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# Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

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- [Welcome back, NExT Philadelphia!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/next-phila/): We thank you for supporting our PCMS artists on stage. Please fill out the form below to purchase discounted ($20) tickets to the performance. Each ticket purchase includes a complimentary drink voucher. If you have any questions while completing your purchase, please call the PCMS Box Office at 215-569-8080. We are happy to help you and look forward to sharing the music together soon!
- [Welcome PMAY Artists!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/welcome-pmay-artists/): We thank you for supporting our PCMS artists on stage. Please fill out the form below to purchase discounted ($10) tickets to each performance. Tickets should only be purchased for guests who plan to attend the concert in person. If you have any questions while completing your purchase, please call the PCMS Box Office at 215-569-8080. We are happy to help you and look forward to sharing the music together soon!
- [Wendell and Carolyn T. Pritchett Masterclass Fund](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/pritchett-masterclass-fund/): Established by the family of Dr. Wendell Pritchett, Jr. and wife Anne Kringel, and their children to provide activelearning opportunities led by world class-artists for the benefit of young students in their own learning environments.
- [Confirm Your Pass Reservation](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/confirm-your-pass-reservation/)
- [Cancellation: Re-storyation Workshop](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/cancellation-re-storyation-workshop/): Thanks for letting us know about your cancellation for Ecological Re-Storyation Workshop. Your reservation will be offered to the waitlist.
- [Confirmation: Re-storyation Workshop](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/confirmation-re-storyation-workshop/): Thanks for confirming your reservation for Ecological Re-Storyation Workshop.
- [Rooted in Acoustics by Carla Cao – References](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/projects/rootsong/references/): Trewavas, A. (2017). The foundations of plant intelligence. Interface focus, 7(3). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2016.0098 Baluška, F., Mukherjee, S., & Ramakrishna, A. (Eds.). (2020). Neurotransmitters in plant signaling and communication. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54478-2 Demey, M. L., Mishra, R. C., & Van Der Straeten, D. (2023). Sound perception in plants: from ecological significance to molecular understanding. Trends in Plant Science, 28(7), 825-840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2023.03.003 Appel, H. M., & Cocroft, R. B. (2014). Plants respond to leaf vibrations caused by insect herbivore chewing. Oecologia, 175(4), 1257-1266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-014-2995-6 Body, M. J., Neer, W. C., Vore, C., Lin, C. H., Vu, D. C., Schultz, J. C., ... & Appel, H. M. (2019). Caterpillar chewing vibrations cause changes in plant hormones and volatile emissions in Arabidopsis thaliana. Frontiers in plant science, 10, 454219. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00810 Kollasch, A. M., Abdul-Kafi, A. R., Body, M. J., Pinto, C. F., Appel, H. M., & Cocroft, R. B. (2020). Leaf vibrations produced by chewing provide a consistent acoustic target for plant recognition of herbivores. Oecologia, 194(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04672-2 Pinto, C. F., Torrico-Bazoberry, D., Penna, M., Cossio-Rodriguez, R., Cocroft, R., Appel, H., & Niemeyer, H. M. (2019). Chemical responses of Nicotiana tabacum (Solanaceae) induced by vibrational signals of a generalist herbivore. Journal of chemical ecology, 45(8), 708-714. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-019-01089-x Gagliano, M., Grimonprez, M., Depczynski, M., & Renton, M. (2017). Tuned in: plant roots use sound to locate water. Oecologia, 184(1), 151-160. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-3862-z Veits, M., Khait, I., Obolski, U., Zinger, E., Boonman, A., Goldshtein, A., ... & Hadany, L. (2019). Flowers respond to pollinator sound within minutes by increasing nectar sugar concentration. Ecology letters, 22(9), 1483-1492. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13331 McDonald, Bob (Host). (June 6, 2025). Plants hear their pollinators, and produce sweet nectar in response . CBC listen. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-51-quirks-and-quarks/clip/16150976-plants-hear-pollinators-produce-sweet-nectar-response Khait, I., Sharon, R., Perelman, R., Boonman, A., Yovel, Y., & Hadany, L. (2019). Plants emit remotely detectable ultrasounds that can reveal plant stress. BioRxiv, 507590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.03.009
- [Root Song Program Attributions](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/projects/rootsong/attributions/): ‘ see each other by the color of the light,’ ... Light changes color when it passes through a plant, and the light that passes through different plants is altered each in a different way, far too subtle for us to notice but clearly distinct enough for plants to notice. Plants take note of the quality of light falling on them, and whether that light has passed through a plant before reaching them, which indicates a taller neighbor. They then grow their stems to certain lengths accordingly. 
- [40th Anniversary Book](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/40th-anniversary-book/): Within these pages, we honor the devoted audiences whose curiosity and enthusiasm fill our halls; the generous donors whose belief in our mission sustains our work; and the dedicated volunteers whose time and care enrich every concert experience. We celebrate the composers and artists whose creativity has brought extraordinary music to life on our stages, as well as the staff and countless community members whose commitment behind the scenes has guided PCMS’s growth over four decades.
- [Ecological Re-Storyation Workshop at Bartram’s Garden](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/restoryation/): Saturday, May 30, 2026 @ 12:30-1:30 PM
- [Root Song Bus Registration Form](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/root-song-center-city-bus-registration-form/): Root Song transportation and shuttles are generously sponsored by Erie Insurance.
- [The Well Tree Performance](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/welltree/): Saturday, May 30, 2026 @ 10:00 – 11:45 am
- [Oct 11 Seat Cancellation](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/oct-11-seat-cancellation/): Catch you next time!
- [Welcome, ACCESS members!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/access/): PCMS is proud to join ACCESS as an Art-Reach partner! You can now use Art-Reach's ACCESS card to purchase $2 tickets to select PCMS concerts by filling out the form below or calling the PCMS Box Office at 215-569-8080. For more information about the ACCESS program, visit art-reach.org/access.
- [Root Song: Listening to the Wisdom of Trees](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/projects/rootsong/): “I dream of a world guided by a lens of stories rooted in the revelations of science and framed with an Indigenous worldview – stories in which matter and spirit are both given voice.”
- [Guidelines and Policies](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/visit/guidelines-and-policies/): The PCMS staff loves introducing our musicians and ensembles to younger audiences. We welcome children aged 5 and older to our performances. On behalf of our musicians on stage as well as our audience members, we ask parents to use their discretion when bringing children to a PCMS concert so that we can maintain a quiet atmosphere. We recommend calling the PCMS Box Office at 215-569-8080 if you have specific questions regarding a performance and its content.
- [Chamber Music for All](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/projects/chamber-music-for-all/)
- [National Coming Out Day Seat Reservation](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/national-coming-out-day-seat-reservation/): Thank you for your interest in our October 11th concert celebrating National Coming Out Day featuring Alexi Kenney, violin and Amy Yang, piano.
- [Community Complimentary Tickets](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/communitytix/): Thank you for your interest in this recital featuring Justin Austin, baritone and Howard Watkins, piano.
- [Welcome, Temple Medical students!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/templemed/): PCMS is happy to offer complimentary student tickets to Itamar Zorman, violin & Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano.
- [Welcome, Boyer students!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/boyer/): Join PCMS for our October 30th concert featuring the Escher Quartet & Jordan Bak, viola. 
- [Welcome, Price Fest attendees!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/pricefest/): We are thrilled to welcome you to our concert presenting Escher Quartet with Jordan Bak, viola on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 7:30pm at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater.
- [Anthony P. Checchia (1930-2024)](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/anthony-checchia/): It is with great sadness that we inform you of Tony Checchia’s passing on September 7, 2024. Tony passed away at his home in Philadelphia, the city in which he lived for all of his 94 years, while in hospice care and with his family beside him. The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society community extends heartfelt condolences to Tony’s wife, Benita Valente, and their son, Peter. 
- [PCMS Education Program Surveys](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/educationsurvey/): Thank you for taking the time to help us reflect on today's PCMS education program. If you have any questions, please contact Elise Griffin, Education and Community Partnerships Manager, at egriffin@pcmsconcerts.org.
- [Complimentary Tickets – A Song by Mahler](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/mahlergiveaway/): Thank you for your interest in A Song by Mahler, the final event in the Arts on the Mind Festival. This 75-minute music-theater production features Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano, Ryan Bradford, baritone, David Shifrin, clarinet and FLUX Quartet. A Song by Mahler centers on the changing realities of two characters: a concertizing singer who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s and her husband, who is also her accompanist. 
- [The Margaret & Roger Berlin Fund for Emerging Instrumentalists](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/support/berlin-fund/): Meg and Roger, grateful for the many opportunities that their parents made available to each of them, were inspired to pay forward their enthusiasm and devotion to education, shared cultural experiences, and artistic beauty for the benefit of future artists and audiences. 
- [Welcome, ARTZ Philadelphia!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artz/): We are thrilled to welcome you to PCMS for Music on the Mind (May 13) and A Song by Mahler (May 15) at the Kimmel Center.Please use the form below to reserve your complimentary tickets for one or both events, which can be picked up at will call at the PCMS Box Office Table a half hour before each event.
- [Welcome, Wildflower Composers!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/wildflower/): We are thrilled to welcome you to our concert presenting Diametrically Composed on Wednesday, April 10th at 7:30pm. This concert is located at Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut Street. There is parking in the nearby Bourse Garage.Please use the form below to reserve your tickets, which can be picked up at will call at the PCMS Box Office Table the evening of the performance starting at 7pm. Seating is general admission.
- [Celebrating Ann Hobson Pilot](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/ann-hobson-pilot/): Ann Hobson Pilot is an internationally renowned classical harpist, now retired from the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras. As an African American woman in the classical music world, she broke barriers of both race and gender, and she is devoted to expanding access to musical training for underserved students and to raising awareness about issues of diversity and inclusion of underrepresented musicians in orchestras.
- [Welcome back, PCMS Young Friends!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/yfcomps/): Thank you so much for attending our recent Young Friends reception. We would love to welcome you back to the Perelman Theater for our upcoming recital with Aaron Diehl, piano, on February 14th at 7:30pm. Bring a Valentine, Galentine, or friend for this 75-minute program without intermission.
- [PCMS Children’s Concert](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/libraryconcert/): Thank you for your interest in PCMS' Children's Concert featuring members of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, co-presented with WRTI. This year's performance will be on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at the Parkway Central Branch Library (1901 Vine St.). The concert will begin at 9:45am. This is a 60 minute program designed for students grades 4-6. Please plan to arrive at 9:30am to allow time to be seated.
- [Welcome, Play on Philly!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/pop/): We are thrilled to welcome you to our concert presenting Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective on Wednesday, December 13th at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater.Please use the form below to reserve your tickets, which can be picked up at will call at the PCMS Box Office Table the evening of the performance.
- [Welcome!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/fall-arts-fest/): Thank you for attending Fall Arts Fest at the Kimmel Cultural Campus. It was a pleasure to introduce you to PCMS, and we hope that you will join us often during the upcoming season. To welcome you, we invite you to enjoy $10 tickets to one of the following fall concerts. Please complete the form below to take advantage of this special offer or contact our box office at 215-569-8080 or boxoffice@pcmsconcerts.org.
- [Community Group Tickets](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/group-tickets/): In addition to our Full Season, Student, and Young Friends Passes, PCMS offers discounted tickets to community and student groups, ensuring that everyone can come experience the beauty of chamber music in our concert halls.
- [Inclusion & Belonging](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/community/deia/): PCMS recognizes the historic and systemic racial and economic inequalities in the classical music field and is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in our artistic programming, in our internal policies and practices, in reducing barriers to attendance, and in support of our community.
- [Welcome, Friends in the City!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/fitc/): Please note: this offer is limited to two tickets per person, and concerts are subject to availability.
- [Welcome back, Delta Sigma Theta!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/dst/): We thank you for supporting our PCMS artists on stage. Please fill out the form below to purchase discounted ($20) tickets to each performance. Tickets should only be purchased for guests who plan to attend the concert in person. If you have any questions while completing your purchase, please call the PCMS Box Office at 215-569-8080. We are happy to help you and look forward to sharing the music together soon!
- [Arts on the Mind Festival](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/projects/arts-mind/)
- [Thank you for your reservation!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/thank-you-2/): An email confirmation will be sent to you shortly.
- [Join us on November 30th!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/join-us-on-november-30th/)
- [Join us on November 8th!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/join-us-on-november-8th/)
- [Join us on November 4th!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/join-us-on-november-4th/)
- [Jefferson University – Student Tickets](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/jefferson-tickets/)
- [We look forward to seeing you!](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/group-tickets-form/): Born of a desire to foster cultural curiosity, Castle of our Skins is a concert and educational series dedicated to celebrating Black artistry through music. The Boston Musical Intelligencer praises the ensemble’s programmatic choices for complementing and reinforcing each other, and the “impressive performers” for communicating “directly and movingly with their audience.” Highlighting the ensemble’s PCMS debut program is the Philadelphia premiere of a new work (co-commissioned by PCMS) by flutist/ composer Allison Loggins-Hull.
- [Celebrating Gideon Paz](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/celebrating-gideon-paz/): Gideon Paz personified a rare combination of an exceptional ability to identify musical talent in a young person along with the ability to secure support for these young people for the duration of time necessary so we could enjoy their art in the concert hall.
- [Singing Freedom](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/projects/singing-freedom/)
- [Sound Investments Project](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/projects/sound-investments-project/)
- [Redeem Your Gift Certificate](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/redeem/): Submit this form to redeem your PCMS Gift Certificate. You'll receive 2 tickets to one of the concerts listed below. Gift Certificates do not expire and can be used for any season.
- [A Memorial Tribute to Jerry Rubenstein](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/rubenstein/): The PCMS board, staff, and community mourn the death and celebrate the life of Jerry Rubenstein, who passed away on July 26, 2022, at age 92. Jerry played an integral role at PCMS in its early years and throughout its growth and development over the next several decades. He and his wife, Bernice, had been attending Musicians from Marlboro tour concerts in Philadelphia prior to PCMS’ founding, and he became a close friend and advisor to Tony Checchia. Jerry joined the PCMS Board of Directors in its first year of 1986. He was elected Vice President the following year, a position he held until 1990, when he was elected Chairman.
- [Celebrating Elaine Kligerman (1933-2023)](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/elaine-kligerman/): On the occasion of the Society's 35th Anniversary, PCMS announced a very generous gift from Elaine Kligerman to create an endowment in support of our highly-acclaimed Piano Recital Series. This gift helps to ensure that we, our children, and our grandchildren will continue to enjoy the world’s finest pianists, and great works of the repertoire, every year in Philadelphia. We express our heartfelt gratitude to Elaine Kligerman, her children, and the rest of her family.
- [Questions About Livestreaming](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/streaming-faq/): Each concert will be streamed in real time on our website. Just visit our Livestream page or click the link in your concert reminder email.
- [STORM: From Whitman’s Election Day to Ours (Part II)](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/education/storm/): Friday, October 30, 1:00 PMLorene Cary, moderatorTrapeta Mayson, Philadelphia poet laureateCydney Brown, Philadelphia youth poet laureateCatalyst Quartet & Harlem QuartetKenji Bunch, composer
- [Livestreams](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/livestreams/): var smsConsentHtmlRenderingFixEnabled = true;
- [Recommended Listening](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/community/recommended-listening/): To help connect you with the music we all love, we've curated a selection of streaming opportunities featuring PCMS artists and repertoire. We encourage you to check back often for updates.
- [Free Library Ticket Reservations](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/free-library-ticket-reservations/): Thank you for joining us on the musical journey with the Jasper String Quartet at the Free Library!
- [Please Be Our Guest](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/please-be-our-guest/): We invite you to join us as our guests during the 2022-2023 Season and will be happy to provide you with complimentary tickets.
- [Nominating & Governance Committee: Expectations for Directors](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/nominating-governance-committee-expectations-for-directors/): As a member of the Board of Directors, we ask that you check which of the following applies to you. You can use the lines below for any explanations you wish to provide, and for additional comments, questions or observations concerning the board or your role on the board. Submitting this form will send the results to the Board Chair.
- [Advertise](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/support/advertise/): All ads are printed in full color. Ad deadline: July 15.
- [Emerging Voices Preview Event](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/emerging-voices-preview-event/): Join tenor Nicholas Phan and pianist Myra Huang for a preview of Emerging Voices—a special project in January, 2020, that illustrates the role of art song as a powerful vehicle for social exchange. Curated by the Chamber Music Society in collaboration with Nicholas Phan, the project features six concerts, eighteen artists, four world premieres, two panel discussions, and special projection design by award-winning artist Hana Kim.
- [Thank you for your reservation / Gracias por su reserva](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/family-concert-reservation/): PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: Please consider using public transportation. From City Hall, Esperanza Arts Center is accessible by SEPTA’s Broad Street Line, followed by Bus Route 53.
- [Emerging Voices:Art Song & Social Connection](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/projects/emerging-voices/): Set against the backdrop of Paris and the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles, Emerging Voices illustrates how art song, with its unique intersection of poetry and music, remains a powerful vehicle for social exchange. Curated by the Chamber Music Society in collaboration with tenor Nicholas Phan, the project includes six concerts, two panel discussions, and one masterclass.
- [Beethoven Cycles](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/projects/beethoven/): In celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday, the Society presents Beethoven’s complete string quartet and piano sonata cycles over the course of three months.
- [Special Projects](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/projects/): Explore our latest projects and special events from previous seasons.
- [Choose Your Series](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/subscriptions/choose/)
- [At the Concert](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/visit/at-concert/): Have a question that’s not answered here? Send us a message on Facebook or by email, or give us a call at 215-569-8080.
- [FAQ](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/visit/before-concert/): If you’re reading this, you may be joining us soon for a concert, and we couldn’t be happier. We care deeply about engaging with new audience members and ensuring that you have a great experience and will want to return. The following are questions that we have been asked by first-time audience members. If you'd like any additional information, just let us know on Facebook or by email, or give us a call at 215-569-8080. We look forward to hearing from you!
- [Community](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/community/): PCMS is a “Society” in the best sense of the word—a group of people who love great music, who want to enjoy it regularly, and who believe that it should be accessible to everyone.
- [Calendar](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/calendar/)
- [Season at a Glance](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/season-at-a-glance/)
- [Homepage](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/)
- [Visit](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/visit/)
- [Passholder Cancellation](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/passholder-cancellation/): Catch you next time!
- [Passholder Confirmation](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/passholder-confirmation/): Thank you for confirming your Unlimited Pass reservation.
- [Season Pass Reservations](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/online-reservation-form/): Thanks for purchasing your season pass!
- [Season Passes](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/season-pass/): 2026–27 Season Passes On Sale Now!
- [Matching Gifts](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/support/matching-gifts/): Multiply the impact of your personal support by obtaining an Employee Matching Gift Form from your employer.
- [Young Friends Mixer](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/young-friends-mixer/): Friday, March 13 - 7:30 pm
- [Ticket Signup Page for Drexel Students](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/ticket-signup-page-drexel-students/): Thanks for your interest in our concert with Musicians from Marlboro I on Wednesday, November 15 at 8 pm at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater. Please complete the form below to reserve your complimentary tickets.
- [Ticket Signup Page for Jefferson Students](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/ticket-signup-page-jefferson-students/): Thanks for your interest in our concert with the Belcea Quartet on Friday, October 19 at 7:30 pm at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater. Please complete the form below to reserve your complimentary tickets.
- [Kindle Single](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/projects/departure-discovery/kindle-single/)
- [Recordings](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/projects/departure-discovery/recordings/)
- [Podcasts](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/projects/departure-discovery/podcasts/)
- [Blogs](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/projects/departure-discovery/blogs/)
- [Departure & Discovery](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/projects/departure-discovery/): Explore the subject of "late style" through our special collaboration with pianist Jonathan Biss. The cross-medium project features concert recordings, a podcast, an Amazon Kindle Single, blog series, and more.
- [Planned Giving](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/support/planned-giving/): Including PCMS in your estate planning will memorialize your commitment to the arts in Philadelphia and provide an example of dedicated philanthropy for others to follow.
- [Checchia Legacy Society](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/support/legacy/): Named in honor of our founding Artistic Director, the Checchia Legacy Society was created to ensure that future audiences will continue to enjoy world-class chamber music in Philadelphia.
- [Crescendo Club Confirmation](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/crescendo-club-confirmation/): Thank you for reserving a ticket(s) to the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society's concert with the Brentano Quartet with Marina Piccinini, flute on Wednesday, April 4th (8 pm) at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater. Your tickets will be held at the will call table prior to the concert.
- [](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/curtis-crescendo-event/): ~~~
- [Past Meeting Minutes](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/board-area/past-meeting-minutes/): Past Meeting Minutes
- [Upcoming Meeting Materials](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/board-area/upcoming-meeting-materials/): Upcoming Meeting Materials
- [Daedalus Quartet and Charles Abramovic, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/mw-performance/): As we conclude our 30th Anniversary, we hope you can join us for a special performance of works by Executive Director Philip Maneval, and his mentor and former teacher, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Richard Wernick.
- [Events](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery/events/)
- [Artists and Panelists](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery/artists/)
- [Music](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery/music/)
- [Perspective](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery/perspective/)
- [Press](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery/press/)
- [Departure and Discovery](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery/): Over the past five centuries, composers as early as in their 30s or as late as in their 80s have found new forms of expression in the final stages of life. Still more interesting, the changes are not consistent from composer to composer: some became more concise, others more expansive. Some composers became fixated on death, others revealed a child-like innocence. Some wrote their most adventurous music, while others turned back in pursuit of greater clarity and economy.
- [Children’s Concerts](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/education/childrens-concert/): Annie Wu, flute & Markus Kaitila, piano at The Upper Dublin Public Library on February 6, 2027 at 2:00 PM.

## Products
- [Clara Neubauer, violin and Oliver Neubauer, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/clara-neubauer-and-oliver-neubauer/): This performance originally featured violinists Corina Belcea and Axel Schacher. All tickets will be updated to reflect the artist change. Growing up in a musical household, the sibling duo of Clara and Oliver Neubauer have been steeped in a rich musical tradition their entire lives. Having already introduced themselves to PCMS audiences as part of past Musicians from Marlboro tours, they now present their debut performance as a duo. Their exceptional technique and expressiveness will be on display in a program that includes Ysaÿe’s virtuosic Sonata for Two Violins and the Philadelphia premiere of Amos Elkana’s Mostly Cloudy, an introspective work inspired by the city of London.
- [Sphinx Virtuosi w/ J’Nai Bridges, mezzo](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/sphinx-virtuosi-jnai-bridges/): Comprising 18 top Black and Latinx classical soloists, the Sphinx Virtuosi invites audiences to reflect on who we are and who we aspire to become. To mark our nation’s 250th anniversary, they present newly commissioned works and reimagined classics that reflect America’s many voices and shared ideals. Their program features Declaration, a bold original song cycle spotlighting Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, with music by acclaimed composer Damien Geter and a libretto by Sphinx founder Aaron Dworkin. Works by Roberto Sierra and Jessie Montgomery offer vibrant explorations of heritage and transformation, while Stravinsky’s Concerto for Strings in D connects past and present in a timeless meditation on artistic freedom.
- [Mark Steinberg, violin and Jonathan Biss, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/steinberg-biss-4/): Two internationally acclaimed musicians with deep ties to Philadelphia present the final performance of a four-concert journey over two seasons, exploring Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s complete works for violin and keyboard. PCMS is honored to bring together Mark Steinberg—leader of the revered Brentano Quartet, which makes annual appearances on our series—and pianist Jonathan Biss, who has consistently left PCMS audiences spellbound with his probing, incisive, deeply considered performances.
- [Elizabeth Masoudnia, english horn & Friends](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/masoudnia-and-friends/): Elizabeth Masoudnia, solo English hornist of The Philadelphia Orchestra since 1995, makes her PCMS debut in the company of three other top orchestral players with deep ties to our city: current Orchestra violist and Philadelphia native Marvin Moon; Orchestra cellist Gloria dePasquale; and prominent Philadelphia violinist Mitchell Newman, formerly of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The three works on the program with English horn (including one by PCMS co-founder Philip Maneval) all showcase Masoudnia’s “hypnotic and understated elegance” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
- [Brentano Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/brentano-quartet-2026/): Yale University’s current quartet in residence, the Brentano Quartet, brings to PCMS a program highlighting the “fugue” and in particular it is the philosophical bent of fugal part writing which lends its compelling rhetoric to this concert. In Beethoven's late C-sharp Minor masterpiece (Op. 131) he tosses convention aside by casting this work in seven continuous sections rather than the traditional four. In a similar vein Shostakovich’s final completed quartet (Op. 144) is a somber, six-movement work known for its profound melancholy and lack of pauses, creating a single, brooding dramatic arc.
- [ModernMedieval Voices](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/modernmedieval-voices-2026/): Following an enchanting PCMS debut in 2023, the vocal ensemble ModernMedieval Voices, founded and directed by Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, formerly of the world-renowned vocal quartet Anonymous 4, returns to PCMS. They present La Santisima Virgen Maria, a seasonal program celebrating the Virgin Mary through chants and polyphony from 12th and 13th century Spanish manuscripts. The concert also includes the world premiere of four short pieces inspired by the Marian antiphons composed by Laura Jobin-Acosta.
- [Midori, violin and Özgür Aydin, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/midori-aydin/): A visionary artist, activist, and educator whose unique career has transcended traditional boundaries, Midori has transfixed audiences since she first burst onto the world stage as a child prodigy at the age of 11. In her seventh PCMS appearance, she and award-winning pianist Özgür Aydin offer a wide range of repertoire from a Philadelphia premiere by French composer Thierry Escaich to concluding their program with Schumann’s intense, often symphonic-like D Minor Violin Sonata—dedicated to virtuoso Ferdinand David and characterized by a recurring theme derived from the letters of David’s name (DAFD).
- [Takács Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/takacs-quartet-2027/): “There is no finer ensemble in the world, expressively and technically,” than the Takács Quartet (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Their annual PCMS concert—and first with new Romanian-born cellist Mihai Marica—features Gabriela Lena Frank’s folk-music-inspired Quijotadas, based on the story of Don Quixote, and quartets by Mozart and Beethoven that were composed only 16 years apart, underscoring the rapid evolution of the genre at the turn of the 19th century.
- [Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano and Alexi Kenney, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/fitz-gibbon-kenney-2027/): Two musicians PCMS audiences have come to adore, Lucy Fitz Gibbon and Alexi Kenney, embark on the complexities of renowned Hungarian composer and pianist György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments, an hourlong modernist theatrical masterwork. Simultaneously challenging and magnetic, its 40 intricately linked ruminations on the nature of time, space, and existence—all of which are excerpts from Franz Kafka’s diaries, letters, and notebooks—together express something both in themselves and as part of a larger context. By internalizing Kafka’s words and making them his own, Kurtág turns these settings into something uncomfortably personal and hauntingly beautiful.
- [Ian Bostridge, tenor and Julius Drake, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/bostridge-drake-2027/): Tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake’s musical partnership has endured for more than a quarter-century. “We work with the greatest music of all time, and that keeps our musical relationship lively and exciting,” explains Drake. For their first PCMS recital since 2012, the duo delves deeply into three sets of songs by Robert Schumann: repertoire that is perfectly matched to the English tenor’s gifts. “Bostridge makes you think anew about the music in hand, interpreting all these songs as much through the mind of the poet as that of the composer” (Gramophone).
- [Richard Goode, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/richard-goode-piano-2027/): Richard Goode is acclaimed worldwide for the tremendous emotional power, depth, and sensitivity of his playing—a rare combination of grandness and humility, boldness and insight. “It is virtually impossible to walk away from one of Mr. Goode’s recitals without the sense of having gained some new insight, subtle or otherwise, into the works he played or about pianism itself” (The New York Times).
- [Jeremy Denk, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/jeremy-denk-piano-2026/): Jeremy Denk is known as “a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs” (NPR). His programming evokes a sense of “poetic logic” (Boston Classical Review) that has captivated PCMS audiences for decades. His latest PCMS recital showcases two Beethoven sonatas that were written at different periods of the composer’s life, and two sets  of etudes by female composers: Hélène de Montgeroult, who bridged the gap between the Classical and Romantic eras, and contemporary Korean-born composer Unsuk Chin.
- [Musicians from Marlboro III](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/musicians-from-marlboro-iii-2027/): Former Doric Quartet violist Hélène Clément and JACK Quartet cellist Jay Campbell lead a sextet of exceptional Marlboro string players in a program that surveys different musical styles and trends from the 20th century. The evening begins with Strauss’ elegant, late Romantic String Sextet from Capriccio and continues with Schoenberg’s String Trio—a deeply personal single movement piece depicting his near fatal heart attack. The second half of the evening offers Kurtág’s postmodern 12 Microludes and Bartók’s first string quartet, which reveals a blend of longing and nostalgia with emerging modernism.
- [Musicians from Marlboro II](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/musicians-from-marlboro-ii-2027/): Musicians from Marlboro tours offer national audiences a glimpse into the magic that happens each summer at “the classical world’s most coveted retreat” (The New Yorker) in Vermont. This season’s second MFM tour, led by former Juilliard Quartet violinist Joseph Lin, features a first half of music for strings and voice by former Marlboro resident composers Earl Kim and Kaija Saariaho. The program concludes with Brahms’ rich and symphonically textured String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2.
- [Trio Afiori](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/trio-afiori/): New York Philharmonic Principal Clarinetist Anthony McGill, Grammy Award-winning mezzo Fleur Barron, and acclaimed collaborative pianist Gloria Chien debut with PCMS in a concert titled Heritage—featuring works composed or arranged expressly for their trio. Gulistan is a joyful and poignant cycle by Iranian-American composer Kian Ravaei, based on Azerbaijani, Persian, American, and English folk music. Newly-commissioned works by Valerie Coleman (exploring connections between the Harlem Renaissance and France), Gabriel Kahane, and Alex Ho complete the evening, showcasing the Afiori’s versatility across diverse styles.
- [Nicholas Phan, tenor; Tai Murray, violin; Karen Ouzounian, cello; Myra Huang, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/phan-murray-ouzounian-huang/): Acclaimed tenor Nicholas Phan returns to PCMS with an ensemble of gifted instrumentalists. His latest program is built around by Lembit Beecher’s A Year To The Day, a new song cycle for piano trio and tenor that explores a singer’s relationship to music and the way that connection, both personal and professional, is tested by the pandemic.
- [Verona Quartet w/ Steven Banks, saxophone](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/verona-quartet-banks/): Continuing the lineage of their esteemed mentors the Cleveland, Juilliard, and Pacifica Quartets, the Verona Quartet has enjoyed a rapid rise to international prominence, fueled by top prizes at the Wigmore Hall, Melbourne, and Osaka competitions. For their PCMS debut, the quartet teams up with Steven Banks, a composer and classical saxophonist with “the potential to be one of the transformational musicians of the twenty-first century” (Seen and Heard International).
- [Paul Lewis, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/paul-lewis-piano-2027/): A great piano recital is chamber music in its purest form, intimate yet universal. In the hands of a master such as Paul Lewis, it can be a transcendent experience and a personal sharing of ideas and emotions. Lewis reveals melancholy beauty and emotional ambiguity with a “fine balance of Olympian poise and emotional engagement” (Chicago Tribune). His keen musical sensitivity and profound interpretive finesse ensure a solo recital that is not to be missed.
- [Inon Barnatan, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/inon-barnatan-piano/): For Inon Barnatan’s return to PCMS he brings a recital of works inspired by Chopin’s own music and composers linked to genres he defined or popularized like Ballades, Nocturnes, and Mazurkas. Considered “one of the most admired pianists of his generation” (New York Times) Barnatan’s acclaimed interpretations of Chopin are generally characterized by a delicate touch, structural clarity, and a "light, bouncy" feel. In describing Chopin’s music Barnatan has referred to his output—especially for solo piano—as: “Sentiment without sentimentality, very beautiful and touching.”
- [Joseph Lin, violin/viola; Stephanie Zyzak, violin; Claire Bourg, violin; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Helen Huang, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/joseph-lin-and-friends-2026/): Ranging from folk-inflected idioms to sweeping Romantic drama, this program, created by former Juilliard Quartet violinist Joe Lin, traces a vivid arc through the chamber traditions of Central Europe. The afternoon opens with a rare performance of a pair of works by Kodály, reflecting the composer’s deep engagement with Hungarian folk music and his distinctive musical voice. The second half features Dvořák’s profoundly emotional, symphonically scaled Piano Trio in F Minor, composed during a time of deep personal grief and artistic conflict following his mother's death.
- [Elissa Lee Koljonen, violin; Roberto Díaz, viola; Yumi Kendall, cello; Ying Li, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/kolojen-diaz-kendall-li/): In the nearly two decades since violist Roberto Díaz has been President of the Curtis Institute of Music, he has been featured with PCMS over a dozen times as a guest artist or in programs he helped to create. Díaz’s appearances have always captivated our audiences, and for his 15th performance with the Society, he collaborates with three of his close musical friends for an afternoon of French and Russian masterworks. The program concludes with an early work by Fauré—his passionate C Minor Piano Quartet, which inhabits a world of shimmering colors and buoyant effortless motion.
- [Geneva Lewis, violin; Jay Campbell, cello; Jonathan Cohen, harpsichord](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/lewis-campbell-cohen/): In 1705, a young Johann Sebastian Bach traveled by foot more than 250 miles from Arnstadt to Lübeck to study with composer and organist Dieterich Buxtehude. This concert testifies to the monumental impact of their meeting with works from both composers and other titans of the Baroque era. Known for their stylistic versatility and sensitivity to the Baroque repertoire, Avery Fisher Career Grant winners Geneva Lewis and Jay Campbell (JACK Quartet) unite with the leader of Boston’s renowned Handel and Haydn Society, harpsichordist Jonathan Cohen, for this historically informed performance.
- [Musicians from Marlboro I](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/musicians-from-marlboro-i-2026/): For over 60 years, the Musicians from Marlboro touring program has brought memorable performances from Vermont’s legendary chamber music school and festival to national audiences. The first of three Marlboro touring ensembles this season is led by founding and former first violinist of the Doric Quartet, Alex Redington, and Jonathan Leibovitz, an emerging clarinetist hailed for his “ability to mesmerize the listener in everything he does” (BBC Music Magazine). At the heart of this touring program is music by two former Marlboro composers in residence: Brett Dean and Kaija Saariaho. The evening culminates with Mozart’s beloved Clarinet Quintet, a piece which gloriously blends operatic melodies for the clarinet with intimate string writing.
- [Brooklyn Rider](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/brooklyn-rider-2026/): Enmeshed in the world of meteoric love stories, Brooklyn Rider's latest program, Star-Crossed, explores three passionate bonds spread across time and geography. Revisiting an audience favorite from the quartet’s earliest days, violinist Colin Jacobsen’s Beloved, do not let me be discouraged references the tragic story of the ill-fated lovers Layla and Majnun; Gabriela Lena Frank's latest string quartet explores the tumultuous relationship between Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera; and Death and the Maiden, Schubert's iconic dialogue between a terrified young woman and death, receives Brooklyn Rider’s signature interpretation.
- [Jazmine Saunders, soprano; Frederica von Stade, mezzo; Jonghyun Park, tenor; Yeongtaek Yang, baritone; Myra Huang, piano; Ken Noda, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/von-stade-met-young-artists/): Mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, “one of America’s finest artists and singers” (New York Times), joins an outstanding cast of vocalists from the Met Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program for a sweeping journey through the height of Romanticism and Impressionism. Showcasing the intimate dialogue between the voice and the piano, they are accompanied by Myra Huang and Ken Noda—two of today’s most highly sought after interpreters of the vocal repertoire.
- [Dover Quartet; Michelle Cann, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/dover-quartet-cann-2027/): Praised for their “expert musicianship, razor-sharp ensemble, and deep musical feeling” (Chicago Tribune), the Dover Quartet returns to the PCMS stage with Michelle Cann, “a pianist of sterling artistry” (Gramophone). The evening features Karim Al-Zand’s third quartet, which portrays chamber music as a “lively conversation among companions,” and concludes with Brahms’ fiery and dramatic Piano Quintet in F Minor.
- [Mark Steinberg, violin and Jonathan Biss, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/steinberg-biss-3/): Two internationally acclaimed musicians with deep ties to Philadelphia present the third performance of a four-concert journey over two seasons, exploring Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s complete works for violin and keyboard. PCMS is honored to bring together Mark Steinberg—leader of the revered Brentano Quartet, which makes annual appearances on our series—and pianist Jonathan Biss, who has consistently left PCMS audiences spellbound with his probing, incisive, deeply considered performances.
- [Marina Piccinini, flute and Justin Taylor, harpsichord](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/piccinini-taylor/): “The Heifetz of the flute” (Gramophone), Marina Piccinini, returns to PCMS with the young, Franco-American harpsichordist Justin Taylor. Praised as "an artist of fluid, flawless technique bold ideas” (Classical Now), Taylor makes his PCMS debut with Piccinini with an intimate look at four of J.S. Bach's essential sonatas for the flute. The duo showcases the harpsichord not merely as a bass voice, but as a virtuosic, equal collaborator.
- [Quatuor Ébène](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/quatuor-ebene-2027/): Quatuor Ébène’s telepathic understanding, artistic daring, and musical individuality make for edge-of-the-seat concert experiences, intensely focused and touched by visionary insights. Acclaimed for their multi-year project in which they recorded and toured all 16 of Beethoven’s quartets, the ensemble treats us to three works from his early and middle periods, providing deep insight into Beethoven’s development as a composer.
- [ECCO; Edgar Meyer, double bass](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/ecco-and-edgar-meyer/): Bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer joins “exciting, conductorless band of strings” (The New Yorker) ECCO for an afternoon tracing the evolution of virtuosity across two centuries. Meyer’s Concertino for solo bass stands alongside Bottesini’s 19th-century showpiece while his duos for bass and cello and violin and bass echo Rossini’s elegant chamber work. A retrospective of Meyer’s compositions, juxtaposed with a newly-commissioned work for ECCO, reveal how this multifaceted artist has transformed the bass idiom itself, blending classical rigor with bluegrass sensibility.
- [Carmit Zori, violin; Catherine Cho, violin; Daniel Phillips, viola; Todd Phillips, viola; Marcy Rosen, cello; Peter Wiley, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/carmit-zori-and-friends/): Drawing from a lifetime of chamber music experience, this stellar group of players includes members of former renowned ensembles: the Beaux Arts Trio, Orion, Mendelssohn, and Guarneri Quartets. They open this afternoon of 19th century Romantic masterworks with 17-year old Schubert’s remarkably mature and energetic B-flat Major Quartet. It is followed by Dvořák’s Bohemian-infused C Major Quartet and the program concludes with Brahms’s first sextet, in which the sonority of its two cellos and two violas provide a glorious showcase for this powerhouse ensemble.
- [Ariadne Greif, soprano; Seth Parker Woods, cello; Conor Hanick, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/greif-parker-woods-hanick/): Due to a scheduling conflict Julia Bullock is no longer available for her February 2027 Tour with Seth Parker Woods and Conor Hanick. Praised as "a beautiful and physically fearless young singer..." (New York Times), soprano Ariadne Greif makes her PCMS debut with two exceptional musicians: two-time Grammy-nominated cellist Seth Parker Woods and an acclaimed interpreter of music new and old, pianist Conor Hanick. This fascinating program of music (all written within the last century) ranges from songs by George Gershwin and Nina Simone to a Philadelphia premiere by Pulitzer Prize winner Tania León.
- [Don Liuzzi, percussion & Friends](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/don-liuzzi-and-friends/): This celebratory program honors the distinguished career of Don Liuzzi during his final season as Principal Timpanist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The evening explores a series of ethereal and rarely heard pieces, including Liuzzi’s original arrangement of Debussy’s Clair de lune, offering a profound farewell to a Philadelphia legend.
- [Leonkoro Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/leonkoro-quartet/): Praised for their stage presence, fiery vitality, and musical empathy, the Berlin-based Leonkoro Quartet is one of the most exciting European ensembles to emerge this decade. Winners of several prestigious awards, including first prize at the 2022 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, this fast-rising foursome blends youthful exuberance and mature musical insight in a program of works by Haydn, Britten, and Mendelssohn.
- [Chiaroscuro Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/chiaroscuro-quartet/): Named after the painting technique that plays with extremes of light and shadow, the Chiaroscuro Quartet has spent two decades illuminating music of the Classical and early Romantic periods with raw immediacy and tonal daring. Performing on gut strings and with historical bows, they produce “a sound of ravishing sonic and intonational purity” (The Strad).This PCMS debut program from one of Europe’s finest quartets ranges from the carefree sophistication of Haydn’s Joke Quartet to the haunting, epic majesty of Beethoven’s Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132.
- [Justin Austin, baritone and Howard Watkins, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/austin-watkins/): “Vocally impressive, verbally elegant, and duly seductive” (Opera News), the “velvet-voiced” (The New Yorker) baritone Justin Austin makes his PCMS debut with pianist Howard Watkins, a leading vocal collaborator and assistant conductor of the Metropolitan Opera. At the heart of their program are selections from The Threepenny Opera, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s 1928 satirical, jazz-infused critique of unbridled capitalism. Among other genre-bending works, Austin and Watkins also performs one of the rousing Walt Whitman poems Weill set to music after immigrating to the United States and two songs by Ricky Ian Gordon, one of which explores the tragic death of singer Marvin Gaye.
- [Angela Hewitt, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/angela-hewitt-piano-2027/): Angela Hewitt’s comprehensive series of Beethoven recordings are widely praised for their clarity, insight, and emotional depth. The five sonatas on her third PCMS program represent the three main periods of Beethoven’s compositional output: the Op. 49 and Pathétique sonatas showcase his earlier, more classical style; the Tempest represents his stormy and emotional middle period; and the program closes with the late, introspective, harmonically progressive Op. 110 sonata.
- [Sarah Shafer, soprano; Hye-Jin Kim, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Peter Stumpf, cello; Cynthia Raim, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/shafer-kim-huang-stumpf-raim/): This afternoon of music by husband and wife Robert and Clara Schumann unites five versatile, well-established PCMS favorites. After a lesser known work of Robert’s (his charming piano trio titled: Phantasiestücke) opens the concert, a selection of vocal gems about love and loss by both Clara and Robert follow, before the program concludes with Robert’s E-flat Major Piano Quartet––a rich piece that pays tribute to his ardent study of the masters: Haydn, Mozart, and especially Beethoven.
- [Amanda Lynn Bottoms, mezzo and Eunjoo Jeon, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/bottoms-jeon/): Winner of the 2025 Musical Fund Society Career Advancement Award, mezzo-soprano Amanda Lynn Bottoms has created a program paying tribute to the legendary mezzo and Philadelphia native Florence Quivar. Drawing inspiration from Quivar’s decades of repertoire, Bottoms explores the meaning of the name Florence , derived from the Latin florens and florentius—“blossoming, flourishing, prosperous.” Through this lens, her PCMS recital features songs by Fauré, Brahms, Bolcom, and Florence Price, weaving together works that honor not only a profound career but also embody qualities of this inspirational artist that extend far beyond the stage: grace, dignity, resilience, and sincerity.
- [Elizabeth Hainen, harp & Friends](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/elizabeth-hainen-and-friends/): As Principal Harpist of the Philadelphia Orchestra for over 20 years, Elizabeth Hainen has earned an international reputation as one of classical music’s great harp ambassadors. Hailed by the Washington Post for her “unusual presence with silky transparency,” Hainen’s return to PCMS will feature members of the Philadelphia Orchestra as well as current and former harp students. Her insightful and innovative program reaffirms why the harp continues to fascinate listeners and inspire artists with its aweinspiring harmonies and ethereal beauty.
- [Timo Andres, piano and Aaron Diehl, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/andres-diehl/): Two multifaceted pianists join forces for a must-see duo recital exploring themes of American art and musical language. Praised for his “superb blend of crisp keyboard clarity and soft-edged lyricism” (San Francisco Chronicle), Timo Andres makes his inaugural PCMS appearance while Aaron Diehl—known for his “traditional jazz sound with a sophisticated contemporary spin” (The Guardian)—returns following his highly-acclaimed 2024 debut. Their program traverses a variety of American sounds and experiences, including music by Duke Ellington, Julia Wolfe, and Thelonious Monk. The duo also offers selections from Andres’s debut album Shy and Mighty, as well as a new work that will have its Philadelphia Premiere.
- [Gamut Bach Ensemble](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/gamut-bach-ensemble-2027/): A unique collaboration between outstanding young musicians and an expert on the music of J.S. Bach, the Gamut Bach Ensemble prides itself on stylistically sensitive, earnest, and insightful performances. Directed by Koji Otsuki, the Ensemble’s annual program in the luminous Church of the Holy Trinity focuses on three liturgical cantatas that Bach wrote during his Leipzig period in the 1720s.
- [Jupiter Ensemble; Lea Desandre, mezzo](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/jupiter-ensemble-desandre-2026/): Under the artistic direction of celebrated lutenist Thomas Dunford, the Jupiter Ensemble is at the vanguard of a powerful rediscovery of the Baroque repertoire, bringing fresh vitality to the earliest forms of chamber music. Joined by French-Italian mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre, the ensemble returns to PCMS with a  program that weaves together 18th-century portrayals of Amazons—the mythical warrior women—in dramatic stories of power, conflict, and extreme emotion.
- [Maria Ioudenitch, violin and Sahun Sam Hong, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/ioudenitch-hong/): Russian-American violinist Maria Ioudenitch captured the attention of music lovers worldwide in 2021 when she received first prizes in the Ysaÿe, Tibor Varga, and Joseph Joachim international violin competitions. Lauded for her “fearless technical virtuosity and expressive richness” (Bachtrack), she makes her PCMS recital debut with pianist Sahun Sam Hong in a program that opens with one of Beethoven’s most overtly cheerful works, his Spring violin sonata and concludes with Brahms’ first violin sonata, a deeply lyrical piece that highlights themes of nostalgia and lost innocence.
- [Mitsuko Uchida, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/mitsuko-uchida-piano-2027/): One of the most revered artists of our time, Mitsuko Uchida’s PCMS recitals are always “must-see” events for her intensely moving interpretations of classical repertoire balancing sinew and sensitivity with crystalline articulation and vivid dynamic contrasts. “Hers is nerve-end playing of surpassing fantasy and refinement, minutely responsive to texture and color” (Gramophone).
- [Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/kaleidoscope-chamber-collective-2026/): Hailed for “exhilarating performances” (The Times), the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective currently serves as the Associate Ensemble of London’s Wigmore Hall. KCC’s return to PCMS spotlights the “simply astounding” (The Telegraph) virtuoso horn player Ben Goldscheider in a first half of works by Ethel Smyth and the U.S. premiere of a quintet by GRAMMY-nominated composer Anna Clyne. Following intermission Schubert’s Trout quintet is featured—inspired by and named after the composer’s 1817 song, which tells the story of a trout being caught by an angler. The work was published shortly after the composer's death and today is considered a cornerstone of chamber music repertoire.
- [Kobi Malkin, violin and Shai Wosner, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/malkin-wosner/): Due to a scheduling conflict, Renana Gutman is no longer available for this performance with Kobi Malkin. With their PCMS debut program, Echoes of Faith, violinist Kobi Malkin and pianist Shai Wosner explore themes of reflection, devotion, and the quiet persistence of hope. The evening opens with Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, with its essential, hymnlike theme, before leading us on an emotional musical journey encompassing beloved sonatas, arrangements of traditional Hebrew melodies, and more.
- [Jennifer Koh, violin and Vijay Iyer, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/koh-iyer/): Grammy Award-winning violinist Jennifer Koh opens PCMS’s 41st season alongside Vijay Iyer, a composer and pianist hailed by The Guardian for his “melodically alluring, rhythmically invigorating, deviously dazzling music.” For his PCMS debut, Iyer joins Koh to give the world premiere of  Part II of his Scenes of Living and Dying, a collection of works intended to hold space to channel our private and public griefs. Koh complements Iyer’s original compositions with a selection of solo violin pieces by J.S. Bach.
- [Kim Kashkashian, viola; Adam Newman, viola; Edward Luengo, cello; Roberto Granados, guitar; Petra Berényi, cimbalom](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/kashkashian-and-friends-2027/): Among BBC Magazine’s “greatest violists of all time”, Kim Kashkashian has appeared on the PCMS stage more than 25 times over the last quarter century with a dazzling array of artists and ensembles. This program, with four distinguished collaborators , showcases music from Germany, Hungary, the U.S., and Armenia, including sacred, folk, and contemporary works.
- [Raphaël Feuillâtre, guitar](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/raphael-feuillatre-guitar-2026/): Hailed as the new face of classical guitar worldwide, Raphaël Feuillâtre returns to PCMS following a dazzling 2024 debut that left audiences in awe of his “consistently stunning musicality” (Cleveland Classical). From Spain to Argentina and Italy to Brazil, Feuillâtre leads us on a journey through  music by Scarlatti, Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, and Albéniz, as well as the lesser-known but equally captivating Tárrega and Solés, demonstrating extraordinary expressivity and complete mastery of his instrument.
- [PCMS 40th Anniversary Name-Your-Price Tickets](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/pcms-40th-anniversary-name-your-price/): Tuesday, March 31, 7:30 PM Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center Friends of PCMS can purchase tickets to our 40th Anniversary Concert starting at $40. Any amount you wish to contribute above $40 per ticket will be considered a tax-deductible donation for our Annual Fund. Name-your-price tickets will be assigned best-available seating. You may enter your seating needs/requests at checkout.
- [PCMS 40th Anniversary Passholder Tickets](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/passholder-anniversary-offer/): Tuesday, March 31, 7:30 PM Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center Full Season passholders can purchase Bronze-level tickets to our 40th Anniversary Concert with no minimum donation required. Tickets for this event are $40, and you may add a donation if you wish. Passholder tickets will be held at will call on the evening of the concert.
- [Young Friends Tickets; BalletX w/ ensemble132](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/young-friends-tickets-balletx-2026/): Friday, January 9, 2026 - 7:30 PM Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center Anyone aged 21-40 can score $20 tickets to this performance and is invited to enjoy complimentary drinks and light bites at our post-concert reception in partnership with BalletX's Young Patrons Circle. Have a Young Friends Pass? Email boxoffice@pcmsconcerts.org to reserve your seat.
- [Terra Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/terra-quartet/): Praised for their “remarkable maturity” (Hyde Park Herald), the Terra Quartet's program opens with one of Haydn's "London" quartets and concludes with Brahms's first quartet, completed in 1873 after years of revision. Symphonic in scope, the Brahms is notable for its rich textures and masterful interplay between the string instruments. Bridging these works is Borodin's D Major Quartet, a piece composed in 1881 as an anniversary gift for his wife. It is structured around a programmatic narrative of the couple's relationship, with the cello representing Borodin and the first violin representing his wife, Ekaterina.
- [Root Song Panel Discussion: Robin Wall Kimmerer & Suzanne Simard](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/root-song-panel-discussion/): Join distinguished scholars Robin Wall Kimmerer and Suzanne Simard for a transformative conversation on how humans and the natural world are entwined in enduring patterns of reciprocity, care, and interdependence. Together, they will share insights into how trees function as social creatures and how both ecological science and Indigenous perspectives reveal that life sustains life through networks of generosity, not just competition. The discussion will be moderated by Natalia Schwien Scott. A book signing will follow the panel discussion in the Kimmel Center Lobby. Select books by both authors will be available for sale.
- [Root Song World Premiere II*](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/root-song-world-premiere-ii/): *Root Song World Premiere II is a second presentation of Root Song World Premiere I Premiering at Bartram’s Garden, Root Song blends live vocal chamber music by Roomful of Teeth with storytelling by Tchin, creating an immersive experience that channels the wisdom of our forests. Inspired by ground-breaking research on mycorrhizal networks connecting trees and rooted in Indigenous Knowledge, Root Song prompts reflection on the mysteries of our interconnected natural world. Directed by Jazimina Creamer-MacNeil, the work is composed by Christopher Theofanidis with a libretto by Melissa Studdard.  Philadelphia Chamber Music Society is a recipient of Chamber Music America’s Classical Commissioning: A Responsive Shift grant, funded by Chamber Music America, with generous support from the Sewell Family Foundation.
- [Root Song World Premiere I](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/root-song-world-premiere-i/): Premiering at Bartram’s Garden, Root Song blends live vocal chamber music by Roomful of Teeth with storytelling by Tchin, creating an immersive experience that channels the wisdom of our forests. Inspired by ground-breaking research on mycorrhizal networks connecting trees and rooted in Indigenous Knowledge, Root Song prompts reflection on the mysteries of our interconnected natural world. Directed by Jazimina Creamer-MacNeil, the work is composed by Christopher Theofanidis with a libretto by Melissa Studdard.  Philadelphia Chamber Music Society is a recipient of Chamber Music America’s Classical Commissioning: A Responsive Shift grant, funded by Chamber Music America, with generous support from the Sewell Family Foundation.
- [PCMS 40th Anniversary Celebration](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/gala/): We invite you to join us as we celebrate and honor our founding Executive Director Philip Maneval in a program of great music making, in support of the mission, values, and programs that have made PCMS such a vital part of the cultural life of our city and region. In collaboration with some of our closest musical friends, we will present a program that highlights our mission to engage our community in a life more beautiful through the shared experience of chamber music.
- [Alexi Kenney, violin; Amy Yang, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/national-coming-out-day/): PCMS and the Mazzoni Center invite you to a special community concert celebrating National Coming Out Day and the power of LGBTQ history, visibility, and connection. This free event features violinist Alexi Kenney—praised by The New York Times for his “characterful flair”—joined by the “jaw-dropping” pianist Amy Yang (The Washington Post). Together, they present Unfolding: A Celebration of Queer Expression in Music, highlighting LGBTQ composers from past and present.
- [Young Friends Tickets; Jeanine De Bique, soprano; Warren Jones, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/de-bique-young-friends/): Tuesday, April 29, 2025 - 7:30 PM Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center Anyone aged 22-40 can score $15 tickets to this performance and is invited to enjoy complimentary drinks and light bites at our final post-concert reception of the season! Have a Young Friends Pass? Email boxoffice@pcmsconcerts.org to reserve your seat.
- [Golda Schultz, soprano and Jonathan Ware, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/schultz-ware/): South African soprano Golda Schultz is blessed with “one of the most golden rich-toned voices of her generation” (Operawire). Her thrilling PCMS debut recital with pianist Jonathan Ware in 2022 revealed a rare combination of musical wit and curatorial thought. “Schultz and Ware made each song a deeply involving short story. She gives listeners the feeling that each piece of music is being newly discovered as she delivers it, a sense of wonder being transmitted from artist to audience” (Star Tribune).
- [Brentano Quartet w/ Hsin-Yun Huang, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/brentano-quartet-huang/): In this special two-part concert, the “passionate, uninhibited, and spellbinding” (London Independent) Brentano Quartet and master violist Hsin-Yun Huang illuminate the complete string quintets of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In these six remarkable works, Mozart achieves a tour de force of classical perfection, from the first quintet—in which one senses a brilliant young composer just starting to test his wings—to the later works, in which he reaches his most breathtaking heights of inspiration.
- [Mark Steinberg, violin and Jonathan Biss, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/steinberg-biss-2/): Two internationally acclaimed musicians with deep ties to Philadelphia return for part two of their four-concert journey, encompassing the complete works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for violin and keyboard. PCMS is honored to bring together Mark Steinberg—leader of the revered Brentano Quartet, which makes annual appearances on our series—and pianist Jonathan Biss, who has consistently left PCMS audiences spellbound with his probing, incisive, deeply considered performances.
- [Beatrice Rana, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/beatrice-rana-2025/): Revered for the intelligence and depth of her interpretations, Beatrice Rana is sought-after worldwide for playing that has a delicate, almost weightless quality. Her gift for weaving gossamer textures comes to the fore in a program matched by a fearless technical address that blurs dreams and reality. In a recital that covers a kaleidoscopic range of colors and styles, Rana makes her PCMS recital debut with some of the most demanding and dazzling music written for piano.
- [Anika Kildegaard, soprano and Daniel Schreiner, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/anika-kildegaard-soprano/): Winner of the 2024 Musical Fund Society Career Advancement Award, Anika Kildegaard is quickly distinguishing herself as one of the most promising American vocalists specializing in new music and concert repertoire. Fresh off her Carnegie Hall and Boston Symphony Orchestra debuts, this frequent member of the award winning vocal ensemble The Crossing debuts with PCMS in a recital that highlights selections from three song cycles that grapple with the intensity of love and loss in the human experience.
- [Sphinx Virtuosi w/ Sterling Elliott, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/sphinx-virtuosi-elliott/): Opening night belongs to the renowned Sphinx Virtuosi, which returns to PCMS for a fifth consecutive season, this time with the gifted young cellist Sterling Elliott as the featured soloist. Comprising 18 of the nation’s top Black and Latinx classical soloists, the “vibrant” and “rhapsodic” Virtuosi (New York Times) bring to PCMS a program titled Visions of Peace which offers a unique convergence of musical voices that usher us into a realm where music becomes an emissary of peace and unity. Sphinx writes: “We hope to lift every voice and remember our complex history while looking toward our shared journey as we face a brighter tomorrow. We explore peace while remembering the conflict of past and present and recognizing the repeated history and the resilience of the human spirit.”
- [Matthew Polenzani, tenor and Ken Noda, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/matthew-polenzani-2025/): American tenor Matthew Polenzani delivered an unforgettable recital during his spring 2024 PCMS appearance, captivating audiences and prompting enthusiastic requests for his return. For his highly anticipated encore, Polenzani will be joined by pianist Ken Noda in a performance culminating with Schubert’s Schwanengesang (“Swan Song”). Composed in the final months of Schubert’s life, this haunting collection of 14 songs, widely regarded as one of his most profound creations, explores themes of longing and loss, with the presence of a distant beloved lingering throughout.
- [Richard Goode, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/richard-goode-piano-2026/): Richard Goode is acclaimed worldwide for the tremendous emotional power, depth, and sensitivity of his playing—a rare combination of grandness and humility, boldness and insight. The title of his latest PCMS program, Fancies and Goodnights, is borrowed from a book of bewitching tales by the English writer John Collier. “As a curious traveler will collect objects that catch hiseye, these short pieces are among the many that have caught my ear with their beauty, strangeness, and unpredictability,” says Goode.
- [BalletX and ensemble132](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/balletx-ensemble132-1/): Following a breathtaking collaboration in 2024, Philadelphia’s premier contemporary ballet company, BalletX, returns to PCMS alongside the “audacious… liberating… illuminating” ensemble132 (Blogcritics) for an imaginative program. The first half features miniatures by Wiancko and Bartók culminating in the turbulent and emotionally charged Mozart Piano Quartet in G Minor. These works explore themes and styles that set the stage for the second half: BalletX Resident Choreographer Amy Hall Garner’s reimagining of Petrushka, a magical ballet that delves into innocence, coming of age, folk traditions, and hot-blooded passion.
- [The Sebastians w/ Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/sebastians-fitz-gibbon/): Lauded as “everywhere sharp-edged and engaging” (New York Times), The Sebastians are a dynamic and vital ensemble specializing in music of the baroque and classical eras. They have been praised for their “well-thought-out articulation and phrasing” (Early Music Review) and “elegant string playing… immaculate in tuning and balance” (Early Music Today). For their PCMS debut, The Sebastians are joined by soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, a PCMS favorite who is noted for her “dazzling, virtuoso singing” (Boston Globe).
- [Lorelei Ensemble](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/lorelei-ensemble/): Heralded for its “full-bodied and radiant sound” (New York Times) and “stunning precision of harmony, intonation, and spectacular virtuosity” (Gramophone), the Lorelei Ensemble is globally recognized for bold, inventive programs that champion the extraordinary flexibility and virtuosity of the human voice. Led by founder and artistic director Beth Willer, Lorelei presents Frost and Fire, an artistically audacious program that travels through stillness, waiting, and advent to arrive at the renewal and rebirth of the winter solstice.
- [Musicians from Marlboro I](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/musicians-from-marlboro-i-2025/): For 60 years, the Musicians from Marlboro touring program has brought memorable performances from Vermont’s legendary chamber music school and festival to national audiences. The first of three Marlboro touring ensembles this season is led by Lysander Trio violinist Itamar Zorman. Their program features Britten’s Phantasy for string trio and oboe, his first work to gain major international recognition, as well as Shostakovich’s introspective, sardonic, and elegiac String Quartet No. 8, a work dedicated to the victims of war and fascism. The program concludes with the youthful brilliance of the 16-year-old Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quintet in A Major.
- [Juilliard Quartet w/ Marc-André Hamelin, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/juilliard-quartet-hamelin/): When PCMS last presented the renowned Juilliard Quartet with pianist Marc-André Hamelin, in 2019, a prolonged ovation followed a glorious interpretation of Dvořák’s Piano Quintet in A Major. “This was a performance, above all, of high polish and efficiency” (Philadelphia Inquirer). For their return appearance, the Juilliard and Hamelin—an artist known the world over for his unrivaled blend of consummate musicianship and radiant technique—unite for César Franck’s mammoth Piano Quintet in F Minor, a work that roils with passion and searing emotional intensity.
- [Lyric Fest](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/lyric-fest-2026/): Lyric Fest illuminates the life of Benjamin Franklin in its latest Biography in Music series. Bringing together great singers, composers, history, and humor, this inventive program includes excerpts from Franklin’s letters, prose writing, and biographical narration. Musically it features both contemporaneous vocal music that would have been heard in colonial America at the time, plus settings of Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac. Completing the program is a world premiere by Philadelphia composer Melissa Dunphy and a newly commissioned work by Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon, inspired by Franklin’s writing.
- [Axelle Fanyo, soprano and Julius Drake, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/fanyo-drake/): One of the most promising singers of her generation, French soprano Axelle Fanyo has been praised by Renée Fleming for her “charismatic, beautiful voice real star quality.” In her PCMS debut program with the “unfailingly eloquent and supportive” pianist Julius Drake (The Telegraph), Fanyo explores the master and apprentice relationship between two pioneering European composers, Arnold Schoenberg and Olivier Messaien, and their American protegés, John Cage and William Bolcom.
- [Takács Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/takacs-quartet-2026/): “There is no finer ensemble in the world, expressively and technically,” than the Takács Quartet (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Formed in Budapest in 1975, this peerless ensemble returns to Philadelphia to perform a new work by Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad, as well as Haydn’s charming Rider Quartet and Beethoven’s profound and groundbreaking Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131—which he considered his favorite achievement in the genre.
- [Dover Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/dover-quartet-2026/): Praised for their “utterly unified” ensemble artistry (EarRelevant), the two-time GRAMMY-nominated Dover Quartet returns to PCMS with a program that explores the heart of the American story. The afternoon highlights Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s inventive interpretations of Native American folk music and the clans of the Eastern Woodlands People. The performance also features Jessie Montgomery’s soulful arrangement of Strum and Dvořák’s spirited American Quartet.
- [Peter Wiley, cello and Anna Polonsky, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/wiley-polonsky/): Greatly admired for his years with the Beaux Arts Trio and the Guarneri Quartet, cellist Peter Wiley makes his annual PCMS appearance—this time in recital with Anna Polonsky, “a chamber musician of exceptional refinement” (New York Times). At the heart of this concert are two masterpieces for cello and piano by Brahms and Mendelssohn. Brahms’s first cello sonata has its roots firmly planted in the music of the past—almost as if he was turning his back on his wild, young self. Mendelssohn’s second cello sonata also demonstrates the pathos of the Romantic period, while remaining grounded in the tenets of Classicism inherited from Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven.
- [Garrick Ohlsson, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/garrick-ohlsson-2026/): Renowned for his profound interpretations of Chopin, Garrick Ohlsson returns to dazzle us with a journey through some of the composer’s most beloved works. “By almost any measure, Ohlsson is one of the great American pianists” (Washington Post).
- [Joseph Lin, violin; Claire Bourg, violin; Natalie Loughran, viola; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Helen Huang, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/joseph-lin-and-friends/): From prayerful meditation and delicate lyricism to passionate outbursts and playful exuberance, Beethoven’s three consecutive masterpieces offer a rich and fascinating musical journey that captures a time of transition in Beethoven’s life. A beloved regular with PCMS, former Juilliard Quartet violinist Joseph Lin has created a brilliant program highlighting the end of Beethoven’s “middle style,” signifying a shift towards a more dramatic and personal compositional approach that coincided with the composer’s hearing loss.
- [Catalyst Quartet; Kim Kashkashian, viola; Marcy Rosen, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/catalyst-kashkashian-rosen/): Hailed as a “legend of the cello” by The New Yorker, Marcy Rosen joins forces with GRAMMY Award-winning violist Kim Kashkashian and the “invariably energetic” Catalyst Quartet (New York Times) for a rare performance of Erich Korngold’s Sextet in D Major—a work full of bustling energy and sweeping melodies. Against All Odds showcases music by composers who faced significant hardship and oppression during their lives.
- [Isidore Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/isidore-quartet/): Winners of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition, the New York City-based Isidore String Quartet has been praised for “focus and command beyond their years” (Violinist.com). Their PCMS debut program features works by Haydn and Dvořák and the Philadelphia premiere of GRAMMY Award-winning composer Billy Childs’s Quartet No. 4.
- [Quatuor Ébène](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/quatuor-ebene-2026/): Over the past two decades, French ensemble Quatuor Ébène has thrilled audiences with performances ranging from the complete Beethoven cycle to forays into Left Bank jazz. The ensemble’s telepathic understanding, artistic daring, and musical individuality make for edge-of-the-seat concert experiences, intensely focused and touched by visionary insights.
- [Owls](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/owls/): At once a bass-forward string quartet and at times a downtown band, Owls challenge the way that meaningful concert experiences are conceived. Weaving new works together with original arrangements of music from the 1600s to the present, their PCMS debut program covers a vast timeline that spans from Trollstilt to François Couperin. With their distinctive instrumentation and collective creativity, the ensemble of violinist Alexi Kenney, violist Ayane Kozasa, and cellists Gabriel Cabezas and Paul Wiancko channels beautiful and exhilarating new sounds from over 300 years of music history.
- [Imogen Cooper, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/imogen-cooper-piano-2025/): This performance was originally scheduled for October 28, 2025. Your tickets for October 28 will be valid for the May 27 performance. For her seventh solo recital with PCMS, British pianist Imogen Cooper returns to Perelman Theater for an evening of works that showcases her stunning virtuosity, graceful lyricism, and poetic interpretations. Among the finest interpreters of the Classical and Romantic repertoire, Cooper presents a recital that includes both sets of Schubert’s impromptus—eight “Poems in Sound” that are flowing, evocative, and reflective of the rhythms of the heart and soul of life itself.
- [Nathalie Joachim, flute and Yvonne Lam, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/joachim-lam/): S P A C E + Solitude is an evening-length musical performance that examines the psychological implications of loneliness and connectivity in an increasingly isolating yet hyperconnected world. Conceived and written by GRAMMY-nominated performer and composer Nathalie Joachim, the work for voice, flute, violin, electronics, and sampled field recordings integrates immersive lighting as a key component in creating a truly interactive experience that grapples with the conflicting notions of fear, othering, comfort, and peace that come forth when negotiating singular vs. collective existence.  Key collaborators include GRAMMY award-winning violinist Yvonne Lam and internationally acclaimed lighting designer Nicholas Houfek.
- [Jeremy Denk, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/jeremy-denk-piano-2025/): Pianist Jeremy Denk’s programming evokes a sense of “poetic logic” (Boston Classical Review) that has captivated PCMS audiences for decades. For this season’s appearance, Denk illuminates works by nine female composers from past and present.
- [Emanuel Ax, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/emanuel-ax-piano-2025/): Seven-time GRAMMY Award-winning pianist Emanuel Ax is revered for his poetic temperament, deeply-felt interpretations, and the unsurpassed virtuosity of his playing. Whether performing a timeless sonata or premiering a new work, his artistry reflects a profound love for music and its ability to inspire. As the New York Times declares, Ax’s performances are “never less than spellbinding.”
- [Miró Quartet w/ Karen Slack, soprano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/miro-quartet-karen-slack/): For over 25 years, the Miró Quartet has performed on the world’s most prestigious stages, showcasing their “collective intelligence uncanny precision” (Musical America). Their program includes excerpts from masterworks by Samuel Barber and Florence Price, as well as a PCMS co-commission for soprano and quartet by the genre-defying, Brooklyn-based composer Tamar-kali. The new work spotlights Philadelphia’s own soprano Karen Slack, who brings “the right mix of grace and fire” (Schmopera) to this much-anticipated local premiere.
- [Musicians from Marlboro III](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/musicians-from-marlboro-iii-2026/): “Caution – Musicians at Play” reads a large, hand-painted sign on the rural Vermont hilltop where, each summer, musicians from all over the world come together to explore beloved and less-known chamber works. This season’s third touring ensemble from “the classical world’s most coveted retreat” (The New Yorker) showcases four outstanding emerging singers performing vocal quartets by Brahms, Schumann, and Britten, alongside a pair of Haydn’s most inviting piano trios.
- [Curtis Chamber Orchestra; Erin Keefe, violin; Roberto Díaz, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/curtis-chamber-orchestra-2026/): Violinist Erin Keefe, Concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra and a Curtis faculty member, leads this conductorless chamber orchestra of young musicians from the Curtis Institute of Music. The program includes Mozart’s masterful Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola, and orchestra, performed by Keefe and Curtis President and renowned violist Roberto Díaz.
- [Modigliani Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/modigliani-quartet-2025/): Famous for its energy and passion, the Paris-based Modigliani Quartet brings a stylish precision to every performance. The ensemble begins their PCMS program with Hungarian composer György Kurtág’s set of tiny Zen koans, each of its 12 microludes exacting the utmost of the modern “sound byte” attention span, or, in the best sense of a 12-course tasting menu, a delicious series of sound bites. The Modiglianis then turn their attention to Beethoven, concluding the evening with one of the more famous quartets from the composer’s middle period. The C Major Quartet has acquired the nickname Eroica because of its glorious, triumphant finale.
- [Imani Winds](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/imani-winds-2026/): The GRAMMY-nominated Imani Winds has carved out a distinct presence in the classical music world with their dynamic playing and culturally poignant programming. Their PCMS return opens with Red Clay & Mississippi Delta, a virtuosic work by the group’s original flutist, Valerie Coleman, that merges classical technique and orchestration with the blues dialect and charm of the south. Globe-spanning works by Cuban, Finnish, Palestinian-American, and Turkish composers follow, reflecting the ensemble’s deep commitment to enriching the traditional wind quintet repertoire.
- [BalletX and ensemble132](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/balletx-ensemble132-2/): Following a breathtaking collaboration in 2024, Philadelphia’s premier contemporary ballet company, BalletX, returns to PCMS alongside the “audacious… liberating… illuminating” ensemble132 (Blogcritics) for an imaginative program. The first half features miniatures by Wiancko and Bartók culminating in the turbulent and emotionally charged Mozart Piano Quartet in G Minor. These works explore themes and styles that set the stage for the second half: BalletX Resident Choreographer Amy Hall Garner’s reimagining of Petrushka, a magical ballet that delves into innocence, coming of age, folk traditions, and hot-blooded passion.
- [Pinchas Zukerman, violin and Shai Wosner, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/zukerman-wosner/): With a celebrated career spanning five decades, Pinchas Zukerman is admired for the expressive lyricism of his playing, singular beauty of tone, and impeccable musicianship. For his first PCMS performance since 2012, this “forever-young virtuoso” (Los Angeles Times) joins forces with pianist Shai Wosner for an all-Brahms recital. Heard in succession, it is fascinating to experience Brahms’s progression through this triptych of violin sonatas—extraordinary masterpieces that occupy their own rarefied worlds of elegant construction, romantic sweep, and exquisite beauty.
- [Musicians from Marlboro II](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/musicians-from-marlboro-ii-2026/): Each summer, musicians from around the world gather in the Green Mountains of Vermont to participate in a “fundamentally natural and unique” approach to music-making (New York Classical Review). In their second appearance this season, Musicians from Marlboro reintroduces Untitled—a 2023 PCMS commission by composer and MacArthur “Genius” Tyshawn Sorey—as well as a pair of works by Beethoven, including the vivacious Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20.
- [Gamut Bach Ensemble](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/gamut-bach-ensemble-2026/): A unique collaboration between outstanding young musicians and an expert on the music of J.S. Bach, the Gamut Bach Ensemble prides itself on stylistically sensitive, earnest, and insightful performances. Directed by Koji Otsuki, the Ensemble embarks on its annual program of cantatas in the luminous Church of the Holy Trinity.
- [Nicholas Phan, tenor; Philippe Tondre, oboe; Geneva Lewis, violin; Emma Wernig, viola; Jay Campbell, cello; Evren Ozel, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/phan-tondre-and-friends/): Acclaimed tenor Nicholas Phan returns to PCMS with an ensemble of gifted instrumentalists. This event also spotlights the Philadelphia Orchestra’s esteemed Principal Oboist, Philippe Tondre, in performances of seldom-heard works that set poetry to music.
- [Belcea Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/belcea-quartet-2025/): PCMS welcomes back the Belcea Quartet—praised for their “superior artistry... full of style, feeling, and expressive depth” (New York Classical Review). The Belcea’s return to the Kimmel Center features a Philadelphia premiere by one of Europe’s most esteemed composers, Brett Dean; the last of the quintessential string quartets Mozart dedicated to Haydn (who, upon hearing it, immediately declared Mozart “the greatest composer I know, either personally or by reputation”); and the bittersweet potency of Beethoven’s final complete opus.
- [Mark Steinberg, violin and Jonathan Biss, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/steinberg-biss-1/): Two internationally acclaimed musicians with deep ties to Philadelphia present a four-concert journey over two seasons, encompassing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s complete works for violin and keyboard. PCMS is honored to bring together Mark Steinberg—leader of the revered Brentano Quartet, which makes annual appearances on our series—and pianist Jonathan Biss, who has consistently left PCMS audiences spellbound with his probing, incisive, deeply considered performances.

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## News
- [Evening Concerts to Begin at 7:30 PM in 2018-19](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/evening-concerts-to-begin-at-730-pm-in-2018-19/): Beginning in the 2018-19 season, in response to audience surveys, all evening Philadelphia Chamber Music Society concerts will begin at 7:30 PM. Our pre-concert lectures will now begin at 6:30 PM. Our Sunday afternoon concerts will still begin at 3 PM. We hope you find this a welcome change.
- [Announcing a New Community Concert Venue](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/announcing-a-new-community-concert-venue/): PCMS is delighted to be among a small group of organizations invited by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) to hold concerts in the intimate, 250-seat John and Richanda Rhoden Arts Center auditorium in the Samuel M.V. Hamilton building. This brand-new space will have general admission seating.
- [PCMS Introduces Full Season Pass in 2018-19](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/pcms-introduces-full-season-pass-in-2018-19/): From March 1 through July 31, 2018 PCMS will continue to accept subscriptions to our 2018-19 Season. However, starting August 1, when single tickets go on sale online, PCMS will introduce a NEW ticket purchasing option.
- [2018-19 Season Announcment](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/2018-19-season-announcment/): One of our favorite times of the year has arrived: the announcement of our upcoming season and the chance to chat and explore with our patrons all of the new musical adventures that await us.
- [Pierre-Laurent Aimard Announces New Program](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/pierre-laurent-aimard-announces-new-program/): We have just received word that Pierre-Laurent Aimard has changed his March 13, 2018 PCMS recital program. The revised concert details are as follows.
- [Elias Quartet Personnel Change for Feburary 2018 Concert](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/elias-quartet-personnel-change-feburary-2018-concert/): We've just received word from the members of the Elias Quartet that violist Martin Saving will be unable to participate in the quartet’s upcoming North American tour in February-March, 2018, due to treatment for a medical condition which involves his arm. Simone van der Giessen will fill in for Martin for all performances on this tour, including the quartet's February 21, 2018 appearance with Jonathan Biss at the Perelman Theater.
- [PCMS Participates in Giving Tuesday](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/pcms-participates-giving-tuesday/): Giving Tuesday is November 28 and has become an international trend for giving thanks to the organizations that enrich our lives and help make our communities better places.
- [Announcing Our 12th Annual $10 Day Sale](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/announcing-12th-annual-10-day-sale/): Drum roll please! Once again the PCMS staff has carefully selected 12 events for our annual, once-a-year $10 Day sale on Wednesday, November 29 from 9am-5pm via phone with three additional hours from 5-8pm for online sales only.
- [Inon Barnatan Replaces Ingrid Fliter](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/inon-barnatan-replaces-ingrid-fliter/): We apologize for this late change but think that you will really enjoy the new program. However, if you prefer not attend, you have three options:
- [2017-18 PCMS Season Preview](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/2017-18-pcms-season-preview/): Dear Friends,
- [PCMS Collaborates with Jonathan Biss on 3-Concert “Departure & Discovery” Project](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/pcms-collaborates-jonathan-biss-3-concert-departure-discovery-project/): The three Perelman Theater concerts will feature works by Bach, Kurtág, Britten, Beethoven, Schumann, Gesualdo, Brahms, Mozart, and Schubert. Together, the concerts will highlight the dramatic new directions that are taken and fresh discoveries that are made by these great composers while at the height of their creative powers.
- [PCMS Elects Wendell E. Pritchett, Jr. to Board of Directors](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/pcms-elects-wendell-e-pritchett-jr-board-directors/): The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (PCMS) is pleased to announce that Wendell E. Pritchett, Jr. has been elected a member of the PCMS Board of Directors.
- [New Board Chair Announcement](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/53259/): June 10, 2016
- [Benjamin Beilman Replaces Christian Tetzlaff](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/benjamin-beilman-replaces-christian-tetzlaff/): Happily, we have arranged for violinist Benjamin Beilman and pianist Andrew Tyson to present a recital of works by Mozart and Janáček at the same time and in the same hall as the original concert: 8:00 pm in the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater. Tickets for the Tetzlaff recital will admit patrons to the Beilman/Tyson performance.
- [PCMS founder Anthony Checchia, the city’s ‘artistic north star,’ celebrated](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/pcms-founder-anthony-checchia-citys-artistic-north-star-celebrated/): Peter Dobrin writes at The Philadelphia Inquirer,
- [Imani Winds Rescheduled Date](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/imani-winds-rescheduled-date/): Fortunately, we have been able to reschedule this performance (with the same program) for Sunday, April 24, 2016, at 3:00 pm in the same venue—the Van Pelt Auditorium in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Tickets for the original date will admit patrons to the rescheduled concert.
- [John Dalley Cancels January 29 PCMS Appearance](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/john-dalley-cancels-january-29-pcms-appearance/): Due to illness, John Dalley will be unable to appear as guest artist with the Horszowski Trio for its PCMS performance on Friday, January 29, 2016, at 8 pm at the American Philosophical Society's Benjamin Franklin Hall.
- [Europa Galante Cancellation](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/europa-galante-cancellation/): Therefore, we must cancel their Friday, January 22 performance with us. The members of the ensemble were very much looking forward to making their Philadelphia debut and have apologized profusely for this late cancellation. While we are also disappointed, we understand their situation. We will do our best to reschedule them for a future season.
- [Tai Murray Postponement](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/tai-murray-postponement/): Unfortunately, due to a last-minute scheduling conflict, Tai Murray has had to postpone her Wednesday, February 3, 2016 recital with Anton Nel.
- [Time For Three Concert Cancellation](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/time-three-concert-cancellation/): Due to a minor injury involving one of the members of the Trio, we have had to cancel our Time for Three concert, scheduled for Saturday, May 10, 2014, at the American Philosophical Society. At this late stage in the season, we were just not able to reschedule the date. However, we have offered ticket holders the following four options:
- [Peter Serkin Recital to Proceed](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/peter-serkin-recital-proceed/): Despite snow, Peter Serkin's recital to proceed.
- [PCMS Names Miles Cohen Artistic Director](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/pcms-names-miles-cohen-artistic-director/): A special message from Executive Director, Philip Maneval.
- [Single Tickets on Sale for 2013/14 Season](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/single-tickets-on-sale-for-201314-season/): Single Tickets Now on Sale!
- [Venue Changes and Other Adjustments](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/venue-adjustment/): Venues and other changes to our upcoming season.
- [Storm Cancellations To Press](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/storm-cancellations-press/): 1)  Due to the closing of the Kimmel Center, tonight's Musicians from Marlboro concert has been canceled.
- [Haefliger Replaces Freire](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/haefliger-replaces-freire/): PCMS has just learned that, due to medical reasons, pianist Nelson Freire has called off his U.S. tour – thus canceling his March 3 PCMS recital at Perelman Theater.
- [Fellner Replaces Moravec](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/news/fellner-replaces-moravec/): PCMS has just learned that, due to medical reasons, pianist Ivan Moravec has called off his fall trip to the U.S. – thus canceling his October 19 PCMS recital at Perelman Theater.

## Videos
- [Bridge to Beethoven Overview: Jennifer Koh, Shai Wosner](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/bridge-beethoven-overview-jennifer-koh-shai-wosner/): Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner discuss their upcoming collaboration, 'Bridge to Beethoven' which pairs Beethoven’s ten violin sonatas with new works over four programs. Their project explores the significant impact that Beethoven has had on audiences and artists from various cultural backgrounds. New works have been commissioned from composers Anthony Cheung, Vijay Iyer, and Andrew Norman as companion pieces to specific Beethoven violin sonatas. 'Bridge to Beethoven' also includes performances of Jörg Widmann's 2010 work 'Sommersonate,' which Koh and Wosner performed the US premiere of in 2014. The subsequent videos in this playlist explore the three composers' new works in depth.
- [Meng Su’s Gold Medal Performance – 2015 Parkening International Guitar Competition](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/meng-sus-gold-medal-performance-2015-parkening-international-guitar-competition/): Meng Su performs in the Final Round of the Parkening International Guitar Competition on May 30, 2015. Meng Su went on to win the Gold Medal later that evening, becoming the first guitarist to have won both youth and the main Parkening Competition, she is also the first female guitarist to both make it to the final round of the main competition and win the Gold Medal.
- [Escher Quartet play Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 “Death and the Maiden”](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/escher-quartet-play-schuberts-string-quartet-no-14-death-maiden/): String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D810 ("Death and the Maiden") by Franz Schubert - I. Allegro. Performed live by the Escher String Quartet in Brooklyn Classical's studio.
- [Anthony McGill rehearses with students at Play on Philly](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/anthony-mcgill-rehearses-students-play-philly/): Rehearsal for a concert in 2014.
- [Decoda Ensemble Teaches Music As Prison Rehabilitation](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/decoda-ensemble-teaches-music-prison-rehabilitation/): Can music heal us? The Decoda chamber ensemble is convinced it can by making music accessible to everyone. Every year, the New York City-based collective spends one week at the Lee Correctional Institution teaching inmates at the maximum security facility to play and compose music as part of a rehabilitation program.
- [Danish String Quartet Sting Medley with Bottle Boys](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/danish-string-quartet-sting-medley/): Strings, Bottles, and Sting. The Danish String Quartet collaborates with the Bottle Boys for this fun medley.
- [Garrick Ohlsson on Listening to Music](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/garrick-ohlsson-on-listening-to-music/)
- [Enso Play Opera Masters](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/enso-play-opera-masters/): Beautiful, informal video with the young NYC based Enso Quartet.
- [East Coast Chamber Orchestra](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/east-coast-chamber-orchestra/): In 2001, a group of exciting young string players envisioned the creation of a conductor-less chamber orchestra, based upon democratic principles, whose focus is to be purely on music-making.
- [Time for Three Promo](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/time-for-three-promo/): The groundbreaking, category-shattering trio Time for Three transcends traditional classification, with elements of classical, country western, gypsy and jazz idioms forming a blend all its own.
- [Big Think Interview With Pierre-Laurent Aimard](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/big-think-interview-with-pierre-laurent-aimard/): Big Think sits down with the classical pianist.
- [Aimard and the Fugue](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/aimard-and-the-fugue/): PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD Bach The Art of Fugue, Contrapunctus
- [Takacs Quartet Perform Mendelssohn Intermezzo in Paris](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/takacs-quartet-perform-mendelssohn-intermezzo-in-paris/): Excerpt from a concert broadcast live from the Auditorium du Louvre (Paris) on medici.tv, May, 18th 2011. Félix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - String quartet in A minor, Op. 13 (III. Intermezzo).
- [Richard Goode: Masterclass](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/richard-goode-masterclass/): Richard Goode holds a master class with students from the Bard Conservatory, and comments on the school's unique approach to educating musicians.
- [Mitsuko Uchida and Sir Colin Davis Discuss Beethoven](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/mitsuko-uchida-and-sir-colin-davis-discuss-beethoven/): A wonderful conversation with Mitsuko Uchida and Colin Davis about Nielsen and Beethoven.
- [The Belcea Quartet Discusses Recording Beethoven](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/the-belcea-quartet-discusses-recording-beethoven/): The Belcea Quartet, based in London, discusses their Beethoven Quartet recordings.
- [Conversations with Nick Canellakis: Jonathan Biss](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/conversations-with-nick-canellakis-jonathan-biss/): Pianist Jonathan Biss joins the Conversations series to discuss his Carnegie Hall debut and other things.
- [Jonathan Biss Discusses Beethoven on PBS NewsHour](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/jonathan-biss-discusses-beethoven-on-pbs-newshour/): Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas remain landmarks in music history, works that pianists in every generation have felt the desire, the inspiration, the need to take on. A new recording by Jonathan Biss is recently out, the first of nine to be released over nine years, that will eventually include the entire cycle.
- [Anton and the Piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/video/anton-and-the-piano/): This is a great video showcasing the behind the scenes details that many audiences never even know about!

## Staff
- [Miles Cohen](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/about/staff/miles-cohen/): Every year, Artistic Director Miles Cohen plans, books, oversees, presents, and evaluates a richly-varied season of more than 100+ performances and educational events involving leading international chamber music ensembles and recitalists.
- [Elise Griffin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/about/staff/elise-griffin/): Elise Griffin joined the PCMS team in 2026. She holds a B.A. in Art History and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, where she developed a strong interest in arts education, community engagement, and making the arts more accessible. While at USC, she founded Students with USC Museums, a student organization dedicated to connecting students with museums and the greater Los Angeles arts community through educational programs, artist talks, workshops, and other cultural experiences.
- [Shawn Stauffer](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/about/staff/shawn-stauffer/): Shawn Stauffer comes to PCMS with a deep appreciation for the role music plays in bringing people together. A lifelong music lover with an extensive vinyl collection, he is grateful to support an organization devoted to presenting extraordinary chamber music and connecting artists, audiences, and communities through live performance.
- [Dave Tarantino](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/about/staff/dave-tarantino/): Dave is excited to join the PCMS staff this season as Communications Manager, where he manages the organization’s social media and assists with general communications. Originally from South Jersey, Dave is a staunch supporter of Philly's classical music and arts scene. He comes to PCMS with a wide range of teaching, performing, administrative, and broadcast experience.
- [Grace Wible](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/about/staff/grace-wible/): Grace Wible joined the PCMS team in 2024. She received a bachelor's degree in music from West Chester University, where she discovered a passion for arts administration while volunteering on the board of the university's symphony orchestra. Grace went on to pursue a master’s degree in Arts Management and Creative Producing from University College Cork in Ireland, where she produced two music production workshops as part of Rebound Arts Festival. Returning to the Greater Philadelphia Area, Grace worked for the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia for two years as Director of Artistic Operations, gaining experience in production and personnel. She continues her career and advocacy for the arts in her role at PCMS, aspiring to bring communities together and facilitate a sense of healing and belonging through the arts.
- [Marquise Lindsey-Bradley](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/about/staff/marquise-lindsey-bradley/): Marquise Lindsey-Bradley is a clarinetist, arts administrator, and Philadelphia native who uses music as a foundation for leadership and community development. He joined PCMS as Marketing & Engagement Director in the 2023–24 season, where he oversees communications for its 50 annual concerts and fosters partnerships with young professionals, higher education institutions, corporations, and community groups.
- [Emily Stewart](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/about/staff/emily-stewart/): Emily Stewart joined the PCMS team in 2023 and became Box Office Manager in 2024. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Violin Performance from Temple University and a Master's degree in Nonprofit Leadership from La Salle University. She has previously worked as a Teaching Artist and program administrator for multiple music organizations in Philadelphia and Raleigh, North Carolina. In her spare time, Emily continues working with private students, practicing yoga, and playing tennis.
- [Jody Alan Lee](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/about/staff/jody-alan-lee/): Jody Alan Lee joined the PCMS team in 2020. Originally from Dallas, Texas, he came to Philadelphia by way of Phoenix, Arizona where he worked as Assistant Stage Manager for the Phoenix Symphony. He holds a BA in Music and Theatre from Ouachita Baptist University. Prior to joining the world of classical music, Jody traveled the U.S. and Europe as an actor, musician, and theatrical technician. He also serves as Operations Assistant for Marlboro Music. In his spare time, he enjoys going on walks and kayaking with his wife Amanda, reading, or trying to learn a new instrument.
- [Guy Ostertag](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/about/staff/guy-ostertag/): Guy Ostertag has served PCMS consecutively as head usher since the 1995-96 Season. An avid walker and world traveler, he recently completed his 11th long distance Camino de Santiago pilgrimage walk.
- [Patricia Manley](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/about/staff/patricia-manley/): Patricia Manley believes in music as a form of connection that brings together people of all ages and backgrounds. An active performing musician for many years, Pat has played double bass with many symphonic and chamber ensembles in North and South America. She has directed community arts organizations, most recently as Branch Director with Settlement Music School, and has served on panels and committees that help make the arts accessible to diverse audiences. She lives with her husband near Philadelphia and volunteers locally for a nonprofit garden-share (CSA) and as a Spanish/English interpreter. Pat earned an MBA from Drexel University’s Lebow College of Business; majored in double bass performance at Ithaca College and at the National University of Argentina; and has a degree in Spanish language and literature from Binghamton University. She has served on the board of Philadelphia's Network for New Music and as a panelist for local, state, and national arts funding organizations.
- [Brian Potter](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/about/staff/brian-potter/): Brian Potter has collaborated on online content, print materials, and marketing communications for PCMS since 2006. He also serves as Communications Director of Marlboro Music. Prior to his time at PCMS and Marlboro, Brian worked for the American Philosophical Society and as a writer and editor in Boston, MA. He holds an English degree from Wake Forest University. Brian's musical interests range from string quartets and vocal recitals to international folk, rock, and jazz. He's also an avid reader, baseball fan, and craft beer enthusiast.
- [Erik Petersons](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/about/staff/erik-petersons/): A trained violinist and music educator, Erik Petersons has served PCMS and the musical life of our city since 2010 and was appointed Executive Director in 2026, succeeding PCMS's founding executive director Philip Maneval.
- [Bradford Kochel](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/about/staff/bradford-kochel/): Bradford Kochel managed the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Box Office from 1999-2024 and continues to serve PCMS today as Box Office Consultant. With his wide knowledge of artists, repertoire, and venues, he excels at every aspect of concert management and customer service, from concert recommendations to matching patrons with their ideal seats. Bradford studied piano at the Peabody Conservatory (under Julio Esteban) and later privately with Lillian Freundlich and Yoheved Kaplinsky. He spent the next 20 years working in a variety of non-music-related jobs (including a short period of time in the family business) before joining PCMS. He continues to practice the piano daily while also pursuing several other interests, including philosophy, art, dance, concerts, and all things Ancient Greece.
- [Philip Maneval](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/about/staff/philip-maneval/): Philip Maneval, Executive Director Emeritus, assisted in the conception and founding of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society in 1986, and has guided its growth from seven concerts in its founding year to more than 100 performances and educational events each season today. He has worked to maintain its steadfast commitment to the highest artistic standards and a roster of world-class artists; to a rich diversity of composers, works and performing musicians; to a friendly and welcoming environment; to affordable ticket pricing and community outreach that opens doors to great music to all audiences; and to sound planning resulting in balanced budgets in every year of operations.

## Scholars
- [Meg Bragle](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/meg-bragle/): Praised for her “expressive virtuosity” (San Francisco Chronicle), internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Meg Bragle has built a multifaceted career that spans performance, teaching, broadcasting, and artistic mentorship. A leading interpreter of Baroque and Classical repertoire with over 20 recordings to her credit, she has appeared with major ensembles and orchestras across North America and Europe, from the English Baroque Soloists to the Philadelphia Orchestra.
- [Suzanne Simard, ecologist](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/suzanne-simard-ecologist/): She is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; and has been hailed as a scientist who conveys complex, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls in James Cameron’s Avatar) and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide.
- [Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/robin-wall-kimmerer-botanist/): Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Bud Finds Her Gift, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. In 2022, Braiding Sweetgrass was adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith. This new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth’s oldest teachers: the plants around us.
- [Megan Sarno](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/megan-sarno/): Megan Sarno, Assistant Professor (Teaching/Instructional) of Music at Temple University, has published articles that investigate Symbolist poetics in French music of the early twentieth century, especially Claude Debussy’s Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien and Trois poèmes de Verlaine and André Caplet’s Le Miroir de Jésus. Her book project investigates French philosophy and the aesthetics of mystery in a broad range of repertory from the same period. She has also written articles and book chapters about the status and ideas of modernist women musicians such as the singer Claire Croiza and composer Germaine Tailleferre. Sarno is committed to a pedagogy of music history that emphasizes love of music. In addition to securing grants for teaching innovation, she was also the recipient of a College of Liberal Arts award for excellence in teaching at the University of Texas at Arlington.
- [Paul Delnero](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/paul-delnero/): Paul Delnero is Professor of Assyriology at Johns Hopkins University. He is an Assyriologist whose research focus is the religion and culture of Mesopotamia and the transmission of knowledge in Mesopotamian scholarly texts. He received his PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. His most recent book, How to Do Things with Tears: Ritual Lamenting in Ancient Mesopotamia (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records vol. 26, de Gruyter, Berlin, 2020), considers the roles of emotion, music, and political power in the performance of Mesopotamian laments.
- [Lily Kass](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/lily-kass/): Dr. Lily Kass is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator whose work focuses on the diverse ways in which operas are reimagined, adapted, and translated to meet the needs of new audiences. She earned an A.B. in Literature from Harvard University in 2010, and a PhD in Musicology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. Lily was appointed Opera Philadelphia's first Scholar in Residence in 2021. In this role, she gives pre-performance lectures and otherwise supports the company's Community Initiatives team. In addition, Lily lectures at Johns Hopkins University and the Peabody Institute and sings as a Marian Anderson Scholar artist with the National Marian Anderson Museum and Historical Society.
- [Catherine Hughes](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/catherine-hughes/): Catherine Hughes is the Director of Education and Community Engagement at Palm Beach Opera, where she runs programming for audiences of all ages. Catherine created the company’s Opera Forum series, which brings together guest scholars, local leaders, and members of PBO to explore the season’s repertoire from an interdisciplinary perspective. She has a Ph.D. and M.A. in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is pursing an MLIS from the University of South Florida. Before joining Palm Beach Opera, she taught undergraduate courses in music history, world music, and music theory at Saint Joseph’s University and West Chester University.
- [Rollo Dilworth](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/rollo-dilworth/): Rollo Dilworth is the Elaine Brown Choral Chair, Vocal Arts Department Chair, and Professor of Choral Music Education in Temple University’s Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts in Philadelphia, PA. He has served on the faculty since 2009. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses in choral music education, Dilworth serves as Conductor for the Temple University Singing Owls Campus/Community Chorus, as Artistic Director for Singing City, and as Conductor for the School District of Philadelphia High School All-City Chorus.
- [Lesley Valdes](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/lesley-valdes/): Lesley Valdes is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in piano, and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Since taking early retirement as chief music critic of the San Jose Mercury News, the former classical music critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer has been teaching piano in her studio in South Philadelphia as well as poetry and memoir for the Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial. For a decade Valdes was critic-at-large for WRTI, 90.1 FM, Philadelphia’s classical and jazz station. She has broadcast commentaries for National Public Radio’s Performance Today; served as music consultant for the award-winning PBS documentary Wanda Landowska: Uncommon Visionary, and associate producer of Horacio Gutierrez and the Prokofiev Seventh Sonata for PBS affiliate WPBT, Miami, FL. Awards include fellowships from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the Ramon Llull Institute in Barcelona, the New York State Writers’ Institute and the National Arts Journalism Program of the Pew Charitable Trusts. She has written for many national publications including the New York Times, the Wall St. Journal, Symphony and American Poetry Review; poems can be found in the Innisfree Poetry Journal, Shadowgraph, Poetry Ink, the Curator, and Women’s Voices for Change, among others. Her debut chapbook, The Starlight Room (Finishing Line Press, 2025), reflects upon a life in music.
- [Sphinx Organization](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/sphinx-organization/): Bill held the Assistant Principal Viola position with The York Symphony Orchestra and has toured extensively with the Sphinx Virtuosi. In the summer of 2019 he performed with Central City Opera in Colorado during their productions of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Britten’s Billy Budd. Additional orchestral engagements have found Bill playing with The National Symphony Orchestra, The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, PostClassical Ensemble, The Malaysia Philharmonic, and others.
- [Michael Bolton](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/michael-bolton/): Michael J. Bolton is a nationally respected opera and classical music administrator, known for creative programming, fundraising expertise, and engaging outreach. He has spent his entire professional life in music, including more than two decades at Opera Philadelphia—16 years as Vice President of Community Initiatives—where he expanded education and community programs to reach hundreds of thousands and produced more than 80 “Random Acts of Culture,” including a legendary 650-voice Hallelujah Chorus with the Wanamaker Organ, viewed over 10 million times on YouTube.
- [Zeviel Kane](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/zeviel-kane/): Zev Kane is the Classical Program Director of WRTI-FM, Philadelphia’s classical and jazz station. After graduating with a degree in music from Dartmouth College, he began his career in classical radio at WQXR in New York as its Music Director and the host of its New Release program. In 2021, Zev moved to Philadelphia to work at WRTI, where he has been proud to continue his work as a music programmer, broadcaster, and writer. In his free time, Zev can be found solving crossword puzzles, playing the piano, jogging (slowly) through the Fishtown neighborhood, attending concerts, and listening to copious amounts of music (classical and otherwise).
- [Alexander deVaron](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/alexander-devaron/): Alexander deVaron has studied composition with Maurice Wright, Matthew Greenbaum, Richard Brodhead, Alvin Lucier, Peter Lieberson and Paul Moravec.   His music has been performed across North America, as well as in Europe and Asia. He has received commissions from the Network for New Music, The  Tufts University New Music Ensemble, the New England Conservatory Chorus, trumpeter Steven Burns, and poet Thalia Field.
- [Bernard Jacobson](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/bernard-jacobson/): Bernard Jacobson, until recently a contributing editor of Fanfare Magazine, has spent periods as music critic of the Chicago Daily News, a visiting professor of music at Roosevelt University in Chicago, the director of Southern Arts in Winchester, England, the promotion director for Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, the program annotator and musicologist for the Philadelphia Orchestra (where he worked for eight years with Riccardo Muti and created the Orchestra’s chamber music series), the artistic director of the Residentie Orkest in The Hague, and the artistic adviser to the North Netherlands Orchestra. He took over responsibility for program notes and pre-concert lectures for the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia beginning with the 2001-2002 season. Born in London in 1936, Jacobson studied philosophy, history, and classics at Oxford. In addition to books on Brahms and on conducting, his publications include A Polish Renaissance (a study of the music of Panufnik, Lutosławski, Penderecki, and Górecki, published in 1996 by Phaidon Press), articles and reviews including entries in Encyclopaedia Britannicaand The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, a booklet documenting Carnegie Hall’s 2000 Perspectives series in celebration of Daniel Barenboim’s 50th year on the concert stage, and translations from ten languages. He is currently working on a study of the music of Panufnik in collaboration with Philip Greenwood as well as on a memoir covering a critical career spanning nearly half a century.
- [Ross Amico](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/ross-amico/): Ross Amico has been involved in radio broadcasting for 29 years (19 of those professionally). He has always been passionate about classical music and recordings, which he has collected since the age of 10. His pre-produced shows, "Picture Perfect" and "The Lost Chord," allow him to explore the world of film music and seldom-heard composers and recordings. His music articles, which appear every Friday in the Times of Trenton, celebrate the local and regional arts scene. Interview subjects have included Stephanie Blythe, Barry Douglas, JoAnn Falletta, Leon Fleisher, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Marc-André Hamelin, Lara St. John, Peter Schickele, Chris Thile, and Christopher Walken. WWFM, for which Amico hosts, is New Jersey's only full-time classical music station, serving New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, and portions of Delaware and Maryland. Its signal can be heard via HD in New York City and Philadelphia, via satellite in Steamboat Springs, CO, and via the internet worldwide.
- [Hayoung Heidi Lee](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/heidi-lee/): Hayoung Heidi Lee is associate professor of music history at West Chester University.  Her research and teaching interests include European and Asian musical encounters, women in music, music and travel, and Korean contemporary music. Her publications have appeared in The Opera Quarterly and Cambridge Opera Journal. She studied music history and comparative literature at the University of Washington and earned her Ph.D. in musicology from Stanford University.
- [Truman Bullard](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/truman-bullard/): Truman Bullard began his career in college-level pedagogy at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. In the summer of 1966, he enrolled at the Eastman School of Music in the field of musicology and completed his Ph.D. in 1971. The subject of his dissertation was the 1913 Paris debut of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. He has continued to do research in Russian music and culture throughout his professional life. College and university teaching have been Bullard's central vocation, and he was the winner of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching as voted by the faculty of Dickinson College in 1971 and the Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching as voted by the graduating class in 1992. He retired from the faculty at Dickinson College in 2000 but has continued his long association as a professor of musicology at the Eastman School of Music, where he offers graduate seminars on Russian music each summer.
- [James Primosch](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/james-primosch/): When honoring him with its Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters noted that a "rare economy of means and a strain of religious mysticism distinguish the music of James Primosch... through articulate, transparent textures, he creates a wide range of musical emotion." A student of George Crumb, Richard Wernick, John Harbison, and Mario Davidovsky, Primosch has had works performed by ensembles including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Collage, the New York New Music Ensemble, and the 21st Century Consort. Dawn Upshaw included a song by Primosch in her Carnegie Hall recital debut. Commissioned works by Primosch have been premiered by the Chicago Symphony, the Cantata Singers, and pianist Lambert Orkis. He is presently at work on a song cycle for soprano and orchestra on texts by former MacArthur fellow Susan Stewart.
- [Karl Middleman](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/karl-middleman/): A particularly versatile performer and lecturer, Karl Middleman is equally at home with Hart and Hammerstein as he is with Handel and Haydn. As Founder and Music Director of the Philadelphia Classical Symphony he was cited in 19th Century Music and Philadelphia Magazine, twice winning the Best in Philly Award. He has been praised for the easy ways his concerts and presentations mix scholarship with showmanship. One reviewer wrote, “Anyone who didn’t enjoy Karl’s concert deserves to be harried across Europe by the Austrian secret police.” He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In addition to frequent lectures for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, he has lectured for the Philadelphia Orchestra over 50 times. He regularly lectures at dozens of libraries and learning centers. As a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Speaker his presentations on ‘Sources of Inspiration in Dvorak’s New World Symphony’ and Leonard Bernstein: American Idol, American Idealist were broadcast on television and radio as part of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council “Humanities on the Road” series. He taught music history at Temple University for many years and leads music and personal growth workshops at Pendle Hill Learning Center. Most recently he inaugurated The Music Salon, an instructional forum for great music and camaraderie. For further information: kdmiddleman@gmail.com.
- [Richard Wernick](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/richard-wernick/): Born 1934 in Boston, MA, Richard Wernick’s many awards include the 1977 Pulitzer Prize in Music and three Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards (First Prizes in 1986 and 1991, Second Prize in 1992) – the only two-time First Prize recipient. He received the Alfred I. Dupont Award from the Delaware Symphony Orchestra in 2000 and has been honored by awards from the Ford Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2006, he received the Composer of the Year Award from the Classical Recording Foundation, resulting in the funding for an all-Wernick CD on the Bridge label to be released in 2008, which features performances by David Starobin, William Purvis, the Juilliard String Quartet, and the Colorado Quartet. Mr. Wernick became renowned as a teacher during his tenure at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 1968 until his retirement in 1996, and where he was Magnin Professor of Humanities. He has composed numerous solo, chamber, orchestral, vocal, choral, and band compositions, as well as a large body of music for theater, films, ballet, and television. He has been commissioned by some of the world’s leading performers and ensembles, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, the Juilliard String Quartet, and the Emerson String Quartet. From 1983 to 1989, he served as the Philadelphia Orchestra's consultant for contemporary music, and from 1989 to 1993, he served as a special consultant to Music Director Riccardo Muti.
- [Elizabeth Morgan](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/elizabeth-morgan/): Elizabeth Morgan is an Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music, Theatre & Film at Saint Joseph’s University, where she teaches music history, piano, and chamber music. She has published articles and book chapters on domestic music making during the Civil and Mexican-American Wars and in early nineteenth-century England. As a pianist, she has performed throughout the United States and Great Britain; highlights from the last few seasons include appearing as soloist in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, in Carnival of the Animals with the Seattle Symphony, and giving recitals up and down the east coast of piano music by American women composers. This spring she performs the Gershwin Concerto in F with the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra. She received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in piano performance at Juilliard and a Ph.D. in musicology and D.M.A in piano performance at UCLA.
- [Cori Ellison](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/cori-ellison/): Cori Ellison, a leading creative figure in the opera world, has served as staff Dramaturg at Santa Fe Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, and New York City Opera.  Active in developing contemporary opera, she is a founding faculty member of American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development Program and has developed new operatic works for companies including Glyndebourne, Icelandic Opera, Canadian Opera, Norwegian Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Chicago Opera Theater, Arizona Opera, Opera Birmingham, Pittsburgh Opera, Beth Morrison Projects, the Miller Theater, Indiana University, and Crane School of Music. She has served as production dramaturg for projects including L'incoronazione di Poppea at Cincinnati Opera; Orphic Moments at the Salzburg Landestheater, National Sawdust, and Master Voices; Aci, Galatea, e Polifemo at National Sawdust and Philharmonia Baroque; Washington National Opera’s Ring cycle, Opera Boston’s The Nose, and Offenbach!!! at Bard Summerscape. At The Juilliard School, she serves on the Vocal Arts faculty and is also a faculty member at the Ravinia Steans Music Institute Program for Singers. She has coached and taught master classes for singers at schools including Indiana University, Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Mannes College, University of Toronto, University of Texas at Austin, University of Michigan, Boston University, Boston Conservatory, Michigan State University, DePaul University, University of Illinois, Loyola University, Montclair State University, University of Utah, and University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She regularly serves as a judge for the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Concurso San Miguel in Mexico, and many other vocal competitions. She creates supertitles for opera companies worldwide, and helped launch Met Titles, the Met’s simultaneous translation system. Her English singing translations include Hansel and Gretel (NYCO), La vestale (English National Opera) and Shostakovich’s Cherry Tree Towers (Bard Summerscape). She has often written for the New York Times and has contributed to books including The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The Compleat Mozart.
- [Steven Kreinberg](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/steven-kreinberg/): Recipient of the 2011 Temple University Provost’s Award for Innovative Teaching in General Education, the 2011 Westminster Choir College Alumni Merit Award, and the 2006 Boyer College Distinguished Teacher Award, Dr. Steven Kreinberg has served on the music history faculty at the Boyer College of Music and Dance since 1984. In addition to teaching music history and music technology courses to music majors, Kreinberg has enjoyed a long history of introducing college non-music majors and adults to classical art music.  With faculty colleague June Ottenberg, he developed a University Core Course entitled Introduction to Music that has been taken by thousands of Temple University students on the Main, Center City, and Japan campuses since 1988. In 2008, he created a new genre-based General Education course entitled The Art of Listening, which takes Temple University undergraduate non-music majors to four different music performances each semester within major concert venues throughout the greater Philadelphia region. The course has been the subject of intense interest from within Temple University as well as from outside organizations due to its direct engagement of students in live concert experiences within the classroom and in the concert hall. In 2009, Dr. Kreinberg was invited by the Philadelphia Orchestra to serve as co-host with Minnesota National Public Radio personality Brian Newhouse in one of the Orchestra’s live “Access” concerts in Verizon Hall. He also has appeared as a pre-concert lecturer for the Philadelphia Orchestra and has served as a consultant and manuscript reviewer for many collegiate music appreciation textbooks. Dr. Kreinberg currently serves as Vice-Dean in the Center for Performing and Cinematic Arts at Temple.
- [Michael Klein](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/michael-klein/): Michael Klein is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Music Studies at Temple University. He has published books and articles on a wide array of topics, including the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Debussy, Liszt, and especially Chopin. His current research is in film music with a recent article on The Queen's Gambit. Early in his career, he won a publication award for an article on Chopin and narrative. He also was honored with a Lindback Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is currently working on a book about the music and sound in post-apocalyptic movies. He is a pianist by trade with two degrees in piano performance from the Eastman School. His wife is a free-lance violinist, and his daughter works in Rochester for an organization that finds solutions to environmental problems.
- [Jeffrey Kallberg](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/jeffrey-kallberg/): Jeffrey Kallberg is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.  He is a specialist in music of the 19th and 20th centuries. Kallberg has published widely on the music and cultural contexts of Chopin, most notably in his book, Chopin at the Boundaries: Sex, History, and Musical Genre (Harvard University Press).  In 2019, he was appointed to the “Rada Programowa” (“Programme Board”) of the Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina in Warsaw, Poland. And in 2024, he helped authenticate the manuscript of a previously unknown Waltz in A minor by Chopin that was discovered in the Morgan Library in New York; his critical edition of the Waltz was published by Henle Verlag in 2025.  His critical edition of Luisa Miller, for The Works of Giuseppe Verdi (Casa Editrice Ricordi and The University of Chicago Press), has been performed throughout Europe and the United States.  Kallberg’s current projects include a book on Chopin’s things, and an investigation into the links between ideas of landscape and modernism, especially in Scandinavian music from the first half of the twentieth century.
- [Suhnne Ahn](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/suhnne-ahn/): Since 1997 Suhnne Ahn has served on the musicology faculty at Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. For over a decade she was also as a residential dean at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Beginning as a pianist and music major at Yale, she completed a doctorate at Harvard with a dissertation on Beethoven’s so-called “Kreutzer” Sonata. Dr. Ahn has taught a range of music history seminars at Peabody including those on the compositional process of Beethoven, the early history of the Paris Conservatory, the chamber works of Brahms, and the influence of England’s Queen Elizabeth I on music throughout the centuries. Film courses on Katharine Hepburn and Asian representation in Hollywood are also offered by Dr. Ahn in Peabody’s Liberal Arts Department. Beyond Beethoven sketch studies, her research endeavors are directed toward a web-based critical edition of the violin concerti of Parisian composers Baillot, Kreutzer, and Rode. Dr. Ahn has been the Director of the Peabody at Homewood Music Minor Program at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins since 2018.
- [Christine Anderson](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/christine-anderson/): Christine Anderson, soprano, is Associate Professor of Vocal Studies and the Coordinator of the Voice and Opera Area at the Boyer College of Music and Dance of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. She holds a B.M. in Voice from Illinois Wesleyan University and earned both M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in Voice at the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Anderson has sung numerous performances as soprano soloist with several prestigious contemporary music ensembles and has worked with such composers as Lukas Foss and Kristof Penderecki. In addition, she has had extensive performing experience as a recitalist in programs featuring the premieres of new works.
- [Jan Krzywicki](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/jan-krzywicki/): Jan Krzywicki is active as a composer, conductor, and educator. As a composer, he has been commissioned by prestigious performers and organizations such as PCMS, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, the Chestnut Brass Company. His compositions have been performed across the United States by ensembles such as the Colorado Quartet, the Network for New Music, the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, Alea III, and others. He is the recipient of a 1996 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a Rockefeller Foundation residency (Bellagio, Italy), a Bogliasco Foundation residency (Bogliasco, Italy), ASCAP and Meet the Composer awards, and has been a fellow at artist colonies such as The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Millay, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Krzywicki’s music is available on Albany Records as well as on Capstone Records, North-South Recordings, De Haske Records, and Long Tone Music. As a conductor, he has led chamber and orchestral groups in literature from the middle ages to the present, including a large number of local and world premieres. Since 1990, he has been the conductor of the contemporary ensemble Network for New Music, having premiered over seventy works and recorded three CDs for Albany Records. As an educator, Krzywicki has taught at Beaver College (now Arcadia University), Haverford College, the Philadelphia Musical Academy, the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts, the New School of Music, and, currently, Temple University, where he has been a member of the Department of Music Studies since 1987.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in composition from the University of Kansas (studying with John Pozdro and Edward Mattila) and a Master of Music degree from the Philadelphia Musical Academy, having studied under Theodore Antoniou.
- [Richard Freedman](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/richard-freedman/): Richard Freedman is Professor of Music and John C. '43 Whitehead Professor of Humanities at Haverford College, where he has taught since 1986. He has published widely on the music of the European Renaissance (three books and dozens of articles in leading publications).  His research has been supported by major grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and Le Studium, a leading French research consortium. He has also been a leader in the use of digital tools for scholarly research, both in his own work and through his work as editor and board member with the American Musicological Society, the Renaissance Society of America, and the International Repertory of Music Literature.
- [Jonathan Coopersmith](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/jonathan-coopersmith/): A native of Princeton, New Jersey, Jonathan Coopersmith is a highly regarded teacher, conductor, and lecturer on music theory and analysis, music history, and music’s relationship to well-being. He was a member of the Curtis faculty since 2005 and served as Chair of the Musical Studies department from 2010 to 2025. He has served as Associate Conductor for The Philadelphia Singers for 12 years and the Artistic Director of Nashirah for seven years, and has been a frequent guest chorus director of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Pennsylvania Ballet, preparing choral ensembles for performances with Sir Simon Rattle, John Adams, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Christoph Eschenbach, Charles Dutoit, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Mr. Coopersmith has been a regular guest lecturer in the Masters of Applied Positive Psychology program at the University of Pennsylvania, speaking about music and well-being. He recently wrote a chapter for a multi-volume set as part of the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project, titled Musical Flourishes: Lessons from a Conservatory, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. In addition, Mr. Coopersmith has been the festival host and a guest conductor at the world-renown Music From Angel Fire summer music festival since 2015, and is a sought-after lecturer in the Philadelphia area with recent lectures at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Mr. Coopersmith holds a bachelor’s degree in music theory and composition from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with George Crumb, and a master’s degree in orchestral conducting from Mannes College of Music, where he studied theory and analysis with Carl Schachter and Edward Aldwell. He has also studied at the Pierre Monteux School for conductors and orchestra musicians.
- [Peter Schoenbach](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/peter-schoenbach/): Dr. Peter J. Schoenbach was born in Philadelphia in an 1941 and educated in the public schools and at Swarthmore College. After earning a Masters and Certificate in Latin American Studies at Columbia University and a Doctorate at Rutgers, he served as a music administrator at such institutions as the Curtis Institute, Boston and Wayne State Universities, serving as Dean/Director/Chair.  Prior to that he held teaching positions at Columbia, Temple, Rutgers and Minnesota. His last position was Director of the School of Music at the State University at Fredonia in which he served for ten years.
- [David Dubal](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures/scholars/david-dubal/): An acknowledged authority on the piano literature, David Dubal’s highly acclaimed books include The Art of the Piano, The Essential Canon of Classical Music, Evenings with Horowitz, Reflections from the Keyboard, and Conversations with Menuhin etc. Mr. Dubalʼs video, The Golden Age of the Piano, has been seen worldwide in four languages, and won him an Emmy award. His book “Remembering Horowitz, “ with 125 essays by world famous pianists includes a compact disc of Mr. Horowitz and Mr. Dubal in conversation.

## Photo Gallery
- [Ying Quartet Children’s Concert](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/learn/lectures-masterclasses/photo-gallery/ying-quartet-childrens-concert/)

## Venues
- [Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/visit/perelman-theater/): The Perelman Theater is part of the Kimmel Center, located on the southwest corner of Broad and Spruce Streets in Center City Philadelphia.
- [Church of the Holy Trinity](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/visit/church-of-the-holy-trinity/): The Church of the Holy Trinity sanctuary seats 1,100 with 550 seats on the main floor and another 550 in the balcony. All concerts at this venue are general admission seating.
- [American Philosophical Society](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/visit/american-philosophical-society/): There are many historic elements to the building. Designed in the Italianate style, it features a visually striking white marble façade and an impressive collection of paintings. It was once home to the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, which was an important Philadelphia institution of long standing as well as being the largest bank in the city during the latter part of the 19th century. For more information on the building's history, please visit the American Philosophical Society's website.

## Artists
- [Ariadne Greif, soprano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/ariadne-greif-soprano/): ARIADNE GREIF, praised for her "luminous, expressive voice" (NYTimes), her "elastic and round high notes" (classiqueinfo), and her "mesmerizing stage presence" (East Anglian Daily Times), began her opera career as a ‘boy’ soprano in the Los Angeles area and at the LA Opera, eventually making an adult debut singing Lutoslawski’s Chantefleurs et Chantefables with the American Symphony Orchestra. She starred in roles ranging from Therese/Tirésias in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias, singing a “thoroughly commanding and effortless” run at the Aldeburgh Festival, a "sassy" Adina in The Elixir of Love with the Orlando Philharmonic, to Sappho in Atthis by Georg Friedrich Haas, for which the New York Times noted her “searing top notes,” and “dusky depths,” calling it “a solo high-wire act for Ms. Greif,” “a vehicle for Ms. Greif’s raw, no-holds-barred performance,” “one of the most searingly painful and revealing operatic performances in recent times.”
- [Oliver Neubauer, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/oliver-neubauer-violin/): Praised for his uniquely beautiful playing and his vivid and mature artistry, violinist Oliver Neubauer is swiftly establishing himself as a distinctive and compelling presence on the international classical music scene. First prize winner of the 2023 Susan Wadsworth Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Oliver is an inaugural YCA Jacobs Fellow and is managed worldwide by Young Concert Artists.
- [Clara Neubauer, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/clara-neubauer-violin/): Praised for her “seductive artistry” and “rare grace” (Classical Voice North America), violinist Clara Neubauer is establishing herself as a deeply expressive and authentic artist. She is winner of the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music from The Juilliard School and the Ana Chumachenco Award at the Kronberg Academy Masterclasses. Clara received her BM from The Juilliard School as a student of Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman, and is currently finishing her MM as a student of Catherine Cho and Itzhak Perlman as a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship.
- [Natalia Schwien Scott, moderator](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/natalia-schwien-scott-moderator/): Natalia Schwien Scott is an herbalist, wildlife rescue and rehabilitation apprentice, and Ph.D. candidate in the Study of Religion at Harvard University, with a secondary field in Celtic Languages and Literatures. Her research focuses on comparative religion and science, particularly on constructions of personhood and agency, interspecies ethics, and death studies. She was the founding Assistant Director of Harvard Divinity School's Program for the Evolution of Spirituality under Dan McKanan, which supports the scholarly study of emerging spiritual movements, marginalized spiritualities, and innovative developments within established religious traditions. She now serves as an advisor to the program. Since 2020, she has led Interspecies Dialogues: A Conversation Group Exploring Animism, Post-humanism, and Entangled Roots of Interrelation, which regularly features scholars, writers, scientists, environmental advocates, and artists. In Fall 2022, she co-launched the Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard. She served as Program Advisor and Associate then as Editor for the Initiative’s forthcoming edited volume.
- [Eunjoo Jeon, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/eunjoo-jeon-piano/): Eunjoo Jeon is a South Korean pianist specializing in collaborative performance and is a Staff Pianist at SUNY Fredonia. She is an active performer throughout Western New York, collaborating regularly with orchestras, musical theater, opera, and individual soloists.
- [Julia Yang, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/julia-yang-cello/): Praised for “her sense of joyful virtuosity” as concerto soloist (South Florida Classical Review), Julia Yang is a courageous and soulful cellist, multi-faceted performer, and founding member of the “riveting” (Reading Eagle) and “impeccably elegant” Merz Trio (All About the Arts).
- [Gloria DePasquale, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/gloria-depasquale-cello/): Gloria dePasquale, Cellist for The Philadelphia Orchestra (1977-2022) was hired by Eugene Ormandy and served four and a half decades under ensuing artistic leadership, including Riccardo Muti, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Christoph Eschenbach, Charles Dutoit, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
- [Marvin Moon, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/marvin-moon-viola/): A native of Philadelphia, violist Marvin Moon came to The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2007 from the Boston Symphony, which he joined at the start of the 2005-06 season. Mr. Moon previously performed for several years as a substitute player with The Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. From 2000 to 2003 he was principal viola of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. He was also previously a member of the Haddonfield Symphony (now Symphony in C), the New York String Seminar Chamber Orchestra, and the Curtis Symphony, serving as principal viola in 2000.
- [Mitchell Newman, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/mitchell-newman-violin/): Violinist Mitchell Newman retired from the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2020. During his 34-year career, he worked with many of the world’s great conductors including music directors Andre Previn, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gustavo Dudamel and guest conductors Simon Rattle, Kurt Sanderling, Herbert Blomstedt, Thomas Wilkins, Eric Leinsdorf, Zubin Mehta, Emmanuelle Haim, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Simone Young and Valery Gergiev.
- [Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia, English horn](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/elizabeth-starr-masoudnia-english-horn/): Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia, solo English hornist of The Philadelphia Orchestra since 1995, has toured the globe with the Orchestra to wide critical acclaim with many of the world’s finest conductors. A passionate advocate for the English horn, she has premiered many pieces written expressly for her, including concertos by Behzad Ranjbaran and Nicholas Maw, and chamber music by David Ludwig and Stephen Cohn. She recently released a solo album, English Horn Expressions, which features several new commissions for the instrument.
- [Leonkoro Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/leonkoro-quartet/): "The Leonkoro Quartet possesses an extraordinary stage presence, glows for the music, embraces full artistic risk, and astounds through their profound sensitivty towards the unique sonority of each piece "
- [Ying Li, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/ying-li-piano/): Twenty-five-year-old Chinese pianist Ying Li is the First Prize winner of the 2021 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, as well as recipient of The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Prize and the Tri-I Noon Recitals Prize. She has received top awards in numerous national and international competitions including the inaugural Antonio Mormone International Prize, Sarasota Artist Series Piano Competition, Brevard Music Festival, and was a finalist at Concours musical international de Montréal.
- [Hannah Cope Johnson, harp](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/hannah-cope-johnson-harp/): Hannah Cope Johnson is Principal Harp of the Metropolitan Opera. She was previously Principal Harp of the Sarasota Orchestra. She has appeared with major ensembles on the East coast including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra among others. Recent career highlights include a debut solo recital for the American Harp Society in New York City and guest artist features with Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota, and Boston Chamber Music Society.
- [Helen Gerhold, harp](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/helen-gerhold-harp/): Described by the Philadelphia Inquirer as an “exceptionally fine” player, Helen Liu Gerhold is a seasoned international solo, chamber, and orchestral artist. She has soloed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, the Stars of Tomorrow Concert at the USA International Harp Competition, and the World Harp Congress. She has been a featured soloist at the Lyon & Healy Summer Concert Series, the Philadelphia International Harp Music Festival, on National Public Radio’s From the Top, with the Berkshire Symphony, Lower Merion Symphony Orchestra, and Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra. Among her accolades are the U.S. International Lyon & Healy Awards, top prizes in nearly all divisions of the American Harp Society’s National Competition, and the American Harp Society Foundation Award. She has given both masterclasses and recitals for the Philadelphia and Baltimore Chapters of the American Harp Society.
- [Olivia Staton, flute](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/olivia-staton-flute/): Flutist Olivia Staton was appointed Second Flute of The Philadelphia Orchestra at the start of the 2018-19 season at the age of 21, becoming the orchestra's youngest member at the time.  She is a graduate of The Juilliard School where she received a Bachelor of Music degree and studied with Jeffrey Khaner. Upon graduating, she was awarded the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music. Her previous teachers include Aaron Goldman and Jennifer Lapple.
- [Chiaroscuro Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/chiaroscuro-quartet/): Formed in 2005, Chiaroscuro Quartet comprises of violinists Alina Ibragimova and Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux, violist Emilie Hörnlund and cellist Claire Thirion. Dubbed ‘a trailblazer for the authentic performance of High Classical chamber music’ in Gramophone, this international ensemble performs music of the Classical and early Romantic periods on gut strings and with historical bows.
- [Renana Gutman, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/renana-gutman-piano/): Praised by the New York Times for her “passionate and insightful” playing, Renana Gutman has performed across four continents as an orchestral soloist, recitalist and collaborative artist. She played at venues like The Louvre Museum, Grenoble Museum (France), Carnegie Recital Hall, People’s Symphony Concerts, Merkin Hall (New York), St. Petersburg’s Philharmonia (Russia), Stresa Music Festival (Italy), Ravinia Rising Stars (Chicago), Jordan Hall, Gardner Museum (Boston), Herbst Theatre (St. Francisco), Menuhin Hall (UK), UNISA (South Africa), Marlboro (VT), and National Gallery, Phillips Collection, and Freer Gallery (Washington DC). Her performances are heard frequently on WQXR Young Artists Showcase, NY, WFMT Dame Myra Hess, Chicago, and MPR in Performances Today, MN.
- [Kobi Malkin, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/kobi-malkin-violin/): Israeli violinist Kobi Malkin, is making his mark as both as an exciting soloist and a perceptive chamber musician. He was praised by the New York Times for his "aptly traversed palette of emotions, from languid introspection to fevered intensity with gorgeous tone and an edge-of-seat intensity". As a soloist, Malkin has appeared with the Ashdod Chamber Orchestra, the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Music Academy Symphony Orchestra Haifa, New England Conservatory’s Philharmonia, Symphonette Ra’anana, the Ruse Philharmonic Orchestra, the Young Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, and Orquesta de Camara de Bellas Artes, the Saint Louis Symphony and the Chicago Philharmonic under the batons of such conductors as Ze'ev Dorman, Stanley Sperber and Hugh Wolff. 
- [Trio Afiori](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/trio-afiori/): The boundary-defying Trio Afiori brings together three of today’s most dynamic artists—clarinetist Anthony McGill, mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, and pianist Gloria Chien—in a vivid exploration of bold storytelling, collaboration, music, and cultural heritage. The trio actively commissions and premieres works by today’s leading composers, including Valerie Coleman, Gabriel Kahane, Julia Adolphe, Alex Ho, and Kian Ravaei. Blending classical traditions with folk, jazz, and contemporary influences, the trio creates performances that are both intimate and daring, where new voices and timeless influences meet in conversation. Highlights of their 2025–26 season include a week-long residency and concerts at CMS, and performances at Apex Concerts at the University of Nevada, Reno; Chamber Music Northwest; and Chamber Music at Beall at the University of Oregon. Future seasons include extensive North American touring and a debut disc recording.
- [Karen Ouzounian, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/karen-ouzounian-cello/): Sought after for her “radiant” (The New York Times) performances full of “tremendous heart, bringing joy and a captivating sound to the stage” (The Strad), Karen Ouzounian is an acclaimed cellist and composer who creates music from a deeply personal place. She has appeared as a soloist in venues including the Konzerthaus Berlin, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Kölner Philharmonie, Tonhalle Düsseldorf and Carnegie Hall, championing a remarkable breadth of music with fierce commitment and emotional power. An omnivorous musical spirit who “powerfully shatters pigeonholes with her artistic partners” (Ravinia Magazine), she has premiered numerous works and collaborated with some of the most singular musicians of our time, including Rhiannon Giddens, Augustin Hadelich and Kayhan Kalhor.
- [Sahun Sam Hong, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/sahun-sam-hong-piano/): Praised as an “artist of enormous prowess” (Verbier Festival Newsletter) with a “wide range of rich colors” (San Diego Story) and playing that is “imaginative, intoxicating… high-voltage” (Sindelfinger Zeitung), American pianist Sahun Sam Hong brings his distinctly magnetic tone and artistic vision to recital, chamber, and concerto stages worldwide.
- [Maria Ioudenitch, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/maria-ioudenitch-violin/): Born in Russia, violinist Maria Ioudenitch immigrated with her musical family to the U.S. at the age of two and grew up in Kansas City. In 2021,  she received first prizes in the Ysaÿe International Music Competition, the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition and the Joseph Joachim International Competition. She also received numerous special prizes at these competitions, including Joachim’s Chamber Music Award, the prize for Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work, the Henle Urtext Prize, and a recording deal with Warner Classics.
- [Seth Parker Woods, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/seth-parker-woods-cello/): Hailed by The Guardian as “a cellist of power and grace” who possesses “mature artistry and willingness to go to the brink,” three-time GRAMMY®-nominated cellist Seth Parker Woods has established his reputation as a versatile artist and innovator across multiple genres. Woods’ projects delve deep into our cultural fabric, reimagining traditional works and commissioning new ones to propel classical music into the future. As The New York Times wrote, “Woods is an artist rooted in classical music, but whose cello is a vehicle that takes him, and his concertgoers, on wide-ranging journeys.” Also at the forefront of fashion, Woods has topped the “Best Dressed” lists in Variety, Texas Monthly, and OC Register, among others. He is an honoree of the 2023 Seattle Symphony’s 25th Anniversary Silver Gala and recipient of the 2022 Chamber Music America Michael Jaffee Visionary Award. Woods has served on the faculty of the Thornton School of Music at The University of Southern California since 2022, and was appointed to the Robert Mann Chair in Strings and Chamber Music in 2024.
- [Özgür Aydin, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/ozgur-aydin-piano/): Turkish - American pianist Özgür Aydin made his major concerto debut in 1997 in a performance of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No.1 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. In the same year, he won the renowned ARD International Music Competition in Munich and the Nippon Music Award in Tokyo – recognition that has since served as the basis for an active and diverse international performing career. He is also a laureate of the Cleveland International Piano Competition.
- [Petra Berényi, cimbalom](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/petra-berenyi-cimbalom/): The versatile Hungarian musician Petra Berényi enjoys a dual career as a violist and cimbalom player, having taken degrees in both instruments from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Before moving to the United States, she performed in several contemporary music festivals in Hungary both as a chamber musician and as a participant at the International Bartók Seminar in Szombathely, Hungary, where she worked with the renowned Hungarian composer and teacher György Kurtág. She performed numerous chamber and symphonic orchestras such as Danubia Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Chamber-Symphony, Hungarian Virtuosos Orchestra, and Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra.
- [Roberto Granados, guitar](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/roberto-granados-guitar/): Roberto is currently pursuing a Bachelor of the Arts degree in music at California State University East Bay, and is studying under prominent classical guitarist Marc Teicholz. He continues to arrange and compose music for classical and progressive metal guitar, and works with audio production, mixing, and mastering. He plays guitar in an internationally-based Death Metal band called The Perrin Sequence. Along with fellow former ensemble-mate Mark Simons, cofounder of the San Francisco Guitar Quartet, Roberto has also recently formed a classical guitar duo under the name SFG2, the San Francisco Guitar Duo.
- [Edward Luengo, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/edward-luengo-cello/): “A strong and endearing performer, already a partner of the greatest in the United States; Body gathered on the instrument, explosive temperament, intoxicating sound, exacerbated contrasts, almost furious phrasing, he bursts the stage” (Diapason Magazine), Venezuelan-American cellist Edward Luengo is a devoted interpreter of the classical masterworks lauded for his performances full of musical fantasy. He has performed at the Rheingau Musik Festival, Kronberg Festival, Music from Salem, Brussels Cello Festival, and Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad. His artistry has led him to receive various honors including the First Prize of the Concurso Jóvenes Intérpretes supported by the Fundación María Paula Alonso, Third Prize of the IX Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition, Festival Ravel Chamber Music Prize, First Prize of the Buchet International Cello Competition, and will be performing in the Next Generation Artists Series at the BOZAR Centre for the Arts 2023/2024 Season.
- [Adam Newman, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/adam-newman-viola/): Adam Newman began his musical studies aged 7, learning a variety of instruments including violin and piano before focusing on the viola aged fourteen. He proceeded to study at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music with Louise Lansdown. Newman graduated with first class honours from the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Matthew Souter, Philip Dukes and Hu Kun. He then continued his studies in the class of Tatjana Masurenko at the Hochshule für Musik in Leipzig and in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Louise Hopkins. He is currently studying in Basel with Rainer Schmidt of the Hagen Quartett.
- [Steven Banks, saxophone](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/steven-banks-saxophone/): As a performer and composer, saxophonist Steven Banks (b. 1993) is striving to bring his instrument to the heart of the classical music world. He is driven to program and write music that directly addresses aspects of the human experience and is an active and intentional supporter of diverse voices in the future of concert music. Rick Perdian of Seen and Heard International has said “one senses that Banks has the potential to be one of the transformational musicians of the twenty-first century.”
- [Justin Taylor, harpsichord](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/justin-taylor-harpsichord/): Justin Taylor’s dazzling concert and recording career began in 2015 when he won First Prize at the Musica Antiqua Harpsichord Competition in Bruges, along with the Audience Prize, the Alpha Classics Prize, and the EUBO Developing Trust Prize. He is famed for his “virtuoso, sensitive, and gourmand interpretations” (Sophie Bourdais, Télérama, 2021).
- [Justin Austin, baritone](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/justin-austin-baritone/): Possessing a “mighty lyric voice” (The New York Times) “with a burly, burnished tone capable of striking nuance and color” (Washington Post), Drama Desk Award-nominated baritone Justin Austin was named Rising Star of the Year at the 2024 International Opera Awards and is a recipient of the 2024 Marian Anderson Vocal Award. Deemed an “impossibly irresistible” (Bachtrack) “natural performer – a star awaiting a galaxy to form around him” (Washington Post), he has been praised as a “velvet-voiced, intensely charismatic” (The New Yorker) artist who sings with “ravishing beauty” (Opera) and displays “immaculate musicianship” (Seen and Heard International).
- [Timo Andres, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/timo-andres-piano/): Timo Andres (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a composer and pianist who grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
- [Ashley Marie Robillard, soprano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/ashley-marie-robillard-soprano/): Heralded by Parterre Box for her “fresh-brook lyric soprano”, Ashley Marie Robillard is a dynamic artist making waves as a passionate interpreter and committed storyteller in the world of opera, art song, concert, chamber music, and cabaret.
- [Don Liuzzi, timpani](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/don-liuzzi-timpani/): Don Liuzzi was born and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and completed high school in Philadelphia at the Franklin Learning Center. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan and his Master of Music degree from Temple University. His primary teachers were Alan Abel, Charles Owen, and John Soroka.
- [Vijay Iyer, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/vijay-iyer-piano-2/): Described by The New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway,” Vijay Iyer has carved out a unique path as an influential, prolific, shape-shifting presence in twenty-first-century music. A composer and pianist active and revered across multiple musical communities, Iyer has created a consistently innovative, emotionally resonant body of work over the last three decades, earning him a place as one of the leading music-makers of his generation.
- [Axel Schacher, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/axel-schacher-violin/): Born in 1981, Axel Schacher began studying the violin at the age of 4. At the age of twelve he won the Royaume de la Musique tournament, organised by the Maison de la Radio in Paris, and played E. Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole at the prize-winners’ concert, accompanied by the Garde Républicaine orchestra. At the age of thirteen, he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in Boris Garlitski’s class.
- [Corina Belcea, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/corina-belcea-violin/): Corina Belcea was born in Romania in 1975 and studied the violin with Radu Bozgan and Stefan Gheorghiu. At the age of 16 she was invited by Sir Yehudi Menuhin to study at his school in England where her teacher was Natalia Boyarskaya. She continued her studies at the Royal College of Music with Felix Andrievsky where, in 1994 she founded the Belcea quartet.
- [Vijay Iyer, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/vijay-iyer-piano/): Described by The New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway,” VIJAY IYER has carved out a unique path as an influential, prolific, shape-shifting presence in twenty-first-century music. A composer and pianist active and revered across multiple musical communities, Iyer has created a consistently innovative, emotionally resonant body of work over the last three decades, earning him a place as one of the leading music-makers of his generation.
- [Terra Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/terra-quartet/): Recent prizewinners at the 2025 Bordeaux and Wigmore Hall International Quartet Competitions, the Terra String Quartet is a vibrant young international ensemble based in New York City. They are composed of graduates of The Juilliard School, The New England Conservatory, Harvard University, and the Curtis Institute of Music. Known for their sincere storytelling, commitment to artistic excellence, and versatile approach to repertoire, TSQ strives to foster conversation and genuine human connection through their performances and pedagogy.
- [Shelley DePaul, scholar](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/shelley-depaul-scholar/): Clan Mother Shelley DePaul has served on the Council of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania since 2002 as Genealogical and Historical Researcher, Lenape Language Specialist, and Educator. She teaches Lenape Language classes and workshops and has presented lectures and educational programs on Lenape History and Culture to schools and universities, environmental organizations, churches, historical societies, and youth groups. Shelley was co-curator of the exhibit, "Fulfilling a Prophesy: The Past and Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania" at the University of Pennsylvania Musem. She is also curator of the Lenape Exhibit at the Sigal Museum in Easton. Both exhibits relate long-hidden story of the survival of the Lenape in their homelands and feature never before displayed objects from the private collections of Lenape people in Pennsylvania. She has conferred with numerous organizations regarding Lenape horticulture and medicinal plant practices and has published three books on Lenape Language and Lenape Ethnobotany. She is a Pennsylvania State Certified teacher with an MA in History.
- [Adam Waterbear DePaul, scholar](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/adam-waterbear-depaul-scholar/): Adam Waterbear DePaul is a Chief of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania, where he serves as Tribal Storykeeper and Director of Education. He collaborates with academic institutions, filmmakers, authors, and others on authentic inclusion of Lenape culture. He is a PhD candidate at Temple University, teaches courses in Indigenous Studies and Global Mythology, curates the Lenape Cultural Center in Easton PA and multiple Lenape exhibits, and founded the annual conference Homecoming: The Lenape Speak. Chief Adam has given over 200 presentations on Lenape topics and has been awarded two scholar residencies and the 26th Annual Germantown Mennonite Peace Award for commitment to education and indigenous advocacy.
- [Suzanne Simard, ecologist](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/suzanne-simard-ecologist/): Suzanne Simard is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia and the author of the book, Finding the Mother Tree.
- [Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/robin-wall-kimmerer-botanist/): Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Bud Finds Her Gift, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. In 2022, Braiding Sweetgrass was adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith. This new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth’s oldest teachers: the plants around us.
- [Christopher Theofanidis, composer](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/christopher-theofanidis-composer/): Christopher Theofanidis’ music has been performed by many of the world’s leading performing arts organizations, from the London Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic to the San Francisco Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, and the American Ballet Theatre. He is a two-time Grammy nominee for best composition, and his Viola Concerto, recorded with David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony with Richard O’Neill soloist, won the 2021 Grammy for Best Instrumental Solo. Mr. Theofanidis’ work, Rainbow Body, is one of the most performed works in recent decades, having been performed by over 200 orchestras worldwide. Mr. Theofanidis is currently coordinator of the composition programs at Yale University and the Aspen Music Festival, and has taught at the Juilliard School and the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University.
- [Brett Ashley Robinson, theater maker](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/brett-ashley-robinson-theater-maker/): Brett Ashley Robinson is a Barrymore Award winning devisor and theatre maker based in Philadelphia. She was a two time nominee for the Golden Tassel Jawn, Philadelphia ’s Drag and Burlesque awards, for best comedy act as Patricia! She was a collaborator and performer in Lightning Rod Specials The Appointment at New York Theatre Workshop, which was a New York Times Critics Pick and voted best play of 2019 in The New York Times, Vulture Magazine, Time Out New York, and New York Magazine. As an actor and devisor she has worked at, The Public, Ars Nova Ant Fest, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Wilma, Lightning Rod Special, Pig Iron Theater Company, The Arden Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, The Flea Theatre, Theatre Horizon, and Geva Theatre. As Patrica! She has worked with 1812 Productions, The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Lightning Rod Special, and Agitated! She teaches acting at the University of the Arts, she is a company member of Applied Mechanics and a member of the HotHouse–the Wilma Theater’s resident acting company.
- [Tchin, storyteller](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/tchin-storyteller/): “We Indigenous people grow up hearing stories all the time. But we don't call them stories, legends or myths. To us, they are lessons, because they explain the universe and how things came to be.”
- [Jazimina Creamer-MacNeil, creative director](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/jazimina-creamer-macneil-creative-director/): Jazimina Creamer-MacNeil is a director, creative producer, singing actor, educator, and wild blueberry picker rooted in the beautiful and artistically fertile Monadnock region of New Hampshire, the ancestral homelands of the Wabanaki. Her work focuses on how live performance can be a stitch in the great reweaving of humanity back into reciprocal kinship with the rest of life on this good, green Earth.
- [Melissa Studdard, poet/librettist](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/melissa-studdard-poet-librettist/): Melissa Studdard is the author of five books, including the poetry collections Dear Selection Committee and I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast, the poetry chapbook Like a Bird with a Thousand Wings, and the young adult novel Six Weeks to Yehidah. Her work has been featured by NPR, PBS, The New York Times, The Guardian, Ms. Magazine, Best American Poetry, and Houston Matters, and has also appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, such as POETRY, Kenyon Review, Psychology Today, New Ohio Review, Harvard Review, New England Review, and Poets & Writers.
- [Roomful of Teeth](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/roomful-of-teeth/): Roomful of Teeth is a 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.
- [Nathan Farrington, double bass](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/nathan-farrington-double-bass/): Nathan Farrington has been the principal bassist for LA Opera since 2016.
- [Verona Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/verona-quartet/): Acclaimed as an “outstanding ensemble…cohesive yet full of temperament” (The New York Times), the Verona Quartet has firmly established itself amongst the most distinguished ensembles on the chamber music scene today. The group’s singular sense of purpose earned them Chamber Music America’s coveted 2020 Cleveland Quartet Award, and a reputation for its “bold interpretive strength, robust characterization and commanding resonance” (Calgary Herald). The Quartet serves on the faculty of the Oberlin College and Conservatory as the Quartet-in-Residence. In addition to its position at Oberlin, the Quartet recently held residencies at Nova Scotia’s Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance, North Carolina’s Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle and the ENCORE Chamber Music Institute. As committed advocates of diverse programming, the Verona Quartet curated the UpClose Chamber Music Series on behalf of the COT, electrifying audiences with their “sensational, powerhouse performance” (Classical Voice America). 
- [Claire Bourg, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/claire-bourg-violin/): Renowned violinist Claire Bourg has captivated audiences across the United States and Europe with her performances as both a soloist and chamber musician. She has appeared in many prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, the Kimmel Center, Bremen’s Kleiner Saal, Pritzker Pavilion, Jordan Hall, and the Fryderyk Chopin University Hall in Warsaw. In 2021, she performed Mozart’s First Violin Concerto as a soloist with the Camerata Bern in Hannover.
- [Lyric Fest](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/lyric-fest-2/): Lyric Fest (LF) was founded in 2003 by three Philadelphia-area musicians: Suzanne DuPlantis, mezzo-soprano, Laura Ward, pianist, and Randi Marrazzo, soprano, now recognized as a Founding Artistic Director Emerita, since her retirement in 2014. Currently LF is run by Founding Artistic Directors, Suzanne DuPlantis and Laura Ward, and in January of 2020, LF brought in Ben Robinson as Managing Director. With the shared goal of celebrating and revitalizing the art song tradition, LF to date has produced and presented 21 seasons of concerts. Lyric Fest is one of a very few voice recital series of its kind in the area, and is known for excellence and innovation in creating rich, thematic, accessible concerts. Almost since the beginning, commissioning and performing new works has been integral to LF’s mission and programming philosophy, and LF enjoys working in partnership with composers, to bring new works into being. Lyric Fest frequently collaborates with actors, poets, visual artists, and peer musical organizations. We've brought concerts to New York City and Brooklyn, NY; Pittsburgh, PA;  Princeton and Moorestown, NJ, and Washington, DC. LF remains committed to access through affordable ticket prices, to broadening its audience, and to expanding the area’s interest in and knowledge of song as an important and relevant art form.
- [Owls](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/owls/): Drawing from a deep well of musical passions and backgrounds, Owls is a quartet collective that defies expectations and labels with original, visceral, and personal performances. Each an artistic force in their own right, violinist Alexi Kenney, violist Ayane Kozasa, cellist Gabriel Cabezas and cellist-composer Paul Wiancko share an uncommonly fierce creative spirit which drives the quartet to challenge the way meaningful concert experiences are conceived. While weaving together new compositions with original arrangements of music ranging from the 1600s to the present, Owls' distinctive instrumentation allows them access to beautiful and exhilarating new sound worlds—effectively guaranteeing that each performance is uniquely them and without limits.
- [Isidore Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/isidore-quartet/): "A polished sonority and well-balanced, tightly synchronized ensemble with nearly faultless intonation....it is heartening to know that chamber music is in good hands with such gifted young ensembles as the Isidore Quartet"
- [Yvonne Lam, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/yvonne-lam-violin/): Grammy Award-winning violinist Yvonne Lam enjoys challenging, delighting, and disarming audiences worldwide with her thoughtful musicianship, technical prowess, and fearless performance aesthetic. A champion of new music, Yvonne has performed over a hundred world premieres of commissioned works.
- [Axelle Fanyo, soprano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/axelle-fanyo-soprano/): French soprano Axelle Fanyo “does not only embody a character, she tells us the story. She clearly cultivates the art of communication, which gives her singing another dimension.” (Forum Opera) and is making her mark on both the opera world and in concert halls with her eclectic curiosity and “charismatic, beautiful voice real star quality.” (Renée Fleming) With multiple accolades including the 2021 Nadia and Lili Boulanger Competition grand prize, prestigious Kaleidoscope prize and the Young Artist prize at the International French Song competition, Axelle is without a doubt an artist on the rise.
- [Valo Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/valo-quartet/): Launched at the beginning of the 2022-23 season, the Valo Quartet was created out of a mutual desire to delve more profoundly into the string quartet repertoire. A shared spirit of spontaneity became the perfect starting point to develop a sense of enduring growth, the guiding light (Valo – ‘light’ in Finnish) being the union of meaningful exploration of the score and trust in the individual player’s musical instincts. The members, originally from Poland, the UK and Finland, come together and often collaborate at festivals and series across Europe. Recent highlights have included Festival Resonances, Belgium, Trasimeno Music Festival, Italy and series such as Seriös Helsinki, Finland. In the 2024-25 season the Quartet are delighted to make their debut performances at the Lammermuir Festival, Scotland, Musiq3 Festival, Belgium, Kaustinen Chamber Music Festival, Finland and in prestigious venues such as The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead.
- [Jay Campbell, Cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/jay-campbell-cello/): Jay Campbell is a cellist actively exploring a wide range of creative music. He has been recognized for approaching both old and new music with the same curiosity and commitment, and his performances have been called “electrifying” by the New York Times and “gentle, poignant, and deeply moving” by the Washington Post.
- [Emma Wernig, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/emma-wernig-viola/): Hailed by The Strad magazine as, “A viola star in the making!”, Austrian/German violist, Emma Wernig, is an emerging young artist known for her authentic musical voice. Born in 1999 in Los Angeles, California, her musical path has since taken her across the globe. Early competition successes, like receiving the ‘Barbirolli Prize’ at the 2019 Tertis International Viola Competition and winning the 2017 Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition, have enabled her to pursue an international career. As a result, Emma released her debut album, “The Viennese Viola” alongside Spanish-Dutch pianist Albert Cano-Smit in July of 2021 on the Champs Hill label to critical acclaim and 5 Stars from BBC Music Magazine. The program features Austrian rarities for viola and piano and pays homage to her heritage and passion for discovering new repertoire. She continues to be passionate about innovative programming when creating solo programs, often making her own arrangements of cello, violin, and vocal repertoire. She will debut her own arrangement of the Schumann Cello Concerto in the 24/25 season.
- [ensemble132](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/ensemble132/): ensemble132 is an American collective of soloists and chamber musicians of the highest caliber, uniting with a shared mission to reimagine the chamber music landscape. The only group of its kind to continually create and premiere new standards in the chamber music repertoire with its artist-crafted arrangements, ensemble132 excites the imagination of audiences across the country with its uniquely genre-defying programs.
- [Lorelei Ensemble](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/lorelei-ensemble/): Heralded for its “full-bodied and radiant sound” (The New York Times) and “stunning precision of harmony, intonation, and . . . spectacular virtuosity” (Gramophone Magazine), Lorelei Ensemble is recognized across the globe for its bold and inventive programs that champion the extraordinary flexibility and virtuosity of the human voice. Led by founder and artistic director Beth Willer, Lorelei has established an inspiring mission, curating culturally-relevant and artistically audacious programs that stretch and challenge the expectations of artists and audiences alike. Recognized for its rich and diverse vocal palette, the ensemble is celebrated for its compelling delivery of Willer's “exact, smooth, and stylish” programming. (The Boston Globe).
- [Joshua Mhoon, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/joshua-mhoon-piano/): American pianist, Joshua Mhoon’s talent for piano was discovered at the age of 7. Quickly dedicating himself to the instrument, he advanced at an exponential rate, despite his comparatively late introduction to music.  His quick progression landed him first place prizes in The DePaul National Concerto Competition, The Walgreens National Concerto Competition’s Senior and Junior divisions, The Emilio del Rosario Concerto competition, and accomplishments such as TV appearances on The Tamron Hall Show, NBC Chicago, CBS Chicago, Redbull TV,  WTTW’s Chicago tonight, The Mozart on TV Asahi in Japan, along with a feature in the Emmy award winning episode of Built to Last on PBS. Mhoon has given live performances for worldwide audiences in Japan, England, France, Greece, Turkey, Austria, Spain and Italy, and several concert tours in Germany.  In 2023, after being named the Silver Medalist at the inaugural Nina Simone Piano Competition, Mhoon catapulted to new heights in the classical music industry, with engagements domestically, and abroad for the 2024-25 season. 
- [Raman Ramakrishnan, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/raman-ramakrishnan-cello/): Cellist Raman Ramakrishnan enjoys performing chamber music, old and new, around the world. For two decades, as a founding member of the Horszowski Trio and the Daedalus Quartet, he toured extensively through the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and recorded for Bridge Records and Avie Records, including, most recently, the complete piano trios of Robert Schumann. Mr. Ramakrishnan is currently a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and is on the faculty of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
- [Natalie Loughran, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/natalie-loughran-viola/): Twenty-six year old American violist Natalie Loughran is quickly establishing herself as one of the most versatile young artists of our time. Natalie was awarded First Prize at the 2021 Primrose International Viola Competition, along with the Audience Award, as well as the BIPOC Composer Prize for her arrangement and performance of William Grant Still’s ‘Mother and Child’.  She has also appeared as a finalist for the 2020 Young Concert Artist Auditions, and was awarded a special prize for her performance of the Bowen Viola Sonata in C Minor at the Tertis International Viola Competition. Natalie has also been awarded with the William Schuman prize for her outstanding leadership and achievement in music, from the Juilliard School.
- [Daniel Schreiner, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/daniel-schreiner-piano/): A musician and interdisciplinary artist of diverse interests, Daniel Schreiner is fashioning an eclectic career marked by experimentation, cross-genre exploration, and impassioned social engagement. As a piano soloist and chamber musician, Daniel has performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), National Sawdust, Rockwood Music Hall, and the DiMenna Center for Classical Music (New York City), the Fondation des États-Unis (Paris), Ferrara Music Festival Concert Series (New York City), New Music on the Point (Vermont), Williams College (Massachusetts), Bard College (New York), Denison College (Ohio), Academie Internationale d’Été de Nice (France), soundSCAPE Festival (Italy), nief-norf Summer Music Festival (Tennessee), and at various small venues in Brooklyn, NY. Daniel is a regular performer with InfraSound and Contemporaneous, whose recent performance of Dylan Mattingly’s six-hour opera, Stranger Love, was lauded by the New York Times as “most impressive…well versed in Mattingly’s idiom, and well suited to take on such an immense, difficult score…exact and detailed, but also lively and openly dancing, as full of personality as any singer.” Daniel has also had the opportunity to work with the illustrious composer Betsy Jolas, Beth Morrison Projects, Alan Pierson of Alarm Will Sound, the JACK Quartet, Kathy Supové, Ensemble Calliopée, LIGAMENT, the Mannes American Composers Ensemble, Balance Campaign, BlackBox Ensemble, NewMusicMannes, and the Berkshire Symphony, to name a few.
- [Anika Kildegaard, soprano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/anika-kildegaard-soprano/): Praised for her “captivating and sensual” sound (Riptide Magazine), Anika Kildegaard is quickly distinguishing herself as one of the most promising American vocalists specializing in new music and concert repertoire. Equally at home as a chamber musician as well as a soloist, Kildegaard has performed with ensembles across the United States in a variety of repertoire, spanning from baroque oratorio to world premieres written for her voice. Additionally, she performs regularly as part of the GRAMMY Award Winning new music ensemble, The Crossing, as well as the soprano/double-bass duo, LIGAMENT, alongside Will Yager.
- [Nicolas Altstaedt, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/nicolas-altstaedt-cello/): German-French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is one of the most versatile and sought-after artists today. As a soloist, conductor, and artistic director, he performs repertoire spanning from early music to contemporary, playing on period and modern instruments.
- [The Sebastians](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/the-sebastians/): The Sebastians (sebastians.org) are a dynamic and vital musical ensemble specializing in music of the baroque and classical eras. Lauded as “everywhere sharp-edged and engaging” (The New York Times), the Sebastians have also been praised for their “well-thought-out articulation and phrasing” (Early Music Review) and “elegant string playing… immaculate in tuning and balance” (Early Music Today). Their 2018 unconducted St. Matthew Passion with TENET Vocal Arts was called “shattering” and “a performance of uncommon naturalness and transparency.” The Sebastians’ recent seasons have included dozens of originally conceived programs, including collaborations with poets, choreographers, dancers, and actors; a musical installation in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; programs dealing with musical “immigration” and nationalism; and major works of J.S. Bach led from the keyboard. The Sebastians are currently in residence at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments.
- [Sterling Elliott, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/sterling-elliott-cello/): In Spring 2022, Sterling participated in Performance Today’s Young Artist Residency, which featured educational events, interviews and a feature on the nationally syndicated radio program.
- [Josh Jones, percussion](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/josh-jones-percussion/): A native of Chicago, Illinois, Josh Jones started hitting things at age 2 and received his first drum set at age 3. Josh began his formal studies in percussion with the Percussion Scholarship Program under the direction of Chicago Symphony member Patricia Dash, and Chicago Lyric Opera member Douglas Waddell. He earned his Bachelor’s in Music from DePaul School of music and was the orchestra fellow of both the Detroit and Pittsburgh symphonies. In 2022, Josh joined the Grant Park Festival Orchestra as Principal Percussionist. Josh has been featured at Carnegie Hall, on radio and television, and has had two short documentaries made about his musical development and experience. He also authored a percussion method book series, “Spatial Studies for Hitting Things”, and writes musical and philosophical blogs on his website, drummojo.com. Josh really enjoys giving back to the community as well as mentoring young musicians and traveling.
- [Bill Neri, Director of Ensemble Advancement, Sphinx Organization](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/bill-neri/): Bill Neri is driven to create, facilitate, and perform through the intersection of art, community, and excellence. Bill serves as Director of Ensemble Advancement for the Sphinx Organization, coordinating the convening and impact of the Sphinx Virtuosi and Sphinx Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, Bill manages the The National Alliance for Audition Support, an unprecedented national initiative to increase diversity in American orchestras. In 2021, Bill joined the third cohort of Sphinx LEAD, a program designed to evolve the industry landscape by empowering the next generation of executive leaders. In addition to his years as an administrator, he has performed as a violist on stages across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
- [Caitlin Edwards, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/caitlin-edwards-violin/): Caitlin Edwards began studying the violin at the age of eight through the Music Opportunity Program in Birmingham, Alabama. She is a 2022 Esteemed Artist Award recipient from the city of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, a 2021 3Arts/Walder Foundation Awardee and a co-curator with the Fulcrum Point New Music Project. She received the 2018 Rising Star Award from the Gateways Music Festival and won the University of Louisville Concerto Competition in 2017, performing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. Caitlin has appeared as a soloist with the Chicago Solisti, Alabama Youth Symphony, and was a finalist in the Collegiate Virtuoso Concerto Competition held in Atlanta, GA. In addition, she was a featured soloist in the “Dreams of Hope” documentary (Violins of Hope), which premiered on PBS stations across the US and has received awards nationally and internationally.
- [Ron Enfield, community educator](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/ron-enfield-community-educator/): Ron Enfield grew up in Southern California and attended the University of California at Berkeley and UCLA, where he graduated in 1966. He joined a system development company and spent the next 45 years in the computer industry.
- [Ashley Jackson, harp](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/ashley-jackson-harp/): Praised for her “soulful” and “eloquent” playing (Musical America), harpist Ashley Jackson enjoys a multifaceted career as a highly sought-after musician and collaborator in New York and beyond. As a soloist, she has performed at Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn! and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolis Ensemble, the Qatar Philharmonic, and is the principal harpist of NOVUS NY, the contemporary music orchestra of Trinity Wall Street led by Grammy-nominated conductor Julian Wachner. She is a member of the Harlem Chamber Players, with whom she has developed a number of projects, including her first film, In Song and Spirit and the Harlem Walking Tour Series.
- [Leif Ove Andsnes, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/leif-ove-andsnes-piano/): The New York Times calls Leif Ove Andsnes “a pianist of magisterial elegance, power, and insight,” and the Wall Street Journal names him “one of the most gifted musicians of his generation.” With his commanding technique and searching interpretations, the celebrated Norwegian pianist has won acclaim worldwide, playing concertos and recitals in the world’s leading concert halls and with its foremost orchestras, while building an esteemed and extensive discography. An avid chamber musician, he is the founding director of the Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, was co-artistic director of the Risør Festival of Chamber Music for nearly two decades, and served as music director of California’s Ojai Music Festival in 2012. He was inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame in July 2013, and has received honorary doctorates from New York’s Juilliard School and Norway’s Universities of Bergen and Oslo.
- [Bryan Young, bassoon](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/bryan-young-bassoon/): Bryan Young tours the U.S. and internationally as bassoonist and co-founder of the Poulenc Trio and serves as the principal bassoonist of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. He studied at the Peabody Conservatory with Linda Harwell and at Yale with Frank Morelli. Bryan has performed as soloist with the Baltimore Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestra. The Washington Post writes that his playing "dances with a lightness and grace uncommon for his instrument”, and the Baltimore Sun has praised his "particularly beautiful playing, technical agility and understated elegance.”
- [Jeanine De Bique, soprano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/jeanine-de-bique/): Jeanine De Bique has been described as “one of the most exciting sopranos to catch onstage these days. Animated, joyful, and technically flawless, the Trinidadian vocalist with the light, starry voice that soars before landing on audiences’ ears like a musical meteor shower” (OperaWire) and a “sheer endless wealth of color and nuances a radiant, free-floating timbre.” (Opernwelt).
- [Erinys Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/erinys-quartet/): Named for the Erinyes (a.k.a. the Furies) from the Greek tragedy Oresteia by Aeschylus, and with roots in Estonia, Lithuania, Greece, the United States, and Finland, the Erinys Quartet was founded in 2018 at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki where they worked closely with cellist Marko Ylönen. Since Autumn 2023 Erinys has been the Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet-in-Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, PA (USA). 
- [Philadelphia Orchestra Winds](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/philadelphia-orchestra-winds/): The Philadelphia Orchestra Winds ensemble includes these 12 outstanding wind players:
- [Awadagin Pratt, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/awadagin-pratt-piano/): 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.
- [Anneleen Lenaerts, harp](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/anneleen-lenaerts-harp/): Belgian harpist Anneleen Lenaerts is one of the leading soloists of her instrument. In December 2010 she was appointed Principal Harpist of the Vienna Philharmonic.
- [CKW Trio](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/ckw-trio/): The Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio comprises three of classical music’s most highly esteemed artists performing today: pianist Gloria Chien, violinist Soovin Kim, and cellist Paul Watkins. The trio has been performing together since 2019 and presented Beethoven’s groundbreaking Piano Trio cycle at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in 2022.
- [Pallavi Mahidhara, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/pallavi-mahidhara-piano/): Indian-American pianist Pallavi Mahidhara made her orchestral debut at the age of 10, performing at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. She is the Second Prize winner and Young Audience Award winner of the 69th Geneva International Piano Competition, and of the VI International Prokofiev Competition in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- [Melissa White, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/melissa-white-violin/): American violinist Melissa White has enchanted audiences and critics around the world for her “warmly expressive and lyrical…glittering” playing (Chicago Classical Review) and for “making her violin sing elegantly” (Aspen Times). Ms. White’s rapid rise as a soloist has captured the attention of orchestras and audiences worldwide, many of whom already know her for her successes as a founding member of the Grammy-winning, and newly Grammy-nominated, Harlem Quartet.
- [Titus Underwood, oboe](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/titus-underwood-oboe/): Titus Underwood is Principal Oboe of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and the 2021 recipient of the Sphinx Medal of Excellence award and a 2021 Midsouth Regional Emmy® winner for his work on « We Are Nashville ». Prior to the NSO, he was Acting Associate Principal of Utah Symphony, and has performed as guest principal of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Miami Symphony Orchestra, and Florida Orchestra. A sought-after freelance performer, Titus has also performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Puerto Rico Symphony, and San Diego Symphony. Titus regularly plays principal oboe in Chineke!, the Gateways Music Festival, and Bellingham Festival of Music.
- [Itamar Zorman, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/itamar-zorman-violin/): Itamar Zorman is one of the most soulful, evocative artists of his generation, distinguished by his emotionally gripping performances and gift for musical storytelling. Since his emergence with the top prize at the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition, he has wowed audiences all over the world with breathtaking style, causing one critic to declare him a “young badass who’s not afraid of anything.” His youthful intensity and achingly beautiful sound shine through in every performance, earning him the title of the “virtuoso of emotions.”
- [Charlotte Blake Alston, narrator](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/charlotte-blake-alston-narrator/): For over 30 years, Charlotte Blake Alston has graced stages in venues throughout North America and abroad, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Symphony Orchestra Narrations, and regional, national, and international storytelling festivals. She is a frequent guest artist at universities, grade schools, museums, and cultural arts institutions around the country, but this former elementary school teacher also presents in day care centers and for special needs populations, as well as prisons and youth detention centers.
- [Cristina Garcia Martin, visual artist](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/cristina-garcia-martin-visual-artist/): Cristina Garcia Martin is a Spanish Amsterdam-based animator and illustrator. She won a Dutch Design Award for the Rijksmuseum exhibition Accessorize! and a “Gouden Apenstaartje” for the app Peter and the Wolf commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw orchestra.
- [Ariel Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/ariel-quartet/): Distinguished by its virtuosity, probing musical insight, and impassioned, fiery performances, the Ariel Quartet has garnered critical praise worldwide for more than 20 years. Formed when the members were just teenagers studying at the Jerusalem Academy Middle School of Music and Dance in Israel, the Ariel was named a recipient of the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, granted by Chamber Music America in recognition of artistic achievement and career support. The Quartet serves as the Faculty Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where they direct the chamber music program and present a concert series in addition to maintaining a busy touring schedule in the United States and abroad.
- [Bertrand Chamayou, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/bertrand-chamayou-piano/): Bertrand Chamayou has mastered an extensive repertoire displaying striking assurance, imagination, artistic approach, and remarkable consistency in his performances. He is a regular performer in venues such as the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Lincoln Center, the Herkulessaal Munich and London’s Wigmore Hall. He has appeared at major festivals including New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Lucerne Festival, Salzburg Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival and Beethovenfest Bonn.
- [Fretwork](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/fretwork/): Over the last three and a half decades, Fretwork has been celebrated as the leading consort of viols. They have explored the core repertory of great English consort music, from Taverner to Purcell, and made classic recordings against which others are judged. Their series of discs for Virgin Classics include CDs devoted to William Lawes, Henry Purcell, William Byrd, Matthew Locke, John Dowland, and Orlando Gibbons while their more recent work for Harmonia Mundi USA has produced three discs of J.S. Bach — The Art of Fugue, Alio Modo, and The Goldberg Variations — which have been exuberantly praised. They have also released discs of the earliest instrumental music (Petrucci); Sir John Tavener’s The Hidden Face; Thomas Tomkins; Alexander Agricola & Fabrice Fitch; Ludwig Senfl with Charles Daniels and two collaborations with the choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. Their recording of concert songs by William Byrd with Emma Kirkby has received particular praise.
- [Iestyn Davies, countertenor](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/iestyn-davies-countertenor/): Iestyn Davies is a British countertenor who is widely recognized as one of the world’s finest singers and celebrated for the beauty and technical dexterity of his voice and intelligent musicianship. Critical recognition of his work can be seen in two Gramophone Awards, a Grammy Award, a RPS Award for Young Singer of the Year, the Critics’ Circle Award, and an Olivier Award Nomination. He was appointed MBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours List 2017 for services to music.
- [Valentin Kovalev, saxophone](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/valentin-kovalev-saxophone/): Saxophonist, educator, and content creator Valentin Kovalev is an ebullient and highly eclectic performer whose unique style was developed after studying in Russia, France, and the US. Hailing from Siberia, he strives to demonstrate how passion and perseverance can transcend geographical boundaries, using his music to inspire and empower others in the pursuit of their dreams. His work is driven by his passion for fostering connections, offering support to Ukrainian saxophonists, and amplifying marginalized voices in the classical music world.
- [Jordan Bak, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/jordan-bak-viola/): Award-winning Jamaican-American violist Jordan Bak has achieved international acclaim as a trailblazing artist, praised for his radiant stage presence, dynamic interpretations, and fearless power. Critics have described him as “an exciting new voice in Classical performance” (I Care If You Listen), “a powerhouse musician, with a strong voice and compelling sound” (The Whole Note) and lauded his “haunting lyrical grace” (Gramophone). The 2021 YCAT Robey Artist and a top laureate of the 2020 Sphinx Competition, Bak is also a Grand Prize winner and Audience Prize recipient of the 2019 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, the recipient of the 2019 Samuel Sanders Tel Aviv Museum Prize and the 2019 John White Special Prize from the Tertis International Viola Competition. Other recent accolades include being named one of ClassicFM's "30 Under 30" Rising Stars, Musical America’s New Artist of the Month and being a featured artist for WQXR’s inaugural Artist Propulsion Lab.
- [Sean Shibe, guitar](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/sean-shibe-guitar/): A former BBC New Generation Artist, Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship 2012 winner, Royal Philharmonic Society 2018 Young Artist Award winner, and recipient of the 2022 Leonard Bernstein Award, Sean Shibe continues to prove himself a truly original mind at the frontier of contemporary classical music. This season sees him premiere new concertos by Cassandra Miller and Oliver Leith, as well as tour Thomas Adès’s first work for a non-keyboard solo instrument. He also appears in recital at iconic venues across Europe including Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie de Paris, Konzerthaus Wien and Wigmore Hall as he takes up the title of ECHO Rising Star. Further highlights comprise a US tour with tenor Karim Sulayman, performances with mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska, and the UK premiere of Francisco Coll’s Turia, for guitar and large orchestra with Delyana Lazorova and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
- [Raphaël Feuillâtre, guitar](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/raphael-feuillatre-guitar/): Hailed as the new face of classical guitar worldwide, Raphaël Feuillâtre fascinates audiences and critics alike with the depth of his interpretations, his dazzling virtuosity, and the richness of his repertoire.
- [Britton-René Collins, percussion](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/britton-rene-collins-percussion/): Hailed as an “astounding virtuoso” and “exhilarating” performer, percussionist Britton-René Collins is a winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, receiving the Ambassador Prize for her exceptional musicianship and demonstrated passion for creating social change in her endeavors as both an educator and performer.
- [Kebra-Seyoun Charles, double bass](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/kebra-seyoun-charles-bass/): In line with their upbringing, Kebra-Seyoun Charles is able to give prominence to the dance qualities in all forms of music. Exhibiting their versatility, Kebra-Seyoun has performed alongside esteemed improvisers and composers such as Jon Batiste, at Carnegie Hall, and Tyshawn Sorey, at the New England Conservatory. Kebra-Seyoun was also featured in “Slugs’ Saloon” at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, an interactive installation created by famed jazz musician and composer Jason Moran.
- [Thomas Kraines, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/thomas-kraines-cello/): Thomas Kraines, a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, has gained renown as a versatile cellist, composer, and teacher. In addition to the Daedalus Quartet, he performs often with his wife, violinist Juliette Kang, with the Philadelphia-based Network for New Music, the Arcana Ensemble, and the improvisatory ensembles Great Blue Heron and Basquiat Blues. Kraines’ solo cello and chamber compositions have been heard around the country. He has performed his own works in collaboration with artists such as Awadagin Pratt, Mimi Stillman, Maria Jette, Ilana Davidson, and Kinan Abou-afach. Kraines has served on the faculty of the Longy School of Music, Princeton University, Peabody Conservatory, Phillips Academy Andover, and Yellow Barn. He currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia. He has performed chamber music at the Moab Music Festival, Festival dei Due Mondi (Spoleto, Italy), Bravo! Vail, Caramoor Summer Music Festival, Next Generation Festival, Portland Chamber Festival, Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival, and Bard Music Festival. Kraines studied cello with Frederic Raimi, Orlando Cole, and Joel Krosnick, and composition with Tom Benjamin. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Juliette and daughters Rosalie and Clarissa.

## Composers
- [Christopher Theofanidis, composer](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/christopher-theofanidis-composer/): Christopher Theofanidis’ music has been performed by many of the world’s leading performing arts organizations, from the London Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic to the San Francisco Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, and the American Ballet Theatre. He is a two-time Grammy nominee for best composition, and his Viola Concerto, recorded with David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony with Richard O’Neill soloist, won the 2021 Grammy for Best Instrumental Solo. Mr. Theofanidis’ work, Rainbow Body, is one of the most performed works in recent decades, having been performed by over 200 orchestras worldwide. Mr. Theofanidis is currently coordinator of the composition programs at Yale University and the Aspen Music Festival, and has taught at the Juilliard School and the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University.
- [Brian Raphael Nabors](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/brian-raphael-nabors/): Brian Raphael Nabors is a composer of emotionally enriching music that tells exciting narratives with its vibrant themes and colorful harmonic language. Mr. Nabors' music has been performed by the Boston, Atlanta, Seattle, Nashville, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Detroit, Fort Worth, and Munich Symphonies, as well as the Cleveland and Minnesota Orchestras, ROCO, the American Youth Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and Chineke!, among others. His music has been performed at many venues and events internationally, including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Helsinki Festival, and the Lucerne Festival. In the US, the Texas Music Educators Association Conference (TMEA), Midwest Composers Symposium, Texas Flute Society Festival, International Horn Symposium, International Double Reed Society Conference (IDRS), International Clarinet Association Clarinet Fest, National Orchestral Institute (NOI), Aspen Music Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Festival. Mr. Nabors’ music has also been performed by artists such as the Atlanta Chamber Players, Apollo Chamber Players, Dallas's Voices of Change, Boston Musica Viva and the Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings. His work has been featured in masterclasses with composers such as William Bolcom, John Harbison, and Lowell Liebermann. With an eclectic musical palate and crafty compositional technique to match, Mr. Nabors’ music draws from combinations of Jazz Funk, R&B, and Gospel with the modern flair of contemporary classical music. This interesting blend of sound worlds is one that continues to craft his unique musical voice. He earned both a Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degree in Composition at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where he studied with Douglas Knehans, Ellen Ruth Harrison and Miguel A. Roig-Francolí. Prior to graduate studies, he obtained a Bachelor of Music Theory & Composition degree from the School of the Arts at Samford University in Birmingham, AL, where he studied composition with Sarana Chou and piano with Kathryn Fouse. Mr. Nabors is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at the Louisiana State University School of Music.  
- [Melissa Dunphy](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/melissa-dunphy/): Born in Australia and raised in an immigrant family, Melissa Dunphy herself immigrated to the United States in 2003 and has since become an acclaimed composer specializing in vocal, political, and theatrical music. She first came to national attention in 2009 when her large-scale work the Gonzales Cantata was featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, National Review, Fox News, and on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. Other notable works include Totality, commissioned by The King’s Singers and VOCES8 and premiered at the BBC Proms 2024, song cycle Tesla's Pigeon, which won first place in the NATS Art Song Composition Award, and What do you think I fought for at Omaha Beach? which won the Simon Carrington Chamber Singers Competition and has been performed around the country by choral ensembles including Chanticleer, Cantus, and the St. Louis Chamber Chorus. In 2024, Ms. Dunphy was awarded an Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts. She received a 2020 Opera America Discovery Grant for Alice Tierney, a commission for Oberlin Opera Theater that premiered in 2023 and received its professional debut at Opera Columbus. Ms. Dunphy has been composer-in-residence for the Immaculata Symphony Orchestra, Volti, and the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus, and her commissions include works for the BBC Singers, VOCES8, Cantus, Mendelssohn Chorus, Seattle Pro Musica, Chor Leoni, La Caccina, Skylark, Experiments in Opera, and the Kennett Symphony. She is also a Barrymore Award-nominated theater composer and sound designer, and served from 2014-2024 as Director of Music Composition for the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut. Ms. Dunphy has a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.M. from West Chester University and is on faculty at Rutgers University. She is president of the boards of directors for Wildflower Composers and Lyric Fest. Ms. Dunphy and her husband Matt are also avid citizen archaeologists and co-hosts of the popular podcast The Boghouse about their adventures in Philadelphia colonial archaeology; they are currently developing the Necessary Museum, which they hope to open in 2026 to showcase their local discoveries 
- [Andrea Clearfield](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/andrea-clearfield/): Andrea Clearfield is an award-winning composer of music for opera, orchestra, chorus, chamber ensemble, dance and multimedia collaborations. Dr. Clearfield creates deep, emotive musical languages that build cultural and artistic bridges. Her catalog of 175 works includes seventeen large-scale cantatas including one for The Philadelphia Orchestra. Recent pieces are inspired by Tibetan music fieldwork that she conducted in the Nepalese Himalaya, including her opera on the great Tibetan saint Milarepa, MILA, Great Sorcerer with librettists Jean-Claude van Itallie and Lois Walden that was presented at the 2019 NYC Prototype Festival. Dr. Clearfield has been Composer-in-Residence with National Concerts at Carnegie Hall and with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. She was awarded a 2020 Pew International Residency Award, two Independence Foundation Fellowships, a 2016 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, two Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Residencies, Fellowships at the American Academy in Rome, Yaddo, Copland House, Yaddo and MacDowell among others. She received a D.M.A. in Composition from Temple University where she received the university-wide Presidential Fellowship. Dr. Clearfield served on the Composition Faculty at The University of the Arts from 1986–2011 and currently serves as Visiting Composer with numerous colleges and universities in the US and abroad. As a performer, she played keyboards with the Relâche Ensemble for 25 years and had the great honor of performing with the Court of the Dalai Lama. She is active as a public speaker, curator and visiting composer. She has served on the Grammy Board, Philadelphia Chapter and currently serves on the Board of Wildflower Composers, highlighting voices of young female, nonbinary, genderqueer and transgender composers. Passionate about building community around the arts, she is also founder, curator and host of the renowned SZALON featuring contemporary, classical, jazz, electronic, dance, and world music now completing its 38th year. Dr. Clearfield received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Musical Fund Society in May, 2025. She is represented by Black Tea Music. Learn more at www.andreaclearfield.com 
- [Mason Bynes](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/mason-bynes/): Mason Bynes is a Boston based composer, vocalist, and multimedia artist who strives to bridge the gap between genre and sound in order to bring listeners together. Her passion and musical curiosity has sparked a variety of commissions with various ensembles and artists, including: The Westerlies and Festival of New Trumpet Music, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, WindSync, Ex-Aequo, Boston Art Song Society, Bass Players for Black Composers, and New York’s Parlando Chamber Orchestra. Recently, her music has been featured with the North End Music and Performing Arts Center, BBC Radio 3, the International Society of Bassists, Dallas Opera, The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Fort Worth Opera, among others. She has also appeared in different interviews with CBS, NBC-DFW, and Fox 4 News. She currently serves on the film/tv composition team at Raging Cloud Studios, and she also works as a Career Services Advisor at Berklee College of Music. Mason is looking forward to future commissions with The Concord Band and Emmanuel Music. She is thrilled to present her music at the 25th Anniversary African American Art Song Alliance Conference in Irvine, California this fall and in January, 2023 her commission Three Dialogues will have it world premiere performed by the Pine Forge Academy Honors Choir as part of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society's Singing Freedom. Additionally, Mason is looking forward to the release of her compositions on various albums with ensembles like Ex-Aequo, The Westerlies, and other local artists in the Boston area.
- [Shawn E. Okpebholo](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/shawn-e-okpebholo/): Shawn E. Okpebholo is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning composer whose music has been described as "devastatingly beautiful" and "fresh and new and fearless" (The Washington Post), “affecting” (The New York Times), “searing” (The Chicago Tribune), “staggering” (The New Yorker), “lyrical, complex, singular” (The Guardian) and “powerful” (BBC Music Magazine). Okpebholo's work as a composer and his music has been featured on PBS Newshour, and radio broadcasts all across the country, including NPR's All Things Considered, NPR's Morning Edition SiriusXM’s “Living American” series on Symphony Hall Channel, and Chicago's WFMT. Okpebholo maintains a dynamic career as a composer, including performances on five continents, over forty states, almost every major U.S. city, at some of the nation's most prestigious performance spaces, including Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, and the National Cathedral. Solo artists include vocalists J'Nai Bridges, Will Liverman, Michael Michael Mayes, Ryan McKinney, Robert Sims, and Tamera Wilson; pianists Paul Sánchez, Mark Markham, Craig Terry, and Robert Ainsley; euphonium virtuoso Steven Mead, flutists Jennie Oh Brown and Caen-Thomason-Redus, among others. Okpebholo regularly receives commissions from noted soloists, universities, and organizations, including UrbanArias (co-commissioned by Minnesota Opera, Colorado Opera, Dallas Opera, and Opera); Cincinnati Opera, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, among others. His compositions have been featured on six commercially released albums, including his first album solely devoted to his music, Steal Away, a collection of re-imagined Negro spirituals.
- [Nico Muhly](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/nico-muhly/): Nico Muhly (b.1981) is an American composer and sought-after collaborator whose influences range from American minimalism to the Anglican choral tradition.
- [Iva Bittová](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/iva-bittova/): Iva Bittová is a Czech avant-garde violinist, singer, and composer who has developed a music style of her own.
- [Errollyn Wallen](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/errollyn-wallen/): Errollyn Wallen’s output includes eighteen operas and two large scale works for the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games for London 2012 broadcast to a billion people around the world. Her latest large scale work, THIS FRAME IS PART OF THE PAINTING for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, is a BBC Proms commission for 2019 and was performed by BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Elim Chan, to a sold out Royal Albert Hall. Her new chamber opera THE POWDER MONKEY has just finished a tour including a performance at the Royal National Maritime Museum and she is working on an opera, After Winter for Streetwise and an opera commissioned by GRAEAE. Her Concerto Grosso is to be released on the NMC label January 2020, performed by Chineke! who also premièred the chamber work NNENNA, at the Cambridge Music Festival in 2018, and gave its London première at Wigmore Hall in 2019. The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge have recorded her music for a forthcoming release and performed PACE on their recent Australian tour. Her opera The Silent Twins (libretto by April De Angelis) will receive its US première in New York in 2022.
- [Nicolas Bacri](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/nicolas-bacri/): Nicolas Bacri was born in Paris, France. His musical studies began with piano lessons at the age of seven. After graduating in 1983 with the premier prix in composition, he attended the French Academy in Rome. Back in Paris, he worked for four years (1987–91) as the Director of Chamber Music for Radio France.
- [Erkki-Sven Tuur](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/erkki-sven-tuur/): Erkki-Sven Tuur studied flute and percussion at the Tallinn Music School from 1976 to 1980 and composition with Jaan Rääts at the Tallinn Academy of Music and privately with Lepo Sumera from 1980 to 1984. From 1979 to 1984 he headed the rock group In Spe, which quickly became one of the most popular in Estonia.
- [Federico Torroba](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/federico-torroba/): The multitalented Spanish musician Federico Moreno Torroba began his musical studies with his father, José Moreno Ballesteros, who was an organist and teacher at the National Conservatory of Music in Madrid. Moreno Torroba eventually attended the Conservatory, studying composition with Conrado del Campo. His earliest compositions were for orchestra, such as the Cuadros castellanos (c. 1920), but he soon moved to writing operas using Spanish styles and subject matter; in the mid-1920s he turned his attention to the zarzuela, the traditional form of Spanish comic opera. His first zarzuela was La mesonera de Tordesillas (1925); he went on to write almost 80 such works in his long career, perhaps the best known of which is Luisa Fernanda (1932). He also became a champion of the form as a conductor and impresario. At one point he managed three different opera houses, and in the 1930s and 1940s he led a touring company which performed zarzuelas all over the world. Guitar music was another major focus of Moreno Torroba's career. He was the first to respond to the young Andrés Segovia's request for new guitar works by modern composers, producing his Nocturno and Suite castellana for him in 1926. He went on to write many more works for Segovia over the next four-plus decades, and for other guitarists like the flamenco master Sabicas and the guitar quartet Los Romeros. By the end of his life he had composed over 100 works for the guitar, many of them strongly influenced by Spanish folk music. In 1975, at age 84, Moreno Torroba became the president of the Sociedad de Autores Espaí±oles. He continued composing right to the end of his life, even producing an opera at age 90, El Poeta (1980), for tenor Plácido Domingo, with whose parents Moreno Torroba had worked decades earlier.
- [Frank Ticheli](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/frank-ticheli/): Frank Ticheli graduated from L.V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas and earned a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Southern Methodist University, where he studied with Donald Erb and Jack Waldenmaier. He went on to receive his master's and doctoral degrees in composition from the University of Michigan, where he studied with William Albright, Leslie Bassett, George Wilson, and William Bolcom.
- [Ludwig Thuille](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/ludwig-thuille/): Ludwig Thuille lost both his parents in 1872 when he was 11, and moved in with his step-uncle in Kremsmí¼nster, Austria. There he sang in the Benedictine choir and studied organ, piano, and violin. His musical abilities were exceptional, so in 1876 the widow of a composer/ conductor, Matthaus Nagiller, took him to Innsbruck for more advanced musical training. There, in the summer of 1877, he met the young Richard Strauss, whose family was visiting the town; the two became lifelong friends. His Innsbruck teacher of organ and theory recommended him to the distinguished composer Josef Rheinberger in Munich, who took him as a pupil in the Hochschule fí¼r Musik und Theater Mí¼nchen, from where he graduated with honors in 1882. A year later he became a teacher, and few years thereafter a professor of theory and composition. His many pupils included Hermann Abendroth, Ernest Bloch, Ernst Boehe, Richard Wetz, Paul von Klenau, Rudi Stephan, Walter Braunfels, Henry Kimball Hadley and Walter R. Spalding.
- [Ambroise Thomas](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/ambroise-thomas/): Ambroise Thomas, in full Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas, was a French composer best known for his operas, particularly Mignon, written in a light, melodious style.
- [Joseph Thalken](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/joseph-thalken/): Joseph Thalken is an award-winning composer who gained acclaim in 2003 when he became the first (and, to this date, the only) composer to ever have two musicals showcased the same year at the prestigious National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) Festival in New York. The two shows were Harold & Maude (an intimate musical), book/lyrics by Fantasticks co-creator Tom Jones (later produced at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, NJ; TheatreWorks, Palo Alto; Human Race Theatre Company, Dayton; and other theaters from Cleveland to Tokyo); and Was, book/lyrics by Barry Kleinbort, based on Geoff Ryman’s novel (workshopped at Lincoln Center Theatre, NYC; produced at Human Race Theatre Company, Dayton; and Northwestern University’s American Music Theatre Project).
- [Alexander Tchaikovsky](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/alexander-tchaikovsky/): Alexander Tchaikovsky, one of the most famous and prolific composers of our time, made a name for himself in the 1970s. Coming from a brilliant school of such luminaries of national musical art as Tikhon Khrennikov, Heinrich Neuhaus and Lev Naumov, Alexander Tchaikovsky gained recognition both in Russia and abroad. He has won numerous Russian and international awards, and his music has been performed in major concert halls in Russia, Europe, America and Japan. Not limiting himself to just academic style, Alexander Tchaikovsky works virtually in all major music genres. He has authored nine operas (in 2011-2012 only his Legend of the Ancient Town of Yelets, Tamerlane and the Virgin Mary and Violist Davydov were successfully premiered), three ballets, three oratorios (June 2013, saw the premiere of his oratorio Czar’s case), Russian Requiem, five symphonies, a tone poem Northern Palmyra Nocturnes, a concerto for orchestra CSKA - Spartak, a series of instrumental concertos (for piano, viola, cello, bassoon, four saxophones and other instruments with a symphony orchestra), choral, vocal and chamber instrumental works. Alexander Tchaikovsky also works a lot in the genres of musical theatre and operetta also writing music for cartoons, films and TV. According to a critic, Alexander Tchaikovsky's works are “contemporary music in the best sense of the word. It is characterized by broad melody, passion, intelligence and sociability; it encourages the audience to empathize, to respond naturally.” The composer is fluent in modern vocabulary; he is open-minded towards different artistic styles and movements. Many of his works have become landmark events in Russian art.
- [Phyllis Tate](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/phyllis-tate/): Phyllis Margaret Duncan Tate was born at Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire, England, to an architect. She was excluded from primary school by her headmistress at the age of 10 for singing a lewd song at the end of the year. Not a very auspicious beginning for such a prolific composer, who then (much to the disdain of her mother) taught herself how to play the ukulele. She was discovered in 1928 by Harry Farjeon, who prompted her to receive formal music training, which she took up at the Royal Academy of Music for the next four years. While at the academy, where she studied composition, timpani, and conducting, Tate composed a number of pieces including an operetta entitled The Policeman’s Serenade. She was very self-critical, and destroyed all of her compositions from before the mid 1940s.
- [Giuseppe Tartini](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/giuseppe-tartini/): Giuseppe Tartini studied divinity and law at Padua and at the same time established a reputation as a fencer. Before the age of 20 he secretly married a protégée of the archbishop of Padua, resulting eventually in his arrest. Disguised as a monk, he fled from Padua and took refuge in a monastery at Assisi. There his violin playing attracted attention and ultimately influenced the archbishop to allow Tartini to return to his wife in Padua. In 1716 he went to Venice, later to Ancona, and eventually back to Padua, where he was appointed principal violinist at the Church of San Antonio in 1721. He directed the orchestra of the chancellor of Bohemia in Prague (1723—26), then returned once again to Padua, where he founded (1728) a school of violin playing and composition. He made a concert tour of Italy in 1740.
- [Su Lian Tan](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/su-lian-tan/): Su Lian Tan is a much sought after flutist and composer. Her music has been described as “the stunner of the evening,” (Washington Post) and “...refined, cultured compositions… Rewarding for everyone...” “far and away my favorite…a must- own for flutists and flute enthusiasts..” (Fanfare Magazine), “it is simply gorgeous…so original” ( Carol Wincenc, flutist). Making her first recordings at the age of 14, she has recently been featured in Flute Talk and released a CD featuring her performances of new works dedicated to her, Grand Theft and other Felonies (ARSIS Audio). Superstar Carol Wincenc performs her Autumn Lute- Song as a finale to the program. Ms. Tan has been commissioned by groups such as the Grammy-winning Takacs String Quartet, Da Capo Chamber Players, and the Vermont Symphony. Another recent release Music by Su Lian Tan (ARSIS) contains Jamaica’s Songs, written in collaboration with author Jamaica Kincaid. Her intermedia chamber opera Lotus Lives was performed to great acclaim in the last two seasons. Upcoming premiers of commissioned works includes a piano quintet for Sophie Shao, cellist, and concerti for virtuosi Joe Burgstaller, trumpet, and Darrett Adkins, cellist. A current recording project features the Jupiter String Quartet and Bruce Brubaker. Her music is published by ECS Publishing and Theodore Presser.
- [Marko Tajcevic](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/marko-tajcevic/): Marko Tajcevic first studied violin in Zagreb, then briefly pursued his musical studies in Prague, and afterwards in Vienna where he studied with Joseph Marx and Max Springer. After returning to his homeland, he completed his studies and made his first success with songs based on folk music which he composed for a joint concert with three other Croatian composers.
- [Edward Purcell](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/edward-purcell/): Edward Purcell is the only surviving son of the English Baroque master, Henry Purcell, who died in 1695 when Edward was a small child. When his mother Frances died in February 1706, she stated in her will, and apparently in accordance with her husband's wishes, that she had given him a good education. She also bequeathed to him music and instruments: "the organ, the double spinnet, the single spinnet"; possibly the instruments her husband had used.
- [Florence Price](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/florence-price/): Florence Price was one of three children in a mixed race family. Despite racial issues of the era, Price’s family was well respected and did well within their community. Her father was a dentist and her mother was a music teacher who guided Florence’s early musical training. Price had her first piano performance at the age of four and went on to have her first composition published at the age of 11. By time she was 14, Price had graduated Capitol High School at the top of her class and was enrolled in the New England Conservatory of Music with a major in piano and organ. Initially, Price pretended to be Mexican to avoid the stigma people had towards African-Americans at the time. While in college, Price was able to study composition and counterpoint with composers George Chadwick and Frederick Converse. She wrote her first string trio and symphony in college and graduated in 1907 with honors and both an artist diploma in organ and a teaching certificate.
- [Baden Powell](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/baden-powell/): Roberto Baden Powell de Aquino usually known simply as Baden Powell, was one of the most prominent and celebrated Brazilian guitarists and guitar composers of his time.  He explored the instrument to its utmost limits, playing it in a distinctive, unique manner, incorporating virtuoso classical techniques together with popular harmony and swing. He performed in many styles, including bossa nova, samba, Brazilian jazz, Latin jazz and míºsica popular brasileira. He performed on stage during most of his lifetime, and recorded an extensive discography composed of LP and CD albums produced in Brazil and Europe, particularly in France and Germany.  Baden Powell also composed many fine pieces for guitar, such as Abraçí£o em Madrid, Braziliense, Canto de Ossanha, Casa Velha, Consolaçí£o, Horizon, Imagem, Lotus, Samba, Samba Triste, Simplesmente, Tristeza e solidí£o, and Xangô.
- [Michel Portal](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/michel-portal/): Michel Portal is a composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.  He studied clarinet at the Conservatoire de Paris and conducting with Pierre Dervaux.  During August 1969, Portal played on several of the recordings in Stockhausen's cycle of intuitive works, Aus den sieben Tagen.  Portal might be noted most for scoring music to film, and has won the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film three times. His first win was for the music to The Return of Martin Guerre. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be one of the architects of modern European jazz.  In 1969, Portal co-founded the free improvisation group New Phonic Art with Vinko Globokar, Jean-Pierre Drouet and Carlos Roque Alsina.
- [Manuel Ponce](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/manuel-ponce/): Manuel Ponce was born in the same year as Igor Stravinsky, halfway around the world in a tiny Mexican village called Fresnillo in Zacatecas although within months his family moved to the larger town of Aguascalientes where he eventually developed as a composer, performer and musical scholar at a time when Mexican classical musical culture was dominated by Europe. Active as an organist, teacher and music critic, Ponce also proved himself so formidable a pianist that he was sent off to further his studies in Bologna and Berlin from 1904 to 1908, stopping off in St. Louis en route to give his first recital in the United States. Ponce's four-year European apprenticeship was to be the first of several lengthy sojourns abroad for Ponce, who also lived in Havana from 1915 to 1917 and in Paris from 1925 to 1933. Paradoxically, it was in Paris that he first came to terms artistically with his Mexican cultural roots while befriending the French composer Paul Dukas. Throughout all his years of travels, Ponce always returned to his homeland, at one point heading the National Conservatory in Mexico City, at another serving as editor of the journal Cultura Musical and teaching folklore at the University, all the while composing works in a variety of idioms.
- [Pixinguinha](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/pixinguinha/): Alfredo da Rocha Viana, Jr., better known as Pixinguinha, was a composer, arranger, flautist and saxophonist born in Rio de Janeiro. Pixinguinha is considered one of the greatest Brazilian composers of popular music, particularly within the genre of music known as choro. By integrating the music of the older choro composers of the 19th century with contemporary jazz-like harmonies, Afro-Brazilian rhythms, and sophisticated arrangements, he introduced choro to a new audience and helped to popularize it as a uniquely Brazilian genre. He was also one of the first Brazilian musicians and composers to take advantage of the new professional opportunities offered to musicians by the new technologies of radio broadcasting and studio recording. Pixinguinha composed dozens of choros, including some of the most well-known works in the genre such as "Carinhoso", "Glória", "Lamento" and "Um a Zero".
- [Graham Peel](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/graham-peel/): Graham Peel studied at Harrow and Oxford University with Ernest Walker, and was a welfare worker for much of his life. He seems to have been almost exclusively a song composer, of which he produced about a hundred, exclusive of folk song settings, though there were a few piano solos. He studied singing with George Henschel. In Summertime on Bredon remains popular and if it is more ballad-like than the settings by Butterworth and Vaughan Williams, this simple setting has claims to be regarded as the most attractive of all the versions of those frequently set words. Peel altogether set four of the Housman poems from The Shropshire Lad, published as a cycle and of which Reveille is particularly striking; other "cycles" included the Bad Child's Songs About Beasts, and Leaves from a Child's Garden, both for children, Four Love Songs and The Country Lover (five songs). Peel's genuine lyrical gift which hovers between ballad and art-song but perhaps is more often nearer the former should not be lost to us.
- [Seppo Nummi](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/seppo-nummi/): Seppo Nummi is remembered particularly in Jyväskylä Arts Festival as a catalyst and as Executive Director, Helsinki Festival's director, and a music library's idea of an advocate. Nummi was George Kilpisenkatu's private student, and he has composed songs which include his brother Lassi Nummi as well as Chinese poets. His oeuvre includes about 230 lied and chamber music.
- [Vitezslav Novak](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/vitezslav-novak/): In 1889 Vitezslav Novak won a scholarship to study law at the Charles University in Prague, his heart was already set on studying music; and, therefore, he also enrolled at the Prague Conservatory. Here he studied music with Josef Jiranek (piano), Karel Knittl (harmony), and Karel Stecker (counterpoint). In 1891, on Stecker's recommendation, Novak was accepted into the Master School of Antonin Dvorak, under whom he studied composition. By that time he was also able to persuade his mother that he had to pursue a career in music rather than in law.
- [John Novacek](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/john-novacek/): John Novacek is an American pianist who is the winner of the Leschetizky and Joanna Hodges international piano competitions. He plays solo recitals and concerts. As a chamber musician and accompanist he has worked with such artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, and Leila Josefowicz. Novacek has premiered the works of John Adams, John Harbison, Jennifer Higdon, and John Zorn and he has composed his own works, including Hog Wild, Cockles, and Melancholy Drag. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Wigmore Hall. Novacek has released efforts such as Kindred Spirits (2008), Stone and Steel, and Antheil: Sonatas for Violin and Piano (2011).
- [Per Norgard](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/per-norgard/): Per Ní¸rgí¥rd studied with Vagn Holmboe at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and subsequently with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. To begin with, he was strongly influenced by the Nordic styles of Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen and Vagn Holmboe. In the 1960s, Ní¸rgí¥rd began exploring the modernist techniques of central Europe, eventually developing a serial compositional system based on the "infinity series", which he used in his Voyage into the Golden Screen, the Second and Third Symphonies, I Ching, and other works of the late 1960s and 70s. Later he became interested in the Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli, who inspired many of Ní¸rgí¥rd's works, including the Fourth Symphony, the opera Det Guddommelige Tivoli and Papalagi for solo guitar.
- [Joaquin Nin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/joaquin-nin/): This talented Cuban composer-pianist-musicologist, Joaquin Nin, was vital to the preservation of early Spanish music. Nin composed only a modest number of original works, mostly songs. However, he edited several important volumes of old Spanish music, particularly from the Spanish Baroque. A very dedicated artist, he was decorated with high honors during his lifetime.
- [John Jacob Niles](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/john-jacob-niles/): John Jacob Niles learned music theory from his mother, and began writing down folk music as a teenager. He became a serious student of Appalachian folk music by transcribing traditional songs from oral sources while an itinerant employee of the Burroughs Corporation in eastern Kentucky, from 1910 to 1917. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I, in which he was injured, he studied music in France, first in Lyon, then in Paris at the Schola Cantorum, also meeting Gertrude Stein. Returning to the United States in 1920, he continued his studies at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music working there with Ralph Lyford. He sang opera in Chicago and folk songs on early radio. In 1925, he moved to New York City and held various jobs in the entertainment industry. In the 1930s, he toured Europe and the United States with contralto Marion Kerby. He performed at the White House in 1938, and on occasion at the Newport Folk Festival during the 1950s.
- [Camille Nickerson](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/camille-nickerson/): Nickerson was born into a talented musical family in the French Quarter of New Orleans. At the age of nine she was the pianist for the Nickerson Ladies' Orchestra directed by her father. She attended Oberlin Conservatory earning a bachelor of music in 1916 and a masters in music degree in 1932. She also was a member of Pi Kappa Lambda and the national honor society in music. While at Oberlin, she began to compose and publish Creole music.
- [Alberto Nepomuceno](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/alberto-nepomuceno/): The son of a violinist, chapel master and music educator, Alberto Nepomuceno was born in the northeastern Brazilian city of Fortaleza in 1864. After completing his early music studies, in 1888 Nepomuceno left for Rome where he studied with Sgambati. Two years later he went to Berlin to study with Lechetizky. In 1893 he married Walborg Rendtler Bang, who had been one of Grieg’s pupils. Grieg, a proponent of musical nationalism, encouraged Nepomuceno to establish a Brazilian national school of composition. Several key works were composed during this time, including his third string quartet, which is one of the earliest works to incorporate Brazilian folklore into European musical forms. In 1894 Nepomuceno returned to Brazil where he taught at the National Institute of Music. In 1910 he gave a series of concerts in Belgium, France and Switzerland; during this trip he also became good friends with Debussy. After returning to Brazil he continued to fight for the use of Portuguese in opera and song. He also taught many students, including Villa-Lobos.
- [Clancy Newman](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/clancy-newman/): He developed an interest in composition at an early age, writing his first piece at seven, a piece for solo cello. Since then, he has greatly expanded the cello repertoire: he premiered his Four Pieces for Solo Cello at the Violoncello Society in New York, his Sonata for Cello and Piano in New York's Weill Hall, and his Four Seasons for cello and string orchestra with Symphony in C in Philadelphia. He has also written numerous chamber music works, including two string quartets, a clarinet trio, and a piano quintet. He has been a featured composer on the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s “Double Exposure” series and the Chicago Chamber Musicians’ “Freshly Scored” series, and has received commissions from Astral Artists, the Barnett Foundation, the Carpe Diem String Quartet, and the Silo Collective, among others. His piano trio, Juxt-Opposition, is available on Bridge Records.
- [Larry Nelson](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/larry-nelson/): Larry Nelson attended the University of Denver, where he studied composition with Normand Lockwood. At the graduate level, Nelson subsequently studied with composers Will Bottje at Southern Illinois University and H. Owen Reed at Michigan State University.
- [Ernesto Nazareth](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/ernesto-nazareth/): Ernesto Jíºlio Nazareth was the most popular composer of Brazilian national music. He had a profound influence on the course of future Brazilian music, both popular and classical. Fellow countryman Heitor Villa-Lobos called him "the truest incarnation of the Brazilian musical soul."
- [Gunnar de Frumerie](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/gunnar-de-frumerie/): Gunnar de Frumerie showed an early aptitude as a pianist, and was to become a pupil of the legendary Cortot. His career as a concert artist and teacher was to form the bulk of his life, but he also enjoyed a reputation as a composer of impeccable technical skills. His songs were particularly prized, and he became a major Swedish composer of piano music. He did explore every form of composition, from grand opera to piano miniatures, his catalogue of orchestral works including several fine Piano Concertos. Though he became a professor of piano teaching, he was never to find a place in the Swedish musical establishment, and his national and international reputation probably never received the attention his works deserved.
- [Johann Wolfgang Franck](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/johann-wolfgang-franck/): Johann Wolfgang Franck was a German composer, who served at the court of the Margrave of Ansbach from 1665 to 1679. He composed a considerable body of sacred music for the court chapel, and in 1677 was made court chaplain. In January 1679 he was forced to flee after murdering one of the musicians of the chapel and wounding his wife in a fit of jealousy. Already known as an opera composer through Die drey Töchter des Cecrops (the first extant German opera in full score), he found asylum in Hamburg, becoming musical director of the Tam Gänsemarkt. Kapellmeister at Hamburg Cathedral from 1682 to 1686. In Hamburg he produced 14 operas between 1679 and 1686. From 1690 to 1695 he was in London, in whose concert life he was an active participant. In conjunction with Robert King, he gave concerts there between 1690 and 1693, and in 1695 he wrote a song for Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift.  Apart from his operas, Johann Wolfgang Franck wrote several books of sacred songs, also a number of songs for The Gentleman's Journal (1692-1694).
- [Thomas Flaherty](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/thomas-flaherty/): Tom Flaherty has received grants, prizes, awards, and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Music Center, the Pasadena Arts Council, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, the Delius Society, the University of Southern California, "Meet the Composer", and Yaddo.
- [Stephen Flaherty](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/stephen-flaherty/): STEPHEN FLAHERTY is the composer of the Broadway musicals Rocky, Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC Awards, two Grammy nominations), Seussical (Grammy, Drama Desk nominations) and Once on This Island (Tony nomination, Olivier Award, Best Musical.) Additional Broadway includes Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life (original songs) and Neil Simon's Proposals (incidental music). Stephen has also written four musicals at Lincoln Center Theatre: The Glorious Ones (OCC, Drama Desk nominations), Dessa Rose (OCC, Drama Desk nominations), A Man of No Importance (OCC, Best Musical, Drama Desk nomination) and My Favorite Year. Other theater includes Lucky Stiff, Loving Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Stein (Chicago’s Jefferson Award, Best New Musical) and In Your Arms, a new dance theater piece with director-choreographer Christopher Gattelli and ten noted playwrights. Film includes Anastasia (two Academy Award and two Golden Globe nominations), the documentary After The Storm and the upcoming Lucky Stiff. This year celebrates Stephen’s 30-year collaboration with lyricist-librettist Lynn Ahrens. A double live CD commemorating their body of work titled Nice Fighting You has just been released by Broadway Records. Upcoming: Little Dancer at the Kennedy Center, Fall 2014, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, and the stage adaptation of Anastasia, currently in development. Mr. Flaherty’s concert music has premiered at the Hollywood Bowl, Boston's Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Guggenheim Museum and Symphony Space. Stephen and Lynn are members of the Dramatists Guild Council and cofounders of the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program.
- [Mary Finsterer](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/mary-finsterer/): She graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Melbourne. A recipient of the Royal Netherlands Government Award in 1993, she continued her studies in Amsterdam with Louis Andriessen, then returned to Australia and studied with Brenton Broadstock, completing a Master of Music degree in 1995 at the University of Melbourne. She completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2003. In 2006 she received a Churchill Fellowship for her continuing work in multimedia. Finsterer is married to the photographer Dean Golja.
- [Ross Lee Finney](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/ross-lee-finney/): Ross Lee Finney Junior was an American composer born in Wells, Minnesota who taught for many years at the University of Michigan. He received his early training at Carleton College and the University of Minnesota and also studied with Nadia Boulanger, Edward Burlingame Hill, Alban Berg (from 1931-2) and Roger Sessions (in 1935). In 1928 he spent a year at Harvard University and then joined the faculty at Smith College, where he founded the Smith College Archives and conducted the Northampton Chamber Orchestra. In 1935, his setting of poems by Archibald MacLeish won the Connecticut Valley Prize and in 1937, his First String Quartet received a Pulitzer Prize. A Guggenheim Fellowship funded travel in Europe in 1937. During World War II, Finney served in the Office of Strategic Services, and received a Purple Heart and a Certificate of Merit.
- [Roland Dyens](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/roland-dyens/): Roland Dyens studied guitar with the Spanish classical guitarist Alberto Ponce and analysis with Désiré Dondeyne. He has won several prizes in competitions for classical guitar performance as well as for composition.
- [Thomas Dunhill](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/thomas-dunhill/): Thomas Dunhill was born in Hampstead, north London, on 1 February 1877. He showed early promise as a pianist and composer, and by the time he entered the Royal College of Music in 1893, aged just sixteen, he had already written a number of operettas in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan. In 1897 he won a scholarship to continue his studies with Charles Villiers Stanford for a further three years. Among his distinguished fellow students were Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, and his lifelong friend, John Ireland.
- [John Duke](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/john-duke/): John Woods Duke was the oldest child in a large musical family. After teaching him to read music at an early age and starting him on piano lessons at age 11, Duke's mother (a talented singer herself) enrolled him in the Cumberland, MD Allegheny Academy. By age 16 he had won a three-year scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.
- [Arne Dí¸rumsgaard](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/arne-dorumsgaard/): Arne Dí¸rumsgaard was born on December 7, 1921 in Fredrikstad, a coastal town in southeastern Norway. He showed an interest in literature and music early on, and his first musical instructor was the pianist Jens Bugge Olsen in Fredrikstad. He later continued his piano studies with Ivar Johnsen in Oslo. He made his debut as a composer at age 13 and performed his own compositions at a recital when he was 20 years old, but ended his career as a composer before he reached 30.
- [Franz Doppler](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/franz-doppler/): Albert Franz Doppler was born in Poland in Lemberg (Austrian Empire), now Lviv, Ukraine. From 1828 to 1831, he received flute lessons from his father, Joseph Doppler, who was an oboist, and made his debut as a flutist at the age of 13. He formed a flute duo with his brother Karl, four years younger, who mainly wrote songs and incidental music, and as a duo they caused quite a sensation throughout Europe. They toured and both became members of the orchestra of the German Theater, Budapest, in 1838 and both moved to the Hungarian National Theater in 1841. There, five of Franz's operas were staged with success. Franz and Karl continued to make regular tours of Europe and helped found the Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra in 1853. At the age of 18 Franz was the first flutist at the opera in Budapest, and he went on to be the first flutist and stand-in conductor, and eventually chief conductor, of the Vienna Court Opera, as well as acquiring a position of Professor of Flute at the Vienna Conservatoire from 1864 until 1867. He died in Baden bei Wien, Austria.
- [Stefano Donaudy](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/stefano-donaudy/): Stefano Donaudy, son of a French father and an Italian mother, was a minor Italian composer active in the 1890s and early 20th century, at a time when Palermo, his native city, was enjoying a period of relative splendour under the influx of rich Anglo-Sicilian families such as the Florios and the Whitakers. No biographical or musicological studies have so far been devoted to him, but it seems that Donaudy was very precocious, as a variety of sources date both his first opera Folchetto and one of his most popular songs, Vaghissima sembianza, to 1892, when he was only thirteen.
- [Alphons Diepenbrock](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/alphons-diepenbrock/): Diepenbrock was not a musician by training. Brought up in a prosperous Catholic family, although he showed musical ability as a child, the expectation was that he would enter a university rather than a conservatory. And so he studied classics at the University of Amsterdam, gaining his doctorate cum laude in 1888 with a dissertation in Latin on the life of Seneca. The same year he became a teacher, a job which he held until 1894, and decided to devote himself to music. As a composer, he had been completely self-taught from an early age.
- [Charles Dibdin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/charles-dibdin/): Charles Dibdin, composer, author, actor, and theatrical manager whose sea songs and operas made him one of the most popular English composers of the late 18th century.
- [François Devienne](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/francois-devienne/): François Devienne was a French composer and professor for flute at the Paris Conservatory. His output comprises approximately 300 instrumental works that are mostly written for wind instruments. There are a dozen flute concertos, sinfonias for woodwinds, quartets and trios for different ensembles, 12 operas, 5 bassoon concertos, 6 bassoon sonatas and 6 oboe sonatas (Opp. 70 and 71). He became known in his day as the "Mozart of the Flute".
- [R. Nathaniel Dett](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/r-nathaniel-dett/): Robert Nathaniel Dett, often known as R. Nathaniel Dett, was a composer in the United States and Canada. During his lifetime he was one of the most successful black composers, known for his use of folk songs and spirituals for choral and piano compositions in the romantic style.
- [Justin Dello Joio](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/justin-dello-joio/): Justin Dello Joio, born in New York City, is descended from seven generations of composers in the Dello Joio family. He began piano at age 5, studying with pianists Constance Keene and Mieczeslav Munz, began composing at age 6, winning a scholarship to the Juilliard Pre College at age 7. At age 12, he began studying with composer, Ellen Taafe Zwilich and in high school, with Hall Overton and jazz pianist Roland Hanna. He finished his formal training at the Juilliard School, receiving an annual composition award, while completing a B.M., M.M., and D.M.A. degrees in composition, studying with Vincent Persichetti, Roger Sessions, and David Diamond.
- [Jonathan Dawe](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/jonathan-dawe/): The highly innovative and conjured world of composer Jonathan Dawe joins Baroque imagery with a modernist mix, cast with dynamic dramatic flair. Cited for his "quirky, fascinating modernist variations on earlier styles" (Time Out) his music involves the recasting of energies and sounds of the past into decisively new expressions, through compositional workings based upon fractal geometry. Recent pieces and productions have been described as “music of such vitality and drama” (New York Times) "a brake-squealing collision of influence" (Boston Globe) and " bound to be provocative" (Time Out).  Described as “one of our most talented and distinctive — yet little-known — contemporary composers” (Seen and Heard International), Dawe is the youngest composer to have been commissioned by James Levine and The Boston Symphony Orchestra.   The Flowering Arts, a bold fractured transformation of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’sLes arts florissants, was hailed in 2005 as a “Powerful Premiere” (Boston Globe).
- [Tina Davidson](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/tina-davidson/): Tina Davidson, a highly regarded American composer, creates music that stands out for its emotional depth and lyrical dignity. She has been acclaimed for her authentic voice, her "vivid ear for harmony and colors" (New York Times) and her works of "transfigured beauty" (OperaNews). She writes "real music, with structure, mood, novelty and harmonic sophistication - with haunting melodies that grow out of complex, repetitive rhythms" (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is both "intellectually rigorous and deeply moving" (Star-Tribune).
- [Eduardo Dutra](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/eduardo-dutra/): Eduardo Dutra was a 20th century Brazilian composer. He cultivated an appreciation for music and composition as an amateur, which is probably why little is known about his life or music. In spite of this relative obscurity, his Prelíºdio remains a gem for the piano repertoire. It was composed in 1940, with a dedication to his son, Farnesio, who became a well-known popular musician, appearing under the name Dick Farney. The piece is written in a late-romantic style, reminiscent of a lament, with a clear melody and harmonic accompaniment typical of Romanticism.
- [Franz Danzi](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/franz-danzi/): Franz Ignaz Danzi was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the noted Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi. Born in Schwetzingen, Franz Danzi worked in Mannheim, Munich, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, where he died.
- [Ellen Taaffe Zwilich](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/ellen-taaffe-zwilich/): Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's music is widely known because it is performed, recorded, broadcast, and above all, listened to and liked by all sorts of audiences the world over. Like the great masters of bygone times, Zwilich produces music "with fingerprints," music that is immediately recognized as the product of a particular American composer who combines craft and inspiration in reflecting her optimistic and humanistic spirit in her compositions.
- [John Zorn](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/john-zorn/): John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer. His work has touched on a wide range of musical genres, often within a single composition, but he is best-known for his avant-garde, jazz, improvised and contemporary classical music. Zorn has led the punk jazz band Naked City, the klezmer-influenced quartet Masada and composed the associated 'Masada Songbooks', written concert music for classical ensembles, and produced music for film and documentary. Zorn has stated that "I've got an incredibly short attention span. My music is jam-packed with information that is changing very fast... All the various styles are organically connected to one another. I'm an additive person - the entire storehouse of my knowledge informs everything I do. People are so obsessed with the surface that they can't see the connections, but they are there."
- [Iannis Xenakis](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/iannis-xenakis/): Iannis Xenakis is one of the leaders of modernism in music, a hugely influential composer, particularly in the later 1950s and 1960s, when he was experimenting with compositional techniques that soon entered the basic vocabulary of the twentieth-century avant garde.
- [Stefan Wolpe](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/stefan-wolpe/): Stefan Wolpe was a composer notable for providing a fresh perspective on atonality. Despite excursions into popular, folk and jazz idioms, Wolpe continued to compose in atonal styles throughout his career. His works are often characterized by cross-cutting and discontinuity between different musical gestures and textures, quite possibly an influence he gathered from Dadaism. Wolpe was an influential teacher in the United States, where his pupils included Morton Feldman, Ralph Shapey andCharles Wuorinen.
- [John C. Williams](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/john-c-williams/): John Williams, classical guitar virtuoso, is known for his wide-ranging approach to repertory, which includes appearances playing electric rock guitar and international music. John's father Leonard (Len) Williams was an accomplished guitarist who emigrated from Britain to Australia, married a Melbourne woman of Chinese-British descent, and was best known there for his jazz playing. As he taught John to play guitar, it soon became apparent that the boy was a gifted guitarist, and the family planned to move back to London so that he could pursue further studies. To afford the trip, Len Williams took an additional job as a hippo-keeper at the Melbourne Zoo.
- [John Williams](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/john-williams/): John Williams is the winner of five Academy Awards, 17 Grammys, three Golden Globes, two Emmys and five BAFTA Awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Best known for his film scores and ceremonial music, Williams is also a noted composer of concert works and a renowned conductor.
- [Jörg Widmann](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/jorg-widmann/): Jörg Widmann studied clarinet at the Academy for Music in Munich with Gerd Starke and later with Charles Neidich at the Juilliard School in New York. At the age of eleven he began to take his first composition lessons and continued subsequently his studies with Wilfried Hiller and Hans Werner Henze and later Heiner Goebbels and Wolfgang Rihm.
- [Kurt Weill](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/kurt-weill/): Kurt Weill was born on 2 March 1900 in Dessau, Germany.The son of a cantor, Weill displayed musical talent early on. By the time he was twelve, he was composing and mounting concerts and dramatic works in the hall above his family's quarters in the Gemeindehaus. During the First World War, the teenage Weill was conscripted as a substitute accompanist at the Dessau Court Theater. After studying theory and composition with Albert Bing, Kapellmeister of the Theater, Weill enrolled at the Berlin Hochschule fí¼r Musik, but found the conservative training and the infrequent lessons with Engelbert Humperdinck too stifling. After a season as conductor of the newly formed municipal theater in Lí¼denscheid, he returned to Berlin and was accepted into Ferruccio Busoni's master class in composition. He supported himself through a wide range of musical occupations, from playing organ in a synagogue to piano in a Bierkeller, by tutoring students (including Claudio Arrau and Maurice Abravanel) in music theory, and, later, by contributing music criticism to Der deutsche Rundfunk, the weekly program journal of the German radio.
- [Melinda Wagner](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/melinda-wagner/): Hailed as an “...eloquent, poetic voice in contemporary music..,” in whose works “...spectacular sounds abound...” , Melinda Wagner achieved widespread attention when her colorful Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion was awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Since then, major compositions have included Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra, for Joseph Alessi and the New York Philharmonic, and a piano concerto, Extremity of Sky, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony for Emanuel Ax, who has also performed it with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, the Staatskapelle Berlin, and the Kansas City Symphony. In all, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has commissioned three works by Wagner: Falling Angels, Extremity of Sky, and a forthcoming work. Other recent commissions include Little Moonhead, for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Scamp, for the United States Marine Band, and Pan Journal, for Elizabeth Hainen and the Juilliard String Quartet. Ms. Wagner’s chamber works have been performed by many leading ensembles including the American Brass Quintet, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the New York New Music Ensemble, and the Empyrean Ensemble. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, three ASCAP Young Composer Awards, an honorary degree from Hamilton College, and a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Pennsylvania. Project support has come from the Barlow Endowment, the Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations, and the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust.
- [Henri Vieuxtemps](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/henri-vieuxtemps/): Henry Vieuxtemps attracted early attention as a prodigy, making his first public appearance as a violinist at the age of six. He later studied with Charles de Bériot and moved with him from Brussels to Paris in 1829. Two years later he embarked on the first of his concert tours, impressing musicians such as Schumann and Paganini. He took composition lessons with Simon Sechter in Vienna and later with Anton Reicha in Paris, and he wrote violin music for his own use on extended concert tours that took him to the major cities of Europe and, with the pianist Sigismond Thalberg, to the United States of America. In 1871 he was appointed professor at the Brussels Conservatoire, where his pupils included Eugène Ysaí¿e. He died in Algeria in 1881 after eight years of intermittent ill health that had impeded his teaching and put an end to his playing.
- [Mark-Anthony Turnage](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/mark-anthony-turnage/): Mark-Anthony Turnage is among the most relevant communicators and creators of today. His orchestral and operatic music is often forthright and confrontational, unafraid to mirror the realities of modern life, yet its energy is exhilarating. With his flair for vivid titles, and his complete absorption of jazz elements into a contemporary classical style, Turnage produces work with a strong appeal to an enquiring, often young audience. At the same time his music is capable of expressing deep tenderness, especially emotions associated with loss.
- [Augusta Read Thomas](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/augusta-read-thomas/): Augusta Read Thomas was the Mead Composer-in-Residence for Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, from 1997 through 2006. In 2007, her ASTRAL CANTICLE was one of the two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. Thomas has also been on the Board of Directors of the American Music Center since 2000, as well as on the boards and advisory boards of several chamber music groups. She was elected Chair of the Board of the American Music Center, a volunteer position that ran from 2005 to 2008. She is University Professor at The University of Chicago. Augusta was MUSICALIVE Composer-in-Residence with the New Haven Symphony, a national residency program of The League of American Orchestras and Meet the Composer. Augusta has been on the Board of the ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) for many years; is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Alice M. Ditson Fund; is on the Board of Trustees of The American Society for the Royal Academy of Music; is a Member of the Conseil Musical de la Foundation Prince Pierre de Monaco; and is on the Eastman School of Music's National Council.
- [Georg Philipp Telemann](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/georg-philipp-telemann/): Georg Philipp Telemann was considered the most important German composer of his day and his reputation outlasted him for some time, but ultimately it was unable to withstand the shadow cast by the growing popularity of his contemporary, Johann Sebastian Bach. Telemann enormous output, perhaps the largest of any classical composer in history, includes parts of at least 31 cantata cycles, many operas, concertos, oratorios, songs, music for civic occasions and church services, passion, orchestral suites and abundant amounts of chamber music.
- [Ignacio Figueredo](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/ignacio-figueredo/): Ignacio Ventura Figueredo was a Venezuelan folk musician and harpist.
- [Heraclio Fernández](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/heraclio-fernandez/): Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Heráclio Fernández was a composer and editor who published the periodical El Zancudo (‘Long Legs’) and El Museo, the latter with musical supplements — pieces of popular light music. These included his famous piano composition El diablo suelto (‘The Devil at Rest’), later arranged for guitar by Alirio Diaz.
- [John Tavener](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/john-tavener/): John Tavener first came to public attention in 1968 when his avant-garde oratorio The Whale was premiered at the inaugural concert of the London Sinfonietta. As the years progressed his music became increasingly spiritual in conception, contemplative in its idiom, and popular with audiences worldwide. In 1977 he joined the Orthodox Church which was a major inspiration on his work for the following two decades. From the late 1990s he looked for inspiration from alternative sources by his interest in the universalist philosophy, which embraces all great religious traditions: Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the spirituality of the American Indians. Before his death in 2013, Tavener was heavily inspired by the work of Tolstoy.
- [Elisenda Fabregas](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/elisenda-fabregas/): Elisenda Fábregas started composing in 1985 when she worked with several dance companies and choreographers in New York City, including Jerome Robbins, Hector Zaraspe, Janet Soares and Anna Sokolow. In 1986, The Maria Benitez Spanish Dance Company commissioned her to write Reflexiones for solo piano, which was premiered at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. followed by the Joyce Theater in New York and by numerous performances throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. Fábregas music has been heard throughout the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Spain, Australia, The Czech Republic, Ireland, Taiwan, China, London and Japan, and has been performed live on WQXR-FM "New York Spotlight", WNYC-FM "Around New York" and the Voice of America.
- [Betsy Jolas](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/betsy-jolas/): Composer Betsy Jolas is one of the most important forces in contemporary music in France.  Born in Paris in 1926, she is the daughter of translator Maria Jolas and poet and journalist Eugène Jolas, founder of the well known literary magazine "transition", in which the "Finnegans Wake" of James Joyce was published under the heading "work in progress". She came to the U.S. in 1940, completed her general schooling, then started studying composition with Paul Boepple, piano with Helen Schnabel and organ with Carl Weinrich. After graduating from Bennington College (where she became acquainted with 16th century polyphonists including Lassus and Palestrina), she returned to Paris in 1946 to continue her studies with Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris.
- [Hall Johnson](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/hall-johnson/): Hall Johnson was one of a number of American composers and arrangers–including Harry T. Burleigh, R. Nathaniel Dett, and Eva Jessye – who elevated the African-American spiritual to an art form, comparable in its musical sophistication to the compositions of European Classical composers.
- [Heidi Jacob](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/heidi-jacob/): Born in Orinda, California, Heidi Jacob has studied at both the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. Her conducting teachers have included Harold Farberman, Daniel Lewis and Robert Page. Appointed Music Director of The Haverford-Bryn Mawr College Orchestra in 1996, she was Music Director of The De Paul Chamber Orchestra from 1994 to 1998. In addition to serving as music director of several university orchestras, Ms. Jacob has also been guest conductor of the Lansdowne Symphony. She was selected in 1993 as a conductor in performance as part of the American Conductors Composers Seminar at Hartt College of Music. As a cellist, Ms. Jacob has distinguished herself both as a soloist and in chamber music. At the age of 17 she won critical acclaim for her performances of Bloch's "Schelomo," with performances in California and Germany, where it was broadcast over German television. A guest artist at the 1981 Chopin festival in Miami, Florida, she has also appeared as soloist at the San Francisco Bach Festival, the Temple University Summer Festival, and on WQXR in New York City. In 1986, she toured Spain, performing cello-piano duos with her husband, pianist Charles Abramovic. As a member of the Janus Trio, Ms. Jacob has performed throughout the United States including the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., Bedford Springs Festival, "Mozart on the Square" in Philadelphia, and on National Public Radio. The group has toured both Spain and the former Yugoslavia, where they performed at the Dubrovnik festival. Ms. Jacob has recorded for CRS records, with a C.D. of trios by Ernest Pelligrini and Michael Zak with former Philadelphia Orchestra harpist Marilyn Costello. She was featured on WRTI's "Notes from Philadelphia," conducting performances of the Chamber Orchestra of Bryn Mawr in works by Haverford Professor Curt Cacioppo and Ferruccio Busoni. In a recording for Capstone Records she conducts the Ensemble Solarium in Curt Cacioppo’s Concerto for Oboe and String Chamber Orchestra with Harpsichord, featuring Philadelphia Orchestra oboist Jonathan Blumenfeld. She has recorded solo cello and chamber music works by Larry Nelson for Albany Records, as well as the Cello and Piano Sonatas by John Davison with pianist Charles Abramovic. She has performed as cellist with Orchestra 2001, Penn Contemporary Players, the Davidsbund Chamber Players, and has performed as principal cellist for Opera North, The Choral Arts Society and Orchestra 2001.
- [Betty Jackson-King](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/betty-jackson-king/): Betty Jackson King has a rich and varied background in music. She received the B.M. on piano and the M.M. in composition from Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois, with further study at Oakland University, Glassboro College, and others. Her piano teachers include her mother, Gertrude Jackson Taylor, Saul Dorfman, and Maurice Dumesnil; organ: Joseph Lockett and Abba Leifer; Composition: Karel B. Jarik; and voice: Thelma Waide Brown. She taught at the University of Chicago Laboratory School, Roosevelt University, Dillard University (New Orleans, LA), and Wildwood High School (Wildwood, NJ).
- [Hanns Eisler](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/hanns-eisler/): Hanns Eisler was an Austrian composer best known as the composer of the national anthem of the German Democratic Republic and for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht.
- [Leo Edwards](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/leo-edwards/): Leo Edwards was a German-born Broadway composer. He appeared in vaudeville and worked for music publishing firms as a staff writer. His Broadway credits include The Wizard of Oz, The Blue Paradise, and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1921 and 1923.
- [Clara Edwards](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/clara-edwards/): Clara Edwards was born Clara Gerlich in Decoria Township, Blue Earth County, Minnesota. She received her education from the Mankato State Normal School and the Cosmopolitan School of Music in Chicago. She married physician John Milton Edwards before finishing her degree, and the couple moved toVienna, where she continued musical studies and had a daughter. In Europe she prepared for a career as a singer, and gave concerts in both the United States and Europe before moving to New York City in 1914. Two years later her husband died, leaving her a single mother in New York city with no steady income.
- [Andrew Imbrie](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/andrew-imbrie/): Born in New York, Andrew Imbrie went to Paris in 1937 to study briefly with Nadia Boulanger. He returned to the United States the next year to attend Princeton University where he studied with Roger Sessions, receiving his undergraduate degree in 1942. His senior thesis there, a string quartet, was recorded by the Juilliard Quartet. He then went to the University of California, Berkeley, where he received an M.A. in Music in 1947; there he continued to study with Sessions, who had taken a position at Berkeley.
- [Henrique Oswald](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/henrique-oswald/): Brazilian composer Henrique Oswald was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1852, the son of a Swiss father and Italian mother, both musicians. In 1868 Oswald moved to Europe, where he studied the piano with Buonamici and Henri Ketten and composition with Grazzini and Maglioni. He settled in Florence and became a European musician, assimilating fully the culture of the continent from the age of 16.
- [Fernando Obradors](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/fernando-obradors/): Fernando Obradors was a Spanish composer who was conductor of the Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra, and later taught at Las Palmas Conservatory. Between 1921 and 1941 he wrote four volumes of arrangements of classic Spanish poetry, "Canciones clásicas espaí±olas". He is best known for the song cycle which is volume one. One of the poems, "La casada infiel", was written by his friend Federico Garcí­a Lorca.
- [Sylvius Leopold Weiss](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/sylvius-leopold-weiss/): Sylvius Leopold Weiss was a German composer and lutenist. Born in Grottkau near Breslau, the son of Johann Jacob Weiss, also a lutenist, he served at courts in Breslau, Rome, and Dresden, where he died. Until recently, he was thought to have been born in 1686, but recent evidence suggests that he was in fact born the following year.
- [Chou Wen-chung](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/chou-wen-chung/): Born in Chefoo, China, on June 29, 1923, Chou Wen-chung is now a citizen of the United States, where he has resided since 1946. Although he arrived with a degree in civil engineering to pursue architectural studies on a scholarship at Yale University, he became a student in composition at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Nicholas Slonimsky. In 1949 Chou met the late Edgard Varèse, became his pupil and friend, and later served as his literary executor.
- [Adam Wernick](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/adam-wernick/): Adam Wernick has been a sought-after composer, music director and sound designer for more nearly thirty years.
- [Maude Valérie White](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/maude-valerie-white/): Maude Valérie White was a French-born English composer who became one of the most successful songwriters of the Victorian period.
- [Thomas Whitman](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/thomas-whitman/): Thomas Whitman began his musical studies with cellist Harry Wimmer. His first composition teachers were Gerald Levinson, Thomas Oboe Lee, and Joan Panetti at Swarthmore College and Max Lifchitz. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where his teachers included George Crumb, Jay Reise, and Richard Wernick. As a Luce Scholar, he studied traditional music in Bali, Indonesia in 1986-7 where his principal teachers were the late I Madé Gerindem and I Wayan Rai. He is also an accomplished viola da gambist.
- [Haydn Wood](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/haydn-wood/): Haydn Wood is best remembered for his substantial body of orchestral works in the light classical vein. He produced 15 suites, 9 rhapsodies, 8 overtures, and numerous other compositions in the orchestral genre, including concertos for piano and violin. Wood also wrote solo works for violin, piano, and organ. Though he did compose a symphony (ca. 1908), he seems to have abandoned it, having never seriously pursued publication. Wood also composed 180 songs, the most popular of which are probably Roses of Picardy (1916), written for his wife, soprano Dorothy Court, and A Brown Bird Singing (1922). He also produced several scores for musical plays or musicals, including Tina (1915), probably his greatest success in the genre. Wood, then, can clearly be seen as a sort of early example of a crossover artist, not unlike Leonard Bernstein. Wood arguably reached Bernstein's level of fame in England during his lifetime, both from his compositions and from numerous concert appearances and broadcasts. Today, Wood is regarded as a major figure in the realm of British light music, and recordings of his works are widely available.
- [Eric Zivian](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/eric-zivian/): Eric Zivian was born in Michigan and grew up in Toronto, Canada, where he attended the Royal Conservatory of Music. After receiving a diploma there, he left home at age 15 to attend the Curtis Institute of Music, where he received a Bachelor of Music degree. He went on to receive graduate degrees from the Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music. He studied piano with Gary Graffman and Peter Serkin, and composition with Ned Rorem, Jacob Druckman, and Martin Bresnick. He attended the Tanglewood Music Center both as a performer and as a composer, studying chamber music with Gilbert Kalish, Peter Serkin, Joel Krosnick, and composition with Oliver Knussen and Alexander Goehr.
- [Thomas Vautor](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/thomas-vautor/): Thomas Vautor was a 17th century English composer whose best known work is Sweet Suffolk Owl.
- [Jan Václav VoÅ™í­šek](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/jan-vaclav-vorisek/): Jan Vaclav VoÅ™í­šek was a Bohemian composer, generally thought to be of minor rank. Recent attention to his works, however -- especially his piano works -- suggests that his artistic standing may deserve to be upgraded. His music exuded more of a Viennese flavor than a Bohemian one.
- [Pantcho Vladigerov](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/pantcho-vladigerov/): Pantcho Vladigerov is arguably the most influential Bulgarian composer of all time. He was one of the first to successfully combine idioms of Bulgarian folk music and the classical music. Part of the so-called Second Generation Bulgarian Composers, he was among the founding members of the Bulgarian Contemporary Music Society (1933), which later became the Union of Bulgarian Composers. Vladigerov marked the beginning of a number of genres in Bulgarian music, including the violin sonata and the piano trio. He was also a very respected pedagogue; his students include practically all notable Bulgarian composers of the next generation, such as Alexander Raichev Alexander Yossifov, and many others, as well as the pianist Alexis Weissenberg.
- [Ezequiel Vií±ao](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/ezequiel-vinao/): Ezequiel Vií±ao is an Argentine-American composer. He emigrated to the United States in 1980 and studied at the Juilliard School. His compositions include La Noche de las Noches (1989) for string quartet and electronics, which won First Prize at UNESCO's Latin-American Rostrum of Composers in 1993; six í‰tudes (1993) for piano solo, which were awarded a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award in 1995; a second string quartet The Loss and the Silence (2004), commissioned by the Juilliard String Quartet; The Wanderer (2005) for a cappella voices, commissioned by Chanticleer and Chicago a cappella, and Sirocco Dust (2009), commissioned by the Library of Congress for the St. Lawrence String Quartet. He currently resides in New York.
- [Thomas Bethune](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/thomas-bethune/): During the 19th century, Thomas Bethune was one of the best-known American performing pianists. Although he lived and died before autism was recognized, he is now regarded as an autistic savant.
- [Louis Beydts](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/louis-beydts/): French composer, music critic and theatre director Louis Beydts is acclaimed for music that is "traditional, classical, clear, melodic and of indisputable elegance." His favourite composers were Fauré, followed by Debussy, Gounod, Messager, Ravel and Pierné. His conducting may be heard on the recording of Messager's Isoline and his own La Lyre et les Amours with Pierre Bernac, and A travers Paris.

## Faq
- [What is PCMS?](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/what-is-pcms/): Great artists, compelling repertoire, affordable prices, and friendly service: these are the hallmarks of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Presenting 50 unique concerts each season at intimate venues throughout Center City, PCMS has been among Philadelphia’s musical treasures since its founding in 1986. Over the years, PCMS has remained committed to its founding principles: to enable people from all walks of life to enjoy exceptional music-making at affordable ticket prices, to fulfill musical needs of the community, and to build a broad group of directors, staff members, audiences, and patrons who are devoted to these goals and to ensuring the Society’s future.
- [Where are you located, what are your hours, and where are the concerts held?](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/where-are-you-located-what-are-your-hours-and-where-are-the-concerts-held/): Our box office is located at 1528 Walnut Street, Suite 301. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, with occasional weekend hours on concert days. Concerts take place at the Kimmel Center and other convenient Center City locations, including the American Philosophical Society. For complete venue information, see our venues page.
- [How long are the concerts, and is there parking at the concert sites?](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/how-long-are-the-concerts-and-is-there-parking-at-the-concert-sites/): Most PCMS concerts run between one and a half to two hours. Convenient parking is available at all PCMS venues with free or discounted parking offered at many locations. When you order tickets to a PCMS concert, a list of parking options and prices is included in the envelope with your tickets.
- [What can I expect from the concert experience? ( e.g. what do people typically wear? when do you clap? how long is the intermission?)](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/chamber-music-etiquette/): PCMS concerts are community affairs with audience members of all ranges of musical experience and from all walks of life.  There is no dress code; concertgoers come dressed as they are comfortable: some formally, some casually.  Applause is generally reserved for the conclusion of a piece so as not to disturb the concentration of the artists.  Most concerts feature a 15-minute intermission about midway through the performance.
- [Are the concert sites handicapped-accessible?](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/are-the-concert-sites-handicapped-accessible/): All PCMS venues are handicapped-accessible, and accessible seating is reserved for patrons with special needs. When ordering your tickets, simply inform the box office of any accessibility concerns, and we will do our best to accommodate them. Please note: patrons attending concerts at the American Philosophical Society should call the box office in advance for accessibility instructions.
- [How can I get involved as a volunteer?](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/how-can-i-get-involved-as-a-volunteer/): From ushering to administrative work, volunteers play a valuable role in helping PCMS fulfill its mission. If you share a love of music and have some time or a skill to share, we would love to hear from you. To learn more about becoming a PCMS usher, contact Guy Ostertag, head usher, at 215-569-8587.
- [What does it mean to subscribe? Can I pick the seats I want?](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/what-does-it-mean-to-subscribe-can-i-pick-the-seats-i-want/): PCMS offers frequent concertgoers a number of convenient ways to subscribe. By choosing as few as three concerts in a given series, subscribers receive benefits including reduced ticket prices, advanced seat selection, and special offers all year round. Our box office does its best to accommodate seating requests both during the subscription process and throughout the season (subject to availability). Simply call the box office to inquire about seating availability or put your seating request in the comments section of your online order.
- [How do I purchase tickets?](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/how-do-i-purchase-tickets/): Advance tickets can be purchased at our box office (1528 Walnut Street, Suite 301), over the phone (215-569-8080), or through this website (www.pcmsconcerts.org). Tickets can also be purchased at the door the day of a concert (subject to availability).
- [Ticket orders are charged upon submission.](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/ticket-orders-are-charged-upon-submission/): Unless instructed otherwise, our box office staff will assign you tickets to the best available seats at the time of purchase and mail them to the address specified at checkout. Please note that tickets ordered within 72 hours of a concert will be automatically held at will-call for pick-up on the day of the concert.
- [If you have a seating request or other special requirements, please note them at checkout, and our box office staff will contact you the same business day.](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/if-you-have-a-seating-request-or-other-special-requirements-please-note-them-at-checkout-and-our-box-office-staff-will-contact-you-the-same-business-day/): For questions about artists, venues, parking, and just about anything else pertaining to your visit, please call 215-569-8080 or send an email to boxoffice@pcmsconcerts.org. We will be happy to assist you.
- [Do you have discounts?](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/do-you-have-discounts/): Subscribers to the PCMS e-mail list receive exclusive special offers, including notification of our once-a-year $10 Day sale. Discounted tickets are also available to students (age 35 and under) and young friends (age 40 and under) and to groups of 10 or more. Other convenient ways to save include our popular season passes and concert cards. Due to our already low ticket prices, senior citizen discounts and rush tickets are not available at this time.
- [PCMS is pleased to offer an extremely flexible ticket exchange policy.](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/pcms-is-pleased-to-offer-an-extremely-flexible-ticket-exchange-policy/): If you find you cannot attend a concert, you may exchange your tickets for another PCMS event (subject to availability), provided you contact us before noon on the day of the concert. There is no additional charge for this service, although if you are exchanging discounted tickets or going from a non-Kimmel Center event into an event at the Perelman Theater, there may be an additional balance on your order.
- [How can I find out about upcoming events and special offers?](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/how-can-i-find-out-about-upcoming-events-and-special-offers/): The PCMS e-mail list offers subscribers the latest news on upcoming concerts, occasional special ticket offers and more. You can also sign up for our regular mailing list, request a brochure, or simply bookmark this website for easy access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- [PCMS offers a range of discounted ticketing options for full-time students 35 and under.](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/pcms-offers-a-range-of-discounted-ticketing-options-for-full-time-students-35-and-under/): Individual student tickets may be purchased at the box office or over the phone for $10 each, and we also offer Unlimited Passes that allow students and young professionals to attend any and all PCMS concerts for one flat fee. If you are ordering a student ticket, please note that ID will be requested at the time of the event.
- [Are there any opportunities for students?](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/are-there-any-opportunities-for-students/): Students can purchase a ticket to any PCMS event for only $10 and can save even more through PCMS’ Unlimited Student Pass program, which allows full-time students 35 and under access to our entire concert season for just $35. Our popular Students and Young Friends email list also gives patrons 35 and under access to complimentary concert tickets at least once per month during the concert season.
- [What types of musicians perform at your concerts?](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/what-types-of-musicians-perform-at-your-concerts/): PCMS concerts feature a wide variety of musicians, from internationally-acclaimed solo artists to the stars of tomorrow. String quartets, pianists, vocalists, wind virtuosi, and special event artists all feature prominently in PCMS’ annual 50-concert schedule.
- [An Important Notice About Fees.](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/faq/an-important-notice-about-fees/): A $2 handling fee is added to each order by PCMS. Furthermore, audiences to all Kimmel Center/Perelman Theater concerts pay a $4 per ticket fee for building maintenance and support. This fee is not kept by PCMS and is included in your ticket price. Please contact our box office at 215-569-8080 with any questions.

## Blog
- [Virtual Performance & Q&A: Parker Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/virtual-performance-qa-parker-quartet/): This week we welcome another husband and wife duo to our virtual performance and interview series: Jessica Bodner and Daniel Chong of the Parker Quartet.
- [Virtual Performance & Q&A: Jasper Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/virtual-performance-qa-jasper-quartet/): It has been wonderful to read your responses to our video interviews and virtual performances with pianists Amy Yang and Shai Wosner. Thank you for watching!
- [Virtual Performance & Q&A: Shai Wosner](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/virtual-performance-qa-shai-wosner/): Following our initial video Q&A and mini-performance with Amy Yang, this week we present another intimate video portrait of an artist appearing with PCMS this fall – the superb pianist Shai Wosner.
- [Virtual Performance & Q&A : Amy Yang](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-amy-yang/): Though absent from our concert halls, we have asked several artists who will be performing with PCMS next fall if they might be willing to partake in a short Q&A and share a special mini-performance with us from their homes. To our great delight, the majority have said yes. As many of these artists have young children, we are even more impressed that they are managing to find some quiet moments to speak and perform with us virtually.
- [Reflections from a Philadelphia Sinfonia Student](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/reflections-from-a-philadelphia-sinfonia-student/): Over the past several years, the Chamber Music Society has brought a variety of artists to work with Philadelphia Sinfonia musicians. This past fall, when the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) performed on our series, they took time on Saturday to coach the Sinfonia's advanced chamber orchestra. Afterwards, Adah Kaplan, an eighth grader who holds the Principal Chair of the Second Violins, wrote a first-hand account of the event.
- [Artist Interview: Belcea Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-belcea-quartet/): The London-based Belcea Quartet is celebrating its 25th year as a quartet this season. They have made the Beethoven quartets a central part of their standard repertoire, complete with a box set recording of the composer’s full cycle. On two consecutive evenings this month, they will offer works from across Beethoven’s entire output. We spoke with Krzysztof Chorzelski, the quartet’s founding violist, about Beethoven's impact on the quartet, the dynamics of the group, and his side-life as a marathoner.
- [Artist Interview: Quatuor Ebène](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-quatuor-ebene/): Quatuor Ebène embarked on their “Beethoven Around the World” tour last year—giving some 40 concerts across 18 countries on all six continents. In conjunction with their tour, they recorded the complete cycle at seven venues (including the Perelman Theater!). They return to Philadelphia next month for back-to-back concerts that feature one of the Op. 59 quartets just released as part of the project. We caught up with Raphaël Merlin, their founding cellist, to discuss Beethoven’s quartets, their recordings, and what lies ahead as they enter their third decade as a quartet.
- [Artist Interview: Ana María Martínez](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-ana-maria-martinez/): With an international career that finds her in both opera houses and concert halls, Ana María Martínez brings a program to Philadelphia that we don’t often hear—works by Rodrigo, Granados, Lecuona, de Falla, Moré, and Capó. In addition to her busy performance career, this Grammy Award winner is a passionate advocate for young singers. We recently discussed her upcoming debut program with Craig Terry and her thoughts on beginning a career in music.
- [Artist Interview: Bridget Kibbey](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-bridget-kibbey/): Bridget Kibbey debuts with the Chamber Music Society on February 13 in collaboration with mandolin player Avi Avital. The pairing is a unique one, combining the grace of the harp with the energy of the mandolin. To get the background on this collaboration and their program, we connected with Bridget for a quick interview between her lessons for harp students at Bard College.
- [Emerging Voices Interview: Hana Kim](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/emerging-voices-interview-hana-kim/): Hana Kim’s work as a projection designer adds a new dimension to the four Perelman Theater concerts in our Emerging Voices Project. Full text translations will be paired with still and moving images, projected on a large screen behind the artists, offering audiences a compelling way to follow the narrative and emotional arc of each song. We spoke with Hana about her work and how her experience immigrating to America has shaped her thoughts on the project.
- [We, Too, Sing America: Art Song & the American Ideal](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/tsitsi-jaji-art-song-american-ideal/): In 1895 Harper’s Magazine published an article penned by the Czech composer Antonin Dvořák as his three years living and teaching in the United States drew to a close. Dvořák famously suggested that for American composers “inspiration for truly national music could be derived from the Negro melodies or Indian chants.” He wrote from experience, for he had already incorporated the spiritual “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” into his New World Symphony, which premiered in 1893.
- [What Was Carried](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/nico-muhly-what-was-carried/): Nico Muhly's Stranger will be performed by tenor Nicholas Phan, pianist Myra Huang, and Brooklyn Rider on Friday, January 24 at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater. For tickets and information, visit the event page or pcmsconcerts.org/emerging-voices.
- [Artist Interview: Vera Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-vera-quartet/): The Vera Quartet moved to Philadelphia last year for at least two reasons—they began their two-year residency at Curtis, and at the same time, won a coveted spot on the Astral artist roster. Both have bolstered their career as a quartet and infused their schedule with coachings, performances, and lots of traveling. I caught up with Pedro (violin) and Justin (cello) and discussed their December 12 debut program on our series, their time here in Philadelphia, and their residency at Bayard Taylor School.
- [Singing of Myself](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/nicholas-phan-singing-of-myself/): Nicholas Phan performs at the Collaborative Works Festival with Michael Brown, piano(photo: Elliot Mandell)
- [The Life of the Poem in Song](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/susan-stewart-poem-in-song/): Susan Stewart participates in our second Emerging Voices panel discussion on Monday, January 20 at the College of Physicians. For tickets and information, visit the event page or pcmsconcerts.org/emerging-voices.
- [Artist Interview: Matan Porat](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-matan-porat/): Matan Porat’s recital debut with the Chamber Music Society on November 22nd is entitled Carnaval and intersperses Schumann’s 21 character pieces with short compositions by 19 different composers. This innovative program is not his first, and his experience composing and improvising has affected him as an artist in many ways. We discussed this in a recent conversation.
- [Music and Memory](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/iva-bittova-music-memory/): When I was 20 and living in what was then Czechoslovakia, my father, Koloman Bitto, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. He was a musician, playing double bass, cimbalom, trumpet, and other instruments. It was difficult for him to exist without music. He died three years after his diagnosis. I decided to follow the musical path of my father and my mother, Lidmila Bittová, a singer and teacher. Music has become the best way for me to express myself, to communicate, to understand myself and others. It is a healing process just to work with the voice and violin and to practice every day.
- [Artist Interview: Michael Thurber](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-michael-thurber/): Michael Thurber has shaped his own creative path as an artist and composer. The double bassist has taken the stage on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, written music for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and became an internet sensation when he co-founded the YouTube channel CDZA in 2011. Collaborations are at the root of his success, and his appearance with Marina Piccinini and Tessa Lark on Sunday, November 3 will showcase his strengths in a genre-bending blend of classical and international folk sounds. We caught up with Michael recently and discussed the program and his relationship with both artists.
- [Song as Social Interaction](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/song-as-social-interaction/): Ceri Owen participates in our first Emerging Voices panel discussion on Monday, January 13 at the College of Physicians. For tickets and information, visit the event page or pcmsconcerts.org/emerging-voices.
- [Roundel: A Journey of Loss and Remembrance](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/errollyn-wallen-roundel/): Errollyn Wallen's Roundel will be performed by mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges, baritone Roderick Williams, and pianist Shannon McGinnis on Friday, January 17 at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater. For tickets and information, visit the event page or pcmsconcerts.org/emerging-voices.
- [Artist Interview: Juho Pohjonen](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-juho-pohjonen/): Juho Pohjonen is the first artist to offer a debut recital with the Society this season. His October 27 program features repertoire that is rarely heard on our series—music by Rameau and Scriabin. We talked with him recently about these works, his influences as a pianist, and the app he is helping to develop in his free time.
- [Art Song, Nostalgia, & War](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/art-song-nostalgia-war/): Jay Winter participates in our first Emerging Voices panel discussion on Monday, January 13 at the College of Physicians. For tickets and information, visit the event page or pcmsconcerts.org/emerging-voices.
- [Musical Time](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/nicolas-bacri-musical-time/): Nicolas Bacri's book Crise
- [Artist Interview: Lucy Fitz Gibbon](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-lucy-fitz-gibbon/): Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon appears with the Society twice this season—with the first and second Musicians from Marlboro tours.
- [Artist Interview: Israeli Chamber Project](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-israeli-chamber-project/): Now in its second decade, the Israeli Chamber Project (ICP) brings distinguished musicians together for what Time Out New York says is “not a muster of peacocks, but a hive mind in which egos dissolve and players think, breathe and play as one.” For the final concert in our 33rd season, we sat down with pianist Assaff Weisman to discuss their program, the mission of this collective, and their goals moving forward.
- [Artist Interview: Erin Morley](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-erin-morley/): Erin Morley makes her debut with the Chamber Music Society this month, bringing her “silken clarity…. and needlepoint precision” to a program of love songs at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In our interview, she describes the journey she’ll embark upon with our audience and her favorite experience while on the road.
- [Artist Interview: Jean Rondeau](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-jean-rondeau/): Jean Rondeau traces his career back to a beginning that he describes as “an endless passion for music, for voices, for discovery, for people, for life.” Everything he plays on the harpsichord is a realization of these things—combined over decades of his immersion in this instrument that is now undergoing a small revival (in no small part to his advocacy). We caught up with Jean recently to discuss his program and his path to the harpsichord.
- [Artist Interview: Marinus Ensemble](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-marinus-ensemble/): For nearly ten years, the Marinus Ensemble has delivered creative musical projects that draw on the best emerging performers at home and abroad.
- [Dover Quartet Joins Feb. 7 Concert Celebrating Leon Fleisher](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/dover-quartet-joins-february-7-concert-celebrating-leon-fleisher/): We have just received word that Leon Fleisher has amended his upcoming Chamber Music Society program scheduled for Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 7:30 pm at the Perelman Theater.
- [Artist Interview: Omni Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-omni-quartet/): When Amy Lee, Alicia Koelz, Joanna Zakany, and Tanya Ell joined the Cleveland Orchestra within three years of each other in the mid-2000s, and became good friends, a string quartet quickly formed. Their debut program with PCMS on January 6th reveals the darker side of Mozart as well as his bright Flute Quartet (with Joshua Smith) and lyrical Oboe Quartet (with Frank Rosenwein). We spoke recently about their program, goals as an ensemble, and what books they are currently reading.
- [Isabel Leonard Postpones Nov. 11 Recital](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/isabel-leonard-postpones-nov-11-recital/): We received word yesterday that, due to personal reasons, Isabel Leonard must regretfully postpone her PCMS recital originally scheduled for Sunday, November 11, 2018 at 3 pm.
- [Artist Interview: Einav Yarden, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-einav-yarden-piano/): After studying with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory, Israeli-born pianist Einav Yarden mounted a robust career in Europe and released three recordings that were meet with international acclaim. For her Philadelphia debut, she is bringing an assortment of works by Schumann, Haydn, Beethoven, and Bartók. We took some time to hear about her program, reflections on her education, and other musical inspirations.
- [Artist Interview: Horszowski Trio](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-horszowski-trio/): Jesse Mills, Raman Ramakrishnan, and Rieko Aizawa have played together for many years as a trio, taking their name from the legendary pianist, Mieczyslaw Horszowski. The deep trust built between the players over time has given them an exhilarating expressive freedom which was heard on their debut performance with PCMS in 2016. We sat down with Raman Ramakrishnan, the cellist in the trio, to discuss the world premiere on their program, their collaboration with Roberto Díaz, and his reflection on the art of teaching.
- [Pianist Leon Bates Announces His Retirement from Touring](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/pianist-leon-bates-announces-his-retirement-from-touring/): We have just received word that, sadly, Leon Bates is retiring from concert touring for medical reasons—a diagnosis of Parkinson’s—and thus must cancel his upcoming December 9 concert with Michelle Cann.
- [Artist Interview: Xavier Foley, double bass](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-xavier-foley-double-bass/): Xavier Foley is a musician “who hears borders between styles as limitation best ignored” (Peter Dobrin). This double bassist is already steeped in the classical music tradition, having graduated from Curtis in 2016, but he strives to be a world artist, taking anything he hears and making something new. His debut recital with the Society on January 25th offers a wide-ranging program of well-known works alongside his own arrangements and compositions.
- [Artist Interview: Robyn Bollinger, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-robyn-bollinger-violin/): The Musicians from Marlboro concerts are always a great way to catch a glimpse of young artists who are on the rise—many of whom are already recognized for their musical creativity and emotional depth. Their tours introduce many of them to Philadelphia audiences for the first time. The Marlboro concert on November 13 features an artist who grew up in Philadelphia, but studied at the New England Conservatory of Music. We sat down with violinist Robyn Bollinger to discuss her time at Marlboro and a special project she has launched this year.
- [Artist Interview: David Bilger, trumpet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-david-bilger-trumpet/): Our 33rd Season opens with a musician whose sound is familiar to many in Philadelphia—whether its the pure tones that break through in Beethoven's Leonore Overture, the triumph of Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, or the lilt of Gershwin's An American in Paris. David Bilger's trumpet playing has supported the Philadelphia Orchestra, and risen high above it, for over 20 years. But for his appearance with the Chamber Music Society, he chose some of his closest colleagues for music that is rarely heard. We spoke with him about his program entitled "Trumpets 5, Music of Our Time", his philosophy on teaching, and his favorite spot for lunch.
- [Composer Interview: David Ludwig](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/composer-interview-david-ludwig/): David Ludwig is a composer and chair of the composition faculty at the Curtis Institute. PCMS has presented his works numerous times over the years, and a concert during our opening week showcases three of his pieces. We took time to connect with David to hear his thoughts about this program, particularly the world premiere of The Anchoress—a monodrama that imagines the life of a medieval mystic, merging the sounds of ancient and modern worlds to explore issues of faith, isolation, and social power.
- [Evening Concerts to Begin at 7:30 pm](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/evening-concerts-to-begin-at-730-pm/): Beginning in the 2018-19 season, in response to audience surveys, all evening Philadelphia Chamber Music Society concerts will begin at 7:30 PM.
- [Staff Pick: Julia Bullock](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/staff-pick-julia-bullock/): When we first had the pleasure of hearing Julia Bullock in 2013—first in Rossini's Petite Messe Solenelle at the Perelman Theater and later at that summer's Marlboro Music Festival—it was immediately apparent that here was a star in the making. That the Society would present her Philadelphia recital debut was merely a question of when.
- [Artist Interview: Nitzan Haroz, trombone](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-nitzan-haroz-trombone/): Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Trombone Nitzan Haroz presents the first-ever PCMS concert to feature the trombone on Sunday, May 6. But Mr. Haroz is no newcomer to the chamber-music repertoire, having begun at an early age growing up in Israel with his harpist mother. While the concert on May 6 will not include the harp, it will feature pianist Gloria Kim and a second half of trombone repertoire. In our interview below, we discuss the afternoon's program, favorite chamber repertoire for the trombone, his musical family, and why he chose to play the trombone.
- [Announcing a New Community Concert Venue](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/announcing-a-new-community-concert-venue/): PCMS is delighted to be among a small group of organizations invited by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) to hold concerts in the intimate, 250-seat John and Richanda Rhoden Arts Center auditorium in the Samuel M.V. Hamilton building. This brand-new space will have general admission seating.
- [Artist Interview: Brad Balliett, bassoon](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-brad-balliett-bassoon/): Bassoonist Brad Balliett is more than a musician; he is quite the well-rounded artist with a uniquely creative mind and one who finds inspiration from classical texts, his community involvement, and his earliest musical memories. In our interview below, Mr. Balliett shares with us his many passions: bassoon, composition, social and community impact, teaching, and Shakespeare.
- [Artist Interview: Christoph Richter, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-christoph-richter-cello/): Composer György Kurtág describes cellist Christoph Richter as “one of the best musicians and chamber musicians of all the outstanding cellists I’ve known.” As you'll read in our interview below, his approach to performance and education is rooted in the early influence of his musical family and his wealth of knowledge of and deep respect for the classical repertoire. One could also say that his generous and friendly manner also shines through in his work as an artist and educator. Some of our staff and many of our recurring artists have had the opportunity to get to know Mr. Richter during his two summers at Marlboro, and we are excited to introduce him to our audience on March 14 in recital, in addition to his appearance with Musicians from Marlboro II on March 6.
- [Artist Interview: Erin Keefe, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-erin-keefe-violin/): Violinist Erin Keefe began her education and career focused on chamber music, then eventually landed the position of Concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra in 2011. She successfully integrates her passion for chamber music into her role as Concertmaster while continuing to perform in the chamber music world. In our interview below, we discuss this blend of worlds, the formation of the AKS Trio, its February 2 PCMS debut program (including the very special Eros piece), and her violin.
- [Artist Interview: Kristin Lee, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-kristin-lee-violin/): Violinist Kristin Lee makes her PCMS debut next week with a Philadelphia favorite in guitarist Jason Vieaux. An extremely versatile violinist, she enjoys a varied career as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, educator, and artistic director. In our interview below, we discuss her collaborations with Mr. Vieaux and composer Vivian Fung, Ms. Lee's unique chamber music series in Seattle, and the importance of a social media presence as an artist.
- [Artist Interview: Marcy Rosen, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-marcy-rosen-cello/): As "one of the intimate art's abiding treasures" (Los Angeles Times) cellist Marcy Rosen enjoys an extensive and varied career in chamber music and education, highlighted especially by the opportunities to work with the colleagues she calls friends.
- [Artist Interview: Sarah Shafer, soprano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-sarah-shafer-soprano/): Praised by the New York Times for her “luminous voice” and “intensely expressive interpretations,” and named “remarkable, artistically mature … a singer to watch” by Opera News, soprano Sarah Shafer has earned ever greater accolades since her PCMS debut with Richard Goode back in 2012.
- [Staff Pick: Barbara Hannigan](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/staff-pickbarbara-hannigan/): "Hannigan is, for those in the know, a marvel." So begins Anne Midgette's Washington Post review of the Canadian soprano's "remarkable" D.C. recital debut last night.
- [Artist Interview: Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-emilie-anne-gendron-violin/): Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin, returns to the PCMS stage on November 19—this time debuting with Momenta Quartet. Previously seen with Musicians from Marlboro and the Gamut Bach Ensemble, Ms. Gendron's appearance next month will be quite different. The Quartet is devoted to the development of new works by emerging composers, and the program you'll hear remains true to that mission. In our interview below, Ms. Gendron shares her thoughts on the November program, the world premiere of Teddy Poll's Quartet, collaborating with and learning from Samuel Rhodes and Marcy Rosen, her new relationship with an on-loan violin, and more on the Quartet's devotion to new works.
- [Reflections on Chamber Music](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/reflections-chamber-music/): Simon Housner is one of our Unlimited Student Pass holders that attends numerous concerts every season and as a cellist, he has participated in a number of our master classes with the artists that appear with us. In preparation for his application for Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra, he created a video essay about his experiences at concerts and coachings. It is a wonderful tribute to the value of chamber music in his life and education.
- [Artist Interview: Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-ieva-jokubaviciute-piano/): Ieva Jokubaviciute is a pianist who returns to our series frequently. Her first appearance this season is with Musicians from Marlboro I in November; her second is a solo recital in February. Recently, we spoke with her about the second program, which is devoted to the exploration of sound landscapes and fantasy.
- [Artist Interview: Daniel Matsukawa, bassoon](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-daniel-matsukawa-bassoon/): Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Bassoon Daniel Matsukawa performs with PCMS on Tuesday, October 17 with three of his Orchestra colleagues—violinist Juliette Kang, violist Burchard Tang, and cellist Yumi Kendall—and Curtis student guitarist Hao Yang. In addition to performing with the Orchestra, Mr. Matsukawa is on the faculty at Curtis and Temple and has performed with orchestras and festivals around the world, including Marlboro Music. He also conducts regularly. In our interview below, Mr. Matsukawa discusses playing with the Orchestra, his PCMS program, and his relationship with composer David Ludwig.
- [Artist Interview: Nathan Hughes, oboe](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-nathan-hughes-oboe/): Nathan Hughes, oboe, performs with PCMS on Sunday, May 14 in concert with mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, cellist Rafael Figueroa, and pianist Ken Noda. The four artists perform with the Metropolitan Opera, where Mr. Hughes is Principal Oboe. In addition to the Met, he serves on the faculty at Juilliard and is an avid chamber musician who performs at festivals every summer (including a return to Marlboro this year). In our interview below, Mr. Hughes speaks about the May 14 program and his relationships with Ms. Johnson Cano, Mr. Figueroa, and Mr. Noda; the role of chamber music in his life; life below the stage; summertime activities; and how he chose the oboe.
- [Artist Interview: Ayane Kozasa, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-ayane-kozasa-viola/): Violist Ayane Kozasa makes her PCMS recital debut on Friday, May 5 with pianist Amy Yang. The 2011 Primrose International Viola Competition Winner enjoys a unique career that has taken her to festivals around the world. She maintains a busy schedule as a member of the Aizuri Quartet and as a soloist—both which provide opportunities to play chamber music and commission new works. In our interview, Ms. Kozasa talked about transitioning from the violin to viola, the May 5 program, her collaborations with Ms. Yang and composer Paul Wiancko, upcoming projects, and her beloved viola.
- [Artist Interview: Sivan Magen, harp](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-sivan-magen-harp/): On Friday, April 21, world-renowned harpist Sivan Magen joins PCMS favorite ECCO for a unique program that features the Philadelphia premiere of Christopher Theofanidis's A Thousand Cranes. Mr. Magen graciously spoke with me about his musical upbringing, his collaboration with ECCO, his upcoming projects, and his prize harp.
- [Artist Interview: Shai Wosner](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-shai-wosner-piano/): Pianist Shai Wosner returns to the PCMS stage on Tuesday, March 21 in a recital with his long-time collaborator, violinist Jennifer Koh. This recital has its origins in the Bridge to Beethoven project curated by the duo. In our interview, Mr. Wosner offered further insight into the project; his collaboration with Ms. Koh; his first summer at Marlboro; his musical influences; and other upcoming projects.
- [CODA – Kindle Single by Jonathan Biss](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/coda-kindle-single-jonathan-biss/): Building upon his previous essays (“In Beethoven’s Shadow,” “A Pianist Under the Influence”), Jonathan explores late style works and the impact they have on his life as an artist—connecting the ideas of late style to what it means to be human. His superb writing is a wonderful culmination to PCMS' Departure and Discovery Project, which is generously supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
- [Artist Interview: Meng Su, guitar](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-meng-su-guitar/): Guitarist Meng Su of the Beijing Guitar Duo debuts with PCMS on Wednesday, March 1st at the American Philosophical Society, in recital with Marina Piccinini, flute. Ms. Su took a moment away from her busy teaching, rehearsing, and studying schedule to answer questions about how she began playing guitar; her mentor; competing and winning; recording; and the upcoming recital.
- [Artist Interview: Brook Speltz of the Escher Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-brook-speltz-cello/): The Escher Quartet is making its PCMS debut this January. Cellist Brook Speltz joined the Quartet, now in its 11th year, in the summer of 2015. He came to the Quartet after three summers at the Marlboro Music Festival and performances with groups such as SHUFFLE Concert and the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, and on the Omega Ensemble Series (just to name a few). I spoke with Brook about this upcoming concert, teaching masterclasses, touring, his musical family, and upcoming projects.
- [Artist Interview: Catherine Manson of the London Haydn Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-catherine-manson-violin/): Conceived out of a passion for Haydn's string quartets, the critically-acclaimed London Haydn Quartet makes its PCMS debut on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at the Perelman Theater. Catherine Manson, the first violinist, enjoys a versatile and busy career as both a musician and teacher. She is a co-founder and director of MusicWorks, a chamber music school for young musicians that takes place about 50 miles north of London, and also teaches internationally. In advance of the January concert, I was fortunate to speak with Ms. Manson about the ensemble's collaboration with Eric Hoeprich; the experience of recording Haydn; the upcoming program; teaching; and the unique instruments the artists play.
- [Departure & Discovery Project Overview](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/departure-discovery-new-directions-apex-creativity/): Over the past five centuries, composers as early as in their 30s or as late as in their 80s have found new forms of expression in the final stages of life. Still more interesting, the changes are not consistent from composer to composer: some became more concise, others more expansive. Some composers became fixated on death, others revealed a child-like innocence. Some wrote their most adventurous music, while others turned back in pursuit of greater clarity and economy.
- [Fall 2016 Concert Reviews](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/fall-2016-concert-reviews/): In case you missed any PCMS concert reviews this fall, we've compiled them in chronological order below.
- [Dvořák and the American Connection](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/dvorak-american-connection/): As a prelude to the Modigliani Quartet's performance of Dvořák’s "American" quartet, guest blogger Adam Gingery of Backstage Podcast considers the composer's musical and cultural influence on the U.S.
- [Artist Interview: Lydia Artymiw, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-lydia-artymiw-piano-3/): Pianist Lydia Artymiw is no stranger to the PCMS family. After growing up and studying in Philadelphia, she has had an exceptional career performing all over the world. Ms. Artymiw is a Distinguished McKnight Professor of Piano at the University of Minnesota, where she was granted the 2015 "Excellence in Graduate Teaching" Award. Amidst her teaching and performance schedule, Ms. Artymiw was also prescreening 279 pianists who entered the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition when I contacted her. She graciously found the time to answer my questions about the unique concert on November 21, her memories of Philadelphia, the importance of education, and her upcoming projects. 
- [Artist Interview: Anna Polonsky, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-anna-polonsky-piano/): Anna Polonsky returns with her husband, Orion Weiss, piano, marking their duo-recital debut with PCMS on Sunday, October 23rd. Ms. Polonsky is a recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2003 and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award in 2011. I recently spoke with her about the duo's upcoming program, her experience at Curtis, upcoming collaborations, and what it's like performing alongside her husband.
- [From the Intern’s Desk](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/from-the-interns-desk/): Being immersed in the daily work at PCMS, I have begun to memorize the artists, programs, dates and venues of the 2016/17 Season. In becoming familiar with these concerts, there are a number that I am particularly excited about.  As a cellist, I am looking forward to a recital by one of my favorite artists, Jean-Guihen Queyras, who seems to have done it all. He is a professor at the Musikhochschule Freiburg but also runs his own music festival in Southern France; he has appeared with international orchestras, including our very own Philadelphia Orchestra last year; and has recorded 26 CDs to date.
- [Spring 2016 Concert Reviews](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/spring-2016-concert-reviews/): To help you revisit your favorite spring performances, following is a listing of PCMS concert reviews from late March through May. Read what our area critics had to say about no less than 13 memorable events.
- [Musical Exchanges](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/musical-exchanges/): The Master Class Series this season was filled with a wonderful diversity of experiences for the students that were involved.  And any audience members who attended these classes were offered an enhanced understanding of how sound is formed and shaped through the distinct techniques that various instruments employ to communicate ideas.  In fact, this was most clearly demonstrated in Hopkinson Smith’s lute master class at Curtis in December.  This might have seemed an odd placement as Curtis does not have any lute students.  But “Hoppy’s” genius was seen in devising a master class around the same work—Bach’s Cello Suite in C Minor (BWV 1011 and 995).  As he coached a cellist, guitarist and violist, it was clear how the unique potential of each instrument shed new light on the same music, and in turn, he deftly revealed the nuances of color and phrasing from his perspective as a lutenist.  Far from being an obstacle between master and student, the assorted instruments on stage only heightened the appreciation for what Bach was aiming at.
- [Artist Interview: Karen Ouzounian, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-karen-ouzounian-cello/): The Aizuri Quartet, currently the Quartet in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music, makes their PCMS debut on Wednesday, May 18. This sold-out performance features guest pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn performing the Philadelphia premiere of Anatoly Drozdov’s Piano Quintet in A Minor. I spoke with the Aizuri’s cellist, Karen Ouzounian (center left), about their upcoming performance, the group’s hectic performing schedule, and their love for new music.
- [String Theory: Recap of PCMS’ Project for PIFA](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/string-theory-recap-pcms-project-pifa/): Audiences often come to concerts to hear a string quartet or recitalist of great renown, relishing their masterful technique, expressivity and interpretation of the music.  While the focus often remains on the interaction between performer and composer, the third element of this musical trinity that gets overlooked is the instrument. One reason may be that these instruments remain steeped in mystery that has developed over the past few centuries.  And yet, they are the visible medium for music, revealing and embodying its existence.  Instruments then are by nature material culture—the objects that help define and shape who we are.  But how do we understand these “tools of art” that have transcended time and place throughout history?  They flex and change, mature and evolve.  Most of all, they take on a character that requires artists to enter into a dialog with them.
- [Artist Interview: Hélène Clément, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-helene-clement-viola/): Joining us on April 5, the Doric String Quartet is described by the Yorkshire Post as "today’s finest UK Quartet at a time when we are inundated with brilliant young ensembles."  I spoke with violist (and Marlboro Music alumna) Hélène Clément about the group's recording schedule, their work with composer John Adams, and their upcoming PCMS debut.
- [PCMS 30th Anniversary Gala Recap](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/pcms-30th-anniversary-gala-recap/): On March 24, 2016, PCMS paid tribute to our founder, Anthony P. Checchia, with a special 30th Anniversary Celebration concert at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater. Pianists Richard Goode and Jonathan Biss; violinist Mark Steinberg; cellist Peter Wiley; clarinetist Anthony McGill; soprano Sarah Shafer; and the Brentano Quartet performed works by Haydn, Schubert and Dvořák. Tony was also honored with a bronze plaque on Broad Street's Walk of Fame, presented by the Philadelphia Music Alliance.
- [Winter 2016 Concert Reviews](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/winter-2016-concert-reviews/): In case you missed them, here’s a summary of PCMS concert reviews from winter 2016. Read what our area critics had to say about your favorite chamber music performances below, and check back with us as the year continues for more reviews from our 30th Anniversary Season.
- [Artist Interview: Francesca dePasquale, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-francesca-depasquale-violin/): Violinist Francesca dePasquale makes her PCMS recital debut on Sunday, April 3 with pianist Meng-Chieh Liu. Ms. dePasquale was the First Prize winner of the 2010 Irving M. Klein International String Competition and recipient of the prestigious career grant from the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts. I recently spoke with the Philadelphia native about her up-coming program and new CD, her passion for music education, and what it was like growing up in arguably one of the city’s most musical families.
- [Inspiring Curiosity: Aizuri Quartet at the Library](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/inspiring-curiosity-aizuri-quartet-library/): Last Thursday, the Aizuri Quartet traveled out to the Coleman Northwest Regional Library and presented a program to nearly 100 Germantown residents.  While children took front row seats in the lower level of the library, the music traveled through the two floors above it, drawing attention from many others who watched from the balconies that overlook the mini amphitheater.
- [Artist Spotlight: Ensemble HD](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-spotlight-ensemble-hd/): Beethoven for Beer
- [Artist Interview: Violinist Elizabeth Fayette](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-violinist-elizabeth-fayette/): Violinist Elizabeth Fayette makes her PCMS recital debut on Sunday, February 14 with pianist Adam Golka. I recently spoke with the 2014 Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia Career Grant about her program, her busy performance schedule, and her musical upbringing. 
- [Artist Interview: Violinist Hye-Jin Kim](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-hye-jin-kim/): Winner of the 2009 Concert Artist Guild Competition, violinist Hye-Jin Kim returns to the PCMS stage for the second time this season. She will be joined in recital with pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute at the American Philosophical Society on January 13. Before the New Year, I spoke with Hye-Jin about her upcoming recital, her most recent CD, and her passion of literature.
- [Watching Artists Teach](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/watching-artists-teach/): While it is only concerts that are typically reviewed, there have been a number of outstanding master classes our artists have given that deserve some attention.  During the past two weeks, three of these events showcased their skillful ability in communicating their craft to students.  They are also a testament to the talent of young musicians from around the city, confirming that classical chamber music has taken hold as a thriving and relevant art form in the next generation.
- [Artist Interview: Clive Greensmith of the Montrose Trio](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-clive-greensmith/): Patrick Burke: First of all - welcome back! For many of our audience members, the last time they heard you was in 2013 with the Tokyo Quartet. The Montrose Trio formed shortly after, in 2014. Could you tell us how the Trio was founded, and how did this particular performance with Kazuhide Isomura come together?
- [Fall 2015 Concert Reviews](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/fall-2015-concert-reviews/): In case you missed them, here’s a summary of what our area critics had to say about the opening months of PCMS concerts.
- [Artist Interview: Cecile Licad](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-cecile-licad/): Pianist Cecil Licad returns to PCMS for her first of two appearances during the 2015-16 Season. An active soloist and chamber musician,  Ms. Licad has performed with the  Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and alongside quartets such as the Guarneri and Takács. Her performance on November 24 will explore the evolution of the American piano sonata, and she took the time to discuss this program, her years at Curtis, and her second appearance with the Lindemann and Juilliard Opera Programs in May.
- [Artist Interview: Stefan Jackiw, violin](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-stefan-jackiw-violin/): Having made a name for himself as a concerto soloist, violinist Stefan Jackiw is equally the master of the recital stage. Making his debut on PCMS’ Joseph and Marie Field String Recital Series, Stefan appears with pianist Jeremy Denk on November 19th at the Perelman Theater. Recently we spoke with him about his upcoming performance of Charles Ives’ complete works for violin and piano.
- [Artist Interview: Rebecca Albers, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-rebecca-albers-viola/): A native of Colorado, Rebecca Albers started playing piano and violin from the time she could walk. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Heidi Castleman and Hsin-Yun Huang. Having just completed he sixth summer at the Marlboro Music Festival, Ms. Albers is preparing to start her fourth tour with Musicians from Marlboro. Ms. Albers was kind enough to answer a few questions about her time at the festival and on tour, her work in the Minnesota Orchestra, and her musical upbringing. You can hear Rebecca and the rest of this Musicians from Marlboro touring group on Friday, October 9, at the American Philosophical Society.
- [Box Office Picks](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/box-office-picks/): As many of you know, the PCMS office is pretty quiet during the summer months. The bulk of subscription orders are in during the first week of June, and the Marlboro staff migrates north shortly after, leaving Brad, Erik, and me to hold down the fort. As a general rule during these two and a half months, we try not to listen to any classical music in the office — instead shifting our attention to blues, jazz, Motown, and even a little Led Zeppelin.
- [ˈmɑːstəˌklɑːs](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/%cb%88ma%cb%90st%c9%99%cb%8ckla%cb%90s/): An artist once said that master classes create a space for students to “come to understand their place within a growing community, value differences as well as similarities, feel connected to others, accept and love their own musical traditions, and empowered to change those things that should be changed and embrace new perspectives.”  For many students, master classes–the more sophisticated form of a regular lesson–are the first entry into a world of diverse ideas, offering insights into other interpretations, specifics on technique and historical and cultural context.
- [Education and Outreach: New & Review](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/education-and-outreach-new-review/): After PCMS’ opening concert this season with Musicians from Marlboro, we received the following from a teacher who brought a group of her students for the evening.
- [The Science of Music](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/science-of-music/): PCMS is proud to acknowledge the educational advancements these students are making in the science of music along with building awareness and enthusiasm for the arts.  Each student was given a certificate and awarded an Unlimited Student Pass to concerts during the 2015-16 Season.
- [Artist Interview: Enso Quartet’s Richard Belcher](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-enso-quartets-richard-belcher/): Founded in 1999, the Enso Quartet has quickly become one of the country’s most celebrated younger ensembles. Despite their hectic touring schedule, I spoke with cellist Richard Belcher via email about their upcoming PCMS debut, the ensemble's connection to the Guarneri Quartet and their plans for the coming year.
- [Artist Interview: Sarah Kapustin of the Rubens Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-sarah-kapustin-of-the-rubens-quartet/): Having studied with György Kurtág and members of the Amadeus, Juilliard and Hagen Quartets, the Rubens Quartet brings their polished sound and youthful energy to the PCMS stage on Thursday, March 19. Sarah Kapustin (violin) was kind enough to correspond with me during the European leg of their current tour, and we discussed the Rubens’  upcoming program, their educational philosophy and their unique instruments.
- [Artist Interview: Joshua Smith, flute](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-joshua-smith-flute/): Approaching his 25th season as principal flute of the Cleveland Orchestra, Joshua Smith is described as "a masterful soloist instilling lines with bite, sublety and bracing virtuosity." Joshua returns to the PCMS stage on Sunday, February 8, and we spoke earlier this month about his upcoming recital with pianist Christina Dahl, his time at the Marlboro Music Festival and his chamber music group, Ensemble HD.
- [St. Lawrence Quartet Premieres John Adams’ Second Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/st-lawrence-quartet-premieres-john-adams-second-quartet/): Last week, the St. Lawrence Quartet delivered the world premiere of John Adams' eagerly awaited "Second Quartet" at Stanford University's Bing Concert Hall. Just one week later, the group brings this remarkable new work to the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater in a PCMS program that also features a pair of Haydn quartets and a Philadelphia premiere by Stanford composer Jonathan Berger.
- [Artist Interview: Susanna Phillips, soprano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-susanna-phillips-soprano/): Susanna Phillips, soprano is one of today's most sought-after vocal performers. Entering her seventh season at the Metropolitan Opera, the 2010 Beverly Sills Artist Award winner shows no signs of slowing down, with performances in Mexico City, Japan, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and more in 2014 alone. As we look forward to her all-Schubert recital with Eric Owens and Myra Huang on Tuesday, March 24 Susanna was kind enough to answer a few questions about her career, her native Alabama, and of course, Schubert.
- [Dover and Daedalus Quartets Participate in PCMS Education Program](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/dover-and-daedalus-deliver/): Last week, two Philadelphia-based quartets worked with and performed for students before and after their concerts at the American Philosophical Society.
- [Latin Strings Fiesta](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/latin-strings-fiesta/): It’s not often that the volume of the afternoon crowd at the Wyoming branch of the Free Library rises above the threshold appropriate for studying and browsing.  But last Wednesday, the Dalí­ Quartet was granted an exception as they took “center floor” to engage students in a rhythmic and cultural tour of the music the group grew up with.  The ensemble brought with them music from Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Mexico and Venezuela (where three of the members were born), pairing these works with a Mozart Minuet to demonstrate how various rhythms and dance steps are fundamental to all genres of music–Latin or Classical.
- [Artist Interview: Don Liuzzi on Alan Abel](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-don-liuzzi-alan-abel/): As we celebrate Alan Abel's 85th birthday, I spoke with his former student and current Principal Timpanist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Don Liuzzi, about his relationship with Mr. Abel and the November 16th PCMS concert that has been assembled in his honor.
- [Artist Interview: Carol Jantsch, tuba](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-carol-jantsch-tuba/): Going into her ninth season as Principal Tuba of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Carol Jantsch has been praised as "a soulful soloist with gentle vibrato" and for "a sound as clear and sure as it luxurious" (Philadelphia Inquirer).  Earlier this week I connected with Carol to discuss her November 9th performance at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, her work with composer Michael Daugherty and her tuba throwing skills.
- [Concert Review: Mark Padmore, tenor & Jonathan Biss, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/concert-review-mark-padmore-tenor-and-jonathan-biss-piano/): Philadelphia Inquirer Classical Music Critic Peter Dobrin reviewed our first vocal recital of the 2014-15 Season: a PCMS debut collaboration between Mark Padmore, tenor and Jonathan Biss, piano. The concert took place on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at 8 pm at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater.
- [Artist Interview: Dover Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/blog/artist-interview-dover-quartet/): Considered one of the most remarkably talented string quartets to emerge at such a young age, the Dover Quartet makes its third appearance on our Series–its first since becoming the quartet-in-residence at Curtis last year. We spoke with them about their December 9th PCMS program as well as their interest in music education.

## Social Series
- [Thee Coffee Gurl | Joseph Lin & Friends](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/thee-coffee-gurl-joseph-lin-friends/)
- [Pound Cake Heaven | Carmit Zori & Friends](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/pound-cake-heaven-carmit-zori-friends/)
- [Triple Bottom Brewing | Raphaël Feuillâtre](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/triple-bottom-brewery-raphael-feuillatre/)
- [Fishtown Pickle Project | Brentano Quartet & Hsin-Yun Huang, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/fishtown-pickle-project-brentano-quartet-hsin-yun-huang-viola/)
- [Grace Winery | Brentano Quartet & Hsin-Yun Huang, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/grace-winery-brentano-quartet-hsin-yun-huang-viola/)
- [Cherry Grove Farm | Brentano Quartet & Hsin-Yun Huang, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/cherry-grove-farm-brentano-quartet-hsin-yun-huang-viola/)
- [Fifth of a Farm Creations | Lyric Fest](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/fifth-of-a-farm-creations-lyric-fest/)
- [Paines Hollow Kitchen | Brentano Quartet & Hsin-Yun Huang, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/paines-hollow-kitchen-brentano-quartet-hsin-yun-huang-viola/)
- [Coffee Pop! | Imani Winds](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/coffee-pop-imani-winds/)
- [Two Locals Brewing Company | Hye-Jin Kim, violin, Peter Stumpf, cello, & Cynthia Raim, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/two-locals-brewing-company-hye-jin-kim-violin-peter-stumpf-cello-cynthia-raim-piano/)
- [Lizzie’s Love Cakes | Imani Winds](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/https-www-pcmsconcerts-org-concerts-imani-winds-2026/)
- [Unruly Nature Granola | Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo, Beth Guterman Chu, viola, & Christopher Cano, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/unruly-nature-granola-jennifer-johnson-cano-mezzo-beth-guterman-chu-viola-chris-cano-piano/)
- [Triple Bottom Brewing | Nicholas Phan, tenor, Philippe Tondre, oboe & Friends](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/triple-bottom-brewing-nicholas-phan-tenor-philippe-tondre-oboe-friends/)
- [New-Bee Ranch | Peter Wiley, cello & Anna Polonsky, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/new-bee-ranch-peter-wiley-cello-anna-polonsky-piano/)
- [Care Package Bakes | The Sebastians & Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/care-package-bakes-the-sebastians-lucy-fitz-gibbon-soprano/)
- [Ploughman Farm Cider | Musicians from Marlboro III](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/ploughman-cider-musicians-from-marlboro-iii/)
- [Poppa’s Custard | Melissa White, violin & Pallavi Mahidhara, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/poppas-custard-melissa-white-violin-pallavi-mahidhara-piano/)
- [Coffee-Pop | Brentano Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/coffee-pop-brentano-quartet/)
- [S&L Catering | Zoltán Fejérvári, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/sl-catering-zoltan-fejervari-piano/)
- [Fifth of a Farm Creations | Itamar Zorman, violin & Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/fifth-of-a-farm-creations-itamar-zorman-violin-ieva-jokubaviciute-piano/)
- [Grace Winery | Brentano Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/grace-winery-brentano-quartet/)
- [Penns Woods Winery | Emi Ferguson, flute & Ashley Jackson, harp](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/penns-woods-winery-emi-ferguson-flute-ashley-jackson-harp/)
- [Lizzie’s Love Cakes | Stephanie Zyzak, violin, Kim Kashkashian, viola, Marcy Rosen, cello & Evren Ozel, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/lizzies-love-cakes-stephanie-zyzak-violin-kim-kashkashian-viola-marcy-rosen-cello-evren-ozel-piano/)
- [Unruly Nature | Musicians from Marlboro II](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/unruly-nature-musicians-from-marlboro-ii/)
- [Paines Hollow Kitchen | Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano, Marina Piccinini, flute, & Anneleen Lenaerts, harp](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/paines-hollow-kitchen-lucy-fitz-gibbon-soprano-marina-piccinini-flute-anneleen-lenaerts-harp/)
- [Heirzoom Bakery | Brentano Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/heirzoom-bakery-brentano-quartet/)
- [Wallace Dry Goods | Raphaël Feuillâtre, guitar](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/wallace-dry-goods-raphael-feuillatre-guitar/)
- [Tenango Rum | Einav Yarden, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tenango-rum-einav-yarden-piano/)
- [Cherry Grove Farm | Brentano Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/cherry-grove-farm-brentano-quartet/)
- [Pound Cake Heaven | Musicians from Marlboro II](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/pound-cake-heaven-musicians-from-marlboro-ii/)
- [Evil Genius Beer Company | Musicians from Marlboro I](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/evil-genius-beer-company/)
- [Wild Flour Bakery | Marina Piccinini, flute, Hye-Jin Kim, violin, Peter Stumpf, cello, & Cynthia Raim, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/wild-flour-bakery/)
- [Brass Monkey Bread Co. | Formosa Quartet, Hsin-Yun Huang, viola, & Peter Wiley, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/brass-monkey-bread-co-formosa-quartet-hsin-yun-huang-viola-peter-wiley-cello/)
- [Philadelphia Distilling | Orion Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/orion-quartet-2024/)
- [Cherry Grove Farm | Kim Kashkashian, viola & Robert Levin, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/cherry-grove-farm-kim-kashkashian-viola-robert-levin-piano/)
- [Okie Dokie Donuts | Ricardo Morales, clarinet, Roberto Díaz, viola, Efe Baltacıgil, cello, & Natalie Zhu, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/morales-diaz-baltacigil-zhu/)
- [Lost Bread Co. + Cheesemonger Jamie Png |Musicians from Marlboro II](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/musicians-from-marlboro-ii/)
- [Triple Bottom Brewing +Lost Bread Co. |Anthony McGill, clarinetAnna Polonsky, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/anthony-mcgill-anna-polonsky/)
- [Nutty Novelties | Ying Fang, sopranoKen Noda, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/ying-fang-sopranoken-noda-piano/)
- [Cherry Grove Farm |Vera QuartetRoberto Díaz, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/vera-quartet/)
- [Colony Meadery | David Shifrin, clarinetPeter Wiley, celloAnna Polonsky, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/shifrin-wiley-polonsky/)
- [Heirzoom Bakery | Cynthia Raim, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/cynthia-raim-piano/)
- [Lost Bread Co. | Orion Quartet w/ Peter Wiley, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/lost-bread-co-orion-quartet-w-peter-wiley-cello/)
- [Colony Meadery | Imani Winds](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/imani-winds/)
- [Le Bon Magot | Bernstein, Bates, and Friends](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/le-bon-magot-leon-bernstein-bates-friends/): Concert Details
- [Patagonia Bee Products | Einav Yarden, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/patagonia-bee-products-einav-yarden-piano/): I started Patagonia Bee Products with a childhood friend of mine after we trekked across the gorgeous Patagonian region of South America and tasted one of the honey varieties down there. We went back and ultimately connected with a women-run coop that produces some truly unique monofloral honeys endemic to Patagonia. We market our honey as Hive to Hand, meaning every jar is from one beekeeper and one harvest. It also is lab tested and free of pesticides and GMOs, something VERY hard to achieve with honey.
- [Neshaminy Creek Brewing Company | Heath Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/neshaminy-creek-brewing-company-heath-quartet/): Concert Details
- [Batter & Crumbs | Musicians from Marlboro I](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/batter-crumbs-musicians-from-marlboro-i-2/): Concert Details
- [Valente’s Italian Specialties | Trumpets 5, Music of our Time](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-trumpets-5-music-of-our-time/): Concert Details
- [Malvern Buttery | Julia Bullock, soprano, and John Arida, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-julia-bullock-soprano-john-arida-piano/): Malvern Buttery is a European style, from scratch community cafe and coffee house that serves breakfast and lunch as well as specializes in producing amazing pastries, viennoiserie and naturally fermented breads. By only using the best and most local ingredients we can find, our products are exceptional and truly show how much we care about the entire process of our food, from the local farms they're sourced from to the end result of a perfectly baked baguette.
- [Mama Donna’s Bakery | Calidore String Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-calidore-string-quartet/): Mama Donna's Bakery is founded on the belief that the very best baked goods are made with natural ingredients and flavors. We are committed to using fresh, locally sourced ingredients, with zero preservatives. We package our products using recyclable, environmentally friendly materials and bake to order to reduce food waste.
- [Backyard Beans Coffee Company | Nitzan Haroz, trombone, and Gloria Kim, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-nitzan-haroz-trombone-gloria-kim-piano/): Backyard Beans Coffee Company
- [Urban Village Brewing Company | Decoda](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-decoda/): Urban Village Brewing Company's craft beer and brick oven pizza pairing concept is the result, with co-owner Dave Goldman, a home brewer and graduate of University of the Sciences Brewing certificate program. Urban Village is the realization of the goal to create a concept that is thoroughly unique in its provision of craft beer and natural fermented yeast dough pizza fired in brick ovens. The result is a neighborhood brewpub that meets the same excellent quality standards of service the business moguls are known for.
- [Cherry Grove Farm | Natalie Zhu, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-natalie-zhu-piano/): Cherry Grove Farm is a diversified, sustainable dairy farm and creamery situated on 480 acres of woodland, wetland and pasture in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, making award-winning farmstead cheeses from our grass-fed raw cows’ milk. Our cheeses are made in small batches and aged on the farm, with attention paid to the craft of artisanal cheesemaking. Each piece reflects the distinct flavors, aromas and seasonal variations of our unique terroir. Developed from classic European recipes, our cheeses are American originals.
- [The Frosted Fox | Daedalus String Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-daedalus-string-quartet/): The Frosted Fox Cake Shop
- [Ploughman Farm Cider | Johannes String Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-johannes-string-quartet/): Ploughman Farm Cider is the proud maker of ciders made from apples grown in Adams County, PA. We grow, harvest and produce our ciders from a single source: the orchards at Three Springs Fruit Farm.
- [Honey and Rose Bakery | Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-ieva-jokubaviciute-piano/): Honey and Rose Bakery
- [MacDougall’s Irish Victory Cakes | JACK String Quartet w/ Anthony McGill, clarinet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-jack-string-quartet-w-anthony-mcgill-clarinet/): MacDougall's Irish Victory Cakes
- [Heirzoom Bakery | Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-jennifer-johnson-cano-mezzo-soprano/): Heirzoom Bakery®  - We produce ethnic culinary treasures in their true authentic form!
- [Inspired Brews | Kristin Lee, violin and Jason Vieaux, guitar](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-kristen-lee-violin-jason-vieaux-guitar/): Inspired Brews aims to engage with each season and connect with the Philadelphia community by brewing premium, locally-sourced, small-batch kombucha. They hope to bring awareness to what nourishment the earth provides and to bring refreshment the city with their healthful beverage!
- [Heavenly Sweet Chocolates | Zorá String Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-zora-string-quartet/): Heavenly Sweet Chocolates
- [Yards Brewing Company | Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-ignat-solzhenitsyn-piano/): Yards Brewing Company
- [Three Springs Fruit Farm and Food in Jars | Harold Robinson and Friends](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-harold-robinson-friends/): ​​Located in beautiful Adams County, Pennsylvania, Three Springs Fruit Farm is a seventh generation family farm that brings fresh tree fruit, berries, tomatoes, vegetables, and products made with them to markets all over the Mid-Atlantic.   Founded in 1901, Three Springs Fruit Farm is recognized by Food Alliance as among the best in their field for their commitment to progressive, sustainable growing practices and land management.​
- [Nutty Novelties | Hanchien Lee, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-hanchien-lee-piano/): Nutty Novelties: All-natural, high-protein, low-sugar, delicious and unique nut butters freshly ground(ed) right in Souderton, PA. We don’t call them *Awesome* for nothing.
- [Preservation Handcrafted Foods | Momenta String Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-momenta-string-quartet/): Preservation Handcrafted Foods is a family-owned artisanal food store specializing in pickles, pickled products, and hot sauces. Our pickles are made using our mom's famous recipe, and every one of our products is handmade in our store. Located in Westmont, NJ, we have a space for small private events and are available for catering.
- [Sweet Ladybug | Daniel Matsukawa and Friends](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-daniel-matsukawa-friends/): Concert Details
- [Fifth of a Farm Creations | Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano; Nathan Hughes, oboe; Rafael Figueroa, cello; Ken Noda, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-jennifer-johnson-cano-mezzo-soprano-nathan-hughes-oboe-rafael-figueroa-cello-ken-noda-piano/): Fifth of a Farm Creations
- [Malvern Buttery | Ayane Kozasa, viola and Amy Yang, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-ayane-kozasa-viola-amy-yang-piano/): Malvern Buttery
- [Chilly Philly Ice Cream | PCMS Players](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-pcms-players/): Chilly Philly Ice Cream
- [Lil’ Pop Shop | Paul Appleby, tenor and Ken Noda, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-paul-appleby-tenor-ken-noda-piano/): Lil' Pop Shop
- [Commonwealth Ciders | Marina Piccinini, flute and the Beijing Guitar Duo](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-marina-piccinini-flute-beijing-guitar-duo/): Commonwealth Ciders
- [Sweet Salvation Truffles | Peter Wiley, cello and Anna Polonsky, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-peter-wiley-cello-anna-polonsky-piano/): Sweet Salvation Truffles
- [Special Extended Tasting | Peter Stumpf, cello](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-peter-stumpf-cello/): Weckerly's Ice Cream
- [Whipped Bakeshop | Julietta Curenton, flute; Karen Slack, soprano; Lura Johnson, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-julietta-curenton-flute-karen-slack-soprano-lura-johnson-piano/): Whipped Bakeshop
- [HB+M Chocolate Truffles | Lysander Trio w/ Charles Neidich, clarinet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-lysander-trio-w-charles-neidich-clarinet/): HB+M Chocolate Truffles
- [We Bee Brothers Honey | Ben Wager, bass and Jeffrey Miller, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-ben-wager-bass-jeffrey-miller-piano/): We Bee Brothers Honey
- [Fulper Family Farmstead | Escher Quartet w/ Samuel Rhodes, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-escher-quartet-w-samuel-rhodes-viola/): Fulper Family Farmstead
- [Rawsome Fudge | Musicians from Marlboro I](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-musicians-marlboro/): Concert details
- [Backyard Beans Coffee Co. | Demarre McGill, flute; Anthony McGill, clarinet; Michael McHale, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-demarre-mcgill-flute-anthony-mcgill-clarinet-michael-mchale-piano/): Backyard Beans Coffee Company
- [Hazel & Ash Organics | Catherine Cho, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Marcy Rosen, cello; Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-catherine-cho-violin-hsin-yun-huang-viola-marcy-rosen-cello-ieva-jokubaviciute-piano/): Hazel & Ash Organics
- [The Bacon Jams | Ilya Poletaev, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-ilya-poletaev-piano/): The Bacon Jams
- [Burning Bush Foods | Orion Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-orion-quartet/): Burning Bush Foods
- [Crust Vegan Bakery | Anna Polonsky, piano and Orion Weiss, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-anna-polonsky-piano-orion-weiss-piano/): Crust Vegan Bakery
- [Éclat Chocolate | Colin Carr, cello and Thomas Sauer, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/tasting-tbd-colin-carr-cello-thomas-sauer-piano/): “Experience and enjoy renowned gourmet chocolates with titles such as “World Greatest Caramels” and “Best in America” from Éclat Chocolate, based in West Chester, Pennsylvania.”
- [Spruce Hill Preserves | Aizuri Quartet w/ Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-aizuri-quartet-w-ignat-solzhenitsyn-piano/): Spruce Hill Preserves
- [Olive Lucy | Clarosa Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-clarosa-quartet/): Olive Lucy has over 70 different Extra virgin Olive Oils and Aged Balsamics.  The Olive Oils are from all over the world and from the most current harvests.  Our aged balsamics are dark aged up to 18 years and whites aged up to 12 years.  Olive Lucy is an on tap store so you can taste all of our selection before you buy it.  For their tasting, they will bring a selection of their top sellers of both Olive Oil and Balsamics and make them available for purchase.
- [Philly Food Works | Johannes Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-johannes-quartet/): Philly Food Works
- [Night Kitchen Bakery | Cynthia Raim, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-cynthia-raim-piano/): Night Kitchen Bakery
- [Valley Milkhouse Creamery | Juilliard Quartet w/ Samuel Rhodes and Marcy Rosen](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-juilliard-quartet-w-samuel-rhodes-and-marcy-rosen/): Valley Milkhouse Creamery
- [2nd Story Brewing | Ensemble HD](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-ensemble-hd/): 2nd Story Brewing
- [The Chocolate Clinic | Elizabeth Fayette and Adam Golka](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-elizabeth-fayette-and-adam-golka/): The Chocolate Clinic
- [Cosmic Catering | Tai Murray and Anton Nel](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-tai-murray-and-anton-nel/): Cosmic Catering
- [Truly Pure & Natural Honey | Horszowski Trio w/ John Dalley, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-horszowski-trio-w-john-dalley-viola/): Concert Details
- [Swiss Haus Bakery | Alexandre Moutouzkine, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-alexandre-moutouzkine-piano/): Swiss Haus Bakery
- [Saint Benjamin Brewing Company | Hye-Jin Kim and Ieva Jokubaviciute](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-hye-jin-kim-and-ieva-jokubaviciute/): Saint Benjamin Brewing Company
- [MoJo’s Popcorn Company | Parker Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-parker-quartet/): MoJo's Popcorn Company
- [Sweet Bee Granola | Hopkinson Smith, lute](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-hopkinson-smith-lute/): Sweet Bee Granola is based in Maplewood, NJ, and focus on making two awesome products: a boxed "bake fresh" granola that are sold online and in grocery stores and granola bars that are sold exclusively in coffee shops and cafes.  Their "bake fresh" granola comes partially-baked in the box and the customer finishes toasting it up in their oven for a fresher, more home made flavor than other granolas.  Granola bars are ready to eat and perfect for those who need an on-the-go snack.  The flavors for both products are: Apple Cinnamon, Cherry Almond and Orange Cranberry. Sweet Bee products are all natural and use organic ingredients where possible.  Nutritional and ingredient info
- [Birchrun Hills Farm | Soovin Kim and Ieva Jokubaviciute](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-soovin-kim-and-ieva-jokubaviciute/): Birchrun Hills Farm
- [The Wayfare Baker | Cecile Licad, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-cecile-licad-piano/): The Wayfare Baker
- [Flour & Oats Artisan Cookies | Musicians from Marlboro I](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/social-series/open-tasting-musicians-from-marlboro-i/): Flour & Oats Artisan Cookies are all natural gourmet cookies.  Our cookies are hand mixed in small batches, scooped by hand, then baked and individually packed for maximum freshness.  We use the highest quality ingredients in our recipes — French cocoa, Belgian chocolate, Madagascar bourbon vanilla.  The honey, fruits, herbs and veggies are from local farms.  There are no artificial flavorings or color and no added preservatives.  We bake seasonally changing cookie flavors, savory cookies to enjoy with your favorite beverage and traditional cookies with our own twist!  Cookie flavors include Fig and Blue Cheese, Rosemary Pecan Cranberry, Bittersweet Bliss or Salted Caramel Snickerdoodle — our own recipes with delectable flavor and extraordinary quality.

## Music
- [Schubert](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/music/schubert/): In its broadest sense, "late Schubert" refers to the works he wrote in the final few years of his short life, starting in 1823 or 1824. At the same time...the term carries a distinct psycho-biographical change, particularly since these works feel, often uncannily so, as if they were written under the star of looming mortality. In its classic formulation "late style," which at least in connection with music originated in Beethoven criticism, refers to a meaningful conjunction of stylistic and biographical characteristics. Above all, late style establishes a new interrelationship of objective and subjective, of convention and inspiration, borne by a sort of wisdom, resigned that a more conventionally harmonious balance is not valid at this moment, and perhaps never was.
- [Schumann](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/music/schumann/): ...Schumann's late music seems to have emanated a dangerous glow. Perhaps it is not surprising that Clara, the most famous champion of her husband's works, suppressed or ignored almost all the late works, forever associated in her mind with his illness.
- [Britten](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/music/britten/): Britten returned to the string quartet form after a thirty-year hiatus, when, as one critic suggests, he realized he was truly running out of time. The resulting work, whose finale looks back to themes from his previous compositions, particularly Death in Venice, reads musically as a meditation on his life by way of his compositions. Although the last quartet is not significantly shorter than his other two string quartets, it is noteworthy that the opening movement, entitled ‘Duets,’ does not follow classical sonata-allegro form. Evans is reluctant to make Britten’s illness wholly accountable for this deviation from traditional form, but he does question whether ‘the short spans of activity to which the composer was restricted during the years of his illness necessitated this reduction of scale’. But absolutely no one saw here any late failing on the creative level: in one of the earliest reviews, David Matthews called it ‘a masterpiece’; the New Grove claims that ‘few listeners will doubt that this is as profound a work as anything Britten wrote’; Kennedy puts it on par with Beethoven’s late string quartets; and Evans concludes that ‘the simplicity of its language and the serenity to which it aspires represent a distillation, not a dilution, of Britten’s expressivity during this most poignant period of his life,’ calling the last movement of the quartet ‘surely his last artistic testament’.
- [Brahms](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/music/brahms-2/): There is a decidedly autumnal quality to the works of Brahms's last decade of life, and this is particularly evident in the piano pieces of Opp. 116-119. For the most part, Brahms seems to have exchanged the expansiveness and power of his earlier piano works—the great Handel Variations, early rhapsodies, and the piano sonatas, for example—for a subtle, introspective poetry. It is tempting to see these late piano pieces as Brahms really writing and playing only for himself.
- [Mozart](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/music/mozart-2/): If the late quartets and quintets are condemned in particular, it is chiefly because they do not correspond to the ‘Classical’ ideal promoted about 1850 on the basis of the six quartets dedicated to Haydn and the quintets K. 515 and 516 of 1787 - in this sense, they are rejected on broad, biographical grounds and because of the unfulfilled expectation (or perhaps the unfulfilled desire) that they correspond to what was then (and still is) accepted as the Classical style. But there was no such expectation at the time the works were written, nor were the works received as such...What later critics perceived as new and often unsuccessful ‘late’ style, then, was not an issue for Mozart’s audiences, even though the style of the works is clearly ‘different’...
- [Kurtág](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/music/kurtag-2/): As the composer and his contemporaries are aging it is striking to observe the peculiar direction that the collection takes, with an increasing number of pieces referring specifically to loss. To Johnson, “The very fact that Kurtág has chosen this ‘compositional sketchbook’ of ‘children’s pieces’ as the initial creative forum for his grief at the loss of a dear friend is extremely telling.” 205 In fact, Varga had already observed in an interview with the composer that the processional characteristic of several of Kurtág’s works, moving at slow pace, could be constructed as a funeral march.206 Thus, having in mind the beginnings of Játékok as a collection for children, full of inventiveness and fine humor, this transformation is for me one of its most fascinating aspects, still deserving a more extensive study. The list of pieces included in the present discussion strives to bring more light to this aspect of Játékok, but is not meant to be definitive. The examples appearing in this chapter are just a selection in order to achieve a better understanding of the composer’s late style, though it is impossible to discuss all its nuances and manifestations within the limits of this document.
- [Gesualdo](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/music/gesualdo-2/): Gesualdo was only 45 in 1611 when he published his last two madrigal books, but the horrendous series of events the immediately preceding years and his own declining health had clearly forced him to face the issue of his final legacy as a composer. The overtly defensive tone of the prefaces to these last two books advertises that at the close Gesualdo was not buoyed by an unperturbed confidence, and also, perhaps more important, that he suffered considerable anxiety over a protocol demanded by his station that his name not appear on the title page of his collections. Indeed, for all the bombast of his declarations, the composer’s ego is revealed as conspicuously fragile.
- [Beethoven](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/music/beethoven-3/): Beethoven leaves behind a musical track record of unrelenting confrontations....But the reason we care about these works is not that they express irreconcilable contradictions or exile. Rather, each constructs an alternative universe in which something is actually being understood about our world: some things are rejected, some are accepted, some are greeted with horror, some with resignation. Beethoven's late music, for example, embraces incongruities because—we are convinced—that is precisely what it means to see the world whole. There is accumulated knowledge here: recognition and reconciliation, not just 'intransigence' or 'unresolved contradiction.'
- [Bach](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/music/bach/): Toward the middle and end of the 1730s there is a perceptible change in Bach's orientation, a change that, regardless of all continuity of Bach's highly developed idiom, gives a characteristic stamp to the works of the last twelve years....it arose logically from the aging Bach's increasingly systematic realization of a synthesis of his rich creative experience and his manifold musical interests.

## Discovery Events
- [Public Panel Discussion](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery-events/public-panel-discussion/): Prior to the first of the three concerts, Gregg Whiteside (morning host on WRTI) will lead an interdisciplinary panel discussion featuring musicologist Christoph Wolff, music critic Allan Kozinn, writer and thought leader Lewis Lapham, and behavioral scientist Dr. Daniel Gottlieb.  Their discussion will explore the effect that accumulated knowledge and experience has on artistic creation, highlighting the dramatic new directions taken and fresh discoveries made by these great composers while at the height of their creative powers.
- [Brentano Quartet and Jonathan Biss, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery-events/brentano-quartet-jonathan-biss-piano/): Bach: Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 Kurtág: Játékok, Volume VII, for Piano Britten: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 94 Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 111  
- [Brentano Quartet with Hsin-Yun Huang, viola and Jonathan Biss, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery-events/brentano-quartet-hsin-yun-huang-viola-jonathan-biss-piano/): Schumann: Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133 Gesualdo: Selected Madrigals Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op. 118 Mozart: String Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 614  
- [Mark Padmore, tenor and Jonathan Biss, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery-events/mark-padmore-tenor-jonathan-biss-piano/): Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 959 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D. 957

## Discovery Artists
- [Gregg Whiteside](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery-artists/gregg-whiteside/): One of Philadelphia's most popular radio personalities, Gregg Whiteside has delighted listeners as WRTI-FM's morning host for 5 years. In addition to this role, he is also the producer and host of The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcasts heard on Sundays from 1 to 3 pm. Two real-time live broadcasts from Hong Kong of the Philadelphia Orchestra in May, 2016, were a first for Philadelphia radio. Gregg also hosts...
- [Allan Kozinn](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery-artists/allan-kozinn/): Allan Kozinn is an American journalist, music critic, and teacher. He received bachelor's degrees in music and journalism from Syracuse University in 1976 and began freelancing as a critic and music feature writer for The New York Times in 1977, joining the paper's staff in 1991...
- [Christoph Wolff](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery-artists/christoph-wolff/): Recipient of various international prizes and several honorary degrees, Christoph Wolff holds an honorary professorship at the University of Freiburg and memberships in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften. He currently serves as the director of the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig and the president of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales...
- [Dr. Dan Gottlieb](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery-artists/dr-dan-gottlieb/): Dr. Dan Gottlieb began his practice in 1969 after receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees at Temple University. As a young psychologist, his early career specialized in addictions, and he ultimately became the director of a community-based treatment program at the Belmont Institute in Philadelphia. At that time, he was the director of two outpatient clinics and one inpatient unit supervising over 30 staff. He also became a graduate of the highly respected Family Institute of Philadelphia, a program that later elected him as president...
- [Lewis H. Lapham](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery-artists/lewis-h-lapham/): Lewis H. Lapham was the editor of Harper’s Magazine from 1976 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 2006. In the early seventies, he began writing the Easy Chair, a column which he renamed The Notebook in 1984. His columns received the National Magazine Award in 1995 for exhibiting “an exhilarating point of view in an age of conformity,” and, in 2002, the Thomas Paine Journalism Award. Lapham founded Lapham’s Quarterly, of which he is also the editor, in 2007. He is currently editor emeritus of Harper’s...
- [Mark Padmore, tenor](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery-artists/mark-padmore-tenor/): English tenor Mark Padmore began his musical studies as a clarinetist, switching to singing after he gained a choral scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. After graduating in 1982, Padmore began working with a number of period performance choirs and ensembles, including the Tallis Scholars, The Sixteen and the King's Consort. In 1987, he became a member of the Hilliard Ensemble with whom he toured extensively and made a number of recordings...
- [Hsin-Yun Huang, viola](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery-artists/hsin-yun-huang-viola/): A native of Taiwan, Hsin-Yun Huang moved to England at age 14 to study with David Takeno at the Yehudi Menuhin School. Her studies continued at the Curtis Institute with Michael Tree and subsequently at the Juilliard School, where she earned her master of music degree while studying with Samuel Rhodes...
- [Jonathan Biss, piano](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery-artists/jonathan-biss-piano/): American pianist Jonathan Biss is widely regarded for his artistry and deeply felt interpretations, winning international recognition for his orchestral, recital, and chamber music performances and for his award-winning recordings. The New Yorker describes him as playing with “unerring sophistication.” He is a frequent performer at leading international music festivals and gives recitals in major music capitals both at home and abroad...
- [Brentano Quartet](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/discovery-artists/brentano-quartet/): The Brentano Quartet has garnered popular and critical acclaim since its inception in 1992, having performed in many of the world's most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington; the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; the Konzerthaus in Vienna; Suntory Hall in Tokyo; and the Sydney Opera House...

## Perspective
- [Departure and Discovery: New Directions at the Apex of Creativity](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/departure-and-discovery/): “In the first you find, or pose for yourself, a great question. In the second you labour away at answering it. And then, if you live long enough, you come to a third stage, when the aforesaid great question begins to bore you, and you need to look elsewhere” (John Maxwell Coetzee).
- [Profiles of Late Style: Elizabeth Streb](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-elizabeth-streb/): “Our job is to confuse people and take them to new zones.”
- [Profiles of Late Style: Bruce Metcalf](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-bruce-metcalf/): “The thing about experimentation is that sometimes it doesn’t work and you have to have the courage to fail. And that actually becomes harder to do when you have a reputation.”
- [Profiles of Late Style: Terell Stafford](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-terell-stafford/): “At this point in my life, I am not so concerned about letting people know who I am. What I am concerned about is feeding my palate, my passion for the music, so that I can constantly grow. . . That is my creative process now.”
- [Profiles of Late Style: Judith Schaechter](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-judith-schaechter/): “The idea that suffering is meaningful & important is profound. My work is like the sewage treatment plant—I take the bad stuff and try to make it beautiful so we can all drink it.”
- [Profiles of Late Style: Milton Glaser](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-milton-glaser/): “At the end it’s not about showing off, it’s about sharing something. The beginning is where you pull towards uniqueness of the self and the end is where you move towards the commonality between us.”
- [Profiles of Late Style: Cecil Baker](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-cecil-baker/): “There is a tremendous nervousness around the development that is happening in Philadelphia right now. Who are we becoming? Is there a ‘Philadelphia language’ that can inform what our architecture looks like? How do you create something that feels so right on its own but fits within the larger context?”
- [Profiles of Late Style: Emily Brown](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-emily-brown/): “At some point I realized I had more control than I liked. So I did things like changing brushes, loosening up… I don’t want to have it too rigid because it doesn’t reflect my way of being.”
- [Profiles of Late Style: Larry Gold](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-larry-gold/): “There’s a burning desire to do something…it is my love…this is what I love to do everyday.”
- [Profiles of Late Style: Bill Siemering](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-bill-siemering/): “Wherever I’ve been forced to land, I’ve always tried to use radio creatively and for social good to improve peoples lives.”
- [Profiles of Late Style: Jane Golden](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-jane-golden/): "But there is a resilience in us too…a scrappiness and grit that comes from time and being tested, and inspired, and challenged…that is the glue that keeps us going.”
- [Profiles of Late Style: Malcolm Wright](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-malcom-wright/): “The real excitement comes when things are about to go over the edge but never do.”
- [Profiles of Late Style: The Reverend Dr. Wilson Goode](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-reverend-dr-wilson-goode/): “Growing older has given me a sense of urgency. . . What drives me every day is knowing that if I don’t do certain things, it’s probably not going to get done.”
- [Profiles of Late Style: Robin Black](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-robin-black/): “When I started writing, I felt like my life depended on it. And my sanity.”
- [Reflections on Late Style: Jim Emerman](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/reflections-late-style-jim-emerman/): “It now becomes what you can contribute to the community, to others, to the world.”
- [Profiles of Late Style: Dr. Chris Feudtner](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-dr-chris-feudtner/): "People talk about how you’re going to die, but it’s how you’re going to live up to that point…It’s really about living.”
- [Profiles of Late Style: Carol & Peter Schreck](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-carol-peter-schreck/): “We never stop growing, ever — even into our dying. How I die is part of how I’m continuing to grow into the next stage.”
- [Profiles of Late Style: Christoph Wolff](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-christoph-wolff/): “Yes, they were geniuses, but they also had bills to pay, and this is a significant part of what drove their production.”
- [Profiles of Late Style: Tom McCarthy](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/profiles-late-style-tom-mccarthy/): “Trust your gut because most of the time you’re going to be right…but everybody should make mistakes because that’s how you learn."
- [Late Style Finale](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/late-style-finale/): “Where once a dreadful abyss yawned, a railroad bridge now stretches, from which the passengers can look comfortably down into the depths.”
- [Podcast #6: Final Survey of Late Style](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/podcast-6-final-survey-late-style/): "The late output of a composer is so interesting because it reflects on who the composer was at that time. If you look at the best known composers, you have a myriad of places where they wound up at the end of their lives. Whether they lived to a ripe old age or whether their life was cut short, as we would deem it, their musical output is always a reflection of their own searching."
- [Podcast #5: Thoughts on Late Style](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/podcast-5-thoughts-late-style/): "The composer is forever learning, exploring, trying out and finding new ideas; new ways of getting there. There—that place that is truth. You are never really there…but you are seeking it. I try to write music that will sound essential and urgent and as though it could only be this way."
- [Podcast #4: Exploring The Late Style Of Schubert](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/podcast-4-exploring-late-style-schubert/): "There must have been a sense of time running out, that it just concentrated mind and creative abilities….Perhaps he is like a painter or a potter who has just got the touch in that moment. The connection between hand and mind and heart is totally there in that moment and you feel he could have turned it into anything he would have wanted."
- [Podcast #3: Exploring The Late Styles Of Schumann, Gesualdo, Brahms and Mozart](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/podcast-3-exploring-late-styles-schumann-gesualdo-brahms-mozart/): "The defining characteristic of Schumann’s music is its intimacy…the sense of it communicating something achingly personal and almost unsayable. In his case that becomes so extreme in the late pieces. He is writing the music that is like the words that are caught in your throat when you can’t speak anymore."
- [Podcast #2: Exploring the Late Styles of Bach and Beethoven](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/podcast-2-exploring-late-styles-bach-beethoven/): "Auden, at some point in one of his essays, said that the idea that if you get old enough, you actually manage to get back to where you were when you were 8, when you could see it clearly and freshly, and it’s still a surprise.”
- [Podcast #1: Late Style Overview](https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/perspective/podcast-1-late-style-overview/): “One of the lessons of late style is as straight forward and simple as possible. You reach a point where you don’t have to fit the text or idea to some critical fashion. It’s too late for that."

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