Julia Den Boer, pianist

Leoš Janáček, Into the Mists; Henri Dutilleux, Piano Sonata

French-American pianist Julia Den Boer is a passionate advocate for contemporary music, praised for her “emotional power” (The New York Times) and “cleverly contrasted” (The Guardian) programming. Based in New York City, she is internationally recognized as a soloist and chamber musician and is an active commissioner of new works, committed to exploring and broadening her instrument’s boundaries through close collaboration with composers.

Julia joined acclaimed piano percussion quartet Yarn/Wire in 2021, she has recently performed at the Donaueschingen Festival, the Bergen International Festival, the TimeSpans Festival and the Festival d’Automne. In addition to her work with Yarn/Wire Julia has performed with Longleash, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Wavefield Ensemble and Wet Ink amongst other new music groups.

Her recordings can be heard on the New Focus, Seven Mountain, Carrier, Kairos, and Redshift record labels. In October 2021, she released Kermès – a collection of works by composers Giulia Lorusso, Linda Catlin Smith, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and Rebecca Saunders – to widespread critical acclaim.

Julia Den Boer is a recipient of the Solti Foundation Award, she won the Prix Maurice Ohana Award at the 2011 International Orleans Competition, and was awarded the 9th Annual Mikhashoff Trust Fund for New Music Pianist/Composer Commissioning Prize with Zosha Di Castri.

Den Boer holds a Bachelor of Music from McGill University and a DMA from SUNY Stony Brook University where she studied under the mentorship of Gilbert Kalish. She also holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Université Lyon III.

Julia Den Boer is a Yamaha Artist.

Death, A Conversation for a Meaningful Life

A gathering designed to gently shift our relationship with death—inviting understanding, presence, and a deeper appreciation for life

Cameron Brown and Dannie’s Calypso was born out of Brown’s initial immersion in the music of Miles Davis, his seminal experience performing with Don Cherry, ten years of exhilarating intensity with Don Pullen, George Adams and Dannie Richmond, and years of touring with Sheila Jordan, Dewey Redman and Joe Lovano. In addition to original compositions, the band experiments with Don Cherry’s “cocktail suite” concept: a harmelodic melding of a number of compositions into a cohesive, continuous collage of music. Following Don’s original concept, almost any tune can find their way into these suites, whether it be early bebop gems, Ornette’s and Don’s originals, Albert Ayler melodies, or Jobim bosses.

The band features a group of astounding improvisers: 

Cameron Brown on bass (George Russell, Don Cherry, Archie Shepp, Art Blakey, Don Pullen/George Adams, Dewey Redman, Sheila Jordan, Joe Lovano, Omnitone records);

Dave Ballou on trumpet, flugelhorn, and cornet (Steely Dan, Michael Formanek, Mary Halvorson, Andrew Hill, Maria Schneider, Gunther Schuller, Steeplechase records);

Jason Rigby on tenor and soprano saxophones (Mark Giuliana, Mike Holober, John Patitucci, Jim McNeely, Donnie McCaslin, Tony Malaby, Slide Hampton, Fresh Sounds records);

Lisa Parrott on baritone, alto and soprano saxophones (Gunther Sculler, Dennis Charles, Jason Lindner, DIVA, Jimmy Heath, ABC records, Goat Angel records);

and Tony Jefferson on drums and cymbals (Lou Donaldson, Don Friedman, Kenny Drew Jr., Eddie Harris, James Weidman, Annie Ross).

Saturday, October 11, 2026 · 12:30–4:30pm
The Chapel Restoration, 45 Market Street, Cold Spring, NY

Join us for an afternoon on the grounds of The Chapel Restoration: a relaxed, community-spirited celebration of music, food, and connection.

What to Expect

• Live music all afternoon, opening with solo piano by Yalin Chi and headlined by Deadgrass
• Food truck fare and beer from Industrial Arts Brewery
• Lawn games, face painting, tarot and angel card readings
• A professional photo op with our resident photographer
• A first look at our grounds improvement plans, supported by a NYSCA capital grant — new gathering spaces, native plantings, and a path connecting the Chapel to Foundry Dock Park

Tickets & Giving Levels

General Admission — $100
1 ticket to the Fall Gala

Friend of The Chapel — $500

• 2 tickets to the Fall Gala
• Name listed in the Gala Program

Patron — $1,000

• 4 tickets to the Fall Gala
• Reserved seating for any two Sunday Music Series concerts
• A named stone on The Chapel Restoration grounds
• Name listed in the Gala Program

Benefactor — $2,500

• 6 tickets to the Fall Gala
• Invitation to a private donor reception at The Chancery
• A named stone on The Chapel Restoration grounds
• Name listed in the Gala Program

Guardian — $5,000

• 8 tickets to the Fall Gala
• Name on a dedicated donor plaque in The Chapel
• A named stone on The Chapel Restoration grounds
• Invitation to a private donor reception at The Chancery
• Name listed in the Gala Program

Cornerstone Circle — $10,000

• Named sponsorship of a Sunday Music Series concert or a grounds restoration feature
• Private dinner with the Board
• 10 tickets to the Fall Gala
• A named stone on The Chapel Restoration grounds
• Name on a dedicated donor plaque in The Chapel

All proceeds support The Chapel Restoration’s ongoing preservation and community programming.

Inbal Segev, cello; Yalin Chi, piano

J.S. Bach, Cello Suite No. 4; Schumann, Adagio & Allegro, Op. 70; Shostakovich, Cello Sonata, Op. 40; Segev, Premiere

Inbal Segev is “a cellist with something to say” (Gramophone). Combining rich tone and technical mastery with rare dedication and intelligence, she has appeared with orchestras including the Baltimore Symphony, Bamberg Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Dortmund Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon, Pittsburgh Symphony, Polish National Radio Symphony, and St. Louis Symphony, collaborating with such prominent conductors as Marin Alsop, Stéphane Denève, Edward Gardner, Kirill Karabits, Lorin Maazel, Cristian Măcelaru, and Zubin Mehta. Committed to reinvigorating the cello repertoire, she has commissioned and premiered new cello concertos from Timo Andres, Anna Clyne, Avner Dorman, Fernando Otero, Victoria Poleva, and Dan Visconti. Recorded with Alsop and the London Philharmonic for Avie Records, Segev’s premiere recording of Clyne’s new cello concerto, DANCE, was an instant success, topping the Amazon Classical Concertos chart. Its opening movement was chosen as one of NPR Music’s “Favorite Songs of 2020,” receiving more than twelve million listens on Spotify. To encourage creative recovery during the early pandemic lockdowns, Segev launched 20 for 2020, a commissioning, recording, and video project for 20 cutting-edge composers, including John Luther Adams, Viet Cuong, and Angélica Negrón, all of whom wrote new works in response to the worldwide crisis. Segev’s previous discography includes acclaimed recordings of the Elgar Cello Concerto, Romantic cello works, and Bach’s Cello Suites, while her popular YouTube masterclass series, Musings with Inbal Segev, has inspired a generation of cellists.

A native of Israel, at 16 Segev was invited by Isaac Stern to continue her cello studies in the U.S., where she earned degrees from Yale University and the Juilliard School, before co-founding the Amerigo Trio with former New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and violist Karen Dreyfus. Segev started composing during the pandemic: her cello quartet, Behold, can be heard on her album 20 for 2020; her cello octet, B Natural, premiered at Yale in 2023; and in 2024 her string trio premiered in Fort Worth and her clarinet trio in Israel. Segev’s cello was made by Francesco Ruggieri in 1673.

With performances in venues including Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Gardner Museum in Boston, Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, and ZhongShan Music Hall in Beijing, pianist Yalin Chi has delighted audiences with her “gorgeous tonal coloring” and “masterful and flowing” playing (Leslie Garber, Hudson Valley One). An active chamber musician, Yalin is a founding member of Trio Raconteur and together with pianist Steve Beck performs as the At Once Duo. Yalin has also performed with principal trombonist of the New York Philharmonic Joseph Alessi, principal trumpet of the London Symphony Orchestra Philip Cobb, clarinetists Alexander Fiterstein and Charles Neidich, concertmaster of the Seoul Symphony Orchestra Wayne Lin, concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Andrew Wan, with the Knights chamber orchestra, and regularly performs with the Albany Symphony and the New Jersey Festival Orchestra.

As a soloist, Yalin has appeared with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, the Bard Orchestra, the Central Opera Symphony Orchestra, and the West Point Band. Yalin has held the principal keyboard position at the Hudson Valley Philharmonic since 2014, and has been pianist with the West Point Band since 2008. In 2022 Yalin became Co-Artistic Director of the Chapel Restoration’s Sunday Music Series, in Cold Spring, New York. Originally from Beijing, China, Yalin studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy before earning her bachelor’s and master’s at the Juilliard School, where she studied with Seymour Lipkin and Jerome Lowenthal, and pursued additional studies with Peter Frankl at Yale School of Music.

An Evening of Storytelling and Songs with Andrew Revkin

Longtime journalist, author, educator and performing songwriter Andy Revkin will explore his dual-path journey aimed at connecting the public with ideas, issues and solutions using any means possible.

Revkin, a prominent figure in the Hudson Valley for decades both as a New York Times environmental journalist and musician, now lives in Downeast Maine. But he’s returning for this show to raise funds for the Chapel, which holds special meaning for him because he was married here in October 1996 to Lisa Mechaley.

“Andy, send copies to all the folky mags and all the peacenik mags you know! And send CD’s to radio stations. Keep singing. Keep writing.”

-Pete Seegar

Through his professional life, Revkin has split his time between prize-winning reporting and songwriting, including music featured on NPR and two albums of original songs. Released this year, “Wake Me up Martha” is described by Revkin as a “sonic survival guide for these crazy times.” The album offers a mix of humorous and haunting songs on themes ranging from escaping social media to the travails facing farming families, from a skeptic ending up in heaven to a mountain community grappling with an epic flood. His 2013 album, “A Very Fine Line,” featured guest appearances by some of the area’s finest musicians, including Dar Williams and Bruce Molsky. Pete Seeger helped tweak the lyrics to Revkin’s much-praised song about the space crunch at Arlington National Cemetery.

Revkin’s reporting has taken him from the burning Amazon rainforest to the melting North Pole sea ice. Learn more about his journalism and music on his Sustain What blog on Substack at revkin.substack.com.

Andy Revkin and Pete Seeger along the Hudson River. (Russ Cusick photo)