RITES OF SPRING MUSIC FESTIVAL
  • HOME
    • FOUNDER'S STATEMENT
    • 2025 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR LETTER
    • VISION & MISSION
    • BOARD & STAFF
    • CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
    • CONTACT
  • 2025 SPRING / SUMMER SEASON
    • Piano Marathon Date: April 13th, 2025 >
      • TICKETS April 13th 2025
    • Imaginative and Colorful Date: April 27th, 2025 >
      • TICKETS April 27th 2025
    • Spring Concert & Bites Date: May 4th, 2025 >
      • TICKETS May 4th 2025
    • Chopin Piano Recital Date: May 25th 2025 >
      • TICKETS May 25th 2025
    • New Music Under the Big Sky Date: May 31st, 2025 >
      • TICKETS May 31st, 2025
    • Fisherman Songs Date: June 8th 2025 >
      • TICKETS June 8th, 2025
    • Celebrating The North Fork Date: June 16th, 2025
    • New Ways of Looking : July 5th, 2025 >
      • TICKETS July 5th 2025
    • Spice Up The High Energy Date: July 26th, 2025 >
      • TICKETS July 26th, 2025
    • Jayme Stone's FolkLife Date: July 31st, 2025 >
      • TICKETS July 31st, 2025
    • 2025 Piano Rites >
      • TICKETS August 9th 2025
      • TICKETS August 15th 2025
      • TICKETS August 17th 2025
      • 2025 PIANORITES PASS
    • Beethoven Forever Date: August 29th, 2025 >
      • TICKETS August 29th 2025
    • Energía internacional!: September 13th, 2025
  • GET INVOLVED
    • BE A RECURRANT SUBSCRIBER
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    • BE A SUBSCRIBER CC
    • BE A DONOR
    • 2025 CONCERT PACKAGE
    • BE A BUSINESS SPONSOR
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  • SPONSORS & DONORS HONOR ROLL
    • ADVERTISING
    • INDIVIDUAL DONORS
    • CORPORATE SPONSORS
    • FESTIVAL PARTNERS
  • PAST EDITIONS
    • MUSIC EDUCATION >
      • PIANO LESSONS >
        • ENROLLMENT
    • Gallery >
      • PRESS
    • 9TH EDITION 2024 >
      • RoSMF COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS 2025
      • Piano Marathon Date: April 14, 2024 >
        • TICKETS April 14th 2024
      • Sounds of Images Date: May 5 2024 >
        • TICKETS May 5th 2024
      • The Beatitudes Date: May 12, 2024 >
        • TICKETS May 12th 2024
      • Amusing the Strings Date: May 25, 2024 >
        • TICKETS May 25th 2024
      • New Music Under the Big Sky Date: June 1, 2024 >
        • TICKETS June 1st 2024
      • Brahms Piano Trios: June 16, 2024 >
        • TICKETS June 16th 2024
        • GIVE AWAY June 16th 2024
        • Invite a friend TICKETS June 16th 2024
      • Americana at the Village Green Date: July 4th, 2024 >
        • TICKETS July 4th 2024
      • Le Remede de Fortune Date: July 13, 2024 >
        • TICKETS July 13th 2024
      • Spirit in The Machine Date: July 27, 2024 >
        • TICKETS July 27th 2024
      • Rustic Mid-Summer Concert Date: August 25, 2024 >
        • TICKETS August 25th 2024
      • Songs & Stories in Concert Date: September 8th, 2024 >
        • TICKETS September 8th 2024
      • Music from around the World Date: September 15, 2024 >
        • TICKETS September 15th 2024
      • Whimsical Sounds Date: October 13, 2024 >
        • TICKETS October 13th 2024
      • Autumnal Journey Date: October 25th, 2024 >
        • TICKETS October 25th 2024
      • Natural Elements Date: November 2, 2024 >
        • TICKETS November 2nd 2024
      • A Musical Afternoon Date: November 29th, 2024 >
        • TICKETS November 29th 2024
      • 2024 Holiday Weekend - Piano Recital Date: 12/20/2024
      • Opera Night Concert - Holiday Weekend in Music: Date 12/22/2024 >
        • TICKETS December 20th 2024
        • TICKETS December 22nd 2024
        • TICKETS 2024 Holiday Weekend in Music
    • 8TH EDITION 2023 >
      • Titans of the 20th Century Date: April 16th, 2023 >
        • TICKETS April 16th 2023
      • Luminous Beauty Date: May 14th, 2023 >
        • TICKETS May 14th 2023
      • New Music Under the Big Sky Date: May 27th, 2023 >
        • TICKETS May 27th 2023
      • The Rite of Spring Date: June 24th, 2023 >
        • TICKETS June 24th 2023
      • Viennese Atmosphere Date: June 29th, 2023 >
        • TICKETS June 29th 2023
      • Music at the Village Green Date: July 13th, 2023
      • Summer Concert & Dine Date: July 22nd, 2023 >
        • TICKETS July 22nd 2023
      • Rustic Mid-Summer Concert Date: August 27th, 2023 >
        • TICKETS August 27th 2023
      • Sounds of Images Date: 9/14/2023 >
        • TICKETS September 14th 2023
      • Music, Mythology, Wine: Date: 10/06/2023 >
        • TICKETS October 6th 2023
      • Tuning Into Nature: Date: 11/04/2023 >
        • TICKETS November 4th 2023
      • Piano Recital 2023 Holiday Weekend in Music Date: 12/08/2023 >
        • TICKETS December 8th 2023
      • Opera Night & Dinner Holiday Weekend in Music: Date 12/09/2023 >
        • TICKETS December 9th 2023
    • 7TH EDITION 2022 >
      • DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
      • Meet & Greet and.... Music Date: 5/22/2022
      • New Music Under the Big Sky Date: 5/28/2022 >
        • TICKETS May 28th
      • The Sounds of Nature Date: 6/10/2022
      • Between the Wind and the Shrubs Date: 7/01/2022 >
        • TICKETS July 1st
      • Solo Recital All Frederic Chopin Date: 7/24/2022 >
        • TICKETS July 24th
      • Across American Roots Date: 7/31/2022 >
        • TICKETS July 31
      • Rustic Mid-Summer Concert Date: 8/14/2022 >
        • TICKETS August 14th
      • Songs of Love & Despair Date: 9/25/2022 >
        • TICKETS September 25th
      • Music for a Changing Climate: A Meditation Date: 10/16/2022 >
        • TICKETS October 16th
      • Sounds of Images Date: 11/04/2022 >
        • TICKETS November 4th
      • 2022 HOLIDAY CONCERT Date: 12/18/2022 >
        • TICKETS December 18th
    • 6th EDITION, 2021 >
      • 2021 FESTIVAL
      • 2021 MUSIC & TELL VIRTUAL EPISODES
      • O Mysterium Magnum
      • New Music Under the Big Sky
      • Ballads & Other Cautionary Tales
      • An evening of Shakespeare:
      • French Music Soirée
      • Sound of Science >
        • Sound of Science Date: 9/17/202
      • A Night at The JazzLoft
      • 2021 Benefit Holiday Concert
    • 5TH EDITION, 2020 >
      • 2020 LIVE CONCERTS
      • 2020 ONLINE MUSIC & TELL EPISODES
      • Music & Culinary Soiree
      • Holiday Benefit Concert
      • Silent Auction Fundraiser
    • 4th Edition, 2019
    • 3rd Edition, 2018
    • 2nd Edition, 2017
    • 1st Edition, 2016
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What is the Rites of Spring Music Festival?
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Rites of Spring has quickly become the premier classical and contemporary music festival on the North Fork and East End of Long Island. In this tenth edition the festival is devoted to contemporary sounds in a setting that engages the community and invites the listener to participate on many levels. We believe great music works best in a unique environment. We invite you to join us.

We combine classical and contemporary music with great local food & wine, in historical and natural setting and inspiring talks by artists. 
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 Letter from the Founder & Artistic Director

​2025 Rites of Spring Music Festival – Tenth Anniversary

RHYTHMS OF THE TERROIR:
music, stories, practices

Given North Fork’s rich maritime and agricultural traditions with its multiple cultures and practices, the Rites of Spring Music Festival is proud to highlight this distinctive terroir through the music and rhythms of this unique community.

In 2025, Rites of Spring Music Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary and pays homage to the North Fork by showcasing its artistic expressions and working practices in its many extraordinary venues.

There are similarities between music practitioners and land and maritime workers.
Body rhythms in these two practices are highly dependent upon the human senses of tasting, smelling, seeing, touching, hearing, talking, and doing. The body is fully involved in sensory practices as well as in effective, aesthetic, cultural and social ways to generate an enterprise. 

Practices of the land and maritime workers must synchronize to daily life rhythms of seasonality and climate that cannot be hurried or controlled, as well as the music practitioners need to regulate their body rhythm with the flow of the music making. 
The terroir of the North Fork not only describes the geography, soil and climate of this place, but expresses the meaningful cohesion of expressions, stories and practices of this community that is distributed across various practitioners. 

​In working together, artists and land and maritime workers search for ways to orchestrate their own available resources in a harmonized collective celebration of life on the North Fork.
In this relational sense, the rhythmic patterns that govern ways of working remind us how interdependent, creative, and emergent our actions become when we set the rhythms of the body in space-time to music and the multiple artistic representation.


A NEW SEASON OF LIVE CONCERTS IN UNCONVENTIONAL AND EXTRAORDINARY PLACES. A NORTH FORK BLEND OF MUSIC, NATURE, AND HISTORIC PLACES.

ENJOY THE MUSIC!

Paolo Bartolani
Founder, Artistic & Executive Director

Concerts

19

Attendees

5700

Locations

18

Year 2024 

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Rites of Spring Music Festival, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit.
Tax identification number 82-3695345 .
Donations may be mailed to the Festival’s address or made online through PayPal and are fully tax deductible.

Email: 
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Address:

Rites of Spring Music Festival, Inc.
P.O. Box 41, Southold, NY 11971
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  • HOME
    • FOUNDER'S STATEMENT
    • 2025 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR LETTER
    • VISION & MISSION
    • BOARD & STAFF
    • CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
    • CONTACT
  • 2025 SPRING / SUMMER SEASON
    • Piano Marathon Date: April 13th, 2025 >
      • TICKETS April 13th 2025
    • Imaginative and Colorful Date: April 27th, 2025 >
      • TICKETS April 27th 2025
    • Spring Concert & Bites Date: May 4th, 2025 >
      • TICKETS May 4th 2025
    • Chopin Piano Recital Date: May 25th 2025 >
      • TICKETS May 25th 2025
    • New Music Under the Big Sky Date: May 31st, 2025 >
      • TICKETS May 31st, 2025
    • Fisherman Songs Date: June 8th 2025 >
      • TICKETS June 8th, 2025
    • Celebrating The North Fork Date: June 16th, 2025
    • New Ways of Looking : July 5th, 2025 >
      • TICKETS July 5th 2025
    • Spice Up The High Energy Date: July 26th, 2025 >
      • TICKETS July 26th, 2025
    • Jayme Stone's FolkLife Date: July 31st, 2025 >
      • TICKETS July 31st, 2025
    • 2025 Piano Rites >
      • TICKETS August 9th 2025
      • TICKETS August 15th 2025
      • TICKETS August 17th 2025
      • 2025 PIANORITES PASS
    • Beethoven Forever Date: August 29th, 2025 >
      • TICKETS August 29th 2025
    • Energía internacional!: September 13th, 2025
  • GET INVOLVED
    • BE A RECURRANT SUBSCRIBER
    • BE A SUBSCRIBER
    • BE A SUBSCRIBER CC
    • BE A DONOR
    • 2025 CONCERT PACKAGE
    • BE A BUSINESS SPONSOR
    • BE A VOLUNTEER
  • SPONSORS & DONORS HONOR ROLL
    • ADVERTISING
    • INDIVIDUAL DONORS
    • CORPORATE SPONSORS
    • FESTIVAL PARTNERS
  • PAST EDITIONS
    • MUSIC EDUCATION >
      • PIANO LESSONS >
        • ENROLLMENT
    • Gallery >
      • PRESS
    • 9TH EDITION 2024 >
      • RoSMF COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS 2025
      • Piano Marathon Date: April 14, 2024 >
        • TICKETS April 14th 2024
      • Sounds of Images Date: May 5 2024 >
        • TICKETS May 5th 2024
      • The Beatitudes Date: May 12, 2024 >
        • TICKETS May 12th 2024
      • Amusing the Strings Date: May 25, 2024 >
        • TICKETS May 25th 2024
      • New Music Under the Big Sky Date: June 1, 2024 >
        • TICKETS June 1st 2024
      • Brahms Piano Trios: June 16, 2024 >
        • TICKETS June 16th 2024
        • GIVE AWAY June 16th 2024
        • Invite a friend TICKETS June 16th 2024
      • Americana at the Village Green Date: July 4th, 2024 >
        • TICKETS July 4th 2024
      • Le Remede de Fortune Date: July 13, 2024 >
        • TICKETS July 13th 2024
      • Spirit in The Machine Date: July 27, 2024 >
        • TICKETS July 27th 2024
      • Rustic Mid-Summer Concert Date: August 25, 2024 >
        • TICKETS August 25th 2024
      • Songs & Stories in Concert Date: September 8th, 2024 >
        • TICKETS September 8th 2024
      • Music from around the World Date: September 15, 2024 >
        • TICKETS September 15th 2024
      • Whimsical Sounds Date: October 13, 2024 >
        • TICKETS October 13th 2024
      • Autumnal Journey Date: October 25th, 2024 >
        • TICKETS October 25th 2024
      • Natural Elements Date: November 2, 2024 >
        • TICKETS November 2nd 2024
      • A Musical Afternoon Date: November 29th, 2024 >
        • TICKETS November 29th 2024
      • 2024 Holiday Weekend - Piano Recital Date: 12/20/2024
      • Opera Night Concert - Holiday Weekend in Music: Date 12/22/2024 >
        • TICKETS December 20th 2024
        • TICKETS December 22nd 2024
        • TICKETS 2024 Holiday Weekend in Music
    • 8TH EDITION 2023 >
      • Titans of the 20th Century Date: April 16th, 2023 >
        • TICKETS April 16th 2023
      • Luminous Beauty Date: May 14th, 2023 >
        • TICKETS May 14th 2023
      • New Music Under the Big Sky Date: May 27th, 2023 >
        • TICKETS May 27th 2023
      • The Rite of Spring Date: June 24th, 2023 >
        • TICKETS June 24th 2023
      • Viennese Atmosphere Date: June 29th, 2023 >
        • TICKETS June 29th 2023
      • Music at the Village Green Date: July 13th, 2023
      • Summer Concert & Dine Date: July 22nd, 2023 >
        • TICKETS July 22nd 2023
      • Rustic Mid-Summer Concert Date: August 27th, 2023 >
        • TICKETS August 27th 2023
      • Sounds of Images Date: 9/14/2023 >
        • TICKETS September 14th 2023
      • Music, Mythology, Wine: Date: 10/06/2023 >
        • TICKETS October 6th 2023
      • Tuning Into Nature: Date: 11/04/2023 >
        • TICKETS November 4th 2023
      • Piano Recital 2023 Holiday Weekend in Music Date: 12/08/2023 >
        • TICKETS December 8th 2023
      • Opera Night & Dinner Holiday Weekend in Music: Date 12/09/2023 >
        • TICKETS December 9th 2023
    • 7TH EDITION 2022 >
      • DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
      • Meet & Greet and.... Music Date: 5/22/2022
      • New Music Under the Big Sky Date: 5/28/2022 >
        • TICKETS May 28th
      • The Sounds of Nature Date: 6/10/2022
      • Between the Wind and the Shrubs Date: 7/01/2022 >
        • TICKETS July 1st
      • Solo Recital All Frederic Chopin Date: 7/24/2022 >
        • TICKETS July 24th
      • Across American Roots Date: 7/31/2022 >
        • TICKETS July 31
      • Rustic Mid-Summer Concert Date: 8/14/2022 >
        • TICKETS August 14th
      • Songs of Love & Despair Date: 9/25/2022 >
        • TICKETS September 25th
      • Music for a Changing Climate: A Meditation Date: 10/16/2022 >
        • TICKETS October 16th
      • Sounds of Images Date: 11/04/2022 >
        • TICKETS November 4th
      • 2022 HOLIDAY CONCERT Date: 12/18/2022 >
        • TICKETS December 18th
    • 6th EDITION, 2021 >
      • 2021 FESTIVAL
      • 2021 MUSIC & TELL VIRTUAL EPISODES
      • O Mysterium Magnum
      • New Music Under the Big Sky
      • Ballads & Other Cautionary Tales
      • An evening of Shakespeare:
      • French Music Soirée
      • Sound of Science >
        • Sound of Science Date: 9/17/202
      • A Night at The JazzLoft
      • 2021 Benefit Holiday Concert
    • 5TH EDITION, 2020 >
      • 2020 LIVE CONCERTS
      • 2020 ONLINE MUSIC & TELL EPISODES
      • Music & Culinary Soiree
      • Holiday Benefit Concert
      • Silent Auction Fundraiser
    • 4th Edition, 2019
    • 3rd Edition, 2018
    • 2nd Edition, 2017
    • 1st Edition, 2016