Our Annual Audience Choice Concert is always a blast. Vote for your favorites all year long and hear the results in one wildly fun concert. The program is a secret, you'll have to come to find out!
We’ve been working with the composition students of Webster University and are blown away by their music! Students have created an amazing diversity of sounds for violin/viola, cello, clarinet and piano. Come and hear what the next generation is up to, we promise you will be impressed.
$5 general public
Free for students
http://events.webster.edu/event/wet_ink_new_chamber_music_with_the_chamber_project_saint_louis
Performers:
Matt Pickart, violin/viola
Stephanie Hunt, cello
Dana Hotle, clarinet
Kelly Karamanov, piano
Passion, sensuality, jealousy, kindness. What does love sound like? We will explore the many facets of the love relationship from parental love, to love that moves beyond the restrictions of society, to a love doomed to fail.
We are thrilled to be the Ensemble in Residence for the Webster University Department of Music’s Wet Ink program. This initiative provides student composers an opportunity to work with a professional ensemble, culminating in a public performance. After an initial reading in January, students were able to edit their works. On April 10, we will rehearse them and you are invited into the process. Final performance will be April 26.
Free
Performers:
Matt Pickart, violin/viola
Stephanie Hunt, cello
Dana Hotle, clarinet
Kelly Karamanov, piano
Join vocalist Robert McNichols Jr., pianist Chris White and the Chamber Project St. Louis String Quartet for this one hour interactive event exploring the music of Florence B. Price.
Harris Stowe State University
Clay Early Childhood Development Center
Professional Development Room 204
FREE
Free parking
t’s time for our art form to reflect our community, which means just as much music by women as men and by people with diverse backgrounds and stories. No longer should a program of music by women be unusual, and this program features some of the best music you’ve never heard. Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s commanding and feisty Piano Quintet and Florence Price’s soulful and elegant Quartet in G will leave you wanting more from these two extraordinary women. We are thrilled commission Stephanie Berg again to add to the canon of great contemporary music.
It’s time for our art form to reflect our community, which means just as much music by women as men and by people with diverse backgrounds and stories. No longer should a program of music by women be unusual, and this program features some of the best music you’ve never heard. Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s commanding and feisty Piano Quintet and Florence Price’s soulful and elegant Quartet in G will leave you wanting more from these two extraordinary women. We are thrilled commission Stephanie Berg again to add to the canon of great
Memories of things lost, nostalgia, and hope permeate these works. Fairouz explores the Arab-American experience in what he calls “a journey to the new world.” Dvorak, dedicates his Quintet “To my nation” as an embrace of his Bohemian nationalism which brought him worldwide fame.
New encounters with determined artistry. Sometimes a great piece ends up in the Lost and Found of history, and this program features two of the greatest to be found, along with a commission by a new resident of St. Louis, Darwin Aquino. Coleridge-Taylor, whose mother was English and his father of African-American heritage, was one of the brightest rising starts of Europe when he died young. Louise Farrenc demanded to be paid as much as her male peers when her Nonet rocketed her to fame, but fell back into obscurity after her death. Her music is rightfully regaining the recognition it deserves.
The word “millennial” can sometimes get a bad rap. Well, we are here to look at the good side of this controversial group. Some of the most magical works in history have been written by generations determined to shift the conversation or simply create gorgeous music. Whether you find inspirations from a Valencia orange or a masterwork by Mozart, we will explore what happens when new viewpoints disrupt the status quo.
Retakes, revisions and remixes: Chamber Project St. Louis will present the chamber music of Piazzolla, Ravel, Sibelius and Bunch featuring flute, violin, violas, cello and harp. Sibelius finesses the music of his early years, Kenji Bunch takes inspiration from Americana transcending cultural barriers, and Ravel is remixed to include the harp creating a new sound. All of this just proves sometimes a little change can be good!
