Thirty years at the Point

Our audiences experience chamber music as composers intended: in an intimate setting with rich, resonant sound.

OUR MISSION

Concerts at the Point is a volunteer-run nonprofit organization whose goal is to bring small groups of world-class musicians to the Westport Point United Methodist Church on six Sunday afternoons from October through April.  Our audiences experience chamber music as composers intended: in an intimate setting with rich, resonant sound.  The musicians, including numerous Grammy winners, appreciate our warm SouthCoast welcome, and many of them have returned several times to perform for Concerts at the Point.

SUPPORTING LOCAL artists

Concerts at the Point has a longstanding tradition of working with South Coast Artists to create our program covers. We collaborate to select paintings, prints or photographs that complement each concert. The artist is introduced to the audience at the concert and is invited to exhibit a few samples of their work.

Click here to see a few of these beautiful program covers. You can also look at the full program books, and learn more about the artists in our Past Concerts section

Rosamond W. Wadsworth.

Our founder

Rosamond W. Wadsworth

Concerts at the Point exists because of Roz’s creativity, prodigious energy, love of music, and dedication to the Westport community. A lyric soprano, teacher, and tireless organizer, she founded the series in 1996 and led it for many years. Since her death in 2024, a generous bequest from her family continues to support the organization that was so close to her heart.

Rosamond Wadsworth spent her entire life in the world of music.  After graduating from Brown University, she earned a master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.  She taught music in schools for many years.  While she and her husband David were raising their family, she established a private teaching practice that continued well into her eighties.  A gifted soloist herself, Roz was a lyric soprano who specialized in French art songs, especially the music of 20th-century composer Francis Poulenc.

Besides her work as a teacher and performer, Roz was a tireless organizer.  In addition to establishing Concerts at the Point, she founded and directed choirs in Barrington and Westport and served as music director for many years at Temple Beth-El in Providence.  Her musical activities continued into her retirement years, when she and David moved to Cathedral Village, a senior living community in Philadelphia.  While there, she performed a solo recital, sang in the Cathedral Village choir, wrote reviews of music performances, and organized the community’s Matinee Musicale program.

EXECUTIVE BOARD

Robert Murphy, Chair
Barbara Watterson, Treasurer
Mary Ellen Kennedy, Development & Education
Pamela Wilde, Ticketing
Nancy Weinstein, Secretary & Programming
Lisa Searles, Box Office
Elaine Swaebe, Programming
Nina Rensenhouse, Logistics & Archive
Carol Gladstone, Programming & Marketing

Past Presidents:
Roz Wadsworth
Beth Wells
Jane Loos