The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
$84
- Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano
- Quamaine "Virtuoso" Daniels, FLEXN dance
James Lee III — Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet
Justinian Tamusuza — Ekitundu Ekisooka
Ernest Chausson — Chanson perpétuelle, Op. 37
Amy Beach — Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67
Experience a fascinating, multidisciplinary program of chamber music with very special guests. Andy Akiho's exhilarating LIgNEouS 1 features extended technique from string and percussion instruments alike. James Lee III's Clarinet Quintet was recently premiered by the Pacifica Quartet and New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill, and two of its movements are featured here. Justinian Tamusuza's bright and driving Ekitundu Ekisooka, made world famous by the Kronos Quartet's chart-topping Pieces of Africa, features a special appearance by Quamaine "Virtuoso" Daniels, pioneer and innovator of the FLEXN dance style. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard joins for Chausson's Chanson perpétuelle, and the program closes with Beach's potent Piano Quintet, a work that includes direct references to Brahms's seminal Piano Quintet.
About The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble provides a unique opportunity to hear members of the full Met Orchestra outside of the opera house and in the intimacy of Weill Recital Hall.
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Events/MET-Orchestra-Chamber-EnsembleAbout Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall's mission is to present extraordinary music and musicians on the three stages of this legendary hall, to bring the transformative power of music to the widest possible audience, to provide visionary education programs, and to foster the future of music through the cultivation of new works, artists, and audiences.
https://www.carnegiehall.org/About Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano
Richard Tucker Award–winning mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard has performed the music of composers from Vivaldi to Mozart to Nico Muhly on the stages of the Vienna Staatsoper, Paris Opéra, Salzburg Festival, Bavarian Staatsoper, Carnegie Hall, Glyndebourne Festival, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Aix-en-Provence Festival, The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, and Los Angeles Opera. She has appeared as Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Angelina in Rossini's La Cenerentola, Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte, Charlotte in Massenet's Werther, Blanche de la Force in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmélites, Costanza in Vivaldi's Griselda, the title roles in Offenbach's La Périchole and Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and Sesto in both Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Handel's Giulio Cesare. She has performed with conductors including Marin Alsop, Harry Bicket, James Conlon, Andrew Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Edward Gardner, Valery Gergiev, Michele Mariotti, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart, and Franz Welser-Möst, appearing with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony, among others. Ms. Leonard is in demand as a recitalist and is on Carnegie Hall's board of trustees. She has appeared on multiple Grammy Award–winning recordings, most recently Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges on Decca (2016) and Thomas Adès's The Tempest at The Metropolitan Opera on Deutsche Grammophon (2014). Her television and film appearances include Sesame Street and as host for The Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD transmissions.
https://isabelleonard.com/