shao has a gift for assembling impromptu chamber ensembles that are brimming with passion and talent.

The Middlebury Performing Arts Series proudly presents the Vermont debut of Small Island Big Song on Friday, March 8, during their 2024 U.S. national tour.

The Middlebury Performing Arts Series proudly presents rising star Baroque quartet Le Consort at the Mahaney Arts Center on Thursday. Feb. 22 — the only Vermont concert on the ensemble’s North American debut tour.

In a concert that has been highly anticipated since its postponement in 2020, the renowned Takács Quartet, “one of the world’s greatest string quartets,” will return to the Mahaney Arts Center on Jan. 19 and 21, to perform the entire Bartók string quartet … (read more)

The Middlebury Performing Arts Series will warm up an early winter’s night with a jazz concert by harpist Brandee Younger and her trio on Friday, Dec. 1.

Named “one of the best string quartets before the public today” by the Washington Post, the Danish String Quartet made an impression when they first performed at the Mahaney Arts Center in 2017.

Choreographer, educator, and activist Christal Brown and her company INSPIRIT will present the premiere of the new, evening-length dance and installation work “What We Ask of Flesh” Nov. 9-11 for the Middlebury Performing Arts Series.

Award-winning pianist and humanitarian Mahani Teave is a pioneering artist who bridges the creative world with education and environmental activism.