The series celebrates the 150th anniversary of New York’s iconic Atterbury House, with performances by Sybarite5, Tessa Lark & Michael Thurber, the Ulysses Quartet, Xavier Foley, PUBLIQuartet, The Westerlies, Imani Winds, Aisslinn Nosky, the Brentano Quartet, Augustin Hadelich, and St. John herself
 
Produced by Paracademia center for music and #collaborative arts, the series aims to provide performance opportunities and fees to musicians at a time when both are scarce
 
All concerts will be streamed for free on St. John’s social media, and will be available at www.classicalwcrb.org, the web home of 99.5 WCRB Classical Radio Boston, and the Violin Channel

For immediate release – New York, NY – Violinist Lara St. John announced The Atterbury House Sessions, a new live streamed concert series celebrating the 150th anniversary of the iconic the Atterbury House with 11 chamber music concerts taking place from January 23 to June 5. The series will feature performances by Sybarite5, Tessa Lark & Michael Thurber, the Ulysses Quartet, Xavier Foley, PUBLIQuartet, The Westerlies, Imani Winds, Aisslinn Nosky, the Brentano Quartet, Augustin Hadelich, and St. John herself.

The concerts will be live streamed for free on St. John’s Facebook and YouTube channels, and will also be available at www.classicalwcrb.org, the web home of 99.5 WCRB Classical Radio Boston, and on the Violin Channel. All performances will take place on Saturdays at 5:00 pm EST, and will be available for one week after the performance date.

Said St. John of the series: “I’ve spent a great deal of time thinking of my fellow musicians, who have been badly hurt by the loss of employment and the broad prohibitions against live concerts. I hope that this series will, in a small way, provide some colleagues with performance outlets and offer audiences a little respite from the harsh realities of the pandemic.”

Produced by and funded entirely by private donations, the series is produced in cooperation with the not-for-profit Paracademia center for music and #collaborative arts. Milica Paranosic, founder and executive director of Paracademia said: “At this challenging time of COVID-19 and its devastating impact on education and the arts, the Atterbury Sessions speak to the need to nurture and revitalize our artistic output through community efforts and collaborative production.”

Built in 1871 by architect Robert Mook and reimagined by Grosvenor Atterbury of McKim, Mead & White in 1909, the Atterbury House located at 131 E. 70th Street in New York City is considered one of the iconic architectural contributions of its time.