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Yellow Barn

Contact information, map and directions, contact form, opening hours, services, ratings, photos, videos and announcements from Yellow Barn, Live Music Venue, 49 Main Street, Putney, VT.

Through its summer festival, Music Haul appearances, and ongoing Artist Residencies and Music From Yellow Barn performances, each year Yellow Barn welcomes over 100 musicians from around the world, and reaches countless audiences across the nation.

11/01/2025

APPLICATIONS NOW ONLINE at yellowbarn.org

YELLOW BARN FESTIVAL: July 5-August 9, 2026 (for individuals and pre-formed ensembles)

YOUNG ARTISTS PROGRAM: June 14 - July 3, 2026 (for performers and composers ages 13-20)

Application Deadlines for Individuals:

January 4—Live auditions Europe & UK
January 11—Live auditions US & Canada
January 11—Video auditions
January 11—Young Artists Program Composer applications
March 1—Results announced

Application Deadlines for Ensembles (Yellow Barn Festival Only):

December 12—Deadline for applying and submitting videos for a live audition
December 19—Results of round one announced
Round Two:
January-February—Live auditions for invited ensembles
March 1—Results of live auditions announced

LIVE AUDITION SCHEDULE
Europe & UK
Berlin—January 7
Basel —January 11
London—January 13

US & Canada
New York City—January 16-17, 19-20, 22
New Haven—January 21 (Yale School of Music students only)
San Francisco—February 1
Los Angeles—February 2
Houston—February 3
Chicago—February 4
Boston—February 5-6
Montreal—February 7

For more information:
Melody Lin, Director of Admissions
[email protected] or 802-387-3108

2026 YELLOW BARN FESTIVAL FACULTY

Violin:
Curtis Macomber
Anthony Marwood
Matthew Truscott
Donald Weilerstein
Ying Xue

Viola:
Jonathan Brown
Krzysztof Chorzelski
Kim Kashkashian*
Pauline Sachse

Cello:
Natasha Brofsky
Luise Buchberger
Jean-Michel Fonteneau
Laurence Lesser*
Julia Lichten
John Myerscough

Double Bass:
Sam Suggs

Piano:
Alasdair Beatson
Gilbert Kalish
Seth Knopp
Vivian Hornik Weilerstein

Harp:
Charles Overton

Winds:
Daniel Bates, oboe
Alan Kay, clarinet
Stephen Stirling, French horn

Percussion:
Eduardo Leandro

Accordion:
James Crabb

Voice:
William Sharp
Lucy Shelton

Composition:
Stephen Coxe
Helena Tulve, Composer in Residence

Bodywork:
Alison Mott
Sarah West

*guest faculty

04/04/2025

Don’t miss Yellow Barn in Boston next weekend!

Music For Food presents:

Music From Yellow Barn
SUNDAY, APRIL 13 @ 7:30pm
Williams Hall, New England Conservatory

Daniel Bates, oboe
Matthew Boyle, percussion
Ryan Jung, piano
Seth Knopp, piano
Sara LeMesh, soprano
Melissa Wimbish, soprano

PROGRAM
Helena Tulve: silences/larmes
Arnold Schoenberg: Book of the Hanging Gardens
Francis Poulenc: La Voix Humaine

03/29/2025

TICKETS NOW ON SALE!

Festival Concerts: July 11 - August 9
Young Artists Program Concerts: June 22, July 3, July 4
The Other Mozart: June 27 + 28

Buy Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/3rw33m6x
More Information: https://www.yellowbarn.org/content/2024-yellow-barn-summer-festival

ABOUT OUR "PAY WHAT YOU CAN" PROGRAM

Yellow Barn values all audience members and will make efforts to accommodate all circumstances. A certain number of reduced-priced tickets are made available for each concert. Contact us at [email protected] or (802) 387-6637 for more information about our “pay what you can” program.

Audience members can also purchase tickets for others as gifts, or return tickets that they are unable to use so that we can give them to those who are not able to afford the full price of admission.

FREE CONCERTS

Young Artists Program Concerts are free with optional donation. Thursday Festival Concerts are free in memory of Putney resident and audience member Eva Mondon. Thursday concerts are also "side-by-side" nights, when audience members are welcome to sit in the musicians’ loft, and musicians sit among audience members on the floor. Thank you to community members and local businesses who sponsor free concerts at Yellow Barn!

THE BIG BARN

All concerts and masterclasses take place at the Big Barn. Yellow Barn's performance venue is located on Main Street in downtown Putney, Vermont, just off Exit 4 of I91.

A post-and-beam performance hall constructed in 2002, on the site of the former Putney Nursery, the Big Barn’s intimacy comes not only from its size (80 seats for our public audience), but also from the presence of an equal number of Yellow Barn musicians. This listening together creates an incomparable experience for every performance on every concert program.

The Big Barn offers comfortable seating and air-conditioning, and is handicapped accessible. Should you have special requirements, including those related to hearing or visual impairment, please contact Yellow Barn prior to your visit and we will do our best to address your needs.

FOR ASSISTANCE WITH YOUR ORDER

Please contact us at [email protected] or call us (802) 387-6637.

PROGRAM DETAILS

In consideration for the artistic growth of Yellow Barn musicians and our listening public, Yellow Barn programming for our summer festival begins mid-March, when participant musicians have been invited. The full schedule of Yellow Barn programs and performers will be announced at the end of May.

06/26/2024

Time flies! Believe it or not, we are already on the eve of the final YAP concerts of 2024. Join us on Thursday (3pm and 7:30pm) and Friday (11am) for cornerstones of chamber music repoertoire, plus 8 world premiere performances of new works by YAP composers Christian Yom, Jonah Cohen, Noah Godard, Lili M. Namazi, Jack Damon, and Francisco Lucena Pais. Thursday at 3pm includes Schumann's Piano Quartet E-flat Major and Beethoven's String Quartet in F Major. The 7:30pm concert includes Elgar's Piano Quintet in A Minor, Beethoven's Violin Sonata in C Minor. Look for information for Friday’s concert online and in tomorrow’s post. All Yellow Barn concerts will be held at The Big Barn, Putney, VT, unless otherwise noted.

These concerts are free and open to the public, but ticket reservation is required.

To reserve tickets, please visit here: https://yellowbarn.org/content/2024-young-artists-program-concerts
For more information: https://yellowbarn.org/events/2024-yellow-barn-summer-festival

05/17/2024

TODAY'S CONCERT CANCELED
We regret to announce that today's concert with Luke Hsu, Rainer Crosett, and Yehuda Inbar is canceled due to illness.

We look forward to seeing you back in the Big Barn soon. Full programs will be announced by June 1st!

05/07/2024

JUNE 16-AUGUST 4
TICKETS AND SEASON PASSES NOW ON SALE
https://www.yellowbarn.org/content/2024-yellow-barn-summer-festival

02/17/2024

2024 SUMMER PRODUCTION TEAM
More information at https://www.yellowbarn.org/content/summer-staff-positions
DATES: June 7 - August 5, 2024
FEE: $1,050 per week, plus housing and meals

The production staff works as a team that meets daily with the Executive Director and also works closely with the Artistic Director. In addition, the Yellow Barn staff interacts both professionally and socially with our international community of musicians and their families.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

- Managing faculty and participant arrivals and departures.
- Setting up practice/rehearsal spaces throughout the day, plus a daily “reset” of all spaces.
- Coordinating and providing transportation for musicians and instruments.
- Maintaining an inventory of scores/parts, instruments, and other production items.
- Trouble-shooting and resolving campus needs, which include the campus vans, kitchen, dormitory, practice/rehearsal rooms, and other campus spaces.
- Overseeing dormitory life, including providing support for musicians in the Young Artists Program, and running recreational activities.
- Providing production support for concerts and special productions, including stage management.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Personal experience with performing arts production is a requirement for all production staff positions. In addition, candidates must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, good spatial awareness, experience with printers/copy machines, and proficiency with Microsoft Office tools. Successful candidates will have the ability to: organize information that changes daily, complete tasks consistently despite interruptions, and work independently in a group setting. Candidates must be efficient, responsible, flexible, and thrive in a fast-paced, hard-working environment. Candidates must have a car in good working order, have a valid United States Driver’s License, and be comfortable living and driving on country roads.

12/15/2023

JAN. 3 DEADLINE REMINDER: Amsterdam (new addition), Basel, Berlin, and London
https://www.yellowbarn.org/content/application-information

2024 SUMMER FESTIVAL
Yellow Barn, June 30 – August 4
For individuals and pre-formed ensembles

Yellow Barn’s Young Artists Program, June 9 – 28
For outstanding musicians ages 13-20

AUDITION SCHEDULE

Europe & UK:

Basel—January 7
Berlin—January 14
***Amsterdam—January 17
London—January 24

US & Canada:

Philadelphia—January 27
Baltimore—January 28
New York—January 29-30, February 6-7
Boston—January 31-February 2
Chicago—February 4
New Haven—February 8
Montreal—February 15
San Francisco—February 17
Los Angeles—February 18

APPLICATION DEADLINES

Live Auditions Europe: January 3
Live Auditions US & Canada: January 24
Video Auditions: January 30

2024 YELLOW BARN FACULTY TO INCLUDE

Violin:
Dale Barltrop
Curtis Macomber
Anthony Marwood
Donald Weilerstein

Viola:
Krzysztof Chorzelski
Nicholas Mann
Pauline Sachse

Cello:
Natasha Brofsky
Luise Buchberger
Jean-Michel Fonteneau
Laurence Lesser*
John Myerscough

Double Bass:
Sam Suggs

Piano:
Alasdair Beatson
Gilbert Kalish
Seth Knopp
Dénes Várjon
Vivian Hornik Weilerstein

Winds:
Daniel Bates, oboe
Alan Kay, clarinet

Harp:
Charles Overton

Percussion:
Eduardo Leandro

Voice:
William Sharp, baritone
Lucy Shelton, soprano

Composition:
Stephen Coxe
Jörg Widmann, Composer in Residence

Body Awareness:
Alison Mott, bodywork specialist
Aliza Stewart, Feldenkrais
Sarah West, bodywork specialist

*Gest Faculty

12/01/2023

MUSIC SPEAKS
A Four-Session Course with Seth Knopp

Saturdays, 10:30am-12:30pm
March 16, 23, 30, and April 6, 2024
Putney, VT
More information: https://www.yellowbarn.org/content/music-speaks

COURSE DESCRIPTION

"How music speaks to us determines why we listen."
Music Speaks is a course based on this single proposition.

For the first time, Yellow Barn offers the opportunity to enroll in Music Speaks, an in-person course developed and taught by its Artistic Director, Seth Knopp. Over the span of four weekly sessions augmented with independent assignments, students will explore the course proposition, arriving at an understanding of the more complex, shifting relationships that allow music to speak, and that determine its importance in our lives.

"For me, the musical experience is not first or foremost a history lesson or anthology. We may come away from concert programs knowing more about how the musical world has organized itself by natural evolution, by geography, by invention, by cultural upheaval, but in the end, we are left with one fundamental continuum crystalized in those moments when composer-interpreter-listener become inseparable, and also invisible. Those are the rare moments that move us unmistakably, but that we cannot quantify or replicate, when all that is left is Music, and its love affair with itself." —Seth Knopp

ENROLLMENT INFORMATION

Course fee: $250
Please note that the class size is limited to 12 participants.
For those who do not live locally, housing options are available.
Registration opens on Monday, January 8th.

ABOUT YELLOW BARN'S ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Pianist Seth Knopp is a founding member of the Peabody Trio, recipient of the 1989 Naumburg Award. After making its Alice Tully Hall debut in 1990, the trio performed on the most important chamber music stages nationally and internationally.

In over 25 years as Artistic Director of Yellow Barn, Seth has built an international center for chamber music, bringing musicians and audiences to Putney, Vermont each summer. Yellow Barn’s holistic philosophy and programming focuses listeners in new ways and has become an important influence in the music world. In 2008, he created Yellow Barn’s Artist Residencies, the first residency program for performing musicians in the United States.

In 2010, Seth founded and became the artistic director of Soundings: New Music at the Nasher, a concert series at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, exploring the unique lens through which music helps us better understand our world.

Recent projects include the creation of Beethoven Walks, transcriptions of Bach’s Musical Offering and Chaconne, the premiere recording of Jörg Widmann’s song cycle Das Heiße Herz with baritone William Sharp and Eric Nathan's song cycle Some Favored Nook with William Sharp and soprano Tony Arnold, and performances with members of the Brentano String Quartet for the opening of the Chou Wen-chung Center in Guangzhou, China.

For thirty-five years Seth was a member of the piano and chamber music faculties at the Peabody Institute. His solo and chamber music performances can be heard on the Artek, Koch, and New World Records labels. He studied with Leonard Shure at New England Conservatory, Nathan Schwartz at San Francisco Conservatory, and with Leon Fleisher.

Address

49 Main Street
Putney, VT
05346

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm
Saturday	9am - 6pm

Telephone

+18023876637

Website

http://www.yellowbarn.org/

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