PRAx Presents: PUBLIQuartet, What is American?
May
18
7:00 PM19:00

PRAx Presents: PUBLIQuartet, What is American?

  • Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (map)
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Two-time Grammy nominees, PUBLIQuartet’s modern interpretations of chamber music make them one of the most dynamic artists of their generation. Through programs like PUBLIQ Access, they promote emerging composers and present a wide variety of underrepresented music while also engaging traditional classical music audiences. Their program “What is American?” offers an exploration of Dvořák's beloved “American” Quartet while expanding the range of idioms and musical traditions to include contemporary, blues, jazz, free and rock-inflected music.

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Diane Monroe's Violin Woman, African Dreams
Apr
12
7:30 PM19:30

Diane Monroe's Violin Woman, African Dreams

  • Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University | Baker Hall (map)
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Lehigh University presents composer and violinist Diane Monroe as she presents Violin Woman, African Dreams, a work that bridges jazz, classical, and traditional African music with narration and storytelling by Charlotte Blake Alston. Adding additional sounds include Ms. Monroe’s acclaimed collaborators, Curlee Raven Holton, who weaves a musical narrative that incorporates sound and visual art, the string ensemble PUBLIQuartet, banjoist and Broadway veteran Ayodele Maakheru, and Yacouba Sissoko.

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The Julia Perry Centenary Celebration & Festival Opening Night
Mar
13
8:00 PM20:00

The Julia Perry Centenary Celebration & Festival Opening Night

The Julia Perry Centenary Celebration and Festival Opening Night, presented by Experiential Orchestra and Videmus, features the multi-GRAMMY-nominated PUBLIQuartet, applauded by The Washington Post as “a perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music;” soprano Laquita Mitchell, praised in The New York Times for her “smooth-voiced and soothing presence;” and pianist and musicologist Samantha Ege, known for her “vivid, revelatory” performances (iNews). PUBLIQuartet will bring a creative re-imagining to the music of Julia Perry, performing world premieres of rediscovered works by Perry in arrangements by members of the quartet Jannina Norpoth, Hamilton Berry and Curtis Stewart, including Perry’s Miniature for Piano and Stewart’s We Who Seek, which draws on Perry’s choral work Ye, Who Seek the Truth in a new version for quartet, electronics, and spoken word to be performed by Stewart. Soprano Laquita Mitchell will perform two rediscovered songs by Perry, How Beautiful are the Feet and By the Sea. Samantha Ege performs Perry’s Miniature for Piano and Prelude for Piano. The evening also celebrates the release of Experiential Orchestra’s album American Counterpoints, which features contributions from all of the PUBLIQuartet members.

Tickets available here.

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(CANCELED) Diane Monroe's Violin Woman, African Dreams
Feb
25
7:30 PM19:30

(CANCELED) Diane Monroe's Violin Woman, African Dreams

  • Montgomery College | Theater at the Montco Cultural Center (map)
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The Lively Arts Series proudly presents composer and violinist Diane Monroe as she presents Violin Woman, African Dreams, a work that bridges jazz, classical, and traditional African music with narration and storytelling by Charlotte Blake Alston. Adding additional sounds include Ms. Monroe’s acclaimed collaborators, Curlee Raven Holton, who weaves a musical narrative that incorporates sound and visual art, the string ensemble PUBLIQuartet, banjoist and Broadway veteran Ayodele Maakheru, and Yacouba Sissoko.

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String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam: Kronos Quartet 50 for the Future Weekend
May
6
to May 7

String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam: Kronos Quartet 50 for the Future Weekend

PUBLIQuartet joins Kronos Quartet for a marathon weekend featuring a complete performance of 50 for the Future: fifty new string quartets commissioned by Kronos to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Presented by String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam.

Photo above of our performance with Fode Lassana Diabate © Juri-Hiensch

This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Howard Gilman Foundation.


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JAMM presents PUBLIQuartet
Mar
29
7:30 PM19:30

JAMM presents PUBLIQuartet

  • Juneau Arts and Culture Center (JACC) (map)
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JAMM (Juneau Alaska Music Matters) is hosting Grammy-nominated ensemble, PUBLIQuartet for one night only. This genre-bending quartet performs a mix of modern and multi-media pieces that will appeal to music lovers of all ages. Light food and beverages will be available for purchase. 

This is a benefit concert for JAMM - all proceeds will support music education for over 500 Juneau youth. 

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Banff Presents PUBLIQuartet's Reflections on Beauty
Sep
2
8:00 PM20:00

Banff Presents PUBLIQuartet's Reflections on Beauty

  • Jenny Belzburg Theatre - Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (map)
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PUBLIQuartet (Curtis Stewart and Jannina Norpoth, violin; Nick Revel, viola; Hamilton Berry, cello)

MIND THE GAP: “Reflections on Beauty” 
Chronicling the life of Madam C.J. Walker and the strong communities she fostered in America at the turn of the 20th century.  

Intermission 

Davóne Tines, bass-baritone
Rachel Kerr, piano

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