Dive into an eclectic celebration of innovative music through a series of captivating events. From genre-defying performances by Time for Three to the enchanting compositions of Mason Bates and the evocative voice of Joyce DiDonato, these gatherings showcase the brilliance of contemporary and classical music. With performances spanning from chamber music to orchestral masterpieces, distinguished conductors like Robert Moody and Teddy Abrams lead audiences through an unforgettable auditory experience.

Exploring Musical Horizons: A Journey with Time for Three and Notable Symphonies

The acclaimed string trio, Time for Three, is set to enchant audiences with their genre-bending performances as they join forces with renowned orchestras across the United States and Canada. From the intricate compositions of Mason Bates to the iconic melodies of Aaron Copland, these upcoming concerts promise a vibrant blend of classic and contemporary sounds, celebrating the versatility of chamber and orchestral music. With performances spanning a year and featuring a diverse repertoire, Time for Three is poised to leave audiences inspired and enthralled.

Time for Three: A Symphony of Strings and Innovation

Dive into the world of Time for Three, where classical music meets contemporary innovation. This exciting ensemble joins forces with renowned conductors and orchestras, from the San Francisco Symphony to the Philadelphia Orchestra, delivering a unique blend of genres and emotions. Experience the fusion of classical pieces like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony with modern compositions by Mason Bates, creating an unforgettable musical journey that defies convention and captivates audiences worldwide.

Time for Three: A Symphony of Innovation and Passion in Music

From Aaron Copland’s soaring Appalachian Spring to Charles Ives enigmatic classic, The Unanswered Question, conductor Andrew Crust takes us on an emotional journey full of discovery. Experience the complex beauty of Earthfall from former VSO Composer in Residence, the late Jocelyn Morlock. Grammy® and Emmy®-winning ensemble, Time for Three, defies conventions with genre-bending excellence. TF3’s recent commission, Contact, has enjoyed performances with the leading orchestras and receives its Vancouver premiere.

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Appalachian Spring

Centennial Theatre

Orpheum

The Grammy and Emmy Award-winning trio Time for Three (TF3) makes its debut at the Hylton Center. Time for Three defies convention and boundaries by showcasing excellence across different genres, including classical music, Americana, and singer-songwriter. Consisting of Charles Yang (violin, vocals), Nicolas "Nick" Kendall (violin, vocals), and Ranaan Meyer (double bass, vocals), TF3 combines their instruments and voices in a remarkable sound, establishing a distinct voice of expression that resonates with listeners worldwide. The trio has collaborated with today’s most esteemed composers and artists; worked with Robin Wright to compose the music for her directorial film debut Land; and graced top stages around the world. Time for Three is committed both on and offstage to encouraging the next generation of musicians. As a Mason Artist-in-Residence, TF3 will work with the community through classes and workshops in conjunction with its performance.

Time for Three

Hylton Performing Arts Center

The Grammy and Emmy Award- winning trio merges classical sensibility with Americana and singer-songwriter styles to push creative boundaries and create a genre-bending style all their own.

Time For Three

Yale University

Opening the program is Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, one of the most recognizable pieces of classical music in the world. The piece has been a mainstay of pop culture in films such as Lorenzo’s Oil and Platoon, has marked somber occasions with performances at the funerals of FDR and JFK, and even experienced a rediscovery by younger generations when it was performed as a dance music anthem by Dutch DJ, Tiësto in the early 2000’s.

Copland & Bates with Time for Three

Saratoga Performing Arts Center

Led by 2022 Musical America Conductor of the Year Teddy Abrams, this program highlights the sounds of American music from past to present.

Experience iconic works by Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber, and a SPAC premiere by contemporary composer Mason Bates, featuring genre-bending trio Time for Three. 

Copland & Bates with Time for Three and Teddy Abrams

Saratoga Spa State Park

Genre-bending string trio Time for Three joins conductor Robert Moody and the SF Symphony for a lively program featuring Mason Bates’s Silicon Hymnal, a Symphony commission. Described as “a book of songs with a heart of electronica,” Bates’s triple concerto is tailor-made for Time for Three’s signature sound. Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story closes the program with Broadway panache.

Time for Three and West Side Story

Davies Symphony Hall

If you’d like to learn more about the music in our concert programs, Concert Talks are just what you need! Before every Masterworks Concert, the Wichita Symphony Orchestra will present pre-concert talks which help prepare you and deepen your understanding of the music to be performed in the program. Sometimes our guest soloists even join Maestro Hege for a discussion of their concerto collaboration! Free to all ticket holders, Concert Talks take place in the Concert Hall one hour prior to each Masterworks performance.

Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center

St. Ann’s Warehouse, WNYC, and Brooklyn Bridge Park present Rhapsody for This Land: The American Odyssey in Music, a free, outdoor concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of Gershwin’s exuberant American anthem Rhapsody in Blue. Situated beneath the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, the concert features classical pianist and host of NPR’s AMPLIFY  Lara Downes, performing the New York City premiere of her take on Gershwin’s innovative 1924 work in a radical new arrangement by the Puerto Rican composer Edmar Colón. Considering American music through a century of immigration and transformation, Rhapsody for This Land celebrates our country’s long history of hope, protest, and change.

Rhapsody for This Land: The American Odyssey in Music

Brooklyn Bridge Park

Our three-year festival of American Icons ends with new and old. Time for Three wow-ed our audience to kick off this festival, and now they return to close with music from their grammy winning recording. Copland is the father of the American sound, and his Third Symphony is increasingly recognized as his most outstanding achievement. Help us wrap up the American Icons Festival with this fabulous final entry.

American Icons

Visalia Fox Theatre

American Icons featuring guest artist, Time for Three, presented by Sequoia Symphony Orchestra

Inspired by the distant and unknown, music by Dvořák and Puts bring faraway ideas close to home.

Exploring the Great Unknown

Baylor University

Time For Three performs Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts’ Contact, which was written for the ensemble and received two GRAMMY® Awards in 2023. Also on the program are lush orchestral suites drawn from ballets by Marin Goleminov and by Sergei Prokofiev.

Princeton University

Music Director Laureate Marin Alsop reunites with a favorite composer, Kevin Puts, to present his dazzling concerto for the improvising/vocalizing/ barn-burning/genre-crossing talents of the Grammy Award-winning string trio Time for Three. Strauss’ symphonic portrait of the rakish Don Juan and Ravel’s technicolor ballet scenes show off every imaginable shading of orchestral sound, while the fiery Symphony No. 59 from Haydn has the “father of the symphony” demanding total commitment and precision from his orchestral arsenal.

Bso: Marin Conducts Time for Three

The Music Center at Strathmore

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and The Clarice have announced a groundbreaking partnership for 2023-24 featuring extraordinary performances, unique educational experiences and meaningful community engagement. In the second of these performances, Marin Alsop, BSO Music Director Laureate and NOI+F Music Director at The Clarice, reunites with composer Kevin Puts to present his dazzling concerto for the improvising/vocalizing/ barn-burning/genre-crossing talents of the Grammy Award-winning string trio Time for Three. Haydn's fiery Symphony No. 59 brings total commitment from the orchestra. Rounding out the program is Maurice Ravel's technicolor ballet Daphnis et Chloé showing off every imaginable shading of orchestral sound.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Marin Alsop & Time for Three

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

The genre defying Time for Three trio performs a special program of high energy instrumental and vocal compositions including collaborations with members of the Napa Valley College Chorale and Napa High School Chamber Choir. Noted for their collaborations with artists as diverse as Ben Folds, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Bell, Aoife O’Donovan, Natasha Bedingfield, and Arlo Guthrie, Time for Three creates across the exciting intersection of classical music, Americana, and singer-songwriter traditions.

Time for Three - Let's Make Some Music

Napa Valley College

Join us for an exhilarating program featuring genre-defying string trio Time for Three. The group performs Kevin Puts’ Contact, which was written for them and draws inspiration from themes of reaching out and connection. Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz’ programmatic fever dream, depicts a young artist’s journey through obsession and delirium.

Ohio Theatre

Defying convention and boundaries, Time For Three stands at the busy intersection of Americana, modern pop, and classical music. In addition to their incredible arrangements of Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Led Zeppelin and others, the trio featuring Charles Yang (violin, vocals), Nicolas “Nick” Kendall (violin, vocals), and Ranaan Meyer (double bass, vocals), will present special arrangements of holiday favorites including The Christmas Song, Edelweiss, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and a special Hanukah MashUP.

Time for Three: Home for the Holidays

Spa Little Theatre

This is a symphonic journey that will transport you through time and space! The infectious high-energy artistry of Grammy®-winning string trio Time for Three will have you on the edge of your seat with Contact, a triple concerto that explores the human experience, from acclaimed American composer Kevin Puts. Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances keeps the energy pulsating with its powerful & energetic rhythms. The pace mellows as the journey concludes with Georges Bizet’s L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2 evoking the sights and sounds of rural France and Ravel’s haunting La Valse.

Musical E-Motion

Granada Theatre

Time for Three returns to Indianapolis to perform Contact, an infectious concerto written for them by composer Kevin Puts. Conductor Kevin John Edusei makes his much-anticipated return with a program featuring Prokofiev’s epic Fifth Symphony.

Beethoven, Prokofiev & Time for Three

Hilbert Circle Theatre

Celebrate the last day of the Festival’s Summer Season at Alpha Omega Winery’s annual barbeque brunch, a beloved tradition—and always an unforgettable gathering.

Robin and Michelle Baggett welcome guests with their warm and heartfelt approach to appreciating the finer things in life. Their effortless hospitality ensures that visitors to their modern ranch-style Rutherford estate feel like family.

Season Finale Brunch at Alpha Omega

Alpha Omega

The 2023 GRAMMY® Award-winning trio Time for Three transcends traditional classification, with elements of classical, country western, gypsy, and jazz idioms forming a blend all its own. The musicians who make up this genre-defying group are extraordinary artists in their own right; together, they give stunningly original performances. Time for Three makes its Festival Napa Valley debut performing original compositions as well as ingenious mash-ups of hits ranging from the Beatles to Britney Spears, Guns N’ Roses, and beyond.

The Culinary Institute of America at Copia

The boundary-defying Time for Three joins the Orchestra in Kevin Puts’ Contact—a concerto written for the group—in addition to Stravinsky’s magical FirebirdSuite and audience-favorite Boléro in this Denève-led program.   

The Philadelphia Orchestra's distinctive sound returns to Bravo! Vail for its annual residency in July. The Fabulous Philadelphians are admired for a legacy of innovation and known for their keen ability to capture the hearts and imaginations of audiences

Denève Conducts Time for Three

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

The Argyros and Zions Bank are thrilled to welcome our friends Time For Three back to Ketchum to celebrate their recent Grammy win. To honor this career-defining achievement, we’re offering a special promotional price of $33 per ticket. Whether you’re a long-time fan or have never seen Time For Three before, this is a great opportunity to enjoy Nick, Ranaan & Charles play all of their crowd-pleasing hits.

Argyros Performing Arts Center

Bluegrass, folk and hymns are the sounds of the vast American landscape.  Hear Barber’s bracing Second Essay for Orchestra followed by Higdon’s Smoky Mountains inspired Concerto 4-3. The orchestra continues through the High Plains in Thomson’s film score for The Plow That Broke the Plains and finishes the American tour with the “Simple Gifts” of Copland’s Appalachian Spring.

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts

Celebrate the season in style with the genre-blending trio Time For Three. This event, taking place outside under the Ritz’s giant Christmas tree, will be unforgettable night of music, holiday cheer, and Ritz-Carlton elegance. Each ticket includes parking at the Ritz-Carlton, as well as a welcome glass of Poinsettia Champagne Cocktail.

Sounds of the Season featuring Time For Three

Ritz Carlton Amelia Island

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth

Lucas Theatre For the Arts

Renowned mezzo-soprano and 2025/26 CSO Artist-in-Residence Joyce DiDonato takes center stage in Emily, an extraordinary collaboration with the classical-roots string trio Time For Three. Together, they bring to life 24 vivid poems by Emily Dickinson, set to music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts (The Hours, Silent Night). Bold, enigmatic and deeply evocative, Dickinson’s poetry finds new resonance in this captivating musical journey.

Joyce DiDonato in Emily – No Prisoner Be

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

Mayo Performing Arts Center

New Jersey Performing Arts Center

A celebration of American sound and movement, this program brings together music, dance, and innovation under the baton of Teddy Abrams. The GRAMMY-winning ensemble Time for Three takes the spotlight in Mason Bates’ Concerto for String Trio, a work that fuses classical virtuosity with contemporary energy. “With their staggering technique and freewheeling genre-crossing,” says NPR, “it’s hard not to be swept up in the force of Time for Three’s contagious energy.”

Copland’s Appalachian Spring

The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts

Wrap up the season with the best of the best! Time for Three returns with Ranaan Meyer, double bass & vocals, Nick Kendall, violin & vocals, and Charles Yang, violin & vocals with a brand-new concerto by Mason Bates, written especially for them. The Sequoia Symphony also premiers an exciting new concert opener by Time for Three bassist, Ranaan Meyer. The season then comes to a thrilling close with Respighi's breathtaking Pines of Rome. Love orchestral music for its power, color, charm and sheer volume? This is the concert for you!

Time For Three Returns!

Seduction is the subtext in this program that pairs Richard Strauss’s portrait of the famous fictional philanderer and Ravel’s Bolero, whose relentless pulse mirrors the beat of desire. Beyond the bedroom, we turn our gaze to galaxies far, far away, as Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’sContact imagines encounters with other beings.

Time for Three

Dec 17, 2025

Sounds of the Season featuring Time For Three

Jan 17, 2026

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth

Feb 10, 2026

Joyce DiDonato in Emily – No Prisoner Be

Feb 26 - Mar 1, 2026

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

Apr 11, 2026

Copland’s Appalachian Spring

21 - 22 Nov, 2025

Appalachian Spring

Oct 26, 2025

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