Summer Concert Series

Hotchkiss, Elfers Anniversary Concert


Summer Portals offers a free concert series to the Portals community and the public. World-renowned artists and student performers share the stage in Hotchkiss’s state-of-the-art music facilities, the Katherine M. Elfers Hall in the Esther Eastman Music Center, where audiences can enjoy incredible acoustics and clear views of Lake Wononscopomuc and the Berkshire-Taconic mountains. Concert-goers can picnic on the Hotchkiss grounds.

2026 Summer Concert Series 

Fabio and Gisele Witkowski, artistic directors

Katherine M. Elfers Hall, Esther Eastman Music CenteR
 
Tuesday, July 14, 7:30 p.m.

Oxana Yablonskaya 
Works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin 

Saturday, July 18, 7:30 p.m. 

The Frank Gala Concert
Fabio Witkowski, piano 
Gisele Witkowski, piano 
Phillipe Raskin, piano 

Fine Arts Quartet
Brahms - Piano Quartet in C Minor and Piano Quintet

Monday, July 20, 7:30 p.M.

Leonel Morales & Leo de Maria 
Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Prokofiev 

Tuesday, July 21, 7:30 p.m.

Michael Bourdoncle
Works by Liszt, Beethoven, Gershwin 

Friday, July 24, 7:30 p.m.

Grand Finale Concert
Young Artists and Guest Artists share the stage for an exciting final performance

Young Artist Concerts

Saturday, July 18, 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 22, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 23, 8 p.m. at carnegie hall

Purchase tickets at Carnegie Hall, NYC (tickets at carnegiehall.org)

ALL CONCERTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Scenic picnic grounds open two hours prior to summer concerts