Performances

22-year-old cellist Zlatomir Fung, the first American in four decades and youngest musician ever to win First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition Cello Division, will play Edward Elgar’s Concerto in E Minor for Cello and Orchestra with the Bowdoin International Music Festival Orchestra, conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez.

Based on Joe Horowitz’ book about the path of classical music in America, this multimedia program is a highlight of the 2022 American Voices Festival.

Mahler Fourth presages the emergence of jazz: the music riffs on itself throughout, replacing “classical” repetition of themes with constant variation. PostClassical Ensemble premieres a new chamber version in which the symphony’s whirling scherzo becomes a concertino for bass trombone, showcasing one of the world’s great instrumentalists, David Taylor.

PostClassical Ensemble celebrates composer William Dawson and features a forgotten masterpiece from this major Black symphonist.

As part of Angel Gil-Ordóñez’ regular guest conducting partnership with the Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, Gil-Ordóñez plays Sciarrino, Delius, Perry, and Prokofiev.

Part of the Music from Spain: A Fall of Concerts classical music series organized by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington, D.C., the concerto as a whole is a kind of condensation of the history of Spanish music.

PostClassical Ensemble explores the roots of Black classical music, from the sorrow songs that speak to the suffering of enslaved Africans in the United States to the spiritual arrangements of composer Harry Burleigh and the musical prophecies of Antonin Dvorak.

This performance by PostClassical Ensemble, produced in collaboration with the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington, D.C., contextualizes the music in times of the Spanish painter Juan Gris.

As part of Angel Gil-Ordóñez’ regular guest conducting partnership with the Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, Gil-Ordóñez plays Schubert, Schoenberg, and Márquez.

WETA Radio’s Front Row Washington presents classical performances by top local musicians and ensembles. In this episode, listen live to PostClassical Ensemble playing Bruckner & Stravinsky on September 13th at 9 pm.

PostClassical Ensemble is joined by award-winning actor Edward Gero to present a striking new version of the Stravinsky classic A Soldier’s Tale with a modern-day moral: Save The Arts! The program also features Daniel Schnyder’s Berlin Suite 1920, in which the gaiety and angst of the Roaring Twenties resonate today.

PostClassical Ensemble is joined by world-renowned trombonist David Taylor and award-winning actor Edward Gero, in a new imagining of the Stravinsky classic with a new moral: #SAVETHEARTS.

In this online streamed concert, PostClassical Ensemble musicians, reunited for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, play Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Violin and Percussion, which may well be the most formidable ever composed by an American.

The Chairman Mixes is a series of chats with cocktail pairings. In this first episode, Ángel Gil-Ordóñez, PostClassical Ensemble’s conductor and music director, joins Douglas Rathbun, PCE’s board chair, looking into the conductor as a profession. The discussion is paired with the 1888 recipe of the classic Martini cocktail.