Tag: performances

Movin’ On Up Series: Women and the Great Migration Concert

The Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA) partners with the Howard County Historical Society to bring music and women’s history together in a moving tribute to women during the Great Migration featuring: Robin Fay Massie, violin Elise Christina Jenkins, soprano Denée Barr, soprano Elizabeth Hill, piano

Celebrating African-American Opera Singers: Past and Present

OperaNova presents its 2nd Annual Concert “Celebrating African-American Opera Singers: Past and Present.” The concert will include a brief recollection of the musical career of Mrs. Coretta Scott King, soprano, honoring the extraordinary singers from the past, and highlighting today’s rising talents. Featuring: Elise Christina Jenkins, Soprano Jocelyn Hunt, Soprano Crystal Golden, Soprano Keith Craig, Tenor…

Great Noise Ensemble presents: Freedom of Expression

On December 15, 2018 at 8:00 p.m., Great Noise Ensemble will present the first of a series of programs called The Four Freedoms Project at Westmoreland Congregational United Church of Christ. Freedom of Expression includes two large works. Joshua Armenta has sets texts by Federico García Lorca in Sonetos del amor oscuro, for tenor and ensemble. In this world premiere, Armenta is…

Capital Fringe Festival 2018: The Lives Left Behind

Silver Finch Arts Collective, featuring vibrant new voices in the Washington, DC music and theatre scenes, is excited to present The Lives Left Behind at the 2018 Capital Fringe Festival. This collection of short pieces by Joseph Kaz, Frances Pollock, William Kenlon, and Michael Oberhauser, celebrates the operatic tradition while also telling fresh, new stories that speak…

Chamber Music at Noon Series: Axios Trio

The Axios Trio will be the special guest performers for this concert, featuring trios for clarinet, cello, and piano by Brahms and Muczynski. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the DC Public Library, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut of Washington.

SNO Plays TEDx

Symphony Number One will perform at TEDxMidAtlantic 2017 on October 28, 2017. Music Director Jordan Randall Smith will give a TED talk on classical music, followed by a world premiere by SNO Composer-in-Residence, Ben Goldberg.

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Meet My New Musical Family!

I am so happy to announce that I will be joining Symphony Number One as their new Principal Pianist! Symphony Number One is the East Coast’s newest chamber orchestra, based in Baltimore, MD. Our concert seasons will feature innovative programs of great works of the past and premieres of new works by today’s emerging composers….

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Bringing Brahms to Schumann’s Haus

My work in Germany wrapped up with a whirlwind of performances in Freiberg, Döbeln, and Zwickau. Last Saturday and Sunday, I had the great honor of performing more Brahms-Lieder concerts in the birth house of Robert Schumann. What a historic place with a fantastic museum and a beautiful chamber concert hall—a great privilege for me! The theme…