Letters to a Young Poet
Celebrating the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and composer Maurice Ravel, this new project features the Parker Quartet in a staged performance with actors.
Attacca Quartet & Caroline Shaw
The Attacca Quartet presents a special collaboration with the composer Caroline Shaw.
Miró Quartet | Here on Earth
The Miró Quartet is embarking on a new performance and recording project with Lara Downes.
Photo credit: Max Barrett
Gabriel Kahane | Attacca Quartet
I’ve known Nathan Schram of Attacca Quartet for almost a decade; he performed in the production of The Ambassador at BAM, and is a deeply soulful musician and person.
Photo credit: David Goddard
Miró Quartet & David Shifrin | Rendezvous with Benny
A "Rendezvous with Benny” is an extension of the Miró Quartet's Archive Project and celebrates the artistry of Benny Goodman centered particularly on the relationship between Benny and the Budapest Quartet.
America's Cultural Stage | Violin & Piano
Black musicians have shaped classical music for centuries; this recital honors and recognizes the artists and art forms who have shaped our cultural heritage. Dvorak’s Sonatina is one of his American-flavored works, particularly inspired by the music of African Americans.
Baroque to the Present | Violin & Harpsichord
Rachel Barton Pine and Jory Vinikour are both renowned for their interpretations of the music of J.S. Bach. They are also lifelong friends. The two musicians enjoy getting together to read sonatas whenever they are in the same city, and in 2018, realized a longtime dream of recording Bach’s six sonatas for violin and keyboard.
An Evening with Clara, Marie, Amanda, and Johannes | Violin & Piano
This program celebrates the close-knit friendships and musical partnerships among Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Amanda Maier (1853-1894), and Marie Soldat (1863-1955). Brahms performed his own Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor with both Marie Soldat and Amanda Maier, and made numerous revisions to the score based on Maier’s advice. Clara Schumann was a close musical collaborator and lifelong friend of Brahms.
Turning Points: WindSync + Piano
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Rhapsody in Blue, WindSync offers a wind sextet program connecting George Gershwin and W. A. Mozart, two composers whose experiments pairing piano with winds indelibly changed their careers.
The Parker Quartet with Vijay Iyer
The Parker Quartet collaborates with leading pianist, composer, and scholar Vijay Iyer. They first worked together as colleagues at Harvard University before taking their collaboration on the road to the Big Ears Festival last season.
Parker Quartet | Anthony Cheung commission with Fleur Barron
The Parker Quartet and mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron will be working with composer Anthony Cheung on a commission for string quartet and mezzo-soprano which will be an 18- 20 min piece around the theme of Asian representation.
Gabriel Kahane | Ambrose Akinmusire
Ambrose Akinmusire emerged in his early twenties as a carrier of the torch for the next generation of young lions. But the quartet he’s worked with for years has grown more and more daring, harmonically, rhythmically, and texturally.
Gabriel Kahane | Caroline Shaw
Caroline Shaw and I began working together in 2011, when she was a member of ACME and played several gigs as a violinist on shows of mine. But it’s been primarily in the last few years that our musical relationship has deepened.
Photo credit: Kait Moreno
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
Roomful of Teeth and I have been orbiting each other for the better part of a decade, but it wasn’t until this winter that they asked if I would write a new work for them.
Anthony McGill & Emanuel Ax
Anthony McGill and Emanuel Ax come together as two of the major artists of our time and great friends and collaborators for a diverse program.
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.
Anthony McGill & Kimberly Clark
Anthony and comedian Kimberly Clark will be touring with a dynamic performance mixing comedy, conversation, and music. A self-proclaimed band kid and amateur clarinetist, Kimberly connected with the classical music world last year when she included a segment about Gustav Dudamel as part of her Netflix special.
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.