
Thursday, October 6, 2022, 1pm EDT
Contrasting Musical Gems of the 21st Century
Music in Midtown
Elebash Hall, Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, NYC
Matthew Ricketts – Enclosed Position (2014)
Mario Davidovsky – Quartetto No. 4 (2005)
Amy Williams – First Lines (2006)
Lei Liang – Gobi Canticle (2004)
Da Capo at the Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

Saturday, March 26, 2022, 8 pm EDT
Sound Series: Da Capo Chamber Players
Co-presented with Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music
The Warhol Theater at the Andy Warhol Museum
117 Sandusky Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212-5890
Featuring new works including three written for Da Capo!
Shulamit Ran, Mirage*
Tania León, One Mo’ Time*
George Walker, Music for 3
Eric Moe, Spirit Mountain
Lei Liang, Gobi Canticle
Shen Yiwen, Guo Shang: Hymn to the Fallen and Li Hun: Recessional*
*Written for the Da Capo Chamber Players
GUEST ARTISTS
Jacqueline Leclair oboe, English horn
Nanci Belmont bassoon
Michael Lipsey percussion


Friday, November 12, 2021, 4 pm
Premieres of works by Bard Student Composers
presented by Bard College Conservatory
Bard Hall, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
Featuring works by:
Ayanna Battle, Caleb Carman, Joshua Kreinke, OGA, Zeke Morgan, Sam Mutter
A CAPO CHAMBER PLAYERS
Curtis Macomber, violin
Chris Gross, cello
Patricia Spencer, flute
Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet
GUEST ARTISTS
Melissa Reardon, viola
Molly Morkoski, piano
Rea Ábel, piccolo
Patricia Spencer, Da Capo’s flutist, is thrilled to appear with Bard colleagues in this chamber recital




Sunday, November 7, 2021, 4 pm ET
French and French Connections
A Faculty Chamber Music Recital
presented by Bard College and Conservatory
László Z. Bitó Conservatory Building
Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
Frank Corliss, piano
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano
Marka Gustavsson, viola
Patricia Spencer, flute
Featuring two French composers, two American composers who studied with Nadia Boulanger, plus an outlier.
Thea Musgrave – Primavera (1971), soprano and flute
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de St. Georges – Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 1a, No. 1
flute and piano
Maurice Duruflé – Prélude, Récitatif et Variations, flute, viola, and piano
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Quartet in D Major, Wq 94, flute, viola, and piano
Aaron Copland – Duo for Flute and Piano (1971)
Thea Musgrave (b.1928) spent four years at the Paris Conservatoire, studying with Nadia Boulanger.
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was among the first American students of Boulanger, with whom he studied for three years.
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de St. Georges (1745-1799), was born in Guadeloupe but educated in France where he had a major career as a conductor, violin soloist, and composer of operas. He was also a champion fencer, and gained special respect when he defeated a fencing master who challenged him – a man who had publicly mocked him with racist remarks.
Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) was a renowned organist, composer, and professor at the Paris Conservatoire from 1943 to 1970.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788), the fifth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, was for 28 years the cembalist for Frederick the Great (a secret flutist for years, because of the disapproval of his father the King).
POSTPONED

Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 8pm
Juxtapositions
Merkin Concert Hall Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, NYC
Eminent composers with whom Da Capo has worked closely for decades will be juxtaposed with young, budding talents and recent discoveries. Featuring works by Elliott Carter, George Perle, and younger composers/new discoveries, Robert Martin, Amy Williams, Kate Soper, and Lei Liang.


Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 8pm
Celebrate Bard!
László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building Bard College
The Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Music Program present a program featuring works by faculty, alumni/ae, and the Bard community
Tan Dun, In Distance (1987)
Joan Tower, String Force (2010)
Kyle Gann, Hovenweep (2000)
John Halle, A Free People (2006)
Corey Chang'19, Foreshadowed Flashback (2017)
Peri Mauer'76, Pixeliance (2011/2017)
Elizabeth Brown, Liguria (1999)
DA CAPO CHAMBER PLAYERS
Curtis Macomber, violin
Chris Gross, cello
Patricia Spencer, flute
Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet
GUEST ARTISTS
Margaret Kampmeier, piano
Sara Cutler, harp
John Ferrari, percussion

Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 8pm
Remembering George Walker
Merkin Concert Hall Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, NYC
Celebrate Lincoln’s birthday by hearing masterworks by two African-American composers, cited as “ultimately life-enhancing” (about George Walker, in Fanfare Magazine) and “sharply drawn and gripping” (about Wendell Logan, in The New York Times)
George Walker, Music for 3 (1970/1991)
George Walker, Tangents (1999), arr. David Sanford
George Walker, Modus (1998) – Special collaboration with Cygnus Ensemble
Wendell Logan, Runagate, Runagate (1989)
DA CAPO CHAMBER PLAYERS
Curtis Macomber, violin
Patricia Spencer, flute
Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet
Chris Gross, cello
GUEST ARTISTS
Robert Mack, tenor
Christopher Oldfather, piano
Thomas Feng, piano
William Anderson, guitar & mandolin
Oren Fader, guitar
Robert Ingliss, oboe
Michael Lipsey, percussion
Marcus Parris, conductor


Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 8pm
Musical Spirits Reappear
Merkin Concert Hall
Kaufman Music Center Series
129 West 67th Street, NYC
Hildegard von Bingen receives belated 900th birthday greetings. Ockeghem (15th century composer) sneaks into a piece written last year. Louis Karchin’s Ancient Scenes places Seamus Heaney’s poetry in the context of ancient panoramas. Arm yourself for Halloween with musical spirits from long ago!
Louis Karchin, Ancient Scenes (2014)
Jihyun Kim, Once Upon a Time (2018) – Winner of the League of
Composers/ISCM annual composers competition
Jonathan Dawe, On Again, Ockeghem (2018)
Cynthia Folio, Through Window’s Lattices (1999) – Written in celebration of the 900th birthday of Hildegard von Bingen
Bruce Adolphe, And All Is Always Now (1992)
Vasiliki Krimitza, Aeoliás (2019)
DA CAPO CHAMBER PLAYERS
Curtis Macomber, violin
Patricia Spencer, flute
Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet
Chris Gross, cello
Steven Beck, piano
GUEST ARTISTS
Marisa Karchin, soprano
John Ferrari, percussion
Louis Karchin, conductor

Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 8pm
Global American Chamber Music
Merkin Concert Hall
Kaufman Music Center Series
129 West 67th Street, NYC
Chamber works by American composers with major
background ties to global musical influences.
Chou Wen-chung, Ode to Eternal Pine (2009)
Reinaldo Moya, Cronica de una Muerta (2007)
Chinary Ung, Child Song (1985)
Pablo Ortiz, Vida Furtiva (1992)
Noel Da Costa, Blue-Tune Verses (1997)
Gabriela Lena Frank, Cuatro Bosquejos Pre-Incaicos (2006)
Global representation: China, Venezuela, Cambodia, Argentina, Jamaican/Nigerian, and Peruvian/Chinese/Lithuanian/Jewish. All are Americans!

Saturday, May 11, 2019, 5pm
Bard College and Conservatory
Bard Hall
PREMERS!
by Bard Student Composers
Kathryn Blaine
Luke Haaksma
Meghan Mercier
Mikalah Jenifer
Patrick Staples
Lindsey Williams
Guang Yang
Sindy Yang
DA CAPO CHAMBER PLAYERS
Curtis Macomber, violin
Chris Gross, cello
Patricia Spencer, flute
Benjamin Fingland, guest clarinet
Christopher Oldfather, guest piano
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Brooklyn College Conservatory Concert and mini-residency
Buchwald Theater, Brooklyn College
Pre-concert activities in Buchwald Theater are open to the public:
10am –11:30 am
Da Capo open rehearsal
12:30 – 2 pm
Da Capo Masterclasses for Brooklyn College/Conservatory performers
2:15 – 3:15 pm
Student compositions – reading sessions by Da Capo Chamber Players
5:00 pm – CONCERT
John Harbison, Songs America Loves to Sing (2004)
Thea Musgrave, Chamber Concerto No. 2 (1966)
Gabriela Lena Frank, Cuatro Bosquejos Pre-Incaicos (2006)
Joan Tower, Looking Back (2018)
DA CAPO CHAMBER PLAYERS
Curtis Macomber, violin
Patricia Spencer, flute
Marianne Gythfeldt, guest clarinet
Chris Gross, cello
Steven Beck, piano

Thursday, March 14, 2019, 8pm
Evocations: Chamber music with poetic inspiration
Merkin Concert Hall
Kaufman Music Center Series
129 West 67th Street, NYC
Eric Moe, Strenuous Pleasures (2010)
Ralph Shapey, Evocation #2 (1971)
Valerie Coleman, Portraits of Langston (2007)
Yotam Haber, Estro poetico-armonico II (2014)
Guest Artists:
Carol McGonnell, clarinet
Michael Lipsey, percussion
Benjamin Grow, conductor
Michael Ofori, reciter
Thursday, February 28, 2019, 5:15pm
Yale University
Concert Premieres works by student composers.
Beinecke Library
February 15 and 16, 2019
Mount Holyoke College Concert and mini-residency
CONCERT:
Friday, February 15, 7pm
McCulloch Auditorium, Pratt Music Hall
Honoring Black History, and Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire
Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire
David Sanford, Dogma 74
Luciano Berio, O King
Valerie Coleman, Portraits of Langston
Guest Artists:
Lucy Shelton, soprano
Jo-Ann Sternberg, clarinet
MASTER CLASSES and WORKSHOPS:
Saturday, February 16, 2019, morning and early afternoon
February 2 and 3, 2019
University of Pittsburgh Concert and mini-residency
CONCERT:
Saturday, February 2, 8pm
Andy Warhol Museum
Eric Moe, Strenuous Pleasures
Valerie Coleman, Portraits of Langston
Rakowski, Thickly Settled
David Sanford, Dogma 74
Joan Tower, Looking Back
Guest Artists:
Carol McGonnell, clarinet
Michael Lipsey, percussion
READING and RECORDING of STUDENT COMPOSITIONS:
Sunday, February 3, 2019 from 10am – 12:30pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium

Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 8pm
Triple Anniversary: John Harbison’s 80th,
Thea Musgrave’s 90th, Joan Tower’s 80th
Merkin Concert Hall / Kaufman Music Center Series
129 West 67th Street, NYC
Join us as we celebrate three eminent and exciting composers with whom Da Capo has worked extensively over the years!
John Harbison, Songs America Loves to Sing (2004)
Thea Musgrave, Chamber Concerto No. 2 (1966)
Thea Musgrave, Sunrise (2009)
Joan Tower, Looking Back (2018)
Joan Tower, Très Lent (1994) and Wild Run (2018)
Guest Artists:
Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet
Susan Jolles, harp