Starts at $46. America at 250: Centuries of Sound Opening Night Orchestra celebrating pivotal moments in Western music Strings Music Festival’s Season 39 classical series opens with a vibrant program tracing two and a half centuries of Western music evolution. Michael Sachs conducts a distinguished orchestra featuring concertmaster Nurit Bar-Josef. The performance includes Carl Stamitz’s [...]

Starts at $35. Bluegrass and Beyond The modern American string quartet Exploring the evolution of the modern string quartet, this program brings together two compelling works by living composers: Philip Glass’ hypnotic and influential String Quartet No. 5 and Mark O’Connor’s genre-crossing String Quartet No. 2 “Bluegrass”, which fuses classical structure with the rhythmic drive [...]

Starts at $46. American Roots The Evolution of Folk featuring Mark and Maggie O’Connor Grammy Award–winning Mark and Maggie O’Connor headline a Strings Music Festival ensemble in Strings and Threads Suite, a vibrant exploration of how American folk music has grown, blended, and reinvented itself over time. The performance weaves together fiddle traditions, classical technique, [...]

Starts at $41. Steamboat Bill, Jr. Silent film with live music by the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra Step back into the golden age of cinema for a screening of Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), Buster Keaton’s beloved silent-film comedy, presented with live musical accompaniment by the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. Hailed as the world’s only year-round professional ensemble [...]

Pay-What-You-Can Performance Aeolus Quartet Masterworks and new voices for String Quartet Acclaimed for performances of both “high-octane” excitement (Strad) and “dusky lyricism” (The New York Times), the Aeolus Quartet has earned prizes at nearly every major chamber music competition in the United States and is currently Quartet-in-Residence at Musica Viva NY. Formed in 2008 and [...]

Starts at $46. Counterpoint A piano and tap dance duo with Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher Counterpoint brings together pianist and composer Conrad Tao and acclaimed tap dancer and choreographer Caleb Teicher in a continuous dialogue between music and movement. Throughout the program, piano and tap dance are fully integrated, with each work conceived and [...]

Starts at $41. Café 1930s: Jazz, Tango, and Cabaret Featuring Chee-Yun, Brian McWhorter, and Mark Gould A Strings Music Festival ensemble traces the vibrant, jazz-infused soundscape of interwar cafés and cabarets around the world. From American jazz clubs and vaudeville stages to the cabarets of Berlin, the tango cafés of Buenos Aires, and London’s avant-garde [...]

Starts at $35. Parisian Colors A small-ensemble concert featuring piano, strings, and flute Be transported to turn-of-the-century Paris in a program that reveals the lyricism, clarity, and artistry of French chamber music. Boulanger, Ibert, Poulenc, and Ravel each offer a distinct musical palette—from the intimacy of Jacques Ibert's Piece pour flûte seule to the to [...]

Starts at $46. Brass Through the Ages From Renaissance masters to Bach, Debussy, Britten, and Böhme Journey through five centuries of brass music in a program that highlights the ensemble’s remarkable versatility and expressive range. Renaissance dances, Bach’s Contrapunctus I, Debussy’s Trois Chansons, and works by Ewald, Britten, and Böhme reveal how composers across eras [...]

Starts at $41. Cinematic Strings: An Ode to the Silver Screen Iconic film scores come to life through piano and strings This program brings together unforgettable themes, and virtuosic chamber works that shaped the sound of cinema. You’ll instantly recognize Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, famously featured in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and long associated [...]

Starts at $64. Baroque Brilliance: An Orchestral Finale Celebrating Bach, Handel, and Purcell An orchestral celebration of the dynamic sound world shaped by Bach, Handel, and Purcell. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos frame the program with virtuosic brilliance, while Purcell’s Abdelazer Suite and Handel’s Concerto Grosso in D Major reveal the elegance, invention, and expressive spark that [...]