25/26 Main Season Concerts

About the Program Embodying a conscious shift of focus and intention away from established norms, Bound Up in Love centers the lives and work of female composers and musicians, and interrogates our collective understanding of women in music history and the ways we tell women’s stories through mythology. This collaboration between the Philadelphia early music trio Filament and Franco-American soprano Alice Teyssier places works by Isabella Leonarda, Barbara Strozzi, and Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre in dialogue with those of Henry Purcell and Tarquinio Merula, employing the juxtaposition of different national and compositional styles to cast a fresh light on the singular human conditions of love, grief, longing, and motherhood. Bound Up in Love creates space to tell ancient stories in a new way. About the Artists Filament FILAMENT is a chamber ensemble, formed in 2019, of Philadelphia-based period-instrument soloists. Comprising a core trio of violin, viola da gamba, and keyboards, its respective founding members are Evan Few, Elena Kauffman, and John Walthausen. As a collective, its mission is to be the bright connective thread—that eponymous filament—linking the world of its audience with that of its repertoire, illuminating the delightful, sometimes uncanny familiarity of the emotions and images it evokes. […]

About the ProgramProgram information coming soon.About the ArtistsThe American Brass Quintet is internationally recognized as one of the premier chamber music ensembles of our time, celebrated for peerless leadership in the brass world. “The most distinguished” of brass quintets (American Record Guide), ABQ has earned its stellar reputation through its celebrated performances, genre-defining commissioned works, and an ongoing commitment to the education of generations of musicians. A recipient of Chamber Music America’s highest honor, the Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award for significant and lasting contributions to the field, the group's rich history includes performances in five continents, a discography of over sixty recordings, and the premieres of over one hundred fifty contemporary brass works. Since its founding in 1960, the commissioned works of esteemed composers have contributed significantly to both contemporary chamber music and the foundation of the modern brass quintet repertoire. Such composers include Elliott Carter, Eric Ewazen, Jennifer Higdon, Anthony Plog, Huang Ruo, David Sampson, Gunther Schuller, William Schuman, Joan Tower, Charles Whittenberg, and John Zorn, among many others. The Quintet’s Emerging Composer Commissioning program, with grant assistance from the Jerome Foundation, produced brass quintets by rising stars Gordon Beeferman, Jay Greenberg, Trevor Gureckis, and Shafer Mahoney. Among […]

About the ProgramOrchestra of St. Luke's and Joseph Parrish Finding an American Voice: Burleigh and Dvořák Orchestra of St. Luke's, joined by baritone Joseph Parrish, celebrates the friendship between Harry T. Burleigh, the pioneering Black American composer, and Antonín Dvořák, the renowned Czech composer. Their collaboration, rooted in spirituals and folk music, helped shape a distinctly American sound that continues to inspire us today. About the ArtistsJoseph Parrish, winner of the 2022 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, is a Baltimore native with degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and The Juilliard School. He made his NYC recital debut at Merkin Hall in a performance co presented by WPA with the Washington Performing Arts Children of the Gospel Choir as a follow up to his Kennedy Center debut the previous season. Joseph made his European opera debut with the Salzburg Festival as Potapitsch in Prokofiev's The Gambler and his European solo recital debut at the Usedomer Music Festival. He’s appeared with Cincinnati Opera, singing Masetto in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Parlando NYC in Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart e Salieri, as Salieri. During the 25-26 season Joseph will appear in recital with Ashmont Hill Chamber Music, New York Foundation of Song, […]