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A native of Kyiv, Ukraine, Topchii has performed worldwide as a recitalist and concerto soloist and has won more than 100 awards in international classical guitar competitions.

The CMSM welcomes back clarinetist Burt Hara in a concert featuring Brahms Clarinet Trio, two works for cello featuring Tony Ross, Beth Rapier, and Mary Jo Gothmann, and a sampling from the 2024 NLCMI! NOTE: This concert will take the place of Clarinet Trios with Gabi and Tony. 

What is time? How does it shape the music we hear? How do composers manipulate time to create meaning in music? Join Copper Street Brass as we explore these ideas and more in a wide variety of soundscapes. Get ready to listen, to be immersed, to think, and to rock out along with us through this music journey into the nonspatial continuum we call “Time.” 

The Music Department is sponsoring five world music workshops as part of our course Music in World Cultures, taught by Miriam Gerberg, ethnomusicologist.  Observers are welcome to join us in Sundin Music Hall. This installation features Djenane Saint Juste and Afoutayi Haitian dance and drumming.

Pedro Gandía Martín leads "200 Years of Early Music Pleasure," featuring masterworks by Corelli, Biber, Handel, Haydn, and Leclair.

Florestan Chamber Music presents a program of music honoring the 100th anniversary of the death of French composer Gabriel Faure. Cellist Ruth Marshall and pianist Garret Ross will present Faure’s second cello sonata, and will be joined by violinist Alan Snow for Faure’s piano trio. The concert will conclude with the epic piano trio by Maurice Ravel, who was Faure’s most successful student.

Established in 2019,  FCM presents concert experiences that feature classical chamber works both old and new, both canonic, and rarely heard.

Admission is free with a suggested donation at the door.

The Mēla Guitar Quartet takes its name from the Sanskrit word for "festival." This program celebrates an engaging and imaginatively wide range of original pieces for guitar quartet, including their own arrangements.

Formed in Boston in 1986, Artaria was mentored by members of the Budapest, La Salle, Kolisch, Juilliard, and Cleveland Quartets, serving as artists-in-residence at Boston University's Tanglewood Institute, performing at Festival de L’Epau in France, and at the final rounds of the 1992 Banff International String Quartet Competition. They have made numerous appearances on television and live radio, and have performed at major venues throughout the U.S. including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Cleveland and Boston. In 2001, Artaria became Minnesota's quartet-in-residence, winning the prestigious McKnight Fellowship for performing musicians, serving as MPR's artists-in-residence, and being featured as Minnesota originals on Twin Cities Public Television MN-Original series. The quartet’s performances are recorded on Centaur Records and Aequebis Recordings.

Program TBD.                                                    

This concert will feature 2 special musical guests from China. The instruments featured will be the yangqin (dulcimer) and the huqin. Huqin is a family of Chinese bowed-string instruments that include erhu, jinghu, zhonghu and erquanhu. Additionally, 2 musicians from the University of Minnesota doctorate program will be featured. A vocalist who graduated from the China Central Conservatory of Music and a piano student from Taiwan. This program will introduce the audience to music from different parts of China including Taiwan.

The MN Bach Festival’s Outside The Box series presents Baroque Tango, Rhythms of Desire, Longing, and Passion.

The Bach Society of Minnesota, led by Associate Artistic Director Marco Real-d’Arbelles, teams up with the Twin Cities-based Charles Gorczynski Tango Quartet to explore the many twists and turns that bring these two musical languages closer than we imagined. Audiences will feel the push-pull between old and new styles as BSM and CGTQ perform works by masters of tango and baroque. Special guests Sabine Ibes, and Fuego Tango Club founders J Abling and Rachel Moon join the ensembles on stage, adding to the passion and rhythmic drive of music by composers such as Pugliese, Piazzolla, Corelli, and Vivaldi in this exciting collaboration.

The Music Department is sponsoring five world music workshops as part of our course Music in World Cultures, taught by Miriam Gerberg, ethnomusicologist.  Observers are welcome to join us in Sundin Music Hall. This installation features Pooja Goswami Pavan, North Indian vocals and tabla.

The Music Department is sponsoring five world music workshops as part of our course Music in World Cultures, taught by Miriam Gerberg, ethnomusicologist.  Observers are welcome to join us in Sundin Music Hall. This installation features Gao Hong, Chinese pipa.