The Craftsbury Chamber Players season continues this Thursday, August 4 at 7:30 at the Hardwick Town House, with a program of Italian chamber music. The program includes a cello sonata by Antonio Vivaldi, featuring an accompaniment updated in the 1950s for the modern piano by Luigi Dalapiccola; a string trio from 1950 by Mario Castelnuevo-Tedesco (best known for his work as a film composer); and an epic quintet for piano and string quartet by conductor, composer, teacher and pianist Giovanni Sgambati, composed in 1866. Performers are Marcantonio Barone, piano; Adria Benjamin, viola; Jenifer Gersten, violin; Marka Gustavsson, viola; Mimi Hwang, cello; Frances Rowell, cello; Mary Rowell, violin; and Wendy Sharp, violin. There is a pre-concert chat featuring one of the artists at 6:45.

Tickets are available at the door. Single admission – $25; Students – $10; Children 12 and under – free. For information about season passes and group ticketing please go to craftsburychamberplayers.org or call 1-800-639-3443.

There is a FREE mini concert for our youngest chamber music lovers at East Craftsbury Presbyterian Church at 2 pm. The program features excerpts from the evening concert.

Please note: given the ongoing presence of the COVID-19 in our communities, we recommend that face masks be worn inside performance venues; however, we are not requiring masks. Should national and local guidelines change in the course of the concert season, we will of course provide updated guidance.