Cherry Street Music is a music program with a simple mission: to create a space to meet new people, develop friendships, and find togetherness, passion and hope through evenings of music. Our "classical with a twist" concerts are less formal with conversation between artists, special guests, and audience members. Attendees will also have an opportunity to experience the visionary educational history and beauty of the 1840 Nathaniel Allen Homestead, now The Allen Center, as our artistic home!
The Allen Center's Artist-in-Residence, cellist Allison Eldredge is Founder and Artistic Director of Cherry Street Music.
Season Overview
Cherry Street Music, the resident music program at Newton’s Allen Center, has announced the first five concerts of their 2024-25 season. Artistic Director Allison Eldredge has planned an intimate cross-cultural performance series featuring classical, jazz, folk, and more.
Upcoming:
2.2.25 Classical with a Twist- Love Is All Around
Allison Eldredge, Cherry Street Music's Artistic Director and cellist will perform romantic works expressing the sounds of love by Debussy, Bizet and others with pianist Dina Vainshtein. The “twist” for the concert will be delivered by the TEens, young voices of Temple Emanuel Newton coached by Eugenia Gerstein. David Rosemberg, Maia Leibler-Tolea, Liora Russcol, Rebecca Gansner, and Max Stober will be performing songs of love and friendship from around the world. The concert finale will be a performance of one of the world's favorite songs done in a collaboration with all the artists.
Past Events:
9.30.24 Oded Tzúr
10.6.24 Classical with a Twist: Champions for Change
10.26.24 440- The Gypsy Jazz Quartet: Toe-Tapping Snappy Hot Jazz
11.17.24 Classical with a Twist: West Newton Pops
12.15.24 Classical with a Twist: I’ve Got Rhythm
Meet The Artists
Allison-Yoshie Eldredge, Artistic Director, Cello
Cellist Allison Eldredge, a recipient of the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant and Musical America’s “Young Artist of the Year”, has enjoyed performing nationally and internationally, from London to Moscow to China to Berlin. She has been called “a cellist afraid of nothing” (Chicago Times) with “virtuosity wholly at the service of the music” (American Fanfare – American Record Guide). She gained international attention when Daniel Barenboim invited her to give the first performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto, which he conducted years after the death of his wife, the celebrated cellist Jacqueline Du Pre.
Allison has appeared as cello soloist with 30 major American orchestras and innumerable major international orchestras. She has been invited by the premiere Music Directors of the world from Scotland to Italy to Canada to the Netherlands and the United States receiving critical acclaim such that “She belongs to “the crème de la crème” of cello talents” (Het Noord Hollands Dagblad Amsterdam).
Allison has loved teaching the next generation for the past 30 years. She has taught cellists at New England Conservatory since 2000 and at Harvard University from 2008-2011. Allison also maintains a private teaching studio in Massachusetts and Connecticut. She has given masterclasses at numerous universities and schools and has visited more than 100 schools in support of music education in communities with greater needs. She teaches chamber music at Young Talent Chamber Music, a two-week Pro-Am intensive summer camp in Connecticut, where she has been Artistic Director since 2014.
Her cello teachers have included Harvey Shapiro, Yo-Yo Ma, Eleonore Schoenfeld, Joan Lunde, Mstislav Rostropovich, Ardyth Alton and Channing Robbins. Allison studied at the Pre-College and College of The Juilliard School.
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Dina Vainshtein, piano
Dina Vainshtein, a daughter of two pianists, studied at the prestigious Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow. Ms. Vainshtein received the Special Prize for the Best Collaborative Pianist at the 1998 International Tchaikovsky Competition. She has collaborated with violinists Miriam Fried, Yura Lee, Karen Gomyo, Chad Hoopes, Caroline Goulding, Zina Schiff, Alexi Kenney, and Angelo Yu; cellists Natasha Brofsky and Amit Peled; as well as the Borromeo String Quartet. Ms. Vainshtein moved to the United States in 2000 to attend the Cleveland Institute of Music and has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, the Caramoor Festival, Music@Menlo, Ravinia Festival, and the Music Academy of the West. For nearly a decade, Ms. Vainshtein has been affiliated with the New England Conservatory and the Walnut Hill School, where she teaches chamber music.
https://www.dinavainshtein.com/
The TEens of Temple Emanuel
Join Temple Emanuel TEens David Rosemberg, Maia Leibler-Tolea, Liora Russcol, Rebecca Gansner, and Max Stober as they perform a fantastic collection of music across multiple genres, in a performance of friendship, peace, and love that brings us all together. Under the direction of Eugenia Gerstein the TEens perform regularly, sharing their talent with the community.
Eugenia Gerstein has been at Temple Emanuel for 25 years as the Choral director and music educator. Eugenia graduated from Ural Conservatory magna cum laude with a master's degree in choral conducting and received her bachelor's degree in music education and in Teaching music theory from Moscow Music teachers' College. She also holds a diploma in Piano playing from Moscow Music school. A native of Moscow, Eugenia came to the USA in 1994 with her son Kirill Gerstein, a music prodigy, who became the youngest student at Berklee College of Music at age 14. Subsequently Kirill Gerstein has become a world renown pianist, performing with leading orchestras. In 1997 her husband, Leonid was allowed to leave Russia and was reunited with Eugenia and Kirill. In addition to her work at Temple Emanuel, Eugenia works with Solomon Schechter Day School and has a private piano studio in Newton.
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