Events

Violinist Soovin Kim gives a solo recital that includes Bach’s Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001, and Partita No. 2, BWV 1004, plus Ysaÿe’s dazzling “Fritz Kreisler” Sonata, which features several Bach influences.

Four-time Grammy Award winner Stanley Clarke has attained “living legend” status during his over 40-year career as a bass virtuoso. Born in Philadelphia, Clarke has been a constant force of nature in American music since the early 1970s with the success of the jazz-fusion group Return To Forever.

Toronto-born mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo is only 24 but is already taking the opera world by storm. With a voice that critics are hailing as “glowing” (Opera News), “sublime” (New York Classical Review), and “arrestingly vulnerable” (The New York Times).

The Escher String Quartet performs Mozart’s String Quintet in C Major, K. 515, and Dvořák’s Piano Quintet, featuring pianist Wei Luo. Luo opens the program with the world premiere of the solo piano piece Poems, written for her by Marc Neikrug.

Nicknamed the “Arpeggione” Sonata after the six-stringed, bowed guitar popular in the early 19th century, Schubert’s Sonata in A Minor is often performed today with viola and piano. The program also includes Rachmaninoff’s Trio élégiaque in G Minor.

The story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a single evening. Academy Award-winner Sam Mendes (Skyfall, The Ferryman) directs Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles who play the Lehman Brothers, their sons and grandsons.

Bass-baritone Philippe Sly and pianist Michael McMahon perform Schubert’s achingly beautiful song cycle Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey). The work’s 24 songs, which Schubert wrote in 1827, are based on poems about lost or unrequited love by the German poet Wilhelm Müller. Note: Concert is 1 hour, 20 minutes.

Oscar-winning film composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Romantic Piano Quintet features pianist Haochen Zhang. Also on the program is Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata and Schnittke’s humorous Moz-Art for Two Violins, performed by Harvey de Souza and Jennifer Gilbert.

Beloved 6 & 12 string guitar genius and raconteur nonpareil, makes his return to the Lensic stage. Delightful stream of conscious stories, astonishing guitar virtuosity and a voice he himself has likened to "Geese farts on a muggy day", a Leo Kottke concert is a not to be missed event.

Pianist Haochen Zhang, who, this summer, marks his seventh season appearing at the Festival, gives a solo recital that features two popular works: Debussy’s moody and evocative Images Series 1 & 2 and Schumann’s highly virtuosic Fantasie in C Major, dedicated to one of the most influential pianists in history, Franz Liszt.

Matthew Ricketts's String Quartet (2019 Festival commission, world premiere); Tom Chiu's RETROCON; Alex Stephenson's String Quartet (2019 Festival commission, world premiere); Michael Gandolfi's New Work for String Quartet (2019 Festival commission, world premiere).

Includes Cello Suite No. 3, BWV 1009, fea. Mark Kosower, principal cello, Cleveland Orchestra, as well as the Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028, and Sonata in G Minor, BWV 1029, performed by violist Choong-Jin Chang and pianist Gilles Vonsattel.