Our 96th Season
Celebrate with us these next five seasons as we approach a very special landmark.
The expense of presenting the world’s great chamber artists, and your financial support is welcome.
BRENTANO QUARTET
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 – 7:30 p.m. Memorial Hall
“…never to pass up an opportunity to hear the Brentano Quartet.”
— The Strad
Mark Steinberg, violin | Serena Canin, violin | Misha Amory, viola | Nina Lee, cello
Brentano Quartet’s recordings of great works by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert and others include Beethoven’s Quartet No. 14, Op. 131, featured in the A Late Quartet, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken. This spring, they performed Haydn’s complete Op. 33 string quartets at New York’s Carnegie Hall and in several other U.S. cities.
HAYDN: String Quartet No. 29 in G major, Op. 33, "Russian", No. 5, Hob.III:41, "How do you do?" (1781)
WEBERN: 5 Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5, (1909)
SCHUBERT: Quartet in A-Minor, Op. 29, No. 1, D. 804 “Rosamunde” (1824)
RENAISSANCE QUARTET
“These guys can match sounds as well as anyone…but they’re not afraid to, when called for, lean deeply into the heterogeneity of their sounds to create drama.”
– Lev Mamuya, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 – 7:30 p.m. Memorial Hall
Randall Goosby, violin | Jeremiah Blacklow, violin |
Jameel Martin, viola | Daniel Hass, cello
Cincinnatians are about to experience an exceptionally fine string quartet comprised of Juilliard classmates, collectively mentored by Itzhak Perlman: Randall Goosby was signed by Decca Records in 2020 while studying at Juilliard and has been acclaimed by Gramophone as “looking back to a golden age of violin greats,” while at the same time being “a forward-looking ambassador for the future.” Jeremiah Blacklow has performed at cultural centers across the globe, including Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Neue Galerie. Jameel Martin has performed as a soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and for audiences in Austria, China, Canada, Germany, Israel, and across the United States. Daniel Haas made his solo debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at 15 and has appeared as soloist with orchestras across North America including at Carnegie Hall. A composer, his String Quartet No. 1 had its world premiere in February 2023.
PRICE: String Quartet No. 1 in G Major (1929)
BRAHMS: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2 (1866-1873)
DANIEL HAAS: String Quartet No. 1, “Love & Levity” (2021)
MIRÓ QUARTET
“Rewarding in every way.”
- The Washington Post
Tuesday, January 13, 2026 - 7:30 p.m. Memorial Hall
Daniel Ching, violin | William Fedkenheuer, violin |
John Largess, viola | Joshua Gindele, cello
The Miró Quartet is one of America’s most celebrated and dedicated string quartets, having been labeled by The New Yorker as “furiously committed” and noted by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for its “exceptional tonal focus and interpretive intensity.” For thirty years, the Quartet has performed throughout the world on the most prestigious concert stages, earning accolades from critics and audiences alike. Based in Austin and thriving on the area’s storied music scene, the Miró takes pride in finding new ways to communicate with audiences of all backgrounds while cultivating the longstanding tradition of chamber music.
SCHUBERT: Quartet No. 15 in G Major, Op. 161, D. 887 (1826)
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 / Op. 133
(1825-26)
2025 GRAMMY WINNERS
KAREN SLACK, soprano
MICHELLE CANN, piano
“Slack and Cann’s chemistry makes for the warmest of introductions to the jeweled beauty of (Florence) Price’s songs.”
- The Washington Post
Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - 7:30 p.m. Memorial Hall
At the Grammy Awards this spring, soprano Karen Slack and pianist Michelle Cann didn’t just earn a trophy for Beyond the Years: Unpublished Songs of Florence Price. They created history. It was the first time music composed solely by a Black woman has won in that category. Ms. Slack and Ms. Cann have each performed with Chamber Music Cincinnati in recent seasons. We are so happy for them both and look forward to their performing selections from their winning recording.
RAVEL: Deux mélodies hébraïques, M. A22: 1. Kaddisch
SCHUBERT: Die Liebe hat gelogen, D.751
SCHUBERT: Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118
SCHUBERT: Der Tod und das Mädchen, D. 531 (Op. 7/3)
PRICE: The Dawn's Awake
PRICE: Bright be the Place
PRICE: Ships that Pass in the Night
PRICE: I Remember
PRICE: Sacrament
PRICE: Winter Idyl
Other songs by Florence Price to be announced.
ISRAELI CHAMBER PROJECT
w/Antje Weithaas, violin
“…made you want to rush home and discover more.”
– The New York Times
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 – 7:30 p.m., Memorial Hall
The Israeli Chamber Project was created as a means to give something back to the community where the ensemble began their musical education, and to showcase Israeli culture through its music and musicians. Now in its second decade, this dynamic group comprises strings, winds, harp, and piano, and brings together some of today's most distinguished musicians for chamber music concerts and educational and outreach programs both in Israel and abroad.
Antje Weithass performs with the ICP on this tour. In 2024, Gramophone named her recording of Beethoven piano sonatas with pianist Dénes Várjon one of the “50 Greatest Beethoven Recordings.” An International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition winner, she became its artistic director in 2019.
click here to learn more about the Israeli Chamber Project
click here to learn more about Antje Weithaas
BERNARD HERRMANN: Souvenir de Voyage for Clarinet and
String Quartet (1967)
ERWIN SCHULHOFF: Sonata for Flute and Piano (1927)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, “Eroica” (1803-4)
arr. for flute, clarinet, piano and string quartet by Yuval Shapiro
QUATUOR ÉBÈNE
“…a show-stopper: gleaming, vocal-like rhetorical freedom combining to dazzling effect.”
– Gramophone
Tuesday, April 14, 2024 - 7:30 pm, Memorial Hall
Pierre Colombet, violin | Gabriel Le Magadure, violin |
Marie Chilemme, viola | Yuya Okamoto, cello
Each season, we present one of the still-active ensembles from the BBC-named “Ten Greatest String Quartet Ensembles of All Time.” This season, it is the surprising Cincinnati debut of the Quatuor Ébène (surprising only because at 25 they have not been here before). We’re confident it’s better late than never!
Foremost among their recordings are Beethoven’s 16 string quartets, recorded on six continents between May 2019 and January 2020. Following their 20th stage anniversary, they crowned this achievement by performing the complete Beethoven cycle in venues including the Philharmonie de Paris, Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Switzerland’s Verbier Festival, and Carnegie Hall.
MOZART: Quartet No. 15 in D Minor, Op. 10, “Haydn,” No. 2, K. 421 (1783)
DEBUSSY: Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10 (1893)
BEETHOVEN: Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131 (1825-26)