Gather with the Griffon • Green Bay
2024-04-11 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | First Presbyterian Church of Green Bay, 200 S Ashland Ave., Green Bay, WI, 54303, United States
“Gather with the Griffon” miniconcerts are designed for midday audiences. B Double Sharp programs engage the mind and spirit through music and conversation.
The program includes selections from Heitor Villa-Lobos’ String Quartet No. 1 and Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18.
Roy Meyer and Alex Norris, Violins
Samantha Peng, Viola
Jesse Nummelin, Cello
This is not a ticketed event.
Programs are funded in part by grants from Bader Philanthropies, the Door County Community Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Wisconsin Arts Board. Programs in Green Bay are funded in part by grants from the Green Bay Packers Foundation and the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation.

Griffon String Quartet Outreach • Door Community Child Development Center
2024-04-12 09:30 - 10:00 | Door Community Child Development Center, 5617 Gordon Rd., Sturgeon Bay, WI, 54235
The Griffon String Quartet performs for very young children at the Door Community Child Development Center.

Griffon String Quartet Outreach • Pinecrest Assisted Living
2024-04-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Pinecrest Assited Living, 1241 N 18th Ave., Sturgeon Bay, WI, 54235
The Griffon String Quartet performs for clients at Pinecrest Assisted Living in Sturgeon Bay.

Church Service Performance • First Presbyterian, Green Bay
2024-04-14 09:30 - 11:00 | First Presbyterian Church of Green Bay, 200 S Ashland Ave., Green Bay, WI, 54303, United States
The Griffon String Quartet performs during the morning service at First Presbyterian Church.

Griffon String Quartet • Green Bay Chamber Music Society
2024-04-14 15:00 - 17:00 | WI
The Griffon String Quartet performs for members of the Green Bay Chamber Music Society at a private residence.

Griffon String Quartet • Brain Center of Green Bay
2024-04-15 10:30 - 12:00 | Curative Connections, 2900 Curry Lane, Green Bay, WI, 54308, United States
The Griffon String Quartet presents a B Double Sharp program for the Brain Center of Green Bay’s Mind Movers event.

Healthy Kids Day • YMCA, Sturgeon Bay
2024-04-20 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-04-27 10:00 - 13:00 | YMCA Sturgeon Bay, 1900 Michigan St,, Sturgeon Bay, WI, 54234
The Griffon String Quartet participates in the YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day. Strings students in the YMCA lessons program will perform.

Gather with the Griffon in Door County • Eagle Harbor Inn, Ephraim
2024-04-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Eagle Harbor Inn, 9914 Water St., Ephraim, WI, 54211
“Gather with the Griffon” miniconcerts are designed for midday audiences. B Double Sharp programs engage the mind and spirit through music and conversation.
The program includes selections from Heitor Villa-Lobos’ String Quartet No. 1 and Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18.
Roy Meyer and Alex Norris, Violins
Kayla Patrick, Viola
Jesse Nummelin, Cello
This is not a ticketed event.
Programs are funded in part by grants from Bader Philanthropies, the Door County Community Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Wisconsin Arts Board. Programs in Green Bay are funded in part by grants from the Green Bay Packers Foundation and the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation.

Gather with the Griffon • Green Bay
2024-05-09 12:00 - 13:00 | First Presbyterian Church of Green Bay, 200 S Ashland Ave., Green Bay, WI, 54303, United States
“Gather with the Griffon” miniconcerts are designed for midday audiences. B Double Sharp programs engage the mind and spirit through music and conversation.
Program: Selections from the Griffon’s end-of-season concerts on May 24–26
Roy Meyer and Alex Norris, Violins
Julia Kirk, Viola
Jesse Nummelin, Cello
This is not a ticketed event.
Programs are funded in part by grants from Bader Philanthropies, the Door County Community Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Wisconsin Arts Board. Programs in Green Bay are funded in part by grants from the Green Bay Packers Foundation and the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation.

Griffon Concert • Private Home
2024-05-11 15:00 - 17:00 | WI
The Griffon String Quartet performs for a private home concert.
Roy Meyer and Alex Norris, Violins
Julia Kirk, Viola
Jesse Nummelin, Cello

Griffon String Quartet Students Recital • Hope UCC
2024-05-12 15:00 - 16:30 | Hope United Church of Christ, 141 S 12th Ave., Sturgeon Bay, WI, 54235, United States
Students of the Griffon String Quartet perform their annual recital concert.
Stay tuned for additional details.

Einstein Series Outreach • Boys & Girls Club, Green Bay
2024-05-15 15:00 - 17:30 | Boys & Girls Club of Green Bay, 1451 University Ave., Green Bay, WI, 54302
The Griffon launches its work with the Boys & Girls Club in Green Bay.
The Griffon String Quartet members currently work with children in northeast Wisconsin via the Einstein Series, a highly interactive program for school-age children. Students participate in private or group lessons or educational outreach programs. The quartet visits schools and classrooms to perform and discuss string quartet music, relating it specifically to relevant topics in their studies and their lives.

Gather with the Griffon in Door County • Country View Farm, Baileys Harbor
2024-05-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Country View Farm, 3200 County Road EE, Baileys Harbor, WI, 54202
“Gather with the Griffon” miniconcerts are designed for midday audiences. B Double Sharp programs engage the mind and spirit through music and conversation.
Program: Selections from the Griffon’s end-of-season concerts on May 24–26
Roy Meyer and Alex Norris, Violins
Clara Qiyun Zhao, Viola
Jesse Nummelin, Cello
This is not a ticketed event.
Programs are funded in part by grants from Bader Philanthropies, the Door County Community Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Wisconsin Arts Board. Programs in Green Bay are funded in part by grants from the Green Bay Packers Foundation and the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation.

Griffon String Quartet • Gibraltar School, Fish Creek
2024-05-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Gibraltar School, 3924 WI-42, Fish Creek, Wisconsin, 54212
The Griffon String Quartet participates in the Spring Choir Concert at Gibraltar School in Fish Creek.

Griffon String Quartet Season Finale Concert • Art Garage, Green Bay
2024-05-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Art Garage, 1429 Main St, Green Bay, WI, 54302
Join us for a magnificent concert as the Griffon String Quartet’s 2023-2024 season comes to an end.
Presto II by Miguel Del Aguila
String Quartet No. 4 by Grazyna Bacewicz
Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 by Antonín Dvořák
Roy Meyer & Alex Norris, Violins
Clara Polka, Viola
Jesse Nummelin, Cello
Rie Tanaka, Piano

Griffon String Quartet Season Finale Concert • St. Luke's, Sister Bay
2024-05-25 19:00 - 21:00 | St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 2336 Canterbury Ln, Sister Bay, WI, 54234

Griffon String Quartet Season Finale Concert • Egg Harbor
2024-05-26 15:00 - 17:00 | Donald and Carol Kress Pavilion, 7845 Church St., Egg Harbor, WI, 54209

Griffon B Double Sharp Outreach • ADRC, Sturgeon Bay
2024-05-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Aging and Disability Resource Center, 916 N 14th Ave., Sturgeon Bay, WI, 54235, United States
The Griffon String Quartet performs for clients at the Aging & Disability Resource Center in Sturgeon Bay.

Programs are funded in part by grants from Bader Philanthropies, the Door County Community Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Wisconsin Arts Board. Programs in Green Bay are funded in part by grants from the Green Bay Packers Foundation and the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation.

Music for Food Concert • Stella Maris Catholic Church, Fish Creek
2024-05-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Stella Maris Catholic Church Fish Creek, 4012 WI-42, Fish Creek, WI, 54212
Music for Food is a musician-led initiative for local hunger relief. Music for Food concerts raise resources and awareness in the fight against hunger, empowering any musicians who wish to use their artistry to further social justice. The concert is free and features Midsummer’s Music resident ensemble, the Griffon String Quartet. The cost of admission is a food donation or funds to benefit the 24/7 Food Pantry, a lifeline for those in need. Financial donations to the food pantry can be made to CARE 24/7 Stella Maris Food Pantry.

Repertoire includes selections from …
Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 • Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 4 • Grazyna Bacewicz
Presto II • Miguel Del Aguila
String Quartet No. 1 • Heitor Villa-Lobos
Roy Meyer & Alex Norris, Violins
Gerson Medina, Viola
Jesse Nummelin, Cello
This is not a ticketed event.

Poetry & Music • Write On, Door County, Fish Creek
2024-06-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Write On, Door County, 4210 Juddville Rd., Fish Creek, WI, 54212
FEATHER ROUSING: An Afternoon of Reading and Music with Rebecca Meacham and the Griffon String Quartet
Join us for an afternoon of reading and music celebrating the publication of former Write On resident Rebecca Meacham’s latest collection, Feather Rousing. The title piece of the collection was the result of a 2018 Poetry Meets Music with Midsummer’s Music. Rebecca created the piece in response to music by Charles-Valentin Allkan. We are delighted to have the Midsummer’s Griffon String Quartet join us to interlace music and writing at this celebration. The event is free and open to the public. A light reception will follow.
About the Author:
Rebecca Meacham’s short story collection, Let’s Do, won UNT Press’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction, and her flash fiction collection, Morbid Curiosities, won the New Delta Review chapbook prize. Her work has appeared most recently in Best Microfiction 2021, Wigleaf, Had, and Gigantic Sequins, and her prose has been set to music, translated into Polish, and carved into woodblocks and letter-pressed by steamroller. She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where she directs The Teaching Press and chairs the BFA in Writing and Applied Arts program. Her chapbook, Feather Rousing, is published this spring by Black Lawrence Press.
About the Book:
In this “hybridiary” of historical fiction and personal memoir, we peer inside baby incubators at Coney Island, waiting for childhood to take wing. We overhear the dying dreams of the Imperial Romanov family, and we fret the simple act of watching a child walk to class. Hope is a bright and constant thread: a tornado cuts a tender swath; a lady bides time inside a tiger’s claws; teenagers preen on screens during pandemic lockdown. Rescues are fumbled but perpetually launched—and love is a gift the way the sun is a gift: constant and consoling, but also blinding, near-obliterating. Tragic, funny, and surreal, FEATHER ROUSING nests in the spaces between caretaking and grief, secret and spectacle, recollection and imagination, global anguish and private joy.
“This ineffable collection reads like sadness, like music, like poetry, like instinct, like mothers and children and the heart beating right out of your chest. I adored it!” —Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You
About the Griffon String Quartet:
The Griffon String Quartet is a full-time professional string quartet from September through May and resides in northeastern Wisconsin. Actively embedded in the community, the Quartet works with all ages to enhance lives through the power and beauty of music.
Write On, Door County website link.

Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Magic • Opening Night, Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor
2024-06-13 19:00 - 21:30 | Donald and Carol Kress Pavilion, 7845 Church St., Egg Harbor, WI, 54209
Mendelssohn was 16 when he wrote his Sextet for Piano and Strings. Mozart was 10 years older when he penned his 2nd Piano Quartet. Both composers wrote them to show off their own amazing piano virtuosity, creating breath-taking masterpieces. We begin the program with a Phantasy for piano trio by Alice Verne-Bredt, who gained recognition as a composer by entering this work in the Cobbett Chamber Music Contest in London. It is hauntingly beautiful. Join Emcee Norman Gilliland on June 13th for our festive Opening Night or three other special performances.
Phantasie Trio (1908) • Alice Verne-Bredt
Piano, Violin, and Cello
Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 493 • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello
Sextet in D Major, Op. 110 • Felix Mendelssohn
Piano, Violin, Two Violas, Cello, and Bass
Musicians
Jeannie Yu, Piano
David Perry, Violin
Sally Chisholm & Allyson Fleck, Viola
Ana Kim, Cello
Kris Saebo, Bass
Sponsored by the Midsummer’s Music Board of Directors
The Women’s Fund of Door County is a supporting sponsor for this program in acknowledgment of the women musicians performing.
The 2024 Season is sponsored by the Jean Berkenstock Family Fund and the Susan DeWitt Davie Legacy Fund.
NOTE: Hwy. 42 construction at the time of this concert requires a detour on weekdays that will direct drivers to Church St., where the Kress Pavilion is located. Click here for printable directions.

Coffee Talk: The Healing Power of Sound with Maja Jurisic, MD
2024-06-14 10:00 - 11:30 | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County, 10341 Water Street HWY 42, Ephraim, WI, 54211
Coffee Talks are free, engaging, informal lectures on music topics by MM ensemble members, staff, and friends.
From time immemorial, people have intuitively felt that sound promotes healing. For centuries, chants, songs, and various instruments have been used to restore harmony of body, mind and spirit. Nowadays, Midsummer’s Music lovers have experienced the health-promoting frequencies of glorious music every time they’ve attended a concert.
Science is finally providing evidence for this intuition. Physicists have shown that everything is in a state of vibration, including our bodies. Albert Einstein wrote, “We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned to the cosmos.”
Vibrations passing through matter in the form of waves are what we experience as sound. Even frequencies that are too high or low for the human ear are registered as vibrations in our bodies. We pick up audible and inaudible sounds all the way down to a cellular level. Researchers at Columbia found that cilia (antenna-like structures on our cell membranes) quiver like tuning forks, and vibrations in the environment (sounds) cause the cells to change shape. This has been linked to conditions as wide-ranging as arthritis, heart failure and cancer. Sound medicine is being incorporated into services provided by an increasing number of hospitals, such as the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Maja has long believed that the mechanistic model of health she learned in medical school is too narrow. She has found that sound offers a pathway to inner balance that is accessible to everyone and loves to share the science and art of sound healing.
Experience this for yourself as she plays her crystal alchemy singing bowls. And since breath is the language of the body, learn how to use yours to change your physiologic state (it’s like a superpower you never knew you had). Be ready for some fun toning with the bowls and retune, refresh and restore body, mind and spirit as your cells respond to the resonant frequencies of the sounds. Leave feeling reconnected with joy and wonder.
Seating is limited. Please reserve your free tickets.

Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Magic • St. Luke's, Sister Bay
2024-06-15 19:00 - 21:30 | St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 2336 Canterbury Ln, Sister Bay, WI, 54234
This concert is in memory of Loralee Holton.
Mendelssohn was 16 when he wrote his Sextet for Piano and Strings. Mozart was 10 years older when he penned his 2nd Piano Quartet. Both composers wrote them to show off their own amazing piano virtuosity, creating breath-taking masterpieces. We begin the program with a Phantasy for piano trio by Alice Verne-Bredt, who gained recognition as a composer by entering this work in the Cobbett Chamber Music Contest in London. It is hauntingly beautiful. Join Emcee Norman Gilliland on June 13th for our festive Opening Night or three other special performances.
Phantasie Trio (1908) • Alice Verne-Bredt
Piano, Violin, and Cello
Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 493 • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello
Sextet in D Major, Op. 110 • Felix Mendelssohn
Piano, Violin, Two Violas, Cello, and Bass

Musicians
Jeannie Yu, Piano
David Perry, Violin
Sally Chisholm & Allyson Fleck, Viola
Ana Kim, Cello
Kris Saebo, Bass
Sponsored by the Jean Berkenstock Family Fund
The Women’s Fund of Door County is a supporting sponsor for this program in acknowledgment of the women musicians performing.
The 2024 Season is sponsored by the Jean Berkenstock Family Fund and the Susan DeWitt Davie Legacy Fund.

Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Magic • Hope UCC, Sturgeon Bay
2024-06-16 17:00 - 19:30 | Hope United Church of Christ, 141 S 12th Ave., Sturgeon Bay, WI, 54235, United States
Mendelssohn was 16 when he wrote his Sextet for Piano and Strings. Mozart was 10 years older when he penned his 2nd Piano Quartet. Both composers wrote them to show off their own amazing piano virtuosity, creating breath-taking masterpieces. We begin the program with a Phantasy for piano trio by Alice Verne-Bredt, who gained recognition as a composer by entering this work in the Cobbett Chamber Music Contest in London. It is hauntingly beautiful. Join Emcee Norman Gilliland on June 13th for our festive Opening Night or three other special performances.
Phantasie Trio (1908) • Alice Verne-Bredt
Piano, Violin, and Cello
Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 493 • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello
Sextet in D Major, Op. 110 • Felix Mendelssohn
Piano, Violin, Two Violas, Cello, and Bass
Write On, Door County poet Allison Haus will present a poem based on one of the pieces of music.

Musicians
Jeannie Yu, Piano
David Perry, Violin
Sally Chisholm & Allyson Fleck, Viola
Ana Kim, Cello
Kris Saebo, Bass
Sponsored by Sandy Zingler
The Women’s Fund of Door County is a supporting sponsor for this program in acknowledgment of the women musicians performing.

The 2024 Season is sponsored by the Jean Berkenstock Family Fund and the Susan DeWitt Davie Legacy Fund.

Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Magic • Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Ephraim
2024-06-18 19:00 - 21:30 | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County, 10341 Water Street HWY 42, Ephraim, WI, 54211
Mendelssohn was 16 when he wrote his Sextet for Piano and Strings. Mozart was 10 years older when he penned his 2nd Piano Quartet. Both composers wrote them to show off their own amazing piano virtuosity, creating breath-taking masterpieces. We begin the program with a Phantasy for piano trio by Alice Verne-Bredt, who gained recognition as a composer by entering this work in the Cobbett Chamber Music Contest in London. It is hauntingly beautiful. Join Emcee Norman Gilliland on June 13th for our festive Opening Night or three other special performances.
Phantasie Trio (1908) • Alice Verne-Bredt
Piano, Violin, and Cello
Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 493 • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello
Sextet in D Major, Op. 110 • Felix Mendelssohn
Piano, Violin, Two Violas, Cello, and Bass

Musicians
Jeannie Yu, Piano
David Perry, Violin
Sally Chisholm & Allyson Fleck, Viola
Ana Kim, Cello
Kris Saebo, Bass
Sponsored by Peggy Lott
The Women’s Fund of Door County is a supporting sponsor for this program in acknowledgment of the women musicians performing.

The 2024 Season is sponsored by the Jean Berkenstock Family Fund and the Susan DeWitt Davie Legacy Fund.

David Perry Leads Mendelssohn Octet—and More! • Björklunden, Baileys Harbor
2024-06-19 19:00 - 21:30 | Björklunden – Vail Hall, 7590 Boynton Ln, Baileys Harbor, WI, 54202
Mendelssohn’s masterpiece is thrilling under David Perry’s leadership. Young Mendelssohn’s friendship with the elderly Goethe inspired this romantic triumph. It is paired with an equally impressive discovery, the Octet by Woldemar Bargiel, the half-brother of Clara Schumann and a composer much admired by Brahms. Be prepared … the electricity will be palpable.
Octet in C Minor, Op. 15a (1850) • Woldemar Bargiel
Four Violins, Two Violas, and Two Cellos
Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 • Felix Mendelssohn
Four Violins, Two Violas, and Two Cellos
Musicians
David Perry, Suzanne Beia, Roy Meyer, and Ann Palen, Violin
Allyson Fleck & Larissa Mapua, Viola
Mara McClain & Jesse Nummelin, Cello
Sponsored by Joan & Stefan Anderson
The 2024 Season is sponsored by the Jean Berkenstock Family Fund and the Susan DeWitt Davie Legacy Fund.

David Perry Leads Mendelssohn Octet—and More! • Sister Bay Moravian Church, Sister Bay
2024-06-21 19:00 - 21:30 | Sister Bay Moravian Church, 10924 Old Stage Rd, Sister Bay, WI, 54234
Mendelssohn’s masterpiece is thrilling under David Perry’s leadership. Young Mendelssohn’s friendship with the elderly Goethe inspired this romantic triumph. It is paired with an equally impressive discovery, the Octet by Woldemar Bargiel, the half-brother of Clara Schumann and a composer much admired by Brahms. Be prepared … the electricity will be palpable.
Octet in C Minor, Op. 15a (1850) • Woldemar Bargiel
Four Violins, Two Violas, and Two Cellos
Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 • Felix Mendelssohn
Four Violins, Two Violas, and Two Cellos

Musicians
David Perry, Suzanne Beia, Roy Meyer, and Ann Palen, Violin
Allyson Fleck & Larissa Mapua, Viola
Mara McClain & Jesse Nummelin, Cello
Sponsored by the James & Nancy Huebner Charitable Fund
The 2024 Season is sponsored by the Jean Berkenstock Family Fund and the Susan DeWitt Davie Legacy Fund.

Dvořák and Brahms • St. Luke's, Sister Bay
2024-06-22 19:00 - 21:30 | St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 2336 Canterbury Ln, Sister Bay, WI, 54234
Dvořák and Brahms—two great 19th century composers who gave us splendid piano quintets. However, the Dvořák Quintet is one you may not have heard before. He was 31 when he wrote it, but then decided to revise it in 1887 at the height of his career. Unfortunately, this version was not heard until 1922, 18 years after Dvořák’s death. Here is a chance to savor this rare masterpiece coupled with one of Brahms’ best chamber works in the talented hands of pianist Jeannie Yu, in collaboration with violinist David Perry and his fellow string players.
Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 5 • Antonín Dvořák
Piano and String Quartet
Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 • Johannes Brahms
Piano and String Quartet
Musicians
Jeannie Yu, Piano
David Perry & Ann Palen, Violin
Allyson Fleck, Viola
Mara McClain, Cello
Sponsored by the Nancy T. and David A. Borghesi Fund
The 2024 Season is sponsored by the Jean Berkenstock Family Fund and the Susan DeWitt Davie Legacy Fund.

David Perry Leads Mendelssohn Octet—and More! • Woodwalk Gallery, Egg Harbor
2024-06-23 17:00 - 19:30 | Woodwalk Gallery, 6746 County Rd. G, Egg Harbor, WI, 54209
Mendelssohn’s masterpiece is thrilling under David Perry’s leadership. Young Mendelssohn’s friendship with the elderly Goethe inspired this romantic triumph. It is paired with an equally impressive discovery, the Octet by Woldemar Bargiel, the half-brother of Clara Schumann and a composer much admired by Brahms. Be prepared … the electricity will be palpable.
Octet in C Minor, Op. 15a (1850) • Woldemar Bargiel
Four Violins, Two Violas, and Two Cellos
Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 • Felix Mendelssohn
Four Violins, Two Violas, and Two Cellos

Musicians
David Perry, Suzanne Beia, Roy Meyer, and Ann Palen, Violin
Allyson Fleck & Larissa Mapua, Viola
Mara McClain & Jesse Nummelin, Cello
Sponsored by Genie & David Meissner
The 2024 Season is sponsored by the Jean Berkenstock Family Fund and the Susan DeWitt Davie Legacy Fund.
