UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Saturday, February 7, 2026, 3:00pm, Hackley School, Tarrytown: The Excelsior Symphony Orchestra will be performing their winter concert, which is dedicated to the memory of conductor (and long-time Westchester Musicians Guild member) Bill Eckfeld. WMG member oboist Heidi Chisholm will be performing with the orchestra in Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony. https://excelsiorso.org/index.php
PAST PERFORMANCES
Sunday, December 13, 2025: Pamela Sklar (composer, flute, and Native American flute) and Joyce Balint (violin and mandolin) performed a program of seasonal music at St. Paul’s Church in Mount Vernon.
Sunday, November 23, 2025. Westchester Chamber Soloists with Bernard Tamosaitis, guest conductor, performed at Sarah Lawrence College. Pianist Sayuri Iida was the soloist for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor. Bernard Tamosaitis was the cello soloist for Dvorak’s Silent Woods.
November 16, 2025. Flutist Pamela Sklar performed in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #5 for “Mostly Bach 2025” at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Mamaroneck.
Saturday, November 15, 2025. The Excelsior Symphony Orchestra – William Eckfeld, conductor, and Heidi Chisholm, oboe – in concert at the White Plains High School, performed works by R. Strauss, J. Sibelius, and L. van Beethoven.
Saturday, November 8, 2025. Associate WMG Member and sarod player Satyaki Dutta presented a workshop in Indian Classical Music at the Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden in North Salem.
Sunday, November 2, 2025, 12:30pm. Celebrating his 35 years as Music Director of the Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation in White Plains, pianist Adam Kent performed a concert of works by Mozart, Schubert, and Granados.
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Congratulations to pianist Gary Goodman on his newly completed recordings of both Chopin piano concerti, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of his performing Chopin Concerto No. 1 with orchestra in 1975! Check out the Media page for links to his recordings.