Downtown Music’s 34th Anniversary Season
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34th Anniversary Season.
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Angelica Women's Chamber Choir Spring Concert
Angelica Women’s Chamber Choir, directed by Marie Caruso, presents their annual Spring concert. Click to read more about the event.
Co-Bill Concert: Mara Levine with Gathering Time
Mara Levine is joined by folk-rock harmony trio The Gathering Time at this “Woody’s Children at Grace” event. Click through to read more about the event.
Chee-Yun, violin and Henry Kramer, piano with Bob Sherman, narrator
Violinist Chee-Yun, pianist Henry Kramer, and narrator Bob Sherman offer a wide-ranging program of works by Sarasate, Strauss, Kreisler, and others. A very special Downtown Music debut. Click to read more about the event.
Raman Ramakrishnan and Erika Switzer
Cellist Raman Ramakrishnan is joined by pianist Erika Switzer on this program featuring music of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Click to read more about the event.
Chamber Music with the Phil
Our series of chamber music offerings with the superb musicians of Westchester Philharmonic concludes with the Westchester Philharmonic Brass Quintet, featuring Wayne du Maine. Program details to be announced.
Laureate of the New York International Piano Competition
Downtown Music continues its collaboration with the virtuosic young pianists who are prize winners of this venerable contest. Please check back later for program details. Click to read more about the event.
Ivor Klayman and Svetlana Gorokhovich
Baritone Ivor Klayman is joined by pianist Svetlana Gorokhovich for this all-English program featuring the iconic folk song arrangements of Benjamin Britten. Click to read more about the event.
David Heiss and Warren Jones
Cellist David Heiss is joined by pianist Warren Jones in this special recital. Click to read more about the event.
A Celebration of American Vernacular Music
Peter Muir returns with a recital that traces the spectacular rise of ragtime and popular melody in American culture throughout the first two decades of the twentieth century. Click to read more about the event.
Robert Osborne, bass baritone, and Babette Hierholzer, piano
Robert Osborne, bass-baritone, and Babette Hierholzer, piano, perform Richard Strauss's Enoch Arden, the composer's setting of the narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The program also includes selected songs by Strauss. Click to read more about the event.
Yilun Xu, piano
Yilun Xu, Winner of the 2018 New York International Piano Competition, returns to Downtown music to offer a virtuosic performance that features Mussorgsky’s masterpiece, Pictures at an Exhibition. Click to read more about the event.
Chamber Music with the Phil
The musicians of the Westchester Philharmonic return for one of their exciting chamber music concerts. Click to read more about the event.
An English Pastoral
Tenor Maximillian Jansen is joined by Helena Baillie playing violin and viola and organist Timothy Lewis for this program featuring the striking and rarely heard Four Hymns for Tenor and Viola of Ralph Vaughan Williams as well as the composer’s evocative Lark Ascending. Click to read more about the event.
Loren Greer and Bethany Pietroniro
Based around the Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo by Benjamin Britten, Loren Greer, vocalist and Bethany Pietroniro, piano explore the poetic potency of art song literature. Click to read more about the event.
Hailey McAvoy and Bethany Pietroniro
Mezzo Soprano Hailey McAvoy and Pianist Bethany Pietroniro team up to offer songs of Brahms, Duparc, and Hub Miller. Click to read more about the event.
From Heaven to Earth: Paulina Swierczek and Bethany Pietroniro
As part of a month of concerts celebrating the Vocal Arts, Paulina Swierczek, soprano and Bethany Pietroniro, piano explore the concepts of heavenly and earthly, featuring the music of Messiaen, John Harbison and Joseph Marx.
Jordan Smith and Irena Portenko
Saxophonist Jordan Smith joins with pianist Irena Portenko for “Meditations” a captivating program of works in an introspective style. Click to read more about the event.
Timothy Lewis, organ
Timothy Lewis, Artistic and Managing Director of Downtown Music plays works of Frescobaldi, Couperin, J.S. Bach and Henri Mulet on the magnificent Guilbault-Therien organ at Grace Church.
Chamber Music with the Phil
The musicians of the Westchester Philharmonic return for one of their exciting chamber music concerts. Click to read more about the event.
Angelica Women's Chamber Choir
Angelica Women’s Chamber Choir, directed by Marie Caruso, presents a concert celebrating their 25th season. Click to read more about the event.
A New Noel
Cabaret artist Kimberly Hawkey is joined by pianist/arranger Assaf Gleizner to perform songs from their new holiday album, as well as traditional Christmas carols and swing songs. Click to read more about the event.
New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players with Bob Sherman
A trio of stars of New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, also known as The Wand’ring Minstrels, perform an Afternoon of Gilbert & Sullivan favorites, featuring many selections from the full repertoire of Gilbert & Sullivan’s comic operas. Click to read more about the event.
Martha Guth and Erika Switzer
Martha Guth, soprano and Erika Switzer, piano offer works of Aaron Copland, Robert Schumann, Roberto Sierra, and Leslie Uyeda. Click to read more about the event.
Chamber Music with the Phil
The Westchester Philharmonic String Quartet, with Robert Chausow and Martin Agee, violins; Michael Roth, viola; and Eugene Moye, cello, will treat us to special concert in our continuing partnership with the Phil. The program features Haydn’s String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2 “Quinten,” and Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 12, “American.”
Woody’s Children at Grace
With 26 recordings and hundreds of songs in his repertoire, Tom Chapin serves up a tasty mix of story songs, ballads, comedic and political songs, family music, sing-alongs, old-time folk classics, and a favorite song or two of his late brother Harry’s. Click to read more about the event.
John Lehmann-Haupt
Guitarist John Lehmann-Haupt returns to Downtown Music with a program including works by Bach, Haydn, Gershwin, and Villa-Lobos, and a selection of popular and traditional song arrangements.
Youlan Ji — 2018 First Prize Winner of the New York International Piano Competition
Downtown Music continues its collaboration with the virtuosic young pianists who are prize winners of this venerable contest. Please check back later for program details.
The Nocturno Project
The Nocturno Project, with Nicki Denner (keyboards), Anton Denner (woodwinds), Mayra Casales (percussion), and Jennifer Vincent (bass and cello) charts a new direction for this all-star ensemble of jazz veterans.
Hailey McAvoy and Bethany Pietroniro
Mezzo soprano Hailey McAvoy is joined by pianist Bethany Pietroniro for a voyage through Aaron Copland’s Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Anna Rabinova and Svetlana Gorokhovich
Violinist Anna Rabinova and pianist Svetlana Gorokhovich collaborate on an exciting program that includes music by Brahms and Sarasate.