It’s time for a new season of Piano at Noon. Founded by pianist Kessa Mefford, Piano at Noon remains the only regular classical concert series in the City of Peekskill. This 2024/2025 season will feature a variety of new top-level pianists among prior audience favorites, presenting a mix of standard repertoire with lesser-known composers and new premieres.
The classical lunchtime concert series will be held at the Mefford Music Studio at 1016 Brown St, in the building locally known as the Paramount East or the Masonic Temple. The venue is a very intimate space where concert goers are less than 30 feet from the musicians with a seating capacity of only 25-30 seats.
Over the next eight months, from October 2024 to May 2025, Piano at Noon will welcome nine artists including:
- Bryan Ojeda Chevres on October 22
- Brielle Perez on November 21
- Ramilya Saubanova on December 17
- Daniel Colalillo on January 15
- A new music premiere entitled an All-Montez Program featuring composer and General Director of Taconic Opera, Dan Montez with Kessa Mefford, Travis Ramirez and Kristina Cook on February 13
- Kessa Mefford in a special concert celebrating the 150th anniversary of Ravel’s birth on March 7
- Cade Roberts on April 6
- A second All-Montez Program new music premiere featuring composer Dan Montez with Kessa Mefford, Ky Montez and Cade Montez on April 22
- Award-winning pianist and the founder of the Piano at Noon concert series Kessa Mefford on May 29.
The first Piano at Noon concert of the 2024/2025 season premieres next Tuesday, October 22, with pianist Bryan Ojeda Chevres.
Bryan Ojeda Chevres has performed as a soloist and chamber musician across Puerto Rico, the U.S., and Europe. Over his career, he has graced venues like the MET Museum, Mozarteum, and The Concertgebouw. Chevres has collaborated with orchestras such as the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra and New York University Symphony, and Chevres has worked with notable conductors including Maximiano Valdés and Roselin Pabon. Currently, Chevres is a piano faculty member at the Third Street Music School Settlement – the longest-running community music school in the United States founded in 1894 – and pursuing an Artist Diploma at the University of Hartford.
Tickets
This 2024/2025 Piano at Noon season also presents new ticket options for concert goers. This year attendees have the ability to purchase not only individual concert tickets, but also a season ticket for admission to all nine concerts in the series, or a pass to any five concerts of the buyer’s choice. Season tickets are currently available for all nine concerts for $100 until the first performance on October 22. The five concert buyers’ choice passes will be available until the fifth concert in February for $60. Individual concerts are a very viable option as well and available for purchase at a cost of $15 for each concert. All tickets and passes for the Piano at Noon series can be found using this link.
The doors for all concerts open at 11:45am with music beginning at noon sharp. Concerts typically run until 12:30-12:45 p.m. For more information visit KessaMefford.com and follow Kessa Mefford on Facebook and Instagram. Don’t forget to tell the artists, you heard about the concerts by reading it in the Peekskill Herald.
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