Violinist

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A Charleston Celebration

Carnegie Hall

The Berkshire Symphony is a 75-member symphonic orchestra comprising, in roughly equal proportions, Williams College music students, Williams music faculty members, and area professionals. The Symphony performs music by a range of composers, including Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, and Wagner. Students are paired with their teachers and mentors throughout the rehearsal period and throughout the performance season. Seated this way, the students are exposed to a level of professionalism and discipline that is rare in an educational setting. At the same time, the students’ infectious enthusiasm contributes to the Berkshire Symphony’s remarkable energy and rich sound. Four concerts are presented each season. The goal is to expose students to a broad range of symphonic repertory, while maintaining a commitment to perform music by living and American composers.

Berkshire Symphony

Williams College

2023–24 Artists in Residence Ilmar Gavilán and Jaime Amador, from the innovative Harlem Quartet, are the soloists in Mozart’s sublime Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola. Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, also known as the St. Anthony Variations, open a program that concludes with the first of Mozart’s last three great symphonies, No. 39. A feast for the classical lover!

Mainly Mozart

Catalina Foothills High School

Violinist Ilmar Gavilán, and pianist Aldo López-Gavilán, are virtuoso Afro-Cuban musicians who grew up as prodigies in 1970s Havana. As highlighted in an impactful PBS documentary, after being separated for decades as innocent victims of complicated U.S.-Cuba political conflicts, the two have finally been able to come together as mature musicians, fulfilling a dream to create and perform together their genre-defying music rooted in classical, Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban traditions. Do not miss this unique and touching performance!

The Gavilán Brothers

Midland Center for the Arts

This film centers on two Afro-Cuban brothers, separated by geopolitics but united by music. Their moving relationship and musical reunion will engage all audiences. Both established in their careers—one is a jazz pianist and one is a violinist with the Grammy-winning Harlem Quartet.

Virtuoso Afro-Cuban-born brothers—violinist Ilmar and pianist Aldo—live on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half-century wide. Tracking their parallel lives in New York and Havana, their poignant reunion, and their momentous first performances together, Los Hermanos/The Brothers offers a nuanced, often startling view of estranged nations through the lens of music and family.

Violinist

Ilmar Gavilán

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Past events

Feb 28, 2025

A Charleston Celebration · Charleston Symphony

Nov 1, 2024 - Mar 7, 2025

Berkshire Symphony · Williams College Music Department

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