Show Category: Live Music

  • Members of Imani WInds and Boston Brass pose with their instruments

    Imani Winds & Boston Brass

    Show Description For over a quarter century Imani Winds and Boston Brass, two powerhouse ensembles and champions of new music, have been leaders in the world of wind chamber music. For the 24-25 season, they will join forces once again to create a “super band” collaboration featuring the music of the iconic, multi-Grammy winning musician Read full article

  • icarus Quartet members sit on a couch

    icarus Quartet

    Show Description Like the mythological figure from which it draws its name, the half piano/half percussion icarus Quartet dares to fly towards the sun, aspiring to new heights of artistry. Following their Carnegie Hall debut, composer Paul Lansky simply remarked, “This is music making of the highest order.” The Wall Street Journal hailed icarus Quartet’s Read full article

  • Arturo O'Farrill smiling as he leans on his folded arms.

    Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Ensemble

    Show Description Arturo O’Farrill, pianist, composer, and educator, was born in Mexico and grew up in New York City. He received his formal musical education at the Manhattan School of Music and the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. Arturo’s professional career began with the Carla Bley Band and continued as a solo Read full article

  • The Aznavoorian Sisters pose with their cello and piano

    The Aznavoorian Sisters

    Show Description The sisters have toured France, Armenia, and Finland, performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, and presented countless programs in their hometown of Chicago including a major fundraiser for the Armenian earthquake in 1988. They gave a residency at the Seattle Chamber Music Society and highlights of their ’24-25 season includes performances at Read full article

  • The vocal group surrounds one member on a table with an apple in his mouth

    Roomful of Teeth

    Show Description Roomful of Teeth is a two-time Grammy® winning vocal band dedicated to reimagining the expressive potential of the human voice. By engaging collaboratively with artists, thinkers and community leaders from around the world, the group seeks to uplift and amplify voices old and new while creating and performing meaningful and adventurous music. Their Read full article

  • The group is pictured holding their instruments in a forest

    ETHEL & Robert Mirabal

    Show Description GRAMMY® Award-winning master musician, storyteller and elder of the Taos Pueblo, Robert Mirabal and GRAMMY® Award-winning, genre-defying string quartet ETHEL come together to reimagine the concert experience. With a kaleidoscope of sounds that transcend space and time, they weave a gorgeous tapestry with colors from Native America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Their art Read full article

  • Eight members of Sweet Honey in the Rock sitting in front of a brick wall.

    Sweet Honey in the Rock

    Show Description The Grammy-nominated African American vocal ensemble, SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK® marks its 50th Anniversary in November 2023 with a powerful three-year celebration that will honor its storied past and set the course for the future of the group, which has been described as, “one of the most dynamic, versatile and still relevant Read full article