Caramoor Summer Festival: Pekka Kuusisto & Pianist Nico Muhly Two leading voices on today’s music scene, Finnish violinist, conductor, and composer Pekka Kuusisto and celebrated American composer and pianist Nico Muhly, team up for an evening of unexpected musical connections. […]
Caramoor Summer Festival: The Knights with Pekka Kuusisto The Knights are dedicated to transforming the orchestral experience and eliminating barriers between audience and music. The New York Times has described them as “an adventurous young orchestra that has established a […]
Caramoor Summer Festival: Harlem Chamber Players The Harlem Chamber Players is an ethnically diverse collective of professional musicians dedicated to bringing high-caliber, affordable, and accessible live classical music to people in the Harlem community and beyond. Our Sunken Garden is […]
Caramoor Summer Festival: Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily In 2022, Brooklyn-based singer and composer Arooj Aftab became the first Pakistani woman to win a Grammy, for her album Vulture Prince. Love in Exile is a new project featuring two […]
Caramoor Summer Festival: Garrick Ohlsson Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition (still the single American to have done so), pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical […]
Caramoor Summer Festival: Tengyue Zhang (guitar) There is no venue more fitting for a classical guitar concert than Caramoor’s treasure of a garden. Guitarist Tengyue Zhang — who received First Prize in the 2017 Guitar Foundation of American (GFA) International […]
Caramoor Summer Festival: Samara Joy With her newly released Verve Records debut, Linger Awhile, 23-year-old and two-time Grammy-winner Samara Joy makes her case to join the likes of Sarah, Ella, and Billie as the next mononymous jazz singing sensation recorded […]
Caramoor Summer Festival: Pianist Zhu Wang China-born Zhu Wang, an alumnus of Caramoor’s Evnin Rising Stars mentoring program and winner of the 2020 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, has been praised by The New York Times as “especially impressive” and […]
Caramoor Summer Festival: Mary Chapin Carpenter Some of us (not all!) are old enough to remember the tug of our heartstrings when we first heard Mary Chapin Carpenter’s “Passionate Kisses,” “I Feel Lucky,” and “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her,” among […]
Caramoor Summer Festival: Orchestra of St. Luke's & Alisa Weilerstein Before the summer season wanes, join maestro Roderick Cox — who has been praised as a conductor “paving the way” (NBC News) — as he leads Orchestra of St. Luke’s […]
Balún at Caramoor Fusing Caribbean rhythms, Dembow (aka old school reggaeton), intelligent dance music (IDM), and dreamy dance pop tunes with the traditional sounds of their Puerto Rican homeland, the Brooklyn-based electronic indie band Balún brings its mesmerizing sound to […]
Michael Olatuja: Lagos Pepper Soup at Caramoor Just like the pepper soup from his hometown of Lagos, Nigeria, Michael Olatuja’s most recent album Lagos Pepper Soup is packed with a rich array of tantalizing flavors. The composer, bandleader, and bassist […]
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