This Grammy-Award-winning family band is recognized as one of the foremost contemporary Mexican ensembles in the world. With their unique fusion of Mexican folk, jazz, and classical music, they have graced prestigious stages around the globe, including Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, and captivated audiences with their virtuosic musicianship. Hermanos Villalobos have frequently collaborated with ...
In the opening classical concert, Allan Pollack will lead the musicians in Igor Stravinsky’s 1922 Pulcinella Suite, one of the ballets commissioned by Diaghilev. We’ll catch our breaths when the orchestra and pianist James D'León transport us to Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Manuel de Falla’s set of nocturnes for piano and orchestra. The ...
This country singer and songwriter was raised in Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky. Waldon's family roots in the Bluegrass State date back over ten generations. She has performed with with artists of note within the country and Americana genres, including Willie Nelson, John Prine and Tanya Tucker, and she made her Grand Ole Opry debut in 2016, ...
Heralded as one of “Austin’s rising stars” by Rolling Stone and called “an Austin legend in the making” by Forbes, Jackie Venson has established herself as one of the most commanding R&B performers to come out of Texas. An Austin native, Venson has shared the stage with icons like Gary Clark, Jr. and Melissa Etheridge ...
Prepare for an evening of soul-tinged jazz and fusion, with a look to the future, sprinkled with electronica and hip-hop. Described by Timeout New York as a musician who “deftly balances virtuosity with tenderness,” Julian Pollack is well-known in these parts as an amazing pianist and keyboard wizard. He will be joined by Berklee-trained Max ...
In this concert version of Donizetti’s comic opera, conducted by Ryan Murray, the audience will be treated to all of the beautiful music in this bel canto masterpiece, and most of the shenanigans. Don Pasquale is generally regarded as the high point of the 19th century opera buffa tradition and five accomplished singers will lead ...
Maiya Sykes is back for her third Big Band concert and she’s ready to pull out all the stops. She’s a former back-up singer whose rendition of “Stay with Me” on The Voice in 2014 catapulted her to lead singer fame. Based in Los Angeles, Sykes is a classically trained musician who graduated from Yale ...
L’histoire du soldat shows off Stravinsky’s familiarity with a wide range of musical styles: pasodoble, tango, waltz, ragtime, klezmer, and even Luther’s Ein Feste Burg. Concerto in E-flat (“Dumbarton Oaks”) is one of Stravinsky’s two chamber concertos. Stravinsky’s Octet for Wind Instruments is scored for an unusual combination of woodwind and brass. Completed in 1923, ...
Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Foghorn Stringband is considered one of the finest old-time string bands on the West Coast. Noted for "intense dedication to the sources" of the tradition, their music is billed as "a blend of high-spirited Appalachian dance music tying in sounds of traditional mountain fiddle tunes.” Their interpretation of “old time” is ...
Festival Orchestra with guest conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong and soloist Julian Rhee. “Igor on My Mind,” Allan Pollack’s fun-loving, energetic and rhythmic piece, impishly steals motifs straight out of Igor Stravinsky’s orchestral music. Then the real Stravinsky will be heard in the Violin Concerto in D, a neoclassical piece in four movements, written in the summer ...
American blues harmonica player and bandleader who came to prominence, along with Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, and Elvin Bishop, as a pivotal figure in helping to revive the Chicago Blues movement of the 1960s, Musselwhite has often been called a "white bluesman.” He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2010. At the ...
Three-time winners of Scotland’s “Live Act of the Year” award, Skerryvore have evolved from their humble beginnings to become one of their country’s leading Celtic rock bands. With a mix of bagpipes, fiddles, accordions, and whistles, alongside guitar and vocals and underpinned by driving bass, drums and keys, Skerryvore represent the best in contemporary Scottish ...
The final concert will open with Ad Matrem, Henryk Gorecki’s sacred work for soprano, mixed chorus, and orchestra. Based on the text of the 13th century hymn, Stabat Mater Dolorosa, this piece is almost a symphonic poem. Lux Aeterna, by Morten Lauridsen, is a choral work fashioned on texts from several different Latin sources, including ...