GRAMMY-nominated ensemble ZOFO" class="css-u850">ZOFO" class="css-u850">ZOFO, with internationally acclaimed pianists Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi, have electrified audiences from Carnegie Hall to Japan. One of only a handful of duos worldwide devoted exclusively to piano duets, ZOFO is blazing a bold new path for four-hands groups with their adventurous programming and dazzling artistry.

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ZOFO Duet

Berkeley City Club

Each visionary performance of the award-winning Borromeo String Quartet (BSQ) strengthens and deepens its reputation as one of the most important ensembles of our time. Admired and sought after for both its fresh interpretations of the classical music canon and its championing of works by 20th and 21st century composers, the ensemble has been hailed for its “edge-of-the- seat performances” by the Boston Globe, which called it “simply the best.”

Borromeo String Quartet

Mercy Center Burlingame

The Chineke! Orchestra honours women composers whose powerful music resonates through the ages, ending with a UK premiere of a rediscovered Florence Price work.

Chineke! Orchestra: Phenomenal Women

Southbank Centre

The centrepiece is Valerie Coleman's Concerto for Wind Quintet and Orchestra, Phenomenal Women. The piece is a profound tribute to women who have stepped into treacherous spaces, inspired the world, and moved the course of history; shining a bright light and opening doors, especially for women of colour.

Southbank Centre: Phenomenal Women

CBeebies friends JoJo & Gran Gran are on board the Bristol Beacon submarine with a Gran Gran plan, and Andy has his safari sub at the ready.

Cbeebies Prom: Ocean Adventure

Beacon Hall

Today’s Stars, Tomorrow’s Legends: Catch ascendant soloists in their Davies Symphony Hall recital debuts. 

Stella Chen & George Li

Davies Symphony Hall

Shostakovich called his Fifth Symphony “a Soviet artist’s response to just criticism”, but every note tells a much darker truth. From its savage opening to final, blazing chords, this is music that really is a matter of life and death. It’ll make an explosive finish to a concert that begins with Roussel’s whirlwind Bacchus and Ariane (fast becoming a Domingo Hindoyan signature following the release of his critically-acclaimed first album in 2022) and stars powerhouse pianist – and the 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition winner – Alim Beisembayev, in a gorgeous new concerto by the Jamaican-born British composer Eleanor Alberga.

On Demand: Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5

From Vienna to the Caribbean, great things come in small packages as the Liverpool String Quartet pair the music of Jamaican-born composer Eleanor Alberga with Schubert’s most famous string quartet.

Liverpool String Quartet

The Music Room

Schneider Concerts Presents | Poiesis String Quartet - NY Debut

The New School College of Performing Arts

Join us for an unforgettable musical experience as the Ivalas Quartet graces the stage at Caramoor on February 25, 2024, at 2:00 pm. This remarkable ensemble, serving as the 2022-23 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence, will present their final concert in this residency, a performance that was eagerly anticipated and has been postponed from June 2023. The concert will take place in the intimate setting of the Chamber Music Room, offering a perfect acoustic environment to appreciate the quartet's artistry.

The Ivalas Quartet is renowned for their commitment to showcasing diverse voices in classical music, and this concert is no exception. Their program features works by Black and indigenous composers, including a world premiere by the exceptionally talented Derrick Skye, whose compositions reflect his Ghanaian, Nigerian, Native American, and British/Irish heritage. Skye's new work, "Deliverance," promises to be a transcultural exploration blending Persian classical melodic systems with rhythmic elements from West and North African music, offering a unique and enriching musical experience.

The quartet, composed of Reuben Kebede and Tiani Butts on violins, Marcus Stevenson on viola, and Pedro Sánchez on cello, will also perform pieces by Jessie Montgomery, Carlos Simon, and Eleanor Alberga, creating a program that celebrates the richness and diversity of classical music. Each piece has been carefully selected to align with the Ivalas Quartet's mission to disrupt and enhance the classical music world by amplifying voices less known and sometimes unheard.

This concert is not just a performance but a statement of the Ivalas Quartet's dedication to representation, diversity, and the power of music to unite and inspire. It is an invitation to explore the sounds of music from cultures and communities that echo our own and those that may be new to us, all within the beautiful setting of Caramoor.

Tickets are available for purchase now. Don't miss this opportunity to support and enjoy the transformative power of music as brought to life by the Ivalas Quartet.

Ivalas Quartet

The Rosen House at Caramoor

Join us for a special Black History Month broadcast performance featuring chamber music of Black composers. Subscribe to Curtis on YouTube to be notified when the broadcast begins—and enjoy a catalog of incredible Curtis performances.

Broadcast: Chamber Music of Black Composers

### Event Description: Beyond the Horizon - Bristol

**Date and Time:**  
01 February 2024, 7:30 PM

**Location:**  
The Mount Without, Upper Church Lane, St Michael's Hill, Bristol, BS2 8FN

**Event Overview:**  
Join the English Symphony Orchestra for an enchanting evening as part of their 'Music for Humans' season. The concert, titled "Beyond the Horizon," will explore music’s profound ability to capture and share moments of happiness, acts of love and kindness, and feelings of common purpose and security.

**Programme:**  
- **Eleanor Alberga:** *Jupiter’s Fairground*  
- **Antonín Dvořák:** *Song to the Moon* from *Rusalka*  
- **Samuel Barber:** *Knoxville: Summer of 1915*  
- **Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:** *Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter'*

**Artists:**  
- **English Symphony Orchestra**  
- **Conductor:** Kenneth Woods  
- **Soloist:** April Fredrick, soprano

**About the Concert:**  
At the heart of this programme is Samuel Barber’s masterpiece, *Knoxville: Summer of 1915*, a poignant setting of a prose poem by James Agee. Composed shortly after World War II, Barber’s work presents a child’s view of life and loss in rural America, juxtaposing the beauty of a safe and loving world with the underlying tragedy of its potential loss.

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Experience an evening of musical brilliance and emotional depth with the English Symphony Orchestra in Bristol.

Beyond The Horizon

The Mount Without

Malvern Theatres

Inspiring PSC favorite returns with pianist Shai Wosner for the world premiere of composer/ jazz pianist Vijay Iyer’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, written for Shai Wosner and East Coast Chamber Orchestra, and co-commissioned by Peoples’ Symphony Concerts through a grant from the Roger Shapiro Fund and with support from Richard Replin and Elissa Stein,  Michael Hindus and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.

ECCO and Shai Wosner, piano *IYER WORLD PREMIERE

Washington Irving Campus

Our 49th Season opens as a journey through art as expression, with works from literature and painting as the composers’ inspirational backdrop. Our gifted guest vocalist, bass-baritone Christopher Humbert Jr.,  will be on hand for two selections with literary origins. Living composer Eleanor Alberga’s romantic work for baritone and string orchestra, The Soul’s Expression (2017), is set to texts from three very different 19th century writers: George Eliot, Emily Brontë, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. And Maurice Ravel’s song cycle (his last composition) is based on the story of Cervantes’ epic novel Don Quixote. The concert opens with the familiar overture to Verdi’s opera “The Power of Destiny,” based on a Spanish drama, and closes with Modest Mussorgsky’s powerful masterpiece, Pictures at an Exhibition.

Vista Philharmonic Orchestra featuring bass-baritone Christopher Humbert

Groton Hill Music Center

Gnarly blues and blistering cross-rhythms launch the 2023-24 season at full-speed with Filter for solo violin by the genre-bending Haitian-American composer Daniel Bernard Roumain. The luxuriant Shining Gate of Morpheus for horn and strings by Eleanor Alberga, a British composer of Jamaican descent, compliments a world premiere for flute, oboe, and clarinet by longtime Radius collaborator and Boston local Curtis Hughes. Igor Stravinsky’s own trio arrangement of L’Histoire du Soldat, a neo-classical Parable, brings the concert to a close. L’Histoire du Soldat is the Faustian tale of a soldier who makes a fateful trade with the Devil: his violin for a book that can predict the future.

Radius Ensemble | Parable

Longy School of Music of Bard College

Juilliard Wind Orchestra Conducted by William Short

The Juilliard School

Inspiring audiences for more than 25 years.
"simply the best"

Borromeo Quartet

University of South Alabama

Four players and five remarkable composers, as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Equilibrium Quartet champions neglected gems and newly-minted classics by Grace-Evangeline Mason, Elizabeth Maconchy, Florence Price and more.

Equilibrium

ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra) fills the stage to share music of remembrance, nostalgia, and the will to live life to its fullest. The program features Edvard Grieg’s heartrending Holberg Suite “in the olden style”; Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga’s tender elegy for her mother; and Franz Schubert’s searing, intense “Death and the Maiden” Quartet, heard here in Gustav Mahler’s unforgettable arrangement for string orchestra.

Ecco Plays Schubert

First Presbyterian Church

ECCO: East Coast Chamber Orchestra

Central Park

Individual lives tell the stories for this programme. Jamaican-born British composer Eleanor Alberga is inspired by the memory of a dear friend, a “tower of strength”, with music that brings a character to life. Meanwhile, Vaughan Williams tells the tale of a vagabond on his travels who demands “give to me the life I love”. Tippett’s oratorio relates the tragedy of an individual’s desperate act, and over 80 years after its premiere, still resonates with its themes of oppression and disenfranchisement. His use of African-American spirituals to evoke, as he put it, those “cast out from the centre of our society onto the fringes” is as pertinent now as it was then.

A Child of Our Time

Doreen Carwithen’s swashbuckling overture was written for a 1954 British adventure film. Anna Clyne tells the story of a seamstress, lost in her thoughts, imagining a series of five fantastical tales. The evening ends with Eleanor Alberga’s ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’, adapted from Roald Dahl’s subversive retelling of the Brothers Grimm story.

Family Concert

St. John's Smith Square

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

Whenever Isata Kanneh-Mason comes together with players of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, they click – one critic described the result as “music-making between friends”. Expect the same magic as she joins them in the beautiful surroundings of St George’s Hall Concert Room for music by Mendelssohn and the Jamaican-born, British-based composer, Eleanor Alberga.

Isata Kanneh-Mason with members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

St George's Hall Concert Room

Christina Junga (B.M. '23) presents a violin recital.

Student Recital: Christina Junga, Violin

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Festival Day 2

Tucson Convention Center

With unparalleled artistry and enduring vigor, the Juilliard String Quartet—celebrating its 75th Anniversary this season—​continues to inspire audiences around the world. Founded in 1946 and hailed by the Boston Globe as “the most important American quartet in history,” the ensemble draws on a deep and vital engagement to the classics, while embracing the mission of championing new works. Each performance of the Juilliard String Quartet is a unique experience, bringing together the four members’ profound understanding, total commit­ment and unceasing curiosity in sharing the wonders of the string quartet literature. Ronald Copes, former faculty member in UCSB’s Department of Music, has played with the Juilliard String Quartet since 1997. In May 2022, the Quartet named violist Molly Carr to its ensemble, filling the void left by the passing of Carr’s mentor and friend, much-loved violist Roger Tapping.

Juilliard String Quartet

Lobero Theatre

The timeless art of the recital is perpetuated in the hands of present-day masters of the genre. Experience the musical journeys crafted by these thrilling performers in the intimate Rose Studio.

Art of the Recital: Stella Chen & Gilles Vonsattel

Rose Studio

The Jupiter String Quartet is a particularly intimate group, consisting of violinists Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel (Meg’s sister), and cellist Daniel McDonough (Meg’s husband, Liz’s brother-in-law). Now enjoying their 20th year together, this tight-knit ensemble is firmly established as an important voice in the world of chamber music.

Jupiter String Quartet

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Young British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason’s recording debut of the works of Clara Schumann had an auspicious launch at No. 1 on the U.K. Classical Charts in 2019. Gramophone proclaimed it “one of the most charming and engaging debuts.” She has seven musical siblings—including cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason—who are fast becoming Britain’s first family of classical music.

Isata Kanneh - piano

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Join us for an unforgettable musical journey with the Ivalas Quartet at the Shriver Hall Concert Series on Saturday, March 29, 2025, at 3:00 pm. This performance, set to take place at the University of Maryland Baltimore County's Linehan Hall, promises an afternoon of exquisite music and captivating artistry.

The Ivalas Quartet, currently the Graduate Resident String Quartet at Juilliard, is renowned for their charismatic performances and dedication to showcasing BIPOC composers. Their program for this concert is a celestial exploration of musical compositions, featuring Osvaldo Golijov's "Tenebrae," inspired by a planetarium visit; Eleanor Alberga's "String Quartet No. 1," a piece that delves into the mysteries of the cosmos; and Ludwig van Beethoven's "String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130," a profound expression of beauty and emotion.

The quartet, composed of Reuben Kebede and Tiani Butts on violin, Marcus Stevenson on viola, and Pedro Sanchez on cello, has been praised for their "tremendous heart and beauty" by The Strad. Since their formation at the University of Michigan in 2017, they have been changing the face of classical music, performing at prestigious venues and winning numerous competitions.

This concert will last approximately 1 hour and 25 minutes, including an intermission, allowing audiences to fully immerse themselves in the talent and passion of the Ivalas Quartet. A suggested donation of $10 for general seating is encouraged, supporting the continuation of high-quality musical presentations.

Don't miss this opportunity to experience the Ivalas Quartet's transformative performance. For tickets and more information, visit the Shriver Hall Concert Series website or contact the box office at 3400 N. Charles St, Shriver Hall, Ste 14, Baltimore, MD 21218-2698, phone: 410-516-7164, email: infoshriverconcerts.org.

Eleanor Alberga

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