June 19-20
Dances of Freedom
Saturday | 6.20.26 | 8:00 PM
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street
In commemoration of Juneteenth, TCS Conducting Fellow Nicolás Gómez Amín leads two exuberant works that celebrate the Black American experience: Florence Price’s Dances in the Canebrakes and Carlos Simon’s Four Black American Dances. Mark Seto opens each program with a beloved Romantic concerto: Jean Sibelius’s dazzling Violin Concerto with Nicholas Pappone on Friday, and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s monumental Piano Concerto No. 3 with Channing Yu on Saturday.
Program
Concerto for Violin in D minor, op.47
(Friday only)
Concerto for Piano No.3 in D minor, op.30
(Saturday only)
Dances in the Canebrakes
Four Black American Dances
Featured Artists
Lauded as a “first rate” violinist by Maestro Lorin Maazel, Nicholas Pappone makes a diverse career as soloist, chamber musician, sought-after orchestral player, and teacher in New York City. Growing up as a professional child actor in Los Angeles, performing the role of a prodigy violinist in a film inspired his interest in the instrument. Nicholas has performed with members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Emerson String Quartet, the New York Philharmonic, Vienna Piano Trio, and …
Conductor
Mark Seto leads a wide-ranging musical life as a conductor, scholar, teacher, and violinist. He is Artistic Director and Conductor of The Chelsea Symphony in New York City, and Senior Lecturer in Music at Brown University, where he directs the Brown University Orchestra and teaches courses in music history, theory, and conducting. Recent highlights include performances with violinist Itzhak Perlman, violinist Randall Goosby, and clarinetist Anthony McGill, and the inauguration of The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University.
Since …