We’re looking forward to returning to this very cool and beautiful building, and performing Albert Roussel, Pamela Sklar’s Two Journeys and Kyle Soliz’s Radiance once again, along with a new work by Jorge Amado! The Hudson Valley is so beautiful this time of year. Come up, enjoy the foliage, have some brunch and join us at 2pm! This hour long concert is free, but you you need to register for it. You can do that here.

We are over the moon with excitement to be collaborating with the UN Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director and Conductor, Maestro Predrag Vasić to perform Jorge Amado’s Concertino for Flute, Viola and Cello and string orchestra.

The UN Symphony Orchestra is an international ensemble of musicians who work at the United Nations, as well as other international organizations, agencies, programs and funds located in New York. We are very excited to presenting the premiere of this exciting and fun piece with this ensemble at beautiful Merkin Hall.

We are so proud of Jorge, who was the first composer to win our 8SW Composer Competition. In the last five years, his music has been recognized all over the world at numerous competitions and received standing ovations at performances by ensembles from the National Symphony of Cuba to the Catalyst Quartet at Maverick Concerts in Woodstock, NY. The Concertino, composed for 8SW, is a piece full of rhythmic energy and drive. It merges elements of a Baroque Concerto Grosso with 21st Century harmonies. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear it!

The program will include Vladimir Tošić’s Medial 623 (check him out here!) and Brahms’ Symphony No. 3. What a program!  Please join us! To purchase tickets, please visit here.

We are back at the Tenri Cultural Institute for Primal Chromaticity: Music-inspired and Inspiring Colors.  We’ll be performing the official NY premiere of Radiance, by our 2022 8SW Composer Competition winner, Kyle Soliz. Radiance is like looking through a kaleidoscope with your ears: an array of colors with undertones of jazz influenced harmonies.

We are always excited to present a new work by our first 8SW competition winner Jorge Amado.  Written for us, Paseo de invierno (Winter’s walk) is a sultry journey, contemplative of the oncoming season, Havana style.  We also have a new work by Péter Kőszeghy: Moled is visceral in emotion and steeped in ritual.

Claire Polin’s Tower Sonata, was composed in 1960 for Polin’s mentor, the eminent flutist William Kincaid.  The title refers to a historical practice, dating from the European Middle Ages, of placing musicians atop watchtowers to mark the passage of time or sound an alarm.  The work was originally conceived for woodwind trio, but Polin felt that any three equal instruments could perform it.  We are excited to present our version this year.

The concert is rounded out with trios by CPE Bach and Albert Roussel.  Both are works filled with chromaticity and chromaticism.

Tickets can be purchased at Brown Paper Tickets here! We look forward to seeing you there!