Diotima Quartet will present new pieces by RDAM composer students.

Workshop Concert

New Hall

Violinist and founder of the GRAMMY®-winning Harlem Quartet, Ilmar Gavilán, and pianist Aldo López-Gavilán, are virtuoso Afro-Cuban musicians who grew up as prodigies in the 1970s. As highlighted in an impactful PBS documentary Los Hermanos (screening at Landis Cinema 9.11.24), 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.

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The Gavilán Brothers

Lafayette College

Four great names, four great voices of Celtic music come together to perform the most intense melodies from their respective cultures, from Ireland to Galicia. "Yule," named after the pagan celebration of the winter solstice, delves into the heart of lands of contrasts, legendary places still carrying traditions to this day, thanks to the voices and instruments of these regions (harp, flute, carnyx, violin, or bagpipes). A journey that invites you deep into the heart of Celtic heritage.

Celtic Music : Yule

Salle Philharmonique de Liège

While true-to-page interpretations of works by composers such as Bach, Chopin, and Beethoven are important, a novel context featuring modern sounds and forms provides a fresh perspective. Guitarist Parker Speirs discusses how his band, The Inventures, reimagines classical pieces for a contemporary trio that also includes drums and electric bass.

Bach, Bebop, And Black Metal?

The Mansion At Strathmore

A major figure in the French electronic music scene, Erwan Castex, known as Rone, has collaborated with Étienne Daho, Jean-Michel Jarre, and the choreographic collective (La) Horde, earning him a César award. His music mesmerizes and creates "a hallucinatory world, a bit like in minimalist music or the Buddhist chants in Nepalese monasteries" (Dirk Brossé). In this dizzying loop called L(oo)ping, which features his tracks arranged for orchestra and has played to sold-out crowds in Paris and Lyon, Rone takes control of his electronic consoles and partners with the sounds of Cubenx and the OPRL. Expect weightlessness...

Rone, L(oo)ping - Electro

The worldwide popularity of traditional Hungarian music owes much to the Muzsikás ensemble, with a career spanning over 50 years. Their extensive range of instruments and musical versatility serve them well in passionately interpreting oral tradition music, enriched with forays into classical, klezmer, jazz, or even alternative rock music. Their visit to Liège at the invitation of Gergely Madaras (who studied traditional music with one of them!) is enhanced by the presence of singer Hanga Kacsó, one of the rising stars of her country's music scene.

World music - Hungary : Muzsikás

PINK MARTINI featuring lead singer CHINA FORBES bring their captivating fusion of pop, jazz and classical music to the stage for a genre-defying evening of music. After more than 28 years and ten albums, they’ve crafted a style that is entirely their own and are hailed as an international sensation

Pink Martini Featuring China Forbes

Alexander W. Dreyfoos Concert Hall

Weymar is the creator and curator of Interwoven Stories and the Tiny Pricks Project. In 2016, she launched Interwoven Stories as part of her residency at the Arts Council of Princeton. The project quickly spanned the globe as more than 400 stitchers from across the United States, Canada, and Syria contributed hand-embroidered “pages” to Interwoven Stories. We invite you! to participate in the newest chapter of this initiative that captures community stories of Healing with Music, which will culminate in a public exhibition in the spring. You can participate in an embroidery workshop, or pick up materials to stitch on your own.

Interwoven Stories of Healing with Music (Embroidery Workshop)

Arts Council of Princeton

Part concert, dance party and club night, HIP-HOP ORCHESTRA EXPERIENCE features original music that samples from classical and hip-hop. With a lyric soprano, turf dancer, woodwinds, French horn, strings, piano and drums, the music is rigorous, nuanced and accessible. Be here as they push the boundaries of both hip-hop and concert music and create something completely new, including works from Mozart, Bach and Beethoven, deconstructed and reimagined with funky rhythms and rapid-fire rhymes

Hip-hop Orchestra Experience Featuring Ensemble Mik Nawooj

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts

Jane Lynch is an actress, singer, playwright, and author. She received an Emmy® and Golden Globe® for her portrayal of the iconic bully Sue Sylvester on Glee. She is currently the two-time Emmy®-winning host of NBC’s Hollywood Game Night and can be seen on Amazon Prime’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with her Emmy®-winning performance as Sophie Lennon. Now you can join her and her friends Kate Flannery, Tim Davis, and The Tony Guerrero Quintet for their holiday spectacular A Swingin’ Little Christmas.

Jane Lynch’s A Swingin’ Little Christmas

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

Pound for pound, no other band does what Pink Martini does. With the combined power of a dozen musicians, the self-described “little orchestra” performs a rollicking cross-genre mix of classical, jazz, and old-fashioned pop The Washington Post called “rich, hugely approachable, utterly cosmopolitan yet utterly unpretentious... it seems to speak to just about everybody.” The return with their infectiously joyous, dance-friendly takes on classic holiday music to make your season swing.

Pink Martini featuring China Forbes

SFJAZZ Center

Tank and The Bangas don’t go anywhere quietly. Sitting around a dimly lit room in London’s neighborhood of Camden Town, vocalist Tank Ball, bassist Norman Spence, drummer Joshua Johnson and saxophonist Albert Allenback can’t go mere minutes without bursting into play fights, or talking over one another, or laughing from their deepest guts. They are a beacon of life. And it’s that life that you hear in their music. That’s what makes this fivepiece one of the most thrilling, unpredictable and sonically diverse bands on the planet; a unit where jazz meets hip-hop, soul meets rock, and funk is the beating heart of everything they do. 

Tank and the Bangas & Friends

Blue Note Jazz Club

Basiani (named after a region in southwestern Georgia, now in Turkey) is a choir of 15 men with magnificent voices who accompany themselves with the sounds of their traditional instruments. As performers and researchers, they work towards preserving and promoting a rare heritage recognized by UNESCO, and they carry their tradition to all corners of the globe (the Lincoln Center gave them a triumphant welcome!). Their exceptional visit to Belgium, as part of europalia, is an opportunity to immerse oneself in their polyphonic tradition, in which popular songs and church hymns are intimately intertwined.

Georgia: The Basiani Ensemble

The DSO is excited to welcome Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer with Rakesh Chaurasia to the stage. NPR stated they are “simply the best at what they do… They are world-class masters of the banjo, the bass fiddle and the tabla [who] conquered mere technical prowess long ago.” There’s a bit of the sorcerer in Fleck (banjo), Hussain (tabla), Meyer (double bass), and their special guest Chaurasia (bansuri-Indian flute). These incredible musicians move from bluegrass to Western classical to Indian classical to jazz, transmuting genres into something uniquely their own — it is music that transcends description, ineffable, indefinable, and very beautiful.



An Evening With Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer With Rakesh Chaurasia

Meyerson Symphony Center

Returning after a magical, sold-out reunion on the Miner stage with pianist Jason Moran during the 2022-23 Season, GRAMMY-winning bassist, singer, and songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello brings music from her 2023 Blue Note debut The Omnichord Real Book, with special guests. The Berlin-born Ndegeocello cut her teeth on Washington D.C.’s explosive go-go circuit in the 1980s and was one of the first artists signed to Madonna’s Maverick Records label, which released her landmark neo soul album Plantation Lullabies in 1993 — a blockbuster debut that included her twice GRAMMY-nominated hit single “If That’s Your Boyfriend (He Wasn’t Last Night).”

A GRAMMY winner and 11-time nominee, Ndegeocello built a career as an uncompromising artist whose deliriously funky and soulful work is a powerful commentary on race, gender issues, and LGBTQ+ rights.

Meshell Ndegeocello With Special Guests

Embark on a journey to the outskirts of Buenos Aires with Astor Piazzolla, the creative genius who breathed new life into Argentine tango with his "tango nuevo." His famous works, such as "Libertango" and "Oblivion," are filled with melancholic melodies and enchanting, seductive rhythms. Some of his lesser-known pieces, including those that were performed or premiered in Liège in 1985 in the composer's presence, also carry the same essence. Now, 38 years later, his art will be celebrated by Manu Comté and Pablo Ziegler. Pablo Ziegler, a former pianist for Piazzolla and a leading figure in today's "tango nuevo" as a composer, will be part of this tribute to Piazzolla's legacy.

OPRL Tango : Piazzolla, Libertango

Tamala ("travelers") brings together three personalities who draw their creativity from the rich heritage of Senegal, a music with complex rhythms and captivating scales. Mola Sylla, a Senegalese griot, sings with the power of the heart and plays the xalam (lute), as well as other traditional instruments. Appreciated for the groove of his compositions, Bao Sissoko is an undisputed master of the kora, the large West African harp. Together with the folk violinist Wouter Vandenabeele, they create a natural musical alchemy, crowned in 2017 with an Octave of Music and the Klara Award for the best Belgian world music album.

Sénégal : Tamala World Music

Wildly inventive, relentlessly tuneful—Wilco has been described by Rolling Stone as “one of America’s most consistently interesting bands.” From the group’s early alternative country albums to the mid-career experimentation that inspired its “American Radiohead” nickname, Wilco has lived up to that “consistently interesting” label over the course of a dozen albums since 1995, including the landmark Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the Grammy®-winning A Ghost is Born, and the band’s latest release, Cruel Country. Experience Wilco’s legendary live show in the new East Bowl amphitheater at Scottsdale Civic Center!

Wilco

Brass sensation The Soul Rebels are riding high in 2023after receiving national attention following the release of theirnew album,Poetry In Motion.The eight-member collective appeared on Sony Music artist G-Eazy featuring Lil Wayne’s new single ‘When You’re Gone”, Def Jam artist Dave East and Nas’ “Godfather 4” single, Big Freedia and Icona Pop’s “Pipe That”, and reached fans with original singles “Greatness” featured as ESPN's official College Hoops theme anthem, and “Good Time” featured onNetflix’s#BlackAF and Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!

The Soul Rebels & Special Guests

An artist’s greatest superpower is freedom. Liberation is both the modus operandi and main ingredient of the fearless five-man band Phony Ppl. Comprised of the cream of Brooklyn’s young musician crop, each classically trained member is a product of musical parents who gifted their children exceptional DNA, exposure to the greats, and most importantly, wings for exploration and self-discovery.

Workshop Concert

The Royal Danish Academy of Music

The Gavilán Brothers

Williams Center for the Arts

Celtic Music : Yule

Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

Bach, Bebop, And Black Me...

Strathmore

Rone, L(oo)ping - Electro...

Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

World music - Hungary : M...

Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

Pink Martini Featuring Ch...

Kravis Center

Interwoven Stories of Hea...

Princeton University Concerts

Hip-hop Orchestra Experie...

Kravis Center

Jane Lynch’s A Swingin’ L...

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Art...

Pink Martini featuring Ch...

San Francisco Jazz

Tank and the Bangas & Fri...

Blue Note New York

Georgia: The Basiani Ense...

Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

An Evening With Béla Flec...

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Meshell Ndegeocello With ...

San Francisco Jazz

OPRL Tango : Piazzolla, L...

Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

Sénégal : Tamala World Mu...

Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

Wilco

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Art...

The Soul Rebels & Special...

Blue Note New York

Phony PPL

Blue Note New York