Violist

Welcome to our season celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States. This program connects the music of Antonin Dvořák who so greatly influenced American Music, with the American composers who followed him, including George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, and Aaron Copland.

Made in America: What is the American sound?

The First Presbyterian Church of Stamford

Schubert’s final chamber music work has been described as “sublime,” “extraordinary” and as possessing “bottomless pathos,” and is generally regarded as his finest chamber work. The format of a string quintet with two cellos instead of two violas was very much Boccherini’s special genre. A cellist himself, Boccherini freed at least one of the cellos from providing the bass line, so as to soar lyrically.

Violist

Adria Benjamin

Events

Past events

Sep 21, 2025

Made in America: What is the American sound? · Orchestra LUMOS

Oct 22, 2023

Schubert’s Farewell · Orchestra LUMOS

Future and recently performed repertoire

Viola in Two Pieces for String Quartet by Copland

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Viola in American Quartet by Dvořák

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