Join us in the New Books area for an open rehearsal with Oak Hill!

In advance of their three area concerts, the Oak Hill string quartet - Keiko Tokunaga, violin, Niv Ashkenazi, violin, Daniel Orsen, viola, and Ana Kim, cello - will play from the Borodin String Quartet No. 2.

This informal musical event is free and open to all! No registration required.

Oak Hill Music Festival is a week-long summer chamber music festival serving the communities of the Upper Valley. Their second season will present 3 concerts between July 12th and July 15th, 2023, as well as additional free community & educational programming.

Their mission is to present meticulously curated concerts with world-class musicians and exciting, accessible music. They seek to share their love of music with the Upper Valley, and their love of the Upper Valley with their guest artists.

Read more about Oak Hill Music Festival and their season here: https://www.oakhillmusicfestival.com/.

Virtuoso violinist Niv Ashkenazi has captivated audiences with his heartfelt musicianship and emotional performances. Praised for his “extremely colourful interpretations, characterized by maturity and authority” (Pizzicato Magazine), he has made several Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center appearances, and has performed in Europe, the Middle East, and across North America. His conviction that the impact of music serves people beyond the concert stage motivates him to collaborate on projects that create a strong emotional bond with his audience.

Indiana-native Ana Kim is a cellist based in New York, who performs on modern and historical instruments. She plays with various ensembles, including Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Classical Orchestra and Boston Baroque.  Ana has participated in festivals such as Oregon Bach, Yellow Barn, Verbier Academy, Music@ Menlo, and International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove. She has received a Doctorate at the University of Southern California and has studied Historical Performance at Juilliard. Her teachers include János Starker, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Laurence Lesser.

Daniel Orsen is a member of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. His tenure with the SPCO began by performing as soloist in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante at the beginning of the 2022-2023 season.

Daniel is co-creator of Wagner’s Nightmare: a tongue-in-cheek retrospective on Richard Wagner’s life, work, and legacy. The culmination of Wagner’s Nightmare is the album, Wagner's Nightmare - every piece on the album is connected in someway to something or someone whom Wagner did not like, and featured the rarely heard Viola Alta, a 19-inch mega viola Wagner specified for use in his orchestra at Bayreuth.

Winner of the 2019 GRAMMY Award for Best Chamber Music/ Small Ensemble Performance, violinist Keiko Tokunaga spends most of her days touring and performing globally as a soloist and chamber musician. Keiko has been praised by the Strings Magazine for possessing a sound “with probing quality that is supple and airborne” and for her “pure, pellucid bow strokes”. She has soloed with various orchestras including the Spanish National Orchestra, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya and Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Orchestra.