INSPIRED
The Forty-Seventh Season
Modigliani Quartet and Fabio Bidini
“One of today’s best quartets in the world” per the Süddeutsche Zeitung — the Modigliani Quartet — joins forces with the pianist Fabio Bidini in a program culminating with the revered Brahms Piano Quintet.
COMMUNITY EVENT: Master Class with Anne-Marie McDermott
The formidable Anne-Marie McDermott has played concertos, recitals, and chamber music in hundreds of cities throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. She also serves as artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Music and Ocean Reef Music festivals, as well as Curator for Chamber Music for the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego. She will give a free and open to the public master class at UMKC.
Anne-Marie McDermott, Master Pianist
The formidable Anne-Marie McDermott approaches the music of Haydn and Schubert with “heft and translucence, structural certainty and seasoned humanity...” (BBC Music)
Doric String Quartet
The “sumptuous sweetness and laser-like clarity” (BBC Music) of Doric Quartet is known the world round and will be on full display in the not-to-be-missed Elgar String Quartet in E minor, which culminates their program with The Friends.
Richard Goode, Master Pianist
Taking us on a journey through Beethoven, the legendary Richard Goode will once more reassure us that “it is virtually impossible to walk away from one of [his] recitals without the sense of having gained some new insight […] about pianism itself..” (The New York Times)
PAST EVENT: Boston Camerata presents “Dido and Aeneas”
Don’t miss Purcell’s classic tragedy Dido and Aeneas reimagined by the Boston Camerata, one of the nation’s most distinguished early music organizations.
PAST EVENT: Inon Barnatan, Master Pianist
Described as “one of the most admired pianists of his generation” by The New York Times, Inon Barnatan takes us on a fascinating journey through time and space with his Time Traveler’s Suite.
PAST EVENT: Emerson String Quartet and David Finckel, cello
“America’s greatest quartet” (Time Magazine), the revered Emerson String Quartet is on their farewell tour. We will have the rarest of opportunities to hear them alongside the man who has been their cellist for more than 35 years, David Finckel, in the transcendental Schubert Quintet.
PAST FAMILY EVENT: Abeo Quartet
The inaugural Graduate String Quartet in Residence at the University of Delaware, the Abeo Quartet joins FCMKC education and community efforts with spectacular performances.
PAST COMMUNITY EVENT: Abeo Quartet
The inaugural Graduate String Quartet in Residence at the University of Delaware, the Abeo Quartet joins FCMKC education and community efforts with spectacular performances.
PAST EVENT: Bach Collegium Japan
Led by the inspirational Masaaki Suzuki, the legendary ensemble Bach Collegium Japan is joined by the phenomenal baritone Roderick Williams in the juxtaposition of works by Telemann and Bach.
PAST COMMUNITY EVENT: Roderick Williams OBE master class (free)
Roderick Williams OBE is one of the UK ’s most sought after baritones and is constantly in demand on the concert platform and in recital, encompassing a repertoire from the baroque to world premieres. He will give a free and open to the public master class
PAST EVENT: “Festive Hungarica”
The Friends’ newly appointed Artistic Directors cellist Dmitri Atapine and pianist Hyeyeon Park invite you on an exciting exploration of Hungarian chamber music. Joined by an all-star cast assembling in Kansas City just for this occasion, this will be no-doubt one of the highlights of the season.
PAST EVENT: The Tallis Scholars
Described by BBC3 as “one of the UK’s greatest cultural exports” the superb Tallis Scholars presents a program exploring how different composers reflected on the Ave Maria.
PAST EVENT: Ulysses Quartet: Lift Every Voice
Exhibiting “the kind of chemistry many quartets long for, but rarely achieve” (The Strad), the Ulysses Quartet presents “Lift Every Voice:” a program taking us on a journey from Joan Tower to Dmitri Shostakovich, through Franghiz Ali-Zadeh and all the way to Felix Mendelssohn.
PAST EVENT: Terrence Wilson, Master Pianist
Acclaimed by The Baltimore Sun as “one of the biggest pianistic talents to have emerged in this country in the last 25 years,” Terrence Wilson visits us in a spectacular program blending the Romanticism of Schubert and Brahms with the exploration of Szymanowski and Stravinsky.
PAST EVENT: Vox Luminis: Sacro Monteverdi
“The refinement of Vox Luminis is never anything less than sublime” — Gramophone. The superb Belgian group visits us with a program of sacred works by the pioneer of early opera Claudio Monteverdi.
PAST EVENT: Europa Galante
The phenomenal Europa Galante brings together two titans of the Baroque: Bach and Vivaldi
