Celebrate the laid-back mountain lifestyle this summer with a chamber music takeover at this iconic River Arts District venue. Bring your friends, grab a drink and bites from the on-site taqueria and enjoy a liberated listening experience.
ANANT MALPANI, VIOLIN
CHRISTOPHER TAVERNIER, PIANO
Founded by trumpet soloist Mary Elizabeth Bowden, this award-winning brass ensemble spotlights standout women brass players and highlights musicians from marginalized groups through personnel and programming. Winners of the American Prize in Chamber Music, they’ve been praised for their “beautiful sounds” (American Record Guide), “fine playing” (Gramophone), and “staggeringly high caliber of performance.” (Textura).
One of the world’s leading piano quartets, this ensemble is known for pushing chamber music past the old rulebook, pairing virtuosic playing with adventurous repertoire and unexpected collaborations. With major international awards and recordings spanning everything from the classical to bold cross-genre projects, they discover new sound fields in chamber music and perform compositions outside the mainstream repertoire.
This American-Canadian-Taiwanese quartet has quickly earned international acclaim, praised for its “tremendous variety of color” (The Strad) and “cohesion and intonation one might expect from an ensemble twice their age” (Third Coast Review). Prizewinners in major international chamber music competitions, they tour widely and bring the same clarity and intensity to beloved repertoire and to collaborations with living composers.
Praised for “sparkling virtuosity” and “outstand-ing talent” (Ponca City News), this trio champions the rich, underperformed repertoire written for clarinet. Prizewinning musicians with interna-tional festival appearances and an active touring schedule across the U.S., they bring high-impact performances to programs ranging from beloved Romantic era favorites to 20th-century works. Expect a performance that is both technically fearless and genuinely engaging.
Praised as an “all-star chamber group” with a “uniformly rich sound from top to bottom” (Cleveland Classical), this quartet brings together leading musicians from the world’s great orchestras — including the Berlin Phil-harmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. By uniting their experiences as internationally touring soloists and orchestra musicians, they create a distinctive sound and unanimity of expression.
