Join an intimate ensemble of chamber music masters for an evening featuring two distinct yet harmonious compositions—Mozart’s well-loved Clarinet Quintet and Florence Price’s melodious String Quartet.

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Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet

Carnegie Hall

Experience celebrated jazz artist Wynton Marsalis’s first (and to this point, only) string quartet, At the Octoroon Balls, performed by members of St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble.

Visionary Sounds

The DiMenna Center for Classical Music

The evening begins with Jessie Montgomery’s Rhapsody No. 1 for Solo Violin. Renowned for her imaginative fusion of classical, folk, and jazz elements, the contemporary American composer and violinist has noted that Rhapsody was the first solo piece she wrote for herself, inspired by the works of Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. Captivating and wistful, the piece transports listeners through intricate melodies and expressive timbres.

Beethoven's Eroica

Experience the virtuosic prowess of St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble in a program of some of Antonio Vivaldi’s most evocative and dynamic concertos.

Vivaldi Virtuosi

Join St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble and bandoneón soloist Julien Labro for an electrifying performance inspired by Paul Taylor Dance Company’s Piazzolla Caldera, which captures the essence of tango’s fiery passion.

Astor Piazzolla

Following last season’s successful digital presentation of Femenine, OSL returns to the music of Julius Eastman, the late gay, Black composer “now experiencing a dizzying posthumous renaissance” (The New Yorker), in celebration of Pride Month and queer artistry.

Hear chamber works by Grammy-nominated English composer Anna Clyne accompanied by films by cutting-edge visual artists Josh Dorman—”[constructor of] fantasy lands and visual puns with the wonky, romantic intensity of a daydreaming ten-year-old” (The New Yorker)—and Jyll Bradley, whose acclaimed work in sculpture, installation, and drawing uses light to explore ideas of place, space, and identity.

Anna Clyne

Originally composed for the short film of the same name by artist Jyll Bradley, Woman Holding a Balance evokes the interplay of light, space, and geometry through the medium of the string quartet. Musical cycles, metamorphosis, and the “self” surge forth in Strange Loops, inspired by the 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter. Rounding out the program is the much-loved Septet by Ludwig van Beethoven. Filled with youthful exuberance, this chamber music classic shows the composer on the verge of his early symphonic successes and command of musical vivacity.

St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble

Apr 10, 2024

Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet

Mar 27, 2024

Visionary Sounds

St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble