The UVM Lane Series and the Green Mountain Opera Festival Present: DON GIOVANNI BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: A Benefit Performance and Champagne Reception Join the Green Mountain Opera Festival and the UVM Lane Series in this special benefit performance that opens the GMOF’s 2013 season. Festival opera soloists and members of the acclaimed emerging artists program [...]

Resilient troubadour Chris Smither has a huge fan base here in Vermont, although he has never before appeared on the Lane Series. Having distilled his own signature sound of blues and folk for over 40 years of touring and studio work, Chris Smither is an American original. A profound songwriter, Chris continues to hone his [...]

Co-presented with the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts After a hiatus of several years, we are delighted to present one of the world’s most creative classical theatre companies in one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies. The story of the battle of hearts, minds, and wits between the unforgettable characters Petruchio and Kate, Shrew is both [...]

Fronted by David Wax and Suz Slezak, the David Wax Museum fuses traditional Mexican folk with American roots and indie folk to create an utterly unique Mexo-Americana aesthetic. Recently anointed as Boston’s Americana Artist of the Year, the David Wax Museum has been called “pure, irresistible joy” (Bob Boilen, NPR) and hailed by TIME.com for [...]

Clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois will be the featured soloist with the Burlington Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Guest Conductor Sean Newhouse — a Vermont native and the Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The program will feature Gerald Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto, Corelli’s Concerto Grosso in F Major, and Janaçek’s Idyll for String Orchestra. [...]

Zoë Keating has been called “a symphony unto herself.” A classically trained cellist, she uses a foot-controlled laptop to sample and loop layer upon layer of harmonies, creating intricate, haunting, and remarkably compelling music. She is also admired for her do it yourself ethic. She has sold over 40,000 copies of her albums without a [...]

One of the “…stars of the guitar world” (New York Times), Jason Vieaux is a musician noted for virtuosic and stirring performances, imaginative programming, and uncommon communicative gifts. He has performed before on the Lane Series to great acclaim and audience delight. On this tour, he is joined by the great French bandoneon player Julien [...]

At the age of 17, pianist Kevin Kenner was awarded a special prize from the jury of the International Chopin Piano Competition for his promising talent. Ten years later, he returned to Warsaw to win the top prize, the People’s Prize, and the Polonaise Prize. Since then, he has won critical and audience acclaim throughout [...]

It is always a pleasure and a delight to welcome Lane Series favorites John Gorka and Eliza Gilkyson back to our hall. This time, they are joined by the wonderful Lucy Kaplansky, who appears on our stage for the first time. These gifted singer-songwriters are at the very top of their game, and they perform [...]

Recognized for its virtuosity and exuberant performance style, the Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet was Musical America’s 2009 Ensemble of the Year. Shortly after its 1994 formation, the Pacifica won the coveted Naumburg Prize, and has since received many honors. Recently, the Quartet presented the monumental Shostakovich cycle in Chicago and New York and the complete [...]

The Hot Club of San Francisco performs French Gypsy Jazz in the intricate style of guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli of the original Hot Club de France. Since their performance on the Lane Series over five years ago, we’ve been hankering to have them back: students and faculty are still talking about their [...]

Several years ago, we invited the GMCMF players, featuring Kevin Lawrence, to make an autumn trip to Burlington to perform for our audience and their many area fans that flock to their summer concerts. They return to Lane Series to present a blockbuster evening of music featuring the beloved “Trout Quintet,” Schubert’s Piano Quintet in [...]

After many years of vocal music at holiday time, we’ve decided to try something a little different this season: we’ve invited one of the world’s finest brass ensembles, the Atlantic Brass Quintet, to put together a special program of music for the holiday season. The ABQ have been heard in 48 states and more than [...]

Traditional vocal world music has always been a favorite genre for the Lane Series audience. So when Aoife Clancy, the former vocalist of Cherish the Ladies and a singer we’ve always greatly admired, called to tell us about her new group, we were delighted to bring them to our hall. Four stunning female vocalists/instrumentalists from [...]

Luciana Souza’s Lane Series appearance in 2004 was simply one of our favorite concerts ever performed on our stage. When we heard that she’s put together an evening of music that includes work by the great American jazz trumpet player and singer Chet Baker, we were eager to bring her back. And what better time [...]

Corey Harris is a powerful singer and guitarist who got his first taste of the blues via his mother’s collection of Lightnin’Hopkins records. He honed his art form on the streets of New Orleans, while going on to study African Linguistics in Cameroon. That led him to a lifelong exploration of African-American blues that has [...]

Like the recently heard Morgenstern Trio, the Atos Trio is another rising star on the European and international chamber music scenes. Winners of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award in 2007, the trio went on to acquire all four top prizes at the Melbourne Chamber Music Competition that same year: an honor never before accomplished by [...]

A charming and charismatic young performer, pianist Alexander Schimpf most recently emerged as the first German ever to win First Prize at the 2011 Cleveland International Piano Competition, where his final round performance at Severance Hall with the Cleveland Orchestra honored him with the Audience Favorite Prize. Not only an award winner, he is an [...]

Co-presented with the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Once again, the Lane Series and the Flynn join forces to present a world-class traditional Irish band on St. Patrick’s Day. Since its birth in 1996, Solas has been proclaimed as one of the most popular, influential, and exciting Celtic bands to emerge from the United [...]

Donal Fox is internationally acclaimed as a classical and jazz composer, pianist, and improviser. Fox’s reinventions of classical melodies and themes are heard in his program “Mashups in Blue.” His acclaimed “Monk and Bach Project,” which premiered at Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2005, has led critics like Gary Giddins to say, “Donal Fox is [...]

This concert has been rescheduled from February 8 to April 3. If you are unable to make this new date, please contact the Lane Series office (e: lane.series@uvm.edu p: 802-656-4455) to exchange your tickets for another event. The deadline for exchanges is Friday, March 8. Some ensembles are simply beyond compare in what they do. [...]

“A musical sensation from Austria” wrote The Berlin Tagesspiegel of the young Minetti Quartett’s debut at the Berlin Philharmonie in 2009. The Minetti has collected more important awards than any ensemble since 2003, when it received the Haydn Award at the International Joseph Haydn Competition in Vienna, followed by the International Rimbotti Competition in Florence, [...]

Brought up on the remote island of North Uist in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, Julie Fowlis has been a proud standard bearer for Gaelic music and culture over the course of a solo career which has spanned three highly acclaimed studio albums. Truly one of the world’s most esteemed Gaelic vocalists, Julie is featured extensively on [...]

It is with great pleasure that we introduce our audience to a group recognized as the “premier men’s vocal ensemble in the United States” (Fanfare). Hearing Cantus live in concert is a powerful and moving experience. The Washington Post hails the ensemble’s sound as having both “exalting finesse” and “expressive power,” and refers to their [...]

co-presented with the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Lila Downs is an extraordinary artist, known for her deep expressive voice which was featured on the soundtrack of the movie Frida (in which she also appears). Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, she is the daughter of Mixtec singer Anita Sánchez and Scottish-American art professor and filmmaker, [...]