Plainfield MA Concerts at 7

**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**

**Contact David Kramer          david.p.kramer@gmail.com            (413) 464-2755**

**David Kramer, Artistic Director**

Concerts at 7 announces a new season of its celebrated summer series of chamber music at the classically beautiful and acoustically magnificent Congregational Church in Plainfield, Massachusetts. Our 2023 program of four concerts on the four Mondays of August comprises two concerts with strings and piano, and two string quartets. Our concerts are offered free of charge: we rely entirely on donations, which are gratefully accepted at the door or through our website. The church is located at 356 West Main Street (Route 116) in the center of Plainfield. For further information, please visit our website at www.plainfieldconcertsat7.org or call (413) 464-2755.

**​August 7, 2023, 7 p.m.** Cellist **Soo Bae** and pianist **Mia Chung** will perform Johannes Brahms’s two sonatas for piano and cello as well as some of their own compositions*.*

 **August 14, 2023, 7 p.m.** The **Neave Trio** will perform Brahms’s piano trio no. 1, op. 8; Ravel’s piano trio in A minor, op. 67; and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s *Five Negro Melodies for Piano Trio*. 

**August 21, 2023, 7 p.m.** The **Borromeo String Quartet** will perform Béla Bartók’s string quartet no. 6, Eleanor Alberga’s *Remember (2000)*, and Beethoven’s string quartet no. 12, in E-flat major, op. 127. 

**August 28, 2023, 7 p.m.** The **Parker String Quartet** will perform three quartets by Beethoven: opus 18, number 6, in B-flat major (1801); opus 95, in F minor “Serioso” (1810); and opus 130, in B-flat major (1825).

PLAINFIELD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

356 West Main Street (Rt. 116)  •  Plainfield, MA 01070

 ADMISSION FREE  •  HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE

 *This program is supported in part by grants from local cultural councils,*

*which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.*