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Simone Dinnerstein brings her “strikingly original ideas” (The Washington Post) to Mozart’s tender and poignant Piano Concerto No. 23. Lyric for Strings, American composer George Walker’s idyllic lament and Beethoven’ shocking first symphonic outing create a season-ending program which is meditative and exhilarating in equal parts.

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Dinnerstein Plays Mozart

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

No composer mines the depths of the human experience more fearlessly or wholeheartedly than Tchaikovsky, and his beloved Fifth Symphony surges with unbridled passion, candid emotion, and balletic grace on its journey from darkness to light. Houston Symphony Artistic Partner Itzhak Perlman leads these performances, which also feature treasured music from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and George Walker’s deeply moving Lyric for Strings.

Perlman Conducts Tchaikovsky 5

Jones Hall

This concert can also be added to any Compose Your Own (CYO) subscription series. Pick three or more performances you’d like to attend and receive all the perks and savings of being a New World Symphony subscriber.

Chamber Music: Elizabeth Roe plays Bach

New World Center

The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective is a “sparky, shape-shifting ensemble of starry young musicians” (Arts Desk) that serves as the Associate Ensemble of London’s Wigmore Hall. Their PCMS debut features the Philadelphia premiere of Gabriella Smith’s Divertimento and Florence Price’s Piano Quintet in A Minor, a long-overlooked masterwork that celebrates Price’s African American heritage with echoes of spirituals and hymns.

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective is a “sparky, shape-shifting ensemble of starry young musicians” (Arts Desk). The Associate Ensemble of London’s renowned Wigmore Hall, its most recent recording was praised on The Times (London)’s and Gramophone’s ‘Best of 2022’ lists. The group’s U.S. debut features major quintets from two historical American composers, Amy Beach and Florence Price, both glorious works of lyricism and virtuosity.

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective (U.S. Debut)

Johns Hopkins University

The Musicians from Marlboro touring program offers “exactly the type of concert that the classical scene needs more of” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). The first touring ensemble this season from classical music’s “life-giving spring” (New York Times) presents Viola, Viola by 2022 Marlboro Composer-in-Residence George Benjamin alongside Felix Mendelssohn’s exuberant E-flat Major Quartet and Lyric for Strings by George Walker, the first Black composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

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American Philosophical Society

Formed in Israel as teenagers at their Jerusalem middle school, the Ariel Quartet is now renowned worldwide for their fiery, dynamic performing style and soulful interpretations. In celebration of their 20th anniversary in 2020, the Ariel Quartet was the recipient of the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, granted by Chamber Music America in recognition of their artistic achievements. Based in Cincinnati, the Ariel Quartet is the Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where they present a concert series in addition to maintaining a busy touring schedule in the United States and abroad.

Ariel Quartet with Orion Weiss, piano

St. Anthony Park United Church of Christ

The Dover Quartet makes their first Festival appearance of the season playing George Walker’s String Quartet No. 1—a gripping early work by the pioneering, Pulitzer Prize–winning composer—and Schubert’s dramatic Rosamunde Quartet, whose second movement is based on a theme from Schubert’s incidental music for the play Rosamunde.

Dover Quartet

New Mexico Museum of Art

The beloved Emerson Quartet returns to Aspen one final time in a meaningful stop at Harris Concert Hall—a hall they once inaugurated in 1993. Since the celebrated ensemble’s first appearance at the AMFS in 1983, the Emerson Quartet has been a fixture of the Festival. Now, enjoy a final opportunity to hear them performing a quintessential program of works by Ravel, Walker, Beethoven, and Shostakovich before they hang up their instruments for good.

Special Event: Emerson String Quartet: The Aspen Farewell Concert1

Aspen Meadows Resort

Special Event: Emerson String Quartet: The Aspen Farewell Concert

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra National Trustees Summer Music Institute, a four-week festival of orchestral and chamber music for young people ages 15–20 at the Kennedy Center.

This performance is a recital of chamber music performed by musicians of the Institute.

NSO Summer Music Institute - Music of Walker, Brahms, Raum, Bottesini, and Martínlo Concerto

Kennedy Center

The renowned Emerson String Quartet (Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violins; Lawrence Dutton, viola; Paul Watkins, cello) are embarking on their worldwide farewell tour, and we are delighted that they will join us for our Season Opener Mainstage Chamber Concert. The Emerson String Quartet, called “America’s greatest quartet” by Time Magazine, will be disbanding at the completion of their tour after more than four decades of performing together, and Philip Setzer will be launching a new phase of his career as Manchester Music Festival’s Artistic Director.

Season Opener Mainstage Chamber Concert

Southern Vermont Arts Center

One of the most celebrated string ensembles performing today, the Dover Quartet opens Bravo! Vail’s Chamber Music Series with works by Haydn, Schubert, and George Walker. 

Vilar Performing Arts Center

Enjoy music under the stars with this free Houston Symphony performance at Miller Outdoor Theatre. Experience the deeply moving and powerful Lyric for Strings by George Walker, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Recent Sphinx Junior Division laureate Amaryn Olmeda delivers a vibrant performance of Bruch’s popular Violin Concerto No. 1. The program concludes with Dvořák’s immortal “New World” Symphony, a stirring tribute to America that captures the spirit, individuality, and limitless potential of a blossoming nation.

Miller Outdoor Theatre: Dvořák’s “New World”

Miller Outdoor Theatre

Romantic misadventures, misplaced confidence, and matchmaking in the town of Highbury. Join us for the West Coast Premiere and be the first audience to experience Joseph Hanreddy’s (PCPA’s Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility) charming new adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel, Emma.
Adapted for the stage by Joseph Hanreddy From the novel by Jane Austen.

Emma

Solvang Festival Theater

Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine, the GRAMMY nominated Dover Quartet, along with guests, bring a dynamic opening night program of Haydn, George Walker and Mendelssohn’s masterful octet.

Festival Opening Night

Shalin Liu Performance Center

This musical celebration will pair a brand new commission by Joel Thompson (Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, performed by the TSO in March 2019) commemorating the historic Tallahassee Bus Boycott with a Hymn Sing-along led by the FAMU Concert Choir.

Powerful Voices @ Lee Hall

Florida A&M University

Do not miss your chance to be there when the Emerson String Quartet takes the stage at Jordan Hall for their final concert with Celebrity Series, the last of 27 appearances.

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17 - 19 May, 2024

Dinnerstein Plays Mozart · Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

8 - 11 Feb, 2024

Perlman Conducts Tchaikovsky 5 · Houston Symphony

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