Our 2023-2024 Season: Back to the Future
We start with an ensemble that’s forged the future of chamber music for the past 50 years, the Kronos Quartet.
We finish with an artist embodying the future of chamber music for the next 50 years, Randall Goosby.
We present - all season long - leading international artists performing a truly diverse range of chamber music on a wide variety of instruments.
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023 – 7:30 p.m. Memorial Hall
“…a wellspring for hundreds of new music commissions. Some [of those have become] iconic pieces of repertoire…No one is ever going to say that Kronos Quartet is satisfied with the string quartet status quo.” - The New York Times
· BBC Music Magazine’s Ten Greatest String Quartet Ensembles of All Time
· Commissioned more new works and attracted more new audiences than any other ensemble.
· At 14, Kronos founder David Harrington realized that, “all the quartets I’d played up until that point – by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert – had been written by four white guys who all lived in a tiny geographical area.” He thought that there must be more. Kronos is about the “more.”
KRONOS QUARTET | Five Decades
GRYPHON TRIO
“If all classical concerts presented the music as vividly, beautifully and coherently… people would be storming box offices all around the world” —Toronto Star
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 – 7:30 p.m. Memorial Hall
The Gryphon Trio is firmly established as one of the world’s preeminent piano trios. For over 30 years, it has earned acclaim from international audiences through its highly refined, dynamic performances. With repertoire from traditional to contemporary, and from European classicism to multimedia, it is committed to both preserving and redefining chamber music in the 21st century.
“…a pianist of sterling artistry.” – Gramophone
Sunday, Dec 10, 2023 – 4:00 p.m., Word of Deliverance Ministries
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 – 7:30 p.m., Memorial Hall
No one present for Michelle Cann’s stirring December performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra with the Cincinnati Symphony will soon forget her. Critic Janelle Gelfand extolled that Cann has “…all the technical prowess that this piece demands.” Neither will they forget her encore: Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C# Minor arranged by Hazel Scott. Her December 2023 program will include at least one wonderful surprise.
MICHELLE CANN
DANISH STRING QUARTET
“I’d rather hear the Danish String Quartet than any other foursome…chords all have a diamond edge, tunes pour like molten silver, staccato passages skip like stones across a lake.” – New York Magazine
Thursday, February 15, 2024 – 7:30 p.m., Memorial Hall
The Danish String Quartet is among the world’s most in demand classical ensembles―in an elite group with this season’s Pavel Haas Quartet and with the Quator Èbéne, coming to our series in 2025-26. These are ensembles that often must be scheduled years in advance. The DSQ was scheduled to perform here in early 2022, but Covid had other plans. It was two years before we could arrange their return.
IMANI WINDS
“If it's possible for a classically trained wind quintet to rock the house, Imani Winds blows the roof off.” – NPR
“Each member is a virtuoso…dazzling ensemble playing” – Washington Post
Sunday, March 10, 2024, 4:00 p.m, Corinthian Baptist Church
Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 7:30 pm, Memorial Hall
Grammy-nominated wind quintet Imani Winds, recently-named faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music, returns for the third time on our series. Founded in 1997, it has given rise to superb instrumentalists, including composers Valerie Coleman and Jeff Scott. This performance will include Scott’s profoundly moving Fallen Petals of Nameless Flowers, a 2022 commission from Chamber Music Detroit.
RANDALL GOOSBY
“…never sounds knowing or contrived: more like an artist speaking eloquently in his own voice…” – Gramophone
“…secure technique, natural phrasing, gorgeous tone and smart programming. Randall Goosby has everything…” NPR
Sunday, April 7, 2024 - 4:00 p.m., Corinthian Baptist Church
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 – 7:30 p.m., Memorial Hall
· Orchestra debut at nine. Youngest winner Sphinx concerto competition at 13.
· An Itzhak Perlman protégé, now a leading artist of his generation.
· January 2023 Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto drew one of the CSO’s largest audiences last season, as well as a most enthusiastic audience response.
· Performs on the 1735 ‘Sennhauser’ Guarneri del Gesù.
· Debut album is a Gramophone Editor’s Choice and an Amazon Choice.