Mozart and Beethoven for lunch Wednesday, Aug 1

Bring your lunch this Wednesday, August 1, and enjoy sonatas for violin and piano by Mozart (K. 306) and Beethoven (Op. 30/1) as performed by violinist Emily Kalish and pianist Scott Bailey. This will be the fourth concert of our free Summer Noontime Concert series. The concert will begin at 12:00 and end by 12:45. The church will provide drinks and cookies.

Emily Kalish grew up in Great Barrington, where she was a student of Alla Zernitskaya. She has studied at Simon's Rock College, the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and the Hartt School, where she received a bachelor of music degree. She has participated in the Quartet Program at Bucknell, the Killington Music Festival and Musicorda. She has just completed the first year of a master's program in violin performance at the Manhattan School of Music, where her principal teacher is Burton Kaplan.

Scott Bailey is currently an adjunct professor of music at Westfield State College and private instructor of piano and accompanist at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. He has served on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and works as a freelance accompanist and teacher throughout the Pioneer Valley as well as Berkshire County. He has accompanied or worked for various organizations in Western Massachusetts including the Hampshire Choral Society, The New Opera, Berkshire Lyric Festival, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, The Drury Drama Team, and the Greylock Theater Project.

He received his B.M. from SUNY Potsdam - Crane School of Music and his M.M. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is the music director at the First Congregational Church of North Adams, United Church of Christ, and is coordinator of their North County Music Series, a concert series featuring local and emerging musicians from Berkshire County and beyond.