Experience the Magic of Mendelssohn

An all-trio concert features Mendelssohn’s second Piano Trio alongside works by Carl Maria von Weber and American female composer Undine Smith Moore.

Sister Bay, Wis. (June 16, 2025) – Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s oldest summer chamber music series, continues its 2025 concert season with a program celebrating trios by well-known German composers Felix Mendelssohn and Carl Maria von Weber, and lesser-known African American female composer Undine Smith Moore.

Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66, is unsurpassed. The way he weaves a Bach chorale melody into the final movement is spellbinding and worth the ticket price alone. Two other trios – each involving the flute of Heather Zinninger – set the stage. Undine Smith Moore’s Afro American Suite is hauntingly evocative, while Weber’s Trio in G Minor, Op. 63, shows how much the Romantic Period is indebted to this German master.

Concerts are at 7:00pm on June 26 at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim, sponsored by Mary Hauser & Jerry Randall; 7:00pm on June 27 at MUSE in Sturgeon Bay, sponsored by Roy & Betsy Gill, and featuring poet Sara Dovre Wudali; 7:00pm on June 28 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Sister Bay, sponsored by the Gould Family Fund of the Door County Community Foundation; and 7:00pm on July 1 at Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church in Ellison Bay.

Featured musicians include flutist Heather Zinninger, violinist David Perry, cellist Mara McClain, and pianist Jeannie Yu.

Tickets are $39.99 for adults, $19.99 for students, and children 12 and under are free with an adult. Premium prices apply for special events. Flex-packs of six tickets for the price of five tickets are also available. Order tickets at www.midsummersmusic.com or by phone at 920-854-7088.

The first Coffee Talk of the 2025 season is at 1:00pm on June 21. “Experience the Healing Power of Sound” will be presented by Dr. Maja Jurisic, who uses crystal alchemy bowls and tuning forks to create the intervals of the Fibonacci Sequence, a simple sequence of numbers popularized by Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci. Some research shows that the frequencies of the intervals can shift a person’s vibrational states of being by resonating with the pathways of consciousness from the pituitary axis in the pineal gland. These frequencies can open gateways that allow people to explore higher states of consciousness, and have been used for enhancing creativity, overcoming addictions and healing traumas. Coffee Talks are free, informal presentations on music themes by ensemble members, staff, and friends.

A complete 2025 summer brochure can be downloaded at www.midsummersmusic.com.

Midsummer’s Music was co-founded in 1991 by Jim and Jean Berkenstock, long-time Door County summer residents and principal orchestral players with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. What began as two concerts among friends has become one of the Midwest’s most anticipated chamber music series, bringing thousands of chamber music enthusiasts from around the globe to the magical Door County Peninsula.