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Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse at Pier 5 classical concerts

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Associated programming: Bargemusic

Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse at Pier 5 is an accessible hillside park building where Bargemusic presents intimate chamber concerts after leaving its floating barge in 2025.

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Solo violin, 2 violins, and violin/viola: selected works

Saturday, October 10 at 2:00 PM · Ticket information

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Planning a visit to Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse at Pier 5

Choose this venue for a chamber-scale Bargemusic concert in the Boathouse's close indoor setting. Go to the Pier 5 uplands using the official 10 Montague Street GPS approach—not the former barge location near Pier 1—and confirm the program, entry time, seating, accessibility needs, current ticket terms, and park conditions before arrival; food and drink are not permitted inside.

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Before or after the performance

Check current hours, performance-day service, travel time, and reservations before relying on any stop.

  • Restaurant

    The River Café ↗

    A reservation-oriented waterfront restaurant near the park's north end for a full meal before an evening concert; align service and the walk south with curtain time.

  • Restaurant

    Cecconi's Dumbo ↗

    An Italian restaurant in Empire Stores for a more casual park-side meal; reserve when useful and allow enough time to continue through the park to Pier 5.

  • Quick bite

    Shake Shack — Dumbo ↗

    A counter-service stop by Old Fulton Street when a faster meal is more useful than dinner service; verify current hours and leave time for the walk to Pier 5.

  • Attraction

    Brooklyn Bridge Park ↗

    Use the park's official guide to plan an earlier waterfront walk, checking current construction, weather, pier access, and the route to the Boathouse.

  • Attraction

    Jane's Carousel ↗

    Pair a daytime carousel or waterfront stop near Empire Fulton Ferry with the concert, confirming operating hours and allowing time to continue south through the park.

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Date: Sat, Oct 10, 2:00 PM EDT

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Venue: Bargemusic • Neighborhood: New York Metro • • Details

Selections from Mozart’s String Quintets and Beethoven’s Opus 18 string quartets with Mark Peskanov, violin; and Semplice Players

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Date: Sat, Oct 17, 2:00 PM EDT

Format: ChamberPrice unknown
Venue: Bargemusic • Neighborhood: New York Metro • • Details

Joaquín Turina La oración del torero (The Bullfighter’s Prayer), Op. 34 Antonin Dvořák String Quartet No. 11 in C major, Op. 61, B 121 Paquito D’Rivera Wapango with the Harlem Chamber Players Ashley Horne, violin Claire Chan, violin William Frampton, viola Wayne Smith, cello

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Date: Sat, Oct 17, 2:00 PM EDT

Format: ChamberPrice unknown
Venue: Bargemusic • Neighborhood: New York Metro • • Details

Jessie Montgomery Source Code Akua Dixon We The People Shelley Washington Middleground William Grant Still Danzas de Panama Wynton Marsalis Creole Contradanzas and Rampart St. Row Rag from At the Octoroon Balls with the Harlem Chamber Players Ashley Horne, violin Claire Chan, violin William Frampton, viola Wayne Smith, cello

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Date: Sun, Oct 18, 2:00 PM EDT

Format: OperaPrice unknown
Venue: Bargemusic • Neighborhood: New York Metro • • Details

From Paris to Vermont — A Musical Lineage 75 Years in the Making This program explores the rich compositional legacy connected to Kinhaven’s co-founder, Dorothy Dushkin, her brother-in-law—violinist and arranger Samuel Dushkin— and a circle of musicians who studied in Paris under the legendary Nadia Boulanger. This recital includes fun music by Stravinsky, Copland, Gershwin, Caroline Shaw, and a few other American composers that are closely connected to this legacy. Aaron Copland Two Pieces for Violin and Piano (1926) I. Ukulele II. Nocturne Lili Boulanger D-un Matin de printemps (on a spring morning) (1917-1918) Dorothy Dushkin Berceuse for Nadia (1949) Bruce Adolphe Fantasia on Beethoven’s Spring Sonata (commissioned by Deborah Buck in 2020) Allen Shawn Winter Sketchbook IV. Presto (1989) Alex Robertson Canzonetta (2025) Max Grafe Fire on the Mountain (commissioned by Deborah Buck in 2026) Nicolas Scherzinger Rain for days and days (commissioned by Deborah Buck in 2026) George Gershwin/Samuel Dushkin Short Story (1925) Caroline Shaw Broad and Free (2017) Igor Stravinsky/Samuel Dushkin Divertimento IV. b) Variation & c) Coda (1932) with Deborah Buck, violin, and Orli Shaham, piano Biographies Violinist Deborah Buck has been hailed by The Strad for her “surpassing degree of imagination and vibrant sound.” Equally at home in recital halls, symphony stages, recording studios, opera houses, and even on Saturday Night Live, she maintains a versatile career as a chamber musician, concertmaster, recitalist, educator, and artistic leader. Recent performance highlights include recitals at BargeMusic (NYC) with pianists Orli Shaham and Orion Weiss, performances on series such as GatherNYC, Lyrica Chamber Music (NJ), Reflections in Music (NYC), Sands Point/Four Seasons of Music (NY), Small Spaces/Orchestra Lumos (CT), and annually at the Telluride Chamber Music Festival (CO). Dedicated to broadening the expressive range of her violin playing, Buck has premiered numerous works written for her, including DeBut for solo violin by John Harbison and Fantasia on Beethoven’s Spring Sonata by Bruce Adolphe. In 2025, she recorded September, a newly commissioned work by Curtis Stewart from his 24 American Caprices, as well as a new joint arrangement of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Louisiana Blues Strut with percussionist Yousif Sheronick. She was also featured, to critical acclaim, on a recent Avie Records release devoted to the music of Bruce Wolosoff. In 2026, Buck will rec

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Date: Sat, Oct 24, 2:00 PM EDT

Format: OrchestraPrice unknown
Venue: Bargemusic • Neighborhood: New York Metro • • Details

Piano trios of Beethoven and Brahms with Mark Peskanov, Nicholas Tzavaras, and Rita Sloan Biographies Mark Peskanov A native of East Harlem in New York City, cellist Nicholas Tzavaras has toured the globe as a chamber musician, soloist, and educator for more than two decades. He has performed more than 1600 concerts worldwide, from Cartagena Columbia to the Tonhalle in Zurich to Nagasaki Japan. Since 2000, Tzavaras has been the cellist of the internationally renowned Shanghai Quartet. Recent festival engagements have included the Brevard, La Jolla and Taos festivals, the Casals festival in Prades France, the Melbourne Music Festival in Australia and the Marlboro Festival. Tzavaras has held the esteemed title of guest principal cellist of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra since 2009. He has recorded more than 25 albums for the Naxos, Delos, Bis, Centaur, Camerata, and New Albion labels, including the complete Beethoven string quartet cycle and Bright Sheng’s songs for pipa and cello with Wu Man. Tzavaras can be seen in the Academy Award nominated documentary “Small Wonders,” the motion picture “Music of the Heart” and with the Shanghai Quartet in “Melinda Melinda.”Tzavaras began the violin at age 2 with his mother, Roberta Guaspari and moved to the cello when he was 7. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, he went on to receive degrees from the New England Conservatory and the State University of New York at Stony Brook working exclusively with Laurence Lesser and Timothy Eddy. From 2002 to 2021, Tzavaras was the coordinator of the String Department and Artist-in-Residence at Montclair State University’s John J. Cali School of Music. In addition, he was on the cello and chamber music faculty at the Longy School of Music in Boston from 2015 to 2020. Rita Sloan is acknowledged internationally as a leading teacher of piano, collaborative piano and chamber music. In 1999, she was appointed a piano faculty member and director of the collaborative piano program at the University of Maryland. As an Artist Faculty Member at the Aspen Music Festival, Ms. Sloan founded their Collaborative Piano Program. She has performed as soloist with both the Aspen Festival Orchestra and Chamber Symphony as well as in chamber music with many of Aspen’s distinguished guest artists including pianists Wu Han and Orli Shaham, violinists Sarah Chang and Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg, cellist Gary Hoffman, bassist Edgar Meyer and flutist Emmanuel Pahud. Teaching residencies and maste

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Date: Sun, Oct 25, 2:00 PM EDT

Format: OrchestraPrice unknown
Venue: Bargemusic • Neighborhood: New York Metro • • Details

Piano trios of Beethoven and Brahms with Mark Peskanov, Nicholas Tzavaras, and Rita Sloan Biographies Mark Peskanov A native of East Harlem in New York City, cellist Nicholas Tzavaras has toured the globe as a chamber musician, soloist, and educator for more than two decades. He has performed more than 1600 concerts worldwide, from Cartagena Columbia to the Tonhalle in Zurich to Nagasaki Japan. Since 2000, Tzavaras has been the cellist of the internationally renowned Shanghai Quartet. Recent festival engagements have included the Brevard, La Jolla and Taos festivals, the Casals festival in Prades France, the Melbourne Music Festival in Australia and the Marlboro Festival. Tzavaras has held the esteemed title of guest principal cellist of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra since 2009. He has recorded more than 25 albums for the Naxos, Delos, Bis, Centaur, Camerata, and New Albion labels, including the complete Beethoven string quartet cycle and Bright Sheng’s songs for pipa and cello with Wu Man. Tzavaras can be seen in the Academy Award nominated documentary “Small Wonders,” the motion picture “Music of the Heart” and with the Shanghai Quartet in “Melinda Melinda.” Tzavaras began the violin at age 2 with his mother, Roberta Guaspari and moved to the cello when he was 7. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, he went on to receive degrees from the New England Conservatory and the State University of New York at Stony Brook working exclusively with Laurence Lesser and Timothy Eddy. From 2002 to 2021, Tzavaras was the coordinator of the String Department and Artist-in-Residence at Montclair State University’s John J. Cali School of Music. In addition, he was on the cello and chamber music faculty at the Longy School of Music in Boston from 2015 to 2020. Rita Sloan is acknowledged internationally as a leading teacher of piano, collaborative piano and chamber music. In 1999, she was appointed a piano faculty member and director of the collaborative piano program at the University of Maryland. As an Artist Faculty Member at the Aspen Music Festival, Ms. Sloan founded their Collaborative Piano Program. She has performed as soloist with both the Aspen Festival Orchestra and Chamber Symphony as well as in chamber music with many of Aspen’s distinguished guest artists including pianists Wu Han and Orli Shaham, violinists Sarah Chang and Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg, cellist Gary Hoffman, bassist Edgar Meyer and flutist Emmanuel Pahud. Teaching residencies and mast

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