Come listen to LIVE classical music in Peekskill!

Piano at Noon is the first regular, public, classical music concert series in the city of Peekskill. All performances are at 1016 Brown Street, Suite 101. The building is next to the Paramount Theater, with the lion statues in front and the mural on the side wall. Entrance is through the big green doors, and the studio is the first door on the left inside. The studio will be open for seating starting at 12:00pm, with music beginning between 12:10 and 12:15pm, wrapping up between 12:45-12:50pm. The venue is an intimate space, with the capacity to seat 25-30.

Beginning in 2024, concerts have a $10 minimum admission fee, with tickets and information about repertoire being played available here.

All below performances are listed with the next upcoming concert first, then past concerts in most recent order.




May 29th, 2024
Kristina Cook, soprano
Kessa Mefford, piano

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April 5th, 2024
Cade Roberts, piano

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March 12th, 2024
Matt Marano, tenor
Kessa Mefford, piano

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February 13th, 2024
Kessa Mefford, piano

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January 16th, 2024
Kessa Mefford, piano

December 17, 2023
Irene Florence Wong, piano
Deirdre Lahiff, soprano
Gigi Lin, soprano

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November 19, 2023
Matt Marano, tenor
Ky Montez, soprano

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October 15, 2023
Betsy Wiesendanger, piano

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J.S. Bach
French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816






September 17th, 2023
Lara Saldanha, piano

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Alban Berg
Piano Sonata, op. 1

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata No. 21, Op. 53 "Waldstein"






August 29th, 2023
Catherine Winters Boyack, flute

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Alfredo Casella
Barcarola et Scherzo
with Kessa Mefford, piano

Allison Loggins-Hull
Homeland

Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor






July 25th, 2023
Travis Ramirez, tenor
Matt Marano, tenor
Ky Montez, soprano
Kessa Mefford, piano
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Giacomo Puccini
"Mario! Mario! Mario!" from Tosca

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Dies Bildnes ist bezanbernd schön" from Die Zauberflöte

Jules Massenet
"Allons! Il le faut!" from Manon

Giacomo Puccini
"E lucevan le stelle" from Tosca

Gaetano Donizetti
"Caro elisir" from L'elisir d'amore





June 27th, 2023
Cade Roberts, piano

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Adagio in B minor K. 540 (1788)

François Lemoyne (1688-1737)
Apotheosis of Hercules (1736)

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Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Piano Sonata, op. 1 (1910)

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Death and Life (1915)

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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Hungarian Melody (1824)

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)
The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818)

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May 23rd, 2023
Kristina Cook, soprano
Kessa Mefford, piano

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Maurice Ravel
Cinq mélodies populaires grecques

Maurice Ravel
Rêves

Leonardo A. Ciampa
Allá en el pesebre — Canción de la Cuna

Gabriel Fauré
Après un rêve

Franz Schubert
Nacht und Träume

Pauline Viardot
Le rêve de Jésus





April 25th, 2023
Kessa Mefford, piano

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Amy Beach
Ballade in D-flat Major, Op. 6

Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude from Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major, BWV 825

Dan Montez
Resurgence

Dmitri Shostakovich
Prelude and Fugue No. 15 in D-flat Major







March 28th, 2023
Kessa Mefford, piano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata in C Major, K. 330, 1st Movement

Frédéric Chopin
Prelude No. 15 in D-flat Major "Raindrop"

Franz Schubert
Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960, 2nd Movement