Summer Music Associates will offer an outstanding concert season celebrating 51 years of extraordinary music. To open the season, on Saturday, June 22, at the Sawyer Center at Colby-Sawyer College, the 75-piece Boston Civic Symphony will be joined by Frederick Moyer, pianist, performing the Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 22 by Camille Saint-Saëns. The program will also include the Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor and the Symphony Op. 11 No. 2 by Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

On Thursday, July 11, at the First Baptist Church, New London, the Texas Guitar Quartet will present a daring program of dazzling virtuosity and joyful music making. The Grammy-nominated TxGQ has been hailed as “impeccable in every respect” and is considered one of today’s leading guitar quartets (Guitar Magazine).

At the First Baptist Church on Thursday, July 25, pianist Paul Bisaccia will pay homage to his musical great-great grandfathers with whom his teachers studied. This informative and inspiring program will include Beethoven’s “Waldstein” Sonata and selections by Joseph Haydn, Carl Czerny, and Franz Liszt.

Alias Brass brings its blend of virtuosic musicianship and a high level of entertainment to the First Baptist Church on Thursday, August 8. “With a captivating show highlighting five diverse and exuberant talents, their show is built not only on virtuosic playing, but humor, passion and action as well. Alias Brass is one of the freshest chamber groups out there. Their programs
range the full gamut from Bach to their own opera; an homage to video games and a Spanish fire dance as only brass can ignite” (Martin Hackleman, Empire Brass, Canadian Brass).

The season closes with the spectacular Uptown Jazz Tentet! Ten of New York City’s finest jazz musicians will return to the Sawyer Center Theater on Thursday, August 22, to treat us to a night of  jazz grounded in the traditions of Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Gil Evans, Thad Jones, and many others. UJT’s goal is to create music that is stimulating, inspiring, exciting, and fulfilling. 

All concerts begin at 7 PM in New London. Tickets for adults are $25; $5 for students. They are available online at www.summermusicassociates.org, by phone at 603 526-8234, by mail at SMA PO Box 603 New London, NH 03257, or at Tatewell Gallery, or Morgan Hill Bookstore in New London. For more information, please visit www.summermusicassociates.org.