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Parker String Quartet
Inspiring performances, luminous sound, and exceptional musicianship are the hallmarks of the Grammy Award-winning Parker String Quartet…
A new perspective on chamber music
Well! I hate to admit it, but I think I’m at a loss for words – but I’ll do my best. The Aizuri String Quartet is four very accomplished musicians, and they accomplished what they intended: to connect the very distant musical past with the contemporary music of our...
Aizuri String Quartet
On January 24, 2022, Chamber Music America (CMA), the national network for ensemble music professionals, announced that the Aizuri Quartet has been selected to receive the Cleveland Quartet Award for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons…
Algo diferente
Thank you Sharon Isbin and Jessica Rivera for a low-cost, no Covid pre-test, no baggage check trip to Spain and South America! If you didn’t know before why these are such great destinations, you know now. As is often the case with our SACMS concerts, performances...
Sharon Isbin & Jessica Rivera
Guitarist Sharon Isbin and soprano Jessica Rivera join forces for an exquisite afternoon Of Love and Longing. Their seductive program ranges from Spanish and Latin American songs and solo guitar music to award-winning American composer Richard Danielpour’s intensely expressive settings of poems by the Persian poet Rumi, evoking the rich and magnificent tradition of Spain…
Saxophone Revelations
It turns out that a saxophone is not the product of the fevered imagination of a Nineteenth Century pipefitter. Indeed, in the hands of the Kenari Saxophone Quartet, it is a sinuous, elegant instrument which produces spools and whirls of wonderful music. Who knew? I...
Kenari Quartet
Formed in 2012 at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, the award-winning Kenari Quartet has taken pride in delivering engaging performances through creative programming and compelling stage presence. The versatility of the saxophone is integral to the quartet and the present music from a wide range of genres that is well informed by all periods of classical music as well as jazz, soul, and other genres…
Thank you, Saint Cecilia!
Saint Cecilia is the patron saint of music, so now altogether, “Thank you, Saint Cecilia!” And while we’re at it, “Thank you - incredible musicians of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for sharing seven of your finest with us.”Unlike the short life and...
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
It’s safe to say that without the virtuosity and imagination of Ludwig van Beethoven changing the course of music history, many of the most exciting chamber works would simply not exist. In a program that opens with Beethoven’s youthful and daring string trio, a succession of composers follows whose music was indelibly influenced by the master…