Kaufman Music Center – Past Concerts

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48

Holland Andrews / Darian Donovan Thomas — Blue Alchemy (world premiere)

Program includes works by Jeff Beal, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Hough, Mark Bennett, Paola Prestini, Marc Schubring, Ethan Iverson, Christopher Cerrone, Frederic Rzewski, Conrad Tao, Steve Reich, David Rakowski, and Kevin Puts.

Heitor Villa-Lobos — Selected works
Johannes Brahms — Selected works
Gabriel Fauré — Selected works
Darius Milhaud — Selected works
George Gershwin — Selected works

Program includes works by Claudio Monteverdi, Franz Joseph Haydn, Jeffrey Mumford, Alma Mahler, Louis Guglielmi, Carlo Gesualdo, Traditional, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Richard Strauss.

Kamala Sankaram — Crescent (world premiere; voice & electronics)
Kamala Sankaram — Ololyga (voice & electronics)
Kamala Sankaram — The Far Shore (tenor & piano)
Kamala Sankaram — Eight Phases of Luna (soprano, baritone & piano)

Carlos Guastavino — Selected works
Alberto Ginastera — Selected works
Carlos López Buchardo — Selected works
Astor Piazzolla — Selected works
Ariel Ramírez — Selected works

The 2022 Concerto Competition winners from Kaufman Music Center’s Lucy Moses School, Special Music School and Young Artist Program perform …

From Ravel to The Beatles to their own compositions, the genre-bending “classical-meets-rockstar-duo” (The Wall Street Journal) will featur…

Program includes works by Jeffrey Brooks, Nick Dunston, Fred Frith, Soo Yeon Lyuh, Tomeka Reid, Aeryn Santillan, Ken Thomson, and Trevor Weston.

Ernest Bloch — From Jewish Life, B. 54
Fazıl Say — Dört Şehir ("Four Cities")
Ernest Bloch — Baal Shem, B. 47 (II. Nigun)
Leonid Malashkin — I Met You
Ernest Bloch — Méditation hébraïque, H. 55
Fazıl Say — Yiğidim Aslanım ("My Brave, My Lion")

Claude Debussy — Images Book 2 ("Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut" ("And the moon descends on the temple that was"))
Claude Debussy — L'isle Joyeuse ("The Isle of Joy"), L. 106
Johannes Brahms — Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36
Alexander Scriabin — Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp major, Op. 30
Alberto Ginastera — Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22

Irving Berlin — "Cheek to Cheek" from Top Hat
Irving Berlin — "I Got Lost in His Arms" from Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin — "You're Just in Love" from Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin — "I Got the Sun in the Morning" from Annie Get Your Gun

Robert Schumann — Waldszenen ("Forest Scenes"), Op. 82
Sarah Goldfeather — Selected works (world premiere)
Eric Shanfield — Timo Variations

Program includes works by John Kander, Rupert Holmes, William Finn, Jerry Bock, Arthur Sullivan, Joni Mitchell, Noël Coward, Dan Fogelberg, David Yazbek, Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleben, Cole Porter, and Barry Manilow.

Fredrick Gifford – Difficult Grace
Monty Adkins – Winter Tendrils (with film by Zoë McLean)
Nathalie Joachim – The Race: 1915 (with images of Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series)
Freida Abtan – My Heart Is A River
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – asinglewordisnotenough 3 [invariant] (with choreographer/dancer Roderick George)

Chamber ensembles from Kaufman Music Center's Special Music School High School perform movements from piano trios & string quartets; cellist Seth Parker Woods joins for Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1.

Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence Conrad Tao illustrates a deeper look into his work in piano, electronics, composition, & improvisation as the program for his May KMC concert comes into focus.

Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center premiere works by 2020-21 Fellows of the Luna Composition Lab, a national mentorship program for teen-age female, non-binary, & gender-nonconforming composers.