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Our 5-Concert Season Subscription includes the following performances:
A Celebration of Latin American Women
featuring the KAIA String Quartet
Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024 – 2:30pm
(Aurora – The Packard Room at Ballydoyle)
Monday, Oct. 7, 2024 – 7:30pm
(Elgin – The Haight)
The KAIA String Quartet returns to CMOTF in a performance celebrating the magnificent legacy of Latin American women. Hear Latin music through a uniquely new lens as KAIA performs this eclectic and fascinating program of works composed by Argentinian, Brazilian, Mexican, Uruguay and Venezuelan women.
Music for Horns, Piano and Strings
featuring Matthew Oliphant and Rachel Velvikis
Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025 – 2:30pm
(Aurora – New England Congregational Church)
Monday, Jan. 13, 2025 – 7:30pm
(Elgin – First Congregational Church of Elgin)
Two of the Chicago area’s most brilliant and virtuosic musicians, Matthew Oliphant and Rachel Velvikis, band together in a program that shines a spotlight on the magnificent French Horn. Performing Beethoven’s Sextet for Two Horns and String Quartet, Ligeti’s haunting Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano, and Brahms’ stunningly lyrical Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano in E-flat major, the horn players will be joined by violinists Eleanor Bartsch and MingHuan Xu, and pianists Winston Choi and Liang-yu Wang.
American Stories
featuring the Zodiac Trio
Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025 – 2:30pm
(Aurora – New England Congregational Church)
Monday, Feb. 24, 2025 – 7:30pm
(Dundee – First Congregational Church of Dundee)
The internationally recognized Zodiac Trio presents familiar masterpieces alongside hidden musical gems in a concert experience marked with virtuosity and gusto. From Benny Goodman’s iconic tunes to original arrangements of Argentine Tangos and Mexican ballroom dance music, this program of North and South American Songs and Dances is sure to leave you tapping your toes.
Capriccio
featuring Liang-yu Wang, piano and Mark Fisher, conductor
Sunday, March 23, 2025 – 2:30pm
(Aurora – New England
Congregational Church)
Monday, March 24, 2025 – 7:30pm
(Dundee – First Congregational
Church of Dundee)
CMOTF favorite and pianist extraordinaire Liang-yu Wang will be the featured soloist in Czeck composer Leoš Janácek’s Capriccio for Piano Left-Hand and Chamber Ensemble. Paul Hindemith’s beautiful Morgenmusik for brass ensemble and Igor Stravinsky’s expressive and playful Octet for Wind Instruments, conducted by Mark Fisher, will round out this program of 20th century masterworks.
Moonshine Sonata
featuring Kruger Brothers and Kontras Quartet
Sunday, May 18, 2025 – 2:30pm
(Aurora – The Venue)
Monday, May 19, 2025 – 7:30pm
(Elgin – The Haight)
Classical string quartet meets bluegrass folk trio in this fun and feisty season finale! Weaving new American folk music and old European classical music traditions together, the Kontras Quartet reunites with the Kruger Brothers to perform music from their latest album together.
