Composer

Distinguished by its virtuosity, probing musical insight, and impassioned, fiery performances, the Ariel Quartet has garnered critical praise worldwide for more than twenty years. Formed when the members were just teenagers studying at the Jerusalem Academy Middle School of Music and Dance in Israel, the Ariel was named a recipient of the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, granted by Chamber Music America in recognition of artistic achievement and career support. Celebrating their 25th anniversary in 2023, the quartet serves as the Faculty Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. The quartet recently played to a sold-out Carnegie Hall audience and premiered a new work by Danill Trifonov with the composer as pianist.

EPSG:4326

Ariel Quartet

Christ the King Catholic Church

Contemporary chamber music performed by the ensemble of the Contemporary Performance Program at MSM.

Tactus

Manhattan School of Music

Daring, sultry, and playfully evocative, flutist and composer Valerie Coleman’s musical memoir, Portraits of Josephine, captures the irreverent spirit and joie de vivre of one of the 20th century’s most charismatic entertainers, Josephine Baker. Ensemble 20/21 presents this electrifying suite for wind quintet, featuring three significant moments throughout Baker’s life. From her humble beginnings in St. Louis to creating a multiracial utopia within the majestic walls of her 15th-century château, Les Milandes, and causing a splash on the 1920s Parisian club scene, this captivating portrait chronicles her triumphant rise to international stardom.

Summer Broadcast Series: Music of Change

Princeton Second-Year Graduate Student composers—Hope Littwin, Soo Yeon Lyuh, Christian Quiñones, and Justin Wright—present new works written in response to the works of established composers as part of their PhD General Examinations.

Princeton Sound Kitchen: Generals Concert

Taplin Auditorium

Guest ensemble Hinge presents the premiere of their program Clockworks, which explores themes of mechanization and dehumanization in contemporary society and features works by Chaya Czernowin, Katherine Young, Louis Andriessen, Laurie Spiegel, and Meshuggah.

Hinge Ensemble: Clockworks

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Music of Change

Curtis Institute of Music

Life (2009) was the first piece Louis Andriessen composed specifically for his friends in the Bang in a Can All-Stars. According to the composer, “[Artist Marijke van Warmerdam and I] decided to make a kind of contemporary Pictures at an Exhibition: short pieces of music to accompany video clips. This resulted in Life—four short compositions which combine late romantic ‘European’ music with hip ‘American’ repetitive music.”

Louis Andriessen

Composer

Events

Nov 5, 2023

Ariel Quartet · Chamber Music in Oklahoma

Oct 9, 2023

Tactus · Manhattan School of Music

Jun 6, 2023

Summer Broadcast Series: Music of Change · Curtis Institute of Music

Apr 11, 2023

Princeton Sound Kitchen: Generals Concert · Princeton University Music Department

Jan 28, 2023

Hinge Ensemble: Clockworks · Boston Conservatory at Berklee

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