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GatherNYC presents an exciting program for flute, guitar and string quartet pair works by two superstar Latin-American composers whose styles contrast and compliment each other. Golijov’s achingly beautiful Tenebrae is juxtaposed with Clarice Assad’s exhilarating Sephardic Suite. Boyd Meets Girl is joined by violinists David Felberg and Jennifer Choi and violist En-Chi Cheng.

GatherNYC is a revolutionary concert experience founded in 2018 by cellist Laura Metcalf and guitarist Rupert Boyd. The 2025-2026 season includes 31 concerts that run from October 2025 through May 2026, with concerts held every Sunday at 11am in The Theater at MAD.

Guests at GatherNYC are served exquisite live classical music performed by New York’s immensely talented artists, artisanal coffee and pastries, a taste of spoken word, and a brief celebration of silence. The entire experience lasts one hour and evokes the community and spiritual nourishment of a religious service – but the religion is music, and all are welcome. Coffee and pastries are served before each performance at 10:30am.

Xian Zhang conductor
Francesca Dego violin
New Jersey Symphony

Prokofiev asks for astonishing skill from every musician in his tour-de-force concerto. For his part, Strauss invites the artists to become storytellers in A Hero’s Life. With the New Jersey Symphony, Xian Zhang brings these two epics to life, and all the artists are joined by the young Italian-American violinist Francesca Dego.

Anton Webern Im Sommerwind
Sergei Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben

Concordia Chamber Players presents "Life Stories" — an afternoon of chamber music where composers transform real human experiences into sound. The program features Richard Danielpour's "Four Angels," Bedrich Smetana's String Quartet No. 1 "From My Life," and Valerie Coleman's "Shotgun Houses," performed by an extraordinary ensemble: Shaquille Southwell (clarinet, Principal Clarinetist of the Louisiana Philharmonic), Siwoo Kim (violin, First Prize winner of the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition), Melissa White (violin, founding member of the Grammy-winning Harlem Quartet), Leonid Plashinov-Johnson (viola, San Francisco Symphony), and Grammy-nominated cellist Michelle Djokic.

A free open rehearsal takes place the day before at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown — watch the musicians prepare and stay to ask them your questions.

Having artists of this caliber perform right here in Bucks County is something truly special, and a beautiful way to spend a spring Sunday afternoon.

- Sunday, April 12 at 3:00 PM
- Trinity Church, 6587 Upper York Rd, Solebury, PA
- Tickets at [concordiaplayers.org/tickets](https://concordiaplayers.org/tickets/)
- Students under 18 are always free, and one accompanying adult is also admitted free with each child

Xian Zhang conductor
Mei Gui Zhang soprano
Taylor Raven mezzo-soprano
Eric Ferring tenor
Dashon Burton bass-baritone
Montclair State University Chorale | Heather J. Buchanan, director
New Jersey Symphony

From a little piano solo that Fauré movingly reimagined for orchestra and chorus, to Mahler’s songs of a broken heart finding peace in nature, and finally Mozart’s powerful testament to the human spirit–each piece on this program goes beyond words to express what only music can.

Gabriel Faure Pavane
Gustav Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem

The Dessoff Choirs – led by Music Director Malcolm J. Merriweather – presents its last concert of the season, Bach’s B Minor Mass, complete with a full period orchestra and soloists, on Saturday, April 18, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. at Mother AME Zion Church in Harlem

Xian Zhang conductor
Mei Gui Zhang soprano
Taylor Raven mezzo-soprano
Eric Ferring tenor
Dashon Burton bass-baritone
Montclair State University Chorale | Heather J. Buchanan, director
New Jersey Symphony

From a little piano solo that Fauré movingly reimagined for orchestra and chorus, to Mahler’s songs of a broken heart finding peace in nature, and finally Mozart’s powerful testament to the human spirit–each piece on this program goes beyond words to express what only music can.

Gabriel Faure Pavane
Gustav Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem

The April 18 concert is presented in collaboration with the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

Schubert’s single movement of the Quartettsatz opens a concert of vibrant musical landscapes—ranging from the vast Australian geographies that inspired John Luther Adams’ latest work for the ensemble, to the soaring heights of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ shimmering skylark, and the dreamlike beauty of Fanny Mendelssohn’s virtuosic String Quartet. Offering a full chamber orchestra’s exhilaratingly fresh take on string quartet repertoire is a perfect reflection of the intrepid and collaborative spirit that has garnered the Australian Chamber Orchestra international acclaim and made it a fan favorite of our audiences.