Emily Kalish, violin; Kyle Walker, piano; music of Dvorak, Ravel, Coleridge-Taylor
I was first introduced to the power of music as a 3-year old sitting in church with my parents. I remember keenly watching the pianist play the hymns each week before going home to try and figure out what I had just heard. Since then, I've never lost the urge to discover all that I can about music and how it works.
However, as I've grown older, I've also given more thought to the ways that music functions as part of our larger society. This stems in many ways from the time I spent in college studying broadcast journalism (my second major) and working as a field reporter for the local news station. Those experiences opened my eyes to the shocking lack of awareness that many people have surrounding not only world issues, but issues facing their local communities.
I attribute this mainly to a failure of all parties to clearly communicate with each other. Music can bridge these gaps and provide all of us with a digestible way to plug into the world outside of our doors. It is for this reason that I devote a significant portion of my programming to music that speaks towards current social issues, rather than limit myself solely to the wonderful, though sometimes overplayed traditional repertoire. It may be an unreachable aspiration, but I aim to be a conduit for positive social change with every program that I learn.
Emily Kalish, violin; Kyle Walker, piano; music of Dvorak, Ravel, Coleridge-Taylor
United Methodist Church of Red Bank, 247 West Front Street, Red Bank, NJ
The Red Bank Chamber Music Society and The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center Present A Chamber Music Celebration of Juneteenth: The Harlem Chamber Players
FEATURING Ashley Horne, Violin
Claire Chan, Violin
William Frampton, Viola
Wayne Smith, Cello
Kyle P. Walker, Piano
This concert is FREE
Our musicians (pianist Kyle P. Walker, violinists Beatrice Hsieh and Jay Julio, violist Kayla Williams, and cellist Mosa Tsay) will be presenting Florence Price's masterwork Piano Quintet in A Minor, paired with a community play-in of "our streets", by composer-multi-instrumentalist Yaz Lancaster, whose "stunner of a quartet" (Washington Post) in Neutral Objects was premiered in long form by Sound Off last year.
Florence Price: Quintet in A Minor
Yaz Lancaster: our streets
$5 to reserve, $10+ at event
Newark School of the Arts (and LIVESTREAMED online), 89 Lincoln Park , Newark NJ
The Harlem Chamber Players present David Baker's Roots II Piano Trio
Ashley Horne, violin Wayne Smith, cello Kyle P. Walker, piano
In-person and live-streamed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6x1mCZa__A&t=0s
Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch Performaning Arts Center, 1 Bernard Baruch Way, New York, NY
Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet Op. 47
Elizabeth Wright, violin
Amanda Kaya, viola
Charles Reed, cello
Kyle P. Walker, piano
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Sonata Op. 12 No. 2 for Violin and Piano
Harry Thacker Burleigh: Southland Sketches
Frolov - Fantasy on Porgy & Bess
Florence Price - Quintet in A major
Frolov - Divertimento for 2 violins and piano
$25-$35
Bronx Arts Ensemble presents:
Carl Reineck Trio for Oboe, Horn, and Piano Op. 188 Wilden Dannenberg Tamara Benitez Winston Kyle P. Walker
The Dream Unfinished orchestra presents a portrait concert of works by contemporary composer Brent Michael Davids. Davids is a highly acclaimed concert and film composer, co-director of the Lenape Center in New York City, and an American Indian citizen of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation. As an American Indian music specialist, Davids is in demand as educator and consultant for films, television, schools, festivals, seminars and workshops. He is a master performer of American Indian instruments and styles, and a designer of original musical instruments, including traditional Native American instruments that he reconceives and reinvents, including a soprano quartz flute (1989), bass quartz flute (1991), and a dozen other percussion devices that chirp or whistle.
Presented in conjunction with the Lenapehoking exhibition at Greenpoint Library. It is the first Lenape-curated exhibition of Lenape cultural arts, both historic and contemporary, in the City of New York.
“Lenapehoking" is the Lenape name for the Lenape homeland, which spans from Western Connecticut to Eastern Pennsylvania, and the Hudson Valley to Delaware, with New York City at its center.
With Louise Toppin, soprano and Robert Sims, baritone
Works by William Grant Still, Florence Price, and Igor Frolov
DARA + KYLE are 2021 recipients of the Chamber Music America Ensemble Forward Grant.
Cello Sonata, Op.5 - Dame Ethyl Smyth
II. Adagio non troppo
Cello Sonata - George Walker (for cello and piano)
II. Sostenuto
III. Allegro
Intermission
Cello Sonata No.5, Op.102 No.2 - Ludwig van Beethoven
II. Adagio con molto sentimento d'affetto – Attacca
III. Allegro – Allegro fugato
Tickets $10 at door
Bach to BlackNotes juxtaposes some of the most well-known and respected solo keyboard music of J.S. Bach with wonderful music which has unfortunately fallen through the cracks of music history. Join Kyle on this exploration in history through a different lens.
Featuring music of J.S. Bach juxtaposed with music of George Walker, Florence Price, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Margaret Bonds, and Calvin Taylor
Suggested donations
Featuring music of William Grant Still, Rachmaninoff, and Russell Peck
Sharing works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Margaret Bonds, Florence Price, Calvin Taylor, and George Walker
Free-- Suggested Donations Accepted
Harlem School of the Arts, Dorothy Maynor Hall, 645 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY
PROGRAM William Grant Still Ennanga for Harp, Strings, and Piano Nkeiru Okoye We Met at the Symphony for Soprano and String Quartet (World Premiere) David Baker Through This Vale of Tears for Tenor, Piano, and Strings
FEATURING Terrance McKnight, Host Leah Hawkins, Soprano Chauncey Packer, Tenor Ashley Jackson, Harp Kyle P. Walker, Piano Ashley Horne, Violin Sandra Billingslea, Violin William Frampton, Viola Wayne Smith, Cello
$20 General Admission $15 Student/Senoir Discount only available if you purchase in advance online.
A Tribute to the Concert Spiritual
Denisha Ballew, Soprano Charles Williamson, Tenor Samuel McDonald, Baritone Kyle P. Walker, piano
Skinner Hall of Music's Mary Anna Fox Martel Recital Hall, 106-110 Raymond Ave, Arlington, NY
Featuring guest artists Ashley Jackson, harp, Laquita Mitchell, soprano, Kyle Walker, piano, and faculty members Thomas Sauer, piano, and Ian Tyson, clarinet.
Free