A world premiere Park Avenue Armory commission from Kyle Abraham with music composed and performed by yMusic.
A world premiere Park Avenue Armory commission from Kyle Abraham with music composed and performed by yMusic.
A world premiere Park Avenue Armory commission from Kyle Abraham with music composed and performed by yMusic.
A world premiere Park Avenue Armory commission from Kyle Abraham with music composed and performed by yMusic.
A world premiere Park Avenue Armory commission from Kyle Abraham with music composed and performed by yMusic.
A world premiere Park Avenue Armory commission from Kyle Abraham with music composed and performed by yMusic.
A world premiere Park Avenue Armory commission from Kyle Abraham with music composed and performed by yMusic.
A world premiere Park Avenue Armory commission from Kyle Abraham with music composed and performed by yMusic.
A world premiere Park Avenue Armory commission from Kyle Abraham with music composed and performed by yMusic.
A world premiere Park Avenue Armory commission from Kyle Abraham with music composed and performed by yMusic.
featuring the world premiere of a new work by Gabriella Smith
including a new work from Gabriella Smith
The music of composer Jessie Montgomery is “turbulent, wildly colorful, and exploding with life” (The Washington Post), and is performed regularly by leading orchestras and ensembles around the globe. Winner of the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Classical Composition and Musical America’s 2023 Composer of the Year, the Juilliard-trained violinist is immersed in a diverse range of projects, including The Everything Band—a collective of artists of varying styles creating music by experimentation, improvisation, and open-ended form. Montgomery performs alongside the ensemble for this Portrait, featuring a newly commissioned work and the joyful and ebullient Strum for string quartet.
Counterpoint Concert closes its season with a performance in the vibrant and historic Dupont Underground, featuring acclaimed cellist Gabriel Cabezas and award-winning percussionist Jeff Stern. Founder and pianist Natalia Kazaryan will be joining them in this diverse and exciting program, celebrating the history and communicative power of counterpoint from the Baroque period to the 21st century.
with conductor Tomaš Brauner and the Prague Symphony Orchestra
John Adams, conductor
John Adams, conductor
Bach to the Future reimagines Bach’s beloved masterpieces for both traditional and unconventional instrumentations, showcasing the everlasting magic of classical music through time. The program will feature Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 for a flute quintet with harpsichord, Chaconne in D minor transcribed for piano by Ferruccio Busoni, Air on the G String for string quartet, and works performed on electronic keyboard instruments, in a nod to Wendy Carlos’ groundbreaking recording “Switched On Bach.”
soloist in Michael Abels’ “Delights and Dances”
Price and R. Schumann Piano Quintets with Michelle Cann, piano, Domenic Salerni and Jesse Mills, violins, and Paul Laraia, viola
with guitarist Jordan Dodson
Owls are an exciting new quartet collective (violinist Alexi Kenney, violist Ayane Kozasa, cellist Gabriel Cabezas, and cellist-composer Paul Wiancko) that shatters all expectations and throws labels out the window with their unmissable, lively, and deeply personal performances. The New York Times dubs them a “dream group,” and you’ll see why as they perform originals and arrangements ranging from the 1600s to today. With their unique instrumentation and exhilarating new sounds, you are guaranteed a performance that is unique and limitless.
with Jordan Dodson, guitar
After two seasons of drag shows, dance performances, and deep dives into The Met’s collection, Catalyst Quartet makes its long-awaited debut at The Met Cloisters, finishing its historic two-season Met residency with yet another powerhouse collaboration—this time featuring cellist Gabriel Cabezas, whom the Chicago Tribune has heralded as “nothing short of brilliant.” Jorge Amado Molina’s Relatos mágicos, commissioned by and dedicated to Catalyst and Cabezas, anchors an electrifying program of music by Cuban and Cuban American composers. Works by Latin jazz icon Paquito D’Rivera and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tania León complete the performance.
with Livia Sohn, violin, Ayane Kozasa, viola, Pedja Mužijević, piano
at the 2024 Gilmore Piano Festival