$45
doors at 5:30pm, show at 6pm
***Please note this event is at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum.***
Musicians, painters, and poets often move in the same circles and, regardless of their medium, spur each other on to experiment. In this concert, we'll explore those creative bonds in an afternoon of music and poetry that describe art. Given the richness of Provincetown's artistic heritage, we'll pay particular attention to the various painters who worked here and the music that inspired them. Violinist Katherine Winterstein and pianist Inessa Zaretsky will perform works by composers including J.S. Bach, Aaron Copland, John Cage, and William Grant Still, while award-winning novelists M. T. Anderson and Julia Glass will read selections from writers such as Kiran Desai, Frank O'Hara, Langston Hughes, and local painter Charles Hawthorne. Come join us and celebrate the ecstatic and the ekphrastic!
(An ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art.)
Inessa Zaretsky is on the Piano faculty of Mannes College, The New School University. She is the Director of the Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas, based in Asheville, North Carolina and is the Artistic co-director of the Phoenix Chamber Music Series in New York City with pianist Vassa Shevel. For the past 10 years she’s been performing with Craftsbury Chamber Players in Vermont. Ms. Zaretsky is an award-winning pianist and composer whose performances have taken her around the world while her music has been performed in England, Norway, Canada, Australia, Italy, Russia and throughout the United States. She studied piano with Richard Goode and composition with Robert Cuckson at the Mannes College of Music in New York and has collaborated with many notable musicians, such as the Miro, Enso, Jasper and Cassat String Quartets, Kent/Blossom Festival Orchestra, Chamber Music Series of the St. Lukes Orchestra, musicians of the Boston, Chicago and Orpheus Orchestras, members of the Metropolitan Opera and many others.
Katherine Winterstein is the concertmaster of the Vermont Symphony, the associate concertmaster of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and she is co-concertmaster of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. In recent seasons she has performed as concertmaster of the Palm Beach Opera, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Toledo Symphony, and also performs regularly with the Handel and Haydn Society, the Boston Ballet Orchestra, and A Far Cry. She was a member of the Hartt String Quartet, the Providence-based Aurea Ensemble, and the summer of 2026 is her 25th with the Craftsbury Chamber Players of Vermont. She has also performed with Boston-based Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Radius Ensemble, and Dinosaur Annex, as well as with members of the Lydian and Ciompi String Quartets, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas, and as faculty at Point Counterpoint. She has appeared as soloist with several orchestras including the Vermont Symphony, the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, the Charlottesville Symphony, the Champlain Philharmonic, and the Boston Virtuosi. She served on the performance faculty of Middlebury College in Vermont from 2002-2015, joined the faculty of the Hartt School of Music in September of 2011, and began teaching at Brown University in September of 2015.
New York Times Bestselling author M. T. Anderson writes books for children, teens, and adults, including The Pox Party, which won the National Book Award; Elf Dog & Owl Head, which won a Newbery Honor Award, and the science fiction satire Feed, which was a Finalist for the National Book Award and which won the L.A. Times Book Prize. Another science fiction satire, Landscape with Invisible Hand, was made into a movie starring Tiffany Haddish and Asante Blackk. His nonfiction book Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad was one of the Wall Street Journal’s Best Books of the Year. His most recent book, Nicked, a finalist for the Vermont Book Award, is a historical heist and monastic rom-com set in the eleventh century. He divides his time between Boston and Vermont.
Julia Glass is the author of the novels Vigil Harbor, A House Among the Trees, And the Dark Sacred Night, The Widower’s Tale, The Whole World Over, and the National Book Award–winning Three Junes, as well as the Kindle Single “Chairs in the Rafters.” Her third book, I See You Everywhere, a collection of linked stories, won the 2009 SUNY John Gardner Fiction Award. She has also won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She taught for more than ten years at the Fine Arts Work Center’s Summer Program and is now a Senior Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emerson College. Julia lives with her family in Marblehead, Massachusetts.