Hill and Hollow Music presents a diversity of highest-quality professional live chamber music (small ensemble) performances – including early, classical, and contemporary music, as well as jazz, traditional folk, and global roots music – that educate, engage, and entertain the rural community we serve; and to promote accessibility of live performances by means of affordability, public involvement, and community engagement and outreach.
Since 1995 Hill and Hollow Music has presented 300 professional chamber music ensembles of national and international stature in formal concerts at the historic 1862 Saranac United Methodist “Church in the Hollow” and other venues, along with extensive community outreach (over 1250 presentations in schools, senior residences, and community centers). Ensembles range from the quintessential configurations, such as piano trio, string quartet, and wind quintet to the less customary configurations, such as percussion ensemble and saxophone quartet. Piano soloists, instrumental duos, art-song duos (voice-piano), and mixed instrumental ensembles are typically a part of our concert seasons as well. On the history time-line we have covered every period: from ancient, medieval, renaissance, and baroque played on replica historical instruments, through the classical, romantic, and twentieth-century eras, to contemporary, jazz, and traditional folk, global roots, and dance music.
Hill and Hollow Music has participated in collaborations with many regional institutions, including SUNY Plattsburgh, Clinton Community College, North Country Community College, Paul Smiths College, Mountain Lake PBS, North Country Public Radio, Vermont Public Radio, Lake Forest Senior Living Community, the Battle of Plattsburgh Association, Adirondack English Country Dancers, the Kent-Delord House Museum, the Alice T. Miner Museum, and the Champlain Quadricentennial Commission.
Hill and Hollow Music has received significant grant awards from the New York State Council on the Arts, Chamber Music America, the New York Council for the Humanities, the Marilyn Horne Foundation, the Clinton County Youth Bureau, the Plattsburgh Press-Republican, the Council on the Arts for Clinton County, Plattsburgh Rotary Club, the Consulate General of Canada, and Quebec Cultural Services.
We are proud to be the recipient of several honors, such as the “Liberty Bell Award” presented by the Clinton County Bar Association, the “Arts Organization Award” presented by the Arts Council of Clinton County, a “Special Resolution” presented by the Clinton County Legislature, and official Designation as “Ambassador of the Champlain Quadricentennial” presented by the Executive Chamber of the State of New York.
We are members of Chamber Music America, Early Music America, the Country Dance and Song Society, the North Country Chamber of Commerce, and Saranac Lake Art Works.
