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Pamela Z & D-Composed

Thursday | April 4, 2024 | 7:30 pm

ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by Nathalie Joachim Composer and media artist Pamela Z and D-Composed, the Chicago-based chamber music collective that honors Black creativity and culture, perform music by Pamela Z and the Grammy-nominated composer, flutist and vocalist Nathalie Joachim. Featuring the…

(new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

Monday | April 8, 2024 | 7:30 pm

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT? Hosted by Rob Kapilow and featuring violinist Ariel Horowitz and the Manhattan School of Music Sinfonia Beethoven’s only violin concerto – one of the most famous of all time – was deeply misunderstood by his contemporaries, who were bewildered by its length and…

(classical, season-highlights)

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Clayton Stephenson, piano

Tuesday | April 9, 2024 | 2 pm

TUESDAY MATINEES DEBUSSY  –  Selected Preludes SCHUBERT  –  Sonata TBA BEETHOVEN  –  Variations and Fugue in E-flat Major, Op. 35 (“Eroica”) STRAVINSKY  –  Trois mouvements de Petrouchka American…

(classical, season-highlights)

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Israeli Chamber Project with Karim Sulayman

Friday | April 12, 2024 | 7:30 pm

ROBERT SCHUMANN  –  Three Fantasy Pieces, Op. 73  (arranged by J. Keren for clarinet and string quartet) SAMUEL BARBER  –  Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (arranged by Y. Shapiro) NAJI HAKIM  –  The Dove GITY…

(classical, new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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Chaeyoung Park, piano

Tuesday | April 16, 2024 | 7:30 pm

YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS CLAUDE DEBUSSY  –  Études, Book I GEORGE CRUMB  –  A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979 L.V. BEETHOVEN  –  Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat Major, Op. 106  “Hammerklavier” “My debut program highlights…

(classical, new-music, season-highlights)

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Chanticleer

Thursday | April 18, 2024 | 7:30 pm

GREAT VOCALISTS The Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer has been hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker, and is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its dazzling virtuosity and impassioned musicianship. Founded in San…

(classical, new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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Sara Davis Buechner

Thursday | April 25, 2024 | 7:30 pm

PIANO DIALOGUES The Wolf-Tempered Klavier Noted for her musical command, cosmopolitan artistry, and visionary independence, Sara Davis Buechner is lauded for her “intelligence, integrity and all-encompassing technical prowess” (New York Times), “thoughtful artistry”…

(classical, new-music, season-highlights)

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Music International Grand Prix Winners Concert 2024

Saturday | April 27, 2024 | 12 pm

Enjoy outstanding musical performances by the 1st place Winners of the 4th annual Music International Grand Prix Competition in Voice, Piano, Strings, Winds & Brass, Ensembles, and Original Composition.  Talented artists from around the world gather in NYC to compete in the Finals. …

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Parlando: The Other Mozart Effect

Wednesday | May 1, 2024 | 7:30 pm

PARLANDO REYNALDO HAHN  –  Mozart Overture ALFRED SCHNITTKE  –  Moz-Art à la Haydn NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV  –  Mozart and Salieri      Joseph Parrish, Bass-Baritone      Daniel McGrew, Tenor We often call young…

(classical, season-highlights)

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Chamber Music & Comedy with Isabel Hagen, Charles Young & Peter Dugan

Thursday | May 2, 2024 | 7:30 pm

ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by Isabel Hagen Listen and laugh at the world premiere of a new evening of chamber music and comedy with Grammy-winning violinist Charles Yang, an adventurous composer, arranger and songwriter who “plays classical violin with the charisma of a rock…

(classical, new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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SooBeen Lee, violin

Tuesday | May 14, 2024 | 2 pm

TUESDAY MATINEES Works by Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss Violinist SooBeen Lee has been praised by The Washington Post for her “poised presence, a luxurious sound, spot-on intonation and a bow arm that surely will be the envy of her peers.”…

(classical, season-highlights)

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Simon & Garfunkel

Monday | May 20, 2024 | 7:30 pm

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT? Hosted by Rob Kapilow and featuring vocalists Michael Winther and Clarke Thorell Explore the extraordinary music and the surprising stories behind hit songs by one of the best-selling musical groups of the 1960s, including “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “The…

(vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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Distractfold with Conrad Tao

Thursday | May 23, 2024 | 7:30 pm

ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by Conrad Tao JÜRG FREY  –  Extended Circular Music No. 2 Conrad Tao, piano HANNA HARTMAN  –  The Cloud Factory Distractfold ANDREW GREENWALD  –  A Thing Made Whole VIII  (World Premiere) Distractfold MAURICIO PAULY…

(classical, new-music, season-highlights)

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Nicholas Phan with Jasper String Quartet & Myra Huang

Thursday | May 30, 2024 | 7:30 am

GREAT VOCALISTS Tenor and 2023-24 Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence Nicholas Phan is hailed as “one of the world’s most remarkable singers” (Boston Globe), “one of the most beautiful young lyric voices around” (Opera News) and “an artist who must be…

(classical, new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)