Gabriel Kahane | Sandbox Percussion
Sandbox Percussion is the newest addition to my musical community. We’ve admired each other from afar for a while, and they have a particular—and, to me, appealing—interest in moving the percussion quartet beyond the spectacle of highly “gridded” music.
Photo credit: Noah Stern Weber
Gabriel Kahane & Pekka Kuusisto | Council
After nearly a decade of musical friendship, it seems only fitting that the iconic Finnish musician Pekka Kuusisto and cult American singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane have formalized their collaboration under the moniker ‘Council.’ Now, they present an evening of intimate and sonically varied songs & chamber music, written during several writing retreats in Northern Karelia and Portland, Oregon.
Photo credit: Sam Gehrke
Gabriel Kahane | Roomful of Teeth
Fresh from their GRAMMY-winning album Rough Magic, Roomful of Teeth opens the evening with Caroline Shaw’s The Isle—a spellbinding work that blurs ancient myth with modern vocal invention. Gabriel Kahane follows with an intimate solo set, setting the stage for the centerpiece: Elevator Songs. Written and performed by Kahane, Elevator Songs is a poignant 35-minute tapestry of interwoven lives set in a hotel suspended across space and time. With Roomful of Teeth cast as the kaleidoscopic inhabitants, and contributions from Caroline Shaw/Eliza Bagg on violin and Jodie Landau on vibraphone, this work brims with wit, pathos, and sonic brilliance. A deeply human journey—comic, tragic, and wholly transporting—Elevator Songs is the culmination of years of collaboration between Kahane and Teeth, showcasing both the ensemble’s expressive range and Kahane’s singular narrative voice. A new album of the piece is currently in development, promising to bring this richly imagined world to listeners everywhere.
Sphinx Virtuosi | Community Engagement Activities
The Sphinx Virtuosi is one of the nation's most dynamic professional chamber orchestras. Comprised of 18 of the nation's top Black and Latinx classical soloists, these alumni of the internationally renowned Sphinx Competition come together each season as cultural ambassadors to reach new audiences. The mission of the Sphinx Organization is transform lives through the power of diversity in the arts. With that goal in mind, the Virtuosi are fiercely committed to engaging with communities during the tour.
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.
Orion Weiss & Shai Wosner
Orion Weiss and Shai Wosner continue their longtime collaboration with a two-piano program combining an exploration of fugues spanning three centuries together with Rachmaninov’s monumental Symphonic Dances.
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.