Paul  Wiancko

Kronos Festival

Friction Quartet

San Francisco Jazz

Aizuri Quartet

A rising vocal star and two-time JUNO Award winner, Montreal-based singer and songwriter Dominique Fils-Aimé performs two nights in the Joe Henderson Lab with music from her latest album, Our Roots Run Deep, which took the 2024 JUNO for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. “What she does with her voice is absolutely incredible” (NPR).

Dominique Fils-Aimé

SFJAZZ Center

Featuring compositions by Guillermo Galindo, Rhiannon Giddens, Angélique Kidjo, Soo Yeon Lyuh, Kala Ramnath, Yevgeniy Sharlat, Henry Threadgill, Mario Galeano Toro, Merlijn Twaalfhoven, and Paul Wiancko.

The rich cultural diversity of the Kronos Fifty for the Future repertoire is on full display in the Kronos Festival’s lead-off program, with works by composers representing Benin, Colombia, India, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, and the United States. 

Special guests include San Francisco’s own Friction Quartet; Korean-born composer and haegeum virtuoso Soo Yeon Lyuh, joining Kronos for her own work Yessori; and Kronos cellist Paul Wiancko joining New York’s Aizuri Quartet (winners of Chamber Music America’s 2022 Cleveland Quartet Award) for his composition Only Ever Us.

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kronos Festival - Program 1 (2023)

Yessori