Billy Childs – Past Concerts

Johann Sebastian Bach — The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 ("Contrapunctus I")
Billy Childs — String Quartet No. 2 "Awakening"
Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 "Heiliger Dankgesang"

Antonín Dvořák — Violin Sonatina in G major, Op. 100, B. 183
Ludwig van Beethoven — Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer" ("Bridgetower")
Dolores White — Blues Dialogues
William Grant Still — Here's One
Billy Childs — Incident on Larpenteur Avenue
William Grant Still — Suite for Violin and Piano

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — Ballade for Orchestra in A minor, Op. 33
Billy Childs — Diaspora: Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra (NSO premiere)
Antonín Dvořák — Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, B. 178 "From the New World"

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — Ballade for Orchestra in A minor, Op. 33
Billy Childs — Diaspora: Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra (NSO premiere)
Antonín Dvořák — Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, B. 178 "From the New World"

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — Ballade for Orchestra in A minor, Op. 33
Billy Childs — Diaspora: Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra (NSO premiere)
Antonín Dvořák — Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, B. 178 "From the New World"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K. 465 "Dissonance"
Billy Childs — String Quartet No. 2 "Awakening"
Felix Mendelssohn — String Quartet No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 44, No. 3

Program includes works by Stewart Goodyear, Adolphus Hailstork, James Lee III, Andy Akiho, Kaoru Ishibashi (Kishi Bashi), Billy Childs, Paquito D'Rivera, Jessie Montgomery, Angélica Negrón, Kevin Puts, Caroline Shaw, Joan Tower, Nick Revel, and Paul Mekailian.

Franz Joseph Haydn — String Quartet in C major, Op. 20, No. 2, Hob. III:32
Billy Childs — String Quartet No. 2 "Awakening"
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — String Sextet in D minor, Op. 70 "Souvenir de Florence"

Johann Sebastian Bach — The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
Billy Childs — String Quartet No. 2 "Awakening"
Nokuthula Ngwenyama — Arizona Duets
Benjamin Britten — String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36

Alberto Ginastera — Four Dances from Estancia (Suite), Op. 8a
Billy Childs — Labyrinth (world premiere)
McCoy Tyner — Fly With the Wind
Banks Sapnar — Red Braid
Bill Cunliffe — Rainforests (world premiere)

Program includes works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Terry Riley, Anton Webern, John Cage, Joan Tower, Andy Akiho, Billy Childs, Angélica Negrón, Kevin Puts, Kaoru Ishibashi (Kishi Bashi), Caroline Shaw, Paquito D'Rivera, and Jessie Montgomery.

Franz Joseph Haydn — String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, No. 2, Hob. III:76 "Quinten" ("Fifths")
Billy Childs — String Quartet No. 2 "Awakening"
Dmitri Shostakovich — String Quartet No. 3 in F major Op. 73

Billy Childs — String Quartet No. 3 "Unrequited"
Rosy Wertheim — Trio for Flute, Clarinet, and Bassoon
Robert Schumann — Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47

3-pianist feature: Inna Faliks performs premieres by Timo Andres & Billy Childs, along with Maurice Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. Steven Vanhauwaert & Mark Robson perform Olivier Messiaens’ Visions de l’Amen.