Be the first to discover the finest rising-star classical musicians of their generation. Astral's newest artists debut at the Winners Concert, in a showcase of masterful artistry.

Featuring:
ARKAI, string duo
Amer Hasan, clarinet
Hilda Huang, piano
Helen Zhibing Huang, soprano
Valentin Kovalev, saxophone
Julian Rhee, violin
Hao Yang, guitar

PROGRAM

Nkeiru Okoye Movements for String Quartet
Chen Yi Shuo for String Quintet
Francis Poulenc Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano
Adolphus Hailstork "Detroit" Piano Quintet

FEATURING

Ashley Horne, Violin
Claire Chan, Violin
William Frampton, Viola
Wayne Smith, Cello
Anthony Morris, Double Bass
Hassan Anderson, Oboe
Alexander Davis, Bassoon
Lydia Brown, Piano
David Berry, Piano

*Editors note: this concert program will also take place on Friday September 24, 2021. See link below for info and tickets to either event.

Emerald Futures: NYPhilharmonic Very Young Composers and toy piano and composer duo, Chromic Duo, team up to create an immersive soundwalk!

About this event

Come celebrate with us! 

Immerse yourself in an evolving sound-world that changes according to your geographic location, as you listen to world premieres of pieces by the Very Young Composers at the New York Philharmonic. With GPS hotspots plotted along the route, site-specific pieces will play as you move from one contrasting natural soundscape into a future imagined by the next generation of composers and thinkers on a future that we believe in. 

Emerald Futures is an Augmented Reality Sound Walk that guides you through a year of transformation and growth, from Central Park (W. 72nd St + Central Park West) to Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya’s mural, “We Belong Here”, in response to the rise of anti-AAPI hate. 

As you reach the end of the walk at Lincoln Center, unlock a *special element* with Chromic Duo that is especially rendered for this closing event! 

Please download Gesso (available for iOS + Google Play) and have headphones ready beforehand. https://www.gesso.app/download

Duration: ~30 minutes

Lara Downes, piano
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Ifetayo Ali-Landing, cello
Members of the Chicago Sinfonietta

Program

Rising Sun: Migration and Renaissance

Tracing the journey, physical and metaphorical, of the Great Migration and the creative flowering of the Chicago Black Renaissance, this program features music—by artists whose work and lives were transformed by the journey north—that tells stories of migration and metamorphosis, trial and triumph, courage, creativity, and collaboration.

Margaret Bonds: The Bells and Troubled Water from Spiritual Suite
Margaret Bonds: “Dream Variations” from Three Dream Portraits
William Grant Still: Summerland from Three Visions
Nora Holt: Nora’s Dance
Florence Price: Sketches in Sepia
Florence Price: Andante con espressione
William Grant Still: Gamin from Suite for Violin and Piano
Florence Price: Piano Quintet in A minor
Lil Hardin Armstrong: “Just For a Thrill” (arr. Jeremy Siskind)
Sam Cooke: “A Change Is Gonna Come” (arr. Jeremy Siskind)

A celebration of popular Arias and Art Songs by leading Filipino-American Classical singers

Be treated to an afternoon of glorious opera arias, and exquisite German and Filipino Art Songs by Filipino-American singers currently making waves in the classical music scene. Sopranos Nicole Besa and Margarita Giannelli, and tenors Geoffrey Agpaio and Jared Esguerra will serenade you with music by Bernstein, Mozart, Puccini, Schubert, Strauss and Verdi, and celebrated Filipino National Artists for Music Nicanor Abelardo and Francisco Santiago.

Check in begins at 6pm

Brubeck Brothers Quartet and Classical Tahoe Quintet – Vignette No. 3
Brubeck Brothers Quartet– Blue Rondo
Maurice Ravel – Tzigane (1924)
Amaryn Olmeda, violin
Anna Stoytcheva, piano
Mendelssohn String Octet Op. 20
Allegro moderato ma con fuoco

Wm. Grant Still: Summerland
Philip Glass: “Opening” from Glassworks (1981)
Peteris Vasks: Castillo Interior (2013)
Couperin: Les barricades mysterieuses
Fred Hersch: Nocturne, from Three Character Studies (2004)
Chopin: Nocturne in B-flat, Op.62 No.1
Rachmaninov: Prelude in D, Op.23 No.4
Tchaikovsky/Pletnev: Intermezzo from The Nutcracker
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Liszt: Sonata in B Minor

Among his generation of concert artists, pianist Awadagin Pratt is acclaimed for his musical insight and intensely involving performances in recital and with symphony orchestras.

In 1992 Mr. Pratt won the Naumburg International Piano Competition and two years later was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Since then, he has played numerous recitals throughout the US including performances at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the White House, Ravinia, Blossom, Wolftrap, Caramoor, Aspen and the Hollywood Bowl. Internationally, Mr. Pratt has toured Japan four times and performed in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Israel, Columbia and South Africa.

Friday, July 30, 7PM PT
Opening Night Orchestra Concert

Ming Luke, guest conductor
Montgomery: Starburst (2012)
Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs) (1948)
Laquita Mitchell, soprano
Intermission
Mozart: “Chi’o mi scordi di te”, Scene and Rondo, K.505 (1786)
Laquita Mitchell, soprano
Anna Stoycheva, piano obbligato
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, op. 90 (“Italian”) (1833)

The Grant Park Orchestra welcomes rising star conductor Eun Sun Kim, recently appointed music director of the San Francisco Opera. She makes her Festival debut in Shostakovich's sassy Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring audience favorite Natasha Paremski and Dvořák's ever popular New World Symphony. The program includes a work by Korean-American composer Texu Kim.

This concert is being broadcast and streamed live on 98.7WFMT/wfmt.com.

Texu Kim: Blow, Fly, Pop!!
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, From the New World

The Grant Park Orchestra welcomes rising star conductor Eun Sun Kim, recently appointed music director of the San Francisco Opera. She makes her Festival debut in Shostakovich's sassy Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring audience favorite Natasha Paremski and Dvořák's ever popular New World Symphony. The program includes a work by Korean-American composer Texu Kim.

This concert is being broadcast and streamed live on 98.7WFMT/wfmt.com.

Texu Kim: Blow, Fly, Pop!!
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, From the New World

Watch the Dame Myra Hess Memorial free concert series on the International Music Foundation website at imfchicago.org.

SooBeen Lee, violin and Elliot Wuu, piano

Claude Debussy – Violin Sonata in g minor, L. 140

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 3

Igor Frolov – Concert Fantasy On Themes from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Op. 19

Osorio Plays Mozart

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
Jorge Federico Osorio, piano

Ravinia®, North America's oldest music festival, stands today as its most musically diverse, presenting over 140 different events throughout the summer. These concerts run the gamut from Yo-Yo Ma to John Legend to the annual summer residency of the nation's finest orchestra, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

The 36-acre park is nestled in a gently wooded area that makes it an enchanting place to experience music. Guests can bring their own picnics or eat at one of the park restaurants.

Pianist John Urban and Violist Dwayne Beach will be presenting a hybrid recital full of Viola and Piano works by Nicolò Paganini, William Walton, a living female composer Amanda Harberg and an original transcription of a gem for violin once forgotten by Cesar Espejo in their Consorto Accademico.

Noel Pointer Foundation @ Restoration Plaza
247 Herkimer Street 
Noel Pointer Foundation 
Brooklyn, NY

Acclaimed pianist Alexander Wu takes us on a musical journey spanning European classics to the birth of American music.