Five days of music, with multiple performances each day, presented in our own Hammer Hall. Gather along one of the most scenic coastlines in the world for a truly outstanding summer music festival experience.
While you can hear remarkable performances of standard repertoire, you can also experience world premieres, one-of-a-kind creative happenings, free concerts on Camden Village Green, and a thoroughly welcoming, convivial atmosphere.
Schedule of Events:
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Mozart in the Morning: Part 5 - Hammer Hall
MOZART IN THE MORNING PART 5 - Returning to the Keyboard
Performers:
LLEWELLYN SANCHEZ-WERNER, host and piano
RACHEL BREEN, piano
Our final morning brings the series to a joyful close, celebrating Mozart’s lifelong connection to the keyboard, the instrument with which he first astonished Europe and the one he always returned to. Works performed by our series host Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner and pianist Rachel Breen bring us into a world where wit and wisdom are always in conversation. We also look ahead to composers who followed in Mozart’s wake, those who inherited and reimagined his legacy at the keyboard. With performance, commentary, and reflection, this final gathering is a celebration of Mozart’s enduring lure, his ability to move mountains centuries after his fingers first touched a keyboard.
Program:
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in B-Flat Major, K 358
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448
Other keyboard works by Mozart and his inheritors
Tickets: Age 35+: $38 | 22-34: $20 | 21 & Under: Pay What You Wish. Coffee and baked items generously provided by Zoot Coffee before the concert.
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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Blake Pouliot, violin and Henry Kramer, piano - Hammer Hall
Performers:
BLAKE POULIOT, violin
HENRY KRAMER, piano
Fresh from their acclaimed Distinguished Debut recital at Carnegie Hall, Blake Pouliot and Henry Kramer bring a bold and emotionally charged program to Hammer Hall. The concert opens with Bao Zhi Yang’s Ambush on All Sides, a tour-de-force reinvention of an ancient Chinese narrative about strategy, betrayal, and the poetry of battle. Derrick Skye’s the spark she left behind, dedicated to his late grandmother, has its roots in traditional Persian music. The program culminates in Prokofiev’s monumental Violin Sonata No. 1. Composed in the aftermath of war and written under the intense scrutiny of Stalinist Russia, the sonata moves between stillness and force. Its final movement (in which the violin is instructed to sound “like the wind in a graveyard”) bristles with a sense of foreboding. Blake and Henry offer a musical journey that is both fearless and poetic.
Program:
BAO ZHI YANG Ambush on All Sides
DERRICK SKYE the spark she left behind
SERGEI PROKOFIEV – Violin Sonata No. 1
Tickets: Age 35+: $38 | 22-34: $20 | 21 & Under: Pay What You Wish.
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5:30 PM - 6:45 PM: Screen Door Festival Season Finale - Hammer Hall
The culmination of a week of music-making, dialogue, and a shared journey toward enlightenment, our Season Finale brings together many of the extraordinary artists who have shaped Screen Door Festival 2025. At the heart of the program is the U.S. Premiere of Songs for Judith, a deeply moving work by Canadian composer Matthew Ricketts (see interview below,) setting nine poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay to music. The cycle will be performed by baritone Jesse Blumberg with Balourdet Quartet and the pianist Danny Zalibor. Also featured in this celebratory evening are mezzo-soprano Devony Smith, Palaver Strings, The Westerlies, Vuyo Sotashe, pianist-composer Chris Pattishall, and piano duo Michael Shinn and Jessica Chow Shinn. This final gathering is not only a closing, it is a convergence: of artistic voices, dynamic collaborations, and the open-hearted listening that has defined our time together this summer.
Tickets: Age 35+: $38 | 22-34: $20 | 21 & Under: Pay What You Wish.
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