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February 2019
Sensory-Friendly Family Concert featuring Nirmala Rajasekar
Sensory-Friendly Family Concerts are inclusive, interactive concerts for families. These events allow audience members to enjoy an enriching concert experience in a sensory-friendly format.
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Joyce DiDonato, mezzo soprano & Craig Terry, piano, Featuring the Legendary Jazz Players Chuck Israels, Jimmy Madison, Lautaro Greco, & Charlie Porter
“Perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation” (the New Yorker), multi GRAMMY Award winner Joyce DiDonato returns to the Schubert Club’s International Artist Series to perform a special program in the Ordway Music Theater. With a voice that is “nothing less than 24-carat gold” as proclaimed by The Times, she is among the world’s most entrancing performers. Joyce DiDonato greets you with a song in her heart and twinkle in her eye. The American mezzo-soprano’s program Songplay unites extraordinary musicians from the varied worlds of opera, jazz and tango in the pure pleasure of improvisation, experimentation and exchange. Together they create their own musical language, surprising listeners with timeless melodies transformed and universal stories retold over centuries; songs in English, in Italian and – naturally – in the universal language of music.
Find out more »FREE Courtroom Concert featuring Osvaldo Golijov’s “The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind” with Pat O’Keefe and friends
Pat O'Keefe leads a program of lively klezmer classics, followed by "The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind" by Osvaldo Golijov. Featuring Susan Crawford, violin, Holly Ager, violin, Alastair Brown, viola, and Joe Englund, cello.
Find out more »March 2019
Hill House Chamber Players: March 4 & 11
The Hill House Chamber Players, musicians from the Minnesota Orchestra and University of Minnesota faculty, perform in the intimate space of the art gallery of the historic James J Hill House on Summit Ave in Saint Paul. The theme “Trio Masterworks” is a celebration and exploration of the diverse repertoire for combinations of piano, violin, viola, cello and clarinet. Admission includes an optional 6:45 pre-concert conversation with musicians and music blogger Emily Hogstad, intermission refreshments, and a post-performance tour of the magnificent Gilded Age mansion, home to one of St. Paul's most famous families.
Find out more »FREE Courtroom Concert featuring Eva Beneke, guitar, with Richard Kriehn, mandolin and Maria Jette, soprano
A prize-winner at international guitar competitions in The Netherlands, Italy and the U.S., Eva Beneke presents a program of Argento, Bach, Bartok, Beneke, Calace, Chic Corea, and Rodrigo, with Richard Kriehn, mandolin and Maria Jette, soprano.
Find out more »First Thursday in March
The Schubert Club Museum is open late on the First Thursday of each month from 4-8 pm! Free to the public, visitors can enjoy guided tours, live demonstrations, fun interactive music-making, and complimentary wine (for guests 21+) and refreshments. Every month is a unique experience with different activities hosted by Schubert Club, such as special guest(s), demonstrations, and live music.
Find out more »Accordo: Monday, March 11, 2019
Join us for an evening with Accordo (a string ensemble composed of present and former principal string players of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra) featuring the repertoire: David Ludwig: Rule of Three for 2 Violins & Viola, Mozart: String Quintet in Bb Major, K. 174, George Benjamin: Viola, Viola, and Schubert: String Quartet in A Minor.
Find out more »Accordo at Icehouse: Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Join us for an abbreviated informal repeat performance at the restaurant and music venue, Icehouse in Minneapolis. Accordo is a string ensemble composed of present and former principal string players of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra. Repertoire to be selected from the previous evening’s concert program: David Ludwig: Rule of Three for 2 Violins & Viola, Mozart: String Quintet in Bb Major, K. 174, George Benjamin: Viola, Viola, and Schubert: String Quartet in A Minor.
Find out more »Schubert Club Scholarship Competition Preliminaries 2019
The Schubert Club Student Scholarship Competition, held each spring, awards a total of over $50,000 annually to young musicians to be used for further musical education.
The competition began in 1922, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Schubert Club. It started modestly with three winners representing the categories of voice, violin, and piano. The competition has since grown to fourteen different categories with two cash prizes awarded for each category – $2000 and $1500 – to be used for further musical education. The winners of each category are also invited to perform in the annual Winners Recital.
Find out more »Schubert Club Scholarship Competition Finals 2019
The Schubert Club Student Scholarship Competition, held each spring, awards a total of over $50,000 annually to young musicians to be used for further musical education. The competition began in 1922, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Schubert Club. It started modestly with three winners representing the categories of voice, violin, and piano. The competition has since grown to fourteen different categories with two cash prizes awarded for each category – $2000 and $1500 – to be used for further musical education. The winners of each category are also invited to perform in the annual Winners Recital.
Find out more »Horszowski Trio with Masumi Per Rostad, viola
Music in the Park Series is proud to debut the Horszowski Trio, joined for part of the program by Masumi Per Rostad, violist of the renowned Pacifica Quartet. Hailed by The New Yorker as “destined for great things,” the members of the Horszowski Trio, who are also long-time friends, are Jesse Mills (violin), Raman Ramakrishnan (cello), and Rieko Aizawa (piano). Two-time Grammy-nominated violinist Jesse Mills first performed with Raman Ramakrishnan, founding cellist of the prize-winning Daedalus Quartet, at the Kinhaven Music School when they were children. In New York City, they met pianist Rieko Aizawa, who, upon being discovered by the late violinist and conductor Alexander Schneider, had made her U.S. debuts at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. Their musical bonds were strengthened at various schools and festivals around the world, including the Juilliard School and the Marlboro Festival. Ms. Aizawa was the last pupil of the legendary pianist, Mieczysław Horszowski (1892-1993), at the Curtis Institute. The Trio takes inspiration from Horszowski’s musicianship, integrity, and humanity. Like Horszowski, the Trio presents repertoire spanning the traditional and the contemporary. Their program features Schumann’s Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, a Brahms Piano Quartet and Piano Trio by Charles Wuorinen.
Find out more »Latin American Percussion with Reinaldo Moya
LISTEN to traditional Venezuelan music featuring maracas and cuatro. LEARN the different rhythmic patterns from joropo and vals styles from the Venezuelan plains. MAKE your own maracas and CREATE your own Venezuelan-inspired song!
Find out more »FREE Courtroom Concert featuring the music of Catherine Dalton, with Margaret Humphrey, violin, Kirsten Whitson, cello, and Erik Barsness, percussion
A performance of Catherine Dalton's "Walking Together," a piece that weaves together prose and poetry on the topic of cultural experience. Featuring Margaret Humphrey, violin, Kirsten Whitson, cello, and Erik Barsness, percussion, the compositions underscore texts by poets such as Peter Blue Cloud, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Kao Kalia Yang, read by people representing the diversity of the Twin Cities community.
Find out more »SOLD OUT – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
The Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet plays to sold-out houses worldwide. Their inventive, critically acclaimed transcriptions of concert masterworks provide a fresh look at the music of the past, while their interpretations of works from the contemporary and world-music realms continually break new ground. For this program, we return to the beautiful James J. Hill Center (formerly the Hill Reference Library). In an intimate space, surrounded by thousands of books, you’ll experience a program that promises to transport listeners around the world in a single concert experience.
Find out more »FREE Courtroom Concert featuring the music of Ben Osterhouse
Schubert Club Competition winner (cello), Ben Osterhouse performs Fauré, along his own compositions for various instruments. Featuring Aleks Tengesdal and Dan Keeler, cello, Maddie Holtz, soprano, Susan Miranda, oboe, Hannah Spivey, harp, Priscilla Chang, piano, and Brittany Zales, mover.
Find out more »Tales and Music From West Africa
Experience traditional African drumming and dance heritage with Titambe West African Dance Ensemble! This COMPAS performance group has an impressive repertoire of authentic drumming, dances, music, storytelling, and cultural teachings. Composed of artists originating from all over the world, including Ghana, Liberia, Kenya, Trinidad, and America, each Titambe performance is a celebration of diversity and unity. Get ready to dance along to the vibrant rhythms of Titambe!
Find out more »Musicians on the Rise (2019 Competition Winners Recital)
Featuring winners of the Bruce P. Carlson Student Scholarship Competition. Audience members can look forward to seeing and hearing the best of the local rising musical stars in the categories of piano, strings, voice, guitar, brass and woodwinds. Many winners…
Find out more »April 2019
Gautier Capuçon, cello & Yuja Wang, piano
The musical duo partnership of Gautier Capuçon and Yuja Wang is one to anticipate with real excitement. Gautier Capuçon is a true 21st century ambassador for the cello. Born in Chambéry, France in 1981, he performs each season with many of the world’s foremost conductors and instrumentalists, and is also founder and leader of the Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris – based in the stunning new Auditorium designed by Frank Gehry. Gautier is acclaimed internationally for his deeply expressive musicianship and exuberant virtuosity, as well as for the glorious sonority of his 1701 Matteo Goffriller cello. Joining him for this pair of recitals is the charismatic pianist Yuja Wang, the 2017 Musical America Artist of the Year. After she made her Schubert Club International Artist Series debut in 2011, the Star Tribune stated "Wang... is no mere 'virtuoso' -- a word cheapened by overuse. Hers is demonic, more-than-human pianism, of the sort that gets you thinking about Faustian bargains." Yuja’s way of making music connects with a strikingly broad demographic. It appeals to everyone, from classical music newcomers to devoted pianophiles, and has attracted an exceptionally youthful following. Her love for fashion, recognized by her induction into Giorgio Armani’s Sì Women’s Circle, has also contributed to the popular appeal of an artist who is armed with the ability to challenge the status quo and to welcome fresh converts to the concert hall. For their Ordway Concert Hall performances, this exceptional duo will present two different programs on April 3 and April 4, and we encourage you to attend both!
Find out more »FREE Courtroom Concert featuring the Plymouth Youth Choir, Phillip Shoultz, director
Featuring Plymouth Youth Choir with Phillip Shoultz, director. Youth perform choral pieces ranging from folk hymns and spirituals to contemporary pieces in a variety of languages. To join, a music background is helpful,…
Find out more »First Thursday in April
The Schubert Club Museum is open late on the First Thursday of each month from 4-8 pm! Free to the public, visitors can enjoy guided tours, live demonstrations, fun interactive music-making, and complimentary wine (for guests 21+) and refreshments. Every month is a unique experience with different activities hosted by Schubert Club, such as special guest(s), demonstrations, and live music.
Find out more »FREE Courtroom Concert featuring Musicians from the Apollo Music Festival, Garret Ross, director
Emily Cole, violin, Roy Meyer, violin, Valerie Little, viola, Ruth Marshall, cello, and Garret Ross, piano perform the Piano Quintet in F minor by Brahms.
Find out more »Brentano String Quartet
Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times extols its “luxuriously warm sound yearning lyricism.” Within a few years of its formation, the Quartet garnered the first Cleveland Quartet Award and the Naumburg Chamber Music Award. The Quartet had its first European tour in 1997, and was honored in the U.K. with the Royal Philharmonic Award for Most Outstanding Debut. That debut recital was at London’s Wigmore Hall, and the Quartet has continued its warm relationship with Wigmore, appearing there regularly and serving as the hall’s Quartet-in-residence in the 2000-01 season. As of July 2014, the Brentano Quartet succeeded the Tokyo Quartet as Artists in Residence at Yale University, departing from their 14-year residency at Princeton University. The Brentano Quartet’s program is titled “Lamentations” and features music by Purcell, Haydn, Shostakovich, d”India, Carter, Lekeu and Bartok. The Quartet is named for Antonie Brentano, whom many scholars consider to be Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved”, the intended recipient of his famous love confession.
Find out more »Accordo with Silent Film: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Join us for an evening with Accordo providing live accompaniment to several short silent films: The Dancing Pig, Journey to the Moon, Monir Farmanfarmaian, and, back by popular demand, Sherlock Jr.
Find out more »FREE Courtroom Concert featuring the Music of Abbie Betinis
Composer Abbie Betinis writes music called "inventive, richly melodic" (The New York Times), "superb, whirling, soaring" (Tacoma News Tribune), and "the highlight" of the program (Boston Globe). With over 50 commissioned works…
Find out more »FREE Courtroom Concert featuring Liba Schacht, violin; John Sharp, cello; Esther Wang, piano
Liba Schacht Violinist Liba Shacht was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, where she began her musical studies at age five. Shortly thereafter, her family emigrated to Israel. The recipient of an…
Find out more »Hill House Chamber Players: April 29 & May 6
The Hill House Chamber Players, musicians from the Minnesota Orchestra and University of Minnesota faculty, perform in the intimate space of the art gallery of the historic James J Hill House on Summit Ave in Saint Paul. The theme “Trio Masterworks” is a celebration and exploration of the diverse repertoire for combinations of piano, violin, viola, cello and clarinet. Admission includes an optional 6:45 pre-concert conversation with musicians and music blogger Emily Hogstad, intermission refreshments, and a post-performance tour of the magnificent Gilded Age mansion, home to one of St. Paul's most famous families.
Find out more »A Musical World Tour with Lumina Women’s Ensemble
Travel around the world with Lumina as you LISTEN to languages and songs from many countries. LEARN about distant lands and people of many cultures through music. PLAY with your voice as you imitate different sounds and CREATE your own songbook!
Find out more »May 2019
FREE Courtroom Concert featuring the music of Reinaldo Moya
Reinaldo Moya is a graduate of Venezuela’s El Sistema music education system. Through El Sistema, he had access to musical training from an early age and was a founding member…
Find out more »First Thursday in May
The Schubert Club Museum is open late on the First Thursday of each month from 4-8 pm! Free to the public, visitors can enjoy guided tours, live demonstrations, fun interactive music-making, and complimentary wine (for guests 21+) and refreshments. Every month is a unique experience with different activities hosted by Schubert Club, such as special guest(s), demonstrations, and live music.
Find out more »FREE Courtroom Concert featuring American Composers Forum in partnership with Schubert Club NextNotes Lab student recital
Featuring American Composers Forum in partnership with Schubert Club NextNotes Lab student recital View the Frequently Asked Questions about the Courtroom Concerts. About the Host Composer Abbie Betinis writes music…
Find out more »Chalaca
A relatively new ensemble (formed in 2016), Chalaca explores the confluence of cultures found in South America and the Caribbean with a unique combination of clarinet, harp, and percussion. Following the migration of rhythm from Africa and Europe, to the Andean Mountains, to the Amazon...and finally, right to the heart of America, Chalaca is a celebration of the composers who have immigrated to the United States from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela...alongside the folk masters who inspired them.
Find out more »The Migration of Rhythm
Chalaca, a unique trio comprised of clarinet, harp, and percussion, takes you on a rhythmic journey from the Caribbean and South America all the way to New York City! From the baroque courts of Europe, to the ritual dances of West Africa, to the indigenous populations of modern-day Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil...Chalaca celebrates the cross-century, cross-cultural migration that formed today's popular salsa, samba, mambo, joropo, and jequibau forms. Join them in celebrating composers who have immigrated to the United States and the folk masters who inspired them!
Find out more »Tienda by Reinaldo Moya
This unique performance at TPT Studio A in Lowertown, St. Paul will feature a partially staged opera by Schubert Club Composer-in-Residence Reinaldo Moya with words by Caitlin Vincent. Among the singers and instrumentalists featured in this chamber opera is mezzo soprano Clara Osowski. The opera tells the story of Luis Garzón, a Mexican musician who immigrated to Minneapolis in 1886 and opened a small Mexican grocery store, or tienda, in St. Paul in the 1920s. While Luis had married an American woman and was fully integrated into Minneapolitan society, his store served as a community hub for the newest arrivals from Mexico, many of whom had fled the Mexican Revolution and now toiled in the sugar beet farms of rural Minnesota. Tienda explores the immigrant experience: what must be left behind—and what cannot be forgotten—on the journey to a new home. This world premiere performance of Tienda is one of the highlights of Moya’s two-year residency with the Schubert Club.
Find out more »June 2019
First Thursday in June
The Schubert Club Museum is open late on the First Thursday of each month from 4-8 pm! Free to the public, visitors can enjoy guided tours, live demonstrations, fun interactive music-making, and complimentary wine (for guests 21+) and refreshments. Every month is a unique experience with different activities hosted by Schubert Club, such as special guest(s), demonstrations, and live music.
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