Serenata Chamber Series
Music In The Village
2025 | 2026 Season
Winter Renaissance Reminagined
** This concert is currently sold out. You can add your name to the waiting list on the ticket link below:
December 14, 2025 at 4:00pm | Old Stone Meeting House | 347 North Broadway | Nyack, 10960
In this concert, we breathe new life into centuries-old music, creating an intimate dialogue between the Baroque and Renaissance repertoire with contemporary expression, improvisation, and vibrancy.
Experience the perfection that composers wrote 400 years ago with a musical language that lives in the moment.
Grammy Nominated Sara Caswell, violin | composer, cellist & presenter Jody Redhage Ferber, cello | Ilana Davidson, soprano
The Program:
J.S. Bach, 17th Century French Carols, La Folia, 10th Century Arabic, Henry Purcell and more.
A Child’s Christmas in Wales
** This performance is now only accepting walk-ins at the door!
December 22, 2025 at 7:30 pm | An Beal Bocht Café | 445 West 238th Street | Bronx, NY
This is our 14th year presenting the beloved tale at the well-known pub, An Beal Bocht Cafe, which has been a home for the arts in Riverdale for over 30 years. Narrated by the excellent Joan Lunoe, who embodies the childlike nostalgia of a Christmas in simpler times from the viewpoint of a young boy.
The charming story is presented anew each year with hand-chosen chamber music and vocal selections to celebrate the holidays!
With: Jing Li, cello | Alex Ruvinstein, piano | Marc Molomot, tenor | Mary Phillips, mezzo soprano | Ilana Davidson, soprano | Peter Heiman, bass
The Program:
A Child’s Christmas in Wales ~ The story
Chamber Music of Bach, Casals, Handel, Holiday Favorites & more.
Nicholas Canellakis: A delightful solo recital of Bach, Ligeti, Folk Song Arrangements, and more!
March 8, 2026, at 4:00 pm | Old Stone Meeting House | 347 North Broadway | Nyack, 10960
Nicholas Canellakis is one of today’s most sought-after and innovative cellists, whose career seamlessly blends traditional classical performance with boundary-pushing creative ventures. He performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician and is also a composer/arranger, artistic curator, teacher, and filmmaker, with comedic digital content that has reached millions of views worldwide.
Canellakis was recently appointed to the cello faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, his alma mater. A prominent artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he appears regularly in Alice Tully Hall and on international tours, including at Wigmore Hall, the Louvre, the Seoul Arts Center, and the National Concert Halls of Shanghai and Taipei.
He performs on a distinguished 1840 Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume cello.
An Intimate Portrait: classical guitar and voice
May 17, 2026, at 4:00 pm | Old Stone Meeting House | 347 North Broadway, Nyack, 10960
Renowned classical guitarist Dan Lippel and soprano Ilana Davidson showcase the delicate dialogue between voice and guitar. Drawing from centuries of sublime repertoire, we celebrate spring with music spanning the 16th through the 20th centuries.
Longtime musical collaborators, Dan and Ilana, have recorded and performed numerous recitals throughout the United States. This performance includes the music of Bach, Dowland, Pla, Britten, and much more.