“Brilliance”
The Forty-Eighth Season
“Spark of Genius”
A program specially assembled by Dmitri and Hyeyeon for you, our Kansas City audience. Joining them on stage will be the winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition violinist Stella Chen, the multi-award winning violinist Sean Lee, the “most impressive” violist Matthew Lipman, and the spectacular violist Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt. In these hands, our International Chamber Music series will close with the fiery genius of Felix Mendelssohn in his String Quintet in B-flat Major. A true essence of “Brilliance!”
PAST EVENT: Apollon Musagète Quartet
The winners of the prestigious ARD Competition and one of the most charismatic and creative ensembles on the international music scene today will perform in Kansas City for the first time. Theirs is an enthralling program featuring the works of Dvořák and Brahms, as well as the charming and poignant Crisantemi by the operatic master Giacomo Puccini.
PAST EVENT: “Extraordinary Imaginations” | Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on Tour
The nation’s premier chamber music organization — the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center — visits us in January. The artists of the Society will share a fun and bold program exploring the transformational time of the early 20th century, an era of tireless innovation and limitless imagination.
PAST EVENT: Quartetto di Cremona
Praised for their “splendid balance, abundant colour, and a relaxed mastery of all musical elements” (The Strad), the imaginative Quartetto di Cremona makes their Kansas City debut days away from their first Carnegie Hall appearance. They will delight us with works by Beethoven and Ravel, as well as the mercurial Italian Serenade by Hugo Wolf.
PAST EVENT: Aizuri Quartet
The winners of the coveted Cleveland Quartet Award and the M-Prize — Aizuri Quartet — make their Kansas City debut in a unique program blending the old and the new. In their program, works by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel,, Felix Mendelssohn, Joseph Haydn and Béla Bartók.