Events

About the ProgramSwan Song Brooklyn Art Song Society and PhiloSonia Chamber Ensemble join forces for an innovative program combining song and chamber music. Co-curated by artistic directors Mike Brofman and Stanichka Dimitrova (who also happen to be husband and wife), the program pairs some of Franz Schubert's late masterpieces alongside correlated works by living female composers Jennifer Higdon and Cecilia Livingston.   PhiloSonia is an innovative chamber music series designed to create a personal connection between audience members and classical music. Founded by Stanichka Dimitrova, PhiloSonia is inspired by her passion for outreach and connecting to today's audience. PhiloSonia offers an insight into established and new works from the chamber music repertoire. Through compelling programming and interactive elements listeners are guided through an in-depth exploration of a wide variety of works.   The Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) will enter its 16th season of first-rate music making in the Fall of 2025, having earned a reputation as one of the preeminent organizations dedicated to the vast repertoire of poetry set to music.  Its mission is to preserve art song’s direct expressiveness and emotional honesty for today’s audience and future generations. BASS has been called “a company well worth watching” by The […]

About the ProgramWhat Is American: Rhythm Nation The follow-up to PUBLIQuartet's GRAMMY®-nominated What Is American project, What Is American: Rhythm Nation celebrates American rhythmic traditions as expressions of bodily autonomy and tacit history keeping. From the propulsive beat-breaks of Daniel Bernard Roumain’s Hip-Hop Etudes to the shifting textures of Andy Akiho's Quartet No. 1 "Mobile on a Stream into the Sound,” this wide-ranging exploration also features new works by Jeff Scott, Mazz Swift, and Eddie Venegas, commissioned with the support of a 2024 Chamber Music America Artistic Projects grant. Each of the pieces on the program evokes a distinct rhythmic world, reflecting the plurality of American movement(s) and protecting the unspoken spirit of their lineage’s narratives.About the ArtistsApplauded by The Washington Post as “a perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music,” and by The New Yorker as “independent-minded,” multi-GRAMMY®-nominated PUBLIQuartet is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. PUBLIQuartet rose on the music scene as winner of the 2013 Concert Artists Guild New Music/New Places award, and in 2019 garnered Chamber Music America’s prestigious Visionary Award for outstanding and innovative approaches to contemporary classical, jazz, and world chamber music. PQ’s genre-bending programs range from […]

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. Filament […]