Rites of Spring Music Fest

03/21/2026

2026 a new season at the Rites of Spring Festival - https://mailchi.mp/ritesmusic.org/2025-new-season-of-the-rites-of-spring-festival-6745112

12/18/2025

Get into the spirit of the season with Rites of Spring’s Opera Night Holiday Weekend, a festive celebration of operatic artistry at Borghese Vineyard! Enjoy an exciting performance this Friday, December 19, featuring rising voices in the New Talents for Change program, complete with pre-concert wine and cheese, along with a wonderful selection of songs and arias presented by young professionals from Stony Brook University. Then on Sunday, December 21, join us for an intimate Spanish & Italian Songs recital with curated bites, showcasing exquisite vocal performances with piano accompaniment. These two concerts offer a heartwarming blend of artistry, community, and seasonal cheer in collaboration with Stony Brook Opera. Tickets and more info can be found here:

Opera Night Holiday Weekend

11/07/2025

We hope you can join us for "Rhythms of the Terroir: Cycles From Our Earth" in collaboration with Hallockville Museum Farm.

When you pair an Italian vocalist and an Italian horn player with a Brazilian rhythm section, the result is something as magical as it is worldly. Band leader Olivia Foschi was inspired by the natural cycles of life. She has combined repertoire that expresses the idea of seasonal and daily cycles through enchanting melodies and varying rhythmic cycles and patterns.

This concert will transport listeners through the diverse geographical territories represented in the band, weaving together traditional Italian folk music from the early 1900s composed by Cesare Martuzzi, contemporary Brazilian compositions by Toninho Horta and Djavan, and touching upon music from or about New York. This music incorporates the ancient art of South Indian Carnatic vocal percussion known as konnakol. You can expect to hear a blend of world music and rhythms that will leave you feeling culturally enriched and more connected to the Earth. This concert will take place in the Naugles Barn at Hallockville. More info here: https://www.ritesmusic.org/cycles-from-our-earth-date-november-14-2025.html

10/21/2025

Join us for “Surrealism in Music,” a free performance on October 24th at 6pm at The Museum of Contemporary Art L.I. with 🎨

This concert will feature clarinetist Guilherme Batalha and double bassist Alex Burns, current Stony Brook University music students.

Please reserve your free tickets at: https://www.ritesmusic.org/tickets-october-24th-2025.html

09/25/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Energía Internacional, our new initiative centered around community engagement and cultural exchange. The weekend featured performances by guitarist Gabriele Leite and percussionist Renan Proença at the North Fork Flower Farm, the Toomai String Quintet at North Fork Arts Center, and a percussion ensemble led by Eduardo Leandro at Mitchell Park.

We are excited to continue this project through Kinetic Canvas, an interdisciplinary residency-collaboration with students, artists, and teachers at Greenport Schools led by Paolo Bartolani and Light Painting Artist Alina Wilczynski. Kinetic Canvas allows students to explore their creativity through artistic expression exploring topics including our relationship to nature, what makes a healthy community, immersive listening, and much more. We are excited for continued collaboration and growth through this initiative and more projects involving our vibrant community.

09/07/2025

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who was a part of our 2025 summer concert series! To our performers, concert venues, donors, tech, staff, and of course...YOU our audience members: we are so grateful to have shared such special music together this summer and we appreciate you joining us.

As the summer is coming to a close, we are looking ahead to an exciting fall series this month. We hope you can join us for "Energía Internacional" from September 12th-14th for a weekend of community connection through music. Details below:

Friday, September 12th: Guitarist Gabriele Leite and Percussionist Renan Proença will be performing a free concert at the North Fork Flower Farm at 5pm. Register here: https://www.ritesmusic.org/music-at-the-flower-farm-on-september-12th-2025.html

Saturday, September 13th: Toomai String Quintet will be performing at the North Fork Arts Center at 7pm. Tickets here: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/NFACevents/event/ritesofspring/preview

Sunday, September 14th: Brazilian, Cuban and Afro American Music featuring Eight Percussionists, led by Eduardo Leandro at Mitchell Park in collaboration with Stony Brook Contemporary Players. This event starts at 3pm, and tickets are free. Please register at https://www.ritesmusic.org/energia-musical-at-mitchell-park-on-september-14th-2025.html

09/04/2025

Thank you to everyone who was a part of our first ever Piano Rites series, featuring pianists Inna Faliks, Fei-Fei D**g, and Vladimir Petrov. The three recitals featured a range of repertoire, spanning from piano classics to contemporary works, all beautifully performed, musically precise, and incredibly inspiring!🎹

07/29/2025

We hope you can join us this Thursday, July 31st, for Jayme Stone’s Folklife at Cutchogue Village Green. This ensemble brings together some of North America’s most distinctive and creative musical roots to revive and reimagine traditional music in creative ways. Tickets can be found here: https://www.ritesmusic.org/tickets-july-31st-2025.html
🎟️🎶🪕 More on Jayme Stone’s Folklife below:

“Folklife treats old field recordings not as time capsules, but as heirloom seeds passed down from a bygone generation. Planting these sturdy seeds in modern soil, this versatile gathering of musicians has cultivated vibrant Sea Island spirituals, Creole calypsos and stomp-down Appalachian dance tunes for contemporary audiences. They also explore Stone’s diverse catalog with entrancing indie-pop originals and songs from East and West Africa. Folklife’s concerts and educational programs are moving and participatory experiences that prove folk songs are indeed perennials for the people.”

Featuring:
Jayme Stone (banjo, voice, guitar)
Christina Courtin (voice, violin)
Ilan Blank (guitar, voice)
Nate Sabat (bass, voice)

07/25/2025

We are thrilled to announce our upcoming recital series, Piano Rites! Three exceptional pianists will be joining us for individual recitals on August 9th, 15th, and 17th. The series will take place in a unique and beautiful setting: McCall Preserve in Cutchogue, NY. We hope you can join us! Visit the link below to purchase tickets, or the Piano Rites Pass which grants you access to all three recitals as well as a complimentary ticket to a performance of your choice from the Rites of Spring calendar.

https://www.ritesmusic.org/2025-piano-rites.html

07/13/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for a beautiful evening of storytelling, nature, and music with and at last Saturday!🌸

We are getting very excited to welcome on Saturday, July 26th at the . Tickets can be found at https://www.ritesmusic.org/tickets-july-26th-2025.html
We hope you can join us!

06/27/2025

We hope you can join us July 5th at 6pm at the Landcraft Garden Foundation for "New Ways of Looking at Old Things," an exciting program of music and storytelling with the Overlook Quartet and storyteller Tanya Birl-Torres. This unique performance is one you definitely won't want to miss!

Audience members are invited to arrive at 5:00pm to visit the garden and enjoy the beauty of the natural landscape.
The concert will begin at 6:00pm outdoors on the main lawn of the Landcraft Garden.

We hope you can join us! Tickets at: https://www.ritesmusic.org/new-ways-of-looking--july-5th-2025.html