The Word Barn and Orchard Chapel announce the new Orchard Concert Series.

Building on their 12 Nights of Christmas Holiday Concerts, they are collaborating to celebrate nature’s annual cycle of renewal, growth, and bounty with 4 classical music concerts from May to October at the historic Orchard Chapel in Hampton Falls.

The Orchard Concert Series opens with the Apple Blossom Concert featuring award-winning violinists, brothers Danilo (Dacha) Thurber and Sava Thurber - celebrate the rejuvenation of spring as the surrounding apple orchards explode with flowers and fragrances.

Dacha and Sava Thurber will perform a youthful and energetic selection of violin duets. Daka and Sacha are young talents from Exeter in music studies and performance at Harvard.

Dacha Thurber was appointed as the Vice President of Arts for the Harvard College Opera and as Assistant Music Director for the Mozart Society Orchestra. In 2020, he was awarded the Robert Hardt Memorial Award for outstanding musical achievement by the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. He is a violinist in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and an avid chamber musician. 

Sava Thurber has joined the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and was recruited to the ultimate frisbee team this year.  He was concertmaster of Phillips Exeter Academy’s Symphony Orchestra.  In 2021, he won the Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra’s concerto competition and his Accenti Trio was a semi-finalist in the international Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.  

Dacha and Sava believe in the power of music to inspire social harmony.