Sunday, July 7 at 4 p.m. – ROCHESTER – After thirty years as artistic director of the Rochester Chamber Music Society, Cynthia Huard will perform her final concert on Sunday, July 7, at 4 p.m. in the Federated Church. She will be accompanied by the newly appointed artistic director, violinist Adda Kridler, violinist Mary Rowell and cellist Ani Kalajian. A longtime advocate of collaborative music making, Cynthia Huard will continue to perform and hopefully return to the RCMS as guest artist.
The RCMS summer series began 30 years ago after two resident concert artists were playing for friends and at gatherings in Rochester. The friends encouraged then violinist Marguerite Schenkman and Cynthia Huard to share their music more often and in a larger venue. Under Huard’s guidance, and now a summer favorite of many, the RCMS summer series draws from a wide audience from Montpelier to Woodstock and many towns from Addison and Rutland counties.
In a wide ranging program, this concert marks the opening of the Green Mountain Suzuki week and will include works by Bach, Nico Muhly, Khachaturian, Carolyn Shaw, and Fauré.
Pianist Cynthia Huard has appeared as a featured soloist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Aston Magna Early Music Festival, and in recital as a pianist and harpsichordist throughout the United States and in Europe.
As artistic director of the Rochester Chamber Music Society’s summer series for 30 years, she has performed with the Lark Quartet, the Johannes Quartet, cellist Nathaniel Rosen, and with chamber players of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, National Symphony, and the Colorado, Utah, and Vermont Symphony Orchestras. Her recent premieres include music by Nico Muhly, Padma Newsome, and commissions from Erik Nielsen and Thomas L. Read.
Huard holds advanced degrees from Indiana University and The University of Music and the Performing Arts in Graz, Austria.
Adda Kridler frequently records and performs for film, television, and recording artists; she has toured nationally with Adele, played on “The Tonight Show” and “Saturday Night Live,” recorded film scores for Ryuichi Sakamoto, and appeared on-screen in Succession and Maestro.
She is a member of the Vitamin String Quartet collective and has played in many Broadway productions and cast albums, including “Hamilton,” “Moulin Rouge,” “Beetlejuice,” and “The Great Gatsby.” Adda is thrilled to join RCMS as artistic director in the 2025 season, and even more thrilled to have found her second musical family in the Rochester community.
For more information: rcmsvt.org or call 802-767-9234.
