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 | Damien Geter: Justice Symphony
Karen frequently appears as the soloist for Damien Geter’s Justice Symphony for orchestra, soloist and SATB Choir.
Karen Slack | Of Thee I Sing!
Of Thee I Sing! Songs of Love and Justice is a critically acclaimed recital created by Karen Slack in the late Summer of 2020 during the height of the pandemic and just after the murder of George Floyd. The center of this moving program is the raw and powerful yet hopeful Langston Hughes poem, The Kids Who Die (1938), and a commissioned setting of that riveting text by American composer Scott Gendel.
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
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.
Amy Dickson | Take a Breath
Take a Breath started in 2015 as a program designed to teach relaxed breathing techniques to primary school-aged children, in order to help them combat and build a resilience to stress and anxiety.
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.
Andrei Ioniță | Enescu: Sinfonia Concertante, Op. 8
George Enescu’s Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra holds a special place in Andrei Ionita's heart.
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.
Arod Quartet | Ménage à Quatre
In 2023, the Arod Quartet released their new documentary, Ménage à Quatre, created by French film-maker Bruno Monsaingeon.
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.
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.
American String Quartet with Nancy Allen
The American String Quartet offers a collaboration together with the New York Philharmonic’s Principal Harpist, Nancy Allen. The five perform some of the great works for string quartet and harp:
Hailed by The New York Times as "a major artist" following her New York recital debut, Nancy Allen joined the New York Philharmonic in June of 1999 as Principal Harpist. She maintains a busy international concert schedule as well as heading the harp departments of The Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, and the Aspen Music Festival and School.
American String Quartet with Stephanie Blythe
The American String Quartet and the American mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe team up to present a program featuring some of the great works for voice and string quartet: Respighi's Il Tramonto and four of Schubert's most well-known lieder, including Der Tod und das Mädchen, the quartet-version of which closes the program.
American String Quartet with Mishka Rushdie Momen
The American String Quartet will be offering a collaborative program together with the British pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen in April 2023. A young musician who is fast on the rise as a recitalist and chamber musician, Mishka is a regular musical partner with cellist Steven Isserlis, has been championed by Sir András Schiff, and was nominated for The Times (of London) 2021 Artist Critics’ nomination for the Breakthrough Award, cementing her place as a pianist to watch.