Thursday, Aug 21, 2025 at 12:00pm
Each August Staunton Music Festival welcomes over 80 acclaimed professionals from around the world to perform in 30 events. Multiple concerts daily make for an exhilarating immersion in chamber, vocal, and symphonic music. The days are given over to one-hour, free admission programs, while the evenings come alive with longer, ticketed concerts preceded by special dinners and short lectures. And for those who enjoy music after dark, look for the Nightcap concerts that take place at 10:00 pm in interesting spaces downtown.
Schedule of Events:
12:00pm - Musica Notturna
Doors open 11:15 - Concert ends 1:00
All seating is unreserved
Biber - Serenade for Strings (“Nightwatchman”)
Currier - Dusk and Starlight, for violin and harp
Wilbye - Draw On, Sweet Night, for voices
Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht, for string sextet
Location: First Presbyterian Church 100 East Frederick St, Staunton
3:00pm - Musica Intima
In this one-hour concert, audiences can enjoy a Haydn piano trio, Spanish music for solo guitar, and more. Music up close and personal for serious music lovers! Limited to 120 guests and held at the historic American Hotel, opposite Staunton's train station.
Doors open 2:15 - Concert ends 4:00
All seating is unreserved
Haydn - Piano Trio in D Minor
Torroba - Suite Castellana, for guitar
Mozart - Songs for voice and fortepiano
7:30pm - Who's Afraid of New Music?
Doors open 7:00 - All seating is reserved
Free preconcert talk begins at 6:45
St. Kassia - Now Isaiah the Prophet
Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 7 (”White Mass”)
Caccini - Queste lagrim’amare
Reid - Apple, for four sopranos
Gabrieli - Hodie completi sunt, from Symphoniae Sacrae
Heucke - The Glory of Life (world premiere)
Vivaldi - Concerto “La Notte,” for recorder, strings, and continuo
Burtner - Auroras, for orchestra and electronics
Beethoven - Egmont-Overture, Op. 84, for orchestra
Location: Trinity Episcopal Church 214 W Beverley St, Staunton
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