Chelsea Music Festival has announced its 15th season of events with all new Connecting the Dots performance this Summer. The festival consists of nine evenings of shows from June 21 to 29.
This summer festival is led by Artistic Directors Melinda Lee Masur and Ken-David Masur. Connecting the Dots consists of concerts, conversation, visual and culinary arts over the span of the nine nights. The festival will focus on the restorative powers of the arts in the ways that music and art both calm and reinvigorate the brain and nervous system.
The festival sees a multitude of talented and diverse performers and artists. Each exhibit and performance take place at various locations around NYC and some locations are yet to be announced. Each night of the festival will be different from the last and the diversity allows all types of audiences to be included and wowed.
2024 CHELSEA MUSIC FESTIVAL LINE-UP
- Connecting the Dots— 15th Season Opening Night
Friday, June 21 at 7pm – location to be announced
World Premiere of A Night at Birdland by composer Nicky Sohn performed by WindSync
Featuring Aizuri Quartet, pianist Andrea Lam, violinist Max Tan
Chamber works by John Williams & Tebogo Monnakgotla
Performance of Dancing Stars by Augusta Read Thomas with conductor Ken-David Masur
- My Super Awesome Brain | Family Night
Saturday, June 22 at 10:30am at Pier 57, 25 11th Avenue, NYC
10:30am – Family Event featuring WindSync
- Jazz Doubleheader | Birnbaum & the Bach Preludes and Cardume Trio
Saturday, June 22 at 7pm – location to be announced
7pm – Preludes Album (Chelsea Music Festival Records label) featuring pianist Adam Birnbaum, percussionist Keita Ogawa (Snarky Puppy), bassist Matt Clohesy (Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society) based on 12 preludes from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier
8:30pm – Late Night with Cardume Trio featuring jazz percussionists Rogério Boccato (Orquestra Jazz Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo), Keita Ogawa, and Brazilian bassist Cleber Almeida
- Festa Junina
Sunday, June 23 at 7pm at Pier 57, 25 11th Avenue, NYC
Traditional Brazilian Forró music to celebrate summer featuring percussionist Rogério Boccato, Brazilian bassist Cleber Almeida, and accordionist Vitor Goncalves
- Patitucci & Friends — 15th Season special event with Jazz, Song & Chamber Music
Monday, June 24 at 7pm at High Line Nine, 507 W. 27th Street, NYC
Jazz bassist John Patitucci and pianist Renee Rosnes – with Caleb Hudson on trumpet
Austrian duo baritone Daniel Gutmann (prize winner at Elīna Garanča’s ZukunftsStimmen) & pianist Maximilian Kromer (International Brahms Competition winner)
Featuring pianist Robert Fleitz (1st Prize in 2022 John Cage Award)
Reception curated by Chef Rachel Snyder
- Midsummer Night Magic— Visions & Stories
Tuesday, June 25 at 7pm at Czech Center, 321 E. 73rd Street, NYC
Selections from The Lee Trio album “Midsummer Night Magic” (Chelsea Music Festival Records label releasing June 2024)
Fern Flowers by Uljas Pulkkis
Five Trios by Edmund Finnis
Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80 by Robert Schumann
Fantasiestücke, Op. 88 by Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann lieder with Austrian duo baritone Daniel Gutmann and pianist Maximilian Kromer
Performance of the Dumky Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, B. 166 by Antonín Dvořák (120th anniversary of his death)
- Completed Resonances— Vu, Beranek, Fauré & Smetana
Wednesday, June 26 at 7pm at Czech Center, 321 E. 73rd Street, NYC
World Premiere commissioned by the Festival by Czech composer Jacob Beranek
Music by Ania Vu featuring soprano Marisa Karchin, pianist Robert Fleitz
Piano Trio in G Minor by Bedřich Smetana (200th anniversary) performed by pianist Andrea Lam, violinist Max Tan, and cellist Angela Lee
Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor by Gabriel Fauré (100th anniversary of his death)
- Closing Reception | 2024 Art Exhibition – Kelly S. Williams
Thursday, June 27 at 7pm at High Line Nine Gallery 8, 507 W. 27th Street, NYC
Closing Reception for Kelly S. Williams, 2024 Visual Artist-in-Residence
Art Exhibition open June 3-29 at High Line Nine
Featuring Harlem Quartet performing Jessie Montgomery and Dizzy Gillespie
- Reimagined Gems— Vignettes Across Time
Friday, June 28 at 7pm at St. Paul’s German Church, 315 W. 22nd Street, NYC
Featuring Harlem Quartet performing Caroline Shaw and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
World Premiere by Ania Vu
Soprano to Marisa Karchin and Caleb Hudson on trumpet
Pieces from Caleb Hudson’s 2024 album, Nothing Less, including Corelli arrangements
Reception curated by Chef Rachel Snyder
- Superhero Brain | Family Event
Saturday, June 29 at 10:30am at St. Paul’s German Church, 315 W. 22nd Street, NYC
10:30am – Family Event featuring family-friendly, interactive activities led by music neuroscience scholar Dr. Jessica Phillips-Silver (Growing Brains)
- Festival Finale | Jazz Plasticity with Helen Sung
Saturday, June 29 at 7pm at DiMenna Center, 450 W. 37th Street, NYC
JazzPlasticity features the Helen Sung Quartet with pianist Helen Sung (2021 Guggenheim Fellow), drummer Kendrick Scott, saxophonist/clarinetist John Ellis, an bassist David Wong; this program was inspired by Helen’s time as jazz artist-in-residence at the Columbia University Zuckerman Mind Brain Institute and in partnership with Arts & Minds.
Reception curated by Chef Rachel Snyder
Tickets for Chelsea Music Festival’s Connecting the Dots go on sale Wednesday, May 15, 2024. For more information, visit ChelseaMusicFestival.org.
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