Downtown Music’s 33rd Anniversary Season
Angelica in Quarantine
Angelica, the women’s chamber choir directed by Marie Caruso, has delighted our Downtown Music audience with its holiday programming for many years. This wonderful group offers an annual spring concert as well, which this year, they are creating especially for our Downtown Music audience.
The Rise of Ragtime - Peter Muir
Peter Muir returns with a recital that traces the spectacular rise of ragtime in American culture and charts its musical development throughout the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Jomion & the Uklos
We celebrate with Jomion & the Uklos, a West African family band from Benin, which dazzled our weekend audience last spring.
Anita, Emily Seaberry and Julian Graef
Cellist Anita Graef is joined by Juliani Ensemble members Emily Seaberry Graef, piano and flute; and Julian Graef, violin; offering works of Faure, Gliere, and the “London Trio” No. 3 in G Major of Joseph Haydn. A Downtown Music debut.
The Cocomama Trio with Anton Denner
The exciting Cocomama Trio, with Nicki Denner (piano); Mayra Casales (percussion); and Jennifer Vincent (cello and bass), are joined by Anton Denner on flute and saxophone in this unique chamber music offering.
Yiying Niu, piano
Yiying Niu, 2018 Prize Winner New York International Piano Competition, returns to Downtown Music to play music of Haydn, plus works of Debussy and Liszt that showcase this young musician’s extraordinary artistry. Presented in partnership with the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation.
The Manhattan Chamber Players
The Manhattan Chamber Players make their Downtown Music debut as they offer the astonishingly beautiful Piano Quintet of Robert Schumann.
Work O' the Weavers
Celebrated radio host Bob Sherman continues to expand our circle as he introduces the Downtown Music audience to Work O’ the Weavers. The quartet of singers, David Bernz, who also plays banjo and guitar; Martha Sandefer; Mark Murphy, who plays bass; and Travis Jeffrey, playing banjo, recreates songs associated with the Weavers, the legendary folk group co-founded by Pete Seeger.
Pegasus: The Orchestra
Pegasus: the Orchestra, led by founder, artistic director, and conductor Karén Hakobyan, is a nonprofit professional orchestra with a mission to empower rising musicians with artistic freedom.
Svetlana Gorokhovich and Irena Portenko: Piano 4 Hands
Two gifted keyboard musicians return with “Conversations across the ocean,” a program of European and South American contemporary selections.
Songs of the Divine Feminine
Ruth Cunningham and Abigail Fischer, sopranos, in a special Celtic program.
The Manhattan Saxophone Quartet
This virtuoso ensemble has performed in concert at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Symphony Space, and Yale University. Jordan Smith, Aaron Patterson, Daniel Kochersberger, and Jay Rattman offer a survey of 150 years of music for this unique combination of instruments.
Wherever the Road May Lead: A Walking Recital
"Wherever the Road May Lead," a project by singers Jardena Gertler-Jaffe, Maximillian Jansen, Louis Tiemann, and pianist Diana Borshcheva, is a “walking recital” which encourages the listener to step outside and take the music with them.
Rodgers + Hart + Hammerstein - Vocalist Kimberly Hawkey and Pianist David Budway
Nyack-based duo, Kimberly Hawkey and David Budway, bring their cabaret style to a selection of jazz and Broadway standards in this celebration of Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and Oscar Hammerstein.
Beth Sussman - By George!
Award-winning classical pianist Beth Sussman offers an all-Gershwin program that explores the extraordinary range of George Gershwin's music.
Yilun Xu
Yilun Xu, 2018 Prize Winner of the New York International Piano Competition, returns to Downtown Music with a program of virtuosic etudes by Frederic Chopin and John Corigliano, plus the Sonata in F-sharp Major of Beethoven.
Krakauer & Tagg - Connections
One of the world's pre-eminent clarinetists, David Krakauer has been praised internationally as both a leading innovator in modern klezmer and a major voice in classical music. Kathleen Tagg is a South African pianist, composer and producer who has performed on four continents with a host of leading musicians. Their new album, Hammer & Breath, is described as a "masterful and joyous journey" by Kronos Quartet founder David Harrington.
Unspoken Tales, Part II
Composer and pianist Pablo Mayor and flutist/narrator Anna Povich de Mayor offer excerpts from "Unspoken Tales," a multi-disciplinary work that explores the real-life journeys of immigrants from around the world.
A Celebration of American Song
Soprano AddieRose Forstman and pianist Edward Forstman showcase their expertise and feeling for the American art song in a wide-ranging selection of works by Leonard Bernstein, Eve Beglarian, and Maria Thompson Corley, among others.
Cocomama Trio
Pianist Nicki Denner, percussionist Mayra Casales, and bassist Jennifer Vincent ring in the new year in the acclaimed ensemble's first engagement with Downtown Music at Grace.
Angelica Chamber Choir
Our traditional holiday visit with the wonderful Angelica chamber choir.
Jomion & the Uklos
We celebrate with Jomion & the Uklos, a West African family band from Benin, which dazzled our weekend audience last spring.
The Downtown Sinfonietta with Youlan Ji, piano
The Downtown Sinfonietta Chamber Players (featuring members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) are joined by Youlan Ji, 2018 First Prize Winner of the New York International Piano Competition to perform the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major (K 271).
Abigail Fisher, soprano
Soprano Abigail Fischer joins us for a unique program, which explores the spiritual and therapeutic properties of sound.
The Hub Miller Experience: Part Two
The second in a two part series, Hailey McAvoy offers our Downtown Music audience an exclusive look at composer, conductor, performer and cowboy Hub Miller, which she created with help from the composer's family and her colleagues at the Eastman School of Music.
The Hub Miller Experience: Part One
The first in a two part series, Hailey McAvoy offers our Downtown Music audience an exclusive look at composer, conductor, performer and cowboy Hub Miller, which she created with help from the composer's family and her colleagues at the Eastman School of Music.
In Conversation with Bob Sherman
Bob Sherman continues his series of very special folk music programs with the first of three installments titled “Woody’s Children at Grace.”
Esther and Sun-A Park: Duo Amadeae Part 2
The second part of a two-part presentation, presented in partnership with the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation, featuring piano duo Esther and Sun-A Park: Duo Amadeae.
Esther and Sun-A Park: Duo Amadeae
A two-part presentation, presented in partnership with the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation, featuring piano duo Esther and Sun-A Park: Duo Amadeae.