2022-23

2022-23 season details

1. Oct 30, 2022

   Akropolis Reed Quintet

   Celebrating their 13th year making music with “faultless detail and refreshing artistry” (I Care if You Listen) as a “collective voice driven by real excitement and a sense of adventure” (The Wire), the Akropolis Reed Quintet has “taken the chamber music world by storm” (Fanfare). As the first reed quintet to grace the Billboard Charts (May 2021), the untamed band of five reed players and entrepreneurs are united by a shared passion: to make music that sparks joy and wonder.

   This concert is made possible in part by a generous donation from Chamber Music America.

2. Nov 6, 2022

   Kinan Azmeh + Kyle Sanna

   Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and guitarist Kyle Sanna perform original works by both composers/performers while walking the fine line between the composed and the improvised. This is music that is inspired by a multitude of traditions without being limited by any of these traditions.

3. Nov 20, 2022

   Isidore String Quartet

   The Isidore String Quartet, First Prize Winners of Banff International String Quartet Competition 2022, perform Dinuk Wijeratne's The Disappearance of Lisa Gherardini ( BISQC 2022 Commission), selections from J. S. Bach’s Art of the Fugue, and Billy Childs' String Quartet No. 2 "Awakening.”

4. Dec 4, 2022

   Lara St. John

   Violinist Lara St. John performs music from her September 2022 album, she/her/hers, which features 17 original solo violin compositions written by leading composers, including Laurie Anderson, Valerie Coleman, Gabriela Lena Frank, Jessica Meyer, Jessie Montgomery, Milica Paranosic, Adah Kaplan, Melissa Dunphy, Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt Gramatté, and Ana Sokolović.

5. Dec 18, 2022

   Neel Murgai + Brooklyn Raga Massive

   Neel Murgai is a sitarist, overtone singer, percussionist, composer, teacher, and Co-Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Raga Massive, a raga inspired musician's collective. Neel's music ranges from Indian classical to original compositions and contemporary cross-cultural collaborations with influences spanning the globe. Hailed as "Leaders of the Raga Renaissance" by the New Yorker and praised by The New York Times for "preserving the past while blurring genres in an inventive spirit," Brooklyn Raga Massive curates and presents over 70 concerts annually at celebrated venues and festivals across the United States and internationally.

6. Jan 15, 2023

   Kittel & Co.

   Previously of the Turtle Island Quartet, GRAMMY-nominated violinist, fiddler, and composer Jeremy Kittel demonstrated similar scope as a composer-arranger-collaborator for such diverse artists as My Morning Jacket, Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble, and Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn. But for the last few years, the Brooklyn-based artist has been diligently building his own repertoire of music for a wholly original new group. Kittel & Co. includes mandolin phenom Josh Pinkham (named “the future of the mandolin” by Mandolin Magazine), genre-bending guitarist Quinn Bachand (a presidential scholar at Berklee College of Music), transcendent bassist Ethan Jodziewicz (as heard with Sierra Hull), and hammer-dulcimer wizard Simon Chrisman (acclaimed for bringing a new tonal flexibility to the instrument). “We met gradually over the years, through festivals, shows, gatherings,” Kittel says. “Each really struck me with their uniqueness, for being a singular force on their instrument.”

7. Jan 22, 2023

   The Brentano String Quartet

   Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. “Passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding,” raves the London Independent; the New York Times extols its “luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism”; the Philadelphia Inquirer praises its “seemingly infallible instincts for finding the center of gravity in every phrase and musical gesture”; and the Times (London) opines, “the Brentanos are a magnificent string quartet…This was wonderful, selfless music-making.” The Quartet has performed across five continents in the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington; the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; the Konzerthaus in Vienna; Tokyo’s Suntory hall; and the Sydney Opera House.

8. Feb 5, 2023

   Marika Hughes, cello/vocals + Kyle Sanna, guitar

9. Feb 19, 2023

   Twelfth Night Ensemble

10. Mar 5, 2023

    Kafka Fragments: Ariadne Greif, soprano + Alex Fortes, violin

11. Mar 19, 2023

    Brandee Younger, harp

12. Apr 2, 2023

    Trio Fadolin

13. Apr 16, 2023

    Blackbird IV: Lisa Kaplan, piano + Matthew Duvall, percussion

14. Apr 30, 2023

    Mike Block, cello + Christylez Bacon, beatbox

15. May 14, 2023

    The Overlook: New York Stories

16. May 28, 2023

    New York Philharmonic Musicians: Vivaldi + Verklärte Nacht