Parker Quartet | Beethoven Project
The 2022-23 season marked the Parker Quartet’s 20th anniversary. To celebrate, the Parkers embarked on The Beethoven Project, a multifaceted project centering around performances of the complete Beethoven quartet cycle, and includes newly commissioned encores for each of the Beethoven cycle concerts. Bringing in fresh and diverse voices of today and continuing the lineage of creation that Beethoven himself was so much a part of.
Pacifica Quartet & Karen Slack | James Lee III: A Double Standard
The Pacifica Quartet and soprano Karen Slack are offering a new song cycle by James Lee III commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Chamber Music Detroit, and the Shriver Hall Concert Series. “A Double Standard” is based on the poem of the same name by the prolific Baltimore poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, who was a free black woman from Baltimore in the 19th century.
Pacifica Quartet | James Lee III New Work for Children’s Choir and String Quartet
The Pacifica Quartet teams up with James Lee III on a new 10-minute work for children’s choir and string quartet. James is going to be centering the work around the theme of hunger and food insecurity with text coming from a poem called “Pitch In” by Sylvia Dianne Beverly.
Sphinx Virtuosi | Songs for Our Times
Sphinx Virtuosi’s Debut Album
Out Digitally on Deutsche Grammophon
This debut album represents the rich history of the Sphinx Organization and the vibrant future of classical music by centering the artistry of extraordinary composers and artistic visionaries of color.
Pacifica Quartet | The American Anniversary Collection
In 2026, America celebrates its semiquincentennial (250th) anniversary, an important historic milestone that provides a unique opportunity to explore different facets of the American experience while highlighting America’s significant domestic and international achievements, remember the grief caused by national tragedy and injustice, and inspire its citizens to look ahead to create “a more perfect Union” for future generations.
Pacifica Quartet | The Korngold Collection
The Korngold Collection is a concert and recording project celebrating the Pacifica Quartet's 30th anniversary (1994-2024). This offering presents the complete string quartets of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, taking listeners on a unique musical journey through his development as a composer, from his earliest years in Vienna as a burgeoning teenage prodigy to his assured and mature style in Hollywood as a distinguished film composer.
Pacifica Quartet & Sharon Isbin | Songs and Dances “From the New World”
After first teaming up at the Aspen Music Festival, the Pacifica Quartet and iconic guitarist Sharon Isbin – who has been called “one of the best guitarists in the world” (Boston Globe) – have been thrilling audiences ever since. Following their success on the road, these Grammy Award-winning artists recorded the Souvenirs of Italy for Cedille Records in 2019, featuring works by Turina, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Vivaldi, and Boccherini.
Quatuor Danel | Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, & Weinberg Cycles
The Quatuor Danel regularly performs the three great 20th-century Russian string quartet cycles: the quartets and sextet of Tchaikovsky, the fifteen quartets by Shostakovich, and the seventeen by Shostakovich’s friend Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–1996).
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 | Recital with Albert Cano Smit
William Hagen and the fantastic pianist Albert Cano Smit offer a program comprised of three of the greatest violin sonatas ever written.
Albert Cano Smit Photo credit: Wenqi Ke
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.
Orion Weiss | Arc II: Ravel, Brahms, Shostakovich
Acclaimed pianist Orion Weiss released his newest album, Arc II: Ravel, Brahms, Shostakovich in November 2022 on First Hand Records. Featuring performances of Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Schumann and Chorale Preludes Nos. 10 & 11, and Shostakovich’s Piano Sonata No. 2, Arc II is the second album of a three-part series and strives to understand the varying ways composers comprehend grief, loss, and death. In this combination of works, Weiss follows the paths these composers walked in their own grief as their tracks lead us from death back towards life, from horror to hope.
Orion Weiss | Arc I: Granados, Janáček, Scriabin
Acclaimed pianist Orion Weiss released his album, Arc I: Granados, Janáček, Scriabin in March 2022 on First Hand Records.
Honens Competition
Jon Kimura Parker serves as the Artistic Director of the Honens International Piano Competition which takes place every three years and is considered one of the world’s most prestigious events of its kind.
Concerto Chat
This series of short videos features interviews, short demonstrations, and colorful anecdotes on each of the piano concertos in Jon Kimura Parker’s active performing repertoire.
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 & 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
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.