MONTICELLO – The Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra (SCCO), a Nesin Cultural Arts supported project, presents two free concerts entitled, “Beethoven Unfolding: The Three Periods 1/3/5.” The first concert (presented by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance as part of the Salon Series) will be held at the Krause Recital Hall, 37 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Narrowsburg, NY 12764 on Saturday, February 28^th at 2 p.m.  The second concert is Sunday, March 1^st at 3 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 15 St. John St., Monticello, NY 12701. These concerts are free to attend. Please support at the door or online at www.linktr.ee/nesinculturalarts. For more information call: 845-798-9006.

Performing this concert will be Vadim Serebryany, piano and Kirsten Jermé, cello. The program includes Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 1 in F Major Op. 5 No. 1, Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 3 Op. 26 in A Major and Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major Op. 105 No. 2. 

Classical music is often divided into eras that define the age where composers lived and thrived. From the lavish ornamentation of the Baroque to the eclectic pluralism of 21st-century music, the arts have clear bookmarks in time where musicologists can categorize and define music. This is not the case for Beethoven; he lives in an era of his own. Trained through the Enlightenment, yet always wearing his heart on his sleeve, Beethoven is neither purely classical nor romantic, but a blend of the two which shaped the standard for every composer who followed. SCCO is proud to present a program that explores this evolution through his three distinct compositional periods: early, middle and late.

This program is made possible in part by funding from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathleen Courtney Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the Sullivan County Youth Bureau and Episcopal Charities.