Composer

One of today’s most acclaimed violinists, Randall Goosby, and piano collaborator Zhu Wang play Beethoven’s Spring Sonata plus works by Harry Burleigh, Dvorak, Debussy, and Amy Beach in their PSC debut concert

Randall Goosby, Violin Zhu Wang, Piano

Public High School

Driven by a mission to broaden classical music’s reach and armed with the technical means and communicative powers necessary to do so, Randall Goosby has won audience ovations worldwide with the profound personal authenticity of his artistry. The American violinist and his regular duo partner Zhu Wang, gold medallist at the 2024 New Orleans International Piano Competition, explore evocative works from the Old and New Worlds including Harry Thacker Burleigh’s folk-inspired Southland Sketches.

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Randall Goosby | Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall

An engaging journey between the Old and New Worlds, with a program entirely dedicated to music written for violin and piano: from the luminous classicism of Beethoven to the new, evocative, twentieth-century classicism of Debussy, passing through the Bohemian lyricism of Dvořák and the surprising American sounds of Amy Beach and Harry Burleigh. Leading us on this journey through different styles and eras will be virtuoso violinist Randall Goosby—already recognized for his interpretative depth and commitment to the rediscovery of African-American composers—and pianist Zhu Wang.

Randall Goosby | Accademia Filarmonica Romana

Teatro Argentina

Superstar violinist Randall Goosby returns to Calderwood Hall for an intimate recital of epic music. Two major sonatas bookend the program: Debussy’s elusive and gorgeous sonata is paired with Beethoven’s sunny F major essay in the form. Harry Burleigh was key in forging a quintessential American musical language, which modified the gorgeous modal inflections of spirituals with the chromatic ambiguities of Wagner’s harmony. The Romance of Boston’s Amy Beach—the best of the "Second New England School" of composers—gorgeously drinks from a similar Wagnerian well.

Randall Goosby | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

MSM Artists in Residence Windscape Reimagined Realms

Manhattan School of Music

Emerald City Music returns to the stage for its ninth season, celebrating Artistic Director Kristin Lee’s upcoming solo album, American Sketches. Join us on this special opening night and be the first to hear works from this album featuring violinist Kristin Lee and pianist Jun Cho.

Emerald City Music: American Sketches

South Puget Sound Community College

Iconoclastic pianist and cultural visionary Lara Downes returns to Newport after a sold-out performance in 2021 to present THIS LAND, a probing, nuanced reflection on the kaleidoscopic diversity of stories and journeys that have converged and collided throughout American history, from an artist renowned for her musical explorations off the beaten path. Downes celebrates the beauty of the American experiment while offering an unflinching acknowledgment of its flaws and failings, ultimately embracing the power of hope and humanity as a pathway to common ground and a brighter future.

Closing Night with Pianist Lara Downes

The Breakers Newport

One of America’s most eminent black composers of the early twentieth century, H. T. Burleigh wrote hundreds of art songs and introduced Antonin Dvořák to the spiritual. Southland Sketches, his suite for violin and piano, illustrates the American style that Burleigh did much to promulgate. By contrast, Dohnányi’s C minor Piano Quintet radiates high drama from first note to last. Britten’s second String Quartet, commissioned in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Henry Purcell’s death, was coincidentally composed following Britten’s recital tour of the newly-liberated concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Britten’s admiration for Purcell’s “clarity, brilliance, tenderness, and strangeness” as well as his horror of war’s depravity find voice in this deeply emotional work.

Trifecta

St Peter's Episcopal Church

St Gabriel's Church

“Melodic precision, harmonic erudition, and elegant restraint” (New York Times) are hallmarks of Aaron Diehl’s playing. Praised for his “freedom and playfulness” (Philadelphia Inquirer), this celebrated musical polymath makes his PCMS debut with Hidden Visionaries, a new recital program spotlighting works by Black American composers of sacred and secular music.

Aaron Diehl, piano

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

The splendor of piano and strings explores Gershwin’s jazzy brilliance to Schumann’s lush romanticism, with miniature musical delights in between. This special and diverse concert promises to enthrall you on CMSPB’s celebratory gala evening.

Celebrating Gershwin to Schumann

Norton Museum of Art

Winner of the 2022 prestigious Richard Tucker Award, Angel Blue has garnered international praise for her radiant, velvety voice and her portrayals of many of opera’s greatest heroines including Mimi in La Boheme, Violetta in La Traviata, and Tosca. She opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019/20 season as Bess in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and also starred in the Grammy-winning recording from that production. Future engagements include headlining a new Metropolitan Opera production of Aida. She also enjoys an active concert and recital career. In this varied program, she’ll be joined by Grammy-nominated pianist Myra Huang, Head of Music at the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and Director of musical administration and head coach for the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS program. Be thrilled by one of opera’s most exciting voices in the intimate setting of Harris Concert Hall!

Recital: Angel Blue soprano and Myra Huang piano

Aspen Meadows Resort

This eclectic program will take concertgoers on quite a ride, traveling from stately Handel violin/viola duos to earthy jazz and Americana pieces to a six hand piano piece before ending in delightfully esoteric compositions using wristwatches and …metaphysics? Come on, admit it. You’re intrigued.

Cabaret: Violins, Pianos & Watches, Oh My!

Shalin Liu Performance Center

Vis-À-Vis

Libbey Bowl

Bach, Brahms & Burleigh

St. Mark Greek Orthodox Church

Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church

Nicholas Canellakis takes center stage for a perennial audience favorite, Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto. Then Ransom Wilson leads the Redlands Symphony in two musical portraits of America: Dvořák’s New World Symphony and Harry Thacker Burleigh's From the Southland.

Composer

Harry Thacker Burleigh

Events

Past events

May 2, 2026

Randall Goosby, Violin Zhu Wang, Piano · Peoples' Symphony Concerts

Apr 26, 2026

Randall Goosby | Wigmore Hall · Sphinx Organization

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