Taconic Music

08/14/2026

Our final Taconic Music International concert was on Wednesday. Thank you to all teachers and participants for making our 4th festival such a success!

08/09/2026

08/03/2026

Welcome dinner for our 4th Taconic Music International festival in Padua, Italy.

07/29/2026

Our 4th summer festival in Italy starts next week! Ten students from the US will come study chamber music, travel in the region and perform in Legnaro and Padua.

07/24/2026

We're still buzzing from an incredible season. THANK YOU to our Young Artist Sponsors.

Nine talented Young Artists took Manchester and towns across the region by storm, with performances at the Riley Center, Indigo + Green, Dionondehowa, nursing homes, houses of worship and more; introducing youngsters to the rudiments of music-playing; and even showing off their culinary skills.

07/21/2026

THANK YOU to our SPONSORS for a wonderful 10th Summer Festival!

C.R & Rita Arsht Foundation

Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, Manchester Medical Center, Equinox Terrance

The Rostan Family

The Bank of Bennington, Bromley Manor, Burr and Burton Academy, Express Copy, French & Co., Green Mountain Academy of Lifelong Learning, Hildene, HN Williams, Inn at Manchester, Langway Motors, Miles Fuels, Mother Myrick's, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Töst

Tatsiana Clark, Equinox Village, GNAT-TV, The Italian Market of Manchester, JK Adams, Manchester Gym, Miosek Law, MJG Interiors, Mulligans, Museum of the Creative Process, Nature's Market, Northshire Bookstore, Petal on Main, rk Miles, Sam's Woodfired Pizza, Sterling Aesthetics MedSpa, United Counseling Service, Wagatha's, Zippy Chicks

07/13/2026

TONIGHT our YOUNG ARTISTS take the stage for our festival CLOSING CONCERT at 7pm. Young Artists, Atticus Margulis-Ohnuma, Javier F. Torres Delgado, Belle Wang, Manxi Xu, violin, Keigan Iwanicki, Gregory C. Moix IV, viola, Adan Caldera Quintero and Layla Morris, cello and Benjamin Wien, piano, will perform exciting works by Robert Schumann, Claude Debussy, Dmitri Shostakovich and Felix Mendelssohn

Tonight’s suggested donation is $15 for adults (students/kids free). Reservations are encouraged but not required.

Reserve your tickets at tinyurl.com/tm-tickets

Can’t make it to the Riley Center? Watch the concert on youtube.com/live/m3DluFfRrNE (link in bio)

07/12/2026

TOMORROW, Monday July 13 at 7pm is our FINAL concert of the 2026 festival.

Taconic Young Artists—Atticus Margulis-Ohnuma, Javier Torres Delgado, Belle Wang, and Manxi Xu, violins; Keigan Iwanicki and Gregory Moix, violas; Adan Caldera Quintero and Layla Morris, celli; and Benjamin Wien, piano—will perform works by R. Schumann, Debussy, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn.

Young Artists Concerts’ suggested donation is $15 for adults (students/kids free). Reservations are encouraged but not required.

Reserve your tickets at tinyurl.com/tm-tickets

07/11/2026

Join us TONIGHT at 7:30 for VIBRANT MASTERPIECES at the Riley Center for the Arts in Manchester Village. The Box Office opens at 6:30pm, concert hall opens at 7.

The program features:
• HAYDN: Piano Trio No. 39 in G Major “Gypsy”
• SCHULHOFF: Five Pieces for String Quartet
• MENDELSSOHN: String Octet

With The Indianapolis Quartet: (Zachary DePue and Joana Genova, violins; Michael Strauss, viola; Egor Antonenko, cello), and Heather Braun and Rose Drucker, violins; Ariel Rudiakov, viola; Tom Landschoot, cello; and Young Woong Cho, piano.

Purchase your tickets at tinyurl.com/tm-tickets or at the Box Office.

Can’t make it to Manchester? Watch the livestream at youtube.com/live/e9VVGfFiR2w (link in bio)