Name: Curtis on Tour in Siasconset, Nantucket, MA
Start: 2026-07-15T19:00:00
Location: Siasconset Casino Association

Elissa Lee Koljonen

Romain-Olivier Gray

Hao Yang

Curtis Institute of Music

Join us on March 19, 2025, for an unforgettable evening of music and laughter at the EastVille Comedy Club in Brooklyn, presented by the renowned Curtis Institute of Music. Known for nurturing world-class talents, the institute promises a showcase filled with exceptional performances that will leave you both inspired and entertained. This unique blend of comedy and music is not to be missed. Grab your tickets now at https://www.ticketweb.com/event/laughing-buddha-comedy-showcase-eastville-comedy-club-tickets/14006953?REFERRAL_ID=tmfeed and prepare to be amazed!

Laughing Buddha Comedy Showcase

EastVille Comedy Club - Brooklyn

This is the culmination of the Curtis Summer Organ Intensive for High School students, in part a celebration of our new concert instrument built by the Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Opus 100. The program is designed to give exceptional organ students a variety of opportunities to broaden and strengthen their skills.

Summer Organ Intensive Recital

Violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen (’94), guitarist Hao Yang (’22), and cellist Romain-Olivier Gray present a vibrant program featuring works by Piazzolla, Paganini, and more. Highlights include de Falla’s Siete Canciones Populares Españolas and a transcription of Vivaldi’s “Summer” from The Four Seasons.

Curtis on Tour in Nantucket, MA

St. Paul Roman Catholic Church

Curtis on Tour in Siasconset, Nantucket, MA

Siasconset Casino Association

Violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen (’94), hailed for her “boundless technique and musicianship” (Chicago Tribune), guitarist Hao Yang (’22), and cellist Romain-Olivier Gray present a program of virtuosic solo repertoire by J.S. Bach. The program features Bach’s Lute Suite in E minor, the beloved sixth cello suite, and the masterful Chaconne for solo violin.

Nantucket Atheneum

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

Join Curtis Symphony Orchestra and Grammy Award-winning conductor-composer Teddy Abrams (’08) for an afternoon of vivid symphonic storytelling. The program opens with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, showcasing the composer’s knack for mischief and irony, complete with a witty imitation of a metronome and a tip of the hat to Haydn. Tania León’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Stride, written to honor the legacy of suffragist Susan B. Anthony, follows. Composed for the New York Philharmonic’s project marking the centennial of the 19th Amendment, it combines the sounds of León’s Cuban American heritage with a dark, restless energy.

Teddy Leads Adams & Beethoven

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Curated by Grammy Award winner Karen Slack (’02), creative advisor for vocal studies and opera, Words Like Freedom: To Langston with Love brings the poetry of Langston Hughes to vivid life through music and staging. Curtis students illuminate Hughes’ powerful words through vocal and instrumental color, honoring his legacy as a poet, novelist, and activist. This moving tribute explores themes of identity, resilience, and hope—celebrating a singular American voice whose work continues to resonate.

Words Like Freedom: To Langston with Love

Be transformed by the heartbreaking serenity of Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. Led by Grammy Award-winning conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, this transcendent farewell—hailed as “the greatest Mahler ever composed” by Viennese composer Alban Berg—showcases Mahler at the height of his skill, pushing symphonic form to its limits. From its poignant opening motives to final tender notes that slowly dissipate into silence, follow a journey that celebrates the splendor of life—and the peaceful recognition of its inevitable end. Lyrical, searching, and deeply human, this monumental work unfolds with extraordinary emotional depth and color.

Yannick Leads Mahler 9

Curtis Opera Theatre opens its 2026–27 series with Susannah, Carlisle Floyd’s poignant tragedy that helped define American opera. Written at the height of 1950s McCarthyism, the opera draws inspiration from the biblical story of Susanna and the Elders, reimagining the tale in rural Tennessee. The work follows a young woman unjustly persecuted by her Evangelical community after a false accusation, unfolding into a raw and deeply human drama.

Susannah

Philadelphia Film Society Center

Romance and madness collide in Haydn’s heroic comedy Orlando Paladino. Inspired by Ludovico Ariosto’s 16th-century epic poem, the opera follows princess Angelica and her beloved Medoro as they flee the jealous knight Orlando—a character based on Frankish military hero Roland—whose unrequited love drives him toward delirious obsession. The fantastical plot unfolds with a powerful sorceress, a descent into the underworld, and a resolution that affirms the power of true love.

Orlando Paladino

Immerse yourself in the propulsive, electrifying sound of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4—an uncompromising masterpiece silenced by Soviet authorities for decades. Inspired by Gustav Mahler, this three-movement work builds its musical themes to a monumental scale with an exhilarating and ferocious energy. It reveals Shostakovich at his most daring and radical, shifting abruptly between explosive orchestral passages, sardonic marches, and eerie, subdued textures. Led by Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä, this unsettling work creates a dark—and at times surreal—sound world that ultimately dissolves into a haunting close.