Performances

In conjunction with the Phillips’s exhibition The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement, PostClassical Ensemble presents two programs of music, readings, commentary, and visual art.

In conjunction with the Phillips’s exhibition The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement, PostClassical Ensemble presents two programs of music, readings, commentary, and visual art.

Angel Gil-Ordóñez is a regular guest conductor at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine. This will be his 5th appearance.

What is the function of the conductor? How has this function evolved until our day. Are orchestras adapting to the audiences of the XXIst century? In this lecture, Music Director Angel Gil-Ordóñez discusses these matters and show video clips of great conductors of the past in rehearsals and performances.

This program focuses on the relationship between Aaron Copland and the dynamic Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. A screening of the emotionally searing film Redes is accompanied by a live performance of the original Revueltas score.

As Hollywood’s most gifted composer, Bernard Herrmann scored Psycho, Vertigo, Citizen Kane, and dozens of other memorable films. But he was much more than that.

Conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez, the Annapolis Symphony Academy Ensemble performs works by Bartok, Grieg, and Elgar.

The winners of the 2018 edition of the Georgetown University Orchestra Concerto Competition perform accompanied by the orchestra. PostClassical Ensemble’s principals David Jones and Philippe Chao join the celebration.

This performance is an homage to singer and composer Harry Burleigh, and his most celebrated work Deep River.

Join us for an evening celebrating Armenian art & music. Tchaikovsky International Competition winner Narek Hakhnazaryan will perform works by Bach, Ligeti, and Khudoyan. And he’ll partner with PCE Concertmaster Netanel Draiblate in the sizzling finale of Kodaly’s Duo for Violin and Cello.

This unique mega-event, which will transform Washington National Cathedral’s Great Nave into an exotic cultural kaleidoscope, includes both Javanese and Balinese gamelan with dancers, archival films, and much more.

A 50-piece orchestra conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez performs Silvestre Revueltas’ searing score for the Mexican film masterpiece Redes (1936).

The GU Concert Choir joins the University Orchestra to perform works by Leonard Bernstein for the centennial of his birth.

Angel Gil-Ordóñez conducts the most exclusive orchestra of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

Perspectives Ensemble collaborates with visual artist Kevork Mourad to create an audiovisual and musical experience that transports you on a multimedia journey through Spain. The program includes two classical works by the great Spanish composer Manuel de Falla: El Amor Brujo and Master Peter’s Puppet Show.

Perspectives Ensemble collaborates with visual artist Kevork Mourad to create an audiovisual and musical experience that transports you on a multimedia journey through Spain. The program includes two classical works by the great Spanish composer Manuel de Falla: El Amor Brujo and Master Peter’s Puppet Show.

Violinist Itamar Zorman, winner of the 2011 Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition and a recipient of the 2014 Borletti-Buitoni Award and the 2013 Avery Fisher Career Grant, performs Dvořák’s Violin Concerto under the direction of Angel Gil-Ordóñez.

Armenian-born and internationally renowned cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan plays Tchaikovsky’s concerto-like Rococo Variations under the direction of Angel Gil-Ordóñez.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was a black British composer who catapulted to fame with his 1898 oratorio Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast.

This astonishing culminating achievement of the Soviet silent film era is an historical epic both whimsical and tragic, set during the 1871 Paris Commune. It is the first of Shostakovich’s historic collaborations with filmmaker Grigori Kozintsev —a relationship ending with their epochal King Lear of 1971.

Peridance Contemporary Dance Company’s Artistic Director Igal Perry presents the world premiere of his newest full-length work featuring Mozart’s soaring score for wind ensemble, played live by students from the Manhattan School of Music and conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez.

Harry Burleigh (1866-1949) is a forgotten hero of American music. Antonin Dvorak’s assistant in New York City from 1892 to 1895, Burleigh was subsequently the composer/singer most responsible for turning spirituals into art songs. His Deep River (1915), a sensation in its day, took an obscure upbeat spiritual and turned it into the reverent song made famous by Burleigh, Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson and countless others.

For Pearl Harbor Day, we juxtapose three galvanizing musical responses to World War II by Dmitri Shostakovich, Arnold Schoenberg, and Hanns Eisler. With the Cathedral Choir and members of PCE conducted by Michael McCarthy and Angel Gil-Ordóñez. This program includes film clips of Pearl Harbor, the Siege of Leningrad, and FDR’s declaration of war on Japan. The concert begins with a wartime Eisler/Brecht workers’ song sung as a processional.

The Music and Creative Arts Ministry of Metropolitan A.M.E. Church will host its 41st presentation of Handel’s Messiah on Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 5 pm. Leading the performance will be Spanish-born guest conductor Angel Gil-Ordoñez, Music Director for Washington, D.C.’s adventurous PostClassical Ensemble and also the Georgetown University Orchestra. This performance marks first time in the church’s history that the ministry of music has partnered with both institutions for the annual Handel’s Messiah performance.

The Georgetown University Orchestra, in collaboration with the Wagner Society of Washington DC (WSWDC), presents a selection of musical excerpts from Parsifal and The Valkyrie. With the participation of bass baritone Kevin Deas and tenor William Green, alumnus of The American Wagner Project (a partnership of WSWDC with Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices).

PostClassical Ensemble and American University’s Carmel Institute of Russian History & Culture present The Russian Experiment: Soviet Culture of the twenties with pianist Vladimir Feltsman.