6 January – EYA; medieval chant and
polyphony for Christmas & Epiphany-tide
from this exquisite DC-based vocal trio.
10 March –Elizabeth Adams, violin Sam Post,
piano: Schubert, Shostakovich and Schnittke — ‘Subversive
Geniuses’.
17 March – The US Air Force String Orchestra
plays Romantic masterworks for Strings.
13 January – Noah Getz, Saxophone & Manny Arcinega, percussion; A contemplation of pushing boundaries
in music by Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen and Motown.
20th January – The Beau
Soir Ensemble; Carrie
Rose, flute Jennifer Ries,
viola Michelle Myers Lundy,
harp in music by Leclair and Ibert.
27 January – The Marquis Trio; Rich Kleinfeldt
saxophone, Igor Zubkovsky cello, Diane Winter
Pyles piano offering music Beethoven, Bartok and Frenchman
Vincent d'Indy.
3 February – Brooke Evers, soprano,
Stephanie Gustafson, harp, Jeremy
Filsell, piano in music by Purcell, Britten,
Ravel and Ned Rorem.
10 February – Deborah Lee, piano
plays Mozart,
Chopin and Schumann’s cycle ‘Kreisleriana’ Op. 16.
17 February – Corda Nova Ensemble; Edmond
Chan, violin Amy
Domingues, viola da
gamba Anthony
Harvey, theorbo;
17th century music from
France, Germany, and Italy.
24 February – Alexandra Katelyn Mills, harp; this
award-winning harpist plays music by Paul Hindemith and Debussy.
3 March –Washington Bach Consort, J. Reilly
Lewis, Music Director Cantata: Herr Jesu Christ, wahr’
Mensch, BWV 127; Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532
with Julie Huang, organ
24 March – Sarah Biber, cello Jeremy Filsell,
piano perform Rachmaninov’s epic Cello Sonata in G minor
Op. 19.
31 March – Rebecca Kellerman Petretta &
Katelyn Aungst, sopranos
Jeremy Filsell continuo:
Introspective and melismatic
polyphonic music for Holy Week:
François Couperin’s Leçons de
ténèbres.
3 April, Good Friday at 6:00PM – Marcel Dupré
Le Chemin de la Croix Op. 29 – Jeremy Filsell,
organ & Bard Wickkiser,
narrator: the Stations of the Cross —
a meditative Good Friday musical
offering with the poetry of Paul Claudel (French Ambassador to Washington DC, 1928-33).
7 April – Washington Bach Consort, J. Reilly
Lewis, Music Director
Cantata: Siehe zu, daß deine Gottesfurcht,
BWV 179; Fantasia in G Major, BWV
572 with
William Neil, organ
5 May –Washington Bach Consort, J. Reilly Lewis,
Music Director Cantata: Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! BWV 70;
Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543 with Todd Fickley,
organ
12 May – Hyewon Lee Gessner, piano plays Schubert’s
masterpiece Sonata in A major D. 959.
19 May – The Ars Nova Brass Ensemble offers an eclectic mix and sonic feast of music for brass ensemble.
26 May – Sarah Rose Taylor, soprano
Nigel Potts, organ: a concert which
includes Nigel Potts’ transcriptions of Elgar’s
Sea Pictures, Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder
and Mélodies by Reynaldo Hahn.
2 June – Jeremy Filsell, piano
Mark Willey, organ: music by
Frenchman Louis Vierne on the eve
of the 78th anniversary of his death,
including the Poème Op. 50 for piano
& organ.
9 June – Mary Findlay, violin plays J. S. Bach Sonatas &
Partitas for solo violin.
16 June – Anna Nizhegorodtseva,
piano plays Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and
Scriabin’s transcendent Sonata no.4 in F #
major.
14 April – Douglas Buchanan, organ;
‘Welkinharmonie’; translated as
‘sky-sounds’ or ‘heaven-music,’ this
music draws inspiration from the
organ masses of Bach and Couperin,
and explores the mythic triad of Creation, Preservation and Destruction.
21 April – Rachel Evangeline Barham, soprano;
James Rogers, baritone Jeremy Filsell, piano in
‘The Foolest Month’: a program of comic and novelty songs
from the 19th and 20th centuries.
28 April – Soyoon Yim, piano Albert Hunt, clarinet Rachelle Betancourt, violin: ‘Defining New
Boundaries’: music by Schumann & Stravinsky.
23 June – Serenade: Michelle La Porte, flute Gerry
Saulter, guitar in lyrical music from Argentina, Brazil and Italy.
30 June – MAGNIFICAT sings
Monteverdi: Philip Cave directs
his professional and award-winning
British Early Music Ensemble in madrigals & motets by the early baroque
master.