Violinist and Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Stella Chen ventures into the sultry, scintillating tango atmosphere of Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. Tune into hidden nuances in the wondrous counterpoint of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and let the richness of the Orpheus strings carry you on a timeless reverie through Villa-Lobos’ Aria from Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5.

Violinist and Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Stella Chen ventures into the sultry, scintillating tango atmosphere of Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. Tune into hidden nuances in the wondrous counterpoint of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and let the richness of the Orpheus strings carry you on a timeless reverie through Villa-Lobos’ Aria from Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5.

Art Bath's signature eclectic programming casts a spotlight on female voices and genre-bending music and opera.

Featuring:​

Lisel | Experimental Vocalist and Composer

Matthew Jamal |  Composer and Cellist

Isabelle Ai Durrenberger | Violinist

Dual Rivet | Contemporary dance duo

Matthew Steffens | Choreographer
Luc Xu Cheng | Pianist
Jasmine Rice Labeija | Drag diva, operatic tenor

Machine Dazzle | Designer, Performance Artist, Painter

Art Bath's signature eclectic programming casts a spotlight on female voices and genre-bending music and opera.

Featuring:​

Lisel | Experimental Vocalist and Composer

Matthew Jamal |  Composer and Cellist

Isabelle Ai Durrenberger | Violinist

Dual Rivet | Contemporary dance duo

Matthew Steffens | Choreographer
Luc Xu Cheng | Pianist
Jasmine Rice Labeija | Drag diva, operatic tenor

Machine Dazzle | Designer, Performance Artist, Painter

An exhilarating evening of timeless music by Bach and Vivaldi! Experience the icy intensity and vivid imagery of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons “Winter” followed by the elegance and virtuosity of three magnificent violin concertos by J. S. Bach. From shimmering textures to breathtaking melodies, this program promises both emotional depth and electrifying energy — an unforgettable night of chamber music!

Artists:

Doori Na, Isabelle Durrenberger, Karla Donehew Perez, Min-Young Kim,violin

Tanner Menees, viola

Mihai Marica, cello

Maggie Cox, bass

Eliot Goldmund, harpsichord

A Holiday Soirée with the Aeolus Quartet!

Celebrate the season with music, connection, and joy at this intimate chamber concert on Sunday, December 7. Hosted by Karen and Cliff Deveney in their lovely Eastmoreland home, this private gathering features the acclaimed Aeolus Quartet, including audience favorite Isabelle Ai Durrenberger, returning fresh from our Summer Festival.

Experience the magic of live chamber music in this up-close-and-personal setting—the same way it was originally heard. Enjoy seasonal fare, festive drinks, and community with fellow music lovers, knowing that every dollar of your ticket purchase gives back. All proceeds support CMNW’s free Education & Community Engagement programs, bringing the joy of music to underserved communities throughout our region. 

QUARTET IN SPOTLIGHT

Beethoven String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18, No. 1‍

Bacewicz String Quartet No. 3

INTERMISSION‍

Dvořàk String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106

The award-winning Aeolus Quartet, makes their ECM debut with a vibrant program featuring Beethoven, Bacewicz, and Dvořák. Dedicated to sharing the joy of chamber music with new audiences, their highly anticipated performance will be a memorable evening of luscious string quartet music.

LATE NIGHT SESSION

Beethoven String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18, No. 1‍

Bacewicz String Quartet No. 3

INTERMISSION‍

Dvořàk String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106

The award-winning Aeolus Quartet, makes their ECM debut with a vibrant program featuring Beethoven, Bacewicz, and Dvořák. Dedicated to sharing the joy of chamber music with new audiences, their highly anticipated performance will be a memorable evening of luscious string quartet music.

Michael Brown, piano

Jennifer Frautschi, violin

Isabelle Durrenberger, violin

Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola

Brannon Cho, cello

Sooyun Kim, flute

Roni Gal-Ed, oboe

Vadim Lando, clarinet

Karl Kramer, horn

Gina Cuffari, bassoon

Michael Brown, piano

Jennifer Frautschi, violin

Isabelle Durrenberger, violin

Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola

Brannon Cho, cello

Sooyun Kim, flute

Roni Gal-Ed, oboe

Vadim Lando, clarinet

Karl Kramer, horn

Gina Cuffari, bassoon

Georg Muffat | Passacaglia 
Lembit Beecher | “These Memories May be True,” arr for string orchestra 
Adolphus Hailstork | Sonata da Chiesa
Béla Bartok | Divertimento for String Orchestra

Curated by Crier Miki Cloud

Lineage traces a line through history, family, and transformation. This is a program about what remains true within the histories we don’t just recall, but build on.

We begin with Georg Muffat’s Passacaglia, a baroque masterpiece built on unceasing variation—a musical form that grounds the listener even as it evolves. Lembit Beecher’s These Memories May Be True, reimagined for string orchestra, explores the murky space between fact and family folklore, where meaning lives not in accuracy but in transmission. Hailstork’s Sonata da Chiesa reflects the composer’s fascination with cathedrals, particularly the one (the Cathedral of All Saints in Albany, New York) in which he was a chorister as a child. And Bartók’s Divertimento for String Orchestra, the first major work ever performed by A Far Cry, returns not as nostalgia, but as a touchstone—vivid, visceral, and alive.

Program

W. A. Mozart Horn Concerto No. 2 in Eb Major, K. 417

Jason Bauch 'Thus Spake Rabbi Elazar for string quartet (1988)

Frederic Chopin Ballade in F minor, Op. 52

--intermission--

Antonin Dvorak Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81

The North Country Chamber Players have adopted a “Pay-What-You-Wish” ticket pricing for concerts. Seating is limited, so attendees are asked to make free online reservations.
The recommended ticket price is $25, payable at the door, but there is no minimum ticket price required for entry.

Program

W. A. Mozart Horn Concerto No. 2 in Eb Major, K. 417

Jason Bauch 'Thus Spake Rabbi Elazar for string quartet (1988)

Frederic Chopin Ballade in F minor, Op. 52

--intermission--

Antonin Dvorak Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81

The North Country Chamber Players have adopted a “Pay-What-You-Wish” ticket pricing for concerts. Seating is limited, so attendees are asked to make free online reservations.
The recommended ticket price is $25, payable at the door, but there is no minimum ticket price required for entry.

OPENING NIGHT

Join us for the opening night performance of the Chamber Music Festival, which will be performed by a special guest ensemble: the Aeolus Quartet, an internationally-renowned and prizewinning string ensemble consisting of Isabelle Ai Durrenberger and Rachel Shapiro on violin, Caitlin Lynch on viola, and Jia Kim (a Mannes faculty member) on cello. Featuring music by Montgomery, Beethoven, Casarrubios, and Bacewicz, this will be a wonderful evening highlighting one of the leading professional string quartets based in New York City.

Tickets free with registration

Young artists from Caramoor’s Evnin Rising Stars mentoring program perform in a pair of afternoon concerts for which the program’s Artistic Director, cellist Marcy Rosen, is joined by distinguished artists Ani Kavafian, violin, and Becca Albers, viola. These concerts are the capstone of a weeklong residency at Caramoor in which these young musicians participate in workshops, reading sessions, and ensemble rehearsals, culminating in live performances with their mentors. Since 1992, this program has identified some of the finest musicians of the next generation and helped them cross the threshold from their student years into the early stages of a professional career. 

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Piano Quartet in g minor K. 478 
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 7 
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK: Sextet in A Major, Opus 48 

Young artists from Caramoor’s Evnin Rising Stars mentoring program perform in a pair of afternoon concerts for which the program’s Artistic Director, cellist Marcy Rosen, is joined by distinguished artists Ani Kavafian, violin, and Becca Albers, viola. These concerts are the capstone of a weeklong residency at Caramoor in which these young musicians participate in workshops, reading sessions, and ensemble rehearsals, culminating in live performances with their mentors. Since 1992, this program has identified some of the finest musicians of the next generation and helped them cross the threshold from their student years into the early stages of a professional career. 

LUIGI BOCCHERINI: Quintet in d minor, G. 280, Op. 13 No. 4
ALBERTO GINASTERA: String Quartet No. 1 
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Piano Quartet in A Major 

Experience the season’s first performance by the intrepid chamber orchestra The Knights, led by artistic directors Eric Jacobsen and Colin Jacobsen. In an inspired new collaboration, they intersperse Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 3—one of the composer’s most traditionally “classical” works—with original poetry by prizewinning poet and multidisciplinary artist J. Mae Barizo. Even in its original form, this would be Carnegie Hall’s first performance of Glass’s symphony—but in the hands of The Knights, it’s something no audience has heard before. In the program’s second half, The Knights perform a timeless orchestral staple: Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 4, a work of complex dualities and grand Romanticism.

MUSICAL HOMAGE

October’s concert will be a Musical Homage consisting of Beethoven’s String Quartet, op 18 no. 1 in F Major. Beginning one of the greatest cycles of music in the entire Western Classical canon, Beethoven’s sixteen quartets span his entire creative life. These op. 18 quartets pay tribute to pieces by Mozart and Haydn which Beethoven adored and studied, using his own relentless, innovative expressivity. The second half of the concert will feature Dvorak’s masterful Piano Quintet in A Major, one of the greatest works of chamber music ever written. The muscular drama freely mixes with various sections of euphoric beauty with a magical, dance-like quality abounding with spontaneity and vitality.The award-winning Aeolus Quartet will return to Stowe for this special performance, joined by the internationally acclaimed pianist Peter Dugan who is also the host/pianist of NPR’s ‘From The Top’.

In 2012, Max Richter recomposed The Four Seasons in his own voice, imbuing Vivaldi’s famous Baroque motives with a contemporary poignancy that brought worldwide acclaim. Experience the power of this monumental work live inside the breathtaking Chapel of the Incarnate Word, with special guests and Agarita’s own twists.

Featuring Isabelle Ai Durrenberger, Sandy Lo, Emily Kelly, Aimee Lopez, Christopher McKay, Morgen Johnson, and Jeremy Cox.

Thank you to the City of San Antonio for their generous support.

FREE tickets available 2 weeks prior to the show.

Daniel leads a pre-concert talk about Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Max Richter's recomposition of it, with Sarah, Marisa and Ignacio demonstrating excerpts from the upcoming concert.

Tickets available 1 week prior HERE.

Note: the Loft is on the 2nd floor and only accessible by stairs. Capacity is limited in this 1600 sq ft space.

FREE parking (less than 1 block away!) for this event has been generously donated by United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County. Please access the southern United Way lot off S. Alamo Street through the entrance on Barrera Street.

Google Maps Parking Pin: CLICK HERE

VIVO Season 11 ends with a festive program celebrating the second decade of bringing world-class chamber music to Columbus, Ohio. Aaron Jay Kernis explores the gamut of dance styles in a virtuosic pastiche for guitar and string quartet. Ottorino Respighi lyricism soars with his setting of Shelley's gothic poem "The Sunset". What goes around comes around as VIVO 2025 finishes, as we did in 2015, with the eternal fireworks of Mendelssohn's String Octet, bolstered now by the youthful exuberance of our first ever VIVO Next Fellows.

Aaron Jay Kernis 100 greatest dance tunes
Siwoo Kim & Alexi Kenney, violins; John Stulz, viola, Julia Yang, cello; Jordan Dodson, guitar
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Ottorino Respighi Il Tramonto ("The Sunset")
Isabelle Ai Durrenberger & Alicia Hui, violins; John Stulz, viola; Julia Yang, cello
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Felix Mendelssohn String Octet
Alexi Kenney, Siwoo Kim, Alicia Hui & Isabelle Ai Durrenberger, violins; John Stulz & Isabelle Prater, violas; Julia Yang and Liam Battle, celli

VIVO is thrilled to team up with Natalie’s Grandview to present two unique presentations of the wildly popular “Beer and Beethoven”. Join our world-class VIVO guest artists for a joyful evening of casual conversations, interactive music making, and, of course, beer! All presented in an informal, convivial atmosphere.

The first set of the evening, Beer and Beethoven: Not So Classic (6:00 pm), puts a fresh twist on the beloved format, offering playful updates and surprises that breathe new life into a favorite tradition.

The second set at 9PM puts our VIVO Next fellows front and center for a gamified classical music romp. 

Inspired by the absurd visions of Franz Kafka, VIVO Metamorphosis spins a tale of fantasy, terror and unbridled emotion. While the iberian gallantry of Boccherini's Fandango for guitar, strings and castanets sets the Kafkaesque mood, György Kurtág's aphoristic fragments bring the author's voice to life for violin and voice. The evening closes with the raw intimacy of Janaček's 2nd string quartet, a contemporaneous musical echo of Kafka's own manic intimate letters. 

Luigi Boccherini: Guitar Quintet “Fandango”
Alicia Hui & Siwoo Kim, violins; John Stulz, viola; Julia Yang, cello; Jordan Dodson, guitar

György Kurtág: Kafka Fragments
Alexi Kenney, violin; Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano
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Leos Janaček: Quartet #2 “Intimate letters”
Isabelle Ai Durrenberger & Siwoo Kim, violins; John Stulz, viola; Julia Yang, cello

VIVO launches its 11th season with a hypnotic homage to the Italian composer, poet and mystic Giacinto Scelsi. Audiences will travel to the depths of musical spirituality with rarely heard works by one of the 20th century's most singularly esoteric composers paired with the world premiere of a VIVO Commission by Columbus-based composer and creative technologist Tina Tallon. Using custom AI models trained on Scelsi's compositions and real-time improvisation, performers and audience members alike will participate in creating an unforgettable immersive musical soundscape.

Gloria Chien, piano | Soovin Kim, violin | Tai Murray, violin | David McCarroll, violin
Isabelle Durrenberger, viola | Nicholas Cords, viola
Peter Stumpf, cello | Angela Park, cello | Thomas Van Dyck, double bass

GIOACHINO ROSSINI String Sonata No. 1 in G Major

FELIX MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio in C minor

W.A. MOZART Sinfonia Concertante for string septet

Femininomenon A Celebration of Female Composers
While our Festival Artists are among the world’s great chamber ensemble musicians, they can also dazzle as soloists! All ages are invited to this hour-long performance, where adults and children can learn about the possibilities and range of different instruments in the hands of our festival artist virtuosos - with pieces all written by the most virtuosic female composes of our time!

Intrument Petting Zoo and Snacks to follow!

Roman Rabinovich, piano | Soovin Kim, violin | Tai Murray, violin | David McCarroll, violin
Isabelle Durrenberger, viola | Nicholas Cords, viola
Peter Stumpf, cello | Angela Park, cello | Kee-Hyun Kim, cello

FRANZ SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata for cello and piano

W.A. MOZART Piano Quartet in G minor

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence for string sextet

Brandon Patrick George, flute; Yoonah Kim, clarinet; Monica Ellis, bassoon; Benjamin Beilman, Isabelle Ai Durrenberger, Lun Li, Melissa White, violins; Jordan Bak, Emma Wernig, violas; Jay Campbell, Bryan Cheng, cellos; Lizzie Burns, bass; Pedja Mužijević, piano

This program juxtaposes one of the grandest Viennese waltzes with an atmospheric work by contemporary New Zealand composer Salina Fisher. The program concludes with The Trout Quintet – named for its fourth movement, a variation on Schubert’s earlier work Die Forelle, or “The Trout,” and uniquely known for its melodic nature and an emphasis on the highest register of the piano.

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Brandon Patrick George, flute; Yoonah Kim, clarinet; Monica Ellis, bassoon; Benjamin Beilman, Isabelle Ai Durrenberger, Lun Li, Melissa White, violins; Jordan Bak, Emma Wernig, violas; Jay Campbell, Bryan Cheng, cellos; Lizzie Burns, bass; Pedja Mužijević, piano

Taking place outdoors at the Domo, the first part of this program celebrates dance – from Joseph Lanner, who took a simple peasant dance and transformed it to what is referred to as the Viennese waltz, to exuberant American rhythms of music by Andy Akiho and Guillaume Connesson. The program concludes with Aaron Copland's epic depiction of American open spaces and folk music, Appalachian Spring, which had its premiere in 1944.

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Benjamin Beilman, violin; Isabelle Ai Durrenberger, violin; Melissa White, violin; Emma Wernig, viola; Bryan Cheng, cello; Lizzie Burns, bass; Pedja Mužijević, harpsichord

The 2025 concert season kicks off with a program of music for strings interspersing Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, one of the most iconic musical descriptions of nature from 18th century Italy, interspersed with recorded sounds of nature and music by Angélica Negrón and Kenji Bunch, two of the most creative composers working today.

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