NOLA Chamber Fest
Apr
5
7:30 PM19:30

NOLA Chamber Fest

  • University of New Orleans Recital Hall New Orleans (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Decoda at NOLA Chamber Fest

As an artist-led collective, Decoda seeks to create a more compassionate and connected world through music – thoughtfully curating outstanding performances of live chamber music, facilitating creative community projects, and inspiring the next generation of musical artists to rethink and reimagine their role in society. Join us for an exciting program performed by this unique ensemble.

This event is presented by the University of New Orleans School of the Arts.

View Event →
Second Sundays at Two: Recital
Apr
14
2:00 PM14:00

Second Sundays at Two: Recital

Australian flutist Catherine Gregory, winner of the Pro Musicis International Award, has performed around the globe in some of the world's foremost venues -- from Alice Tully Hall in New York, to London's Milton Court, Hamburg's new Elbphilharmonie, and the Sydney Opera House. The New York Times has called her playing "magically mysterious," also writing that "Ms. Gregory left a deep impression, her sound rich and fully present." She has been a guest of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Philadelphia CMS, Caramoor, Bay Chamber Festival, and the Southern Cross Soloists, as well as on tour with the Australian and Orpheus Chamber Orchestras. She made her Carnegie Hall recital debut in 2019.

A member of the UCLA piano faculty and a Yamaha/Bösendorfer Artist, David Kaplan has been called "excellent and adventurous" by The New York Times, and praised by the Boston Globe for "grace and fire" at the keyboard. He has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Britten Sinfonia and Das Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, and has performed recitals at the Ravinia Festival, Sarasota Opera House, Washington's National Gallery, Music on Main in Vancouver, and Strathmore. Kaplan's New Dances of the League of David, a recital infusing Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze with 16 new works was cited among the "Best Classical Music Performances of 2015" by The New York Times.

Classical Crossroads and Rolling Hills United Methodist Church present Second Sundays at Two

View Event →
Decoda at Carnegie Hall
May
14
7:30 PM19:30

Decoda at Carnegie Hall

Featuring “some of the brightest young classical musicians in the world” (Time Out New York), Decoda is Carnegie Hall’s first-ever affiliate ensemble, comprising alums of the adventurous Ensemble Connect. Copland’s Appalachian Spring—celebrating its 80th anniversary this season—serves as an inspiration and departure point for this unique program. Experience a premiere composed by and featuring Ringdown, the new electronic cinematic pop duo of Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee; an American folk–inspired septet by Copland’s friend Hanns Eisler written shortly before his expulsion from the US; a new arrangement of Billy Bragg’s setting of Woody Guthrie’s “Eisler on the Go”; and the dynamic Vera by Hannah Kendall.

Program

COPLAND Midday Thoughts for Solo Piano

HANNAH KENDALL Vera

EISLER Septet No. 1, Op. 95a (Variations on Children's Songs)

BILLY BRAGG "Eisler on the Go" (arr. Claire Bryant)

RINGDOWN New Work (World Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)

COPLAND Appalachian Spring Suite for 13 Instruments

View Event →
DECODA Chamber Music Festival
Jun
23
to Jun 30

DECODA Chamber Music Festival

DECODA CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES NEW HOME AT

WARREN WILSON COLLEGE IN SWANNANOA, NORTH CAROLINA

JUNE 23 - JUNE 30, 2024

Decoda is thrilled to announce the 10th Anniversary Season of Decoda’s celebrated Chamber Music Festival at our new home, tucked away in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains, right outside of Asheville, North Carolina, June 23 - 30, 2024

Decoda’s new summer partner, Warren Wilson College, aligns harmoniously with our own mission to create, connect, and spread compassion through music. Believing that “the world needs curiosity,” Warren Wilson is a campus community that fosters relationships with community partners through meaningful engagement, sustainable agriculture practices, and by educating the next generation of “curiously insightful, experienced, and capable individuals.” 

Decoda cannot wait to celebrate ten years of our unique summer festival, which is dedicated to training the next generation of young artists to rethink and reimagine their role in society. Through outstanding chamber music making, creative collaboration, and hands-on project design and development, DCMF cultivates the vision of community through music with the young artists of tomorrow.

View Event →

Experiential Orchestra: Julia Perry Festival at Alice Tully Hall
Mar
16
8:00 PM20:00

Experiential Orchestra: Julia Perry Festival at Alice Tully Hall

The Julia Perry Centenary Celebration and Festival Closing Night Concert, conducted by Experiential Orchestra Music Director James Blachly, features Julia Perry’s Violin Concerto performed by Curtis Stewart and the Experiential Orchestra, following the March 1 release of their recording of the piece as part of EXO’s American Counterpoints album.

Perry’s Violin Concerto was composed in 1963 and revised in 1968, but she continued to update the score until 1977, only two years before her death. Both this performance and the recording include Perry’s extensive revisions to its orchestration, by Roger Zahab. EXO, Stewart, and Blachly gave the professional world premiere performance of this revised version of the concerto in December 2022 in New York. Students from three New York City conservatories will join EXO for the concerto, sitting side-by-side with EXO members.

The festival Closing Night Concert also includes soprano Louise Toppin performing the world premiere orchestral arrangement of Julia Perry’s setting of the spiritual I’m a Poor Li’l Orphan in this World and Experiential Orchestra performing Perry’s beautiful Prelude for Strings. The concert closes with the two youth ensembles performing the first half of the concert – Ruckel Middle School Chorus (Niceville, FL) and Sandra Day O’Connor HS Orchestra (San Antonio, TX) – joining EXO on stage to perform Perry's Ye, Who Seek the Truth, introducing this important composer’s music to the next generation.

Program:

Performances by Ruckel Middle School Chorus and the Sandra Day O’Connor HS Orchestra

~ Intermission ~

I’m a Poor Li’l Orphan in this World by Julia Perry (1952) arr. Norpoth (world premiere of arrangement)
Louise Toppin, Soprano 
James Blachly, EXO Music Director
Experiential Orchestra

Prelude for Strings by Julia Perry (1946) (arr. Zahab)
James Blachly, EXO Music Director
Experiential Orchestra

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Julia Perry (1963-68, rev. 1977)
Curtis Stewart, Violin
James Blachly, EXO Music Director
Experiential Orchestra plus Students from Three New York City Conservatories

Ye, Who Seek the Truth by Julia Perry (1952, arr. Norpoth)
Louise Toppin, Soprano; James Blachly, EXO Music Director; Experiential Orchestra; Ruckel Middle School Chorus (Niceville, FL); and Sandra Day O’Connor High School Orchestra (San Antonio, TX) 

View Event →
Experiential Orchestra: Julia Perry Festival
Mar
15
3:00 PM15:00

Experiential Orchestra: Julia Perry Festival

The Julia Perry Centenary Celebration and Festival presented by Experiential Orchestra and Videmus brings Julia Perry’s legacy to the next generation, through side-by-side rehearsals and readings with the Experiential Orchestra led by Music Director James Blachly and students from three New York City conservatories.


View Event →
Scrag Mountain Music
Mar
3
to Mar 10

Scrag Mountain Music

Winter Wind, Melting Ice: The Season of Transition

Concerts
Fri., March 8 I 7:30 pm Unitarian Church, Montpelier
Sat., March 9 I 7:30 pm Warren Church, Warren

Join Scrag this March for music that highlights the blustery winds of March and ushers in the vibrancy of Spring. Beloved Scrag guest artists Catherine Gregory (flute) and David Kaplan (piano) return to Vermont for a rich program, together with Scrag co-Artistic Director Mary Bonhag (soprano), that includes Scrag co-Artistic Director Evan Premo’s Inside the Breath, inspired by a painting by local Vermont artist Jan Sandman, songs from Schubert’s Winterreise, Debussy’s Footsteps in the Snow, David Lang’s Vent, Elliott Carter’s Warble for Lilac-time, ​and more.

View Event →
Just Breathe at Lyrica Chamber Music
Feb
18
3:00 PM15:00

Just Breathe at Lyrica Chamber Music

Flutist Catherine Gregory, cited by the NYTimes as "magically mysterious..." with a "rich and fully present sound..." presents her creative concert program, "Just Breathe."

Just Breathe is a series of new works by some of today's most exciting composers, from Clarice Assad to Viet Cuong, inspired by the common theme of "breath," written for the world's three essential instruments: human voice, flute, and drums.

Catherine is joined by two internationally acclaimed collaborators: multiple GRAMMY-nominated percussion soloist Ian David Rosenbaum and genre bending soprano Ariadne Greif.

View Event →
'Alchymia': Antonio Lysy and friends at the BroadStage
Dec
17
11:00 AM11:00

'Alchymia': Antonio Lysy and friends at the BroadStage

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) 

Flute Quartet in D major K285

Thomas Adès (1971 - )

“Alchymia” clarinet quintet (2021)

I. A Sea-Change (...those are pearls...)

II. The Woods So Wild

III. Lachrymae

IV. Divisions on a Lute-song: Wedekind’s Round

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
The Swan (from “The Carnival of the Animals”)

Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) 

Introduction and Allegro (septet)

Brian Chen, viola

Catherine Gregory, flute

Andrew Lowy, clarinet

Antonio Lysy, cello

Varty Manouelian, violin

Movses Pogossian, violin

Alaina Stark, harp

View Event →
MUSICAL MASTERWORKS RESIDENCY IN OLD LYME, CT
Nov
5
to Nov 12

MUSICAL MASTERWORKS RESIDENCY IN OLD LYME, CT

DURING THE FIRST FULL WEEK OF NOVEMBER, MUSICAL MASTERWORKS AND DECODA WILL BUILD ON THE RELATIONSHIPS FORMED LAST YEAR WITH SHORELINE NONPROFITS AND SCHOOLS.

As Musical Masterworks’ Ensemble-in-Residence, Decoda will spend a week with Waterford Country School, a nonprofit dedicated to educating at risk youth who have been unsuccessful in traditional school settings, working with students using creative musical programming to foster trust, community and boost confidence. Decoda will also return to Fitch High School to work with their advanced theory and composition students to help them envision and experience the world of professional musicians/composers working with Decoda musicians to create and present their compositions to a live audience.


View Event →
Decoda: Lake City residency
Sep
20
to Sep 30

Decoda: Lake City residency

New York City-based chamber music collective, Decoda, is heading to Lake City, South Carolina from September 22 - September 30, 2023 for a community residency presented by the Lake City Artfields Collective. The Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall, Decoda’s mission is to create a more compassionate and connected world through music by curating outstanding musical performances, facilitating creative songwriting projects, and training the new generation of young artists to rethink and reimagine their role in society.

Decoda will be joined by celebrated vocalist/composer
Sarah Elizabeth Charles and her duo partner, pianist/composer Jarrett Cherner, for a series of kickoff concerts the weekend of September 22nd, including a public and free performance on Sunday, September 24th at 4pm at the Stables. Throughout the week, Decoda and Sarah Elizabeth Charles will bring an eclectic program of music to community venues in and around Lake City, including several area schools and the Lake City Senior Center. 

The centerpiece of Decoda’s partnership residency with the Lake City Artfields Collective is a six-day creative songwriting project with high school students at the J Paul Truluck Creative Arts and Science Magnet School. Decoda members Clara Lyon (violin), Claire Bryant (cello), Catherine Gregory (flute), Brad Balliett (bassoon), David Kaplan (piano), and Sarah Elizabeth Charles (vocals) will work alongside up to 25 students throughout the week, collaboratively writing new songs around the theme of Infinite Exploration. Inspired by the legacy of Lake City native, astronaut and saxophonist Ron McNair, the idea of boundless exploration through both music and composition as well as the new Artfields exhibit Southern Voices, Global Visions (opening the weekend of September 23, 2023) will serve as a catalyst for the creative community project. 

Public events include the Sunday, September 24th concert at the Stables at 4pm, which will feature music by South Carolina composers Andy Akiho, David Kirkland Garner, and other works by Clara Schumann, Stravinsky, Chick Corea, and Sarah Elizabeth Charles and Jarrett Cherner. The performance will feature a brand new arrangement by Decoda’s Brad Balliett called Fantasy on a Rendezvous 5 (Ron’s Piece) created especially for this partnership. “Ron’s Piece” is based on Jean-Michel Jarre’s piece "Final Rendez-vous: Ron’s Piece - Challenger", written in 1986 in honor of Ron McNair and the six other crew members aboard the Challenger Space Shuttle. Decoda is honored to share this musical tribute to McNair's legacy in his hometown community of Lake City.

The culminating celebratory performance of the community residency will be held on Saturday, September 30 at 2pm at the Stables and will feature the new songs written by the participants from J Paul Truluck Creative Arts and Science Magnet School alongside Decoda. 

Please join Decoda and the Artfields Collective for Infinite Exploration around Lake City, South Carolina. Public events include the Sunday, September 24th concert at the Stables at 4pm, which will feature music by South Carolina composers Andy Akiho, David Kirkland Garner, and other works by Clara Schumann, Stravinsky, Chick Corea, and Sarah Elizabeth Charles and Jarrett Cherner. The performance will feature a brand new arrangement by Decoda’s Brad Balliett called Fantasy on a Rendezvous (Ron’s Piece) created especially for this partnership. “Ron’s Piece” is based on Jean-Michel Jarre’s piece "Final Rendez-vous: Ron’s Piece - Challenger" written in honor of Ron McNair after his untimely death. 

The culminating celebratory performance of the community residency will be held on
Saturday, September 30 at 2pm at the Stables and will feature the new songs written by the participants from J Paul Truluck Creative Arts and Science Magnet School alongside Decoda. 

Please join Decoda and the Artfields Collective for Infinite Exploration around Lake City, South Carolina.


View Event →
Decoda Chamber Music Festival 2023
Jul
23
to Aug 6

Decoda Chamber Music Festival 2023

Decoda and Lawrence University are pleased to announce our tenth annual Decoda Chamber Music Festival in Appleton, Wisconsin from July 23 - August 6, 2023. Decoda faculty and guests work with 30 pre-professional young artists collaborate to curate performances and interact with communities at venues across the Fox Valley. Participants have daily rehearsals, the opportunity for private lessons on your instrument and with other instruments, master classes, and workshops. They also work with a local singer-songwriter from the Mile of Music festival. All events are free and open to the public, as well as professionally recorded and many will be live-streamed.

The Decoda Chamber Music Festival brings internationally known artists to Appleton to mentor the next generation of artist leaders, helping to fulfill Decoda’s mission to engage, inspire, and create a more compassionate world through music.

View Event →
Emerging Composers Intensive
Jun
29
to Jul 9

Emerging Composers Intensive

  • Hidden Valley Carmel Valley, CA (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The Emerging Composers Intensive (ECI) at Hidden Valley is an important extension to the conservatory education that aims to complete a young devoted composer’s skill set on the path to a professional career. ECI’s environment and teaching focus on the crucial connection between individual creativity and effective collaboration by having young composers work closely with both composition and performing faculty throughout their writing process to strengthen the necessary foundations of instrumental understanding, notation, and communication skills. The program builds a basis for young composers to form a lifetime of successful synergistic collaborations through writing, interaction, and relationships.

Performing Faculty:

Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, violin

Eunice Kim, violin

David Samuel, viola

Mihai Marica, cello

Drew Petersen, piano

Catherine Gregory, flute

View Event →
Camerata Pacifica
May
18
8:00 PM20:00

Camerata Pacifica

Adams – Shaker Loops
Bach – Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209
Pergolesi – Salve Regina in C Minor

Samuel Mariño, Catherine Gregory, Joseph Lin, Tricia Park, Jason Uyeyama, Agnes Gottschewski, Mathis Rochat, Jonathan Moerschel, Ani Aznavoorian, Raman Ramakrishnan, Tim Eckert, Paolo Bordignon

View Event →
Camerata Pacifica
May
16
7:30 PM19:30

Camerata Pacifica

Adams – Shaker Loops
Bach – Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209
Pergolesi – Salve Regina in C Minor

Samuel Mariño, Catherine Gregory, Joseph Lin, Tricia Park, Jason Uyeyama, Agnes Gottschewski, Mathis Rochat, Jonathan Moerschel, Ani Aznavoorian, Raman Ramakrishnan, Tim Eckert, Paolo Bordignon

View Event →
Camerata Pacifica
May
14
3:00 PM15:00

Camerata Pacifica

Adams – Shaker Loops
Bach – Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209
Pergolesi – Salve Regina in C Minor

Samuel Mariño, Catherine Gregory, Joseph Lin, Tricia Park, Jason Uyeyama, Agnes Gottschewski, Mathis Rochat, Jonathan Moerschel, Ani Aznavoorian, Raman Ramakrishnan, Tim Eckert, Paolo Bordignon

View Event →
Camerata Pacifica
May
12
7:30 PM19:30

Camerata Pacifica

Adams – Shaker Loops
Bach – Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209
Pergolesi – Salve Regina in C Minor

Samuel Mariño, Catherine Gregory, Joseph Lin, Tricia Park, Jason Uyeyama, Agnes Gottschewski, Mathis Rochat, Jonathan Moerschel, Ani Aznavoorian, Raman Ramakrishnan, Tim Eckert, Paolo Bordignon

View Event →
Experiential Orchestra at The Phillips Collection
Mar
19
4:00 PM16:00

Experiential Orchestra at The Phillips Collection

EXO returns to the Phillips in a chamber orchestra configuration for a spirited program anchored by Igor Stravinsky’s Chamber Concerto in E-flat, Dumbarton Oaks. Commissioned in 1937 by the original owners of the Georgetown estate, Robert and Mildred Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks exhibits Stravinsky’s Neoclassical style and his ability to generate musical material through the reinvention of old forms, notably the style of the Baroque and its manifestation in the music of J.S. Bach. Exploring these connections in greater depth, Experiential Orchestra pair Stravinsky’s chamber concerto with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, a well-loved work that exhibits the contrapuntal richness and joyous sonority of Bach’s concerto writing.

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 

Perkinson Sinfonietta 

Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks

View Event →
Decoda at Carnegie Hall
Mar
8
7:30 PM19:30

Decoda at Carnegie Hall

TRANSFORMATIONS

“Refreshing in the extreme” (The New York Times) and comprising “some of the brightest young classical musicians in the world” (TimeOut New York), Decoda is Carnegie Hall’s first-ever affiliate ensemble. Made up of alums of Ensemble Connect, Decoda carries forward a dedication to virtuosic performance, audience and community engagement, and a constantly growing repertoire of new music and beloved classics. The spectacularly versatile ensemble offers another distinctive program for its 2022–2023 Carnegie Hall performance. Hear a world premiere by Joseph Jones; John Coltrane’s “Naima,” arranged by Decoda founding member and former artistic director Brad Balliett; selections from Corea’s Children’s Songs, arranged by Decoda; Catherine Gregory’s arrangement of Stravinsky’s Suite italienne; and a new work by Sarah Kirkland Snider.

Program

JOSEPH JONES New Work (World Premiere)

COLTRANE "Naima" (arr. Brad Balliett; NY Premiere)

COREA Selections from Children's Songs (arr. Decoda)

STRAVINSKY Suite italienne (arr. Catherine Gregory)

SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER New Work

View Event →