A new concert series presented by The Hilltop Experience at the historic and breathtaking Stone Church in Cragsmoor, NY will kick off on Saturday June 17 with a concert by the acclaimed and innovative cellist Brent Arnold. Arnold’s spellbinding solo performances take the cello in new directions, mixing in electronics and improvisation. An internationally renowned artist who has toured North America, Europe and Japan, Arnold’s recordings, collaborations and performances have long bridged the worlds of classical music, musical theater and indie rock. An internationally renowned artist who has toured North America, Europe and Japan, Arnold’s recordings, collaborations and performances have long bridged the worlds of classical music, musical theater and indie rock.

His long and eclectic list of collaborators includes The Antlers, Filastine, Eyvind Kang, Reggie Watts, Wayne Horvitz, Ashwini Ramaswami, Jessica Pavone, DJ/Rupture and many others. His solo album Night, Exquisite was praised by Vice Magazine as a “beautiful record’ and by Time Out New York as “cinematic and lushly coherent,” and he has a new solo album planned for release later this year. While a member of the ensemble for the raved-about Broadway show Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Arnold co-formed Ghost Quartet with that show’s composer and stars, Dave Malloy, Gelsey Bell and Brittain Ashford.  He is currently composing Ali, a new opera with Grey Filastine and Walid Ben Salim, that will debut in Brussels in 2024.