New Hampshire Music Festival

Following our fun Family Concert, join us in downtown Plymouth as we host our fourth annual Make Music Plymouth event! With activities for kids like instrument making and an instrument petting zoo, food for the family from local stores, and over 75 different performers, this day of music making has brought thousands of people to town to enjoy our community. We hope you can join us to explore and create some fantastic music — ALL FOR FREE!

NHMF is proud to support music education through our historical partnerships and sponsors: Frederick Smyth Institute of Music, New Hampshire Electric Co-op, Mathison Family Foundation, and New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.

Paul Polivnick, music director
Dan Perkins, director of choral activities & principal guest conductor

DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
HUANG RUO: Leaving Sao; Huang Ruo, vocals
HUANG RUO: Still Motion
HAYDN: Mass in Troubled Times (Lord Nelson); Plymouth State University Alumni Soloists Emily Thorner, soprano ’10 Jennifer Fijal, mezzo ’11 Michael Dodge, tenor ’14 Daniel Brevik, baritone ’11

Combining two fantastic Festival traditions, we welcome to the stage our fourth annual Composer Portrait guest Huang Ruo alongside the New Hampshire Music Festival Symphonic Chorus.

The first half of the concert surveys a selection of Ruo’s works after a brief musical introduction by Debussy and the concert concludes with Haydn’s triumphant Lord Nelson Mass.