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