Mozart in the Morning, Part 3: Chamber Music for Winds
Aug
14
10:00 AM10:00

Mozart in the Morning, Part 3: Chamber Music for Winds

Bay Chamber Music Festival

Mozart in the Morning, Part 3: Chamber Music for Winds

Performers

CATHERINE GREGORY, flute

DAVID KAPLAN, piano

SIMONE PORTER, violin

ARLEN HLUSKO, cello

CELIA HATTON, viola
JAMES AUSTIN SMITH, host

James Austin Smith introduces a program exploring Mozart’s writing for flute at a moment when the composer was navigating new musical environments and new professional realities. Australian-born flutist Catherine Gregory, winner of the 2018 Pro Musicis International Award, is joined by our resident string soloists, Simone Porter, Celia Hatton, and Arlen Hlusko as well as pianist David Kaplan.

Much of this music dates from the late 1770s, when Mozart was traveling and working under commission. He wrote reluctantly for the flute, famously claiming he “could not bear” the instrument—yet the flute quartets reveal a composer experimenting with balance, texture, and line and testing the expressive possibilities of an instrument he both resisted and reimagined.

The Fantasia in C minor, written later in Vienna, offers a striking contrast. Free in form and restless in gesture, it moves through sharply defined ideas that feel almost improvised, revealing a more private and searching side of Mozart’s voice.

Program

MOZART Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475

MOZART Flute Quartet in C Major, K.285b

MOZART Flute Quartet in D Major, K.285

Tickets

Age 35+: $38 | 22-34: $20 | 21 & Under: Pay What You Wish.

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Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East
Jul
19
to Jul 30

Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East

Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East

A Workshop and Festival for Lovers of Chamber Music

The Conference enables committed chamber musicians to learn and grow, by offering outstanding chamber music coaching, faculty concerts and seminars, and opportunities for spontaneous free playing, in a beautiful setting. At the same time, it supports new chamber music composition and performance through the Composers’ Forum, a vibrant program of composer residencies. This combination of features creates a unique and exhilarating musical immersion.

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Decoda Chamber Music Festival
Jun
11
to Jun 26

Decoda Chamber Music Festival

  • Warren Wilson College (map)
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Decoda’s 12th summer Chamber Music Festival, which will take place June 2026 at our summer home, Warren Wilson College, in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina. 

This unique summer festival is dedicated to training the next generation of young artists to rethink and reimagine their role in society. Through outstanding chamber music making, creative collaboration, and hands-on project design and development, DCMF cultivates the vision of community through music with the young artists of tomorrow.

https://www.decodamusic.org/summer

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MUSIC FOR TRANSFORMATION: SONGS FROM INSIDE MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONS
Jun
3
7:00 PM19:00

MUSIC FOR TRANSFORMATION: SONGS FROM INSIDE MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONS

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This transformative initiative, dedicated to amplifying the voices of incarcerated composers, will present a free public concert at Carnegie Hall featuring world premieres of original songs and compositions created by individuals currently and formerly incarcerated in maximum-security facilities across the United States—including Sing Sing Correctional Facility (NY), Fishkill Correctional Facility (NY), Lee Correctional Facility (SC), Cheshire Correctional Facility (CT), and San Quentin State Rehabilitation Center (CA).

Tickets are free. Click this link to RSVP.

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Decoda: American Renaissance
May
12
7:30 PM19:30

Decoda: American Renaissance

Featuring “some of the brightest young classical musicians in the world” (Time Out New York), Decoda is Carnegie Hall’s first-ever affiliate ensemble, comprising alums of the adventurous Ensemble Connect. This season, as part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival, the spectacularly versatile group presents American Renaissance—a program of works by William Grant Still, Florence Price, Charles Ives, Jessie Montgomery, Margaret Bonds, Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Zenobia Powell Perry, and more.

Program to include:

IVES The Unanswered Question

STILL Summerland

JESSIE MONTGOMERY Sergeant McCauley

PRICE Piano Quintet in A Minor

And selected songs by Margaret Bonds, Sarah Elizabeth Charles, and Zenobia Powell Perry

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Tertulia x Hill Art Foundation NYC
Apr
8
5:00 PM17:00

Tertulia x Hill Art Foundation NYC

IN DIALOGUE

Hill Art Foundation | 239 10th Ave, Floor 3 | New York City

In Dialogue invites Tertulia musicians to respond to the Hill Art Foundation’s rotating exhibitions, offering musicians, artists and audiences alike the opportunity to deepen their listening and viewing experiences.

The Lost Beauty of Humankind:

Robert Bergman’s Portraits in the Hill Collection

Exhibit curated by David Levi Strauss, music curated by Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir

5PM | Drinks and Exhibition Viewing

6PM | Performance

featuring

Catherine Gregory, flute

Clara Lyon, violin

George Meyer, viola

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello

Program

Andrew Norman | Light Screens

Bach | Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria

Pauline Oliveros | Pauline’s Solo

Mozart | Ave verum corpus, K 618

Valerie Coleman | Maombi Asante

Guillaume de Machaut | Ma fin est mon commencement

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DECODA WITH RINGDOWN AND PENN STATE UNIVERSITY
Mar
29
to Mar 31

DECODA WITH RINGDOWN AND PENN STATE UNIVERSITY

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Decoda makes its Penn State debut with special guests Ringdown, the cinematic electro-pop duo featuring composers and vocalists Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan—an “ecstatically blissful” (Night After Night) and “irresistible” (Feast of Music) pair creating music that floats up from the dusty record bin between Brahms and Brandi Carlisle, and centers around joy, human connection, and trying to inspire people to feel more love.

The program, Reverberations, explores the profound relationship between inspiration and imagination, revealing an interconnected web of musical influence. Two works by Aaron Copland—Midday Thoughts and the beloved Appalachian Spring—showcase his singular approach to American musical identity, borrowing, distorting, amplifying, and reinventing folk material. Appalachian Spring will feature a special side-by-side collaboration with Penn State School of Music students.

Ringdown’s new work, Every Stone in Cambridge Reminds Me of You, reflects Copland’s musical lens and his friendship with Leonard Bernstein through a bold contemporary voice, and was written for and will be performed with Decoda. Ringdown will also perform selections from their latest album, The Lady on the Bike. The program further features Hanns Eisler’s kaleidoscopic Septet No. 1, merging Expressionist textures with fragments of American children’s songs, and Eisler on the Go—a brooding folk ballad by Woody Guthrie and Billy Bragg, arranged by Decodan Claire Bryant, chronicling Eisler’s exile during America’s Red Scare.

Public Performance:
Tuesday, March 31, 2026; 7:30 PM
Center for the Performing Arts
The Pennsylvania State University
Eisenhower Auditorium
367 Shortlidge Road
University Park, PA 16802-2108


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DECODA WINTER RETREAT FOR ADULT AMATEUR MUSICIANS AT POTASH HILL
Mar
4
to Mar 9

DECODA WINTER RETREAT FOR ADULT AMATEUR MUSICIANS AT POTASH HILL

Decoda embarks on our second annual Winter Retreat at the historic Potash Hill campus in Marlboro, Vermont—home of the famed Marlboro Music Festival.  

This immersive experience is designed for amateur musicians with a serious commitment to chamber music and a passion for collaboration, mentorship, and artistic growth. Participants will receive daily coachings, play side-by-side with Decoda artists, and share in a week of intensive and joyful music making.

Source:: https://www.decodamusic.org/winter

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Chamber Connexions: Christmas Baroque Brilliance
Dec
11
7:30 PM19:30

Chamber Connexions: Christmas Baroque Brilliance

  • Carlos Alvarez Studio Theater, Tobin Center (map)
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Christmas Baroque Brilliance is a concert experience that guides audiences through the Christmas story with music, narration, and wonder. Through the radiant works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, and Georg Philipp Telemann, this program offers an emotionally compelling alternative to traditional holiday concerts. A perfect holiday celebration for families and friends seeking depth, beauty, and inspiration.

‍Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.2

Narrated by The Orchestra San Antonio's Board Chair Jeff Galt and Family.

A collaboration with 100A Productions.

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Chamber Connexions: Christmas Baroque Brilliance
Dec
10
7:00 PM19:00

Chamber Connexions: Christmas Baroque Brilliance

Christmas Baroque Brilliance is a concert experience that guides audiences through the Christmas story with music, poetry, and wonder. Through the radiant works of Bach, Handel, and Telemann, the program traces the arc from ancient prophecy to the joyous celebration of Christ's birth. This program offers a fresh, emotionally compelling alternative to traditional holiday concerts, perfect for audiences seeking depth, beauty, and inspiration.  

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.2

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Narrated by The Orchestra San Antonio's Board Chair Jeff Galt and Family.

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Santa Monica Music Festival: Program 3
Jul
19
7:30 PM19:30

Santa Monica Music Festival: Program 3

SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2025 | 7:30PM

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

1220 2nd St, Santa Monica, CA 90401

PROGRAM

Pamela Z: It’s Time (world premiere, Kaleidoscope commission)

Liza Lim: Transcendental Etude (US premiere)

Liliya Ugay: Mother Tales 

Peter S. Shin: soshi so$$$hi 

John Adams: China Gates

W. A. Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds in Eb Major, K. 452

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SANTA MONICA MUSIC FESTIVAL: PROGRAM 2
Jul
18
7:30 PM19:30

SANTA MONICA MUSIC FESTIVAL: PROGRAM 2

FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2025 | 7:30PM

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

1220 2nd St, Santa Monica, CA 90401

PROGRAM

Libby Larsen: I am signaling you through the flames (world premiere)

Jonathan Bingham: Solos

Juhi Bansal: Spaces Between (commissioned by Catherine Gregory)

Piotr Szewczyk: Dopamine Rush

Michael Laurello:I always visit the same imaginary city when I dream

Béla Bartók: Sonata for 2 pianos and percussion

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Decoda Chamber Music Festival
Jun
14
to Jun 28

Decoda Chamber Music Festival

Decoda’s new summer partner, Warren Wilson College, aligns harmoniously with our own mission to create, connect, and spread compassion through music. Believing that “the world needs curiosity,” Warren Wilson is a campus community that fosters relationships with community partners through meaningful engagement, sustainable agriculture practices, and by educating the next generation of “curiously insightful, experienced, and capable individuals.” 

Decoda’s Chamber Music Festival is dedicated to training the next generation of young artists to rethink and reimagine their role in society. Through outstanding chamber music making, creative collaboration, and hands-on project design and development, DCMF cultivates the vision of community through music with the young artists of tomorrow.

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Argento: Entering Schumann's Utopia
Apr
26
2:00 PM14:00

Argento: Entering Schumann's Utopia

  • Benzaquen Hall, DiMenna Center (map)
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Concerto for piano and 14 instruments (1986) NY PREMIERE
Aldo Clementi

David Kaplan, piano

Overture, Scherzo, Finale (1841) WORLD PREMIERE
Robert Schumann arr. Kimmy Szeto
arrangement for chamber orchestra

Morse Code Fantasy (2015)

Augusta Read Thomas

David Kaplan, piano

mit gutem Humor, un poco lol ma con serioso vibes (2014)
Caroline Shaw

David Kaplan, piano

Liebesbrief an Schumann (2014)
Han Lash

David Kaplan, piano

*** (2014)

Marcos Balter

David Kaplan, piano

Une relecture des Kinderszenen de Robert Schumann (2020) US PREMIERE

Tristan Murail

for flute,cello and piano
 

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Decoda at Carnegie Hall -- Human Nature
Mar
11
7:30 PM19:30

Decoda at Carnegie Hall -- Human Nature

Decoda—comprising alums of the adventurous Ensemble Connect and featuring “some of the brightest young classical musicians in the world” (Time Out New York)—is Carnegie Hall’s first-ever affiliate ensemble. With every concert, the spectacularly versatile ensemble showcases its commitment to virtuosic performance, audience and community engagement, and seemingly boundless repertoire. For its 2024–2025 Carnegie Hall concert, Decoda performs works by Robert and Clara Schumann, Gustav and Alma Mahler, Schoenberg, and a one-of-a-kind collaborative suite by four of today’s leading composers, featuring live narration and singers.

Program

R. SCHUMANN "Eintritt" from Waldszenen

C. SCHUMANN "Geheimes Flüstern," Op. 23

G. MAHLER "Ging heut' Morgen übers Feld" from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

A. MAHLER "Licht in der Nacht"

SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

DAVID KIRKLAND GARNER / STEPHEN JAFFE / ERIC MOE / MELINDA WAGNER A Forest Unfolding

Performers

Decoda
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Soprano
Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone
Richard Powers, Narrator

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Faculty Artist Series: Schubertiade
Mar
5
8:00 PM20:00

Faculty Artist Series: Schubertiade

  • UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music (map)
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Nine members of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music faculty join together for a celebratory program of chamber music, inspired by the tradition of Schubertiade, in which friends gather to share music and joy. Curated by piano faculty David Kaplan, the program features the "Trout Quintet" by Schubert, as well as by music for strings, piano, and winds by Clara Schumann, Lowell Liebermann, and Caroline Shaw.

Artists:

David Kaplan, piano
Movses Pogossian, violin
Varty Manouelian, violin
Che-Yen Chen, viola
Wendy Richman, viola
Ben Hong, cello
Christopher Hanulik, bass
Catherine Gregory, flute
Jan Baker, saxophone

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