Cellist

Robert Schumann’s Piano Quartet is one of the most romantic pieces ever composed. The elegant and virtuosic piano part was written for his wife, Clara, and the slow movement offers what may be one of the most beautiful melodies in all of musical Romanticism.

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Romantic and Cinematic

Stockholm Concert Hall

The expressive splendor that Messiaen drew from his religious mysticism and devotion to nature is on full display in his epic 12-movement work From the Canyons to the Stars. In one of our most powerful musical offerings of the season, conductor Alan Gilbert leads a star-studded performance that features an ensemble of 40 musicians and four soloists: pianist Kirill Gerstein, Berlin Philharmonic Principal Horn Stefan Dohr, New York Philharmonic Associate Principal Percussionist Daniel Druckman, and Metropolitan Opera Principal Percussionist Gregory Zuber. The remarkable work—inspired by the landscape of southwestern Utah—was written in celebration of the bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence, and we offer it here, in celebration of our 50th season.

Alan Gilbert Conducts Messiaen

Lensic Performing Arts Center

Kirill Gerstein, one of the world’s most acclaimed pianists, joins forces with conductor Alan Gilbert and 21 Festival musicians to give the Festival’s first-ever performance of Ligeti’s magnificent Piano Concerto, a masterpiece of originality as witnessed in the composer’s treatment of rhythm, harmony, and more. The renowned pianist Juho Pohjonen joins a string quartet of musicians for Elgar’s late-Romantic Piano Quintet, known for its gorgeous second movement, and dazzling violinists Jennifer Frautschi and Jessica Lee open the program with duos by Bartók.

Ligeti Piano Concerto

New Mexico Museum of Art

Alan Gilbert makes his first appearance of the season playing violin in Dvořák’s String Quintet in E-flat Major, which includes an additional viola (the composer’s own instrument) and dates from Dvořák’s time in America. The program also spotlights another 19th-century Czech composer, the cello virtuoso David Popper—whose exquisitely tender Requiem features the unusual scoring of three cellos and a piano—and it includes the wonderfully rich (thanks to its two cellos) String Quintet in F-sharp Minor by the early-20th-century German composer Walter Braunfels.

Cellist

Kajsa William-Olsson

Events

Past events

Nov 2, 2025

Romantic and Cinematic · Konserthuset Stockholm

Aug 13, 2023

Alan Gilbert Conducts Messiaen · Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Future and recently performed repertoire

Cello in Clarinet Quartet by Penderecki

Konserthuset Stockholm

Cello in Piano Quartet in E flat major by Schumann

Konserthuset Stockholm

Cello in Piano Quintet No. 2 by Bacewicz

Konserthuset Stockholm

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