Ying Quartet | PUSH Physical Theatre
The Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet and PUSH Physical Theatre recently teamed up to perform back-to-back sold-out performances combining music, movement, dance, acrobatics, and more.
William Hagen | Seeds of Music
Join violinist William Hagen for an event focused around music and nature, two universal languages that stir our emotions and benefit us all.
Shanghai Quartet | Marcos Balter Commission with Anthony Roth Costanzo
The Shanghai Quartet and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo join forces in a new song cycle from Marcos Balter.
Photo credit: Matthew Placek
Miró Quartet | Celebrate Beethoven!
The Miró Quartet celebrated its 25th anniversary in the 2020 season by performing a wide range of repertoire that pays homage to the legacy of the string quartet and also looks to the future of chamber music and string quartet playing in the U.S. In honor of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth at the start of the pandemic, the Quartet undertook a remarkable project during which they broadcast live performances of the composer’s complete string quartets remotely from venues throughout Austin, TX for the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival and audiences from around the world in summer 2020.
Karen Slack | Gladys Bentley Project
Karen is a skilled storyteller, a champion for new work, and a thoughtful producer, and she is developing a project to honor the life of the iconic Harlem Renaissance performer Gladys Bentley, putting Black Queer voices front and center while exploring themes of Black love, identity, and artistry through the lens of the Harlem Renaissance.
Gabriel Kahane | emergency shelter intake form
Homelessness, eviction, and the lack of affordable housing are of great concern to many. The release of Matthew Desmond’s Evicted shed further light on the eviction crisis and was one of the inspirations for composer Gabriel Kahane’s emergency shelter intake form.
Gabriel & Jeffrey Kahane | Duo Recital
Jeffrey and Gabriel Kahane are offering a special recital program in the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons from this father-son duo.
Jeffrey Kahane photo credit: E.F. Marton Productions
James Lee III: Principal Brothers
This new program highlights Demarre McGill, Titus Underwood, Anthony McGill, and Bryan Young — four Black artists who are orchestral principals and inspirational leaders in the field.
Gabriel Kahane & Anthony McGill | Rhapsody
The history of Blacks and Jews in America is, and always has been, complex and multivalent. Stories of solidarity in labor movements in the 1930s and ‘40s, as well as in the struggle for civil rights in the 1960s, are well-documented. Sadly, there is also a rich history of anti-Black racism in Jewish communities, and antisemitism in Black communities.
Anthony McGill & Gloria Chien
Anthony McGill is joined by longtime collaborator and friend Gloria Chien for a program of clarinet and piano duos and solo works featuring pieces by Weber, Montgomery, and Brahms, among others.
Anthony McGill | Anthony Davis’ You Have the Right to Remain Silent
In the mid-1970s, more than 40 years before he won the Pulitzer Prize for music, pianist and composer Anthony Davis was driving with his wife to Boston for a concert when a police officer pulled them over.
McGill/McHale Trio
The McGill/McHale Trio was founded in September 2014 when clarinetist Anthony McGill and his brother, flutist Demarre McGill, were featured artists in a residency at Bowling Green University in Ohio. While there, pianist Michael McHale joined them in concert for the first time, and it was immediately clear that the Trio would have a great future making music together.
William Hagen, Andrei Ioniță & Orion Weiss
William Hagen, Andrei Ionita, and Orion Weiss are available on very select dates to perform trio programs together. These three powerhouse young soloists — each an important artist in their own right — prioritize chamber music, musical collaboration, and artistic partnership in their careers.
Gryphon Trio with violist Masumi Per Rostad
The Gryphon Trio teams up with the Grammy Award-winning violist Masumi Per Rostad - who has received praise for his tremendously rich and expressive tone, energy, and commanding presence - to offer piano quartets.
Moonshine Ballads and Various Charms
The Gryphon offers a new Americana program called Moonshine Ballads and Various Charms with their longtime collaborator Patricia O’Callaghan which is an evening of music that, as they put it, "evokes open skies, dark tales, and lazy afternoons.
Karen Slack | African Queens
This special commissioning project produced by and featuring soprano Karen Slack takes the form of a full evening vocal recital of art song on the theme of African Queens to celebrate the history and legacy of seven fierce African Queens who were revered as rulers and warriors, though not widely heralded in the West.
Ariel Quartet | Beethoven Cycle
The Ariel Quartet first performed the Beethoven cycle in Cincinnati five years ago. Since then, they have gone to perform the complete cycle in Berlin and for Napa’s Music in the Vineyards Festival. The Ariel also presented a groundbreaking Beethoven cycle performed at New York’s SubCulture that featured a midnight performance of the Grosse Fuge.