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Harlem Quartet with Pianist Michael Stephen Brown

Friday, January 27, 2023 — 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Ilmar Gavilán, violin
Melissa White, violin
Jaime Amador, viola
Felix Umansky, cello
Michael Stephen Brown, piano

Praised for its “panache” by The New York TimesHarlem Quartet has also been hailed in the Cincinnati Enquirer for “bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing and intelligent.” The quartet is recognized for their expansive repertoire and artistic partnerships with classical and jazz musicians. Pianist Michael Stephen Brown joins the quartet for this diverse program, including works by Guido Lopez-Gavilán, Amy Beach, Mendelssohn, Schumann and more.

Amy Beach: Piano Quintet, Op. 67
Guido Lopez-Gavilán: Cuarteto en Guaguancó 
Billy Strayhorn: Take the A Train
Delphine Von Schauroth: Songs Without Words, Op. 18, No. 1
Felix Mendelssohn: Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14
Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet, Op. 44

Tickets $25-$50; children/students $5

A special thank you to students from Jackson Hole Classical Academy and Mountain Academy, whose support through the Youth Philanthropy Program Fund of the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole made the Harlem Quartet’s performance and education programming possible. 


About Harlem Quartet

Harlem Quartet has been praised for its “panache” in The New York Times and hailed in the Cincinnati Enquirer for “bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing and intelligent.” Since its public debut at Carnegie Hall in 2006, the ensemble has thrilled audiences and students throughout the U.S. as well as in the U.K., France, Belgium, Brazil, Panama, Canada, Venezuela, Japan, Ethiopia and South Africa.

The quartet’s mission is to advance diversity in classical music, engaging young and new audiences through the discovery and presentation of varied repertoire that includes works by composers of color. Passion for this work has made the quartet a leading ensemble in both educational and community engagement activities. It began a multi-year residency with London’s Royal College of Music in 2018. In 2021 it began two other institutional affiliations: as the inaugural Grissom Artist in Residence at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and as Quartet in Residence at Montclair State University in northeastern New Jersey.

Highlights of Harlem Quartet’s 2021-22 season included a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, with pianist Joseph Kalichstein; a collaboration with the Catalyst Quartet at the Chamber Music Society of Detroit; engagements with Carnegie Hall Citywide and the Morgan Library in New York City, as well as chamber music societies in Little Rock, Raleigh, Lewes (DE) and Syracuse; and a partnership with Cuban pianist-composer Aldo López-Gavilán in concerts at the Phoenix Chamber Music Society, the Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis, Nebraska’s Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music, and Virginia’s Shenandoah Conservatory. Recent news on the education  and outreach front for Harlem Quartet includes an appointment as Kaufman Center Artists-in-Residence for the 2022-23 season. 

Harlem Quartet was founded in 2006 by the Sphinx Organization, a national nonprofit dedicated to building diversity in classical music and providing access to music education in underserved communities.

About Michael Stephen Brown

Michael Stephen Brown has been described as “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers” (The New York Times). Winner of a 2018 Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center and a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, he is an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He makes regular appearances with orchestras such as the National Philharmonic, the Seattle, Grand Rapids, North Carolina, and Albany symphonies, and was selected by pianist András Schiff to perform an international solo recital tour, making debuts in Zurich’s Tonhalle and New York’s 92nd Street Y. He has appeared at the Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart, Marlboro, Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Tippet Rise, Bridgehampton, and Bard music festivals and performs regularly with his longtime duo partner, cellist Nicholas Canellakis. A prolific composer, his Concerto for Piano and Strings (2020) was co-commissioned by the Gilmore Piano Festival and by the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra in Poland, and was premiered by the Kalamazoo Symphony in 2021, with Brown as soloist. 

He is the First Prize winner of the Concert Artists Guild competition, an alum of The Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two), and earned degrees in piano and composition from The Juilliard School, where he studied with pianists Jerome Lowenthal and Robert McDonald and composers Samuel Adler and Robert Beaser. 

Photos: Mike Peters and Jamie Beck

Details

Date:
Friday, January 27, 2023
Time:
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Event Category:

Organizer

Grand Teton Music Festival
Phone
307.733.1128
Email
ticketoffice@gtmf.org

Venue

Center for the Arts
240 S. Glenwood St
Jackson, WY 83001

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