Performances

Join PostClassical Ensemble to celebrate the 200th anniversary of U.S.-Brazil diplomatic relations with a concert featuring a rich array of Brazilian music, including works by José Maurício Nunes, Francisco Mignone, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and performances by Elin Melgarejo and Tatjana Mead Chamis.

PostClassical Ensemble’s New Year tradition, Amazing Grace, will feature Native American composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, who will showcase his works, including selections from his cantata Standing Bear, and will receive the American Roots Artist Award for his contributions to American music.

Oboist James Austin Smith PostClassical Ensemble in a program featuring oboe works from Baroque to contemporary, including pieces by Albinoni, Price, Penderecki, Berio, Walker, and Puts.

Angel Gil-Ordóñez’ annual visit to work with the students of the Academia Renacimiento/Trinitate Philharmonia culminates with a final rehearsal.

Discover a new perspective on the legendary Duke Ellington’s music as PostClassical Ensemble and Guest Curator Dr. John E. Hasse explore his diverse and lesser-known concert pieces, showcasing his groundbreaking forays into ballet, opera, film scores, Broadway musicals, and symphony orchestras.

As part of Angel Gil-Ordóñez’ regular guest conducting partnership with the Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, Gil-Ordóñez conducts music by Beethoven, Martinů, and Revueltas.

As part of the exhibit “The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and its Legacy,” PostClassical Ensemble presents a program with works by Schoenberg and Weill.

PostClassical Ensemble’s seasonal favorite returns with a program for chorale and orchestra that celebrates the universal expression of the human spirit through music. Amazing Grace, perhaps the most universal of folk hymns, has inspired people all around the world for centuries.

Join PostClassical Ensemble for Bouncing off the Walls: Music and Architecture, a concert which explores the complex relation between the two art forms, from music that was specifically written for particular buildings to early 20th-century modernist efforts to reduce both forms to their elemental materials.

This concert in Ankara, Turkey, celebrates the National Day of Spain with a program featuring two emblematic works by Manuel de Falla, and closing with with Ferit Tüzün’s Çayda çıra.