Enjoy Summer, Keep In Touch!

What a wonderful season of music. While it may be over for now, please keep in touch with the Rossini Club over on our social media’s. On Instagram and Facebook we will be providing some history facts about the club, information on the upcoming season and other news. We look forward to seeing you in Fall of 2023!

Performance of May 21st Concert at 3 p.m.

Rossini Club is proud to present a concert performed by Club members, including original work by Christopher Staknys. In addition, the musicians will perform music from Bach, Schubert, Bruch, and Brahms on May 21 in Portland, Maine.

  • Pianist Christopher Staknys will play his own Chorale Without Words as well as a Prelude and Fugue from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book II
  • Mezzo soprano Elizabeth Harmon and pianist James Nga will perform Franz Schubert’s Suleika I as well as Schubert’s Der Musensohn and An die Musik
  • Violist Eleanor Lehmann, with pianist Jonathan Prak will play Max Bruch’s Romance for Viola and Piano
  • Pianist Steven Blumenthal will play two Preludes and Fugues from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book I and Three Intermezzi from Klavierstücke, Opus 119 by Johannes Brahms

Location of event: The Cathedral Church of St. Luke, 143 State Street, Portland

General Admission $15
Seniors $10
Students free of charge

For more information: (207)318-7465

May 21st Concert Flyer

May 21st Concert Program

Click here for Past Performances

Piano Students Perform April 30th Concert

Rossini Club is proud to present a concert performed entirely by piano students of Laura Kargul, Director of Keyboard Studies at University of Southern Maine’s Osher School of Music

February 19th Concert

  • Pianist Sydney Patten will play two Brahms Intermezzos as well as a Brahms Rhapsody
  • Seth Blank, on French Horn, assisted by pianist Mark Braun, will perform works by Franz Strauss and Paul Harris
  • Our guest artist will be pianist, Brian Liu, winner of Rossini Club’s 2022 Lucia Wright Scholarship. He will perform works by Scriabin and Kapustin.

Richard Roberts Memorial Program on January 22nd at 3 p.m.

  • Pianist Sydney Patton will play two Brahms Intermezzos as well as a Brahms Rhapsody
  • Seth Blank, on French Horn, assisted by pianist Mark Braun, will perform works by Franz Strauss and Paul Harris
  • Our guest artist will be pianist, Brian Liu, winner of Rossini Club’s 2022 Lucia Wright Scholarship. He will perform works by Scriabin and Kapustin.

Portland Rossini Club Program for November 27th

  • Sopranos Luette Saul and Jazmin DeRice* will perform duets by by Chausson, Brahms, and Viardot
  • Clarinetist Stephen Schiffman and Ladies of Note will play Mozart’s Quintet in A major, K. 581
  • Soprano Stacy Geyer*, assisted by pianist Jonathan Prak, will sing five Italian art songs by Marcello, Caccini, Bononcini, Scarlatti, and Legrenzi

October 30th Performance

  • Sopranos Malinda Haslett* and Kayleigh Hunter* assisted by pianist Scott Wheatley*, will perform Three Hundred Years of Opera Favorites (in fifteen minutes)
  • Pianist Steven Blumenthal will play Mozart’s Sonata No. 9 in D major, K. 311
  • Pianist Michael Bostock* will play eight Shostakovich Preludes and Prelude in a Jazz Style by Nikolai Kapustin

Season Opener September 25th Concert

The Rossini Club ushers in the 2022-23 season with their opening concert featuring music for violin and piano, performed by Eleanor Lehmann and Leah Neuchiller; a selection of music from classic Broadway composers Rodgers and Hammerstein, performed by Danielle Vayenas and the Club’s new President, Jonathan Prak; and piano pieces performed by award-winning Portland Conservatory of Music student, Logan Peters.

The program includes:

Eleanor Lehmann, violin and Leah Neuchiller piano

Pieces by Florence Price, and François Schubert

Danielle Vayenas, soprano and Jonathan Prak, piano

Musical theater selections by Rodgers and Hammerstein
It Might As Well Be Spring – State Fair
Out Of My Dreams – Oklahoma
We Kiss In A Shadow/I Have Dreamed – King and I
If I Loved You, Mister Snow, and You’ll Never Walk Alone – Carousel
Climb Every Mountain – Sound of Music

Logan Peters, piano, winner of the 2022 Ocy Downs competition

Sonata In B minor, Hob.XVI, No. 32
Franz Joseph Haydn
I. Allegro Moderato
2. Menuet
3. Finale – Presto
     
General Lavine – Eccentric
Claude Debussy From Preludes Book 2

Prelude in G Major, Op 53, No. 3
Nikolai Kapustin