“Vermont’s most charming little festival…”
The West Windsor Music Festival is returning to the intimate confines of the historic Town Hall Theatre in Brownsville, VT from June 26-27, where celebrated concert pianist Sakiko Ohashi has curated yet another remarkable ensemble of talented artists to fill the hall with sound.
Meet the Artisits
Above, this years featured artists at the West Windsor MFrom Left, Sakiko Ohashi, Orli Shaham, Salix Piano Trio, and Helen Kim
Sakiko Ohashi: Sakiko Ohashi, a native of Japan, began her piano studies at the age of four. By the time she was 10 years old, she was accepted to the Juilliard Pre-College Division as a student of Herbert Stessin. Since then, performances have taken her throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, and Europe. In 1996, Sakiko made her concerto debut at Lincoln Center in New York City, performing Bartok’s 3rd Piano Concerto with the Juilliard Symphony conducted by Otto-Werner Mueller. In New York, her appearances have included venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Juilliard Theatre, and The Harvard Club. At the Juilliard School, her awards and scholarships included Van Cliburn, Lilian Halpern, Bertha Levin, Alexander Siloti, and the Maxwell Muriel Gluck Fellowship. She studied chamber music under Felix Galimir, Stephen Clapp, and Jonathan Feldman. She holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School.
Orli Shaham: Orli Shaham (Pre-College ’93; BCJ exchange ’97, piano) has established an international reputation as one of today’s most gifted pianists. She has performed with most of the major orchestras in the U.S. and internationally from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. Orli is artistic director of Pacific Symphony’s chamber series Café Ludwig in Costa Mesa, California, and artistic director of the interactive children’s concert series Orli Shaham’s Bach Yard, which she founded in 2010. Orli is on the piano and chamber music faculty at The Juilliard School and is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Kaufman Music Center. She is a major presence on public radio as Co-Host and Creative for NPR’s From the Top and was host of Dial-a-Musician, a radio feature series she created. Orli studied with Luisa Yoffe in Jerusalem and with Herbert Stessin at Juilliard. In addition to her musical education at Juilliard, she holds a BA from Columbia University, where she pursued her graduate studies in historical musicology.
The Salix Piano Trio: The Salix Piano Trio was founded in New York City in 2023 by longtime friends and colleagues — violinist Joanna Maurer, cellist Alberto Parrini, and pianist Anna Stoytcheva — out of a desire to explore the rich and vast piano trio canon. For the past 20+ years, Maurer, Parrini and Stoytcheva have performed and toured together around the United States in different combinations, notably as members of the American Chamber Players. Their extraordinary, dynamic performances have been enthusiastically praised. The Washington Post’s, “a stunning performance (by Maurer and Stoytcheva) that…turned what might have been just an entertaining evening into a must-hear musical event,” is just one example. Since their founding, the Salix Piano Trio has performed on the Bulgarian Concert Evenings in New York series as well as on their Opening Gala at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall among other venues.
Helen Hwaya Kim: Helen Hwaya Kim made her orchestral debut with the Calgary Philharmonic at the age of six, and has gone on to become a respected and sought-after artist. She has appeared as a soloist with the Boston Pops at Boston’s Symphony Hall, as well as with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras. Ms. Kim earned her Bachelor and Master’s Degree from the Juilliard School, where her teachers included Cho-Liang Lin and Dorothy DeLay. While at Juilliard, she served as Concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra and was the winner of the Juilliard Concerto Competition at both the Pre–College and College levels. She is the recipient of more than one hundred national and international awards. A native of Canada, Ms. Kim has been engaged by many of Canada’s leading orchestras, including the National Arts Center Orchestra, Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, McGill Chamber Orchestra, and the Windsor, Regina, Victoria and Prince George Symphonies.
Tickets:
$25 for ages 13+, $15 for Seniors 65+, and Free for children 12 and under. (Children’s Concert free to all).
$60.00 all-concert tickets are available.
For more information and to purchase tickets please visit westwindsorvtmusicfestival.com.