Experience CAG’s flagship concert series Musicians on the Rise, in which tomorrow’s stars expand the possibilities of a 21st-century concert. CAG's citizen musicians push beyond the boundaries of a traditional performance and weave together unique elements to express a personal connection to the music. Dovetailing established and adventurous repertoire with dynamic non-musical elements, each experiential program reflects the performer’s distinctive imagination and artistry.
Ariel Lanyi: Frights, Fancies & Fictions
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN – Mazurkas, Op. 59
LERA AUERBACH – Selection from Preludes, Op. 41
L.V. BEETHOVEN – Sonata in E Major, Op. 109
The season finale features UK-based pianist Ariel Lanyi, who has recently been awarded the Prix Serdang - a Swiss prize awarded by the distinguished pianist Rudolf Buchbinder. In this program, Ariel explores connections between literature and music, setting pieces by Chopin, Beethoven and Lera Auerbach alongside passages from books including Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Yasmina Reza’s Hammerklavier and Jose Saramago’s Balthasar and Blimunda.
Vision Duo & Chromic Duo: Reflections
OLIVIER MESSIAEN — Quartet for the End of Time, movement 8
MAURICE RAVEL (ARR. CHROMIC DUO) — Pavane
TREVOR VAN DE VELDE — Hacking Grains
Improvisation by Chromic Duo and Vision Duo
DUNCAN PATTON — Moxie
Improvisations by Chromic Duo and Vision Duo
Vision Duo (violinist Ariel Horowitz and percussionist Britton-René Collins) and Chromic Duo (toy pianists and multimedia artists Lucy Yao and Dorothy Chan) explore our experience of time in three musical chapters centering the past, future and present. Starting in the past, Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time – a masterpiece from the Western Classical 20th-century canon – explores the concept of immortality. Visual art will be projected onto the walls of Merkin Hall as the artists move from Messiaen to the future, featuring their own original compositions, improvisations, and selections from the Duos’ respective touring programs. The present concludes the program with the Messiaen reimagined, symbolic of the convergence of past and future. Amidst Vision and Chromic’s soundscapes, the audience will be invited to join this reflection via QR code to project their own text onto the walls of Merkin Hall and journey with the performers to the end of the show.
Galvin Cello Quartet: Unveiling
ANTONIO VIVALDI – “Summer” from Four Seasons
RICHARD WAGNER – Feierliches Stück
GIOACHINO ROSSINI — Una larme
ZHOU TIAN, Commissioned Piece
GABRIELA LENA FRANK – Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout
GEORGE GERSHWIN – Three Preludes
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA – La muerte del ángel
Winners of the 2021 Fischoff Competition and the 2022 CAG Victor Elmaleh Competition, the Galvin Cello Quartet showcases the versatility of the cello quartet with music of different periods, contrasting styles and characters. From Vivaldi to Piazzolla, the first half of the program journeys through works written for chamber orchestras, operas and virtuosic showpieces, redesigned for the cello quartet. With its unique instrumentation, the Ensemble's performances take advantage of the opportunity to create and commission new works by composers of varying backgrounds. In this case, the Quartet will premiere a piece by Zhou Tian. The second half features Gabriela Lena Frank‘s Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout. Leyendas, with its American, Chinese and South American influences, encompasses many of the backgrounds and ideals of the quartet’s members.