This summer, we’ll explore theme of Inside Stories. With an exquisite lineup of world-renowned artists, we’ll be transported into the heart of narratives that span the spectrum of life itself—stories of resilience, heartbreak, love, scandal, and triumph.

Schedule:

Friday, July 26, 2024

7:30 p.m: Opening Night: A Deal with the Devil
Synergy Series

Liszt
Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S.514

Tartini
Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Continuo "The Devil’s Trill"    

Paganini
Caprice No. 24 in A Minor

Stravinsky
L’Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s Tale)

Featuring Inon Barnatan, Augustin Hadelich, Thomas Adès, Alexi Kenney, Mark Simpson, Eleni Katz, Chris Coletti, James MillerMichael Yeung, Anthony Manzo, and The Paper Cinema.

Saturday, July 27, 2024

7:30 p.m: Danse Macabre

Ysaÿe
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor "Obsession"  

Saint-Saëns
Danse Macabre for Violin and Piano, Op. 40

Martin Butler
Dirty Beasts

Thomas Adès Catch

Ravel
La Valse for Two Pianos

Schubert
String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810 "Death and the Maiden"

Featuring Augustin Hadelich, Inon Barnatan, Rose Lombardo, Nicholas Daniel, Mark Simpson, Eleni Katz, Jennifer Montone, Alexi Kenney, Jay Campbell, Thomas Adès, Andrew Wan, Tessa Lark, Teng Li, and Jonathan Swensen

Sunday, July 28, 2024

3:00 p.m: Passions and Storms

Janacek
String Quartet No. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata"
Selections from On an Overgrown Path
Violin Sonata

Thomas Adès
Suite from Tempest for Violin and Piano

Beethoven
Kreutzer Sonata, Op. 47 (arr. for string quintet)

Featuring Alexi Kenney, Tessa Lark, Teng Li, Jonathan Swensen, Thomas Adès, Augustin Hadelich, Tessa Lark, Andrew Wan, Teng Li, Jay Campbell, and Jonathan Swensen.

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

7:00 p.m: Midweek Masterworks: Amadeus

Excerpts from Peter Shaffer’s "Amadeus"

Mozart
Serenade No. 10 for Winds "Gran Partita"

Featuring Nicholas Daniel, Claire Brazeau, Mark Simpson, Tommaso Lonquich, Taylor Eiffert, Max Opferkuch, Eleni Katz, Leyla Zamora, Jennifer Montone, Kaylet Torrez, Tricia Skye, Mike McCoy, Anthony Manzo, and Jonathan Cohen

Thursday, August 1, 2024

7:00 p.m: Takeover at The Baker-Baum
Curated by Thomas Adès

Francisco Coll
Turia

Thomas Adès
Forgotten Dances – US Premiere

De Falla
Concerto for Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Cello

Featuring Sean Shibe, Emi Ferguson, Mark Simpson, Michael Yeung, Thomas Adès, Nicholas Daniel, and Tommaso Lonquich.

Friday, August 2, 2024

7:30 p.m: Baroque Fantasia

Telemann
Don Quixote Suite, TWV 55-G10

Purcell
Excerpts from The Fairy Queen

Vivaldi
Flute Concerto in G Minor, RV 439 " La Notte"

Rebel
Les Éléments

Featuring Tessa Lark, Njioma Grevious, Alexi Kenney, Rebecca Benjamin, Nicole Divall, James Kang, Jonathan Swensen, Brian Gadbow, Anthony Manzo, Jonathan Cohen, Jay Campbell, Emi Ferguson, and Rose Lombardo.

Saturday, August 3, 2024
 
7:30 p.m: Resilience

F. Mendelssohn
Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 11

Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Guitar Quintet, Op. 143

Schulhoff
Divertissement for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon

Mendelssohn
String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80

Featuring Erin Keefe, Jay Campbell, Joyce Yang, Sean Shibe, Abeo Quartet, Nicholas Daniel, Tommaso Lonquich, Eleni Katz, Tessa Lark, and Nicole Divall.

Sunday, August 4, 2024

3:00 p.m: Suite

J.s. Bach
Lute Suite in E Minor, BWV 996 (arr. for marimba)

Piazzolla
Histoire du Tango

Stravinsky
Suite Italienne

Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker Suite for Two Pianos

Featuring Erin Keefe, Joyce Yang, Inon Barnatan, Michael Yeung, Tessa Lark, and Sean Shibe.

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

7:00 p.m: Midweek Masterworks: Mozart & Pärt

Arvo Pärt
Solfeggio

Mozart
String Quartet No. 19 In C Major, K. 465 "Dissonance"

Arvo Pärt
Spiegel Im Spiegel

Mozart
Duo For Violin And Cello K. 423

Arvo Pärt
Fratres

Friday, August 9, 2024

7:30 p.m: Gratitude

J.s. Bach
Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150

Gibbons
O Clap Your Hands

Paul Smith
Nunc Dimittis

caroline shaw
and the swallow

Rachmaninoff
Bogoroditse Devo

Jake Runestad
Let My Love Be Heard

Reena Esmail
When the Violin

Beethoven
Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97 "Archduke"

Featuring Voces8, Stefan Jackiw, Sterling Elliott, Inon Barnatan, and Alisa Weilerstein

Sunday, August 11, 2024

3:00 p.m: In Loving Memory

Ravel
Duo for Violin and Cello

Arensky
Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 32  

Fauré
Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48

Featuring Stefan Jackiw, Sterling Elliott, Inon Barnatan, Blake Pouliot, Alisa Weilerstein, Matthew Lipman, Chi-Yuan Chen, James Kang, Brian Gadbow, Jeremy Kurtz-Harris, Julie Smith Phillips, Ruben Valenzuela, VOCES8, and Ludovic Morlot.

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

7:00 p.m: Midweek Masterworks: Notes on a Scandal

Gesualdo
Two Madrigals (String Quintet Arrangement)

Debussy
Six Epigraphes Antiques for Piano Four-Hands

Franck
Piano Quintet in F Minor

Featuring Simone Porter, Blake Pouliot, Matthew Lipman, Masumi Per Rostad, Paul Wiancko, Inon Barnatan, Conrad Tao, and Simone Porter

Friday, August 16, 2024

7:30 p.m: Counterpoint II
World Premiere
Synergy Series

This performance pairs pianist Conrad Tao’s virtuosity with tap dancer Caleb Teicher’s rhythmic genius and celebrates the dialogue between tap dance and classical music.

Saturday, August 17, 2024

7:30 p.m: California Dreamin

Rachmaninoff
et al. Rachmaninoff Songbook

Rozsa
Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 15a

Reena Esmail
Fantasia from String Quartet "Ragamala"

Terry Riley
G Song

John Williams
Theme from Schindler’s List

John Adams
Selections from John’s Book of Alleged Dances

Featuring Conrad Tao, piano, Blake Pouliot, Simone Porter, Abeo Quartet, Matthew Lipman, Masumi Per Rostad, and Paul Wiancko

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

7:00 p.m: Midweek Masterworks: Instrumental Stories

Bartók
Contrasts

Michi Wiancko
Lullaby for the Transient

Brahms
String Sextet No. 1, Op. 18

Featuring Yura Lee, Anthony Mcgill, Gilles Vonsattel, Simone Porter, Jonathan Vinocour, Paul Wiancko, James Ehnes, Jack Liebeck, Paul Watkins, and Kyril Zlotnikov.

Friday, August 23, 2024

7:30 p.m: The Road to Victory

Beethoven
String Quartet No. 11, Op. 95 "Serioso"

Bridge
Cello Sonata, H. 125

Coleridge-Taylor
Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp Minor, Op. 10

Featuring James Ehnes, Simone Porter, Jonathan Vinocour, Paul Watkins, Gilles Vonsattel, Anthony McGill, Jack Liebeck, Njioma Greivious, Yura Lee, and Kyril Zlotnikov.

Saturday, August 24, 2024

7:30 p.m: Finale: A Song and Dance

Paul Schoenfield
Selections from Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano

Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending

Dvo?ák
Serenade for Strings

Featuring Jack Liebeck, Anthony McGill, Gilles Vonsattel, Inon Barnatan, Dustin Donahue, Sidney Hopson, James Ehnes, Jack Liebeck, and the SummerFest Chamber Orchestra.