You can now buy package tickets to all three concerts at a significant discount through the Fisher Center (click the “Buy Tickets” button above). Learn more about each quartet and buy tickets to their respective individual concerts below.  Please note: Once again, all performances will be held on *Sunday afternoons at 4PM* (rather than Saturday evenings) in order to accommodate a wider audience. Also, our first concert in the series is at the end of May rather than the beginning of June.

Celebrated for their “multifaceted artistry” and “brilliantly idiomatic” programming (New York Times), the Poiesis Quartet is the winner of the 2026 Cleveland Quartet Award and the First Prize and Commission Prize recipients of the 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition. They will perform works from the canon by Joseph Haydn and Sergei Prokofiev alongside contemporary works by Sky Macklay, Chickasaw classical composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, and a newly commissioned work by Kevin Lau.

• Sky Macklay: Many, Many Cadences
• Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D Major, Op. 71, No. 2
• Kevin Lau: String Quartet No. 7, Surfacing, commissioned by the Poiesis Quartet
• Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate: “Pisachi” (Reveal) for String Quartet
• Sergei Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op.92

With performances acclaimed for both “high-octane” excitement (The Strad) and “dusky lyricism” (New York Times), the Aeolus Quartet has been awarded prizes at nearly every major competition in the United States and performed across the globe with showings “worthy of a major-league quartet” (Dallas Morning News). Their program features a newly revised version of Wild Summer by HVCMC’s very own Artistic Director, the renowned local composer, Joan Tower.

• Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421
• Joan Tower: Wild Summer
• Grażyna Bacewicz: String Quartet No. 3
• Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80

The HVCMC 2026 Summer Series culminates with the return of our Artistic Directors Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson and their acclaimed piano quartet Espressivo! featuring the stellar violist Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt, a founding member of the Dover Quartet, and the award-winning pianist Anna Polonsky, one of chamber music’s most sought-after collaborators. This year’s program will feature beloved works by Beethoven and Schumann and a reprise of Richard Danielpour’s Book of Hours, co-commissioned by the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle and premiered on our series at Olin Auditorium in 2007. This year will mark the 26th anniversary of Jaime and Sharon’s artistic leadership.

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 16
• Richard Danielpour: Book of Hours, co-commissioned by HVCMC
• Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47