Derek Bermel with Ying Quartet & Aaron Diehl

ARTIST AS CURATOR
Curated by Derek Bermel

DEREK BERMEL  – String Quartet No. 2: Songs of Nameless Ancestors  New York Premiere           
LEONARD BERNSTEIN  –  Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
DAI WEI  –  World Premiere of a New Work
ANDREIA PINTO CORREIA  –  Cantos e Danças  New York Premiere
THELONIOUS MONK  –  Round Midnight, Ask Me Now 

Composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel brings together an extraordinary group of artists for an eclectic night of music of his own music – including the New York premiere of his String Quartet No. 2 – as well as works that have influenced him. Internationally recognized for his creativity, theatricality and virtuosity, Bermel is acclaimed for his “unambiguously luscious” music (The New York Times) that is “intricate, witty, clear-spoken, tender and extraordinarily beautiful (San Francisco Chronicle).

The Ying Quartet comes “as close to the ideal as possible, delivering chamber music of astonishing, refreshing exaltation and exhilaration” (The Los Angeles Times), combining brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today's world.

Pianist Aaron Diehl has quietly re-defined the lines between jazz and classical. Praised for his “melodic precision, harmonic erudition, and elegant restraint” (The New York Times), and his “traditional jazz sound with a sophisticated contemporary spin” (The Guardian), Diehl has performed with musical giants such as Wynton Marsalis, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Tyshawn Sorey, and Philip Glass, and has been a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra.

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