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"Pulse" for Orchestra

Giancarlo Guerrero leads a deeply moving program at the intimate Harris Theater. Featuring Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, the evening explores profound themes of love and loss with Brian Nabors’ Pulse, Peter Lieberson’s Neruda Songs, Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us, and Richard Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration.

Nabors: String Quartet

Lauded as “an ensemble to watch” (Hyde Park Herald) and 2023 Grand Prize winner of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Poiesis Quartet makes their Newport Classical debut and introduces the 25/26 Chamber Series season.

Brian Raphael Nabors – Onward
Valerie Coleman – Seven O’Clock Shout
Viet Cuong – Re(new)al
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”

Featuring the Belmont University Faculty Percussion Quartet

Summer Music Festival Intermezzo Series: Poiesis Quartet

Guest Composer, "Resonate" with Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings. Co-commissioned premiere of String Quartet. Workshops with student composers.

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Nabors: String Quartet

Winners of the 2024 Concert Artists Guild Competition and one of the most exciting young ensembles on the national scene, the Poiesis Quartet brings their radiant energy and “extraordinary, honeyed group sound” (Cleveland Classical) to Noe Music in their SF debut.

Nabors: String Quartet

Experience the bold, expressive sound of the Poesis Quartet, Grand Prize winner at the 2023 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Formed in 2022 at Oberlin, the Quartet has swiftly risen to prominence, joining the Concert Artists Guild roster in 2024.

Nabors: String Quartet

"Pulse" for Orchestra

The sumptuous brilliance of Max Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 holds its own alongside the iconic works of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Tchaikovsky – performed with the joyful lyricism of rising-star American soloist Aubree Oliverson. Guest conductor Kensho Watanabe opens the program with Brian Raphael Nabors’ rhythmically charged rhapsody Pulse, followed by Prokofiev’s popular Symphony No. 5, a bold, triumphant work that captures the spirit of human resilience.

"Hammond Organ Concerto"

Kedrick Armstrong, conductor
Brian Raphael Nabors, hammond organ

CLARICE ASSAD Baião N’ Blues
BRIAN RAPHAEL NABORS Hammond Organ Concerto
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3, “Organ”

Trailblazing chamber musicians Poiesis Quartet and rising star pianist Amiri Harewood perform a uniquely beautiful evening of musical homages and tributes.

GABRIELA LENA FRANK – Tres Homenajes
1. Scherzo para Sipan
SHOSTAKOVICH – Prelude and Fugues Op. 87, No. 7 in A Major
J.S. BACH – The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2: Prelude and Fugue No. 19 in A Major, BWV 888
BRIAN NABORS – String Quartet
GABRIELA LENA FRANK – Tres Homenajes
2. Adagio para Amantani
JEROD IMPICHCHAACHAAHA' TATE – Pisachi
J.S. BACH – The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2: Prelude and Fugue No. 24 in B Minor, BWV 893
SHOSTAKOVICH – Prelude and Fugues Op. 87, No. 6 in B Minor
GABRIELA LENA FRANK – Tres Homenajes
3. T’inku

"I, Too, Sing America"

Nabors: String Quartet

"Hammond Organ Concerto"

This can’t-miss concert is a celebration and exploration of Black ritual and spirituality through the music of the African diaspora. A wide array of instruments, traditions and guests take center stage in this powerful program.

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
The Bamboula

GREEN
Testify

OKOYE
Voices Shouting Out

NABORS
Concerto for Hammond Organ

"Pulse" for Orchestra

Under the direction of Antony Hermus, the Concertgebouw Orchestra is performing music by Black American composers. Principal trumpet player Miro Petkov appears as soloist in Wynton Marsalis’s spectacular Trumpet Concerto. In this concerto, we hear a trumpeting elephant, references to the French Baroque style, the blues, Louis Armstrong, the European-Jewish trumpet tradition and much more.

Premiere of new string quartet on “manic love”