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Fellowship Ensemble Recital: Omer Quartet

The Omer Quartet is a leader among today’s young string quartets. A top prize winner in the 2017 Paolo Borciani String Quartet Competition, finalist and prizewinner of the 2016 Bordeaux International Competition in France, and the 2013 Grand Prize and Gold Medal Winner of the 40th Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the quartet has been praised for playing with a “sense of discovery and adventure, but also with considerable finesse.”

 

Haydn quartet Op. 50 No. 5

The Road of Promise: Finding our way forward

Written over several years starting in 1934, Kurt Weill’s immense oratorio, The Road of Promise, was born from the darkness of the world in the 1930’s. Set during the “timeless night of Israel’s persecution,” a congregation seeks shelter in the synagogue, turning to their Rabbi who recounts iconic stories from Jewish scripture. We see the effect these accounts have on two individuals at vastly different points in their life, the 13-year old boy and the Adversary. As we travel through these narratives, we witness and experience a transformation that points their way forward.

Neguinho de Beija-Flor

Neguinho da Beija-Flor is bringing the energy of Rio’s samba carnival festivities to the USA! Neguinho is perhaps the most iconic and charismatic samba parade singers from Rio de Janeiro.

Brazilian Strings Trio

Brazilian Violin Trio brings together three of the most innovative instrumentalists on the contemporary Brazilian musical scene. Andrew Finn Magill and Ted Falcon are both multi-genre American violinists who after years of living in Brazil have become ambassadors of the growing Brazilian violin movement. Rounding out the trio is Brazilian guitarist Nando Duarte, a giant of the contemporary Brazilian music scene and an award-winning composer and arranger.

Choro Das 3

Choro Das 3 is a vibrant and virtuosic all-female instrumental ensemble, returning with a new album to the Washington, DC area after a hugely successful sold-out show in 2017. These three young, talented sisters play in seamless harmony, carrying on the rich tradition of Brazil’s first popular music choro.

Choro Das 3 is a family-based band composed of: Corina (flutes), Lia (7 string acoustic guitar) and Elisa (mandolin, clarinet, banjo, and piano) with their father, Eduardo (pandeiro).

Opera Resonates!

The approach to the Maryland Opera Studio’s 2018 production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro is about staging the ‘then’ and the ‘now’ at the same time: what happens when 1786 kisses 2018? What does that time in history have to say to us in the present day about #metoo? Is it any wonder that we got to here when we used to be there? And where do we go from here? How do we all arrive at the truth and reconciliation so desperately needed in our world, and so humanly and transcendently rendered in the setting of Figaro?

GradTerp Exchange

Looking for the chance to hear more about the research your amazing GradTerp colleagues across campus are doing—all while having a drink and some food? Then join us for GradTerp Exchange!

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