UPCOMING
Sets at 8:00p and 10:30p on August 20, 21, 22, and 23.
Four-time Grammy Award–winner Stanley Clarke is a living legend jazz bass virtuoso. In 1972, he founded the groundbreaking jazz-rock fusion band Return to Forever alongside Chick Corea. Now collaborating with the innovative pianist Hiromi—who also performed and recorded with Corea—and joined by the PUBLIQuartet, they pay tribute to the late great keyboardist with a program of Corea’s works and original compositions he inspired.
“Chick was like a brother to me,” Clarke says. “What really created the bond between us was our similar beliefs in the power of the individual to create the most beautiful and inspiring art—the great healer—for people.”
NEA Jazz Master and four-time Grammy Award-winning bassist Stanley Clarke teams up with frequent collaborator Hiromi — “one of jazz piano’s most brazenly virtuosic players” (The New York Times) — to pay tribute to their friend, the visionary pianist and composer Chick Corea. From straight-ahead to avant-garde, bebop to fusion, Corea helped shape the sound of modern jazz. Joined by the innovative string ensemble PUBLIQuartet, Clarke and Hiromi perform Corea’s works, alongside original pieces inspired by his boundless creativity.
Audiences can't get enough of Hiromi. A boundary-defying pianist who never fails to deliver an exhilarating experience, she returns with a must-see personal tribute that's going to be truly extraordinary. Joining forces with bass legend Stanley Clarke, they honor Chick Corea, the Chelsea-born jazz giant who had massive influence on both of their lives and careers. With the brilliant PUBLIQuartet adding lush strings to the mix, this is an evening of music full of love that radiates off the stage, into the audience: joyful, virtuosic, and deeply felt.
Presented by Vivo Performing Arts.
NEA Jazz Master and four-time Grammy Award winning bassist Stanley Clarke teams with frequent collaborator and innovative pianist Hiromi to pay tribute to Chick Corea in a new program of Corea works and original compositions inspired by the late, great pianist.
NEA Jazz Master and four-time Grammy Award winner Stanley Clarke joins visionary pianist Hiromi for a heartfelt tribute to Chick Corea. The program features Corea’s works and new compositions inspired by the late, legendary keyboardist—a 27-time Grammy winner with deep musical ties to both artists. Clarke and Corea were longtime collaborators in the pioneering fusion group Return to Forever and Hiromi’s own decades-long connection with Corea began when he invited the then 17-year-old pianist to perform with him in Tokyo.
Honoring those shared histories, Clarke and Hiromi are joined by the acclaimed PUBLIQuartet, whose inventive improvisation and boundary-pushing approach to contemporary classical, jazz and world chamber music bring an expansive new dimension to this tribute.
Stop/Time Festival is a two-day, multi-venue, multi-artist spring festival produced by Hancher Auditorium and devoted to innovation and independence in contemporary music and the arts. This is a festival of discovery—opening our ears and minds to new sounds, ideas, and possibilities.
Presented in spaces throughout downtown Iowa City and across the University of Iowa campus, the festival highlights the region’s century-long tradition of creative experimentation. Musicians will present work spanning psych, jazz, creative music, contemporary classical, avant-garde performance, alternative folk, ambient, noise, and electronic sound. Alongside them, writers and interdisciplinary artists will offer readings, activations, and collaborations that extend the conversation across art forms.
The inspiration to highlight Bob Stewart’s legacy is in response to his singularity in the “Tuba Diaspora” and the reverberations of his work throughout the diaspora. This concert is a culmination of music and artists that have opened their creative minds to new possibilities and paradigms for the tuba. Bob Stewart is a critical point of intersection from which so many others have branched. His work has inspired tubists to explore, question, and create, forwarding themselves to lead their own ensembles and helping to establish new tuba repertoire.
Featuring performances by Henry Threadgill’s renowned ensemble Very, Very Circus, Heavy Metal Duo, First Line Band, and Grammy nominated string quartet PUBLIQuartet.
Ensembles will play the music of Bob Stewart, Curtis Stewart, Charles Mingus, Henry Threadgill, Lester Bowie, and Arthur Blythe.
The Shelter Island Friends of Music (SIFM) was founded in 1977 and incorporated as non-profit in 1979. Our mission is to present world-renowned artists and rising stars to music lovers on the East End of Long Island.
PQ returns to NYCB for a second run of performances of Vijay Iyer’s Dig the Say, to a pas de deux choreographed by Justin Peck and danced by Tiler Peck and Roman Mejia.
Performances on February 5 (7:30p), February 6 (7:30p), February 7 (2:00p), February 8 (3:00p), February 24 (7:30p), and February 25 (7:30p).
PUBLIQuartet celebrates the legacy of Detroit’s own Creative Arts Collective with a program inspired by the world renowned artists CAC has brought to Detroit over the past 5 decades. Featuring the world-premiere of George Lewis’s latest String Quartet 3.5 “Great Migrations” commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation; as well as works by Vijay Iyer, Henry Threadgill and CAC founding member and Director A. Spencer Barefield who will join on guitar. This is the final performance in a series of concerts and commissions celebrating CAC, presented with support from The Knight Foundation, New Music USA, The Sphinx Foundation, The Kresge Foundation and Koussevitzky Foundation.
Homecoming show! Join us in at Brooklyn’s Art Haus; works by Andy Akiho, Jeff Scott, Mazz Swift, Eddie Venegas and more!
Multi-GRAMMY®-nominated PUBLIQuartet is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. Committed to supporting living composers of varying genres and expanding the classical canon, PUBLIQuartet explores resonances between contemporary, blues, jazz, freely improvised, and rock-inflected languages in their latest album. Enjoy this genre-bending string quartet as part of the Living Music Underground series, curated by Nadia Sirota.
PQ performs What Is American: Rhythm Nation at a private location in Ancramdale, NY.
Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire demonstrates depth, range, and creative breadth in a four program residency in three different venues. From an intimate solo performance to an expansive ensemble—including a trio set with Festival fixtures drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Sullivan Fortner— journey through Akinmusire’s captivating blend of compositions that are as poetic and graceful as they are bold and unflinching.
Fulfill your wanderlust with a day of musical discovery and community connection at the second day of WoCo Fest 2025: Uplift at The Mansion at Strathmore and the Strathmore Lawn! In a time when we need it most, come together to uplift artists and one another through vibrant concerts, live composer workshops, and inspiring discussions with musicians, composers, and scholars. Experience uplifting music’s evolution from medieval renaissance to experimental electronics.
Be enthralled by performances from PUBLIQuartet, Seraph Brass, and Tapestry in the Mansion’s music room, classical guitar/cello duo Boyd Meets Girl during live composer workshops, and an electrifying festival finale by composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z. As an official Partner Event of WorldPride 2025, enjoy free outdoor performances by The QUEENTET Project featuring chamber ensemble District5 & DC-based drag artist Tara Hoot, The National LGBTQIA+ Flute Choir, and the International Pride Orchestra Brass Ensemble.
Your pay-what-you-can ticket includes entry to the Mansion, access to community booths, composer workshops, educational programs with the BI team, and more!
Free admission. The award-winning PUBLIQuartet is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. In 2019 they garnered Chamber Music America’s prestigious Visionary Award for their outstanding and inventive approach to a broad range of musical styles and genres. This evening’s program includes new compositions interspersed with reinterpretations of music by Julia Perry, Duke Ellington, and Sun Ra.
PUBLIQuartet's fun, interactive workshops focus on the basics of improvisation and include games, demonstrations, and simple interactive exercises that explore key elements of all music: rhythm, harmony, melody, texture, and imagination. Workshop participants of all musical levels – from absolute beginner to highly experienced – are invited to explore on-the-spot music making guided by members of this civically minded and critically acclaimed ensemble.
Patricia Reser Center for the Arts
The award-winning PUBLIQuartet is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. In 2019 they garnered Chamber Music America’s prestigious Visionary Award for their outstanding and inventive approach to a broad range of musical styles and genres.
“A perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music.” The Washington Post
Join us at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music's Cary Hall for What Is American: Rhythm Nation, the next issue in PUBLIQuartet's What Is American series, a GRAMMY®-nominated album and touring project. This second volume features and celebrates American rhythmic traditions as expressions of bodily autonomy and tacit history-keeping. The program features four new works by Jeff Scott, Mazz Swift, Eddie Venegas, and Pulitzer Prize finalist Jlin, made possible through a 2024 Chamber Music America Artistic Projects grant supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation. Each piece evokes a distinct rhythmic world, reflecting the plurality of American movements and protecting the unspoken spirit of their lineage's narratives.
In its Chamber Music Pittsburgh debut, PUBLIQuartet presents What is American: Found Futures. With works by Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Jin, Jeff Scott, and Mazz Swift, interspersed with reinterpretations of music by Julia Perry, Duke Ellington, and Sun Ra, this concert envisions a future for American classical music rooted in a spirit of now-ness.
About this Event
(FPAC) Faulkner Performing Arts CenterView map $0-$20
453 N. Garland, Fayetteville, AR
Following up their two GRAMMY®-nominated projects, What Is American: Rhythm Nation celebrates American rhythmic traditions as expressions of bodily autonomy and tacit history keeping. From the African rhythms and fiddle techniques that propel Trevor Weston’s Juba to the iconic grooves of Janet Jackson, the program includes improvisations on the beat breaks of Daniel Bernard Roumain’s Hip-Hop Etudes and original works by PUBLIQuartet, alongside new works by Pulitzer Prize finalist Jlin, Mazz Swift, Eddie Venegas, and Jeff Scott, commissioned with the support of a 2024 Chamber Music America Artistic Projects grant. Each of these new works evokes a distinct rhythmic world, reflecting the plurality of American movement(s) and protecting the unspoken spirit of their lineage’s narratives. PUBLIQuartet’s 2024 CMA Artistic Projects grant is supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
PROGRAM
Jessie Montgomery - “Voodoo Dolls” (2008)
Daniel Bernard Roumain, Selections from Hip Hop Etudes (2006)
Jlin, New work commissioned by PQ (title TBD) (2024)
Jeff Scott, Blues for Buddy (2024)
Mazz Swift, Digging Gold; Deeper Blue (2024)
Eddie Venegas, Cachumbandeando En Clave (2024)
Trevor Weston, Juba (2017)
Vijay Iyer, “Dig The Say” (2012)
Janet Jackson, Rhythm Nation, arr. PUBLIQuartet (2024)
Tickets go on sale September 1, 2024
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The follow-up to PUBLIQuartet's GRAMMY®-nominated What Is American project, Rhythm Nation celebrates American rhythmic traditions as expressions of bodily autonomy and tacit history keeping.
The program will include performances of four brand new works by Pulitzer Prize finalist Jlin, Mazz Swift, Eddie Venegas, and Jeff Scott - all commissioned with the support of a 2024 Chamber Music America Artistic Projects grant.
Each of these pieces evokes a distinct rhythmic world, reflecting the plurality of American movement(s) and protecting the unspoken spirit of their lineage’s narratives.
The 2024 Chamber Music America Artistic Projects grant supporting these commissions was made possible by the support of the Howard Gilman Foundation.
Bass-baritone Davóne Tines (“one of the most powerful voices of our time, LA Times) shares a new version of his MASS project together with PUBLIQuartet, the multi-GRAMMY®-nominated improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. MASS explores spirituality and mysticism through varied cultural lenses: following the format of a Christian liturgy, Western European, Afro-American, and 21st-century traditions converge in a single dramatic arc.
J.S. Bach — “Mache dich, mein Herze rein” from St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
G.F. Handel — “Leave Me Loathsome Light” from Semele, HWV 58
Traditional Spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan and Eric Byers “Give Me Jesus”
Tyshawn Sorey — From Songs for Death, I. “After ‘Were You There’” arr. Eric Byers
Julius Eastman — Prelude to The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc
Igee Dieudonné and Davóne Tines — Vigil
Caroline Shaw — MASS
Duke Ellington — Come Sunday
Rhiannon Giddens — At the Purchaser’s Option, arr. PUBLIQuartet
Julia Perry — Prelude for Piano (1946, rev. 1962), arr. Hamilton Berry
Jeff Scott — Blues for Buddy (2024) 5'
(excerpted from musicmondays.org)
This event is part of the annual Classical Series. Single tickets to this performance and subscriptions for the 2024-2025 Classical Series will be available for purchase starting May 28.
PUBLIQuartet does more than push the boundaries of the string quartet. It actively breaks down barriers to create live concert experiences that are accessible to and representative of the widest possible audiences. The group’s innovative programming foregrounds new works and marginalized composers, centers improvisation and reinterpretation, and invites audiences into the music by connecting to personal experience. Hear its latest program, Rhythm Nation, which explores works that draw inspiration from a wide range of American rhythmic traditions.
(excerpted from https://artsticketing.wisc.edu/)
Presented in collaboration with The University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program
A celebration of the music of Hancher's 2024–2025 composer-in-residence—featuring the composer herself.
The PUBLIQuartet–of which Jessie Montgomery was a founding member—won the 2013 Concert Artists Guild New Music/New Places Award. In 2019, the ensemble won Chamber Music America's prestigious Visionary Award in recognition of their commitment to excellence and innovation. Embracing improvisation, PUBLIQuartet mixes genres while shining a light on American multiculturalism.
Montgomery, who is Hancher's 2024–2025 composer-in-residence, was Musical America's Composer of the Year in 2023. Her compositions weave classical music together with poetry, improvisation, vernacular music, and a vibrant social consciousness.
“[PUBLIQuartet] is a perfect encapsulation of today's trends in chamber music.” — The Washington Post
“[Montgomery] never fails to enthrall with her rhythmically complex, richly orchestrated, highly original pieces” — WTTW Chicago PBS
Jessie Montgomery: The 2024–2025 Hancher composer-in-residence
The winner of the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Jessie Montgomery was the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Mead Composer-In-Residence for three years beginning in July 2021. The Washington Post describes her work as “turbulent, wildly colorful, and exploding with life.”
Throughout Hancher's 2024–2025 season, Montgomery will perform twice at Hancher and will do intensive work with students in the University of Iowa School of Music.
PROGRAM:
ALL-JESSIE MONTGOMERY
Musings for 2 Violins
Rhapsody No. 1 for Solo Violin
Voodoo Dolls
Break Away
Standing/Forward for String Quartet
New improvised work featuring Jessie Montgomery + PUBLIQuartet
(excerpted from https://hancher.uiowa.edu/2024-25/publiquartet)
PUBLIQuartet brings their program "What is American" to the next New Lens at 21c Museum Hotel on November 3rd at 7pm.
"A perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music." —Washington Post
Winner of the 2019 Chamber Music America Visionary Award for outstanding and innovative approaches to contemporary classical, jazz, and world chamber music, PUBLIQuartet celebrates American rhythmic traditions with Rhythm Nation.
Experience a dynamic fusion of classical mastery and contemporary innovation with GRAMMY®-nominated PUBLIQuartet, praised by The Washington Post as “the epitome of modern chamber music”, in collaboration with sensational mezzo-soprano Renée Rapier. Be the first to hear the world premiere of GRAMMY®-nominated Clarice Assad‘s new work exploring the unbreakable spirit of women who dare to challenge societal norms and fight for their convictions. The remainder of the program explores the resonance between contemporary, blues, jazz, free, and rock-inflected music – all of which trace their roots back to the Black and Indigenous music that inspired Dvořák’s “American” String Quartet. Don’t miss this electrifying concert bridging the past, present, and future of classical music!
(from Newport Classical)
