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a thrillingly original dive into colonial history" (The Guardian). This concert celebrates the release of The Zarabanda Variations, a combined album and chapbook exploring the historical and present syncretism of Baroque music in 12 original songs, dances, and poems. A group of musicians convened by violinist/composer Keir GoGwilt, and in collaboration with acclaimed poet Edgar Garcia, bend the historical rhythms, rhymes and resonances of the Baroque. These artists traverse the colonial histories of the zarabanda dance in this unique multimedia collage of contemporary folkloric and improvised traditions, poetry, and new compositions.

Introducing the first-ever Yahoo x Nonfiction Hotlist Film Festival, a short documentary film showcase open to the public. Watch all 20 films for free all weekend at the Dream Live Performing Arts Center. Then join us on Sunday for a special screening event featuring filmmaker Q&As and a performance from country musician Joshua Ray Walker, the subject of the film Thank You for Listening.

Salvatore Sciarrino
Stupori, 2018
for baritone, flute, violin and percussion
featuring Ty Bouque, baritone soloist

Michael Hersch
Carrion-Miles to Purgatory: thirteen pieces after texts of Robert Lowell, 2014*
for violin and cello

RADIANCE + REVERIE

MARTÍN + MARWOOD + MOZART

• SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2026 | 7:30 PM | ZIPPER HALL

• SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2026 | 4 PM | THE WALLIS

Jaime Martín Music Director
Anthony Marwood Violin
Coleman Itzkoff Cello

This program lives in the glow of Classical clarity and modern invention. Music Director Jaime Martín leads LACO through Mozart’s luminous Haffner Symphony, whose pristine structures and joyful grace epitomize Classical brilliance. The concert also features the world premiere of Christopher Cerrone’s new Double Concerto, a boldly inventive work performed by violinist Anthony Marwood and cellist Coleman Itzkoff, offering a fresh voice in contemporary concerto writing. Finally, Tchaikovsky’s enchanting Mozartiana transforms Mozart’s style through romantic, late-19th-century colors—melding reverence with imaginative reinterpretation.  A radiant celebration bridging tradition and innovation.

Music Director Jaime Martín’s concert appearances this season are underwritten by a generous gift from the Audre Slater Foundation made in honor of Barbara Herman.

Influenced by the sounds of today, and with a vision for the future, the New York–based Twelfth Night Ensemble was formed “with the firm belief that art is best explored as a meeting place of the past, present, and future.” Timeless works by Handel, Vivaldi, Marais, J. S. Bach, and Destouches offer an illuminating vantage point and thoroughly rewarding musical experience in this unique exploration of humanity’s relationship to nature.

Premiered in 2024 at Carnegie Hall!

Countertenor Reginald Mobley joins early-music ensemble Ruckus, flutist Emi Ferguson, and violinist Rachel Ellen Wong, in a program dedicated to the music of Ignatius Sancho (b. 1729)—composer, writer, and the first known Black Briton to vote in a parliamentary election. Sancho’s songs and courtly dances, drawn from his published collections, offer a window into the vibrant social and artistic life of 18th-century London. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture, this performance celebrates Sancho’s legacy as a composer, man of letters, and key figure in the cultural landscape of his time.

Klein Competition laureates violinist Gabrielle Després (1st Prize 2020) and cellist Coleman Itzkoff (2nd Prize 2016) present an intimate concert for the singular acoustic pairing of violin and cello. Their program moves between arrangements of baroque music and works from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, placing older and newer sounds side by side. The evening offers a close-up listening experience that highlights the warmth, flexibility, and expressive range of this unique duo.

Enhancing the music will be a pan-Mediterranean meal prepared by former Klein Competition Executive Director Fred Spitz. Focused on the bounty of Spring and Fred's eclectic and delicious wine and non-alcoholic beverage offerings, the menu will delight vegetarians, vegans and carnivores alike.

Address to be shared upon purchase of tickets. $150/person - 100% of proceeds benefit the Klein Competition. 

6-7pm: Appetizers/Drinks

7-8pm: Concert

8pm: Dinner

Attendance to this special event is limited to 30; buy your tickets now!

https://secure.givelively.org/event/california-music-center/klein-presents-gabrielle-despres-coleman-itzkoff

AMOC* Up Close
On the Hinge of Modernity
Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 7:30pm
David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center
New York, NY

FREE – General admission, first-come first-served
Fast Track tickets available on Monday, March 30th at 12pm EST

Hot on the heels of the acclaimed Run AMOC* Festival, presented as part of Lincoln Center’s 2025 Summer for the City, the visionary interdisciplinary ensemble returns for a series of fearless and free performances at the David Rubenstein Atrium. The closing program, curated by The Juilliard School professor and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient Emi Ferguson, spotlights the works of two pioneering Italian composers, Dario Castello (1602–1631) and Luciano Berio (1925–2003). Before dying at 29 to the bubonic plague, Castello was integral to the revitalization of early Baroque music, transforming the Renaissance canzona into the sonata. Berio, beginning with the groundbreaking Sequenzas (1958 to 2002), reimagined the very foundations of performance, form, and sound for the 20th century. Heard together, these trailblazers offer proof of how “new” music continually reinvents tradition. This evening’s Castello and Berio showcase will feature Ferguson on flute, Matthew Aucoin (AMOC* co-founder and MacArthur Fellow) on piano and percussion, and a formidable string trio of AMOC* core ensemble members that includes violinist/violist Miranda Cuckson, violinist Keir GoGwilt, and cellist Coleman Itzkoff.

https://runningamoc.org/event/hinge-of-modernity-lincoln-center/

AMOC* Up Close
Meadow, Wildflowers
Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 7:30pm
David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center
New York, NY

FREE – General admission, first-come first-served
Fast Track tickets available on Monday, March 16th at 12pm EST

The New York Times called the American Modern Opera Company’s Summer for the City 2025 season “a milestone” both for the performers and for Lincoln Center. This spring, AMOC* returns to Lincoln Center for a series of one-night-only presentations of new and foundational compositions. The March program spotlights a formidable chamber music collective constructed of AMOC* core ensemble members including violinist/violist Miranda Cuckson, violinist Keir GoGwilt, and cellist Coleman Itzkoff. Together, they will play “Wildflowers,” a new and intricate miniature duet for violins by Juri Seo, and “Meadow,” composer Linda Catlin Smith‘s gently wandering, gradually unfolding string trio. The program closes with a rendition of selected movements from “Limin’,” the Canadian composer/pianist Stewart Goodyear‘s suite for violin and keys that draws inspiration from American and Caribbean scenes and dances. “Limin'” will feature Cuckson and a special guest appearance from Goodyear on piano.

https://runningamoc.org/event/meadow-wildflowers-lincoln-center/

Tchaikovsky Piano Trio

Anthony Marwood VIOLIN; Coleman Itzkoff CELLO; Aleksandar Madžar PIANO

Welcome the return of violinist Rachell Ellen Wong, the sole Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient in Baroque music; and David Belkovski, a phenomenal talent on multiple early and modern keyboards, including the harpsichord. As artistic directors of Twelfth Night, their stirring performance in spring 2024 had the audience on its feet. Together, they perform a wide-ranging program of violin sonatas and more, joined by outstanding cellist Coleman Itzkoff.

I'm delighted to host Sunmi Han (piano) and Coleman Itzkoff (cello) for a performance of Beethoven's dynamic Cello Sonata No. 5!

Sunmi will also present Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 110.

Doors open at 7 pm, music starts around 7:30 pm.

What's the music?

Sunmi Han

Coleman ItzkoffCello

Drawing near to the world of late Beethoven—where the music sighs “Ermattet klagend” (growing faint in lament) and slowly stirs “Nach und nach wider auflebend” (gradually coming back to life)—Sunmi Han and Coleman Itzkoff, invite you to join us in a journey through some of his most intimate and transcendent works.

The concert will begin with the Cello Sonata No. 5 in D major, a bold and spiritual gateway into Beethoven’s late period—where silence speaks, and the soul reaches beyond sound. From there, we move to the Piano Sonata Op. 110, where fragility, humour, and struggle, all come together with such complex emotions.

After the two sonatas, we’ll share a small surprise to end your December Friday evening on a gentle musical note.

We hope you’ll feel not only the fire of Beethoven’s passion but also the quiet vulnerability of his final struggle—a glimpse into the heart of a genius at the edge of silence.

Bach Double Concerto

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

Vivaldi Four Seasons

A composer of “uncompromising brilliance” (The Washington Post) whose work has been described by The New York Times as “viscerally gripping and emotionally transformative music … claustrophobic and exhilarating at once, with moments of sublime beauty nestled inside thickets of dark virtuosity,” Michael Hersch appears as both composer and pianist in NYC for the first time in over seven years along with two of his closest collaborators, violinist Miranda Cuckson and cellist Coleman Itzkoff. The program includes the world premiere of “Es beginnt” after poetry of another close Hersch collaborator, poet Anja Utler.

When Hersch last performed his own music in New York alongside Cuckson, the event was named among the “Top Ten Performances of 2018” by New York Classical Review, writing that “both players tested the limits of tonal range and virtuosity on their instruments, while exploring mostly the darker side of human experience.”

7 PM Doors & Pre-Reception
8 PM Recital
9:30 PM Post-Reception

What's the music?

Audrey VardanegaPiano

Coleman ItzkoffCello

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2
FAURÉ Cello Sonata No. 2 in g minor, Op. 117

What if you took Bach out of the museum and infused it with equal parts tradition, funk, whimsy, and fun? In Fly the Coop! Emi Ferguson and Ruckus join forces to take audiences on a wild technicolor romp through some of J.S. Bach’s most playful and transcendent works reimagined and realized for 21st century fans of 18th century performance practice. Bach’s three flute and continuo sonatas, BWV 1033, 1034, and 1035, distill his most wonderful musical qualities down to just a two-line texture: treble (flute) and bass, and in Fly the Coop! audiences will experience these works transformed into a rainbow of possibilities with “the world’s only period-instrument rock band” (San Francisco Classical Voice), Ruckus, a shape-shifting, collaborative baroque ensemble with a visceral and playful approach to early music. The ensemble aims to fuse the early-music movement’s creative spirit with the grit and groove of American roots music. And in collaboration with the “dazzling” (The New York Times) flutist Emi Ferguson, a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant (2023), the result is magical! Experience a unique sound that is “achingly delicate one moment, incisive and punchy the next” (The New York Times).

About the Event Experience the music of J.S. Bach like never before as flutist Emi Ferguson and Ruckus break free from tradition, taking the composer’s timeless music into a vibrant new realm. Blending tradition with funk, whimsy, and fun, they invite you on a kaleidoscopic journey through some of Bach’s most playful and transcendent works with ever-evolving arrangements for baroque flute and the dynamic forces of Ruckus—featuring baroque bassoon, cello, guitars, harpsichord, theorbo, and bass. Interwoven throughout the program are Ruckus’ imaginative arrangements of Bach’s iconic and lesser-known keyboard works. Movements from The Well-Tempered Clavier, selections from his French Suites, and early drafts from the Anna Magdalena and Wilhelm Friedrich notebooks all make appearances. Bach’s deep love of family and friends resonates through these pieces, and as Ferguson explains, “These arrangements are our love letter and homage to the sense of community imbued in his work.” Embrace that sense of connection and join this wild musical adventure—where the stage itself becomes part of the performance, and you become part of the Bach-inspired community. 

A landmark moment in dance, the world premiere of Procession brings two of the world’s most inventive, sought-after choreographers to The National Ballet of Canada for the first time: Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber. This debut partnership will deliver uncompromising creativity as the company immerses itself in an influential choreographic lineage it has not yet explored. Procession fuses bold contemporary movement with a Baroque-inspired score to explore procession as a universal human ritual.

Coleman Itzkoff is the soloist, music coordinator and arranger

The Adams Theater presents The Cello Player on Friday, September 19, 2025 at 7:30pm at 27 Park St, Adams, MA, 01220. Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased online here.

The Cello Player is a dance-music piece produced by American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) and led by cellist Coleman Itzkoff and dancer/choreographer Or Schraiber. It excavates the complexity of ancient relationships: the tortured conception of friendship as a messy amalgam of love, hatred, insecurity, and neediness. Joined by dancer Jeremy Coachman, the three performers attempt to share their tales, the scarring curiosity of the unknown, and the haunting sensations that come as a consequence of their actions.

This performance is a part of a fundraising evening at The Adams Theater, preceded by a dinner at the nearby Revival House, and followed by at Q&A at The Adams Theater.

with pianist Janice Carissa

ARVO PÄRT — Fratres

CLAUDE DEBUSSY — Petite Suite, L 65

IANNIS XENAKIS — Paille in the Wind

THOMAS ADÈS — Lieux Retrouvés

ROBERT SCHUMANN — Adagio und Allegro, Op. 70

VALENTIN SILVESTROV — Stille Musik

FRANCIS POULENC — Cello Sonata, FP 143

FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY — Sonata for Cello and Piano in D major, Op. 58

OLIVIER MESSIAEN — Louange à l’éternité de Jésus