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About the Rossini Club:
The Rossini Club creates unique concert experiences that bring together chamber music with food, art, theater, and storytelling. We are committed to offering welcoming and interactive performances while showcasing artists of the highest caliber. Drawing from the rich arts tradition of Nantucket, we present music that is rarely heard alongside beloved masterpieces. Through thoughtful and evocative programming, we strive to create experiences that inspire, challenge, and celebrate the vitality of the arts within our community.
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Welcome back to Nantucket! We are excited to be presenting our annual summer season of classical music new and old.
Week 1, July 9-15: It Takes Two
Week 2, July 16-22: Back to Bach
Week 3, July 23-29: Pierrot Lunaire
Music by Nicholas Davies & the KINETIC Ensemble
Highlights from Rossini Club’s 2025 season, featuring Hearth & Homeland on August 27th at St. Paul’s Church of Nantucket.
Khachaturian: Trio for Clarinet, Violin & Piano (1932)
Nick Davies, clarinet
Emelyn Bashour, violin
Wesley Ducote, piano
Recording by Floyd Kellogg, videography by Nick Davies.
Highlights from Rossini Club’s 2025 season, featuring Hearth & Homeland on August 27th at St. Paul’s Church of Nantucket.
Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 3 in f minor, Op. 63 — IV. Finale
Emelyn Bashour, violin
Bree Ahern, cello
Wesley Ducote, piano
Recording by Floyd Kellogg, videography by Nick Davies.
Greta Feeney, soprano
Nick Davies, clarinet
Wesley Ducote, piano
Recorded by Floyd Kellogg
Directed by Dan Driscoll
Co-produced by the Rossini Club
Recorded at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church of Nantucket
Nick Davies, bass clarinet
Ivy Ringel, bassoon & melodica
Commissioned by the Rossini Club
Nick Davies, clarinet
Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon
Valerie Sly, horn
Produced by Owen Zhou
Recorded at First Congregational Church of Boulder
THE ROSSINI CLUB is a collective of chamber and classical musicians led by Nick Davies on the clarinet and Ivy Ringel on the bassoon. THE ROSSINI CLUB has performed on island each summer since they were formed in 2012. Dreamland Live Sessions is a weekly, winter film series highlighting the myriad talents of our many island musicians, bringing these artists together with fans in a safe and innovative way.
Find out more about these amazing artists in the episode interview or online at www.therossiniclub.org! When on Nantucket, Nick and Ivy are also involved at the Nantucket Community Music Center. Additionally, all episodes of Dreamland Live Sessions are mixed at the NCMC.
Special thanks to Jamie Howarth of Plangent Processes for mastering the audio on this episode of Dreamland Live Sessions.
Nick Davies, bass clarinet
Bree Ahern, cello
Recorded by Floyd Kellogg
First Congregational Church
62 Centre St, Nantucket
Nicholas Davies, bass clarinet
Nathan Watts, cello
Excerpt from the 2018 Summer Season
Recorded by Floyd Kellogg
First Congregational Church
62 Centre St, Nantucket
Nick Davies & KINETIC Ensemble Quartet
Will Overcash, violin
Natalie Lin, violin
Sergein Yap, viola
Nathan Watts, cello
Nick Davies, clarinet
Excerpt from the 2017 Summer Season
Recorded by Floyd Kellogg
First Congregational Church
62 Centre St, Nantucket
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Winterreise, D. 911
Arr. Normand Forget
Benjamin Boskoff, tenor
Norman Menzales, flute/piccolo
Noah Kay, oboe d’amore
Nick Davies, clarinet/bass clarinet
Valerie Sly, horn
Ryan Yamashiro, bassoon
Ronnie Kuller-Murray, accordion
Directed by Greta Feeney
Produced by The Rossini Club & Dreamland Nantucket
The Rossini Club pays tribute to honorary Nantucket composer, Ned Rorem, who passed away in late 2022. The composer, known for both his art songs and lurid diaries, lived on the island for many decades and wrote music about or dedicated to the island. Two of his works, the lush Nantucket Songs and the diary-like Winter Pages, will be performed on this concert. To complement these works, two pieces by Hungarian composers György Ligeti and Béla Bartók fill out the program.
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Courtesy of Nantucket Dreamland, experience the emotions of music both liminal and ecstatic in this unique program of early Romantic music, featuring Schumann and Mendelssohn in contrast with their 20th century counterparts. For their debut performance at the Dreamland, Rossini Club directors Nick Davies and Ivy Ringel will perform alongside longtime collaborator Wesley Ducote in this tribute to the artfully expressive Austro-German lyric tradition.
Nick Davies, clarinet
Ivy Ringel, bassoon
Wesley Ducote, piano
Adagio & Allegro, Op. 70
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Tangled in Smoke (2004)
Yu-Hui Chang (b. 1970)
Monolog (1983)
Isang Yun (1917-1995)
Five Fragments (1997)
Äußerst langsam
Presto possible
Sehr langsam, frei
Energiegeladen, sehr schnell
Achtel = 40
Jörg Widmann (b. 1973)
~ Intermission ~
Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 49
Molto Allegro agitato
Andante con molto tranquillo
Scherzo: Leggiero e vivace
Finale: Allegro assai appassionato
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)