Music from Lands End brings international musical talent to Marion

MARION — Every year, Ariadne Daskalakis travels back from Europe to perform classical music in the region where she grew up. 

The director of Music from Land’s End, an annual concert series held in Marion and Wareham featuring musicians from across the globe, will return to her home for two concerts in each town.

This year’s Marion performances will be held Monday, July 27 and Saturday, Aug. 15 at 7 p.m. at St. Gabriel’s Church.

During the first show of the concert series, musicians from Massachusetts and beyond will perform trios by Joseph Haydn, Roglit Ishay and Johannes Brahms. This first program, entitled “Celebrating Classical Music in Today's World,” will blend pieces by classical composers with a modern one. 

Daskalakis said the program is an appreciation of the timelessness of art, as “artwork over the centuries deals with similar questions of expression, and also of form and structure.”

The second program, featuring quartets by Franz Schubert and Antonín Dvorak, is called “Shared Heritage.” Daskalakis said the pieces to be played at the show honor, respect and celebrate a diversity of cultures. 

She said she’s excited to be back on the South Coast, which she considers home despite her residence in Europe. In return, she said, the communities she will perform in have welcomed her enthusiastically each year. 

“There's so much natural beauty there, and a lot of community spirit and support for the arts, and also support for the less privileged,” she said. “It makes it really easy to return and to want to contribute to those elements of the community.”

Daskalakis, who will also perform on the violin during the concerts, will be joined by violist and violinist Anna Griffis, violinist EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, pianist and composer Roglit Ishay, cellist Paige Riggs and cellist Anna Dorothea Wolff.