Shawn Okpebholo – Past Concerts

Shawn Okpebholo — Rise (West Coast premiere)

Shawn Okpebholo — Rise (West Coast premiere)

Shawn Okpebholo — Rise (West Coast premiere)

Shawn Okpebholo — Rise (West Coast premiere)

Damien Geter — I Said What I Said
Carlos Simon — Giants
Paquito D'Rivera — Aires Tropicales
Shawn Okpebholo — Rise
Andy Akiho — BeLoud, BeLoved, BeLonging
Billy Taylor — I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free (arr. Mark Dover)

Program includes works by Tania León, Hannah Kendall, Eleanor Alberga, Jon Deak, Jeanne Lee, Mikhail Johnson, Jessie Montgomery, and Shawn Okpebholo.

Igor Stravinsky — Suite from L'Histoire du soldat ("The Soldier's Tale")
Shawn Okpebholo — Unknown (premiere of version for mezzo-soprano & piano)
Luigi Perrachio — Nove Poemetti (selections)
Maurice Ravel — Le Tombeau de Couperin

Shawn Okpebholo — On a Poem By Miho Nonaka: Harvard Square (for flute)
Mario Diaz de Leon — Mysterium (for flute, clarinet, bassoon, & electronics)
James Lee III — Ekah (for cello & piano)
Ned Rorem — Winter Pages (for clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello, & piano)

Program includes works by Robert Owens, Jeremiah Evans, Margaret Bonds, Carlos Simon, Jasmine Barnes, Brandon Spencer, Damien Sneed, Shawn Okpebholo, and Joel Thompson.

Program includes works by Robert Owens, Jeremiah Evans, Margaret Bonds, Carlos Simon, Jasmine Barnes, Brandon Spencer, Damien Sneed, Shawn Okpebholo, and Joel Thompson.

Bohdana Frolyak — Three Miniatures
Shawn Okpebholo — Take It Easy, But Take It
Niccolo Athens — CONFLUX (world premiere)
Gabriela Lena Frank — Hilos

Streaming premiere of Shawn Okpebholo's Unknown, a dramatic song cycle commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

Shawn Okpebholo – Excursions for trombone & piano
Daniel Pesca – Taking a Line for a Walk for violin & piano (world premiere)

Florence Price – Fantasie nègre No. 4 in B minor
Alison Yun-Fei Jiang – Isles
Shawn Okpebholo – mi sueño: afro-flamenco
Augusta Read Thomas – Love Twitters

Diverse, genre-bending program of vocal music by 20th- & 21st-century black composers. Includes re-interpretations of traditional spirituals, bold new works, & folk adaptations.

Music by Johannes Brahms & Charles Gounod; an inspiring collection of songs by J. Rosamond Johnson, Carlos Simon, Dave Ragland, Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, & Shawn Okpebholo; plus a Stevie Wonder classic.

J'Nai Bridges, star mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, presents a hand-crafted program featuring works by some of her closest collaborators: Richard Danielpour, Damien Sneed, Patrice Michaels, & Shawn Okpebholo.