Spring Concert Series
Enjoy the beauty of spring with musical performances at Ruthmere. The 2025 Spring Concert series will consist of four concerts: two in May and two in June. These concerts, each performed by acclaimed musicians, help Ruthmere to reach its mission in supporting fine art and culture in Elkhart. For Spring Concert Season tickets and Sponsorship opportunities, click HERE.
2025 Spring Concerts |
 May 8 The Fischoff Soiree | The Fischoff is the nation’s largest chamber music competition, bringing together young musicians from across the country and around the world. On Thursday, May 8, 2025, the Ruthmere Fischoff Soirée brings this celebration of great music to Elkhart and will feature a performance by one the competition's finalists. Sponsored by Wade Mayberry. |
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May 22 Tingting Yao | Chinese-American Pianist Tingting Yao is an avid collaborative pianist and chamber musician, currently serving as the Staff Pianist at Sam Houston State University in Texas. Yao has performed throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and China. A graduate of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Yao has won every award she could have as an accompanist in the Conservatoire. She frequently performed in venues such as Town Hall Symphony Hall (Birmingham), St John's Smith Square (London), The Prince's Teaching Institute (London), among others. Yao holds an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma (APD) in Collaborative Piano, a Master of Music in Piano Accompaniment (with Distinction) from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (UK), a Master of Music from the University of Melbourne (Australia) and a Bachelor of Arts from Tongji University, China. |
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 June 5 Jasmine "Jas" Ogiste |
Lauded by the new york times for her "tender and yearning solos" and the new york classical review for her "reflective tone", Jas Ogiste is a New York City-based classical pianist. She has been recognized by institutions such as The Harlem School of Arts, National Association for Negro Musicians, Flint Initiative, and The Watson Foundation for her musicianship and dedication to centering black classical history in her concert programming. Jas has been mentored by renowned Musicians Haewon Song, Christina and Michelle Naughton, Peter Basquin, Elinor Freer and has worked with clarinetist David krakauer and wqxr host terrance mcknight. Jas currently performs as a member of the harlem chamber players and sugar hill chamber music salon. she has been heard in performance halls including the united palace theater, Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall, The Harlem School of the Arts, and Lincoln Center.
As an alumna of Oberlin Conservatory’s Black Musicians Guild and Latinx Music Union, Jas’s work - both professional and musical - reflects her Afro-Caribbean culture and identity. She was a national competitor for a 2022 Watson Foundation Fellowship for her project proposal “Bridging Two Worlds: Navigating Blackness in Classical Music” and she intends to continue to empower and spotlight artists of the African diaspora through her work, studies, and musical output. |
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June 18 Tyler Reed | 2024 Gold Prize Winner of Young Pianist Competition of New Jersey, One-Movement Concerto Division, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor Op. 37, Tyler Reed, (16), has already garnered many awards and accolades by winning Young Pianist Competition of New Jersey (YPCNJ), New Jersey Music Teachers Awards (NJMTA), Young Musicians Competition, Russian Music Competition, Apex International Music Competition, Central Jersey Music Educators Association (CJMEA), and Royal Conservatory of Music. As a result, he has performed several times at Weill Recital Hall, at Carnegie Hall, and Merkin Concert Hall (Kaufman Center) among other acclaimed venues. Tyler has appeared with the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra as rehearsal concerto soloist, several times in Aylus Youth Benefit Concerts, and with the Junior Musical Club of Westfield as both solo and collaborative pianist. He has performed in various master classes and workshop recitals, including for world-renowned concert pianist, Kate Liu. In July of 2024, Tyler attended the highly selective International Music Festival “Musica Chioggia”, where he won First Place in the Junior Division Solo Competition, and also performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37 in C Minor with Orchestra Sinfonica del Festival di Chioggia (VE) under the direction of Maestro Pietro Perini. Tyler Reed has been studying piano with Lana Ivanov since 2021. |
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2024 Spring Concert Sponsors Presenting Sponsor Individual Concert Sponsors Jim Kelly Wade Mayberry Janet Evanega Rieckhoff & Jim Rieckhoff Marie Smith 2024 Concert Receptions Sponsor 2024 Annual Season Sponsors Dale & Shelly Seely Spring Series Sponsors Janet Evanega Rieckhoff & Jim Rieckhoff
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