Craftsbury Chamber Players present their fourth concert of the season, featuring Artists-in-Residence, the Kompass Quartet, on Thursday, August 3, at 7:30 PM at the Hardwick Town House in Hardwick. There will be a pre-concert chat with one of the artists at 6:45.

This concert features works by three remarkable 19th- and 20th-century composers – all of them women.

The program opens with Amy Beach's beautiful Sonata in A minor for violin and piano, and closes with Ethel Smyth's Trio in D minor for violin, cello, and piano. Though Beach and Smyth were contemporaries, they led remarkably different lives – Amy Beach was an American whose career was suppressed by societal conventions; Ethel Smyth a Brit who eventually set her composing aside to focus on her work as a Suffragette. Between these two pieces, CCP features the players of our inaugural Young Artist Residency: The Kompass Quartet – performing Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz's string quartet No. 4, which received international acclaim upon its completion in 1951.

Performers are Marcantonio Barone, piano; Jessica Gehring, Mary Rowell, Jade Schoolcraft, and Katherine Winterstein, violins; Matthew Ryan, viola; and Victoria Lin and Frances Rowell, cello.

Tickets are available at the door or online. Single admission – $25; Students – $10; Children 12 and under – free; or borrow a season pass from your local library! For information, please visit craftsburychamberplayers.org or call 1-800-639-3443.

There is also a free mini concert for children and their friends, at East Craftsbury Presbyterian Church, at 2:00 PM on Thursday, August 3. The program features excerpts from the evening concert and age-appropriate discussion.