Musicians from Marlboro Tours

The Musicians from Marlboro touring program was created as an extension of Vermont’s Marlboro Music Festival, founded in 1951.

“…so fresh and full-blooded, so full of earthy vitality and sheer sensual pleasure, that it made you happy to be alive.”
—Washington Post

Description and History

Musicians from Marlboro tours are noted not only for their joyous and thoroughly prepared performances but also for offering valuable touring experience to artists at the beginning of their careers. Each touring ensemble includes exceptional young professional musicians, together with seasoned artists, in varied chamber music programs.

Each program is built around a work performed in a previous summer that Co-Artistic Directors Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss and their colleagues felt was exceptional and should be shared with a wider audience. The resulting ensembles offer audiences the chance to both discover seldom-heard masterworks and enjoy fresh interpretations of chamber music favorites.

Since its inception, the Musicians from Marlboro touring program has introduced audiences to many of today’s leading solo and chamber music artists early in their careers, and in the process has offered these artists important experience and exposure. The list includes Jonathan Biss, Yefim Bronfman, Jennifer Koh, Hilary Hahn, Jeremy Denk, Richard Goode, Leila Josefowicz, Murray Perahia, Sir András Schiff, and Peter Serkin, among others. It has also been a platform for artists who subsequently formed or joind such noted ensembles as the Beaux Arts, Eroica, and Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trios, and Brentano, Emerson, Guarneri, Juilliard, Orion, St. Lawrence, and Tokyo String Quartets. Musicians from Marlboro offers audiences across North America a sample of the spirited music-making that is characteristic of Marlboro.

“We’re always thrilled by Marlboro performers/performances—the spirit and the musical communication (among themselves and with the audience) go far beyond the technical prowess of each of the musicians. The concert was absolutely spellbinding.”

—Paula Forrest, artistic director, Ames Town & Gown

Musicians from Marlboro concert series are held each year in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Greenwich, CT, and Washington, D.C. There are also individual performances in Canada, Brattleboro, VT, and elsewhere. Please see our schedule for a complete list of concerts this season.

For information about engaging a Musicians from Marlboro ensemble, please contact us at [email protected].