Announcing 2024-2025 Silbiger grant recipient

We are pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Silbiger Grant! The Longy School of Music Viol Consort will present a program of music by Jewish composers this fall. The performance will take place at Kehillat Israel located at 348 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA on November 17th at 3pm. The consort consists of viol players Kevin Lubin, Guinevere Conner, Thomas Conrad, Julian Bernal, with singers Katja Pennypacker and Cannon McClure. Their program will feature works of Leonara Duarte and Salamone Rossi, rarely performed sacred music by Abraham Caceres, and selections by composers who were employed in synagogues such as Cristiano Lidarti. Additional repertoire will include new arrangements of Jewish folk tunes, mostly Ladino in origin, for viol consort, paired with Sephardic music and Yiddish songs which may be familiar to listeners.  Congratulations to the musicians!