Irving Klein Competition winner, Julia Schilz, joins the SFCO in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s joyful Violin Concerto No. 5. Mozart was only nineteen years of age when he composed this, his final violin concerto, and a piece that sits at the very pinnacle of Classical concerti. Franz Schubert was also nineteen when he penned his 5th Symphony and its connection to Mozart’s writing is more than just youthful exuberance. At the time of its composition, Schubert was particularly enthralled with his earlier counterpart, writing in his diary, "O Mozart! Immortal Mozart! What countless impressions of a brighter, better life hast thou stamped upon our souls!” The 5th Symphony pays homage to its muse both in its sunny elegance, and the smaller orchestra size Schubert would write for. Our concert opens with Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s lively and virtuosic Sinfonietta No. 1. A composer, conductor, and pedagogue, Perkinson was equally comfortable in a myriad of styles and genres. His Sinfonia No. 1 blends new and old, in an exciting and expertly-crafted tour de force.

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The Young Masters

First Congregational Church of Berkeley

First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto

San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center

University Orchestra – Anthony Elliott, guest conductor

Musical Arts Center

This program reflects the profound connection between history, culture, and the human experience through music. Dvořák’s Wind Serenade opens the concert with lyrical beauty, capturing the timeless harmony between nature and the human spirit. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Sinfonietta No. 1 follows with bold, expressive themes that blend classical traditions with vibrant cultural influences. Ballard’s Incident at Wounded Knee offers a moving reflection on Native American culture, exploring themes of resistance, justice, and cultural resilience. The concert concludes with Haydn’s Symphony No. 64 in A Major, a jubilant and uplifting work that reminds us of the power of music to inspire hope and unity. Together, these pieces honor the voices and stories that shape our world, bringing their lessons forward into the present.

Voices of the Past: Dvořák, Perkinson, Ballard & Haydn

The Maryland Theatre

We open our 2026 season united in music by American composers John Corigliano, David Amram, and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson as well as Eduard Grieg's jaunty “Holberg Suite”.

Idealism

Calvary Baptist Church

Experience the talent and creativity of Colburn’s distinguished faculty artists as they perform their own curated programs with friends and students. This concert features quartet and quintet works by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, George Walker, and Florence Price.

Faculty Recital: Fiato Quartet and Micah Yui, Piano

Colburn School

One of the great violinists of our time, Augustin Hadelich performs works by Telemann, J.S. Bach, Paganini, and others that have inspired him and helped shape his career.

Artist Spotlight: Augustin Hadelich

David Geffen Hall

Experience the bold, expressive sound of the Poesis Quartet, Grand Prize winner at the 2023 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Formed in 2022 at Oberlin, the Quartet has swiftly risen to prominence, joining the Concert Artists Guild roster in 2024. Renowned for their cohesive artistry and adventurous programming, the group lives up to its name—poesis, from the Greek “to make”—with performances that forge new paths in chamber music. Dedicated to championing the voices of emerging and historically underrepresented composers, the Poesis Quartet brings this vibrant mission to life in their Caramoor residency.

Poiesis Quartet

The Rosen House at Caramoor

Acclaimed cellist Seth Parker Woods, known for his adventurous programming and dynamic artistry, brings his unique voice to this journey. For Woods, Sarabandes feel uniquely human and contemplative, serving as touchpoints throughout the evening.

Seth Parker Woods: Thus Spoke Their Verse

St Giles Cripplegate

Solo violin works continue Augustin Hadelich’s residency this season, culminating in J.S. Bach’s D minor Partita with the expressively and technically transcendent Chaconne — considered the “Everest” of violin performance. The Partita is balanced by music of Bach’s contemporary Georg Philipp Telemann, selections from Nicolò Paganini’s brilliant Caprices, and a Bach-inspired solo sonata from 1923 by the Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe, the Sonata No. 5, from 1923. American composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s 1979 Blue/s Forms is a work championed by Hadelich in recital.

Augustin Hadelich in Recital

The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul

A string quartet of American Symphony Orchestra musicians performs works by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still, and Antonín Dvořák, each reflecting a unique perspective on the American musical experience. Perkinson’s String Quartet No. 1 blends classical form with elements of jazz—a truly American genre—reflecting the vibrancy and depth of Black American music. Still’s Lyric Quartette draws on folk idioms and lyrical expression to evoke scenes of American life, rooted in his vision of a distinctly American classical voice.

String Quartet at Minor Memorial Library

Minor Memorial Library

Music by Emma O’Halloran, Alberto Ginastera, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and Franz Schubert.

Santa Monica Music Festival: Program 4

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

Highlights of recent performances include recitals with pianist Orli Shaham at the Kauffman Music Center’s Musical Storefront series (NYC), Music for Food (NYC), and at Colorado’s Telluride Music Festival and Music off the Hook Arts Music Festival. Buck was awarded a 2019 Music Faculty Incentive Grant by the SUNY Purchase Conservatory that facilitated two commissions: John Harbison’s DeBut for solo violin, and Fantasia on Beethoven’s Spring Sonata for violin and piano by Bruce Adolphe. In October 2021, she joined Grammy Award-winning producer, Silas Brown, to record Harbison’s Suite for Solo Violin for a forthcoming album.

“Music Our Mothers Love” with Orli Shaham and Deborah Buck

Bargemusic

George Gershwin is the American composer who dressed Jazz in a tuxedo and took it to symphony concert halls around the world. This concert opens with Gershwin’s musical depiction of Paris in the roaring 20s, including honking taxi cabs!

Brass Brilliance

Elmhurst Christian Reformed Church

Faculty Recital: Angela Park

Carnegie Mellon University

Dancers from Chicago’s world-renowned Joffrey Ballet join the CSO with newly commissioned choreographies. Symphonies by Haydn and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges abound in witty and joyful melodies while two 20th-century works are full of popular influences: Perkinson’s jazz-tinted Sinfonietta No. 1 and Milhaud’s rollicking Brazilian postcard, The Ox on the Roof.

CSO x The Joffrey Ballet

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Black Student Union Club Recital

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

MAP Open Recital

The Juilliard School

His passionate Violin Concerto – long neglected, but now championed – is an ideal example of his captivating, rhapsodic music that touches the emotions and inspires the intellect. 

British violinist Anthony Marwood continues his firm friendship with the SCO, taking the reins as both soloist and director in Coleridge-Taylor’s sublime Concerto. To complete this richly Romantic concert, Marwood offers the song-like beauty of Dvořák’s charming Romance, and the bold and bustling Second Symphony by the 18-year-old Franz Schubert. 

SCO 24/25: Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto

The Queen's Hall

The Sphinx Organization’s “flagship performing entity” presents a varied and vibrant program of string music in this acclaimed annual event. Hear several works by Joplin, including two ragtime essentials and a newly arranged overture from Treemonisha. Additional concepts of American music are explored in Derrick Skye’s multifaceted and optimistic American Mirror, Part One, and in a New York premiere by renowned violinist-composer Curtis Stewart, who “translates stories of American self-determination to the concert stage.” Soloist Njioma Chinyere Grevious—winner of the Robert F. Smith First Prize and Audience Choice at the 2023 Sphinx Competition—performs Perkinson’s quintessentially American solo composition, Blue/s Forms. Selections by Coleridge-Taylor and Carreño also feature in this one-of-a-kind performance.

Sphinx Virtuosi

Carnegie Hall

Concert 7: “Salon Concert”

Angel Fire Community Center

The Sphinx Virtuosi is a dynamic and inspiring professional self-conducted chamber orchestra that serves as the flagship performing entity of the Sphinx Organization – the leading social justice non-profit dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Comprising 18 accomplished Black and Latinx artists, the Sphinx Virtuosi are evolving and transforming the face of classical music through artistic excellence, pioneering programming, and impassioned community engagement. 

Shermerhorn Symphony Center

Join us for an unforgettable afternoon of music and cultural celebration with the Sphinx Virtuosi at Caramoor on July 7, 2024, in Katonah, NY. This dynamic and inspiring self-conducted string orchestra, known as the flagship performing entity of the Sphinx Organization, is dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Comprising some of the nation’s top young Black and Latinx professional musicians, Sphinx Virtuosi serves as a cultural and diversity ambassador across the United States and abroad.

The concert will take place at the Orchestral Music Venetian Theater at 4:00pm, with a special pre-concert conversation with members of Sphinx Virtuosi at 3:00pm. The program features music by some of today’s most compelling Black and Latinx composers, including Quenton Xavier Blache, Javier Favias, Andrea Casarrubios, Adolphus Hailstork, Jessie Montgomery, and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson.

Seating options include general admission with premium reserved seating available, as well as Garden Listening tickets for a more casual concert environment. Garden Listening tickets are $20, free for Members and children under 18, allowing you to enjoy the concert broadcast with audio only on Friends Field.

This performance is part of Caramoor's commitment to showcasing diverse talents and providing a platform for artists representing historically excluded communities. Don't miss this vibrant and assured performance that promises to be more essential than ever.

For tickets and more information, visit the Caramoor Box Office or the event's website. Experience the transformative power of music with Sphinx Virtuosi at Caramoor, a highlight of the summer arts season in the Hudson Valley.

Venetian Theater at Caramoor

Experience the groundbreaking artistry of Sphinx Virtuosi, an extension of the renowned Sphinx Organization committed to amplifying Black and Latinx voices in classical music. Set against the opulent backdrop of The Breakers, the self-conducted chamber orchestra delivers a pioneering program spotlighting historically marginalized composers. With cellist Thomas Mesa joining their ranks as soloist for Jessie Montgomery’s Divided, prepare to be moved to your core by the sheer brilliance and passion of this 18-piece ensemble, delivering a performance that will leave you breathless.

Opening Night with Sphinx Virtuosi

The Breakers Newport

Immerse yourself in the enchanting melodies of a String Quartet performance at the scenic Bryant Park Upper Terrace, featuring the talented musicians of the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO). This captivating event is scheduled for May 13 & 14, 2024, offering a perfect after-work respite amidst the bustling city life.

The performance showcases an exquisite selection of works by renowned composers Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still, and Antonín Dvořák, meticulously curated by the esteemed ASO violinist, Ashley Horne. This event is a highlight of a free chamber music series in partnership with Bryant Park, designed to bring the community together through the universal language of music.

Attendees will be treated to a diverse program, including William Grant Still's "Lyric Quartette," Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's "String Quartet No. 1, Calvary," and Antonín Dvořák's "String Quartet No. 12 in F, Op. 96, American." Each piece promises to evoke a range of emotions, from the deeply sentimental to the joyously vivacious.

The quartet features the exceptional talents of Cyrus Beroukhim and Ashley Horne on violin, William Frampton on viola, and Annabelle Hoffman on cello. Together, they will bring to life the rich textures and intricate harmonies of the selected compositions.

This event is not only a celebration of music but also a testament to the support and collaboration between the ASO, Bryant Park, and various cultural and governmental organizations. It is made possible by the generous funding from the E. Nakamichi Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, among others.

Join us at Bryant Park on May 13 & 14, 2024, at 5:30 PM for this free event. Experience the beauty of string quartet music performed by the ASO's finest, and let the power of music transport you to a world of harmony and peace.

String Quartet at Bryant Park Upper Terrace

Bryant Park

This concert closes the 2023-24 season and features a diverse and versatile program that celebrates the beauty and power of orchestral music. The evening begins with Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s “Worship”, a piece that explores African-American musical traditions with its lively rhythms and bold melodies. The program then shifts to Mozart’s elegant Piano Concerto No. 14, a lyrical gem that will showcase the skill and artistry of pianist Ying Li. Finally, the concert ends with Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, a grand and sweeping masterpiece that will take you on a sonic journey through its rich harmonic and melodic landscapes. With a mix of classic and contemporary works, this concert promises to be a stunning display of the orchestra’s versatility and artistry.

Mozart & Bruckner

Pianist Awadagin Pratt joins Daniel Hope and New Century for this program of potent 20th century American works for strings that speak to our collective emotions. Coping with the senselessness of war is the heartbeat of the program’s first half, with composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson confronting his concerns about the Korean War through his work Grass. In contrast, composer David Diamond wrote his exuberant work Rounds to dispel the gloomy wartime mood of the 1940s in vivid fashion. The program closes with Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium), an epic work for solo violin, strings and percussion inspired by the ancient Greek debate over love in its many forms.

Love & War

First Congregational Church

Presidio Theatre Performing Arts Center

Sonoma State University

Cellist Luiz Fernando Venturelli, winner of the 2023 Meadowmount School of Music Gurrena Fellowship, will perform works by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Dimitri Cervo, J. S. Bach, Marlos Nobre, César Franck, and Valdir Azevedo/ Zequinha de Abreu. He will be joined by pianist Liang-yu Wang.

Luiz Fernando Venturelli at Guarneri Hall: A Gurrena Fellowship Concert

Home Federal Building

Kate Atkinson is one of the best-loved storytellers of the 21st century – creator of Jackson Brodie, and a Whitbread and Costa Prize-winning writer whose novels turn a playful but always intensely perceptive eye on life, love and loss.

Kate Atkinson and the BBC Symphony Orchestra: Normal Rules Don't Apply

Barbican Centre

**Event: Black Keys: The Evolution of the Black Classical Arts**

**Date:** Saturday, April 20, 2024  
**Time:** 7:30 PM  
**Venue:** Schrott Center for the Arts, Butler University, 610 W. 46th St., Indianapolis, IN 46208  
**Tickets:** Sold Out - Waitlist Available

Join the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra for a groundbreaking concert, "Black Keys: The Evolution of the Black Classical Arts," on April 20, 2024, at the prestigious Schrott Center for the Arts. This unique event, conducted by Matthew Kraemer and curated by Joshua Thompson, ICO's Creative Partner-in-Residence, promises an unforgettable evening celebrating the rich legacy of Black classical music.

**Featured Performers:**
- **Joshua Thompson:** Piano
- **Kenyetta Dance Company**
- **Jared Thompson:** Saxophone
- **Psywrn Simone:** Vocalist
- **Pamela Ajango:** English Horn

**About the Event:**
Curated by Joshua Thompson, "Black Keys" is an immersive experience that weaves together the power of dance, vocal prowess, and world-class artistry. The concert showcases masterpieces by Black composers and artists spanning over three centuries, including William Grant Still, Joseph Bologne, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Harry Burleigh, and Margaret Bonds. This event is a celebration of the contributions of Black artists to the classical music genre, presented with the support of Frost Brown Todd.

**Repertoire Highlights:**
- Coleridge-Taylor: Petite Suite de Concert
- Ulysses Kay: Pieta
- Still: Darker America, Out of Silence from Seven Traceries, Africa Land of Romance, Spiritual A Deserted Plantation
- Ellington: Spring from The River, Single Petal of a Rose, MLK, Movement III from Three Black Kings
- Burleigh: The Frolic from The Southland
- Simone: Four Women
- Bonds/Hughes: Dream Variations

**Additional Information:**
- **Tickets:** This concert is currently sold out. To join the waitlist, please visit the ICO website.
- **Student/Children Tickets:** Free with reserved ticket. Call or email the ICO office to reserve.
- **Young Professionals (40 and under) Tickets:** $20. Contact the ICO office for redemption.

For more information, contact the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra at 317-940-9607 or info@icomusic.org. Don't miss this extraordinary celebration of the Black classical arts at the heart of Indianapolis.

Black Keys: The Evolution of the Black Classical Arts

Butler University

Celebrating professional classical musicians of African descent, Symphony Center Presents features the New York-based Gateways Festival Orchestra in its Chicago debut.

Comprised of the finest classical musicians in the country, the all-Black Gateways Festival Orchestra concludes its week-long Chicago residency with a Symphony Center concert featuring Take 6, the award-winning a cappella group Quincy Jones called the “baddest vocal cats on the planet.” The program highlights works by African-American composers including Chicago-native Margaret Bonds, whose Montgomery Variations was inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.

Concert: Gateways Festival Orchestra

Symphony Center

Comprised of the finest classical musicians in the country, the all-Black Gateways Festival Orchestra concludes its week-long Chicago residency with a Symphony Center concert featuring Take 6, the award-winning a cappella group Quincy Jones called the “baddest vocal cats on the planet.” The program highlights works by African-American composers including Chicago-native Margaret Bonds, whose Montgomery Variations was inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.

Gateways Festival Orchestra featuring Take 6

Founded in 1997 in Detroit, but with nationwide reach, the Sphinx Virtuosi is a dynamic and inspiring professional self-conducted chamber orchestra and serves as the flagship performing entity of the Sphinx Organization—the leading social justice non-profit dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Comprised primarily of Black and Latinx artists, a critical aim of the Sphinx Virtuosi is to evolve and transform the face of classical music through artistic excellence, pioneering programming, and impassioned community engagement. Its members serve as cultural and diversity ambassadors for audiences and communities around the United States during national tours, and perform annually at Carnegie Hall where The New York Times has praised the group as “…top-notch…more essential
at this moment than ever…a vibrant, assured performance.”

Lobero Theatre

Founded in 1997 in Detroit, but with nationwide reach, the Sphinx Virtuosi is a dynamic and inspiring professional self-conducted chamber orchestra and serves as the flagship performing entity of the Sphinx Organization—the leading social justice non-profit dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Comprised primarily of Black and Latinx artists, a critical aim of the Sphinx Virtuosi is to evolve and transform the face of classical music through artistic excellence, pioneering programming, and impassioned community engagement. Its members serve as cultural and diversity ambassadors for audiences and communities around the United States during national tours, and perform annually at Carnegie Hall where The New York Times has praised the group as “…top-notch…more essential at this moment than ever…a vibrant, assured performance.”

Sphinx Virtuosi is a dynamic and inspiring professional self-conducted chamber orchestra and serves as the flagship performing entity of the Sphinx Organization – the leading social justice non-profit dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Comprised of eighteen accomplished Black and Latinx artists, a critical aim of the Sphinx Virtuosi is to evolve and transform the face of classical music through artistic excellence, pioneering programming, and impassioned community engagement.

Stanford University

Brilliant chamber orchestra of young Black and Latinx string players in a program entitled "Generations"

Washington Irving Campus

Aaron Copland’s popular Third Symphony embodies the American spirit; the fourth movement incorporates the theme from his Fanfare for the Common Man. Vadim Gluzman joins conductor Yue Bao for Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with its raucous, sardonic finale. 

Music for the People: Copland & Prokofiev

Hilbert Circle Theatre

A junior recital presented by Emily Beckner, violin in collaboration with Hyunsoo Kim, piano.

Junior Recital: Emily Beckner, violin

Oberlin College

This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. Allison Smith is a student of Paul Kantor.

Allison Smith, Violin

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

Bach & Beyond with Cellist Seth Parker Woods

The luxurious strings of Orpheus expand Dvorak’s iconic American Quartet into a Chamber Symphony, magnifying the vibrant sounds rooted in spirituals and Native drumming. The authentic American language that Dvorak envisioned really flowered when jazz seeped into the concert hall, as in this Clarinet Concerto that Aaron Copland wrote for the “King of Swing” himself, Benny Goodman, performed here by Anthony McGill in his long-awaited Orpheus debut. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s miniature symphony samples everything from Bach to pop as it paints an intergenerational portrait of an American family.

Orpheus & Anthony McGill

The 92nd Street Y

The Sphinx Virtuosi is an exemplary chamber orchestra and the “flagship performing entity” of the Sphinx Organization. They pair time-tested string music—both enduringly popular and underperformed—with music by some of today’s most compelling composers. Hear New York premieres by the prolific Javier Farías; and bassist, composer, and 2014 Sphinx Competition winner Xavier Foley. Two of the 20th century’s great composers are represented in a fusion of Bachian and Brazilian-folk styles by Villa-Lobos; and a bustling movement from Perkinson’s Sinfonietta No. 2. Also featured are spirited, original songs by cellist and singer Abel Selaocoe, who performs with the ensemble.

Inspired by the poetry of Langston Hughes and Julia Alvarez, Sphinx Virtuosi brings you a program showcasing the beauty and tradition of excellence inherent in classical music created and performed by Black and Latinx composers for many generations. Together, SV seeks to uplift spirits through sharing the sounds that inspire us and transcend the boundaries of time, history, and struggle. Comprising 18 of the nation’s top Black and Latinx classical soloists, the Sphinx Virtuosi present a program inspired by present day events and the vibrant gifts of the past that we cherish today.

Sphinx Virtuosi w/ Xavier Foley, double bass

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

On a mission to champion change and celebrate diversity in classical music, Chineke! also showcases music by pioneering Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his American namesake, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Plus there’s an opportunity to hear Valerie Coleman’s pandemic anthem, Seven O’Clock Shout.

BBC Prom 61: Chineke! Performs Beethoven's Fourth Symphony

American Virtuosos: An American in Paris & Dvořák Cello Concerto

Hatch Memorial Shell

Hear the extraordinary Augustin Hadelich in the acoustically pristine Harris Concert Hall. 

A Recital: Augustin Hadelich Plays Bach, Ysaÿe, Perkinson

Aspen Meadows Resort

Laquita Mitchell is the soprano soloist in Barber's poignant evocation of American life as seen by a young child. Ethel Smyth takes the listener on a journey from nostalgia to mirth to triumph. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson employs an eclectic mix of musical styles; his Sinfonietta No. 1 is by turns searching and pensive, then rushes to a dramatic finale. A brooding piece for strings by Julia Perry begins the concert.

Conductor James Blachly serves as Associate Editor and Orchestral Liaison for the Metro Detroit-based African Diaspora Music Project (ADMP), directed by University of Michigan professor Dr. Louise Toppin. The ADMP database has thus far compiled more than 1,300 published works for orchestra by African diaspora composers, including those by Perkinson and Perry. The DSO is proud to highlight the work of the ADMP with these performances.

Summer Serenade

Kirk in the Hills

Our Lady Star of the Sea

North Ridge Church

The Berman Center for the Performing Arts

Academy teaching artist and Chairman of Juilliard’s collaborative piano department Jonathan Feldman shares the stage with Mosher guest artist Augustin Hadelich – a violinist who has played with virtually every major orchestra in the U.S. and the world.

Augustin Hadelich & Jonathan Feldman

Bravo! Vail welcomes a cello ensemble to the Festival for the first time—the Galvin Cello Quartet—in a program featuring music from around the world, including works by Mozart, Bach, Perkinson, Barrière, and Piazzolla.

Community Concert I

Edwards Interfaith Chapel

The Milwaukee Shepherd Express conjectured that he “well may be the best violinist in the world. [His] gorgeous sound is ample and rich always. Every detail is played with perfectly clear intent.” Augustin Hadelich’s astonishing technique, eloquent phrasing, and seeming effortlessness will be on display in two of Bach’s works for unaccompanied violin. These pinnacles of compositional achievement offer a supreme challenge to the soloist on technical, physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. Inspired by a performance of Bach's six sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin, the Belgian composer and violinist Eugene Ysaÿe wrote his own set of six solo sonatas in 1923. Each of the sonatas was dedicated to a younger violinist and reflects something of Ysaÿe's concept of the dedicatee's personality. Hadelich will play the second sonata of the set, in which Bach is not just the inspiration, but the "obsession,” (the work’s subtitle). It contains a musical quotation from the Bach E major partita which opens this program. Perkinson’s Blue/s Forms deftly hops genres in a fusion of both blues and baroque styles. Don’t miss this captivating solo outing by a violin superstar!

Recital: Augustin Hadelich Plays Bach, Ysaÿe, Perkinson

Often family and friends are the source of inspiration for compositions, as is the case for this program. Richard Strauss was inspired by his father Franz's horn playing when composing his Serenade for 13 Winds. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson wrote Generations, a dance of the past, as a tribute to the women in his family. SPCO concertmaster Steven Copes performs Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra, which was written for Joseph Joachim, Johannes Brahms' friend, for over 40 years.

Steven Copes Plays Brahms’ Violin Concerto

Benson Great Hall

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Great music, soloists and KC's beloved professional chamber orchestra come together to create the pairing of two iconic classical period works AND two amazing soloists, along with an exciting 20th century work for strings to celebrate the return of spring and the blockbuster ending to a wonderful season of concerts by KC's top instrumentalists.

Musical Pairings for Spring!

Old Mission United Methodist Church

Augustin Hadelich is one of the great violinists of our time. Often referred to by colleagues as a musician’s musician, he was named Musical America’s 2018 “Instrumentalist of the Year,” and is consistently cited worldwide for his phenomenal technique, soulful approach, and insightful interpretations. Hadelich won a 2016 Grammy® Award for “Best Classical Instrumental Solo.” Born in Italy to German parents, Augustin Hadelich is now an American citizen. He holds an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School and received the Gold Medal at the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009), a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in the UK (2011), the Warner Music Prize (2015), and was appointed to the violin faculty at Yale School of Music. Augustin Hadelich plays the violin “Leduc, ex-Szeryng” fashioned by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù in 1744 and generously loaned to him by a patron through the Tarisio Trust.

Augustin Hadelich, solo violin

CUSO’s season finale is a celebration of scintillating rhythms, beginning with George Gershwin’s brilliant symphonic tone poem, An American in Paris. The program also features soulful and syncopated music for strings from Sinfonietta No. 1 by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. CUSO is thrilled to welcome the immensely talented pianist Rochelle Sennet, performing Gershwin’s I Got Rhythm Variations. For the grand finale, CUSO performs Maurice Ravel’s orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky’s iconic Pictures at an Exhibition, presented with a movie produced for CUSO by Shatterglass Studios. Enjoy the scenic journey featuring photography by Larry Kanfer and Karyl Wackerlin, with 970 photos of scenes from Champaign-Urbana, central Illinois, and around the world, including Italy, Normandy, Africa, Austria, China, and Peru.

Champaign-urbana Symphony Orchestra: A Festival Of Rhythm

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Augustin Hadelich is one of the great violinists of our time. Known for his phenomenal technique, insightful and persuasive interpretations and ravishing tone, he tours extensively around the world. He has performed with all the major American orchestras as well as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouworkest, Orchestre National de France, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, and many others.

Great Artists Series '23: Augustin Hadelich, violin

560 Music Center

Dinur, Montgomery and the "Classical" Symphony

The Village Church

Dinur, Montgomery and the Classical Symphony

The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

Skye Darling (M.M. '24) presents a violin recital.

Student Recital: Skye Darling, Violin

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Musical Journalism: Continuing a Legacy through the Flute.
This is a concert inspired by Adam W. Sadberry’s late grandfather and unsung hero of the Civil Rights Movement, L. Alex Wilson. Wilson’s work as an editor and journalist changed the world through covering pivotal Civil Rights events including the lynching of Emmett Till, the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the desegregation of Central High School by the Little Rock 9, the last of which played a part in Wilson’s transformation into a martyr. In this concert, Adam intertwines articles that he collected from the archives of the Tri-State Defender, Wilson’s newspaper in Memphis, TN, with music and dance that contextualizes the humanity and inhumanity of the stories.

Adam W. Sadberry, flute; Artina McCain, piano & Ayo Jackson, dancer/choreographer

Kaufman Music Center

Join us for season two of the Catalyst Quartet’s Uncovered series with guest artists bringing to broader recognition the music of historic composers whose works have rarely been heard. The San Francisco Chronicle’s Joshua Kosman put it best when he wrote, “You and I could go to chamber concerts for years and never hear a program as full of surprises and discovery as this one. And we’ve been missing out.”

Catalyst Quartet

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Back in 2020, we asked musicians to record performances from home while our concerts were cancelled.

Holiday Classics | Matinee

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

Experience the living traditions of many cultures through music and art. Composers featured in this program draw heavily on their own traditions, backgrounds and experiences to create music. In Serenade for Winds, Antonín Dvořák celebrates his Czech homeland in a suite of lively marches and dances. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Sinfonietta No. 1 and Gabriela Ortiz’s La Calaca blend traditional song-forms and rhythms in works for string orchestra.

Living Traditions

St. Andrew's Lutheran Church

Hailed by The New York Times at its Carnegie Hall debut as “invariably energetic and finely burnished… playing with earthy vigor,” the Grammy Award-winning Catalyst Quartet was founded by the internationally acclaimed Sphinx Organization in 2010. The ensemble  believes in the unity that can be achieved through music and imagine their programs and projects with this in mind, redefining and reimagining the classical music experience.

Maverick Concert Hall

Curtis on Tour in Siasconset, Nantucket, MA

Siasconset Casino Association

Violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen (’94), guitarist Hao Yang (’22), and cellist Romain-Olivier Gray present a program celebrating America’s 250th anniversary, featuring works by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, George Gershwin, George Rochberg (’48), and others, including a special arrangement of Pat Metheny’s Always and Forever arranged by Curtis guitar faculty member Jason Vieaux.

Gershwin, Corigliano, and more

Curtis Institute of Music

Making his Festival debut, Kedrick Armstrong conducts the Grant Park Orchestra in Gershwin’s jaunty An American In Paris. Experience the propulsive energy of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Sinfonietta No. 1 and Duke Ellington’s The Three Black Kings alongside Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s lyrical Violin Concerto with soloist Gabriela Lara, an alumna of the Festival’s String Fellowship program.

Gershwin An American in Paris

Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Gabriela Lara | Grant Park Music Festival

Creating something new, bringing something into being that did not exist before: that is the meaning of the ancient Greek verb poiein. Sarah Ying Ma thought it a fitting name when she and her fellow Oberlin Conservatory students Max Ball, Jasper de Boor, and Drew Dansby founded a string quartet in Ohio in 2022. And the four of them hit the ground running: after just one year, the Poiesis Quartet — which collectively identifies as queer — shot straight to first prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Fun fact: their final round of rehearsals was propelled by a special sense of urgency, as they had accidentally prepared according to the previous year’s repertoire guidelines. More awards followed, most recently first prize at the renowned Banff International String Quartet Competition, which also comes with their debut at Lucerne Festival. The “American Dream” of this American quartet? Giving a platform to composers who do not belong to the traditional canon. They will fully embrace that artistic freedom in Lucerne as well: with Pisachi by Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, a member of the Chickasaw Nation, and a quartet by the Black composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, who fused classical, jazz, and pop idioms in his music.

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

Events

Upcoming events

Jul 12, 2026

Catalyst Quartet · Maverick Concerts

Jul 15, 2026

Curtis on Tour in Siasconset, Nantucket, MA · Curtis Institute of Music

Jul 25, 2026

Gershwin, Corigliano, and more · Curtis Institute of Music

Jul 31 - Aug 1, 2026

Gershwin An American in Paris · Grant Park Music Festival

Jul 31 - Aug 1, 2026

Gabriela Lara | Grant Park Music Festival · Sphinx Organization

Past events

1 - 3 May, 2026

The Young Masters · San Francisco Chamber Orchestra

Mar 8, 2026

University Orchestra – Anthony Elliott, guest conductor · Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

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