Located in Pittsfield in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, South Mountain Concerts is a presenter of chamber music concerts each year during early fall. Founded in 1918 through the vision and generosity of the American patroness of music, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, South Mountain has presented over the years some of the world’s leading chamber music ensembles and soloists.

The Concert Hall built in 1918, now on the National Register of Historic Buildings, was specifically designed for chamber music and built in a colonial style using timber from an old textile mill. The hall seats 440 and enjoys particularly fine acoustics.

Artists such as Leonard Bernstein, Gary Graffman, Leontyne Price, Alexander Schneider, Rudolph Serkin and Peter Serkin have appeared here. String quartets including the Borromeo, the Emerson, the Guarneri, the Juilliard, the Orion, the Tokyo, and the Vermeer have been frequent visitors to the series of concerts. Piano trios have included the Beaux Arts Trio and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio.

LOCATION

The South Mountain Concert Hall is located on Routes 7 & 20 (South Street) in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, approximately two miles south of Park Square at the center of the downtown area. The driveway to the property, just south of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company building, is marked by a white sign with brown lettering, reading “South Mountain Western Region,” and a panel below it reading “South Mountain Concerts.”  The dirt road leads up South Mountain to the parking areas and the Concert Hall. Photographs by David Grusendorf

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