34th Season August 3rd - 15th, 2026 Monday, August 3rd, 2026 at 1:00 pm A Special Event - Concert for Violin, Cello and Piano with Michael Roth, violin, Peter Sanders, cello, and Diane Fanning, piano Strode Independent Living at Morgan Orchards Admission: Free Thursday, August 6th, 2026 at 7:00 pm Open Rehearsal Chandler Center for the Arts Admission: Free Saturday, August 8th, 2026 at 7:30 pm Brahms, Gliere, Źeleński Chandler Center for the Arts Admission: $27.00 Buy Tickets Sunday, August 9th, 2026 at 4:00 pm An Encore Performance - Brahms, Gliere, Źeleński Afternoon concert in Woodstock, VT Woodstock Unitarian Universalist Church 7 Church St. Suggested donation at the door, $20.00 Thursday, August 13th, 2026 at 7:00 pm Open Rehearsal Chandler Center for the Arts Admission: Free Friday, August 14th, 2026 at 7:00 pm A Special Event - Erik Friedlander Block Ice & Propane Chandler Center for the Arts Admission: $20.00 Buy Tickets Saturday, August 15th, 2026 at 7:30 pm A Special Concert for Walter Parker Music for mixed ensembles of strings, winds and piano ending with the Dohnányi Sextet in C major, Op. 37 Chandler Center for the Arts Admission: $27.00 Buy Tickets The Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival announces the release of its first highlight CD: Festival Harvest "The Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival has come a long way since it was founded in 1993 by Peter Sanders, a New York cellist who grew up spending his summers in the Randolph area. An indication of just how far is its excellent New CD, "Festival Harvest," a compilation of live performances of works by Mendelssohn, Schönberg and Frank Bridge at the Chandler Center for the Arts in 2000 and 2004. When I first heard the album, I had recently heard an excellent performance of Mendelssohn's A Major String Quintet at Vermont's justly revered Marlboro Music Festival. The same work opens this CD, and I actually preferred the Randolph performance. That's big praise." Read the review from the December 2, 2005 issue of Vermont's Times Argus Artists of the 34th season: Michael Roth, violin Arturo Delmoni, viola Erica Gailing, viola Erik Friedlander, cello Peter Sanders, cello Alan R. Kay, clarinet Stewart Rose, horn Diana Fanning, piano Mika Sasaki, piano Repertoire and Artists from 1993 to present Michael Roth, violin, is a native of Scarsdale, NY and received his early musical training with Frances Magnes at the Hoff-Barthelson Music School. He attended Oberlin College and Conservatory, continuing his studies with Marilyn McDonald. At Oberlin, he won the Kaufman Prize for violin and First Prize in the Ohio String Teacher's Association Competition. He completed his Master of Music degree at the University of Massachusetts where he worked with the distinguished American violinist and pedagogue Charles Treger and was a recipient of the Julian Olevsky Award. Mr. Roth is currently associate concertmaster of the New York City Ballet Orchestra and has appeared in chamber music and as a soloist with the company, most recently in the debut of "Slice Too Sharp", a ballet of Biber and Vivaldi violin concerti, and "After the Rain", violin music of Arvo Part. In addition he is a member of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Principal 2nd violin of the Westchester Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra and the New York Pops. He was concertmaster of the Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestra for many years and often appeared as soloist there, as well as at the Caramoor and Bard Music Festivals. He has played and toured internationally with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the New York Chamber Soloists. As a chamber musician, Mr. Roth has collaborated on violin and viola with artists such as Eugene Drucker, Menahem Pressler, James Buswell, Steven Doane, Hamao Fujiwara and members of the Brentano, Manhattan and Ying Quartets, and recently presented a recital of contemporary Cuban solo violin and chamber music in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall under the auspices of the American Composers Orchestra. With Orpheus, the Eos Orchestra, Philharmonia Virtuosi, The New York Pops and the American Composers Orchestra and others, Mr. Roth has recorded for the Sony, Angel, Telarc, Decca, BMG, Point Music, ESSA.Y. and Arbors Music labels. top Arturo Delmoni, viola, is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation. His remarkably distinctive playing embodies the romantic warmth that is the special province of the great virtuosi of the golden age of violin playing. Yo-Yo Ma describes Delmoni as "an enormously gifted musician and an impeccable violinist. His playing style is unique, and his gorgeous sound is reminiscent of that of great violinists from a bygone era." Glenn Dicterow, former concertmaster of the LA & NY Philharmonics, says, "Delmoni's playing always goes right to the heart, and his charisma is irresistible." Delmoni's stylish, elegant interpretations of classical masterpieces have earned him critical acclaim in the United States and abroad. Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe wrote, "It's hard to imagine how the violin could be much better played than Delmoni did - he plays with astonishing speed, lightness, fluency and sweetness of tone." Alan Heatherington of the American Record Guide wrote, "The growing discography of Arturo Delmoni testifies to a musician who must possess an artistic soul of exceptional beauty. Each new issue reveals additional aspects of a winsome musical personality and verifies an impression of great warmth and geniality." Delmoni made his debut at Carnegie Hall at age 14 playing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Little Orchestra Society under Thomas Scherman. Since then he has been a soloist with the St. Louis, Dallas, Spokane, Jupiter, El Paso, Glendale and Tucson Symphony Orchestras; the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston; the California Chamber Symphony; the New York City Ballet Orchestra; the Rhode Island, Brooklyn, Boston, Omaha and Kansas City Philharmonics; and the Boston Pops. He has appeared as a recitalist throughout the United States and in Europe, the Middle East, Japan and Hong Kong. As a chamber musician, Delmoni has performed with illustrious colleagues such as Pinchas Zukerman, Elmar Oliveira, Emanuel Ax, Nathaniel Rosen, Jon Kimura Parker, Jeffrey Kahane and Dudley Moore. Songs My Mother Taught Me, Delmoni's recording of romantic miniatures, received extraordinary reviews from prominent critics. Audiophiles and audio critics generally regard his recording of unaccompanied violin music of Ysaÿe, Kreisler and Bach as a reference for the sound of a solo violin. Recently, Delmoni toured Taiwan and Hungary, performing concerts and presenting master classes with cellist Kenneth Kwo and pianist Anikó Szokodi. Delmoni's duo recital recording with cellist Nathaniel Rosen, titled "Music for a Glass Bead Game" was nominated for an AFIM Indie Award, received a Golden Ear award, and was on Fanfare's "Best of the Year" list. Arturo Delmoni plays a JB Guadagnini, 1780, and a viola from the same period. top Violist Erica Gailing, a native New Yorker, began her musical studies at the age of five on the violin. Ms. Gailing was a member of the New World Symphony in Miami before returning to New York, where she held a one-year position with the New York City Ballet Orchestra. Prior to joining the Baltimore Symphony, Ms. Gailing also performed frequently with both the Pittsburgh Symphony and the New York Philharmonic. She has played in several music festivals across the United States including the Spoleto Festival USA, Sarasota Music Festival and at the Tanglewood Music Center, where she was a recipient of the KMD Foundation Fellowship. Ms. Gailing received a Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance as a Macaulay Honors Scholar from Queens College, and graduated from The Juilliard School with a Master of Music degree in Viola Performance. She has studied under the direction of Daniel Phillips, Toby Appel, Michael Klotz and Cynthia Phelps. Ms. Gailing joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2023. top Cellist Erik Friedlander is a prolific solo artist, bandleader, and film composer. Long established as a sought-after studio musician and improviser in New York's downtown music scene, he has in recent years gained wide recognition for his work in film and television. Most recently, he scored the 2022 feature film Baby Ruby. In 2018, he composed the music for an episode of Matthew Weiner's (Mad Men) anthology series The Romanoffs. In 2017, Friedlander wrote the critically acclaimed score for Cory Finley's feature film Thoroughbreds, and that same year he scored Oh Lucy!, directed by Atsuko Hirayanagi, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Friedlander began studying music at an early age, starting guitar at five before taking up the cello at eight. He grew up in a home filled with music: his father, an avid music lover, made countless mixtapes that played daily throughout the house. Over the years, Friedlander has performed and recorded with artists as varied as The Mountain Goats, John Zorn, Dave Douglas, and Courtney Love. His desire to fully engage with the swirl of musical styles around him led him to explore new techniques and approaches to the cello - an inventive spirit that continues to drive both his solo work and his distinctive, genre-defying compositions. top Peter Sanders, cello, is a native New Yorker and a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Sanders has been a member of the New York City Ballet Orchestra since 1999 (for which he has served as Acting Principal), performs with Orchestra Lumos and has performed and recorded as a guest artist with the Perspectives Ensemble. He has toured Southeast Asia twice with the New York Symphonic Ensemble and as concerto soloist with the group performed in concerts in Taipei and Singapore. He is Artistic Director of the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, which had its inaugural season in 1993. Mr. Sanders was a winner of the 1998 Artists International award as a member of the Hollaender Ensemble and is currently a member of the Ariadne Trio. He has participated in many summer festivals including the Colorado Music Festival, Skaneateles Festival, Crested Butte Chamber Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival (faculty position), CVCMF, Lancaster Festival, Ohio (where he was principal cello from 1992-98), Windham Chamber Music Festival, the Sherman Chamber Ensemble, the Park City & SLC Autumn Classics Music Festival and the Moab Music Festival. As a studio musician Mr. Sanders has recorded for a variety of popular artists including Pat Metheny, Jewel, Kathie Lee Gifford, Andy Bey and Carlinhos Brown. He can be heard on the Delos, Muse, Bridge, RCA Victor-Red Seal, New World, On the Lamb and KOCH International Classics labels. Radio and television broadcasts include WQXR, APM's "Performance Today", PBS and Vermont Public. top Praised by the New York Times for his "spellbinding" performances and "infectious enthusiasm and panache," Alan R. Kay is Principal Clarinetist of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Principal Clarinet of New York's Riverside Symphony and Little Orchestra Society. He is the recipient of the Classical Recording Foundation's Samuel Sanders Award, the C.D. Jackson Award at Tanglewood, a Presidential Scholars Teacher Award, and a Young Concert Artists Award with Hexagon, featured in the prizewinning film, "Debut." A founding member of Windscape, Mr. Kay performs regularly at the Yellow Barn, Orlando (Holland), Bowdoin, Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society Festivals, and the Cape May Music Festival. A frequent performer of the clarinet quintet canon, he has collaborated with the Orion, Calidore, Miró, Shanghai, Guarneri, Mendelssohn, Weinberg, Fine Arts, Chester and Colorado string quartets. He teaches at the Manhattan School of Music, Juilliard and Stony Brook University, where he also serves as Executive Director of the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra. In 2023, anonymous donors established the Alan R. Kay Music Scholarship at The Juilliard School. Mr. Kay has recorded with Hexagon, Windscape, the Sylvan Winds and Orpheus, whose 2016 recording with the late Wayne Shorter, "Emanon," won "Best Jazz Instrumental Album" at the 61st Grammy Awards. Recent recordings include CDs of the works of Rudolf Escher and Hans Kox, and Michael Torke's "Psalms and Canticles," "TIME" and "Unseen." He has served as a panelist for the Trapani, Italy and Rolduc, Holland competitions, as well as for Young Concert Artists, Concert Artists Guild, and the Fischoff Competition. Also a conductor, Mr. Kay studied conducting at Juilliard with the late Otto-Werner Mueller and has led ensembles at Juilliard, Stony Brook and in the New York City area. top Praised by The New Yorker for his "forceful yet elegant virtuosity," French hornist Stewart Rose is one of the preeminent horn players of his generation. He is currently performing with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and in recent seasons, was acting principal with New York City Ballet Orchestra and prior to that, acting associate principal with the New York Philharmonic for two years. He has been guest principal with Philadelphia Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Saito Kinen Orchestra. He has appeared at the Marlboro, Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart, Spoleto, Edinburgh, Chesapeake Music, and Bridgehampton festivals and is a frequent guest with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. A native New Yorker, he began playing with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in the 1980s and has been principal horn with Orchestra of St. Luke's since its inception. He also served as principal horn with New York City Opera at Lincoln Center for 25 years. Mr. Rose's first solo recording, From the Forest, a collection of early classical works for horn and orchestra by Haydn, Telemann, Leopold Mozart, and Christoph Forster with St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, was released on St. Luke's Collection to great critical acclaim. The New York Times noted Stewart Rose for his "remarkable virtuosity, agility and fluency, and his ability to retain the horn's cheery rusticity." top Diana Fanning has toured extensively as a solo performer and chamber musician throughout the U.S. and in England, France, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, the Czech Republic, Canada and Germany. In recent years she has performed at the Schloss Leopoldskron ("Sound of Music" castle) in Salzburg, and in Prague at the invitation of the International Dvorak Society. After a solo recital in Munich, a critic wrote that "Diana Fanning stunned her listeners with the rich spectrum of subtle colors and tonal nuances she revealed. Her recital seized the audience with a veritable deep magic." Ms. Fanning has performed on numerous occasions as a concerto soloist with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. She was featured as soloist in a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in the debut concert of the Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra and was invited back for performances of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Vermont Public Television featured her in a program of works by Scarlatti, Ravel and Chopin. Radio audiences hear her frequently over Vermont Public Radio, and she was interviewed on Radio Prague. She also performed live on "Morning Pro Musica" (WGBH-FM) Boston and on WNYC, New York City. As a chamber musician, Ms. Fanning has been a guest artist with the Takacs, the Schumann, the Jupiter and the Alexander String Quartets, and with ensembles from Point Counterpoint Music Camp, which she owned and directed for ten years with her husband Emory Fanning. As a member of the Davydov-Fanning Duo with the outstanding cellist Dieuwke Davydov, she has performed widely in the U.S., completed eight concert tours of Europe, and recorded for Radio Netherlands. Ms. Fanning's CD of works by Janáček, Chopin and Debussy received enthusiastic reviews in England and the U.S. She also released a recording of live concert performances with Dieuwke Davydov. Her principal teacher was Ruth Geiger of New York City; she also studied with Marcelle Heuclin at the Paris Conservatory. She is an Affiliate Artist at Middlebury College. top Praised as a "superb interpreter" (Fanfare) and for her "virtuosity... and sparkling sound" (Times Argus), pianist Mika Sasaki enjoys a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician, and educator. She has performed across the U.S. and in the U.K., Italy, Japan, and Switzerland, appearing in notable venues such as the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. Her performances have been broadcasted on WQXR, WFMT, WCRB, KQAC, and Radio Sweden. She has appeared as concerto soloist with the Sinfonia of Cambridge, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, 92Y Orchestra, and more recently, with the InterSchool Symphony Orchestra of New York, performing Amy Beach's Piano Concerto. Mika is the pianist of the powerhouse sextet Ensemble Mélange and a core member of Decoda, the affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall. As a guest artist, she has performed with the Manhattan Chamber Players, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Connect, Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Passionate about education and audience engagement, she has presented interactive performances at schools and community venues all around New York City and across the country, including community residencies for String Theory at the Hunter in Chattanooga, TN, and for Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, OR. She is an alumna of summer programs such as the Tanglewood Music Center, Music@Menlo, Accademia Chigiana, Yellow Barn, Aspen, Icicle Creek, Mannes Beethoven Institute, and Taos School of Music, and has performed at festivals including the Focus!, Weekend of Chamber Music, Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, Monadnock Music, Time:Spans, Shandelee, and the Rite of Summer. She has also taught and performed at pianoSonoma, Rushmore, Omaha Conservatory SoundWaves, Taubman Piano Festival, WCYO Charles Ives Music Festival, Summer Performing Arts with Juilliard, and Music@Menlo's Chamber Music Institute. Based in New York City, Mika is a faculty member at The Juilliard School, where she teaches keyboard skills, piano, and chamber music in the College, Pre-College, and Extension Divisions. She is an alumna of the Peabody Conservatory (B.M., M.M.), Ensemble Connect-a two-year fellowship program of Carnegie Hall, Juilliard, and the Weill Institute, in partnership with the NYC Department of Education, and The Juilliard School (D.M.A.), where she studied with Joseph Kalichstein and received the Juilliard Career Advancement Grant upon graduation. When not at the piano, she can be found tending to her houseplants, cooking, or chasing after her cat. top